Hot headed IRL driver Danica Patrick got into another heated skirmish on pit row on Sunday. This time it was with fellow woman driver Milka Duno.

The video is pretty funny. It is not the first time she had got in an argument on pit row with another driver. Earlier this year she went after Dan Wheldon.

Patrick, albeit finally won a race two months ago at the Indy Japan 300, wouldn’t be known in the sport, regardless of sex if it weren’t for her posing in bikini swimsuits, losing her cool with other drivers, or running over pit crew member Charles Buckman. She does draw attention to her sport though, something that is hard to do with the IRL.

Here is a complete list of the winners from the 2008 ESPY Awards.  It is always anti-climatic when an award show is filmed several days before it is set to air. To top that off ESPN.com, on their front page, tells everyone who won every single award from last night’s 2008 ESPY Awards. The ESPY’s will air July 20th on ESPN.

Special Awards

• Arthur Ashe Courage Award: John Carlos and Tommie Smith, 1968 Olympic medalists
• Jimmy V Award for Perseverance: Kevin Everett, former Buffalo Bills TE
• Best comeback: Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers

Best in Sport

• Best Female Athlete: Candace Parker, Tennessee Basketball/Los Angeles Sparks
• Best Male Athlete: Tiger Woods, Golf
• Best Moment: “Great Sportsmanship” (Central Washington University’s Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace, Western Oregon University’s Sara Tucholsky)
• Best Team: Boston Celtics
• Best Coach/Manager: Pat Summitt, Tennessee Women’s Basketball
• Best Game: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl
• Best Championship Performance: Tiger Woods, 2008 U.S. Open
• Best Play: New York Giants Eli Manning’s pass to David Tyree at the Super Bowl
• Best Finish: Western Kentucky over Drake in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, winning on a buzzer beater by Ty Rogers
• Best Upset: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl
• Best Breakthrough Athlete: Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings
• Best Record Breaking Performance: Brett Favre, Green Bay Packers
• Best Sports Movie: Semi-Pro
• Best Male College Athlete: Tim Tebow, Florida Football
• Best Female College Athlete: Candace Parker, Tennessee Basketball
• Best Male Athlete With a Disability: Ryan Kocer, Wrestling (Wagner, SD)
• Best Female Athlete With a Disability: Shay Oberg, Softball (Montana State-Billings)
• Best International Male Athlete: Rafael Nadal, Tennis
• Best International Female Athlete: Lorena Ochoa, Golf

Individual Sports

• Best Baseball Player: Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees
• Best NBA Player: Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers
• Best WNBA Player: Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm
• Best NFL Player: Tom Brady, New England Patriots
• Best NHL Player: Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins
• Best MLS Player: David Beckham, Los Angeles Galaxy
• Best Male Action Sport Athlete: Shaun White, Skateboarding/Snowboarding
• Best Female Action Sport Athlete: Gretchen Bleiler, Snowboarding
• Best Bowler: Norm Duke
• Best Driver: Jimmie Johnson
• Best Fighter: Floyd Mayweather, Boxing
• Best Golfer: Tiger Woods
• Best Jockey: Kent Desormeaux
• Best Outdoor Athlete: Captain Scott Smiley, Mountain Climber
• Best Male Tennis Player: Roger Federer
• Best Female Tennis Player: Maria Sharapova
• Best Track and Field Athlete: Tyson Gay

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is getting into NASCAR. Well not actually into a car but on the car.  Obama is finalizing a deal that would make him the primary sponsor on Ken Schrader’s car during the NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway on August 3rd.

A BAM spokesperson has revealed the team will hold a press conference July 23 in Miami to reveal the partnership, currently a proposed one-race deal with an option to continue. Obama will be at the briefing, which will be tied to the “Get Out The Vote” campaign message he spread throughout the 2008 primary season.

Sources claim one of the options being considered would allow individual campaign donors to get their name on the race car for as little as $100. Obama will also be present for a second private fundraiser on July 30 in Miami, in which team owners Beth Ann and Tony Morgenthau — staunch Republicans — will give the Democrat an opportunity to spread his message of change. Randy Moss and Fergie are among the celebrities confirmed to be a part of that fundraiser in support of the candidate and his venture into NASCAR.

Obama continues to be extremely smart running his campaign and reaching out to people from all walks of life.  He will be hoping and praying Schrader can quality for the race which has been a challenge for him this year.  If he can qualify for the race it will benefit Barack that he likely will be going much slower than the other cars.  Everyone can be sure to see Barack’s face and name on the car that way.

Two-time NASCAR champ Tony Stewart and his girlfriend Krista Dwyer have given their pet patas monkey, Mojo, to the Louisville Zoo.

When Stewart and Dwyer noticed that Mojo was maturing and becoming aggressive, they sought help from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which recommended the Louisville Zoo, said zoo spokeswoman Kara Bussabarger.

Bussabarger said the association was aware that the Louisville zoo already had three female patas monkeys, and was looking for a male. She said a check of Mojo’s genetics showed he’s a good potential mate for Louisville’s monkeys.

Kelly went on to say that it is not a good idea to have a wild animal as a pet.  I believe everyone I know who has ever attempted to own a monkey or wild animal has said the same thing after giving it up.  Props to Tony and Kelly for finding the monkey a good and safe home.

Female Indy car driver Danica Patrick ran over her pitman Charles Buckman earlier today during practice for this Sunday’s Indy race.

According to Dr. Mike Ollinger, the director of Medical Affairs for the Indy Racing League, Buckman suffered a concussion along with scalp and facial lacerations. He was transported to Methodist Hospital for treatment where he is being held overnight.

“I really don’t remember how it happened,” Buckman said. “All I remember is I was talking with someone on Marco Andretti’s team and then everything is blank from that point.

“I will be OK and hopefully back to work in a day or two.”

No word if Danica was on her cell phone or doing her nails at the time of the accident. Let the female driver jokes commence!

Hopefully Mr. Buckman will make a quick and speedy recovery.

photo: Yahoo! Sports

Car collector Ron Pratte paid $300,000 dollars for Tony Stewart’s 2007 Home Depot Chevrolet Monte Carlo race car. The sale took place at the 37th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The NASCAR racer was purchased by Chandler, Ariz., resident Ron Pratt, who in recent years has bought several multi-million dollar cars at Barrett-Jackson, including the GM Futureliner bus and the Oldsmobile F-88 show car.

All of the money raised by the sale went to the Darrell Gwynn Foundation. Gwynn was paralyzed and lost his left arm in 1986 when his dragster crashed into the retaining wall half-way down the track.

The Darrell Gwynn Foundation exists to prevent, provide for and ultimately cure spinal cord injuries and other debilitating illnesses. To expedite specific cures, the Foundation assists in the funding of targeted research.

The Foundation is also dedicated to injury prevention, with special emphasis on programs targeting children.

The Foundation helps improve the quality of life for those already afflicted with injury or illness, by providing necessary equipment or special services.

Special thanks goes to two-time NASCAR champ Tony Stewart for donating the car.

Jeff Gordon is either hated or loved on NASCAR racing tracks, but he is one of the best no matter what you think of him.  Jeff is finally at a place in his life where he is happy.  After a failed first marriage early in his racing career, he has remarried and is a first time father of a baby girl.

“At this point in my life, I’ve accomplished all the things that I’ve ever set out to do. I’m still a competitive person, but I’m not feeling like I’m missing out on something,” Gordon, who turned 36 last Saturday, tells Rochester, N.Y.’s Democrat and Chronicle newspaper.

Gordon became a dad to daughter Ella Sofia on June 20. Mom is Belgian actress Ingrid Vandebosch.

“To me, it’s perfect timing in my life to be a father, because I want to be involved, I want to be there,” says Gordon. “I’m excited about all the aspects of it and the challenges that come along with it, and there certainly are.”

Congrats to Jeff and Ingrid!

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NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is leaving his team at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. after the two sides were unable to work out a new contract.  DEI was created by Juniors late father and NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt. It is currently run by Earnhardt’s widow Theresa.

“Those of you who know me know that I don’t like to keep things under wraps. I’m usually pretty honest,” Earnhardt said. “After a year of intense negotiations and intense efforts on behalf of Dale Earnhardt Inc. and JR Motorsports, we decided that it’s time for us to move on and seek other opportunities for me to drive for a new team in 2008.

“We both worked extremely hard to find common ground, but as the negotiations continued, one thing became evident: we both want to get to the same place, but we both simply have different visions on how to get there.”

Junior could end up with the team owned by Richard Childress.  Earnhardt, Sr. won six of his record seven NASCAR championships while racing for Childress.  It also opens up the possibility of Junior driving his dad’s famed #3 car.  He will no longer be driving the #8 as the individual teams own the numbers. So DEI will be fielding a new car as the #8 car.

“I have a great relationship with Richard [Childress], I feel like he has really stepped up his program but I’ve got to do some soul searching on how I feel about driving the No. 3 car,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “With respect to my father, I don’t feel very comfortable with that, he built that number … but I never say never.”

I would love to see Junior in a black #3 on Sundays driving for Richard Childress.

It looks like Master P is going to be getting a new Dale Jr. onesie soon.

Kevin Harvick won the most exciting finish in the history of the Daytona 500 on Sunday by literally inching out geriatric Mark Martin for the win.

Six years to the day after Dale Earnhardt was killed in a final-lap crash at Daytona, the man who replaced him, Harvick, beat Martin to the line by .02 seconds in a green-white-checkered finish and in doing so won his second race at the 2.5-mile superspeedway in two days. Harvick notched his first Daytona triumph in Saturday’s Orbitz 300 Busch Series race.

Harvick is the driver who replaced Dale Earnhardt with Richard Childress Racing after his passing. So it was a fitting win that he won six years to the date of his death.

Mark Martin was passive, thinking that NASCAR would throw the yellow flag, which cost him the win at Daytona.

“I sorry I let everybody down,” said a disconsolate Martin. “I was ahead when they started wrecking behind us. If they throw the caution, I win the race. It was in our fingers, and they waited and waited. I didn’t have any pushers behind me, and Kevin had the preferred position.”The final two-lap dash came after NASCAR red-flagged the race for 11 minutes after Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martin Truex Jr., Jamie McMurray and front-row starter Ricky Rudd wrecked on the backstretch.

Top 10 Finishers

1. Kevin Harvick #29
2. Mark Martin #01
3. Jeff Burton #31
4. Mike Wallace #109
5. David Ragan #6
6. Elliot Sadler #19
7. Kasey Kahne #9
8. David Gilliland #38
9. Joe Nemecheck #13
10. David Stremme #40

Supermodel Niki Taylor has married up and coming NASCAR star Burney Lamar.  The two had a quick engagement that lasted only four months.

Surrounded by about 60 guests including her children Jake and Hunter Martinez, Taylor and Lamar wed in a ceremony Wednesday at the Grande Colonial Hotel in La Jolla, Calif., according to her rep, Lou Taylor. The bride wore a Vera Wang dress aside her older sister Joelle Bolline, who served as matron of honor, and her niece, who was a flower girl.

For even more of a hometown touch, the ceremony was officiated by the couple’s Brentwood, Tenn., church pastor. But for their first dance together, the newlyweds went along with La Jolla’s oceanfront vibe, picking surfer-singer-songwriter Jack Johnson’s romantic “Better Together.”

It is the second marriage for Taylor and first for Burney.  Taylor has twin 11-year olds from her first marriage to arena football player Matt Martinez. She dated Keith Urban for a couple of years after her marriage to Martinez. She and Burney reside in Brentwood, Tennessee.

photo: People/Wire Image

NASCAR great (yes, it pains me to say or even admit that) Jeff Gordon wed Belgian supermodel Ingrid Vandebosch in a secret ceremony in Mexico earlier this week.

The newlyweds will “honeymoon” in Phoenix, Arizona, and Miami, Florida – the site of the final two events of the 2006 NASCAR season — before attending the NASCAR Nextel Cup Banquet in New York this December. Their official honeymoon will take place in an undisclosed location once the season ends.

Vandebosch, 37, began modeling at age 16 and has appeared in magazines like Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue, and Glamour. The aspiring actress has had bit parts in films such as Going Greek and Taxi, in which Gordon also had a cameo.

It is the second marriage for Gordon. He was married for nine years to Jennifer Brooke Sealy. They divorced in 2003 when she took Jeff to the cleaners.

Unofficial Driver Points Standing after Michigan Glen [23 of 36 races]:
1. #48-Jimmie Johnson 3365
2. #17-Matt Kenseth 3307 -58
3. #29-Kevin Harvick 3048 -317
4. #6-Mark Martin 2970 -395
5. #20-Tony Stewart 2959 -406
6. #24-Jeff Gordon 2931 -434
7. #5-Kyle Busch 2922 -443
8. #11-Denny Hamlin 2920 -445
9. #31-Jeff Burton 2916 -449
10. #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2881 -484

and fighting for 10th
11. #9-Kasey Kahne -49
12. #16-Greg Biffle -189
13. #99-Carl Edwards -244
14. #2-Kurt Busch -279

Just another reason to post a photo of Ingrid Vandebosch.  I keep getting hundreds of  hits for ‘nude Ingrid Vandebosch’ or ‘Ingrid Vandebosch naked’.  I think that is wisful thinking on the part of millions of NASCAR fans. Enjoy these photos for now.  Ingrid and Jeff Gordon announced their engagement this week.  Ignore little Jeffrey in the photo.

Another story on the engagment.
Article: This Bombshell pops Hood off NASCAR’s Rep.

NASCAR great, love him or hate  him, Jeff Gordon has announced his engagement to Belgium model/actress Ingrid Vandebosch.

The two started dating in 2004 and appeared together in the movie Taxi, in which Vandebosch played a bank robber and Gordon made an uncredited cameo appearance at her invitation.

They began dating about a year after Gordon’s much-publicized and expensive divorce from Brooke, his wife of seven years.