Johnson off to fast start with finale pole
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jimmie Johnson takes pole for the Sprint Cup season finale at Homestead
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NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson grabs Homestead pole in bid for 4th straight Cup title
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
HOMESTEAD -- Nearly two weeks after a third-lap crash cost Jimmie Johnson 111 points in one weekend, that race in Texas still haunts him. Winning the pole for the season finale certainly helps calm his nerves. That's why after qualifying at a speed of 173.919 mph, more than 1 mph faster than any other driver on the track, he shouted into his radio: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" The three-time defending...
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The Strokes top NME album of the decade list
Pedestrian.tv (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Music brag NME has crowned The Strokes’ debut album ‘This is It’ as the best album of the decade. If that isn't enough encouragement for the boys to get cracking with their next album release then I don't know what is. As the naughties come to a close NME (and a long list of music experts) voted for what they thought are the best 100 albums of the decade. With the concluding list...
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Strokes Top NME’s Decade List: Vote in Rolling Stone’s Poll Now
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
British music mag NME has revealed its pick for the best album of the 2000s: the Strokes’ 2001 debut Is This It. The record, which received a perfect 10/10 rating from NME when it was released (and four stars from RS) edged out a trio of great — albeit more popular in the U.K. — [...]
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Pro Green Signs To Virgin
Hattie C In The Place To Be... (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Massive congrats to Upper Clapton's finest, Professor Green, who just signed a deal with Virgin Records. This is Green's second deal; he signed with Mike Skinner's The Beats not long after coming second at the Fight Klub in the Bahama's back in (about!) 2004. After the Beats folded, Green carried on, releasing an EP, making videos and, more recently, teaming up with Lily Allen on a forthcoming single....
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Plan B Gets a New Soul
Tastes Like Caramel (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Remember Plan B? The hyper social-realistic British rapper made a splash almost 3 years ago with his debut Who Needs Actions When You Got Words, but was overshadowed by the genius/celebrity juggernaut of his 679 labelmate, The Streets. Ben Drew, meanwhile, is no slouch and is really nothing like Mike Skinner at all. He sufficiently [...]
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Saturday's TMS notebook
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
FORT WORTH – Michael McGee says seven is his lucky number. If Kurt Busch wins today's Dickies 500, two will be his new lucky number. McGee will win $1 million if Busch takes the checkered flag. Texas Motor SpeedwayDickies 5002:15 p.m., Ch. 8Buy: | More: | McGee, the Dickies American Worker of the Year, was allowed to pick one young women out of 12 representing each of the drivers in the Chase....
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A Truck Series Rebound? And Rick Ren Leaving KHI?
The Nascar Insiders (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This year has been a particularly brutal one for car counts in the Camping World Truck Series. While there usually is a full field, many teams choose to start and park. Looking at 2010 though things are looking up for the truck series. Richard Childress Racing is expected to field at least one team in 2010 [...]
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Drinkin' the Franklin Kool Aid (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Franklin election numbers lag . Ann Beard: "As far as saving money for taxpayers, having those municipal elections with the general election only makes sense in saving money," said Ann Beard, county election administrator. Skinner: Candidate-elect Ward 3 Alderman Mike Skinner wants to explore whether the city's charter should be changed to add more races to a given ballot. "I would love...
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Trucks kick off the weekend at Texas
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Hornaday won both races at Texas in 2008. Earlier this year, he led the most laps there with 55, but experienced an oil pump belt issue in the closing laps, resulting in a 19th-place finish.
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NASCAR - Camping World Truck - WinStar World Casino 350k Preview
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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Jamie T: Kings & Queens (Reviews)
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I’m sorry, I know England loves this guy, but something about him rings false. I’m sorry, I know England loves this guy, but something about him rings false. The hype you heard about Jamie T’s debut album (and his breakout single “Sheila”) was built around buzzwords ‘wit’, ‘larrikin’, ‘South London’; in fact, he was more of a teenager...
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Noughties By Nature #10: The Streets - Weak Become Heroes
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
In the millennial fervour for a generational spokesperson, unassuming Cockneyfied Brummie Mike Skinner proved an unexpectedly engaging contender. Original Pirate Material's chronicles of metropolitan male working-class life supplied the deromanticised dark side of Doherty's moon-faced adulation of urban squalor. Third single Weak Become Heroes, much more than a paean to the occasional perfection of...
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Kyle Busch Grabs Sixth NCWTS Win at Talladega
Full Throttle (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
With a push from teammate Aric Almirola, Kyle Busch surged past Todd Bodine in the final quarter-mile of Saturday's Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Superspeedway to win his sixth race of the season and the 15th of his career.
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denny’s celebration didn’t end at the track
The Fast and the Fabulous (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The picture to the left was taken by Denny Hamlin himself. He posted it to his Twitter page, arriving home after winning Sunday’s TUMS Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville, with the caption “Just pulled up at my house.. LOL.” Isn’t that sweet? I love it. The race itself was fun, and I’m glad Denny won. [...]