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LONG POND, Pa. -- Pocono CEO Brandon Igdalsky took refuge from the rain inside a garage stall that was being used as the site of the drivers meeting.His message Sunday morning to Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and the rest of the field: I love you guys. But I dont want to see you tomorrow.Well, tough luck.Call it, Pocono Rainway.Rain washed out the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway and the 400-mile race will now run at 11 a.m. Monday. Martin Truex Jr. is on the pole and Kurt Busch tries to sweep Pocono in the tracks second Monday race of the season.The June Pocono race also was delayed a day. NASCAR said this was the first time a track had two rain-postponed races in the same season.This was NASCARs 10th postponed race since 2011. The 2012 rain-shortened race at Pocono was marred by lightning strikes that killed one fan and injured nine others.Mondays forecast seems cloudier than Kasey Kahnes chances to make the Chase. But NASCAR set the time an hour earlier than the green flag start on that June Monday to try to beat some of the rain and reach at least the halfway point for an official race.I feel bad for the fans more than anybody, Igdalsky said. We were going to have an unbelievable crowd here today.The track-drying Air Titans provided the only action at Pocono and, after morning rain had passed, there were clear skies at the scheduled 1:30 p.m. start. But about 90 minutes later, it started pouring at the track and the race was quickly called off.Kahne went on TV and bemoaned that he would have to delay a vacation to the Bahamas.Pocono had more pressing problems.While NASCAR tracks dont release attendance numbers, Igdalsky said Pocono was on pace for its biggest crowd in years. The tracks infield and camping areas were sold out, along with some of the higher-priced suites. And Monday races are a burden for everyone involved in NASCAR.A lot of our staff are volunteers and theyve got jobs tomorrow theyve got to get back to, he said. Theyve taken off Friday already. It definitely hits you in the purse strings. The possibility of two in one season, thats painful.Igdalsky said there was a Jeff Gordon bump in ticket sales when the retired four-time champion came back to drive for the injured Dale Earnhardt Jr. Igdalsky said it was hard to put an exact number on the number of additional tickets sold because of Gordons return because it coincided with the tracks usual final-weeks ticket sales push.For us, it was the perfect storm, Igdalsky said.Unfortunately for the track, the wrong kind hit Sunday.Kevin Harvicks 4-year-old son, Keelan, splashed around in a puddle. Some drivers took their dogs for a walk. Crew members stretched out on pit road and gazed at darkened clouds that hinted of the rain ahead.Even more Monday races rain loom at a track without lights such as Pocono in 2017 and beyond. NASCAR bumped start times at most tracks from the 1:30 p.m. window to around 3 p.m. or later next season, meaning one rain delay could lose a track for the day.Igdalsky lobbied NASCAR to keep his traditional and more fan-friendly start time.For us, 1 is a better time, he said. I understand the thought process behind it and Im going to support it.There are six races left until the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship driver field is set. Led by four-time winners Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski, there are 11 slots seemingly set for race winners. Chase Elliott, Austin Dillon, Ryan Newman, Jamie McMurray and Kyle Larson are the four winless drivers perilously holding on to the final five spots.Game notes Sunday would have been Justin Wilsons 38th birthday. The IndyCar driver was killed last August from injuries suffered in the race at Pocono. Igdalsky said the track was working with IndyCar for an appropriate tribute to the driver when the series returns on Aug. 21.IndyCar is back for the fourth straight season and Igdalsky refused to say if the series would return in 2017.Maybe, he said, laughing. Adidas NMD Ελλαδα . Kyle Denbrook, a soccer player from Saint Marys University, took the CIS male athlete of the week honour. Stanley, a fourth-year business administration student from Charlottetown, scored both goals in a 2-0 win over Dalhousie on Friday and tallied again in a 1-0 win over Saint Marys on Sunday. Adidas Gazelle ελλαδα . 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Ramkumar Ramanathan, who opened Indias Davis Cup challenge against Spains Feliciano Lopez in New Delhi on Friday, has stressed on the need for Indian tennis players to mirror the culture and work ethic adopted by the Spanish contingent.Speaking exclusively to ESPN, Ramanathan said that just observing the work put in by Spains athletes shows what makes them such a formidable unit.They work really hard. Thats the key. They do all the things right. Theyre very professional, they have dinner together, they sit down and talk before the matches. I think all that has a big role said Ramanathan.Take their practice sessions. Yesterday Nadal came and practiced for 2 hours, someone like him doesnt need to do that, but he still does. So it shows how much all this means to him and the team.In comparison, Ramanathan did state that a similar work culture and discipline does exist within the Indian team, but it must be scaled up to better prepare Indian players for quality international opposition.Its not like the Indian players havent been doing it but its just that as we grow higher and higher in the rankings, we need to do more. So thhat when you go into big matches like this it doesnt come as a surprise, youve already done it all before.ddddddddddddRanked 203 in the world, the 21 year old from Chennai put in a spirited display against Lopez, ranked 177 places higher than him, even managing to force the Spaniard to drop a set in the first rubber, that lasted just over 2 hours.?Ramanathan, who looked set to pose a comeback after taking the third set 6-3, went down 6-1 in the fourth, and admitted that Lopezs experience and mental strength taught him a lesson to remember.Its more of a mental game, than a physical one. Even when Feli (Feliciano Lopez) was not feeling great, he found a way to start well in the fourth set and he broke me. Thats where the experience comes in. He showed me how I should have held those games and he showed me what I did wrong.Ramanathan will next play David Ferrer in the reverse singles rubber on Sunday. Ferrer had beaten Saketh Myneni in straight sets to give Spain a 2-0 edge at the end of Day one. ' ' '