I know we should be looking ahead to Saturday night and NASCAR's Lowe's Motor Speedway's race, but it's hard to get the thoughts of Talladega last weekend out of mind even though they're out of sight. Here are a few mind-clearing points from yet another strange weekend in Alabama. DENNY HAMLIN'S HEALTH The best news of the weekend was Denny Hamlin recovering and racing Saturday night after the hard crash he suffered when a tire blew on his Toyota. It was just another in a long list of Talladega beat-downs. In 1996, I attended the July race and watched Dale Earnhardt get injured in a bad crash on the front stretch. The next day in the Birmingham airport, my friends and I saw the seven-time champ, who was dazed, medicated and completely out of it due to a broken sternum. We wished him well and boarded our flight, but the image...
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