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Kim Kardashian and beauty supplier Sephora are sponsoring the No. 36 Tommy Baldwin Racing car driven by Mike Bliss during the Feb. 26-28 race weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That officially makes Kim Kardashian the sexiest sponsor of the 2010 NASCAR season (possibly ever?), and thus worthy of her own All Left Turns gallery.

I have discovered that the best way to watch races is with the television on, the sound down, MRN on the radio and my laptop open. The laptop is essential, because it allows me to connect with sources at the track who can tell me what is really going on during the race. Sadly, television coverage often misses big stories.

I rely heavily on TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a browser that lets me follow multiple Twitter feeds at once. Whom do I follow? I follow almost everyone who follows my Twitter feed - a good rule of thumb for making friends on Twitter. Whom do I read? I narrowed my 500-plus friends down to my favorite 15 feeds. I hope these can be of some help to you as the season starts.

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With the Midwest and East Coast bracing for Snowpocalypse 2010, I thought it might help our friends in the Eastern half of the country to remember the lighter side of snow. After it has fallen, it can make an already beautiful thing even more beautiful. For example, Martinsville Speedway, after a recent snowfall...

Daytona Speedweeks is overwhelmed with a full-blown case of "Danica Fever." The public will soon be caught up in an epidemic of Danica Patrick. Journalists will speculate about her prospects this year. Throngs of photographers will plaster her image on every magazine. And Jamie Little will look hot reporting on her until we are all driven insane.

There is no escape; this week she'll be in the Super Bowl (in commercials), she'll guest star on CSI: NY (as a leather-clad stock car driver) and she will be in the sky above the East Coast (The AirTranica flying from Orlando to Pittsburgh for AirTran.)

  

Over the next few weeks, you or a loved one will catch Danica Fever.  Here are five ways you can stop it. 

1. Stop cold turkey
You've got to quit watching this year's races altogether. Hopefully you've still got all those races on tape from 1999 as part of your y2k preparedness kit. Every week, just watch the appropriate race, including the Southern 500 rightfully back on Labor Day. Enjoy Tony Stewart as a rookie, Rusty behind the wheel of the No. 2 and commercials with those Budweiser lizards. Spoiler Alert: Dale Jarrett won the title.

So who gets nervous when Jimmie Johnson meets Richard Petty? Johnson? Petty? Both? Neither? Petty got a little loose at an award ceremony in Johnson's honor, but he recovered gracefully. The clip is from HBO's 24/7 Jimmie Johnson.