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LONG BEACH, Calif. nfl jerseys china . -- Ryan Briscoe kept Penske Racing perfect so far this season by winning the pole for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. He wont be there for very long. A decision by Chevrolet to yank the engines from all 11 of its teams because of concerns the engines wouldnt last throughout the race meant all the Chevy drivers knew they wouldnt start Sunday where they actually qualified. The IndyCar penalty for unapproved engine changes is 10 spots on the starting grid, so Briscoe will actually start 11th when the green flag falls. Defending series champion Dario Franchitti, a Honda driver, qualified fourth but will start on the pole because the top three in qualifying were Chevy drivers. Josef Newgarden, an IndyCar rookie, leaps from seventh to second, and Justin Wilson will go from ninth to third. After that is anyones guess. "I feel like we need to call in NASA to figure out who is starting where," said Chevy driver James Hinchcliffe, who qualified sixth. "Who is starting sixth?" asked Chevy driver Ryan Hunter-Reay, who was third. "I have no idea," Hinchcliffe replied. "Whos on first?" Hunter-Reay cracked. All humour aside, Chevrolet was proud to have five drivers qualify in the top six on whats been a trying weekend. The engine issue was discovered after Hinchcliffes blew up during a test session on Monday, and Chevrolet IndyCar program manager Chris Berube said the drivers "rose to the challenge of the engine change." "We were not certain something would happen during the race, but we wanted to preserve the show, and decided it was in the best interest of all our Chevy teams, and the Long Beach Grand Prix to swap the engines out beforehand, knowing the grid penalty will be difficult to overcome in the race," he added. With 14 total drivers being punished for engine changes -- three Lotus drivers also made switches -- figuring out the starting lineup is a bit of a headache. But it should make for an exciting race as some of the top talent will be mired deep in the field at a track that doesnt have too many ideal passing spots. Asked if drivers will be forced to create places to pass, Will Power said he wasnt sure. "I think youll see a lot of crashing if thats the case," said Power, who qualified second but will start 12th. Two weeks ago at Barber, the Penske driver started ninth but managed to pick through traffic for the victory. It may be harder on Sunday, when a Honda driver might finally break through with a win. Its been all Chevrolet so far this season, as the manufacturer has dominated the qualifying sessions in its return to the IndyCar Series. Penske drivers Briscoe, Power and Helio Castroneves have won all three poles, and Castroneves won the season opener at Long Beach. Locked out has been Honda driver Scott Dixon, who opened the year with a pair of second-place finishes and lost to Power at Barber because of a bad final pit stop. But his shot at the pole blew up Saturday when a transmission problem caused a fire in his car. He wound up 12th in qualifying, but should jump up to fifth once the Chevrolets are moved back on the grid. Instead, it will be teammate Franchitti, the four-time series champion, on the pole as he tries to snap out of the slump hes been in this season. Franchitti ran out of gas in the closing laps at St. Pete, qualified 18th at Barber and said he had one of the best drives of his career to finish 10th. Now hell be up front at the start. "We knew we were going to be starting on the pole regardless of what time we did, but we kind of wanted to earn it," Franchitti said. "We didnt quite have it in the car." And he had no qualms about 21-year-old Newgarden starting next to him in just his third IndyCar race. "Josef throughout his career has proven how good of a driver he is, and hes done it again every time hes been in the car this year," Franchitti said. "Hes getting better, thats the annoying bit," chimed in Hinchcliffe. "Yeah, exactly," said Franchitti, adding, "weve proven time and time again, whether you are a rookie or a veteran, you can screw it up just as well." Newgarden was up for the challenge and even pondering early strategy. "When you get opportunities in racing, you have to take advantage of them and nobody remembers why you started on the front row, they just remember the end result on Sunday," Newgarden said. "When you get luck like that, an advantage, you have to take the opportunity and thats what were going to try to do. "So well make the most of tomorrow, maybe get by Dario early. Ill probably try and pass him early, he probably wont expect that." For Briscoe, the Chevrolet penalty had to sting as the Penske driver tried to match his teammates performance. He didnt crack the top 10 in the first two races, but refused to complain about losing his front row starting spot. "It bites, but weve just got to go with it, youve got to trust Chevrolets judgment in this decision," he said. "We know we have fast cars, and we have to make sure we have reliable engines." cheap jerseys from china . Desharnais scored at 1:43 of overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators. Desharnais stripped the puck from defenceman Mattias Ekholm along the left boards, skated to the left faceoff dot and put a slap shot over goalie Carter Huttons left shoulder. cheap jerseys from china . Calgary has lost three of its past four and enters this contest two points behind Dallas for the eighth spot in the West with 66 points. The Flames did notch a point last time out, dropping a 4-3 shootout decision to the visiting Coyotes. http://www.cheapjerseysfine.com/ . -- Sure enough, putting was all the rage Thursday in the World Challenge. cheap nfl jerseys . The power-hitting right-handers cliffhanger 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4) victory over Vasek Pospisil on Saturday made him the first Canadian to reach the final of his countrys biggest tournament since Robert Bedard won it for the third time in 1958. cheap nfl jerseys . The NHL and National Hockey League Players Association announced Thursday they are partnering with the You Can Play Project, an organization aimed at eliminating homophobia in athletics.FORT WORTH, Texas -- Matt Kenseth can quit wondering. He is still good enough to win. After going 76 races without a win, Kenseth finally got back into Victory Lane with a dominating run at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night when the entire Roush Fenway team was outstanding. "As you start to get a little older and start looking up at the results, its been over two years since we won," Kenseth said. "You cant help but think, is the way its going to go? Are we going to keep trickling backwards?" Kenseth led 169 of 334 laps at the 1 1/2-mile, high-banked track for his 19th career victory, his first since California in February 2009 when he won the first two races of that season. Since his other win at Texas in 2002, Kenseth had four runner-up finishes, including last fall behind Denny Hamlin, and six other top-10 finishes at the track. "It has been a long time," Kenseth said. "I have lost a lot of close ones at this track. It feels good to be able to close it out." This time, the No. 17 Roush Fenway Ford was only trailing late behind Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch when both of those drivers were out of sequence on stops and trying to stretch fuel in hopes of catching a caution. Lucky for Kenseth, there were no yellow flags at the wrong time. Kenseth went back ahead to stay with 13 laps to go when Busch had to make his final stop and give up a 8.2-second lead. Kenseth finished 8.315 seconds ahead of Clint Bowyer on warm and windy night for the first Texas race under the lights. "One of the hottest times Ive ever had in a car," Bowyer said. "More than anything, my feet were burning up." Edwards, Kenseths teammate, joked that he was "hopped up on Pepto Bismol" because of an upset stomach from something he ate earlier in the day. He also dealt with a loose car all night, but still finished third to take over the series points lead by nine over Kyle Busch. "I was a little sick this morning. I thought I was alright. But my stomach was messed up about 50 laps in. My mom made a dish and I think one of the ingredients was bad," Edwards said. "We were trying really hard to get the car right and we never did. Thats why I was happy with third." It was a weekend sweep in the Lone Star State for car owner Jack Roush after Edwards won the Nationwide race Friday night. Roush has 16 NASCAR wins in Texas -- eight in Cup, seven in Nationwide and one in Trucks. All four of Roushs drivers finished in the top seven Saturday night. Greg Biffle was fourthh and polesitter David Ragan seventh, the best finish of the year for both. nfl jerseys china. "Im really proud of what weve been able to do in 2011," Roush said. "I cant say how proud I am to be here with Matt. He hasnt gotten the success that his effort deserved in the recent past." Kenseth led nine times and won with an average speed of 149.234 mph. The race featured 31 lead changes among 13 drivers. Stewart had gone 58 laps since his last stop with 58 laps to go, and had nearly a 17-second lead over Kenseth and more than 19 seconds over Bowyer when he made his stop. Any chance for a victory ended when Stewart got penalized for speeding on pit road. He finished 12th, the last driver on the lead lap even though he coasted across the finish line after running out of fuel. Kurt Busch, who led five times for 50 laps, finished 10th. It was his fifth top-10 finish this season, his best being fifth in the season opener at Daytona. "Just a hard-fought battle all night," Kurt Busch said. "Overall, we got off-sequence which might have helped preserve that top 10. Its tough. We want to compete for top fives and wins and were only getting top 10s right now." While Kenseth had led only five laps in the first six races this season, he got to Texas coming off three consecutive finishes in the top six and had been in the top 12 for every race since an accident in the season-opening Daytona 500 led to a 34th-place finish. Kenseth became the career laps leader at Texas, pushing his total to 669 laps in 18 starts. The first night race of the season was also the first at Texas, which hosted its 21st Sprint Cup race since the track opened in 1997. Hamlin finished 15th and Kevin Harvick 20th, both being denied trifectas. Harvick had won the last two Cup races this season at Martinsville and California. Hamlin swept both races at Texas last season and was trying to become the first driver to win three consecutive Cup races at the track. Both had problems early in the race, Harvick getting a penalty in the pits on the first stop and Hamlin with some power problems in his car. After a runner-up finish last week at Martinsville, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had another strong run and finished ninth. But his winless streak was extended to 100 races since winning in Michigan nearly three years ago. That was his only win in 115 starts since joining Hendrick Motorsports, a span in which teammate Jimmie Johnson has won three season championships. Johnson finished eighth at Texas, just ahead of Earnhardt. ' ' '
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