FOX SPORTS NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES
Green Flag Drops for NASCAR on FOX’s 10th Season
Daytona 500 Qualifying and Prime Time Coverage of the Budweiser Shootout Saturday
Waltrip: Daytona 500 Jinx?
WhatIfSports.com Predicts Saints to Take Down Colts in Super Upset
(Last year’s prediction? Steelers by 4 with “long game-saving drive” in the 4th quarter)
NASCAR ON FOX BEGINS 10th SEASON SATURDAY WITH 32nd ANNUAL BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT IN PRIME TIME – Jimmie Johnson’s ‘drive for five’ begins at world-renowned Daytona International Speedway as FOX Sports jump-starts its 10th season of Emmy Award-Winning coverage on Saturday, Feb. 6 with Daytona 500 Qualifying (1:00 PM ET) and the Budweiser Shootout in prime time (8:00 PM ET). In 2009, Johnson achieved the unimaginable by winning a record fourth-straight Sprint Cup Championship. Along with crew chief Chad Knaus, the No. 48 team aims for the incomprehensible fifth consecutive in 2010.
NASCAR on FOX host Chris Myers, along with analysts Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Hammond provide prerace coverage with up-to-the-second reports and live interviews with drivers, crew and officials shaping the day’s action. Once the green flag drops, race announcer Mike Joy will be alongside analysts Waltrip and Larry McReynolds to call all the twists and turns on the track while Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes, Krista Voda and Matt Yocum patrol the pits for reports on teams and pit stops.
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010
Event BROADCASTERS TIME
Daytona 500 Qualifying (Daytona International Speedway) Prequalifying Host Chris Myers 1:00 PM ET
Prequalifying Analyst Darrell Waltrip
Prequalifying Analyst Jeff Hammond
Announcer Mike Joy
Analyst Darrell Waltrip
Analyst Larry McReynolds
Pits Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum,
Krista Voda, Dick Berggren
Event BROADCASTERS TIME
Budweiser Shootout (Daytona International Speedway) Prerace Host Chris Myers 8:00 PM ET
Prequalifying Analyst Darrell Waltrip
Prerace Analyst Jeff Hammond
Announcer Mike Joy
Analyst Darrell Waltrip
Analyst Larry McReynolds
Pits Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum,
Krista Voda, Dick Berggren
DW: DAYTONA 500 JINX? DRIVERS WILL TAKE IT – NASCAR on FOX analyst Darrell Waltrip won the Daytona 500 in 1989 and said it was the “crown jewel” of his career and easily would be the biggest win of any driver’s career but what about afterwards? “Of late, it hasn’t seemed to work well for drivers that won the Daytona 500. Kevin Harvick won it three years ago and his season went downhill from there. Two years ago, Ryan Newman pulled off the upset and his year went south afterwards. Last year, Matt Kenseth won the Daytona 500 and backed that up the next week by winning in California but from that point on, Matt’s season took a nose dive. You say there is a jinx after winning the Daytona 500? If there is a jinx, these drivers would accept it gladly,” said Waltrip.
For more from Darrell Waltrip’s column on FOXSports.com click here: http://tinyurl.com/yclcx3w
FOXSPORTS.COM’S WHATIFSPORTS PREDICTS SAINTS OVER COLTS 27-25 – After a highly successful run through the regular season where WhatIfSports.com predicted winners 69.9% of the time, and produced a solid effort in the playoffs (6-4), the WhatIfSports.com computers simulated Super Bowl XLIV 10,001 times in an effort to successfully pick another champion. The Saints were the computer’s pick to make the Super Bowl when the playoffs began. They beat the Colts 62.2% of the time, but by an average of less than two points, 27.1-25.3. To view results at WhatIfSports.com click here.
HOW DID WHATIFSPORTS DO IN PREDICTING LAST YEARS SUPER BOWL?
WhatIfSports.com’s Super Bowl XLIII Prediction: Pittsburgh over Arizona 20-16 – “A fourth quarter comeback and a long, game-saving drive leads the Pittsburgh Steelers to victory en route to its sixth Super Bowl championship.”
Results For Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh over Arizona 27-23 – “Trailing 20–7 at the start of the fourth quarter, Arizona scored 16 unanswered points, including wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald‘s 64-yard touchdown reception, to take the lead with 2:37 remaining in the game. But then the Steelers marched 78-yards to score on wide receiver Santonio Holmes‘s 6-yard game-winning touchdown catch with 35 seconds left.”
– FOX SPORTS –
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