Gordon&#39;s goal: Get lead, avoid &#39;big one&#39;
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Jeff Gordon has a chance to tie the late Dale Earnhardt&#39;s record of three victories at restrictor-plate racetracks in one season.
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Ryan Newman left misfortune behind and ran away from the field, while four-time series champion Jeff Gordon took the NASCAR Nextel Cup points lead Sunday at Dover International Speedway.
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TALLADEGA - With Jeff Gordon coasting to victory, behind a pace car and ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr., fans frustrated with a finish under caution littered Talladega Superspeedway with debris after the race in April.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Jeff Gordon may be the favorite in the Nextel Cup points race, and heâs won five times at Martinsville Speedway, but Ryan Newmanâs Dodge is blowing away Gordonâs Chevy on qualifying day.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The whole idea behind beating the Giants is to keep the guy with the big, black bat and the pocketful of MVPs from going historic on you.
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In one sense, it would not be unprecedented for Gordon and the No. 24 team to rebound from the aftermath of Sunday&#39;s Hendrick Motorsports plane crash to finish well at Atlanta; Kevin Harvick won there in 2001
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Between games of Wednesday&#39;s doubleheader, someone tried to cheer up Giants manager Felipe Alou by using that old Ernie Banks line: &quot;Let&#39;s play two.&quot; ...
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International teams, almost all of them, have many capable shooters -- especially from 3-point range. Get caught in a screen, leave them uncontested, be slow getting out, and inevitably they&#39;ll hit those shots.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Midway through their 10-race playoff, the Nextel Cup contenders are at the shortest and slowest oval on the NASCAR circuit â- place four-time series champion Jeff Gordon insists can
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Ryan Newman ran away from the field, while four-time series champion Jeff Gordon took the NASCAR Nextel Cup points lead yesterday at the MBNA America 400 at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.
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Pink bubble gum popped from Danny Fortson&#39;s mouth as he moseyed around the KeyArena court on Sunday night. Moving slower than traffic across the 520 bridge, the Sonics forward definitely travels at a different pace than his teammates do.
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Jeff Gordon apologized to Matt Kenseth &amp;#151; sort of.
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Right now, things are going Jeff Gordon's way &#151; and that should enhance his chances of winning a fifth NASCAR championship. Thanks to a rainout of qualifying Friday at New Hampshire International Speedway, points leader Gordon will start from the pole in the first event of the new 10-race playoff for the Nextel Cup championship.
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This really is a new age in stock-car racing. Robby Gordon, the scourge of Nascar, actually apologized for a reckless maneuver.
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An early leader out of the gate faces stiff competition in the stretch.
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Loudon, NH --- The 10 contenders were worried about some wild Sunday driver messing up the chase for the Nextel Cup championship, and then Robby Gordon came crashing in.
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The Giants wanted to take Seattle's roaring, allegedly enhanced crowd out of the game early. Plunging into the deepest first-half hole in their 82-year history probably wasn't what New York had in mind.