boris, let's begin the conversation with denny hamlin. we just heard from him and saw his stats. it appears he's peaking at the right time. in your opinion, what's the strength of the 11 team this year? >> one is denny seems really confident right now, and i think he gets a long with his crew chief, mike foy. they have a good rapport and make the cart better throughout the race. when you hear the in-car radio they're catalking calm and pinpointing problems. denny hamlin has been under the radar the last couple of years. all the talk is kyle busch, kyle busch is going to win the championship. right now with him in the chase alone, he's the lead guy so he'll get all the attention at joe gibbs. >> he is the senior driver, as he made us aware of in 2009. on the other side of the coin, you see a guy like juan pablo montoya. comes into the chase a little bit flat, if you will. this week, though, he's turned it up. he's on the pole and he's been fast in every practice. what do you make of the 42 team? >> i think juan pablo, he's won formula one races and the indy 500 and indy car races a

denny hamlin celebrating a win tonight. he'll be the fourth seed for the run to the championship over the next ten weeks. the man who is now the top seed, the leader of the championship goin to new hampshire next week is with dave burns. >> and after the run he had here tonight which was fantastic for mark martin, hey, you're alone at the top with four wins, number one seed, mark. >> how about that? i just got it thank alan gustafson and all our supporters, the fans and our supporters. car quest, kellogg's, chevrolet, go daddy and all of the guys that support us at hendrick motorsports. great teammates and the best team, best year of my career. >> as well as you were running, near the end of the race, when >> checkered flag.elieve? i've had a lot of things go wrong in my career. i just, it was really good to be in the top five all night. i don't think we ever got further back than fifth and great pit stops and just everything was good. we had the best pit stall, great race car, not quite good enough to win with but we could

and mike ford said denny hamlin's good at that. >> i think you hit on something important there, dale. talking about the brakes. that's the whole thing with flat-track racing. you've got to slow down and listen to the brakes. i think denny ma'am lynn dohamld job getting off the brake. before he gets to the corner he's off the brake and that's how you make time on flat corners. >> remember as a rookie, he won both races at pocono, which is essentially a flat racetrack. high-speed track where you got to get through the corners in a hurry. we talked about he doesn't have a teammate in the chase. he does have a couple of teammates on the racetrack. here's kyle busch, who just missed the chase last week at richmond by eight points. >> very disappointing for that team. and m & ms, they were hopeful he would make it. they still have a chance to win a bunch of races and do it next year. >> this is a great opportunity if these guys look at it like that.Ñi i know they want to battle for a championship. that's what they set out to do. but these are the exact type racetracks they struggled out tw

gets around denny hamlin and jimmie johnson and into third. next lap montoya around kurt busch, into second place behind only martin. ambrose bumps into a.j. allmendinger. trouble. >> juan's hungry to win but mark's the man to do the job. >> the martin crew is confident on the restart. three laps to go. montoya jumps off the line and sticks his nose past martin. but martin is able to hold him off. final lap. a.j. allmendinger spins out again, martin finishes under a caution and he gets the win the >> eem speechless. -- i'm speechless. i can't talk right now, boys. >> 50-year-old mark martin, first to the line today in new hampshire. >> this is just incredible. i'm sure -- pinch me. i'm sure i'm sleeping, dreaming. heck, it couldn't be easy to run that end with that lead there. we had to have what, three caution restarts and all kinds of chances for me to mess up. and i did. but just i guess not enough to lose. >> what was that final restart like, trying to get the win? >> it was good. mark just threw me on there. i could have pushed him out of

and denny hamlin and kevin harvick were rubbing and racing on lap 203. hamlin's car smoking.his would be the definition ofon smoking. he would have to go in the pit. edwards the beneficiary. he broken foot and all takes the checkered t flag. he would not do the back fit. kyle busch finished third. >> here's something completely different for denver bronco runningbacks. here's good news actually. rookie moreno says he should be able to go against cincinnati. he adds the tweaked knee from the first preseason game is not 100% but it's close. as for more of the nfl ills, we have a record. >> anquan boldin is listed as questionable with his hamstring injury. the problem is he's not had a full practice since august 25 and even though the hamstring is getting better it's slowly getting better. i think he sits out there one. matt castle is going to be a game time decision to see if he can play with that m.c.l. injury. they need him. i think he's going to be able to play. at least not count on him but a chance. as far as mark, listed as possible. that pinkie is going to be baneful, bu

so tony stewart, jeff gordon, jimmie johnson and denny hamlin are the only ones with a spot guaranteed. not even mark martin in tenth place there and kyle busch in 12th, they both have nose victories this season, four, not even they are guaranteed a spot. so far, of course, after the race at richmond, we will have press conferences right here with the winner on espnews. >> second round of the third leg of golf's four tournament playoffs, the b.m.w. championship at cog hill, about half an hour from chicago, there's tiger woods. you knew he would be in the highlight. you didn't know how well he would play today. he bogeyed his first hole on 18. then he makes the turn at nine. tiger, short third shot rolls up about a foot short. he'd tap in for birdie the move to five under. on 11 in sand, on green. had a run there of four birdies in five holes. now on 17, tiger with another birdie opportunity, and banks it. finished seven under tied for the lead. how about paddy harrington. his whole year was terrible right up until the week before the pga championship. and all of a sudden he has found h