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Points leader Kyle Busch to start 3rd
Published on Saturday, May 31, 2008
Associated Press
Greg Biffle took the pole. Kyle Busch took the heat.
Biffle held off the Busch brothers, turning a lap of 155.219 mph on Friday at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del., to take the top spot and bolster his bid to drive the No. 16 Ford to his first victory of the season.
Kurt Busch was second at 153.971, and points leader Kyle Busch was third at 153.767 on the 1-mile concrete track.
Kyle Busch has proven he can succeed in any level and is having a fantastic overall season. He leads the Sprint Cup series by 94 points over Jeff Burton and won a combined nine times this season in the Cup, Nationwide and Craftsman Truck Series. What bothers some drivers in the Cup series is Busch's sometimes obnoxious attitude.
The latest run-in for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver came last week in a postrace confrontation with four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon. He chased down Gordon after the Coca-Cola 600 and got in his face. His gripe? That Gordon raced him too hard while fighting for position down the stretch. Busch finished third; Gordon fourth.
Gordon accused his former teammate of being bitter over his parting with the Hendrick Motorsports team. Busch said Friday he simply overreacted and should have reached out to Gordon via other methods.
The two talked this week at testing at Pocono Raceway and Busch said, ''all is cool now.''
''My mistake, but I learned from that,'' Busch said.
Gordon called it a ''non-issue.''
''I think that if you just look at the circumstances, I'm sure that he's not happy about the way he left Hendrick, but I would think he's got to be pretty happy where he's at right now and things that are happening,'' he said.
Golf: Webb shares Ginn lead
• Karrie Webb shot a 66 and shared the lead at 13-under with Sophie Gustafson (65) after two rounds of the Ginn Tribute in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Annika Sorenstam also had a 66, her lowest score in six career rounds at RiverTowne Country Club, and moved from a tie for 60th Thursday into a tie for eighth. Sorenstam is 7 shots behind.
• R.W. Eaks and Lonnie Nielsen shot 5-under 66s to share the first-round lead at the Principal Charity Classic in West Des Moines, Iowa. Joey Sindelar, Tom Purtzer, Kirk Hanefeld and Mark McNulty are 1 stroke behind at 4-under 67.
• Michelle Wie shot a 3-under 69 to keep pace at the Ladies German Open, where she is tied for sixth, 3 shots off the lead after the rain-delayed second round in Munich, Germany. Lora Fairclough of England, the 1998 German Open winner, had a 68 to take the lead at 10-under 134 at the $390,000 tournament on the Ladies European Tour.
Other: Calhoun's skin cancer returns
• University of Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun says he is being treated for his second bout of skin cancer in a year, and he wants to keep coaching. The 66-year-old hall of famer says a lump removed from his neck on May 6 was malignant. He is to undergo six weeks of radiation treatments next month. His doctors say there should be no long-term effects from the radiation. They expect him to return to a normal lifestyle, including coaching. Calhoun has spent 21 seasons at UConn, with two NCAA titles.
• A medical examiner's report shows a heroin overdose caused the death of Georgia Tech pitcher Michael Hutts. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office released the report Friday. The report offers the final word on what killed the 21-year-old baseball player, who was found dead in his Atlanta apartment on April 11.
• Two Penn State football players have each pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with an on-campus fight last year. Linebacker Navorro Bowman and defensive tackle Phil Taylor appeared in court to plead guilty to a disorderly conduct charge in exchange for prosecutors' dropping more serious assault charges.
• The New Jersey Devils signed free-agent defenseman Anssi Salmela of Finland.
Associated Press
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