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More mature Hamlin looking to use Pocono as '08 springboard

By David Newton
ESPN.com

Friday, August 1, 2008

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mounted in the billiards and poker room in the basement of Denny Hamlin's palatial Lake Norman home is a 21-year-old soccer ball with his signature copied countless times in the white hexagons. It looks out of place surrounded by all the racing paraphernalia that makes up 99 percent of the decor. "I got it for Christmas when I was 6, and everyone would laugh and say, 'He never plays with the soccer ball. All he does is sign his name all over it,'" Hamlin recalled on Thursda ...

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