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...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...
...dreams aren't always easy to grant. "I've heard 'no' many, many times," says Thomas Rollerson, a former sales executive who founded Dream Foundation in 1994. NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon, for instance, frequently grants wishes to terminally ill children but seldom to dying adults. Rollerson acknowledges that granting children's wishes is more appealing to most companies. "Kids are irresistible, and understandably so," he says...
...playing drums, waving their arms about aimlessly, and running their fingers through the tendrils of ferns. They also have the long hair and soulful gazes into middle distance that denote that they are thoughtful and sensitive, conveying the side of DeLonge that was too soft even for Boxcar Racer. In this incarnation, he, as well as his Angels (and his Airwaves, I suppose), will hold your hand, look deep into your eyes, listen to your troubles, and soothe you with lines like “I will pick you up, like you for I, I thought this thing, I can?...
DIED. Louise Smith, 89, scrappy stock-car racer of the 1940s and '50s and the first woman to be inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame; in Anderson, S.C. In 1946 her reputation as a teenage daredevil in her hometown of Greenville, S.C., led Bill France, who co-founded NASCAR the next year, to recruit her as a draw for fans in a local race. Before retiring in 1956 at the urging of her husband--whose brand-new Ford she had totaled in a 1947 race--Smith won 38 events in various classes. "I was just born...
...Brydon, 25, will ski the combined on Friday and Super-G race on Sunday. So far, though, what shaped up as a breakout season has proved mostly disappointing, causing her to wonder about continuing as a ski racer. ?If I go, I go for four years to 2010, and I?m not sure I want to do that,? she said. ?I feel like I?d give it all I have; on the other hand, there?s more out there in life. There are other things I want to do. But I don?t want to go out a loser...