Annett Unsure What Caused Injury in Daytona Crash

Michael Annett was back at the track Saturday as a spectator, unable to drive his Richard Petty Motorsports car in the Nationwide Series race because of a fractured and dislocated sternum.

He was injured in a crash during last month's season-opener at Daytona and spent a night in the hospital before returning home to North Carolina, where doctors discovered the severity of his injury. Emergency surgery followed and Annett is sidelined indefinitely.

Now questions remain as to what caused Annett's injuries as NASCAR, RPM and seat belt manufacturer Schroth investigate the accident.

''The steering wheel hadn't moved, it wasn't bent,'' Annett said at Bristol Motor Speedway. ''There wasn't a mark on the helmet, a mark on the suit. It was pretty much my body stayed where it was supposed to and my sternum tried to come out of my chest. That's all we do know. Everything did its job. If it hadn't, I wouldn't be standing here.

''We sat in a meeting this week and saw pictures of a brand new set of belts and then my belts after the wreck and everything was correct. It was six-point harness. NASCAR is working on implementing a seven-point harness, which is something I'm definitely going to look into, but, right now, everything did its job.''

Reed Sorenson is driving Annett's car until he can return, and doctors believe he could be sidelined eight weeks. But Annett hopes to get back in the car at least a week earlier than planned based on how well he's felt.

''I was doing better until I got a cold and found out that sneezing is about the most painful thing there is,'' Annett said. ''But other than that, I'm doing good. Honestly, I feel like I could be putting my suit on right now. We all heal differently. They said eight weeks, but they also said I would be in the ICU all night and I was there for 30 minutes. So hopefully, we can turn that eight weeks into six or seven.''

Report: Tim Tebow Trade Hits Snag

Tim Tebow trade hits snag, deal with New York Jets could be off: According to ESPN, Adam Schefter, the agreement between the Denver Broncos and New York Jets send Tim Tebow in the Big Apple hit a snag, which could negate the blockbuster trade.

Both teams took the agreement to the Broncos asked the aircraft to pay salaries and bonuses that have already paid to Tebow.

"Tim Tebow has a $ 5 million of the reuptake of language", Schefter Twitter ", which means the aircraft will have to repay the money in Denver. Jets may not want."

Some sources claim that the office before the aircraft made ​​an agreement, the objection after reviewing the agreement.

Similar language was completed trade negotiations between Denver and Jacksonville Jaguars, Schefter noted. He later wrote that the league source said that the sale will be held at the end. If not, the St. Louis Rams can get involved.

It's no good for those who somehow Bros have already purchased the appropriate aircraft Tebow T-shirts for three hours after the trade was announced.

Tim Tebow: Where Does he go now? Four Teams That might fit

Tim Tebow: Where Does he go now? Four Teams That might fit: Tim Tebow must make way for Peyton Manning on the Broncos, but he’ll be heard from again. Two months ago, is in the playoffs, Denver Broncos general manager John Elway said the lawyer, Tim Tebow had "earned the right to be the starting fifteen in the next training camp."

Currently, the only way this will happen, it seems, is that Tebow on the other team.

He said that former Indianapolis Colt Peyton Manning decided to join the Broncos, and the contract should be developed in the near future. This almost certainly means the end of "Tebowmania" (not to mention the "Tebowing" meme) in Denver.

Why not be the alignment of Tebow Manning?

On the one hand, Tebow is an advocate of working with poor skills to care. It would probably be difficult to serve as a backup with a crime based Manning, which is based on the release of fast, accurate arm and the ability to read defenses.

Moreover, Manning, famous for the accumulation of practice time. In Indianapolis, his backup made a few shots in practice and, therefore, were unable to find tracks crime Manning. For Tebow, brutal competitor, which should work on its development, this fate is likely to be much worse than the exchange.

So who might want to Tebow?

Apparently, he was a tireless worker, very quickly, and the Broncos proved that the team is ready to develop the offense around his running style can be successful - and even win a playoff game. In addition, his ardent will almost guarantee the following fans in place for franchisees who have the problem of attendance.

Nevertheless, the plaintiff may be hard to find. Create a team to Tebow means going against the current trends in the National Football League for a team building around the exceptional passers-by.
  

    * One option is for Tebow to reunite with the coach who drafted him – Josh McDaniels, who is now the offensive coordinator for the New England Patriots. Rumors are swirling that he could end up backing up Tom Brady.
   *  He could also wind up in Green Bay, where the exit of backup Matt Flynn has left room for a solid No. 2.
   *  Another options is the Miami Dolphins, who are looking for star power – and there is no bigger draw for Florida football fans than their native son.


This inevitably leads to a Jaguar in the room. Tim Tebow signed a contract with his hometown Jacksonville Jaguars, and to revive the franchise has been a dream for fans of Jacksonville has long been suffering from Tebow of Florida Gator, an hour's drive from the University of Florida.

Danica Patrick's Major Daytona 500 Risk

Danica Patrick’s big Daytona 500 dare: Danica Patrick is 29 years old, the rich, famous and the team all around her, engulfed in the beautiful state of the American celebrity, where a steady stream of positive and easy money and are located in front of her.

Almost all the stars of dubious value to come up with a car these days Hollywood would kill her reality: the photogenic female runner.

There are several potential missteps, and boldly, Patrick seems to get almost all of them. She can not help it. Her husband, Paul Hospenthal, describes it as "All In", both completely devoted to everything she does. And then all to the next task without thinking about the latter.

No one else in the list of Hot 100 would be ready to go before the hordes of camera without make-up and hairstyles seen how he does on the track. Any person who serves as a role model for children, especially from a position-you-go girl, go to the GoDaddy ads wildly suggestive.

And here is this: Patrick, curled up in a chair in his luxury bus parked in the infield at Daytona International Speedway, preparing for the shooting on Sunday in the Daytona 500, where there is no driving experience from the production car is much more likely in trouble and frustration than victory.

"I know that I am an eternal cup [Sprint], and I really do not know what to expect," said Patrick. And even if she desperately wants to win the event this year, including Daytona, "the first target is to finish the race and see."
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Over the years, Anna Kournikova was one of the top 10 players in the tennis world's women. Although it would be enough to celebrate, if you were perennial all-star football or basketball - not ashamed not to be LeBron - Kournikova elite athletic skills were in line with his fists that brought his empire around it. She never won a tournament. That's what everyone says. This is likely to be in the first sentence of his obituary, and it caused some of the public to turn it on, as if they were sold a lie.

"This is what happens when your popularity outside of your performance level to deserve this," said Patrick. "You [should] deserves, for some reason, and you'll get it for other reasons."

One of his sponsors, Patrick was born, as "America's most famous NASCAR driver," which is certainly true, even if Sunday will be his first race in a series of high-level Sprint Cup.

Here, outside, there is a risk of inconsistency that Patrick is trying to be a career, which leaves many wondering exactly what it is trying to prove. Is it just for the money that NASCAR can (and can not own a car) to provide?

The risk / return back, though.

"The most famous NASCAR driver of America" ​​could finish last in the Great American Race. This can lead to an accident leaves a few favorites and turned into a goat. Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart and the rest can beat him (as they do almost every beginner), all on a large audience ever to watch the training.

Patrick to all this. In general it is in.

It was not his idea of ​​the popularity of the car crash. When she was only a go-karting event Roscoe, Illinois, a dream to win the Indy 500. At age 16 she moved to England, leaving his family, friends, school and all that to solve this problem.

Now she's got a new one.

It could even continue the dream, stay in a comfort zone, perhaps even to take pawns, the more that talent continues to drain from the Indy cars here. Juan Pablo Montoya. Sam Hornish. These guys won the Indy 500 and then declined in the NASCAR also find that the steep learning curve.

All in all, however. Why is Patrick sitting some junior circuits? It was in this to try to be the best for the best. It's like when they offer him a new commercial television. "What is the reason not to do this?" She asked.

Thus, in the middle of her career, she re-invent themselves, risking everything about the race to become a stock car driver. Two years part-time and full time, ready or not, pedal to the floor.

She won one race in the freewheel, the 2008 victory in Japan, few people saw the live broadcast, as it turns out, has done little to assuage some critics of the concept that it is not really a legitimate race.

"They say he was a fuel strategy, and it was an ugly win," she said.

But she does not care. Indeed. She says that a few times or more. She has many fans and wants to win for them to give them a great day when the Chicago Bears to win it. Each individual. Even in a sport where the bottom line is always one winner and many losers, some will never be satisfied. Some will never recognize their loyalty.

"I'll never do enough for them," she said. "They may say it's because I'm a girl and I had a good car, and if anyone else had this car that they could do better.

"I want to win for the people who are already my fans and cheer for me all weekend at the [censored], that have nothing good to say about me."

She is not afraid to label Anna Kournikova. If so, it would not be here, demonstrating and throwing caution to the wind for a long attempt to win the Daytona 500.

All earned back in any way. Entering Daytona is not part of some of the desperate search for money and attention. She never spend what he did, not to mention what she wants. In any case, the refusal could affect future earnings.

And the glory? Important? The fame? It was more emissions than Bowl Super Tom Brady. She declined exponentially addresses commercial and magazine covers that she was adopted.

"They ask me to do different things, I'm not happy," she said.

Patrick has the following areas of life that moves through freely, and can not understand why others do not accept. Red carpet red carpet. Pit Road road ditch. It does not get blown up by her hair when she on the trail. What other drivers are not advertising?

"Why am I here?" She asked rhetorically. "Some things I'm here to look beautiful and give your name to it. And other things that I do, I'm here to drive a race car. I'm not sure where the show ... This is my world of racing. [Others] on the does not really communicate with the world. "

It has built his entire life for this purpose. Sacrificed much for this. Decade of behavior, forward, new challenges, twists and turns that led to his most competitive race of his life and deception.

This is the exact opposite of security and packaged and pretend Kardashian rulebook is written for the millions out there running. This is the exact opposite of someone who is trying to con America. She can not win. It can never win a race in the series Sprint Cup. It may not be so sharply, critics singing with delight.

If you can not see victory in the attempt, in the pursuit, in the same way a very successful enterprise in one way or another, the fact that Danica Patrick should do to convince you of its commitment to the sport?

"I'm not worried," she said.

In general it is in.

"I really do not understand."SOURCE

College's Extreme Method To lure Recruit

College's Extreme Method To lure Recruit: Four-star junior tailback Alvin Kamara of Norcross, Ga., couldn't believe what he found in his mailbox after getting home from school one recent day.

Or rather, what he found falling out of his mailbox.

"There were 105 letters from Alabama," Kamara told Rivals.com.

Seriously?

"I counted!" Kamara said. "And I took pictures. I was shocked. I didn't expect there to be that many in the mailbox. When I opened it, it was overflowing and some of them fell out."

Kamara said he's keeping all 105 of them in one shoebox.

And while he says hasn't read them all - there were simply too many of them - he thinks he already knows the meaning behind the Tide's mass mailing.

"It's because they want me," Kamara said.

They are not alone.

Alabama is one of nine schools that have offered the 5-foot-10, 190-pounder. His latest came from Mississippi State on Thursday.

"It's still exciting [getting new offers]," Kamara admitted. "Every time I get one, I'm like 'Yes!'"

Kamara, who rushed for 1,500-plus yards in 2011, is a solid all-around back known for his exceptional speed. He received his first offer last fall from Syracuse.

After a strong performance at the Rising Seniors Georgia Junior Bowl in December, he started getting even more attention. Now, Kamara is one of the Peach State's most sought-after juniors.

He already has visited the Tide. This weekend, he will check out Florida. In March, he will head to Clemson.

"Right now, I don't have any leaders, but I'll say a few schools stand out a little bit," Kamara said. "Alabama, Georgia and Syracuse. Recruiting wise, they stay in touch with me the most.

"Coach [Bryan] McClendon at Georgia stays in touch with me; Coach [Tyrone] Wheatley at Syracuse keeps in touch with me."

Alabama is just the most persistent.

"Coach [Kirby] Smart at Alabama - we talk two or three times a week," he said.

Asked who was recruiting him the hardest, Kamara's answer probably won't surprise you.

"I'll say Alabama, just based on what other schools are doing and what Alabama is doing," Kamara said. "I went there [for junior day] and it went well. I liked the atmosphere. It's SEC football. It's big-time football. You can feel it when you go up there."

Or when you open your mailbox. SOURCE