http://www.sportsbooks.com/ Sportsbooks - Pro and College sport headlines and stories on the NFL, NBA, NCAA, NHL, MLB, football, baseball, basketball, World Series, Super Bowl. en-us jackblack@sportsbooks.com http://www.sportsbooks.com/ Players making their first deposit with Sportsbooks.com will automatically receive a Tournament Ticket to the $500 Welcome Freeroll. http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/954967.html David Ragan will drive the No.34 Ford for Front Row Motorsports during the 2012 Sprint Cup Series season, the team announced on Monday. Ragan drove the No.6 car for Roush Fenway Racing in Sprint Cup the past five years but was released after the 2011 season when the team ceased operations due to lack of sponsorship, which had come from UPS. The 26-year-old from Unadilla, GA pursued opportunities with Penske Racing, Phoenix Racing http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/954170.html NASCAR officials seem to be very encouraged so far with their revised rules package for next month's Speedweeks events at Daytona International Speedway. NASCAR president Mike Helton, vice president of competition Robin Pemberton and Sprint Cup Series director John Darby gave a competition update on the new rules on Friday at Daytona. Thirty-two Sprint Cup teams are in the midst of a three-day test session at the 2.5-mile speedway, http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/953916.html Thirty-one Sprint Cup Series teams checked in at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday to begin a three-day test session in preparation for the February 26 season-opening Daytona 500. During the morning single-car session, Hendrick Motorsports driver and three- time Daytona 500 winner Jeff Gordon topped the speed charts with a lap at 192.773 mph. Paul Menard was second fastest at 192.369 mph, followed by Kurt Busch, who is ma http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/953620.html After a short one-and-a-half-month break, Sprint Cup Series teams are back on track this week with a three-day preseason test session at Daytona International Speedway. From Thursday to Saturday, teams will familiarize themselves with NASCAR's new rules package for the February 26 season-opening Daytona 500. A number of revisions have been made to the Sprint Cup cars for Daytona, including a smaller capacity in both the radiators and ove http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/947933.html Kurt Busch will drive in the Sprint Cup Series in 2012 after all, as he signed on with Phoenix Racing on Thursday. Busch will drive the No. 51 Phoenix Construction Chevrolet Impala next year, doing so for car owner James Finch. "Now with Kurt Busch as our driver, we have a shot to win every week," Finch said. "He's a past champion and he's proven he can win everywhere. Our sponsors are looking forward to Kurt representing their bran http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/940206.html Darian Grubb has joined Joe Gibbs Racing to serve as crew chief for Denny Hamlin's No.11 Toyota team in the Sprint Cup Series, the team announced Friday. JGR's announcement of Grubb comes three days after Mike Ford was released from his crew chief duties with the team. Ford had served as Hamlin's crew chief since his rookie season in 2006. They made the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship in each of the past six seasons. Hamlin fi http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/938472.html Michael Waltrip Racing revealed on Monday that Brian Pattie will serve as crew chief for Clint Bowyer's No.15 Toyota team in the Sprint Cup Series, beginning in 2012. Pattie had served as Juan Pablo Montoya's crew chief at Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing from the middle of the 2008 season until the halfway point of this season. His first and only win so far in Sprint Cup came with Montoya in 2010 at Watkins Glen, NY. The two earned a spot i http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/938369.html One week after NASCAR penalized Kurt Busch for his outburst at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Penske Racing has relieved Busch from his driving duties with the No.22 team in the Sprint Cup Series, effectively immediately. Penske announced on Monday that Busch and the team reached a mutual agreement to end their relationship. The team noted in a news release that it will evaluate its options for the driver of the No.22 car for the 2012 sea http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/937955.html Sprint has extended its agreement with NASCAR and will remain the title sponsor for the top-tier Cup Series through 2016. The deal is a three-year extension of an original 10-year contract signed by Nextel in 2004. Nextel was later bought by Sprint. "Certainly to have a brand like Sprint, who is our entitlement partner and our largest sponsor in the sport, to come back and essentially review early for us is huge," said NASCAR's chief marketing o