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Good recap of the twists and turns (and necessity of insiders) to bring Sprint Cup to Kentucky (C-J)

Arsenal plans to offer shares to its fans, blunting takeover prospects of Stan Kroenke (Guardian)

A pro agent's case for playing college players (WaPo)

Profile of Frank McCourt, whose divorce may put the Dodgers on the auction block (LA Weekly via TBL)

From Chad Ochocinco, word of a major flaw in the NFL's drug testing policy (NYT)

Latest from the Mountain West/WAC soap opera, which makes the ACC raid on the Big East look like a family reunion, Utah State turned down MWC thinking WAC had stabilized (Utah State Aggies)

The race is likely to be moved from one of SMI's existing tracks, with the most likely tracks being Atlanta or New Hampshire, both of which currently have two races on the Sprint Cup calendar.  The kentucky Speedway was built with the idea of landing a Sprint Cup race but the original owners were never able to achieve their goal.  In fact, that ownership group filed a federal antitrust suit against NASCAR for its refusal to consider granting the Speedway a race.  SMI bought the track in December, 2008, when it became increasingly apparent that NASCAR was not going to deal with the existing ownership group and that the litigation was not going in its favor.  SMI, which owns seven tracks hosting one or more Sprint Cup races (not including Kentucky) clearly had a much better relationship with the France family than did Kentucky Speedway's original ownership group, but even so, SMI was forced to wait until the antitrust case was resolved.