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Who wants it the most? Thats what the six drivers still trying to get one of the last two spots in the championship race and to keep their title hopes intact should ask themselves before they strap into the race car for this final race before Homestead.Which two drivers transfer to the championship race will be predicated on many things: fuel mileage, tire wear, perfectly executed stops and, of course, the mechanical integrity of every piece making up the race car. But what weighs the most, in my opinion, is the desire and determination of those half-dozen drivers behind the wheel.Carl Edwards serves as the perfect example of this. Edwards came into last weekends race the furthest out mathematically from securing a spot at the Homestead final, and while it came down to several factors at Texas, front and center for me was watching Edwards empty the tank physically and mentally in the final 10 percent of the race with weather closing in and Joey Logano closing from the rear.Edwards demonstrated to perfection the adage, Save your best for when it matters most.Of the six, four are former champs.Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Kurt Busch and last years champ, Kyle Busch. There is value in having won a championship. Its the value of knowing you will retire with a ring, which eliminates apprehension. Perhaps it eliminates the urgency.But that may not be a good thing.Take Jimmie Johnson, for example. He is waiting for whomever is capable of joining him and Edwards to square off for next weekends title race.Jimmie is the model of a great athlete that steps up in critical moments, as his six titles will attest.So this is that moment for Logano, but more specifically for Denny Hamlin, because he is nearly 10 years older than Logano.Logano is going to win a title; hes just too talented not to, and you could see the past three years that he has come of age. Its been a linear graph from the lower left to upper right in terms of performance. But in full disclosure, Ive been saying the same thing about Hamlin for years. He is destined to win a title.Talent gets you to the door. Drive, determination, focus and desire are required to kick it open.The bottom lineIts the top of the ninth inning for these six drivers. You lose Sunday and you wait til next year. Among them, I believe Hamlin will be feeling the most pressure.He has above-level talent and has capitalized on it, winning 29 Cup races to date.Hamlin has won in every full season he has competed, 11 consecutive, and its a remarkable accomplishment. But it will be an incomplete career without a title. Incomplete because he has been worthy of a championship ever since entering the scene, finishing third in his first full season, being a legitimate title contender every season since.His strength is his qualifying; his weakness has been self-inflicted wounds (pit road penalties). Thats obvious. Whats not so obvious is the frame of mind he carries into the weekend.Can Hamlin simply make up his mind the same way Edwards did last week, or the way Harvick has the past few years when his back was against the wall?Every championship driver I can think of seemed to reach a threshold in his career where preparation converged with opportunity, and he capitalized. Im not talking about the elite ... Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon or Johnson.Im talking about the not-so-obvious ... Alan Kulwicki, Kurt Busch, Bobby Labonte and Brad Keselowski.They are all champions, and I truly believe that before Hamlin can join this group, he needs to want it the most.Vin Baker Jersey . The showiest items on Calgarys lot were forwards Mike Cammalleri and Lee Stempniak. Both will be unrestricted free agents this summer. Brook Lopez Bucks Jersey . Speaking Thursday on TSN 1050 Thursday, the Leafs GM also touched on the questions surrounding the teams leadership and the struggles of his big-name free-agent signing. “Its not from lack of effort from the coaching staff. http://www.nbabucksproshop.com/Authentic-Giannis-Antetokounmpo-Bucks-Jersey/ . A knee to the thigh might have stung him the most, but his sixth straight double-double made up for the brief burst of pain. Vin Baker Bucks Jersey . The return match will take place next Wednesday. 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One of the greatest fast bowlers of the modern era will now be in charge of a pace-bowling unit that has just started to get taken seriously.Walsh is on a three-year contract up to the 2019 World Cup, and much of the experience from his long playing career and a level 3 coaching degree will be used to sharpen Bangladeshs pace attack in ODIs and T20s, and retooling the Test attack.Fast bowling in Bangladesh used to be a novelty act for a long time with Mashrafe Mortaza the only shining light for more than a decade. Given the pitches, spinners quite naturally ruled the overs and wickets columns. It gradually changed with the emergence of bowlers like Shahadat Hossain, Rubel Hossain and Shafiul Islam, but until 2015, it was always spin.At the insistence of Mashrafe, Bangladeshs limited-overs captain, and head coach Chandika Hathurusingha, there has been an influx of pace bowlers with varied skills, who have been used cleverly over the last two years. Mashrafe banks on his experience to move the ball, while Rubel and Taskin Ahmed offer pace and a bit of swing.Al-Amin Hossain has used his legcutters well in ODIs, while Mustafizur Rahman has become a sensation with cutters and slower balls.Heath Streak, the former Zimbabwe captain, whom Walsh succeeds, did a fine job for two years with these pace bowlers. Among the things he did well was to monitor and maintain the workload of theinjury-prone pace bowlers. It meant that their bowling actions needed to be consistent. Streaks vigilance and with the confidence placed in the pacers by Mashrafe and Hathurusingha, were factors behind the match-turning spells produced by the quicks during the 2015 World Cup and the home series against Pakistan, India, South Africa and Zimbabwe.Mashrafe said Walshs addition at this stage was a big boost to the pace bowlers, especially for the Test attack, which has lacked the bite to bowl sides out twice. He added that Walshs superb record could perhaps inspire a Bangladeshi fast bowler to emulate him in the Test arena.If we can learn a bit from his vast experience, it would be very helpful for us, Mashrafe said. Pace bowling has a major role in a team taking 20 wickets in a Test match, so I feel that our boys can learn from him how to go about it. His passion, the way he handled situation, these are key things that we can all take from him.We dont have bowlers like Dale Steyn in our team. Our bowling attack needs to do well for a number of years, and not just now. We need a bowler who would take 300 Teest wickets, so for that one has to perform for a sustained period.ddddddddddddThere must be ways how that can happen, and I think we learn that from him [Walsh].Mashrafe said it would be important to see how much the Bangladesh pacers pick up from Walsh during his three-year stay, a key takeaway being the methods he employed to stay fit through most of his 17-year international career.One of the reasons why I admired him was his endurance, Mashrafe said. His run-up was so smooth that they said even the umpire couldnt hear him running in. There was always a smile on his face. He was a great character. I think we can learn from him how to stay fit.If everyone wants to learn from him eagerly, then they can get a lot out of a coach, because they are always trying to help you.Taskin, who is preparing to go to Brisbane to have his bowling action reassessed on September 8, said he wanted to learn how to generate extra bounce from a good length, which was Walshs forte in his heyday.I first want to learn how to gain extra bounce from a good length, which he did so well. I will try to understand the technical side of it, though I dont have the strength like someone from the Caribbean.I will also try to learn how he remained fit and without injury for so long in his career, and also he bowled those long spells in Test cricket.Taskins father always talked to him about Walsh and Curtly Ambrose. Taskin watched them on TV and YouTube and met Walsh in 2014 but didnt have a long conversation. But now I have him as coach, he said. It is quite thrilling.While Taskin heard about Walsh from his dad, Mashrafe says he has always idolised him. He is excited about spending time with the West Indies legend in the dressing room, and wants to pick up new tricks that may help him at this stage of his international career.I am excited that I can meet my idol in cricket, he said. I consider it a big deal to be in the same dressing room as him. I have always liked him, especially because he was so different than the other fast bowlers in his era. He would always smile in the field. And it was not just as a bowler but also as a character.At this stage of my career, I would be keen to learn something new that would make things slightly easier for me.Never before has a bowling coach garnered so much interest in Bangladesh. But Walsh is the highest-profile coach this country has ever seen, and rightfully, there will be a lot expected from him for the next three years. ' ' '