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The $ word can be costly

By Ray Ratto
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Well, that'll learn Dale Earnhardt Jr. not to talk like ... well, like everyone on cable TV. Of course, the irony here is that his father would have been run completely out of NASCAR for dropping the S-bomb, and he would have been standing in a long line of drivers, outside an empty race track. But the penalty Earnhardt received -- 25 points in the drivers' standings and some pocket money -- for letting the big one slip on national TV is still pretty weird stuff. Yes, there is precedent for t ...

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