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• NASCAR NEXTEL FanView™ to Carry Live Original Content from ESPN and SPEED

  - 2007-09-13

  Next-Generation Race Scanner Provides New Broadcast Content for Fans Attending Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL CupTM Race Weekends

  Tags: ESPN, NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc.

• Switching gears

  - 2007-02-14

  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. needs a new contract and is battling his stepmom. Nextel Cup drivers and crew chiefs are trying to tame a bigger, boxier model developed to race safer. A foreign manufacturer Toyota with unproven teams and a foreign-born driver (Juan...

  Tags: car, ESPN, Gordon, NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc., team, Toyota Motor Corp.

• The February 27 Issue of ESPN The Magazine is on Sale Today; NASCAR's Carl Edwards on the Cover of ESPN The Magazine's Nextel Cup Preview Issue

  - 2006-02-15

  NEW YORK -- Plus - 20 Pages, 5 Continents, 1 Mission: Finding the Future of Basketball; And - the Sports Guy Talks with David Stern

  Tags: ESPN, NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc.

• Wallace taking his drive from race car to TV booth

  - 2006-01-26

  Retired Nextel Cup star Rusty Wallace is trading his helmet for a headset and branching into another racing series. The 1989 Cup champion and 55-time winner in NASCAR's premier series has been hired as the lead auto racing analyst for ESPN and ABC Sports. He will begin his...

  Tags: ABC Inc., analyst, car, CAREER, ESPN, NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc., TV

• Lots of networks want a piece of NASCAR: with new NFL contract, will NBC punt on the popular sport?(NASCAR SPECIAL REPORT)

  - 2005-09-26

  As the NASCAR season enters its last lap with the Chase for the Nextel Cup playoff series, the competition to see who televises the growing sport after 2006 is also heating up. The current $2.4 billion television contract expires after next ...

  Tags: NASCAR, NBC Universal Inc., ESPN, Nextel Communications Inc., network, NFL