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32 NFL Cities to Receive "Super Baskets of Hope" for Children

As Indianapolis, Indiana prepares to host Super Bowl XLVI, this will be the first host city service project in Super Bowl history to extend its reach nationwide.

Super Baskets of Hope, which is approved by the NFL and the Super Bowl XLVI Host Committee, will deliver gift-filled baskets to 7,000 hospitalized children in each of America's 32 NFL cities. The outreach project is a collaborative effort of Riley Children's Foundation, the Basket of Hope program, and former Indianapolis Colts coach, Tony Dungy.

Official sponsors include TSF, Office Depot, Sharpie, Indianapolis Colts, Vera Bradley, Fundex, Indiana Pacers, Lids and many other generous sponsors.

On January 30, volunteers will fill each basket with items that offer children inspiration, entertainment, and hope. Then, NFL players, coaches, and regional volunteers will deliver the baskets to children in hospitals nationally in 32 NFL cities.

LEARN MORE AT: www.SuperBasketsofHope.org

"LIKE US" ON TSF FACEBOOK & WIN! CONTEST ENDS JUNE 30TH

The original Tony Stewart Foundation (TSF) Facebook page wrecked in Turn 4 – we aren't able to now post for fans.

"Like Us" on our NEW Facebook page between now and June 30, and you can win a Smoke's Camaro Raffle Ticket! Grand Prize is a 2011 Camaro Convertible with 2nd & 3rd Prize VIP Race Packages!

For every 1,000 fans to "like us" on our new page, TSF will draw a ticket for 25 lucky winners!

Weekly winners will be listed beginning May 6th at http://www.TonyStewartFoundation.org as we reach each 1,000mile-marker.

CLICK HERE to "Like Us" on Tony's NEW foundation page! Tell your friends!!

 

THE CAROLINE SYMMES MEMORIAL CELEBRITY SOFTBALL CHALLENGE

TONY STEWART FOUNDATION SUPPORTS KIDS WITH CANCER AT ASPEN WINTER GAMES

Wow! What a ride! The Shining Stars Foundation's 2011 Aspen Winter Games got off to quite a start with five private jets delivering 57 Stars and their medical professionals to the Aspen Airport from Centennial Airport in Denver. The 25 minute flights donated by anonymous benefactors dramatically decreased the fatigue factor that is normally felt by these brave youngsters after a five hour drive from Denver. The flights were just the beginning!

A week of skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, swimming, dancing, team building, snow sculpting, crafts and other exciting events was enjoyed by all of the participants who are ages 7-19 with cancer or a life threatening disease. The culmination of this exciting week was a race day at Buttermilk Mountain and a banquet at the famous St. Regis Hotel in Aspen. Every Star received a trophy and a medal for their outstanding performances on the race course, many never having skied or boarded before this week. One of the Stars commented about the St. Regis after entering the restroom, "Wow! I could live here!" Other comments from the kids throughout the week included. . . " I think I'm in heaven!" and " I forgot I had cancer!"

Thanks to the many generous donors such as The Tony Stewart Foundation, the Shining Stars Foundation is able to provide year-round sport, recreational, and outreach programs for children and young adults with cancer and life threatening diseases at no cost to the children or their families. The annual "Aspen Winter Games" is the Foundation's largest and most intensive week long camp. Working in partnership with oncology hospitals, the medical community, specially trained adaptive skiing and boarding instructors, and community volunteers, the Foundation strives to make this week one that the child will never forget. Doctors, nurses, and social workers refer children to us who are between the ages of 7–19 years old and who can most benefit from this program from a physical, psychological, and emotional standpoint.

Thank you Tony Stewart Foundation for giving these children the experience of a lifetime as well as hope and the will to live and other events to look forward to attending.

STEWART-HAAS RACING ON FOX BUSINESS

On Friday, February 19th at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, Stewart-Haas Racing had a strong presence on FOX Business, where host Dagen McDowell interviewed Tony Stewart, Ryan Newman and Bryce Ruiz, CEO of Ruiz Foods (parent company of Tornados and El Monterey).

Here are their respective clips:

Tony Stewart: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4545771/tony-stewart-on-juggling-business-racing

Ryan Newman: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4545772/ryan-newman-on-representing-the-army-in-nascar

Bryce Ruiz: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4545469/why-it-pays-to-partner-with-nascar

NEW CAR. SAME RESULT?

KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (Feb. 14, 2011) – It's trivia time.

Question: Name the one driver other than Tony Stewart who has won the season-opening NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway in the last six years?

Answer: Kevin Harvick in 2007.

Beginning in 2005, Stewart has won the opening round of the Nationwide Series at Daytona every year with the exception of 2007, when Harvick proved victorious. In that race, Stewart finished eighth. Every other year, it's Stewart who's been to victory lane, and he's done it driving for three different car owners – Joe Gibbs in 2008, Rick Hendrick in 2009 and Harvick in 2005, 2006 and 2010.

As he defends his DRIVE4COPD 300 win, Stewart will do it from familiar confines. He'll again be behind the wheel of a No. 4 Oreo/Ritz Chevrolet Impala, and it will again be prepared by Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI).

Stewart's history with KHI is strong. After 41 career Nationwide Series starts stretched out over five seasons, Stewart finally scored his first Nationwide Series victory when he won the 2005 season-opener at Daytona driving for what was then an upstart KHI. While it was Stewart's first Nationwide Series win, it was also the first for the team owned by Harvick and wife DeLana. When Stewart came back to Daytona a year later and successfully reclaimed his victory, it was career win No. 2 for Stewart and career win No. 2 for KHI.

Now they're back together at the racetrack that put KHI on the map and provided Stewart his long-awaited Nationwide Series victory. Ironically, Stewart has nine career Nationwide Series wins and KHI also has nine career Nationwide Series wins heading into this year's DRIVE4COPD 300.

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TONY STEWART STANDING TALL AS THE BAR RISES

KANNAPOLIS, N.C., (Feb. 9, 2011) – Two championships. Thirty-nine wins. Twelve poles. One hundred and fifty-three top-five finishes. Two hundred and forty-seven top-10 finishes. Those are the numbers that Tony Stewart has accumulated in his 12 years as a full-time driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the last two of which have been as a driver/owner with Stewart-Haas Racing, where the pilot of the No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet Impala has nabbed six point-paying wins and two poles.

But despite the impressive figures, the most pressing matter of the moment is readying for the 2011 Sprint Cup season. The wins, the poles and the accolades of years past don't mean much when another grueling, 36-race schedule looms ahead. For all intents and purposes, it's just another series of never-ending performance reviews.

In 2011, those performance reviews will be watched in earnest. Not just because it's Stewart who's the last Sprint Cup champion not named Jimmie Johnson, but because he continues to defy the odds as a driver/owner in today's NASCAR.

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GET THE SHOTS OF TONY YOU COULD NEVER GET!

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