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This week's lucky numbers in Las Vegas? 8-11-3

By Bill Stephens
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, April 10, 2008

In one of the oldest traditions in contemporary history, numbers are what power the city of Las Vegas. Many times, those numbers are preceded by a dollar sign. Sometimes the numbers reflect the odds that rule winning or losing bets, and occasionally they mean something entirely different. Such is the case this weekend when the NHRA POWERade Series arrives at The Strip at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the ninth SummitRacing.com Nationals. The numbers 8-11-3 represent the slim distance betwee ...

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