...ACCOMPLISHMENTS: His eight career victories have been worth $19,899,539. PERSONAL NOTES: Son of legendary stock car driver Coo Coo Marlin and father of promising driver Steadman Marlin. ... Devout University of Tennessee and Dallas Cowboys football...
...GQ looks and a Madison Avenue polish. Marlin drinks his liquor from a paper cup like his father, a former driver named Coo Coo, and he can't escape the fractured grammar and limited vocabulary of his Deep South roots. He easily could have won...
...the 32-race schedule, the son of colorful ex-driver Coo Coo Marlin is buried in 19th place in the point standings...that he helped construct is a short jog away from where Coo Coo's cattle graze. For some reason, humility comes naturally...
...champion Ned Jarrett; Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the son of seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt; Sterling Marlin is the son of Coo Coo Marlin and Casey Mears is the son of Indy Car driver Roger Mears. Terry Labonte said sons of drivers come into the sport...
...in racing. "Daddy hated the place," said driver Sterling Marlin, who started coming to Darlington with his father, Coo Coo Marlin, more than 30 years ago. "You always end up with some guys who like the place and some who hate it. Daddy was...
...professional athlete ofthe year in Tennessee in 1995and 1996RACING HISTORY: Marlin comesfrom a racing family. His father,Coo Coo Marlin, was an earlydriver on the NASCAR circuit.He made his first start at age18, filling in for his father afterhe'd...
...Dead Man's Curve" - offered as an update of the classic wreck tune. Clarence Ashley chimes in with his classic "The Coo Coo Bird," and everyone from Dolly Parton and Duke Ellington to Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan make appearances, the latter...
...46, Columbia, Tenn., Dodge. Won Daytona 500 in 1994-95. Rookie of the Year in 1983, son of former NASCAR star Coo Coo Marlin. Victory at Daytona in 1994 was first of 10 in career. Finished 17th last year in 22nd Daytona 500. Coming off...
...races and be back in the points championships." Marlin is one of the few throwbacks to racing's past. His father, Coo Coo Marlin, struggled as an independent in the sport, once selling a cow to raise enough money to buys tires for an upcoming...
...winner of Thursday's first Twin-125. He made his Winston Cup debut in 1976, when his father, former Winston Cup star Coo Coo Marlin, was injured in a crash and let Sterling have the keys to the family-owned race car. In second place behind...
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