Although Jimmie Johnson did not win at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday he did secure his second straight NEXTEL Cup championship. He is the first driver to repeat as champion since Jeff Gordon did it in the 97′ and 98′ seasons. Matt Kenseth won the race with Jimmie coming in at 7th place. Gordon finished 4th in the race but it wasn’t good enough to pass Johnson and Jeff finished the season in 2nd and 77 points behind Jimmie. Both Gordon and Jimmie drive for Hendrick Motorsports and in fact Jeff Gordon hand picked Jimmie to be his teammate. The video contains footage of the last 9 laps at Homestead.

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On the last day of March in 1997 Martina Hingis became the world’s youngest female player to ever lead in the world rankings at the age of 16. Also in 1997 she won the Australian Open, Wimbledon, the US Open, and came within one match of winning the Grand Slam losing in the finals of the French Open. Now only 10 short years later with Hingis in her mid twenties she announced on Thursday that she was retiring from tennis amid accusations that she failed a cocaine test earlier this year at Wimbledon. Martina is currently ranked number 19 and had to hold back tears as she gave her statement. “I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous that I’ve decided to confront it head on by talking to the press,” she said. “I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely 100 percent innocent.” Martina said through a statement made by her agent that she decided to go ahead and retire instead of spending years fighting the case against her.

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Jimmie Johnson started Sunday’s race in Atlanta 53 points behind his Hendrick teammate Jeff Gordon for the NEXTEL Cup Championship. At the end of the day however, because of a late race pit gamble and a wild wreck at the finish, Jimmie won the race and now finds himself only 9 points out of the lead. Jimmie was running fifth when a caution came out on lap number 318 of the scheduled 325 laps. His crew chief, Jack Knaus, elected to only take two tires during the caution and Johnnson jumped to second behind Denny Hamlin. When racing resumed on lap 323 Hamlin ran out of gas and Martin Truex Jr. slammed into the back of him bringing out yet another caution. This setup a green-white-checkered finish that would start on lap 328. In the first corner after the restart Dale Jr. lost a tire and collected Jammie McMurray in the wreckage. This wreck caused the race to finish under caution giving Johnson his eighth win of the season. With only three aces left and nine points separating Jimmie and Jeff it looks to be an exciting race to the end.

Jeff Gordon put himself back in the lead for the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship on Sunday by winning the UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega. This win gives Jeff his fifth for the year and twp this year at Talladega. Jeff stayed in the back pf the pack most of the day but made a charge late in the race and passed teammate Jimmy Johnson on the last lap. This win separates Gordon and Johnson and sets up the last races to be a shootout between the two. You can see the end of the race in the video below.

The Atlanta Falcons want a little more than 16 million of the 37 million dollars in bonuses they have already paid suspended quarterback Michael Vick. The case is supposed to be argued at a hearing on Thursday in front of NFL’s special master, University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Stephen Burbank. The Falcons contend that by signing the 10 -year 130 million dollar contract in 2004 Vick defrauded the team because he knew he was already in breach of that contract by running a dog-fighting ring.

Vick’s lawyer is confident that he will not have to return any of the money and says the hearing wont last more than a day. The Falcons already plan to appeal the case if the decision is in Vick’s favor and have also filled a grievance with the non-injury grievance arbitrator. In that case they are seeking 22 million dollars again stating that Vick defrauded the team when he signed the December 2004 contract.

It was not a good weekend to be at the top of the NCAA college football rankings. Half of the top ten teams lost and seven teams out the top thirteen lost.

The first loss by a top ranked team came on Friday night when the University of South Florida beat number five West Virginia by a score of 21-13. This win vaulted USF to their highest ranking ever. The Bulls have only been in the top 25 for two weeks and have jumped this week to number 6.

Auburn took care of business against Florida beating them by a score of  20-17. This is the second year in a row that Auburn has spoiled an undefeated season for the Gators. Last year the Gators went on to win the National Championship. We will see how they can recover from this loss.

Other top ten teams that fell to defeat were Oklahoma, Texas and Rutgers. Overall nine of the top 25 teams lost during one of the most upset filled weekends I have ever seen.

The NFL has fined Vince Wilfork, the starting nose tackle for the New England Patriots, 12,500 for a low hit on J.P. Losman. Losman was the starting quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. The hit came on the first play of the game from scrimmage. It appears that Wilfork was blocked into Losman and then extended his elbow when he was on his way down.Losman sustained a sprained knee and is expected to miss two weeks of play. Wilfork was given a 15 yard roughing the passing penalty during the game and people started speculating whether there would be a fine coming his way. Wilfork has not yet commented whether he will appeal the fine but has said that the hit was unintentional.

It seemed that Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy didn’t really want to talk about the fact that his team had just won a 49-45 shootout against Texas-Tech. Instead, he wanted to talk about an article written about one of his players. The article appeared in The Oklahoman and question the toughness of backup quarterback Bobby Reid. These comments obviously did not set well with Gundy and he let everyone know about it by going on a 3 and half minute tirade after the game on Saturday. “Here’s all that kid did: He goes to class, he’s respectful to the media, he’s respectful to the public and he’s a good kid. And he’s not a professional athlete, and he doesn’t deserve to be kicked when he’s down,” Gundy said. He also goes on to say that the person who wrote the column obviously did not have children. Mike also said on Monday that he felt bad that the speech took away from the win on Saturday but he did not apologize for the tirade. Below is the post-game speech he gave about the article.