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I'm not the guy I used to be

By Ryan McGee
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

This story appears in the June 29th issue of ESPN The Magazine. It's midweek after another sweat-drenched, short-fused NASCAR weekend at Dover, and the new Sprint Cup Series points leader is spending a rainy day enduring an all too familiar routine.Tony Stewart is on the phone speed-dialing racers, swallowing hard and handing out apologies. He calls Robby Gordon, Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth. Over the past decade, they've all taken a postrace call from Stewart with ...

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