Don't call it the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup championship, they want to start calling it SPRINT by 2008

Yep, the premiere racing series of NASCAR will now be called the NASCAR Sprint Series beginning the 2008 season.

Well, that's what they're saying anyway and yep, NASCAR hasn't made any official comments yet on the said name change at this point of the 2007 NASCAR season. Then again, who cares anyway?

Call it Nextel, call it Sprint, watching a hundred cars go around in circles for about gazillion times still is a waste of valuable TV time. (Unless of course, you're a redneck...)

Sprint's NASCAR marketing director, Dean Kessel, claims that Sprint and Nextel is still sorting out the proposition with NASCAR officials. He also said that multiple outstanding details must be finalized internally before a decision can be made either way.

If the Nextel Cup do gets renamed to the Sprint Cup, it would be the third time NASCAR's premiere racing extravaganza gets a name change since 2003.

R.J. Reynolds tobacco, through its Winston cigarette brand, sponsored NASCAR's premiere series from 1972-2003. In 2004, it was renamed to the Nextel Cup when Nextel assumed the naming rights to the most popular racing series in the U.S. (As far as those jobless rednecks are concerned...)

Sprint and Nextel agreed to a $36 billion merger back in December of 2004 and they probably got the idea to have the name change then.

Jeff Gordon is leading the 2007 NEXTEL Cup series with 2392 championship points. Denny Hamlin, Gordie's closest competitor, is 264 points behind with 2128. Besides the NEXTEL Cup, NASCAR has the Busch Series and the Craftsman Truck series.

Who will bag this year's Nextel Cup? Bodog has the odds on who will win the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.

Jeff Gordon 8/1

Juan Pablo Montoya 50/1

Greg Biffle 10/1

Jimmie Johnson 5/1

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