BRIEFLY : MARTIN WINS 2 POLES IN NORTH CAROLINA.

Mark Martin took out two weeks of stress Friday on North Carolina Motor Speedway's 1.017-mile oval in Rockingham, N.C.

``An awful lot of bottled up frustration was unleashed today for me,'' Martin said after sweeping the pole for both today's Goodwrench 200 Busch Grand National race and Sunday's featured Goodwrench 400 Winston Cup event.

``I took a lot of whoopins' in the races leading up to the (Daytona) 500,'' he explained. ``Our Winston Cup car had a speed deficit until the big race when we found the right combination in the draft.''

Martin's frustration began to dissipate during Sunday's Daytona 500, when he led 30 laps and finished seventh.

It disappeared entirely Friday as he grabbed the Busch pole with a lap of 151.264 mph and, less than two hours later, took the Winston Cup pole with a record-smashing lap of 157.885 that even Martin admitted was exciting.

NFL: St. Louis Rams running back Lawrence Phillips has run into more trouble - this time, a brick pillar at the entrance to his subdivision.

Phillips drove his HumVee into a five-foot-tall pillar at the entrance to his Forest Hills Country Club neighborhood in west St. Louis County Jan. 30, police say.

On Wednesday, he was charged in warrants issued by Clarkson Valley municipal court with property damage, leaving the scene of an accident and driving with a revoked license. Maximum punishment for such offenses is a $1,000 fine and one year in jail.