BRIEFLY : GORDON HOPES 7 SPOT BRINGS LUCK.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Acting like he's ready to take his best shot at stock car racing
Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States and Great Britain held largely on oval rings of between approximately a quarter-mile and 2. history, Jeff Gordon earned a prime starting spot - seventh - in Friday's time trials for tonight's Goody's 500. Rusty Wallace turned a fast lap of 123.554 mph to earn the pole for the 500-lap NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. event at Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol Motor Speedway, originally known as Bristol International Raceway and Bristol Raceway is a NASCAR short track located in Bristol, Tennessee. It was constructed in 1960, and held its first NASCAR race on July 30, 1961. in Tennessee. Gordon, with a 123.039 lap, has six others ahead of him in his bid to become the first driver in NASCAR's modern era to win five consecutive Winston Cup races. While all the other drivers took both of their two allotted al·lot tr.v. al·lot·ted, al·lot·ting, al·lots 1. To parcel out; distribute or apportion: allotting land to homesteaders; allot blame. 2. qualifying laps, Gordon made one circuit around the half-mile oval, shut off the engine and coasted to the pits, content he had done his best to set up a run for the record. ``I'm not really putting a lot of emphasis on it,'' Gordon said of the record. TENNIS: Jana Novotna moved into the semifinals of the du Maurier Open in Montreal with a 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 win over Magui Serna. Anna Kournikova suffered a 6-0, 6-3 loss to Spain's Conchita Martinez. Top-seeded Martina Hingis of Switzerland reached the semifinals with a 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-4 victory over Sandrine Testud of France and next will play the winner of the Monica Seles-Anke Huber match. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there : The Board of Governors officially approved Disney's five-year, $600 million offer for the league's television rights after Fox chose not to match the proposal, said a spokesman for Disney's ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network . The league will unveil the agreement next week. The contract gives Disney exclusive rights to show NHL games on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and cable channels ESPN and ESPN2 starting with the 1999-2000 season. ABC could become the league's national television broadcast partner this season if Fox negotiates out of the final year of its contract. NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= : Washington's Juwan Howard gave $5,000 to the family of a man who drowned at a party the All-Star forward attended last weekend. Brian Patterson, 34, drowned Saturday after he fell off a personal watercraft at Cedar Lake in northwestern Indiana during a party being given by one of Howard's friends. State authorities investigating the accident said that Patterson and Howard didn't know each other. Katheryn Patterson, the victim's mother, said her son didn't have insurance and the family was struggling to cover the cost of funeral arrangements. Howard's representatives learned of the family's plight and wanted to help. |
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