Johnson, Gordon headline NASCAR in Phoenix
Well, two weeks ago we focused on Jeff Gordon’s winless streak and discussed his odds at Texas.
While we expected him to do well, we didn’t think he’d win. Well, he proved us wrong, and more importantly to him is leaving the NASCAR Sprint Cup field in the dust. He’s 162 points ahead on second-place Jimmie Johnson in the standings, and the season isn’t even 1/4th of the way done yet.
If he keeps up this pace the Chase won’t matter. It will be Jeff Gordon and (more. . .)
The eyes of Texas are upon NASCAR
Martinsville shaped up pretty much as we had predicted…with Jimmie Johnson winning holding off teammate Jeff Gordon, who finished fourth. And Denny Hamlin finishing second. Dale Earnhardt Jr. got back on track somewhat with an eighth place finish…lower than we had thought, but still a Top 10 and our final pick Jeff Burton was a disappointing 15th.
The spotlight this week turns to Texas Motor Speedway and Gordon, who is still looking for his first win since 2007. Despite the 47 consecutive races without a win, (more. . .)
NASCAR’s Buschs will be tamed at Martinsville
Last week wasn’t exactly a great week for our NASCAR Sprint Cup preview at Bristol as the five drivers we had to watch, well one didn’t even finish the race, a couple probably shouldn’t have and well….well, let’s just focus on this week, where we don’t think a Busch will win.
Martinsville is another short track, but has a different look from Bristol. It’s a little bit shorter and has shorter straightaways. There’s a lot of strategy in the turns here.
One guy who has seemed to (more. . .)
NASCAR goes short track
After a week off, the NASCAR Sprint Cup series heads to the short track of Bristol in a race that has extra importance with it setting the top 35, which determines the automatic qualifiers for each week’s races.
We’ve already briefly explored who is where on that list, so now lets focus on Bristol and who will be the person to beat.
A lot of drivers tell you that at Daytona and Talladega they know a big wreck is coming, and the key is to stay out (more. . .)
Is your bracket ready?
Okay. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament starts in one day, March Madness is here and you haven’t got your bracket ready yet. Is it time to panic? Yes. But that’s okay, because really it doesn’t matter if you put one minute or one day trying to figure out who is going to win the NCAA Tournament, you have just about as good as as a shot at winning your office pool.
Here’s some handy tips I can offer.
To start with the obvious: Go ahead and move all the No. (more. . .)
No Bay Area Sports?
Avid sports fans already know most of what I am going to say here, as there isn’t much new news here.
Still, it looks like in a matter of years, the San Francisco-Oakland area could down to just one major outdoor sports team.
First Major League Soccer’s Quakes moved to Houston and found great success there.
A little over two years ago, the NFLs 49ers wanted to build a home in Santa Clara. That move got delayed (mainly by the work of some major political players), but is still a work in progress.
The Raiders (more. . .)
Off week for NASCAR
First off, welcome to the NASCAR review/preview at sportswrapup.com. This started at our older site prosportswrap.com, so if you’d like to review some older posts, they can be found there. Every week we have a slight recap of the last race and recap the week ahead. The plan is to eventually have a short recap the Sunday of the race, or the Monday after and then on Wednesday preview the next race.
There isn’t a NASCAR Sprint Cup race this coming week, so we’ll look instead (more. . .)
Owens goes to Buffalo
Sorry for the delay in this, but well, we just had trouble believing it ourselves. We thought it was just a bad dream we had when we lost that hour of sleep last night, but it looks like it’s real. The NFL’s Terrell Owens is now in Buffalo.
Word is Buffalo fans have met this move with mixed reactions. The reactions were along these lines: Wait, we still have a team? Does Jim Kelly still play? Thurman Thomas?
Okay, in all seriousness, the decision by Buffalo to (more. . .)
Sources say Cowboys release Terrell Owens
Three straight 1000-yard seasons and double digit touchdowns. A name the entire world knows. And in the middle of the night, reports were flying that the Dallas Cowboys have released wide receiver Terrell Owens.
The Cowboys website has a report citing other reports, but don’t confirm or deny the reports.
The reports the Cowboys cite come from ESPN, where “sources” have told ESPN Owens is gone.
No reason not to believe the reports. This has kind of been stirring for weeks, if not months, ever since reports broke (more. . .)
