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Steven Wallace Channeling Elvis Presley Calling Kyle Busch a Girl

In the confrontation between 'Big Baby Kyle' and 'Elvis,' I mean Steven Wallace who has finally figured out how to avoid hitting walls, the  grab of Kyle Busch's helmet by Steven was well shown but what grabbed me was Steven's voice. He sounded agitated and upset but his delivery was very similar to Elvis Presley. Click on this link to go to a YouTube video wherein at the 3:50 mark you can hear it yourself. I have always been distracted by his constant eye blinking, but if you just listen to his words and how he phrases them you'll hear a direct connection to how Elvis used to speak his lines in all those classic movies of his.

Of course that whole deal got overshadowed by the next nights taking out of NASCAR's most popular driver. It will be a great story line to follow the rest of the season how white hat Junior gets treated by black hat Kyle as the next races go on, particularly coming up this weekend at Darlington!

This string of fabulous races, 'Dega, Richmond and Darlington provide great drama as these drivers confront each other up close and personal in a short three week span and the fact the last two are under the lights with sparks, shiny cars and glowing brake-pads add to the already colorful and hypnotic displays these races possess.

Its a fine time for NASCAR fans and shouldn't be missed, even with other sports being in the playoffs, it's hard not to make NASCAR my primary sport in this beautiful time of year.

No High Definition Coverage of Tonight's Nationwide Race

It’s Friday so it’s hard to find fault

But I do find fault all the same with ESPN’s decision to run the Nationwide race tonight on ESPN Classic due to the fact that there are three NBA Games tonight and something had to give and guess what, NASCAR gets the short stick tonight.

Now I can’t berate ESPN because they have been my primary pusher of sports programming and being a devout Sports Junkie they keep me satiated with all their great programming and I certainly understand that NASCAR fans gets slighted in deference to the NBA Playoff audience.

Being a High Def freak I won’t be able to see the race in High Def and as such will be groaning mightily. I can only hope the Cav’s/Wizards game runs short and the race runs long.

The fact the race is a night race and as you may already know ZuD is a fan of night racing over all others and it’s a short track so I have great excitement brewing even if it won’t be in wide screen, high-resolution splendor I am addicted to.

And as long as we are complaining HBO Saturday night has Oscar De La Hoya's warm-up fight at 10pm and that of course will conflict with Fox’s coverage of the Richmond Sprint Cup race.

BurnOut TV Sampler

Guest NASCAR Blogger David Rubin with excellent taste in NASCAR Blogs...

How Did Michael McDowell Survive This Wreck?

The Car of Today now establishes itself as a Safe and Reliable Race-car, when a driver can withstand this kind of destruction.

Complete Coverage of Tony Stewart Wax Job

Ripped from Tony Stewart's Sirius Satellite Radio Webpage:

           

"OPERATION WAX SMOKE" RAISES OVER $125,000 FOR CHARITY

Tony Stewart has proven that not only would he give you the shirt off his back, he'll give you the hair off of it too. Operation Wax Smoke was a huge success, raising over $125,000 for the Victory Junction Gang Camp. DeLana & Kevin Harvick, and national motorsports correspondent Ford Martin joined Tony and Matt Yocum at an "undisclosed location" for a rip-roaring good time. There was no shortage of donations to hear Tony suffer throught the pain and indignity of having his famously-furry back waxed live on the air. It remains to be seen if the procedure will improve race times for the sleeker and more-aero Smoke. Next Show: Tuesday, April 1 at 8 pm ET Tony "Chia Pet" Stewart follows waxing with a haircut Where did they wax for donations from JD Gibbs & Jimmie Johnson? Listen to pull-by-pull analysis of Operation Wax Smoke Tony’s back wax Montage: Listen at your own risk!   Hear more audio from Tony's show on sirius.com/tonystewartlive. Email Tony & Matt Yocum at tonystewartlive@sirius-radio.com or call the guys at 866-PIT-LANE.

Kasey Kahne Stalkers Uncovered

These ladies obsessed with the new driver for Budweisers Beer are still at it in this ad, no doubt you've seen it. Poor Kasey gets transported into a dream sequence where he shows his moves are not just confined to the racetrack:

The ladies are: the redhead is Judy Fleming, the brunette is Dana Gilhooley and the blonde is Jen Biederman

We here at ZuD will track their careers as a public service as more is being written about them as the series of commercials grab momentum. Zud's favorite, in the middle, is featured in a DVD movie in which she is a Lesbian. The redhead seems to be garnering most of the attention in these two articles and the blonde, well she's a blonde.

NASCAR Themed Wedding Captured in YouTube Video

Jay Busbee at Yahoo Sports Blog 'From the Marbles' posted this Video and captioned it with:

You've gotta love it when NASCAR mania bleeds into your brain, like it has with the happy couple below, who take their love of NASCAR to a ridiculously high level at their wedding.

There's so much to love about this video -- the NASCAR-style introduction of the wedding party, the ultradorky ushers sliding in, the choreographed entrances of the bridesmaids and groomsmen (leapfrog at a wedding: ALWAYS welcome), the Eddie Van Halen wannabe on the straight-outta-the-80s guitar, the bride and groom entering to "Kickstart My Heart," the vaguel holy-crap-what-did-I-get-myself-into look on the groom's face during that first dance ... folks, this wedding is some kind of awesome. I'd lay odds that the marriage will last at least two full Cup seasons.

Lets all wish these folks that the energy displayed at the wedding translates into a long and happy bond:

Give the Fox Gopher Cam a Name

Fox is looking for You to provide a name for the little gopher click on Image to go to it.

Television's never-ending goal is to bring the viewer as close to the action as possible," said FOX Sports Chairman David Hill. "We've had great past success with Catcher-Cam and Diamond-Cam in our MLB coverage and Grass Cam and Wall-Cam in NASCAR on FOX broadcasts.

"However, Gopher Cam, and forgive us for having some fun with the name, is different. These are HD cameras developed specifically for this use. The pictures are phenomenal, and the audio that the mikes provide is mean and loud. It's a tremendous complement to our Emmy-caliber NASCAR broadcasts."

In fact, there's just one problem: The poor gopher doesn't have a name.

But that's where you come in.

Send us your best suggestion as to what we should call the little fella. We'll sort through the best and come up with a name.

Until then, the gopher will continue to provide the most unique perspective the sport has to offer ... anonymously.

NASCAR Driver Tony Stewart Thrown from Car

Well in a TV commercial that is, actually it was voted the most popular ad during the Daytona 500. I missed it somehow and if you did also, it's on this page entitled: 'Toyota Fancontroller'

NASCAR on TV This Weekend 2/22-2/24/08 Updated Fri 8PM

Hooray, did you folks realize the California Nationwide will be under the lights? Didn't realize Fontana had lights or is it the time difference? Anyway a quick look at what's in store for this weekend on the ZuD's Panasonic:

Friday: NASCAR Nationwide Series, Stater Bros. 300, Fontana, Calif., practice, Speed Channel, 12:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.; NASCAR Sprint Cup, Auto Club 500, Fontana, Calif., Speed Channel, practice, 3 p.m.; pole qualifying, 6:30 p.m.; NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, San Bernardino County 200, Fontana, Calif., pole qualifying, Speed Channel, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday: See Below for Update NASCAR Sprint Cup, Auto Club 500, practice, Speed Channel, 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.; NASCAR Nationwide Series, Stater Bros. 300, pole qualifying, Speed Channel, 12:30p.m.; race, ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.; NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, San Bernardino County 200, Fox, 3 p.m.

Sunday: NASCAR Sprint Cup, Auto Club 500, Fox, 3:30 p.m.

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UPDATED FRI 8PM: The revised schedule now has Nationwide Series final practice beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET, followed by the Craftsman Truck Series San Bernardino County 200 at 3 p.m. The Stater Bros. 300 is set for 7:30 p.m.

The latest weather forecast shows partly cloudy and a high near 60 for Saturday, but another front is expected to reach Southern California by late Saturday night.

VIA Cup, Nationwide, Truck quals all canceled with Friday rain