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NASCAR driver and animal rights advocate Greg Biffle didn't hold back today when asked by the press what he thought of NFL player Michael Vick torturing dogs:

"I just wish they'd put him in jail and be done with it.

"Just put him in prison and tell the general public, just give them all the details of what they do with those dogs. How they steal people's dogs out of their front yards and use them for bait dogs and let other dogs kill them. There's all the horrifying stories. You look at all the pictures on the Internet of the dogs, just maimed, mangled. It's horrible.

Biffle hopes the Vick case will call attention to the widespread problem of the "dog-fighting underworld":

"It goes on everywhere. He's not the only guy. It goes on in [Michigan] too. Maybe they'll use him as an example and maybe get some other people to think about whether they want to be in federal prison with him or not."

We can only hope.

In 2005, Biffle and his finacée, Nicole Lunders, co-founded The Greg Biffle Foundation to "create awareness and serve as advocates to improve the well-being of animals by engaging the power and passion of the motorsports industry." Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $100,000 to humane societies and animal shelters across the country.

Serena Williams serves up some fast times with a tennis racket and some yellow felt, but can she get up to speed in a race car?

We'll find out tonight when she and 11 fellow celebrities dreaming of life in the fast lane join six NASCAR drivers in the new reality show, "Fast Cars & Superstars -- The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race."

In tonight's first episode, Kurt Busch pushes NFL Hall of Famer John Elway to the limit in the cars.com car, Surfer Laird Hamilton confirms that nothing scares him and Williams screams her way to shattering her own personal challenge.

The show will explore the interaction of top young stock car drivers with stars from the world of sports, music and entertainment, featuring drama and competition on and off the race track. In each episode, viewers will watch celebrities train with a Gillette Young Guns driver.

"Fast Cars" culminates with a one-hour finale where the celebrities will be coached from the pits by their Gillette Young Guns instructors and compete against each other during a time-trial race.

The series will be hosted by ESPN anchor Kenny Mayne and co-hosted by former Cleveland Cavaliers center and current ESPN NASCAR analyst Brad Daugherty.

*Sigh*

Can't ESPN give Daugherty a job in a sport he knows?

Tonight on ABC (8:00-8:30PM, ET).

I begrudgingly made a trip to the local mall on Saturday. There were lots of people. No discernible flow of foot traffic. No coordination. Just a lot of people walking into each other. It reminded me of the Raiders' offensive line. Anyway, I wandered into the corner of the mall that harbors all of the misfit stores and noticed one called Race World. It was your one stop for all things NASCAR. Or, as I like to call it, sports hell.

Call me old-fashioned, and no offense to the sport or its fans, but I don't like NASCAR pervading our consciousness. In my mind, nothing good can happen of it -- this is evidenced by the abundance of new Redneck Comedy specials.

So, it's with great consternation that I beg, "Say it ain't so, Jerry!"

Jerry Rice, the greatest wide receiver in NFL history, has been named Grand Marshal of the Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series weekend at Infineon Raceway, June 22-24.

Rice, best known as a member of the San Francisco 49ers, will be honored throughout the weekend, most notably at the Raceway Builder's Grand Marshal's Banquet on Friday night, June 22, at beautiful Cline Cellars in Sonoma. All proceeds from the banquet benefit Speedway Children's Charities.

"This will be a new experience for me and I'm really looking forward to it," Rice said. "I've never been to a NASCAR race but I understand it is quite an experience. I'm honored to be grand marshal of the race weekend and I'm looking forward to the event."

I guess this is one step above "Dancing With the Stars." I guess.

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Joe Gibbs makes $6 million a year as an NFL head coach. He also owns a NASCAR team. That team has said it might not want to sign Dale Earnhardt Jr. because of Earnhardt's sponsorship deal with Anheuser-Busch. Something isn't right here.

Does Gibbs have any idea where the Washington Redskins get the money to pay his salary? Does he not understand that beer commercials on television and beer concessions at games put many millions of dollars into the NFL's coffers, and that the millions of dollars in his own bank account are soaked in beer?

Gibbs wouldn't have the money to own his own NASCAR team if the NFL weren't such a profitable endeavor, and the NFL wouldn't be such a profitable endeavor without alcohol. If Gibbs doesn't want to make money off alcohol, there's only one honorable thing for him to do: Resign from the Redskins.