MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. had no plans to watch the two semifinal games of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on Saturday. To be honest, Earnhardt hasn’t been following the college playoffs at all.
“I don’t even know who’s in it,” Earnhardt said. “(North) Carolina ain’t in it, so I ain’t paying no attention.”
Avid basketball fan and ardent Duke partisan Jeff Burton would have been paying attention had his Blue Devils advanced beyond their first game. But Duke lost a No. 2 vs. No. 15 seed matchup to Lehigh.
Accordingly, Burton wasn’t interested in talking about the Final Four.
“You’d have to talk to me about the final 64,” the driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet quipped after a visit to the Martinsville media center on Saturday.
Martinsville Speedway, March 2012 news conference with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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