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Marian Middle School, a Catholic school serving adolescent girls of all religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by fostering their spiritual, academic, social, moral, emotional, and physical development in preparation for and successful completion of college preparatory high schools.
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Marian Middle School is amazing! Everyone- administration, teachers, staff, volunteers are committed to the girls. I have been privileged to work with them on a professional level. Spent a week with the 5th grade girls, teacher, and volunteers. All of them were powerful ambassadors for the school. Marian Middle School- you have so much to be proud of! Thank-you for the work you are doing and the example you are setting!
Marian Middle School has opened it's doors to many Hispanic girls from poor families who are not able to pay for a quality education. Most Hispanic children have to attend public schools where they are considered lesser beings, are bullied for their lack of English, and resort to dropping out early or joining gangs. This school encourages friendly communication, equality, and justice, while teaching the necessary subjects (math, reading, science, etc.). While many public schools are failing our children, Marian Middle School is an example to follow.
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
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The long-lasting impact of adolescents' deviant friends on suicidality: a 3-year follow-up perspective
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During adolescence, friends are increasingly important for support and values. Do friends also have a long-term impact on suicidality? This study explored the role of friendship problems (e.g., social isolation) and deviant friends during late adolescence on suicidal ideation and behavior 3 years later.
Participants were 295 community adolescents (59 % Mexican-American; 41 % European-American) from the United States. Information about their suicidal ideation and behavior, depression, friendship problems, and deviant friends was collected at baseline and at a 3-year follow-up.
Having deviant friends was a better predictor of suicidality than having friendship problems, with variability by sex and ethnicity. Having deviant friends predicted suicidal ideation among Mexican-American adolescents. Having friends who were disconnected from school was a risk factor for suicidal ideation among European-American adolescents but a protective factor for suicidal behavior among Mexican-American adolescents, especially boys. Depression played more of a mediating role between friendship factors and suicidality for European-American than for Mexican-American adolescents.
This study's findings suggest an influence of adolescents' deviant friends on suicidality 3 years later. They also call for the cultural and gender grounding of suicide theory, research and prevention.
KeywordsSuicidal Adolescent Friendships Ethnicity Longitudinal
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ST. LOUIS – The Cardinals were hoping Oscar Taveras would provide a spark to the struggling St. Louis lineup and the rookie right fielder sure did his part Saturday. After flying out to left field in his first at bat, Taveras crushed the second pitch he saw, sending the ball 418 feet into the Cardinals' bullpen for his first major league hit as the Cardinals went on to beat San Francisco 2-0.
The blast was the first run of the game as it gave the Cardinals a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fifth inning."I am so happy right now," Taveras said. "I take a good swing and take a good at bat and that helps the team win."Cardinals' skipper Mike Matheny was also pleased to see his rookie excel in his first game with the team."What a great day for him, one I am sure he will never forget," Matheny said. "It couldn't have come at a better time."Taveras was not shy when asked what he thought when he made contact."Everybody knew it was gone," Taveras said. "That was a good swing right there and I am just so happy right now."Following Taveras' homer, the sellout crowd of 44,426 continued to cheer for the Cardinals' newest star, begging for a curtain call. The young player finally stepped out and acknowledged the crowd at Busch Stadium."That curtain call was pretty special," Matheny said. "You could see he was beaming after that."I pointed him (to go)," the Cardinals' skipper continued. "Jhonny (Peralta) was wanting to hit up there and I don't think (the fans) were going to stop until (Taveras) came out."The Cardinals' rookie almost didn't get to have the at bat though as a heavy rainstorm started during the at bat. Matheny could see that a delay was coming."I think they were starting to make motions on the other side right before he hit that too," Matheny said. "The rain was coming. I could see the grounds crew starting to rustle and they almost didn't let him get that at bat. I am glad it worked out."Taveras got to relish that home run a bit longer than most players would though. Just one pitch after his home run, the skies above Busch Stadium opened up and a heavy rainstorm ensued."When I hit the home run, everybody joked and said, OK the game is over," Taveras said. "They said the game is over and we win 1-0."Page 2 of 3 -Of course, as soon as the game went into delay at 2:21 p.m., the rain suddenly halted just as the grounds crew began to bring out the tarp. The crew stood around dumbfounded, not sure what to do, however, after a minute or two, the heavy rain resumed and the grounds crew quickly put the tarp on the field.The Cardinals (30-26) should have known rain was coming Saturday when St. Louis started Michael Wacha on the mound. The Cardinals' starting pitcher entered play with seven games influenced by rain in his first 11 starts. Those numbers are now eight games influenced by rain in 12 starts. Additionally, of those eight games, five games have actually been delayed six times, either prior to the start or during the game."I felt good going out there and felt good going back out there after the rain delay as well," Wacha said. "It is pretty crazy how much it actually rains, but I am pretty used to it and used to the routine, so it wasn't too bad."Saturday's first delay lasted 47 minutes. The teams were able to finish the bottom of the fifth and play all of the sixth inning before more rain came.In the top of the seventh, as Wacha made his way back to the mound, more rain came and the game was placed in its second rain delay of the afternoon two pitches into the inning. The second delay was a bit longer than the first, lasting 51 minutes, giving Wacha a total delay of 1 hour and 38 minutes on Saturday. That ran Wacha's season total to 6 hours and 30 minutes in rain delays on the season.At this point, Matheny believes Wacha can handle just about whatever is put in his path."This guy is going to be as tough as nails, if he is not already," Matheny said. "With all the different tests he has been thrown through and he just keeps coming back and you can't put a young pitcher through much more than what he has been put through. … He was very, very impressive. He has done a great job."Wacha (4-3) did not return following the second delay. He finished the afternoon allowing three hits over six innings of work. He walked none and struck out seven, but did hit a batter while throwing 94 pitches.Page 3 of 3 - "I felt good," Wacha said. "It is kind of frustrating, but it's baseball and you can't do anything really when it rains. You just got to let it rain and it's nothing new to me. It's just something you have to deal with."The Giants had just one extra base hit off Wacha, a leadoff double in the second off the bat of Michael Morse. But, Morse was left stranded. San Francisco (36-20) got two hits in the sixth, and put a runner on third, but that was as close as the Giants came to getting a run.St. Louis added its insurance run in the seventh. Allen Craig singled to open the frame and stole second. Following a pair of strike outs, Jhonny Peralta doubled to left center to drive in Craig.The Cardinals' bullpen was perfect, retiring all nine hitters it faced, striking out six of them."Once I came out and the bullpen took over, they did an excellent job," Wacha said. "I think they faced the minimum, nine up and nine down. You don't see that very often. They did a good job of preserving that win for sure."Sam Freeman pitched a scoreless seventh inning, striking out two while Pat Neshek handled the eighth inning duties. Neshek retired all three hitters he faced, striking out one.Matheny had nothing but praise for Freeman and Neshek."What a great job by Sam Freeman and Pat Neshek," Matheny said. "Stepping in in different kinds of roles and doing the job and doing it well."Trevor Rosenthal struck out the side in the ninth as he recorded his 16thsave in 18 chances. Before this one, Rosenthal's last save came on May 24 against the Reds in Cincinnati."Very good right out of the box," Matheny said of Rosenthal. "His first pitch had a lot of life and it was nice to see."Matt Carpenter singled in the fourth to extend his hitting streak to 13 games while Craig's single in the seventh pushed his streak to seven games. Matt Holliday's free pass in the eight extended his streak of reach base in games at Busch Stadium to 27 straight.The Cardinals will try to earn a split when they close out the four-game set Sunday. Lance Lynn (6-2) will face off against Tim Hudson (5-2) with first pitch coming at 1:15 p.m.
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Manchester United edged closer to the Champions League quarter-finals with a 1-1 draw at Real Madrid on Wednesday, a high-profile showdown watched by an estimated 200 million people worldwide.
England striker Danny Welbeck gave Alex Ferguson's side the lead at the Bernabeu before former Old Trafford star Cristiano Ronaldo levelled later in the first half.
In the night's other last-16 tie, German champions Borussia Dortmund drew 2-2 at Shakhtar Donetsk in a game overshadowed by a horrifying plane crash at the Ukraine city's airport which killed five fans.
"It's very open still," said Ferguson. "We have a big job on our hands but it's within our grasp.
"This is a difficult place to come but the players have dug in and got a good result. We had great chances."
In a match described by Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho as the clash the "whole world was waiting for", it was the home side who came close early on with United keeper David De Gea, playing in the city of his birth, pushing a Fabio Coentrao drive onto the post.
But it was United who snatched the lead after 20 minutes when Welbeck shrugged off the attentions of Sergio Ramos to head in a Wayne Rooney corner.
Real were level after half an hour with Ronaldo living up the huge pre-match hype by scoring against his former club.
Ronaldo out-jumped Patrice Evra to send a powerful header off an Angel Di Maria left-wing cross past De Gea.
The Portuguese star's subdued celebrations reflected the warmth with which he still regards United where he spent six seasons.
De Gea, thriving in the city where he made his name with Atletico, was on hand again early in the second period to deny Di Maria before Japan's Shinji Kagawa made way for veteran Ryan Giggs making his 150th European appearance.
Robin van Persie than saw a shot saved by Diego Lopez with the ball coming back off the crossbar while, moments later, the Dutchman miscued a close range effort which was cleared off the line by Xabi Alonso.
"Everything is very open for second leg," said Mourinho.
"For them they played very tactically, they play very deep especially in second-half. They were waiting for a set piece to score. Even going there for second leg we can score goals."
Van Persie said that home advantage in the second leg in March does not mean that the tie is over.
"We have a slight advantage but at this kind of level it doesn't matter if it's home or away," he said.
In Donetsk, five fans of the Ukraine team, who had flown in for the match, were killed when their Antonov AN-24 plane, arriving from Odessa, was forced into an emergency landing.
There was a minute's silence before kick-off at the Donbass Arena.
Dortmund, the 1997 European champions, almost snatched an early lead when Mats Hummels headed against the crossbar from a corner.
But it was Shakhtar who took a 30th-minute lead when a Darijo Srna free-kick evaded the Dortmund defence before beating goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller.
The German champions were level four minutes before the interval when Robert Lewandowski found the target after being set-up by Mario Goetze.
Shakhtar regained the lead after 68 minutes when substitute Douglas Costa scored with a left-foot drive but Dortmund finished on top and Hummels levelled for 2-2 with three minutes left.
"It is important that we are going into the second leg level and a 0-0 would see us through," said Hummels.
"Certainly there were a few dangerous moments in defence, but against a such an attack-minded team you can never avoid this."


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PALATKA, Fla. (AP) - Authorities are searching for two inmates
who have escaped from the Putnam County Jail in Palatka.
Deputies are seeking 23-year-old Doni Ray Brown of Satsuma and
25-year-old Timothy Wayne Fletcher of Welaka.
They escaped at about 4 a.m. Wednesday.
A press release says the men escaped from inside the jail, but
officials were not disclosing how they fled.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office, the Palatka Police
Department and the Florida Department of Corrections, and a
helicopter from the St. Johns Counnty Sheriff's Office are
Brown was arrested Aug. 17 and charged with robbery with a
firearm and Fletcher was arrested March 3 for three counts of
failure to appear on an aggravated assault charge.


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Cumisha Amado likewise does a duo for the residual juice. Stephanie DuValle rides Dick Nasty for an anal, then joins Golden Jade and Dave Hardman for a threesome.


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If I post an ad on craigslsit for modding xbox's locally would I have to worry about LE even if I don't sell games?
I'm About To Start Modding And Have Legal Questions
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Posted 15 March 2012 - 09:54 AM
You may be okay. as long as you act vague and be like um uh. shrug when they ask you something that could be illegal. You know the drill.
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Seafood Risotto
Total Time
Prep 45 mins
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After finding this on Epicurious.com, I made a few changes and got a few yums from everyone.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 1⁄2 cups water
- 2 (8 ounce) bottles clam juice
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup finely copped shallot
- 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 1 1⁄2 cups arborio rice
- 1⁄2 cup dry white wine
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can Italian-style stewed tomatoes
- 6 slices bacon, chopped
- 3⁄4 lb uncooked large shrimp, peeled, deveined and coarsely chopped
- 3⁄4 lb sea scallops, quartered
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons gremolata (amounts follow)
- Combine 2 1/2 cups water and bottled clam juice in medium saucepan. Bring to simmer and keep warm over low heat.
- Heat 3 Tbl olive oil in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add shallots and mushrooms; saute until shallots are light golden, about 4 minutes. Add rice; saute 2 minutes. Add wine; stir until liquid is absorbed, about 2 minutes. Add stewed tomatoes; cook until liquid is absorbed, about 3 minutes.
- Add 1 cup clam juice mixture to rice. Simmer until liquid is absorbed, stirring often. Continue adding clam juice mixture by 1/2 cupfuls until rice is tender, but still slightly firm in center and mixture is creamy, simmering until liquid is absorbed before each addition and stirring often, about 25 minutes.
- Heat bacon in heavy large skillet over medium high heat until fat is rendered (should be about 3 Tbl fat) and bacon is slightly brown. Add shrimp, scallops and garlic and saute until shrimp and scallops are opaque in center, about 6 minutes. Mix seafood into rice. Cook 3 minutes longer. Season with salt and pepper and stir in gremolata just before serving. (Seafood can be sauted while rice is absorbing liquid).
- Gremolata:.
- 3 or 4 garlic cloves, chopped.
- bunch of chopped flat leaf parsley.
- grated zest of 2 lemons.
- (this makes more than the 2 Tbl you need but it keeps relatively well and can be used in other dishes.).
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Its good but more like jambalaya than risotto
Really good! I will definitely make this again. The flavors were great, and the bacon really added a nice touch.
We liked this alot! This was very much a jambalaya-type dish without the peppers and celery. If you like jambalaya you will love this! I only had 1 bottle of clam juice so I substitued 1 cup of chicken broth. I loved the bacon, but hubby thought it was unnecessary.


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"Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings."
To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat
Combined for the first time in one volume!
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning… (more)
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I find OS X task switching very annoying. Specially while using spaces.
I'd like to be able to switch between windows regardless the app it belongs to, just like in Linux or Windows environments. I'd like the list of windows to be restricted to the space I'm current in. I'd like it also to include minimized windows. I've tried Witch but it would miss chrome so I gave it up. More recently I found out it is not free anymore.


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New Albany has adopted a plan to begin dealing with the most pressing issues with the city's water system.
The Board of Aldermen has voted to move ahead with a plan, developed by New Albany Light, Gas & Water, to add two production wells, improve water pressure on the east side of the city, and begin replacing 100-year-old pipes in the historic north-side district.
Bill Mattox, manager of the utility, said the project, which will cost nearly $3 million, will be financed through a low-interest loan from the Mississippi Rural Development Association.
Repayment of the loan will require a water rate increase of 3 to 5 percent, beginning in 2014, he said. Rates likely increase each year after that to pay for continuing improvements to the New Albany system.
Two new production wells will provide more than adequate capacity for expected residential, business and industrial growth, he said.
On the east side, a 250,000-gallon elevated storage tank will be added, as well as a pumping station will be constructed to increase water pressure and provide adequate pressure to fight fires, he said.
The city also will embark on a small pipe replacement program, but the majority of pipe replacement will come in future years, he said.
We continue to be impressed with Mattox's no-nonsense attitude toward sorting out New Albany's water problems and providing solutions. His leadership has gotten the city moving on these long-standing problems.
We remain confident that residents understand – and support – the plan to fix our water system, even if it means an increase in the rates.
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Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Actually they are not the ones that directed me to the module and I didn't buy a motor that wasn't needed. If you would like to help that would be great. But being critical is a lot easier I guess.
The supply house is a lot more help than you. Thanks
I have a variable speed fan that when fan is "ON" or in cooling mode will barely run.
I have replaced the motor control module. That did not help.
This started when I replaced the condenser fan...
Does it really cost more to turn in acidic gas? I've never had the supply house test it.
An acid test can be done on the system.
Verify with meter the condition of the compressor before condemning....
Thanks for posting the solution.
Just my two cents now that it is done. But after finding air restriction was the sh and pressures rechecked after running a while? It is sometimes a common thing to add freon when suction is low due...
I have also cleaned wheels without pulling them. I think I am just as fast when I pull them. It takes a long time to toothbrush every blade and some of them you can't really get to. Then you run the...
I pull the blower assembly and take the motor off. Then I spray the wheel and the shroud with evaporator coil cleaner and hose it all off. I have also taken taken the assembly to a coin op car wash...
Thanks for the info. 3 of them have the reliatel control. I haven't opened the 4th one yet and it is an older unit. What does "cti stand for?
I am looking at 4 Trane rtu's that have Zone Sensors and I am wondering if they can be changed to conventional thermostats.
What about the blower motor?
What equipment differences, such as blower and condenser, are there in higher efficiency and seer rated units?
I am looking at a Magic chef Package Unit. there are no readable model, ssn or sizing markings. The compressor is a copeland Yrb4 0301 s/n 781 09769. that is the best I can read it due to...
Can you post a pic of the finished product?
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I think that it is true that "if you don't bother them, they won't bother you." The problem is we don't always know what bothers them. It is clearly a communication and sensitivity problem.
I have...
Being just a little OCD myself I can appreciate the idea of matching the lines. :-)
You will certainly get replies directing you to call a heat and air company (HVAC). We are not trying to be wise guys (or ladies) but that is about all that can be done from where we sit.
I was wondering if that disconnect was tilted to allow for proper drainage.


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The College Football Playoff committee met yesterday in Irving, Texas to discuss several items, and one of those was strength of schedule and the debate over eight or nine conference games.
Executive director Bill Hancock addressed the issue and provided a little more clarity to the situation.
"To the selection committee, whether a conference plays eight or nine games is inconsequential," Hancock said. "What matters is – don't just quote me on that, add the next sentence – what matters is everybody's schedule as a whole, all 12 or 13 games."
Hancock's response indicates that teams with eight-game conference schedules, the SEC and likely the ACC, won't be dinged for having one less game than the Big 12, Pac-12, and Big Ten (starting in 2016).
Schedules should, as we have stated previously, be taken as a whole. A nine-game conference schedule with a mix of three lower tier FBS teams shouldn't automatically outweigh an eight-game schedule that includes two games against power conference/Group of Five teams.
The challenge will be for those that do play eight games to schedule tougher in the non-conference so that they don't put themselves in a tough position come selection day.
Due to the strength of schedule mandate that was announced on Sunday, the SEC will need to schedule a little tougher in the non-conference. Teams must now play a non-conference game against a Group of Five team (ACC, Big 12, Big Ten or Pac-12 plus Notre Dame) every season.
Strength of schedule will be one of the factors the playoff committee uses to select the four teams, although they stopped short of laying out any requirements.
"The (selection) committee will not be in the business of dictating to conferences how they ought to do their schedule," said Hancock.
According to USA TODAY, Hancock "added that in the interest of transparency, he expects the selection committee would disclose whether a team was selected over another because of a more difficult schedule."
"Absolutely," he said. "I'm sure that will happen."
When that does happen, teams should have a good idea moving forward on how they should craft their future non-conference schedules. Teams have no control over the conference portion of their schedule.
Also yesterday, Brett McMurphy of ESPN reported that the first College Football Playoff Rankings will be released on Tuesday, Oct. 28 and weekly thereafter until after the games of Dec. 6.
So we will know if SOS was a determining factor – that is good.
Why can we NOT know the rankings by individual committee members? I thought this was supposed to be "Transparent."
This is about as transparent as the computer rankings – someone remind me why it had to change?
I like the fact this committee is waiting for everyone to play seven or eight games before "ranking" them…..and I hope this committee ignores the preseason/September polls. Those top 6 teams always had an unfair advantage w/the BCS committee.
Kevin, I'm pretty sure the "Group of Five" label belongs to the AAC, MWC, MAC, Sun Belt, and C-USA; as in, the best Group of Five champion gets the bid to one of the Access Bowls
The others (SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, and PAC 12) could be referred to as "power 5" conferences.
The SEC only playing 8 conference games so most of it's members missing out on playing each other should not catapult them into the playoff. What I mean is, the champion of the conference did their thing, and they should be rewarded for it. Other teams who missed out on all of the top teams and finished with a "good" record shouldn't be rewarded for missing most of their conference. Since they didn't go to 9 games, there will be less overall losses for SEC teams. More SEC teams will finish ranked higher because they dodged each other. This should not benefit the conference while other conferences are ending up with more losses because they play more games.
I hope the Playoff actually has this on their minds before picking teams. The SEC is trying the coward move so more of their teams look good on paper, but it's deceiving.
Travis, I would agree with you. It could definitely happen.
It sounded like a warning to the eight game conferences to me. This process is to determine which conference champion gets left out so good luck to those who opt for a cupcake schedule.
But Kevin, MOST of the PAC schools play 9 + 1 power opponent, and 2 cupcakes. This is not the same as 8 + 1 power opponent and 3 cupcakes.
Yeah, and lets hope the committee actually does this and doesn't just pick teams because of their name.
You're right with the SOME do and SOME don't comment. It happens like this in all conferences. I wish they would hold the Power 5 to some sort of agreement making their scheduling formats similar. But I can only wish right…??


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Category archive: Kevin Harvick
Childress not in a happy mood
AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Richard Childress was visibly upset as he stood next to grandson Ty Dillon's black truck during Friday's qualifying at Phoenix International Raceway.
It had nothing to do with Dillon's chances to win the Camping World Truck Series championship, trailing James Buescher by 15 points with two races remaining.
It had everything to do with an ESPN.com report that Sprint Cup driver Kevin Harvick has signed a multi-year deal to begin driving for Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014.
"I've got a contract for 2013 and this is 2012," the owner of Richard Childress Racing said of his deal with Harvick. "I'm not talking to you about nothing [regarding that]. Too far out."
Asked if Harvick had told him he will not drive for RCR beyond 2013, Childress barked, "You need to go talk to them people. Don't talk to me about it. If you want to talk to me about [the truck] championship, I'll talk about it. But don't talk to me about anything else."
It has been 18 years since Childress won the last of his six Cup titles with the late Dale Earnhardt. Harvick was RCR's lone Chase competitor this season and has been the only legitimate title contender for the organization the past two seasons, finishing third each year.
Losing him was the last thing Childress needed.
Harvick's departure will be huge, particularly if he takes primary sponsor Budweiser with him. Remember, RCR lost Chaser Clint Bowyer to Michael Waltrip Racing after last season due to lack of sponsorship and had to shrink from four to three teams.
John Harrelson/Getty ImagesKevin Harvick has driven for Richard Childress at the Sprint Cup level since 2001. That relationship appears to be ending.
Some will say Harvick leaving only opens the door for Childress' other grandson, Nationwide Series driver Austin Dillon, to move to Cup in 2014.
But plans already were in place for Dillon to make the move then, either in the fourth car that is vacant or as a replacement for Jeff Burton, whose contract expires after 2013.
And by the way, while Dillon will make his Daytona 500 debut in the No. 33 next year, Childress left open the possibility the No. 3 Earnhardt drove remains a strong possibility for his grandson.
"That's still on the table," Childress said.
What isn't on the table, according to Marty Smith's report, is Harvick. Smith's sources say the deal has been signed.
Sources close to the situation told me Childress was blindsided by the news, which explains his mood. Replacing Harvick has to now be his No. 1 goal in order to remain relevant in the series.
As good as Dillon has been in the Nationwide Series, he remains an unknown in Cup. Burton appears past his prime and Paul Menard, beyond winning the Brickyard 400 last year, has done little to prove worthy of filling Harvick's shoes.
Convincing a sponsor to add 2004 Cup champion Kurt Busch to the mix may be the best solution. Busch already has a good relationship with Childress, often going to him for advice.
Busch already is driving a Furniture Row Racing car with a Childress engine the rest of this season and in 2013.
No matter what you think of Busch's off the track -- and sometimes on the track -- behavior, he would give RCR a legitimate threat to compete for the championship.
RCR needs that.
This is a pivotal time in the history of Childress' organization. It recently lost Earnhardt Ganassi Racing as an engine customer to Hendrick Motorsports for 2013. It apparently has lost Harvick to an SHR team that has HMS support.
By 2014, if it hasn't done so already, RCR could go from the second-best Chevy team to third behind HMS and SHR. It could even fall to fourth behind EGR.
So you can see why Childress would be visibly upset.
A triathlon, baby talk and needed relief
LOUDON, N.H. -- Baby talk and triathlons.
That's what you may have missed over the past week as the Sprint Cup world focused on AJ Allmendinger's suspension for a failed drug test and the subsequent news and speculation.
If you didn't hear, Kevin and Delana Harvick became first-time parents -- no, dogs and cats don't count here -- on Sunday as Keelan Paul was born. That same day Kasey Kahne beat Jimmie Johnson in a triathlon in Charleston, S.C.
Friday's interviews surrounding both of these events were as entertaining as anything you'll see or hear this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. I'll give you a few nuggets on each.
• Harvick on Keelan having his own Twitter page: "Well, Keelan has his own everything because I didn't want some crazy-ass fan getting hold of his twitter name or his website."
• Harvick on driving Delana to the hospital: "It wasn't very fast because she was obviously in a lot of pain. That was partly my fault because I made her wait too long, so we didn't make any real fast corners. I had been to the doctor's office several times so I knew where every bump was. So I didn't get yelled at, and that was my goal."
• Harvick on whether Keelan has his own go-kart yet: "We're hoping for no go-karts. We're hoping for golf clubs. We're hoping that we go in a different direction there."
• Johnson on having cramps in the triathlon the day after a hard crash at Daytona: "I went to the curb and was stretching my calves real quick, and a guy in a No. 24 hat came running up with a Bud Light and said, 'Hey, this will help, this will help.'"
• Johnson on seeing a woman riding a beach cruiser during the bike portion of the race: "The only thing she was missing was a basket on the front."
• Johnson on Kahne saying he beat his Hendrick Motorsports teammate by 27 seconds: "Oh, twenty-something."
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. on whether Johnson has asked him to compete in a future triathlon: "Jimmie knows better than to waste too much time on that."
Hey, it can't be Allmendinger 24-7.
Happy news for Kevin Harvick and DeLana
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The biggest news of the 2012 Sprint Media Tour wasn't that Danica Patrick will run the Coca-Cola 600 or the unveiling of the 2013 Ford Fusion. It wasn't that NASCAR has eliminated secret fines -- as far as we know -- or that Wal-Mart will sponsor Bill Elliott for the July Daytona race.
It wasn't that Jimmie Johnson and the No. 48 team are "pissed off" over not winning a sixth straight Sprint Cup championship or that team owner Rick Hendrick will be disappointed if he doesn't get all four cars into the Chase.
Harold Hinson PhotographyKevin Harvick announced Wednesday night that his wife, DeLana, is 14 weeks pregnant.
The biggest news was DeLana Harvick is pregnant.
Fourteen weeks.
Yes, sometime in July, a little "Happy" will join the NASCAR family.
You scoff, but look at all the things the decision to start a family triggered. As Kevin Harvick revealed during Richard Childress Racing's tour stop in Welcome, N.C., on Wednesday, this is the main reason he and DeLana shut down their Truck and Nationwide Series race shop in Kernersville, N.C.
That led to a consolidation of much of the Nationwide program with RCR, which worked out perfectly with Richard Childress' grandson Austin Dillon, ready to run full-time in the series. It led to Eddie Sharp forming his own Truck team with KHI equipment.
This also ended the speculation that Kevin Harvick Inc. was shut down because the couple's marriage was in trouble.
And it cemented what we've all known for years, that DeLana really does wear the fire suit in the Harvick household.
"There were a lot of factors that went into the KHI decision, but when your wife tells you she's not starting a family unless you get out of the race team business, that's a pretty big factor in things that are going on," Harvick told reporters on Wednesday night.
"It was kind of like it was all meant to be, Austin coming up in the Nationwide car, us wanting to do the family aspect of life and Eddie Sharp starting his team. It all lined up perfectly."
And get this for planning: The due date is during a rare off week in the Cup schedule.
Maybe that golden horseshoe Harvick once claimed Johnson owned really has changed hands.
We don't know if it's a boy or a girl, but we are confident either way the baby won't be named Kyle. Harvick made it clear his feud with Kyle Busch isn't over.
The sad news is we likely won't see DeLana in her familiar fire suit on pit road for long. Kevin doesn't really want his wife climbing those steep steps to the pit box.
The good news is the Harvicks really are Happy.
Big news.
NASCAR punishment fits the crime
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Words you don't read here every day: NASCAR got this one right.
The governing body had no choice but to punish Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick for Saturday night's postrace pit road confrontation at Darlington Raceway. The incident potentially put crewmen and NASCAR officials at risk when Busch shoved Harvick's car into the inside retaining wall as Harvick took a swing at him.
Knocking each other silly on the track in competition is one thing.
Endangering lives on pit road can't be tolerated.
Placing both of them on a four-race probation and fining them each $25,000 may seem like a slap on the wrist for those who aren't fans of either driver, but a slap is all that was needed.
To have docked either points would have been heading back down the slippery slope of over-governing that NASCAR vowed to get away from with "boys, have at it.''
To have put them on probation for the remainder of the season would have deprived us of the opportunity to see this rivalry grow when the probation ends on June 15.
As Harvick said Tuesday on Twitter, "I didn't say it was over.''
Let's hope not.
So now we all can look forward to the June 19 Michigan race and the rest of the season to see what happens, and there'll be plenty of opportunities since both race in the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck series.
Keep in mind this feud wasn't born late in Saturday's race when Harvick and Richard Childress Racing teammate Clint Bowyer wrecked in a three-wide racing incident with Busch. Harvick and Busch have been taking shots at each other in the Truck series for years.
And then there was last year's Cup finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, when Harvick wrecked Busch with 25 laps remaining, ending Busch's season in a fiery crash.
Harvick didn't run away from the fact he wrecked Busch intentionally then, either.
"He raced me like a clown all day -- three wide, on the back bumper, running into me, and I just had enough," Harvick said at the time. "[He] cut me off and ran up in front of me. The last time I just didn't lift."
To which Busch responded, "I don't know where his brain is at, but it's obvious not all [the] wires are connected.''
And Harvick gave Busch what he considered good, friendly advice when Busch started his own Truck team last season.
"He's two-faced,'' Busch said at Homestead. "He'll talk to you all day long straight to your face and be the nicest guy to you, but when you get out there on the racetrack, he ain't your friend.''
Nor should Harvick be.
Same for Busch.
This is the stuff of rivalries. That Busch and Harvick should be competing for wins in all three series this season, and for wins and a championship in Cup this season and many more to come, makes this potential rivalry more likely to stick than others.
Say what you want about the reported physical confrontation inside the NASCAR hauler between Ryan Newman and Juan Pablo Montoya -- officials, by the way, made the right decision in not penalizing them -- rivalries are much more intriguing when those involved are battling for something more significant than a spot on the track.
Busch and Harvick already have two Cup wins each this season, with Busch third in points and Harvick fifth. They also have edgy personalities that will continue to rub each other the wrong way.
So, as Harvick suggested, this isn't over.
"Boys, have at it" will continue because NASCAR didn't overreact.
A wild, wild ride with Kevin Harvick
LAS VEGAS -- I'm sitting in a tailored black suit on a piece of cracked plastic foam on what has to be the thinnest stadium seat in the history of sports. The chair sits on top of the fuel line on the passenger side of Kevin Harvick's show car.
The gentleman who helped me through the window is concerned my weight might break the fuel line as I prepare for Thursday's 45-minute Victory Lap down the famous Las Vegas Strip.
He was even more concerned when Harvick hinted he wants to make his last ride in the yellow Shell Pennzoil car memorable, or at least do enough damage that the name of his soon-to-be former sponsor (which is leaving for Penske Racing) would be hard to read.
Great. I'm leaving this world as a human fireball with a driver nicknamed "Happy" at the wheel.
Chris Trotman/Getty ImagesKevin Harvick wasn't the only driver havin' fun on the Strip. Kyle Busch, above, was on cloud nine Thursday.
As we sit near the intersection near the MGM CityCenter for the second of two burnouts, Harvick has a twinkle in his eye that has me wishing I'd asked for one of his wife's famous firesuits.
"Are you going to blow the engine?" I ask.
"I hope so!" Harvick says.
The wheels start churning. Smoke begins filling the cockpit to the point I can't see.
The left rear tire explodes. But Harvick keeps churning on the rim until he is blocked by the cars of Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin, who by now are out of their cars and laughing uncontrollably as they survey the damage.
As I check to survey my damage, Johnson points and says, "Dude, look at your suit."
Not only do I smell like burnt rubber, but I look like the aftermath of someone caught in a volcanic ash cloud -- there's so much tire dust.
Harvick laughs.
The Sprint Cup world might be in Sin City to celebrate Johnson's fifth straight championship, but the driver who finished third is stealing the spotlight.
The first moment came during Wednesday's dysfunctional "Family Feud" contest between the 12 Chase drivers at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when a fan was told to pick a smart driver for the fast money round.
He picked Harvick, who was more of a smart aleck even though he earned 174 of the 200 points needed.
Later that night at the club Surrender, Harvick figured out how to party until 4:30 a.m. and get in a plug for his new sponsor, ordering 750 Budweisers, which almost sent his waitress into shock.
Before drivers were introduced for Thursday's luncheon at the Bellagio, Harvick got under the skin of Kyle Busch, reminding us how he took out NASCAR's bad boy in the season finale.
But nothing topped the burnout that had Johnson and Hamlin envious and local police calling for a street sweeper.
"Really a cool deal to get to do this in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard," Harvick says.
No driver might be having more fun in Vegas than Harvick. Unlike Hamlin, who continues to lament the title he lost, Harvick believes what he accomplished in 2010 has him on track to be the lead car for the Strip ride next year.
(Memo to Richard Childress Racing: Get a permanent passenger seat like the other cars if you want me to ride along.)
But for now Harvick is relishing the spotlight, asking fans on Twitter whether he should spin out Johnson before the Victory Lap begins and then getting a warning from officials for ramming the back of Johnson's car.
His smile never is bigger than during the final half-mile as we ride on the rim to the Hard Rock Hotel with fans covering their mouths and pointing in disbelief at the damage.
"It's all beat to s---," Harvick says. "But it's all right. They have to repaint it anyway."
If only they could do that to my suit.
Sprint Cup owners offer Chase insight
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Joe Gibbs has been around too many NFL deals where you get a first-round draft pick for a player or pick to be named later.
He opened Wednesday's conference call with the three owners of the Sprint Cup Chase contenders by offering to let Rick Hendrick (Jimmie Johnson) and Richard Childress (Kevin Harvick) win the championship the next two years if they let him win this year with Denny Hamlin.
Sam Greenwood/NASCAR/Getty ImagesRick Hendrick, above, jokes to fellow Sprint Cup team owner Joe Gibbs: "If I knew how good you were going to be, Joe, I wouldn't have helped you."
"That's on scout's honor,'' said the owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, who won three Super Bowls as head coach of the Washington Redskins before turning to NASCAR. "And next year I might go, 'What?' I've been known to renege on stuff.''
Hendrick and Childress didn't bite.
But it was an interesting way to start a call that offered much insight on the Chase, the sport and the three teams that hope to win a championship on Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Here are a few highlights as Hamlin takes a 15-point lead over Johnson and 46-point advantage of Harvick into the weekend:
• What would surprise you on Sunday?
"I would be surprised if we had an answer before the white flag,'' Hendrick said.
"What would surprise me is if any of these three teams were to go down easy,'' Gibbs said.
• Are all three of you sitting in the same room for this?
"No,'' Childress said. "We're the owners. We have to all still be here and work.''
Well, not all. Hendrick was fishing on his yacht somewhere in South Florida.
• The Chase arguably is the best since the inaugural one in 2004 that Kurt Busch won by eight points over Johnson and 16 over Jeff Gordon. So why are television ratings and attendance sagging?
"I don't think Rome is burning in NASCAR,'' Childress said. "We still have a great sport. We have great fans. The economy has touched every sport at some point. We will come back and be as strong as we ever were.''
Ditto, said the other two.
• Who has the biggest knot in their stomachs -- the owners, drivers or crew chiefs?
"I definitely do,'' Gibbs said. "Great athletes in pro sports, the ones I've been around, they have an amazing ability to relax.''
• What is your greatest fear on Sunday?
"From my standpoint, I hope there is no debris in the last few laps,'' Hendrick said.
For the record, he didn't come out and say that mystery debris is what got Hamlin in trouble with NASCAR earlier this year.
• Considering Hendrick Motorsports has won the past four titles with Johnson and finished 1-2-3 in points a year ago, would this season be a disappointment if Johnson doesn't win the title (with Gordon, Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. not having won a race)?
"I don't think this is a disaster by any stretch, but we're not satisfied,'' Hendrick said. "I don't think we've made as much improvement as Richard's organization has made or Joe's organization.''
We're still waiting on an answer to the follow-up question about whether the pressure is on Earnhardt (19th in points) to turn things around since Hendrick has thrown everything he can into the No. 88 team.
• Did Hendrick and Gibbs study RCR, in the midst of six championships with the late Dale Earnhardt, when entering the sport?
Hendrick definitely did, saying "Richard showed us how you have to prepare and run for a championship. You've got to be there and you've got to race every race and every lap, and you've got to finish.''
Gibbs reminded us that Hendrick loaned then-general manager Jimmy Johnson to work with him on starting up a team. The owner with three titles also reminded us that he has nothing but respect for Hendrick with nine titles and Childress with six.
"Hey, it's only fair for those guys to at least give us another one or two here to at least even this thing up,'' Gibbs said.
Replied Hendrick, "If I knew how good you were going to be, Joe, I wouldn't have helped you.''
• Is there a special reward owners offer for winning the title?
All three agreed that after paying bonuses and incentives within the organization, they'll clear very little, if any, and that the biggest thing is winning the trophy for the pride of being champion.
But Gibbs added, "Every week I walk up to the drivers and say, 'Hey, you've got the good end of this deal. You make all the money, get all the girls and get to have all the fun.' ''
Still no takers on the opening deal, by the way.
Odds and ends after Phoenix
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- I was catching up on leftover thoughts during the Phoenix-to-Philadelphia-to-Charlotte red-eye home.
OK, so there was a nap in between.
But there were a lot of side stories that might have been overlooked while the focus was on the closest Chase in history -- Denny Hamlin is 15 points ahead of Jimmie Johnson and 46 up on Kevin Harvick -- after Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway.
Here are a few:
The RPM saga: Although Richard Petty Motorsports made it to PIR and will be in Homestead-Miami for the season finale, what's going on behind the scenes remains intriguing.
I'm told that most of the work normally done on the RPM cars has moved to Roush Fenway Racing in the adjacent shop in Concord, N.C. Whether that's to save money or to ensure the cars don't get released without the latest installment check, nobody could verify.
Bottom line, Roush Fenway wants to keep RPM alive not only for Ford but also for its chassis and engine-rental business.
As for next year, Richard Petty says things remain in limbo while he continues to talk to investors about taking over majority interest from financially strapped George Gillett.
And the Charlotte television report that Petty received an infusion of money from Ray Evernham, who's still owed a large sum of money from Gillett after selling majority interest of Evernham Motorsports in 2007, was not true. But Evernham has made provisions to help Petty if needed.
Limbo Part II: Scott Speed likely will drive in his last Sprint Cup race for Red Bull Racing at Homestead. Team officials are confident that Brian Vickers, sidelined in the spring after blood clots were discovered, will pass all tests when he is taken off blood thinners in the near future and be ready to retake his spot in the No. 83.
Kasey Kahne will drive the car currently occupied by Speed.
Speed said he has no clue what he'll do in 2011, in part because Red Bull Racing hasn't given him permission to talk to other teams.
Busch-whacked II: Remember Kurt Busch's run-in with Avondale's finest while leaving PIR in 2005? Little brother Kyle had a little run-in leaving the track on Sunday night.
Driver J.J. Yeley tweeted that while leaving the track, "Kyle Busch tried to cut the exit line. Almost ran over a PIR employee."
He also tweeted that Busch was stopped by local law enforcement. Team and track officials said Busch didn't hit anybody with his car and wasn't ticketed or arrested.
Kurt wasn't so lucky in 2005. He was cited for reckless driving by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and suspended for the final two races by the Roush Fenway team he was leaving for Penske Racing after the season.
Kurt went on to perform 50 hours of community service and became friends with local sheriff Joe Arpaio.
On pit road, position is everything
AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Mike Ford smiled as he looked at the group of reporters that gathered in the Sprint Cup garage for the pit-stall selection process Saturday morning at Phoenix International Raceway.
"Where were you guys at Kansas?" Denny Hamlin's crew chief asked.
Ford was referring to Chad Knaus' decision to pit Jimmie Johnson in front of Hamlin during the third Chase race, violating what he considered a gentleman's agreement not to pit around each other.
It came to light last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway when Ford returned the favor and pitted ahead of Johnson, a move Ford believes worked since Johnson's pit crew performed so poorly that Knaus swapped over-the-wall gangs with teammate Jeff Gordon during the race.
That brought us to Phoenix for arguably the most highly anticipated and media-covered pit-stall selection process in the history of NASCAR. Ford, Knaus and the officials running the show had smirks on their faces as we documented their every move.
" 'Cause it's funny," Ford said.
It wasn't funny at Kansas. Ford was angry then and still talking about it before Saturday's process, which was intriguing for those of us who have paid little attention to it in the past.
Most races, we take a quick look at the selection chart placed at our seat and then bury it in the pile of quote sheets. But with so much on the line, with Hamlin 33 points ahead of Johnson and 59 ahead of Kevin Harvick, and with such a big deal made about last week's selection, it became an event.
For the record, it appears Harvick won. He'll be pitting in the 37th spot, with start-and-parker Dave Blaney ahead of him and potential start-and-parker Bobby Labonte behind him. Johnson has the 39th stall, with Labonte behind him and Paul Menard ahead of him, so he at least has a chance to have lapped-down cars around him late in the race.
Hamlin is surrounded by trouble on both sides in the No. 18 stall, with Johnson teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. in front of him and Harvick teammate Jeff Burton behind him. For the record, this could be the first time Earnhardt has been involved in the outcome of the Chase in a while.
Yep, there's strategy involved.
Mind games, too.
Hamlin will have to wonder every time he pits whether Earnhardt or Burton will do something to slow him down. It happens. Robbie Loomis reminded me of it last week when recalling the Chase finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway when he crew-chiefed for Gordon.
"Chad and I had a deal we never picked around each other," said Loomis, now the vice president for competition at Richard Petty Motorsports. "In '04 we qualified good and he qualified bad, and he picked right ahead of us. He finished second in points and we finished third.
"I'll remember that the rest of my life. I think the quote from Jeff was, 'You tell him if he leaves that right rear hanging out one more time, I'm going to drive through him.'"
Drivers aren't allowed to leave the right rear of the car outside the box anymore, but the strategy to disrupt neighboring pit crews remains.
Because of it, we'll all be back next week at Homestead making Ford smile again.
Kevin Harvick vs. Denny Hamlin: It's over
MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- The monsoon that blew through the East Coast forced the cancelation of a long-driving contest between Kevin Harvick and the media who gathered Thursday at Chatmoss Country Club as a promotion for next month's Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway.
The contest to get Harvick to go in depth about his run-in with Denny Hamlin during Saturday's practice at Dover International Speedway was a wash as well.
"If you ask it 14 different ways, you'll probably get the same answer," Harvick said with a smile. "So write down the next one."
Harvick obviously is ready to put the incident -- he bumped Hamlin twice and then side-scraped him on the first lap of practice -- in his rearview mirror and focus on the Chase.
As far as he was concerned, the dust-up was over Tuesday when Hamlin said the two talked and made up, choosing to put their friendship and the Chase above what was said and done at Dover.
"Everybody saw what he said," Harvick said. "I think it's done."
That didn't stop us from trying to get more. We wanted to know if Harvick was trying to prove that the New Hampshire car of teammate Clint Bowyer could have been knocked out of tolerance by another car or a wrecker as the outspoken Hamlin downplayed after Richard Childress Racing said that would be its appeals case to the National Stock Car Racing Commission.
We wanted to know what Harvick was thinking when he sent the left front of his No. 29 car into the right rear of Hamlin's No. 11 seemingly without regard to how it might impact his position in the playoffs.
"I don't really remember what happened. Everything's handled, I believe," Harvick reiterated.
Harvick was much more concerned with going to Kansas and attempting to erase his 65-point deficit to Hamlin in the Chase standings. He was more concerned with helping Martinsville sell a few tickets.
Still, we tried. It was like a game, one you'll seldom win with someone as tight-lipped and mentally strong as Harvick.
I finally followed up on a tip that Harvick simply was standing up for Bowyer's crew chief, Shane Wilson, a good friend and the person who helped Harvick and Jeff Burton to 10 victories and the 2006 owner's championship in the Nationwide Series.
Harvick's reply: "Anytime you have a company or you have people, there's a lot of things you feel good about being a part of. Sometimes you have to do what you think is right for the company or the people. Our team didn't really have anything to do with it, to tell you the truth. To be drug into it was probably the switch that ignited the fire and the things that happened."
So this issue is closed. Harvick and Hamlin are friends again and Harvick has the focus that enabled him to dominate the points in the first 26 races.
He's not worried about what happens with Bowyer and the appeal to overturn the 150-point suspension for his New Hampshire car being too high in the rear or the final appeal that likely will be heard next week.
"I really haven't talked to anybody at RCR about it," Harvick said. "I think everybody knew it was coming. I've been part of those appeals before and kind of know how they're going to go.
"Our team is on its own, doing its own thing. The 31 team [Burton] is kind of doing its own thing. As a company as a whole, we're doing our own thing and staying focused on the things that we can control."
Contest over.
Bud deal seems to fit a happier Harvick
WELCOME, N.C. -- There was a bit of anxiety. Kevin Harvick hasn't always handled questions about replacing Dale Earnhardt at Richard Childress Racing so well, and I was about to ask what it was like to replace Dale Earnhardt Jr. -- albeit a few years removed -- as the new face of Budweiser.
He didn't snap.
He didn't shrug his shoulders and move onto the next question.
He actually laughed.
"If you're going to be successful in this sport, especially at RCR, you're going to have all those ties," Harvick said Tuesday after announcing a three-year deal with his new sponsor beginning in 2011. "That used to bother me. I've learned if you're going to be a part of this company and be successful in this sport those ties are always going to be there.
"You learn to take that as a compliment instead of being frustrated about it. If you can do anything that Dale Earnhardt did in a car, you're doing something OK."
Amen to that.
But Harvick didn't always see it that way. He saw the comparisons as people were trying to make him into what the driver of the No. 3 Goodwrench car was before his tragic death in 2001, when all Harvick wanted to do was make his own way.
HHP ImagesKevin Harvick's car for 2011.
He fought it to the point it was uncomfortable, and he made others uncomfortable asking about it.
"It took me a long time," Harvick said of getting over his Earnhardt-phobia. "I had always beaten my own path. Everything [here] had an Earnhardt connection to it. It's just like anything else, as you grow in life you learn who you are and what you do and how things work."
The Sprint Cup point leader is comfortable in his skin. You can see it in the way he talks to the media and even in the way he drives. He's not out to prove anything because he already has, winning two Nationwide Series titles, the Daytona 500, Brickyard 400 and the last two Budweiser Shootouts.
The only thing missing on his résumé is a Cup title, and he's making people believe he can do that after Sunday's victory at Michigan International Speedway.
"He's really come into his own and more comfortable than I've seen in the last two or three years," said Harvick's wife, Delana. "He does view [comparisons to Earnhardt] as a compliment now, and that's because he is more comfortable in his own skin.
"Kevin is a very individualistic type of person. That's not easy walking into the situation he did in 2001. He was just so wanting to prove himself, and a lot of people misinterpreted that."
Being the Bud Man gives Harvick an identity he didn't have with Goodwrench initially or even Shell Pennzoil the past few years. He may not meet the ideal 21 to 34 age demographics the company talks about, but he'll represent it well because he has the confidence and track record that his predecessors -- Kasey Kahne and Earnhardt Jr. -- didn't always demonstrate.
"They want me to be who I am and do the things I normally do," Harvick said. "For the most part I don't act my age, anyway, so that'll be pretty easy for me to do."
Yes, Harvick is relaxed, as relaxed as he's ever been in his career. He can even talk about Earnhardt -- either one of them -- as he did on Sunday when he mentioned his first meeting with the seven-time champion and studying film of his son to prepare for a race.
"After a while you realize all the special accomplishment we've been able to accomplish in this company," Harvick said. "They [Earnhardt] accomplished the same thing. So what?
"I tell myself those were compliments, those weren't something somebody was trying to frustrate you by."


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2 Student Reviews of Biola University
This school is so good!
Professor and students are very well.Overall Score: (4.36/5.00)
Good school, but expensive… when I was there, the girl-to-guy ratio was 3:1.Overall Score: (2.45/5.00)
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text: Hi, just got this: Final object pointer 0x1016389040, start 0x1006308000, end 0x100630cff0 fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 7932(tid 47133889153344): GC invariant lost, file "gc-common.c", line 197 The last thing I did was (find-symbol 'foo::qux), on a package which roughly looked like this: (DEFPACKAGE #:FOO (:USE #:COMMON-LISP) (:SHADOW #:QUX) (:EXPORT #:QUX) (:SHADOWING-IMPORT-FROM #:BAR #:BAZ)) However, I had been mutating that package for a while. This was sbcl 1.0.15 (from sbcl.org, IIRC) on linux/x86-64. Cheers, Michael