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DIED. Benny (B.P.) Parsons, 65, spirited taxi driver turned NASCAR champion and a fan favorite honored in 1988 as one of the organization's 50 greatest drivers; of lung cancer; in Charlotte, N.C. From 1964 until he retired in 1988 to call races for ESPN and other networks, he made 526 starts--with 283 Top 10 finishes--and memorably won the 1973 NASCAR championship and the 1975 Daytona...
...Skoal costs $7. How you got your name: From my roommates. Describe yourself in three words: Like, damn baby! In 15 minutes you are: Gaining the advantage . In 15 years you are: Plantation house in Georgia, cute blonde wife, two kids, labs (Walker and Texas Ranger) all courtesy of NASCAR...
With clean-cut sponsors like Tide, the U.S. Army and Nextel fueling NASCAR's multibillion-dollar engine, stock-car racing's seedy past has been buried beneath the track. Thompson exhumes the sport's Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history. Painting NASCAR as "the accidental sport of Southern moonshiners," he recounts wildly entertaining stories of how late-1930s racing pioneers like Lloyd Seay, who was later murdered by his cousin, and "Reckless" Roy Hall, a jailbird, honed their craft during bootlegging runs, dodging the law on dusty Georgia back roads...
...Palfrey declared sudden death overtime, and the Alaska Klub managed to dig deep and pull out a win for the 49th state. “We want to dedicate our victory to Richard Petty,” said an Alaskan Club member, apparently ignoring the fact that the NASCAR racer hails from North Carolina. “As far as Richard Petty is concerned, at heart everyone is from Alaska.” Next week’s competition: geography...
...like bombers," he once said--Anderson successfully lobbied Ronald Reagan's aides to resurrect the controversial B-1, which could carry nuclear weapons and had little risk of radar detection, after it had been abandoned during the Carter Administration. He also helped devise the 426 hemi engine with which NASCAR champion Richard Petty won his first Daytona 500 race...