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Western Cooferenct player and Detroit Red Wlng Serge! Fedoro* triee to ehoot around Eaat goalle Patrick Lallme of the Ottawa Senatora dering the NHL All-Star gamę held Sunday.

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Who won? What was the finał?

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check the scorcboard.

\ Thcsc days, that’s no guaran* .'lec.

? Dctermining victory has sud-dcnly lurncd into a diccy issuc, cloudcd by bailouts and • shootoutsrrcplaysąnd regrots,

; tics and double winncrs - all kinds of complications.

The.latesi fuzzy finish occurred Sunday when ihe West dcfcaicd the Easi in the NHL All-Star gamę. The only problem was ihat . nobudy was quite surę of the ^—score.---------

*    For the first time in years, the gamę rcscmhled rcal hockcy. Instead of the torcador, excusc-mc defense that produced 212 goals in the last 13 years of AU-Star games this contest delivered

; a rcasonable score - a S*5 tie.

;. Baseball went througli that last summer when both teams ran out ' of playcrs at its All-Star gamę in Milwaukee and dccidcd a 7*7 tie was finc. Hockcy, howcvcr, was prepared: There would be a shoottiut - a serics of penalty shots to decide the gamę, cruel und unusual punishment for the ' goalics, a kina of legalized target Lpracticc.

•'. Five shots for cach team. The team with the most goals wins. Secms rcasonable. The West scored three goals. The East scored one.

Fina! score: West 6, East 5.

That’s not what the scoreboard said, though. Up there, the score was 8-6 for the West. The scoreboard keeper assumed cach of the shootout goals countcd in the finał score. when thoy aU added ;\tp to just one deciding the gamc.

•    Later, NHL officials correctcd ! the mistakc.

Sports commcntator Frank 1 Dcford tlmuglit tltc NHL did fair-•ly well, considcring somc of the tnisadvcntures of the last ycar in Olympic figurę skatlng, baseball and the NF1-

"Give the NHL credit." Dcford said. “They had one team win* ning, and it was the rigłtt team. That\« u step in the right direc-tion.

“Baseball had no team Win-ning. The Olympics had two teams winning and the NFL had the wronę team winning.

"Surę, they got the score wrong. bur you have to cul them some slack. Gtven the fact they have two teoms bankrupt, thcy've got other things to wonry about." •

This confusion began a ycar ago when the Olympic figuro skating pairs compctition endcd with two couples awardcd gold mcdal.% a French judge fighting a scandal and the sport with a red face.

In last summcr's baseball All-Star gamę, monagers Joe Terre and Bob Brcnly cleverly ran out of playcrs, lcaving commissioncr Bud Selig to deol with a tie gamc. The commissioncr could have serii a cab to the alrpórt to gather some of the stars who fled the bsllpark as soon as they were out of the gamę.

Instead, Selig tookcd rather befuddled, threw his hands up to dcclare a tie, and solvcd it by solomnly plcdging this would never happen agsin.

Belicve that and you'11 believc the Chicago White Sox will always play in Comiskey Park instead of something caUcd U.S. Ce U ul ar Field.

Just asthe bad taste from the bascbalhftll-Star tie was fading away, along camc a platoon of NFL referees poking their heads into ovcrsized. hooded TV replay

And then, when they leaguc apologiting for the mis-take. Our regrets for the error, the proprietors of the NFL adviscd the New York Giants after a blown cali bounced them from the playoffs. And havc a nice offseason

Then there was college footballu national championship at the Fiesta BowI dectded in double ovcrtimc with Ohio State bcating Miami. The only problem was Miami (hotight it had won. Its playcrs and fans rushed on the field to start the celebration, then contritely retreated when an oh-so-late referec threw a flag and signaled pass interference, giving Ohio State another chancc.

Was it rcaUy pass interference? Maybe. Maybe not. Thcre’s no replay in college football, but that probably would only havc complicuted the matter cvcn morę.

Mistakes happen.

What*s troubłing is tłiey kcep happening.

Ncxt week, the Wcstminster Dog Show moves into Madison Sąuare Carden. Don’t be sur-prised if the best-in-show acccpts the blue ribbon with a hcarty, “Mcow!"

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mc fiowers one time ot school, and I still huve the card. It said, Tt’s been so long, I have almost forgotten what you look like."’

So Kelley came homc, transfer-ring to UNC-Charlotte, wherc she cantcd her business degree while driving Late Model cars. At the same time, Dale Jr. was gctdng his start in NASCAR, along with their older half brother, Kerry.

As Dale Jr. started to blossom into a NASCAR star, their father took care of cvcrything. The son had Unie interest or involvement in the business side of racing, and no one had a problem with it.

Whatevcr was good for the father was good for the son.

“When dad was hore, him and (stepmother) Teresa, whatever they did for dad, they mimicked for Dale Jr.," Kelley said. “They madę his dccisiont. Even when he staned his own company, they madę the dedsions about where he banked, aU of his insurance. _.

“They told him what they were doing, but he didn't really carc to sit there and understand it."

Then, Eamhardt was kUJed in a wreck at the 2001 Daytono S00. Brother and sister were on their own again. and Kelley knew Dale Jr. would necd her?

“I called Dale up and said, T need to work for you, and you need me to comc work for you,"’ she remembered. “It took him about three weeks. He always had the trust in mc; he knows how I opcratc."

Those dose to the family havc always said Kelley is most like her father: no nonsense, with a keen sense for business, but ablc tokid around at the proper time.”

And when.it comcs to her brother, no one has cver lookcd after him the way she does. ,

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So Dale Jr. tumed everythlng over to her, making Kelley his business manager.    '

She’s president of JR Motorsports, his company tiat cncorapasses everything tłot related to his Winston Cup te^m, which is owncd by Teresa imd Dale Eamhardt Inc.    i

“I instill a lot of trust abd dependability on her to help (ne out, bccause she’s pretty smort about this stuff," he said. “And let’s face it, Tm probably not tbo cxpcrienced in it. I would probably let people walk off with the bank.”

Kelley didn*t let that happin when it came time for Dale Jr. to sign a contract willi DEL He had worked under a handshakc agreement with his father but wanted something official this time around.

He rcjected lifetime contract that Teresa offerctl. and worked with Kelley on the things he wanted included in his ncw dcaj.

Although they havc solid rela-tionships with Teresa and their half siblings, the two of them have created their own mini faoi-

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The birth two years ago of Kelley*s daughter. Karsyn, has changcd them both. Dale Jj. spends hours on end with hjs niece, sometimes playing Computer games with her, sometimes secrctly teaching her curie words, and sometimes just sitting back and watching her.

And Karsyn’s arriva( finally allowcd the litdc brother to lc$>k after his sister.

"Hc’ll tell me about datiń going out or outsidc imcrc •You don't need to be doing thBt, bccause you have Karsyn,”’ sne said. “He definitely is way harcfcr on mc about pcrsonal things tłvjn I am on him."    *

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