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Kobe Bryant hit a baseline jump shot with 4.2 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up a six-game road trip by holding on to beat the Raptors 94-92 on Sunday, their eighth victory in nine meetings with Toronto
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API was looking through some photos of last week's NASCAR Media Tour this morning and one in particular, caught me eye. I stared at it the way one stares at photos in their high school year book and then finally says; how can that be?
It was a staged photo of the drivers of Hendrick Motorsports. The four of them, and team owner Rick Hendrick, were standing there in their immaculate, razor-pressed white dress shirts. They all looked awkward, as racecar drivers often do when asked to pose for still photos. Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Hendrick and Mark Martin all looked about as you would expect. I gave each a quick thought, making standard mental notes about how this season would go for them.
Then I got to Jeff Gordon, who was at the far right end of the lineup. He looked out of place and I couldn't immediately figure out why.
Then it hit me: This coming season, Gordon, a four-time Sprint Cup champion and the face of his sport for almost two decades, will be a Hendrick Motorsports afterthought when it comes to 2010 story lines.
He'll be a sidebar on a team loaded with big-time stories.
Big time? Perhaps the biggest of the year. Johnson is going for five championships in a row. Martin, at 51, is going for his first championship after yet another runner-up finish in a career of them. And Earnhardt, is facing what might be the most important season for any driver in decades.
Yes, Gordon is a big story as he goes for a fifth championship, but only relatively when it comes to those of his teammates.
Some of us have just assumed that as long as Gordon was driving, he would be in the top couple, minimum, when it came to stories of the year.
That could all change, of course, as the season progresses and especially as the Chase comes into focus.
But when the teams begin showing up at Daytona early next month, Jeff Gordon will be, relatively, a bit player.
Jim Pedley is managing editor of Racin' Today. Read more NASCAR news at racintoday.com.
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