Every sport seems to have that pinnacle event that draws out the prestige and spectacle of its athletes and participants. The NFL had its biggest game last Sunday with Super Bowl XLVI in Miami, FL, featuring a rare matchup between the league's No. 1 seeds in what became the most watched American program of all-time.
Just in nearby Daytona Beach, the NASCAR Sprint Cup gang has its biggest show of the year in the form of "The Great American Race" aptly called the Daytona 500 (Live, Sunday, 1 PM/EST on FOX). It is the ultimate showcase of stock car's best drivers duking it out around the high-banked, 2.5-mile super speedway for three hours of white-knuckle action.
Given its nickname by former CBS Sports' Ken Squier, this generation's "Dean of ...
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