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That is your game winner. rangers take it, 3-2. caps lead the series, 2-1. to chicago where the defending champions are on life support. michael samuel sons scores midway through the third. they give the canucks a 3-2 lead. thats how it will end. vancouver is a win away from sweeping the black hawks. finally, great finish from nascars final lap. jimmie johnson and clint bowyer and jeff gordan fighting for the lead. its by the slimmest of margins. johnson takes the checkered flag by .002 seco...

>> aint no maybe about it, baby. it was jimmie johnson getting the checkered flag and incredible photo finish. just how close was todays nasdaq race. steve is here to give us the details, it was close. >> a tie to the record of the closest finish in nascar history .002 seconds was the difference and you could say it was an eyelash and might have been smaller than an and jimmie johnson both him out and it was incredible. dont see it in nascar. johnson the five time champion, the first win of the ...

Nba fans picked the rookie as the winner of the competition held over the weekend. speaking of rookies, another trending story online, 20-year-old trevor bayne becomes the youngest ever winner of nascars most prestigious race. he took the checkered flag at the daytona 500 but he missed a crucial turn into the victory lane. listen to him trying to figure this all out. >> i dont even know where to go. >> hes headed down the wrong lane. its okay. hes young. hell get it. earlier today he talked ab...

Representing the east, taking on kobe bryant and the west. justin bieber, there he is. he won the mvp award in the celebrity game on friday. >> really? >> kobe puts lebron in his place. bang. >> boom. >> take that, kid. >> look at kobe. >> kobe bryant scored 37 in his record-tieing fourth mvp award. the best beat the east, 148-143. yesterday was the great american race. charles, did you watch it? >> did i not watch it. >> nascars daytona 500, not a good day for the sports biggest name, though. >...

. >> mike: the cinderella. >> winning the daytona 500. unbelievable sclal. >> harris: no, baby, its not over, its just starting cause youre only 20. a 20-year-old takes the checkered flag, winning the daytona 500. peter, how big of an upset is this? >> to put it in perspective, las vegas odds on who will run the daytona 500. you can bet on 40. thats where he was listed. the cinderella scene, second start ever, first daytona 500 and his birthday was yesterday. >> harris: i know. >> and he was bor...

Bryant scored 37 in his record tying fourth in the west beat the east, 148-143. yesterday was the great american race. nascars daytona 500, it was not a good day for the sports biggest names. on lap 29, michael waltrip triggered that 14-car wreck, including jimmie johnson and jeff gordon. who is left to take the checkered flag? when its over and done with, a kid named trevor bayne. he had turned 20 years old just the day before. it was his second ever nis car start. he becomes the youngest dri...

In this city, the libyan flag has been removed and the flag of the previous monarchy now flies. very quickly, great unrest. and qaddafis son said on the airwaves that his father will be there until the last man. >> great job. who thought we would be seeing all this in our lifetime? david lee miller in the heart of the matter. check in with you again. lighter note, auto racing is big over there. more formula one. what about what happened over here? history was made at the 53rd annual daytona 500....

>> until we crossed the checkered flag i thought we were in the worst place possible. when we lost our drafting buddy, i thought we were in a bad spot. we were going to finish second or maybe a top five is what i was looking forward to. i was just pumped to say we led this coming off of turn four and won it. i cant thank everybody enough that helped us throughout the day. if we wouldnt have had help with the two car drafts, we would have been in trouble. seeing the yellow rookie stripes and stil...

His son, dale jr., finished 24th. when it was all said and done, trevor bayne took the checkered flag. he held off carl edwards to win nascars biggest event. bayne is the youngest driver to win the daytona 500. hockey, a hard-hitting affair between the black hawks and penguins. even a hard game for the spectators. jordan henry hit the boards and the boards hit back. the glass popped out and landed on a couple of fans. everybody was okay and it went to a shoot-out. the blackhawks won it 3-2. ...

In critical condition while the other five are listed as stable. police say the frontier skydivers plane crashed while taking off from a grass runway at an airfield 35 miles south of buffalo. reportedly they had parachutes on board but were unable to use them. >> heres a crash like youve never seen before. this happened yesterday at the pennsylvania 500. lets go to pocono raceway. early on, elliott saddler runs into trouble. his car entering the right-hand side of your screen. crashes into a bar...