It’s official. Ginn Racing was absorbed by Dale Earnhardt Inc today, creating a 4 car team competing in this year’s Brickyard 400 at Indy Speedway. Ginn’s 01 car, to be split between Mark Martin and Aric Almirola for the rest of the year, and the 14 car driven by Regan Smith will join Dale Earnhardt Jr and Martin Truex Jr. This should make the Nextel owner’s race interesting to watch for the rest of the season as DEI inherits Ginn’s owner points.

We came across these NASCAR bags on sale at NASCAR.com Superstore. Check out Dale Jr’s Slingbag, and see what other bags you get here.

Dale Earnhardt Jr Bags

Mark Martin Bags

Padraig Harrington survived a wild finish and a four hole playoff against Sergio Garcia to take home the Claret Jug and win the British Open.

Sergio Garcia was the leader of the British Open after 3 days, due in large part to his new belly putter. Sergio’s putter, as reported by ESPN, is a prototype Rossa Corzina by Taylor Made. It’s not available for market yet, but once it is, we’ll let you know.

You can still get the TaylorMade Rossa AGSI + Corzina Putter from Golfsmith.com.

The Corzina putter features TaylorMade’s new AGSI + technology with 14 grooves positioned closer together, which is more efficient at promoting forward spin and negating backspin for a smoother roll. The Corzina’s wire frame construction allows additional weight to be moved to the perimeter of the putter for a higher MOI and greater forgiveness on mis-hits. It’s 304 stainless steel construction with midnight black finish is of premium quality and gives it cosmetic appeal.

He’s here…..finally!

David Beckham has arrived and is prepared to take America and the MLS by storm. Expect record crowds where the LA Galaxy play at this year.

Too bad English newspapers don’t think the same. The Sun said the Galaxy “resembles a Sunday morning pub side”.
Whatever they or you think, now you can get in on the action with your own Beckham jersey! The Sports Authority has both Home and Road jerseys ready to ship.

Root for David Beckham on and off the field by wearing this LA Galaxy Men’s Replica Away Jersey from adidas®. The officially licensed short sleeve polyester jersey is designed with the full color team emblem and adidas® logo printed on the front. David Beckham’s name is printed on the upper back, with the 23 number printed in the center.

Forget the iPod, PC Magazine named The Helmet MP3 Player one of their “10 Great Gadgets for Game Day.” So far I only see NCAA teams listed (we ordered the Husker one), but I wonder if more leagues are on the horizon.  Under $100 and includes 1 GB of Flash memory (approximately 240 songs) , 2 color OLED display, Rechargeable Li-ion battery, Plays back MP3, WMA, WMA w/DRM9 and DRM10, Plug and Play for Windows 2000 and up, Mac OS X, plus store data files in addition to music.  Get Yourself One Now!

USA!  USA!

Celebrating America’s Independence Day just reached a new level.  Joey Chestnut defeated six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi to bring the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog contest back to America.  Chestnut ate a world record 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes to Kobayashi’s 63 dogs. 

A tear comes in my eye knowing American citizens won’t stand for a foreigner holding this glutenous title.  God bless America!!!