Johnson Wins Third Straight as Texas

Win Also Secured Points Lead



Jimmie Johnson is on a fire right now, and no that's not a Talladega Nights, Ricky Bobby reference. Johnson and his Lowe's number 48 team are absolutely dominating right now, and proved it tonight winning his first race ever a Texas Motor Speedway, his third straight in the Chase, and his 9th win of the season. Johnson battled with Roush Fenway driver Matt Kenseth for the win, but Johnson was able to secure the lead coming off of turn 2 and pulled away in the final two laps. With his win and Jeff Gordon's 7th place finish Johnson has taken over the point lead from his Hendrick Motorsports teammate and leads by a mere 30 points. While third place Clint Bowyer, fourth place Kyle Busch, fifth place Carl Edwards, and sixth place Tony Stewart all still mathematically have a shot at the title, it's seemingly a two man race, with two races to go.
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Edwards wraps up meaningless Busch Championship

On Saturday Carl Edwards wrapped up the Busch series title, as defending Busch champ Kevin Harvick took the victory. Edwards who is a full time Nextel Cup Championship, was happy to take the Busch Series Championship, but considering his Nextel cup season hasn't gone as well, it's hard for him to be to excited. The Busch series has traditionally been a development league for drivers and teams to groom for the major league series, the Nextel Cup. In the past few seasons, the Busch series has been following a growing and disturbing trend. More and more Nextel Cup regulars are racing on Saturdays in the Busch series to learn things for the big races on Sunday. Because of this, the Busch series has become watered down with too many Nextel Cup drivers, and has strayed away from it's traditional development feel of promising unknown drivers driving for unknown teams. Something has to be done. Imagine Nate Davis showing up for you intramural flag football game because he wants some extra reps. It all of a sudden would become less fun for all of us non-athletes. Yet if it helped Nate and the Cardinals beat a BCS school, I'm sure some of us would gladly let him light up our secondary. Congratulations to Carl and and his Roush Fenway racing team, but is it really something to be proud of.
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Oh and one other thing. I didn't think sports coverage could get any worse than ESPN's coverage of Nascar on ABC, but after watching Football Night in America on NBC, I think I've changed my mind. Oh how I long for the glory days of the NBA on NBC and that tune I want them to play at my funeral.