CYBERSPORTS NOTHING PETTY ABOUT THESE PETITIONS.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth They want Dale Earnhardt's No. 3 retired, the Daytona 500 and Winston Cup Series renamed after the late driver and other sorts of eternal tributes. So they've started petitions, and interest has picked up very quickly on a free Web site created to push these ideas called PetitionOnline.com. A 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. fan named Anthony Thies started the number-retirement petition (www.petitiononline.com/DaleE3.html), then amended it to have the No. 3 put on the pace car of all future races so that ``he may always lead the race.'' Through Sunday, nearly 200,000 e-signatures were gathered. Dennis Michelsen, a senior staff writer at NASCAR fan site www.frontstretch.com, started another petition to get the Winston all-star race at Lowe's Motor Speedway Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway) is a speedway in Concord, North Carolina, north of Charlotte. It features a 1.5 mile long quad-oval track that seats 167,000 people, with room for 50,000 more spectators in the infield. in Concord, N.C., renamed ``The Dale Earnhardt Sr. Memorial presented by Winston.'' Another fan, Jo Lynn Francis, has started to get signatures calling for a U.S. postage stamp for Earnhardt. Would it be a 3-cent stamp? The fun is finding other sports-related petitions currently up on the site. There's a push to get Barry Switzer elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, one to 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 ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network to have the Bowl Coalition Series overhauled as well as have Lee Corso fired, and one to the Arizona Diamondbacks threatening a boycott of TV games if David Dellucci is traded. --Earnhardt's official site (www.earnhardtfactor.net) contains information about the Foundation for the Carolinas (www.fftc.org), a nonprofit philanthropic organization that the family has asked donations be sent to instead of flowers. The site does not offer official Earnhardt merchandise for sale. --Anaheim residents who don't want another NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= team in town - namely, the relocated Vancouver Grizzlies The name Grizzlies may refer to:
Heisley has until Thursday to submit an application if he wants to move the team in time for next season. --Orange County-based Buy.com's five-year deal as title sponsor of the PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. Tour's developmental tour probably won't extend past 2002, according to a story in Golf World Business. |
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