Vote for Valdosta! / ESPN

Hey guys, I don’t ask for many favors on here but would you guys please do me a huge favor and click the link below and vote for VALDOSTA, GA in ESPN Sports Center’s “Title Town” search.

The town was named one of the final 20 nominees and voting started today to find the winner. The ESPN crews were here two weeks ago and filmed a segment, which you can watch after the jump.

Please… please go vote!

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The best question and answer from this, which is a good read regardless, is:

Q. There could be times next season where Tony the driver and Tony the owner are not exactly going to see eye-to-eye. You can’t fire yourself –

TONY STEWART: Sure, I can. It makes it easier to fire yourself if you own part of the team.

To read the entire transcript…. (more…)

Tony and his dog Kayle. / Flickr

Tony Stewart will present  the Indiana State Police unit with bulletproof, stab-proof vests for police dogs on Thursday at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Clermont, Indiana.

Stewart donated money to provide 30 vests for the state police’s K-9 unit and for 10 for dogs in Georgia, North Carolina, New Mexico and Minnesota.

The vests costs $695 each, according to Susie Jean of Socorro, N.M.’s website. That would bring the total of all K-9 bulletproof vests at nearly $28,000.

My old building. / My Camera Phone

Today has been one of those days, let me tell ya what. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. so that my mom and I could ride together to try and save gas money. Yeah, that didn’t work out too well. When I put her out, get out for a few, and then go to leave to head to school and work, my truck wouldn’t crank.

Finally, we got it cranked and I went to work where I had to answer telephone calls all day from mothers who are trying to get their daughters into a sorority. You never hear from fathers, it’s always mothers and daughters.

So I head to class and come back to the office and that to the right was in front of me.

They have finally began tearing down my building.

My building…. (more…)

Stewart and Newman talking before the Prelude to the Dream. / Getty Images

Sit tight, I don’t believe it’s that kind of press conference.

Tony Stewart will take part in the weekly NASCAR teleconference for members of the media tomorrow at 2 p.m.

But here’s the interesting part - Ryan Newman will also be giving a weekly teleconference CAM for members of the media tomorrow at 3 p.m.

NASCAR usually holds the press conferences for media to call in and ask questions at 2 p.m. but they’re doing a special one this week.

Makes you think, doesn’t it?

The late Heath Ledger as The Joker. / Flickr

Look at the records that “The Dark Knight” broke just this weekend. It’s amazing!

1 - LARGEST NUMBER OF OPENING THEATRES WITH 4,366 (MORE THAN THE 4,362 DEBUT THEATRES OF PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END IN 2007).

2 - BIGGEST MIDNIGHT PREVIEW GROSS WITH $18.489 MILLION IN 3,040 THEATRES (BEATS STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH AND ITS $16.9 MILLION IN 2,915 THEATRES IN 2005).

3 - BIGGEST IMAX MIDNIGHT PREVIEWS SET AN NEW RECORD WITH $640,000 (INCLUDED IN THE $18.489 MILLION PREVIEW NUMBER).

4 - BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY GROSS IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY WITH $67.850 MILLION (BESTS THE $59,841,919 SET BY SPIDER-MAN 3 IN 2007).

5 - BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY WITH $155.340 MILLION (BESTS THE $151,116 MILLION SET BY SPIDER-MAN 3 IN 2007).

6 - BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS FOR AN IMAX RELEASE IN BOX OFFICE HISTORY WITH $6,214,061 MILLION IN 94 THEATRES WITH $66,107 PER THEATRE. (BESTS THE $4.7 MILLION SET BY SPIDER-MAN 3 IN 2007.) IMAX SHOWING AT FULL CAPACITY $1.9 MILLION ON SATURDAY ALONE.

7 - BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND OF 2008 WITH $151.340 (BEATS INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL‘S $101.137 MILLION FROM MAY 23-25, 2008)

8 - BIGGEST JULY OPENING EVER (BEATS PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST‘S $135,634,554 ON JULY 7, 2006).

You can say that I’m a little inspired to list a few things after watching Miley Cyrus’ new video for her new song, “7 Things”. You can view the video at the end of this post if you haven’t seen it yet but…. this goes out to one person who I know reads my blog….

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Who goes home on tonight’s episode of “I Love Money”? (more…)