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The Rockets and Fastbreaks met Wednesday in Mighty Mite action as the Warner
Robins and Perry Recreation departments held its second week of league action.
BELOW: The Rockets' Rubyann Wiford looks to the basket and gets fouled by the
Fastbreaks Tatyana Smith (41). Also defending on the play for the Fastbreaks is
Raven King (30).
HHJ Joe Sersey
Busch measures
task of repeating
By BRIAN HILDERBRAND
Las Vegas Sun
No driver in the
NASCAR Cup
Series has been
able to repeat as series cham
pion since
Jeff Gordon
TAP in 1997
and 1998
Sunday: Will _ a fact not
third time be the overlooked
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Labonte ready for champion
fresh starts. Kurt Busch.
“We defi
nitely have
the cards stacked against
us,” Busch, a Las Vegas
native, said. “We’re the ones
that everybody is going to
be shooting at every week
and that’s one thing that
will test our team’s ability
to rise above that and to see
how we handle some of that
pressure.”
Busch, who won the 2004
Nextel Cup champion
ship by eight points over
Jimmie Johnson in a battle
that went down to the final
lap of the final race, said
he believes Johnson’s team
may have fallen victim to
that pressure during the 10-
race “Chase for the Nextel
Cup.”
“One thing that’s good
about being a favorite is
that the attention is always
around you,” Busch said.
“You’ve got that same buzz
and that same vibe all year.
What I saw a little bit with
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Kurt Busch gets ready for practice during Preseason
Thunder at Daytona International Speedway Friday.
the (Johnson’s team) is it
seemed as if they were the
favorites; they were the ones
that led the stretch going
into the chase and they may
have burned themselves out
with having all of that extra
attention.
“For us, we slid in under
the radar.”
Although he will be con
sidered one of the favorites
to win this year’s champi
onship, Busch said he and
his Roush Racing teammates
would work hard to approach
the 26-race “regular season”
and 10-race “playoff” in the
same manner they did in
2004.
“We attacked the last 10
races with a full stretch of
tests,” Busch said. “We test
ed nine out of the 10 (tracks
in the final 10 races), with
some of them mixed in dur
ing the final 10 (races) and
we just kind of worked at our
own program and worked at
our own pace.
“If we’re looked at as a
favorite, we’re still going to
have that same mentality to
work at our pace and to not
get too excited.”
“I know I’m going to get
pulled in a few different
directions with a few more
requirements and things to
do outside the racetrack, and
that’s what’s already hap
pened. If you’re a favorite,
you’re a favorite. If you’re
not, it’s something that it
almost feels better not to be
one.
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