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...idyllic hometown has made him a better competitor. The compact, 5-ft. 9-in. driver abandoned the Charlotte, N.C., area--the roaring capital of stock-car racing--and returned to cozy Columbus, Ind. Sure enough, with just three races to go, he was the leader in this year's Chase for the Nextel Cup, stock-car racing's grand prize. What has changed? Well, he spends a lot more time hanging with his friends and being a good neighbor. In short, the locals say, he has mellowed...
...Chase for the Nextel Cup, in its second season, has given stock-car racing a play-off format that helps NASCAR compete for fans' attention in the fall, when football is in full swing and baseball play-offs are under way. The Top 10 racers fight it out over the last 10 races--you score points based on how you finish and for lead laps--for the overall driving title. "All the emotion of a championship that other sports had is now part of our sport," says NASCAR president Mike Helton...
...when it's time to be aggressive, I can still be aggressive. I haven't forgotten how to do that." He won five of the tour's 26 regular races, and going into last weekend's race in Fort Worth, Texas, he had a 43-point lead in the Chase over a posse including Johnson, Biffle, Kyle Busch and veterans Rusty Wallace, 49, and Mark Martin, 46, who are on their last laps before retiring this year. That seems like enough of a cushion. Then again, this is NASCAR: 43 racers start each event, but there are more parts than...
...Jack Kennedy, or recycle Teddy into pulp. Watch the Great Depression in four weekly installments. Today those who forget the past are condemned to relive it -- on the big screen or small. It is also salutary to recall 1993's failings: Mitch Williams in the World Series, Chevy Chase on late-night TV, Michael Jackson in the court of public $ opinion. Everyone, after all, builds a future on a resolve not to repeat old blunders. May we all profit from examining our yesterdays, todays and tomorrows. They are the only days we have...
...CHEVY CHASE How desperate was his show? He resorted to pre-SNL shtick...