It's an appropriate thing to recognize. I guess the words I would use [are] remembrance and reconciliation. Reconciliation is a tenet of all the faiths and it brings people together and allows for forgiveness. You can't have reconciliation without remembrance.

They're already involved in the sport. They fully recognize the importance of NASCAR. You go up and down pit road you see a lot of DIRECTV dishes on the wagons of the teams. I think it's going to be neat that we finally put the package together and have that DIRECTV 500.

Phil always knew how to recognize trends and he knew how to recognize talent within those trends.

It's a gamble to go up against a major media company, but the governor obviously feels he has no choice because the newspaper is going to chomp at him, anyway.

Most important to me is not having the process of honoring heroes turn into a partisan process. History is too important.

Certainly Republicans are talking about the impact — pro or con — that Reed would have on the governor's race. Anybody who says otherwise is a liar or a fool.