Martin not on preliminary Food City entry list

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03/20/2007 - Bristol, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Current Nextel Cup Series points leader Mark Martin is keeping to his preseason racing schedule that has him sitting out the Food City 500 this Sunday.

Despite posting four consecutive top-10s in the first four races of the season, Martin's name is not on the preliminary entry list for this week's event. The 48-year-old, in his first year with Ginn Racing, said before the season that he only wanted to run a part-time schedule and the team agreed to put rookie Regan Smith in the No.01 Army Chevrolet for a number of races.

But Martin has gotten off to a spectacular start, almost winning the Daytona 500, then posting a pair of top-5 finishes before last week's 10th-place result at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

There has been much speculation that Martin would not skip the race in Bristol and the team said they would be happy to put Smith in another car if Martin wanted to race.

Martin, one of the best drivers in NASCAR history never to have won a series championship (he has finished as the runner-up four times), drove for Roush Racing for 19 years before jumping to a new team this season.

"I feel good, man, and I am looking forward to next weekend," Martin said after Sunday's race in Atlanta. "People might not believe it, but they'll have a hard time finding me.

"This thing has really been encompassing. We've worked hard since January and put a lot into this. It's been a hard-working stretch, and I'm really looking to taking a little break. There are mixed emotions, but the bottom line is that I'm gonna take a break.

Martin will end a streak of 621 consecutive starts.

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Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.

As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.

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The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.

Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).

But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.

Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.

Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:

Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1

Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2

New York Giants - 9 - 2

Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).

Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.

So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.

And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.

They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.

Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.

But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.

Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.

Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.

Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.

Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?

Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.

In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.

Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.

Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.

The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.

The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.

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