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Cheating or innovation? In NASCAR, it's all a matter of perception
Everyone in auto racing has heard the line: "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'." Well, NASCAR ain't laughin', writes Terry Blount.
Updated: August 9, 2007, 12:22 PM ET
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Terry Blount | ESPN.com
No one ever has cheated in the recorded history of auto racing.Just ask the drivers, owners and team members. They'll tell you exactly what they've done:Pushed the envelope, worked in the gray areas, outsmarted the other guy, tweaked the car and invented new applications. And sometimes, just for fun, they stuck it to the man.But cheated? Never. Doesn't happen, not in the eyes of the racers.In the eyes of almost everyone else, auto ...
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CHEAT WAVE '07
Over the next two days, ESPN.com examines the recent wave of sports cheating and assesses the damage done to our trust in the games we watch. Cheat Wave
DAY 2
Perspectives
• Drehs: Answer to cheating lies within• Future cheats: Stem cells and gene dopers
• Helyar: When owners cheat owners
• Fish: Jose Canseco's online pharmacy primer
• Merrill: Playing unfair at the fair
• Vote: Are the rules of golf golden?
DAY 1
Introduction
• Drehs: Cheating raises serious questions for sports• Forde: We love 'em and can't leave 'em
• Timeline: Hot Spots Through the Years
Your Voice
• Vote: Are you a habitual cheater?• Vote: What does cheating mean to you?
Baseball
• Crasnick: Call it cheating, or call it gamesmanship• Neyer: Baseball's top 10 cheaters of all time
• Thompson: Shoeless Joe's redemption
• SportsNation: What separates cheating from strategy?
• How do you cork a bat?

• Dale Murphy chat wrap
Football
• Chadiha: Players look to gain an edge almost any way they can• Notorious image sticks with Raiders
• Cheating anecdotes: College football
• SportsNation: Cheating or gamesmanship?
Basketball
• Thorpe: It's survival of the fittest in the NBA• Cheat Wave: Pushing the Envelope

• Cheat Wave: Pushing the Envelope 2

• David Thorpe chat wrap
• Cheating anecdotes: College basketball
• Thompson: Point-shavers, a half-century later
NASCAR
• Newton: Cheating might be a dirty word, but so is losing• Blount: Cheating in NASCAR? You be the judge
• Newton: Evernham forces NASCAR's hand
• McGee: Bill France Sr. vs. the mob
Hockey
• Burnside: The NHL's cheat sheet• Burnside: Competition committee is league's best line of defense
Page 2
• Zumsteg: "Cheater's Guide to Baseball"
Tennis
• Garber: Players police themselves in tennis• Inside the ATP Gambling Scandal

Golf
• Harig: Golf's honor code limits 'cheating' incidents• Sobel: Ten famous rules invocations in golf history

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