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Spin the Black Circle: Pennsylvania 500

By Christopher Harris
ESPN.com

Friday, August 1, 2008

Imagine if the NFC Championship Game were played on ice skates. Or during the ALCS, all the hitters accidentally wore blindfolds. Or during the Western Conference Finals someone forgot to inflate the basketball. That's how bad it was last week. In NASCAR's second most important event, the Brickyard 400, Goodyear brought the wrong tire, NASCAR blithely believed it had tested well enough, and the Cup cars couldn't go more than 10 laps on a set of new tires. Sprint Cup's wizards had to put out a c ...

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