Indycar:
Scott picked up his 17th overall win today by taking the Turbo Indy 300 at Kansas Speedway. Danica posted her 2nd consecutive top-5 with a 5th place finish, and Sarah finished in 13th place in her first run of the season.  Scott moved up to 4th and Danica to 6th in the overall standings.

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Had a chance to visit Augustana College in Rock Island, IL to be a guest lecturer for Mrs. Peterson’s BUSN 321-02 Marketing class to touch on interactive marketing and specifically topics in Social Media. Covered stats in SM, ran through examples from general Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Networks, Linkedin, Skittles.com, and Alternate Reality Gaming.

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Our team would like to give a shout out to Blake Mycoskie and his company Toms Shoes. We’ve worked with Blake in the past on several projects, and for the last three years he’s been spending his time starting a company founded in Argentina that for each pair of shoes sold, they give a pair to a needy child.

Yesterday during the Masters, AT&T aired a national commercial featuring Blake and Toms Shoes that you can check out here. Congrats Blake!

www.TomsShoes.com

“Reality Check” is the ninth book by Guy Kawasaki, the managing director of Garage Technology Ventures.  It’s a compilation of Guy’s experiences (success and failure) in the business world, and it’s primarily targeted to entrepreneurs, but it’s also a great read for anyone looking to get ahead in their job. Even though it’s 462 pages covered in 94 chapters, its a pretty quick read. He keeps each chapter short and the style is very easy to read.

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NASCAR:
Kyle dominated the O’Reilly 300 on Saturday leading 178 of 200 laps on . He became the first driver to win a Nationwide race at Texas from the pole and won a record third consecutive event in the series at the 1.5-mile intermediate speedway. Dale Jr also finished in 20th. In the Samsung 500 today Kyle finished in 18th, Dale Jr in 20th, and Martin in 25th.

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Beckham:
David got his 109th international cap for England on Saturday during a 4-0 win over Slovakia. He picked up an assist in the 2nd Half on Wayne Rooney’s goal. He’ll be in action again on Wednesday night vs. Ukraine.

Duke Basketball:
Duke’s season ended last Thursday night in a 77-54 loss to #3 seed Villanova in the Sweet 16. They end up a 30-7. In off-court news, Seth Curry the NCAA’s leading freshman scorer (20.3ppg) will be transferring to Duke.

NASCAR:
Dale Jr. led the way at Martinsville today coming home in 8th place. Kyle finished in 24th and Martin in 29th. They’ll be racing at Texas next Sunday.