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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Joey Logano isnt in the racing business to make friends. He wants to win trophies. Thats what his owner pays him to do.He says he didnt mean to turn Kurt Busch, when Busch was running third, on the final lap Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. But he did.And in doing so, hes not going to get any benefit of the doubt.He made an aggressive mistake, Busch said. You cant go from fifth to first. Theres just no shot at it. Its a shame that we ended up spun around and wrecked.Buschs crew chief Tony Gibson, typically one of the more reserved and easygoing crew chiefs in the garage, tweeted simply: Stupid is as stupid does!!! #22Logano said the accident was unintentional, just a product of restrictor-plate racing.The last thing I want to do is hit someone like that, Logano said. Unfortunately, it happened.As the social media anti-Logano craze continued, Loganos tweet about the crash also included congratulations to his teammate Brad Keselowski?for winning.Hate I got into @KurtBusch at the end, Logano tweeted. Got free turning under him & tried to catch it.Logano probably wont worry too much about it. His car owner, Roger Penske, has his back. Plus, his 12 victories since the start of 2014 is the most of any driver in the series.Still, he has had his share of beefs with other drivers throughout the years, from Matt Kenseth to Kevin Harvick to Tony Stewart.Joey has taken, I think, some undue criticism from my perspective based on some of the things that have happened, Penske said. Certainly you can go back, and I could name three or four things that certainly werent his fault.But quite honestly, I think hes one of the best drivers on the racetrack out there day in and day out, and sure, people make mistakes.What is strange to Penske is the fact that Logano doesnt get a pass for any of his mistakes. That probably comes from what other drivers feel is an aloof or unsympathetic attitude.That is what Matt Kenseth cited as a point of frustration in his retaliation of Logano at Martinsville last year.A lot of these drivers can knock somebody off the track, and they say, Hey, Im sorry, you follow me, and they move on, Penske said. They dont let Logano do that. ... Im behind him 300 percent.And Ill talk to Kurt, he didnt do it on purpose. It could have been a big mess down there tonight, too, and at the end of the day, thats racing as far as Im concerned.Xfinity Series: Aric Almirola gets that winAlmirola doesnt have any mementos of his first Xfinity Series win, the one in 2007 where he started the race at The Milwaukee Mile but the tardy Denny Hamlin got in the car after arriving from Sonoma and drove the car across the finish line in front of everyone else.By the time the race was over, Almirola wasnt even at the track. But he still got credit for the win.I have nothing, Almirola said. I didnt take anything from it. I didnt take the money. I didnt take the trophy. I didnt take any pictures in Victory Lane. I left before the race was over.That was not my race to win. I started the race, I qualified on the pole, I led however many laps at the start of the race when they called me down pit road but I was not in the car when it crossed the start-finish line. Denny Hamlin won that race.Almirola feels he won his first Xfinity race -- for real -- Friday at Daytona International Speedway.When they called me at the shop that week to tell me how thankful they were and Joe [Gibbs] and J.D. [Gibbs] gave me the trophy, I took it over to the [Xfinity] shop and gave it to [crew chief] Dave Rodgers, Almirola said. I felt he deserved it. He made the car good enough for me to qualify on pole and lead all those laps and then Denny to get in and win the race. Dave has that trophy I think. Air Max 97 Italy Gold . Hargreaves began his career in 2008 with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and has played with the Edmonton Eskimos and last season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Air Max 97 Ultra Confetti .J. -- Marshawn Lynch said Thursday it will be good to get back to football after the Seattle quiet talking running back wrapped up his final mandatory media session of Super Bowl week. http://www.airmax97outlet.it/scontate-air-max-97-ultra-17.html . The Redskins announced Monday that the quarterback who led the team to the Super Bowl championship in the 1987 season will serve as a personnel executive. Air Max 97 2020 Outlet .Y. -- Bills receiver Stevie Johnson has a bone to pick with the NFL schedule maker. Air Max 97 Bling Bling . The team said Saturday that Lopez was hurt during its 121-120 overtime loss at Philadelphia on Friday. The Nets said they would issue another update next week after consultation with their doctors. There is no indication that reverse psychology works on a racehorse, at least not like the way it does on, say, a 5-year-old, or a recalcitrant boyfriend.You can stroll past the stall of an unruly colt waving the surgical implements of castration, and he wont bat an eye. Dont eat ? see if I care is rarely deployed as a training tool.After four straight losses as the heavy choice, the 3-year-old Tizbud filly Chao Chum had Gary Stute wishing he had more hair to pull. Her maiden win last July was visually impressive, and her subsequent starts were never embarrassing, with three seconds and a third. But she was burning money like mad. Stute was beginning to wonder if he was seeing things.I even tried training her two different ways for two of her allowance losses, Stute said. I tried old school and then went new school, but it didnt make any difference. I said to hell with it. Id been running her in those allowance races and Cal-bred races thinking she couldnt lose, so I put her in a race I didnt think she could win.The race was last Sundays $100,000 Betty Grable Stakes at Del Mar, a seven-furlong main-track event that looked like a slam dunk for Nick Alexanders Enola Gray. The daughter of Grazen won a similar race at Del Mar last summer by a pole, with a speed figure that caught everyones eye. Accordingly, Enola Gray was held at a dime on the dollar for the Betty Grable.Then horse racing happened, and Chao Chum beat Enola Gray by a conclusive length and a quarter after dogging the choice from the start. Kent Desormeaux rode the winner, after Tiago Pereira had been aboard all six of her previous races.The other kid rode her fine, Stute said. But theres just something about Desormeaux. Hes got those magic hands, and some horses really respond to that magic. Hopefully, shes one of them.Theres something magic about Del Mar, as well, no matter what time of year it opens for business, although the brief fall meet, now in its third season, is still a promotional work in progress, thrashing around between holiday themes and the residue of horse racings show biz glow.Only at Del Mar would there be a race named for Betty Grable, the leggy hoofer, WWII pinup, and wife of bandleader Harry James, whose colt Big Noise won the 1951 Del Mar Futurity under Hall of Famer Ralph Neves. The glamour couple were denizens of the summer seaside meet, when Harry would give his all-star band time off and Betty would dope out the races every day in the clubhouse.Of course, theres nostalgia, then theres ancient history. Del Mars naming committeee came closer to this century with the $75,000 Let It Ride Stakes on opening Saturday, conjuring memories of the classic racetrack flick from 1989 that has supplied wiseguys with all the material theyll ever need.dddddddddddd The Exchange Rate colt Defiantly won the mile on the grass for owner Mick Ruis and trainer Craig Dollase, with Gary Stevens doing the driving.If nothing else, the fall Del Mar meet gives players on both sides of the rail a chance for a deep breath. With the Breeders Cup at Santa Anita this year, the California season had the feel of coming to a loud and dramatic end, especially after the epic Classic between Arrogate and California Chrome left everyone limp and pleading, No mas.These last two months, split between Del Mar and Los Alamitos, put decent enough purses on the table for those who step up. Trainer Mike Puype, who deserves another headline horse now that two-time Breeders Cup winner Mizdirection is a memory, came on strong with three winners from six starters opening weekend. It was no surprise to see Flavien Prat fast from the gate with four wins, but the pleasant surprise was an opening-day double from Santiago Gonzalez, who was third in the Del Mar summer standings but went cold at Santa Anita in the fall.No one deserved to celebrate more than Stute. The cigar-chomping son and former assistant of perennial Hall of Fame candidate Mel Stute has been through some dry years. By his calculations, the victory of Chao Chum was the trainers first stakes win since the 2010 San Fernando with Papa Clem.I havent had many opportunities, Stute said with a self-effacing burst of his infectious laugh. Between six and eight horses has been my barn the last couple of years. Thats gets old, and it can get you pretty sour. When I became a trainer I didnt think about the part where you had to beg owners for horses.Chao Chum was bred and is owned by a partnership of Thai businessmen whove had horses with Mel Stute in the past. Her Betty Grable victory has Gary Stute thinking he might have a player in the division, with a race like the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes in late December coming into the picture.Going into the race the other day, the La Brea never crossed my mind, Stute said. Shed let me down so much, and I never planned on her running that good. I was getting kind of depressed. Now, Ive got to at least nominate her. She might be as good as I thought she was after all. 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