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    would win 7 championships in a row marking a battle between Richard petty and Dale Earnhardt. By 2004 the first chase for the Nascar Nextel cup would take place and be won by Kurt Bush. Jimmie Johnson would tie Cale Yarbrough record for Sprint Cup championships in 2008, in 2009 Jimmie Johnson would break that record and be announced as male athlete of the year. Most Nascar enthusiast say the sport died when Dale Earnhardt sr died, because Nascar would make the sport more safe so nothing like Dale's’

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    hygiene products as they are more financially beneficial. The same year Unilever created a sponsorship with a NASCAR team JR Motorsports for advertising purposes of their products and to gain more publicity. JR Motorsports is a team overrun by Dale Earnhardt Jr. who is one of the most popular drivers of NASCAR and also a winner of 50 NASCAR-sanctioned races. For the main benefits of the sponsorship are the financial support from Unilever in exchange they help Unilever to advertise their products of

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    Over the course of the last 68 years, the sport of stock car racing has seen many legends. In the past two decades, Jeff Gordon has been the man that filled that legend position. Born in 1971 in Vallejo, California, Jeff was raised in Pittsboro, Indiana where he raced midget cars, as well as go karts and sprint cars. Jeff was extremely successful in doing this, becoming the youngest driver ever to earn a USAC license. In October of 1990, Jeff made his stock car debut in the Busch Grand National series

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    The Dragons lost the lead late in a 4-2 defeat to Paulding County in the opening game of a double header on Wednesday. The game was tied at two with Paulding County batting in the top of the 12th when the Patriots singled driving in two runs. Paulding County captured the lead in the second inning. A Patriot hitter grounded out, scoring one run. The Dragons evened things up at two in the bottom of the seventh inning. Dalton Presley drove in one when he singled in the seventh inning. Presley and

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    CHINESE TAKE-OUT While the kids were busy playing games on their new Xbox 360, I walked to the back of the cabin to order the solitary book on Dylan’s reading list that I didn’t own. After Lynn moved out I realized there was no need for the queen size bed and decided to downsize to a twin size murphy bed. I called Normanskill Self Storage on Delaware Avenue in Albany. They sent a two man moving crew with a van to break the bed down and remove it from the cabin. They delivered the bed and a few other

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    Dale Holt Research Paper

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    Dale Earnhardt SR.'S Widow Seeks to Keep Family Name out of Son's Hands It's been 15 years since Dale Earnhardt SR.'s life ended in the deadly crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. However, the drama that has been a part of his family ever since is far from over. In fact, his widow is now seeking to bar Earnhardt's eldest son from another marriage, Kerry, from using the family name. Kerry sells and promotes homes under the name "Earnhardt Collection". The argument is that using this name will

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    “Bang!” The sound of the Death Star getting destroyed sending echoes across the galaxy, “Cut.”. George Lucas is one of the galaxy’s known filmmakers of all epochs, making two of the biggest movie series ever, “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones”. George Lucas has nostalgic early years, many gargantuan accomplishments, he filmed and wrote many movies, and there are many other crazy facts about this filmmaker. In George’s early years he had many nostalgic memories. Young George and his sister Wendy collected

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    Dale Farmerer Case Study

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    and a warm thank you to the wall of fame committee who made this evening possible and to the preparers and servers all this lovely meal. It is with the utmost honor and pride to posthumously nominate Dale Farmer for the category of career achievements for this year's Wall of Fame inductees. Dale graduated in 1967 from United high school. During his years here he participated in football, basketball ,and track. While playing football he was the only Junior that was honored as all Region playing

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    My Greatest Day

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    My greatest day ever Sometimes life doesn’t go the way you expected it. Sep/8/2015 My house I just turned 12 today and I can’t wait to open my last present.I was wearing my new Jeff Gordon t-shirt, under armor shorts, and some Nike shoes, I was really happy and excited. My dad was wearing a Dallas Cowboys shirt and shorts that were really nice. My mom was wearing an Oklahoma t-shirt and shorts and being really sweet to me. Mathew, my brother was wearing only a long sleeve shirt and shorts. He

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    Jeff Gordon Past Present and Future As said by Jeff Gordon “You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.” Jeff Gordon has went from driving sprint cars in the dirt, to driving in the Nascar sprint cup series, avid supporter of charities and multi-millionaire Jeff’s love for racing started when he was five years old. This is where his father made a racetrack out of the old fairgrounds in Vallejo

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