JR Motorsports will try to run two full-time teams this season in NASCAR's Nationwide Series.
The No. 7 Chevrolet was scheduled to run only 13 events this season with Danica Patrick. But the team said Monday it's trying to piece together sponsorship to enter all of the races.
JRM's flagship No. 88 runs the entire season, and the team has said it is committed to the full year even though sponsorship for driver Kelly Bires is not complete. But Eury said enough progress has been made that the organization can try to sell the No. 7 for additional events.
Scott Wimmer will race the No. 7 this weekend at Bristol, Tenn., and again on April 3 at Nashville.
Patrick drove the car in the first three Nationwide races of the season. Her next scheduled race is in June at New Hampshire.
Lamely wins in Puerto Rico
Rookie Derek Lamely won the weather-delayed Puerto Rico Open on Monday on the rain-softened tropical course in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
Lamely finished at 19-under-par 269 to outlast Kris Blanks at Trump International Golf Club-Puerto Rico, a palm-fringed 7,526-yard course that was deluged by rain early in the competition. Blanks was 17 under in the PGA Tour event.
Lamely, a rookie who finished No. 4 on the 2009 Nationwide Tour money list, earned $630,000 along with PGA playing privileges through 2012.
Farmers will sponsor Torrey Pines: Farmers Insurance must have liked what it saw at Torrey Pines in its 10 days as a title sponsor. It decided Monday to sign up for the next four years, filling an important hole of title sponsorship in the PGA Tour schedule. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Andrews' stalker gets 21/2 years
An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to 21/2 years in prison after giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim.
Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty in December to interstate stalking after prosecutors accused him of following the reporter to at least three cities and shooting the videos through hotel peepholes.
Barrett, 48, of suburban Chicago, agreed to a 27-month prison sentence after pleading guilty. Andrews urged the judge at the hearing for a harsher sentence and said she fears for her life every time she enters a hotel.
"You violated me, and you violated all women," Andrews told Barrett. "You are a sexual predator, a sexual deviant, and they should lock you up."
IAAF wants medal stripped
The IAAF is recommending the U.S. women's 4x400 meter relay team at the 2004 Athens Olympics be stripped of its gold medal because qualifying runner Crystal Cox has admitted to doping.
The IOC has opened a formal investigation into the case, and the IAAF international athletics federation said Monday that under its rules the "U.S. relay team results will be disqualified."
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said this year that Cox admitted to using anabolic steroids and accepted a four-year suspension and disqualification of her results from 2001 to 2004.
Mackey nears 4th Iditarod title
Three-time defending champion Lance Mackey is poised to claim his fourth consecutive win in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska over a route beset by bitter cold.
Mackey was the first out of the checkpoint of Elim, 123 miles from the finish line in Nome and 28 miles from the next checkpoint at the Inupiat Eskimo village of Golovin. Mackey left Elim at 1:06 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time Monday.
Earlier in the day, he was running two hours ahead of four-time champion Jeff King when he left the checkpoint at the Eskimo village of Koyuk.
King, 54, has said this is his last Iditarod.
Djokovic staves off upset
Novak Djokovic, the world's No. 2 tennis player, staved off triple match point in the third set to beat Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (3) in third-round play at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, Calif.
Defending champion and No. 3 Rafael Nadal needed just over an hour to put away Mario Ancic of Croatia, 6-2, 6-2.
U.S. Davis Cup teammates John Isner and Sam Querry were to meet in a night match, after Kim Clijsters continued her comeback against Alisa Kleybanova of Russia.
Ex-NCSU aide at sports club
Charlie Bryant, former assistant basketball coach at N.C. State and Wake Forest, will be the guest speaker Wednesday at the Raleigh Sports Club's weekly lunch meeting, and Sanderson swimmer Matt Taylor will be honored as the high school athlete of the week.
The noon meeting will be held at Highland United Methodist Church on the corner of Ridge Road and Lake Boone Trail at 1901 Ridge Road.
The cost is $14 for members and $20 for nonmembers. Learn more at www.raleighsportsclub.org.
From Club News Release
