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Track president admits April Fool's gag

Updated: March 31, 2010, 7:21 PM ET
By Terry Blount | ESPN.com

A $100,000 offer from Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage to a radio personality to change his name to promote the track was a hoax, Gossage said Wednesday.

Gossage and TMS officials sent out an official release Wednesday on speedway letterhead saying Dallas DJ Terry Dorsey had accepted Gossage's offer of $100,000 to legally change his name to TexasMotorSpeedway.com.

Media outlets across the country ran the story before Gossage admitted it was a fake, intended ...

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