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Until this season, Brittany Force would typically dismiss questions about whether she could win a championship in the NHRAs marquee Top Fuel category.I was like, Just let me get my first win, she said this week. Let me get over that hurdle first, and then well go from there. Now, the No. 3 daughter of drag racing legend John Force can look at things differently.The most outstanding female performer in a strong year for women in drag racing, Force scored her first Top Fuel victory in 2016 and then added two more. She has set career highs for round wins with 33 and final-round appearances with five, and if she holds onto fourth place through this weekends Auto Club NHRA Finals, shell record the highest finish by a woman in Top Fuel since Shirley Muldowney in 1982.Brittany Force cant win the championship this year -- Antron Brown clinched his third title two weeks ago at Las Vegas -- but her breakout season positions her as a championship contender for next year.Muldowney won Top Fuel titles in 1978, 80 and 82, and no woman has won a championship in the NHRAs two fire-breathing nitro categories since. Angelle Sampey won Pro Stock Motorcycle titles in 2000, 01 and 02, and Erica Enders captured Pro Stock championships in 2014 and 15, but in Top Fuel and Funny Car, nada.Its definitely not out of our reach, and its something were going for, Force said. Obviously, Shirley was the one who opened the door for women in NHRA drag racing. This sport is still male dominated and always will be. But its growing for the women, and I think it will continue building.The NHRA billed this season early on as the Year of the Women, and it has indeed been a pretty good season for the handful of female drivers who make a living in the sport. Six female drivers in four divisions made it to The Countdown, the NHRAs version of the playoffs, and five of them won races.In Top Fuel, Leah Pritchett earned her first career victory early in the season at Phoenix -- beating Force in the categorys first all-female final since 1982 -- and shes seventh in the points after advancing to the semifinals in two of the last three races.Courtney Force, Brittanys younger sister, and Alexis DeJoria each made The Countdown in Funny Car. Courtney picked up her eighth career victory in May at Houston and won the Traxxas Shootout special event in September, and she sits seventh in points. DeJoria earned her fourth career victory early in the season at Las Vegas and ranks 10th, although she missed the eliminations in the last race and wont race this weekend because of a concussion.Sampey picked up her first Pro Stock Motorcycle victory since 2007 and raced to two runner-up finishes, and shes fourth in the points, with the three men in front her separated by only three points.Enders has been the enigma among the group. After winning 15 times in 2014 and 2015, she and her team struggled to adapt to Pro Stocks 2016 rule changes and a switch from Chevrolet to Dodge, and she has gone winless. She did qualify for the Countdown, and she ranks 10th heading to Pomona.Brittany Force hasnt looked back since getting her emotional first win at Gainesville, Florida, in March.We made a lot of changes going into 2016, and we were able to able to finally bring home that first win, she said. That will probably still be one of the biggest moments in my career. It was something I was going after for so long and to finally get there, it was just a really proud moment. But to win in Charlotte [the 4Wide Nationals] not too long after that and then in Brainard [Minnesota], its been an outstanding year for us and Im really anxious to see what well do next year.Eighteen months ago, she was facing the prospect of not being able to finish the season for lack of sponsorship. John Force Racing was trying to rebound from the loss of longtime sponsors Castrol Oil and Ford, and Brittanys dragster had no primary sponsor.Thats when Brittany and Courtney drew on their marketing and people skills to try and make something happen with Monster Energy Drink. Wed been to Monster a few years earlier, 2011 or 12, and spoke to them, and they just werent interested, Brittany said. They just werent ready to get back into the drag racing.But maybe the company could be convinced. After all, Monster had sponsorships in 26 motorsports divisions, and was located near the Force shop in Yorba Linda, California.So Courtney and I just happened to meet their vice president of motorsports marketing [Mitch Covington] at a wedding, and we pushed on him all weekend, Brittany said. It was just by chance he happened to be there, and we pushed all weekend long on him, and hes like, Nope, we are done in drag racing. But persistence paid off, and the Force sisters were invited to the Monster corporate offices the following week to make a pitch.Once we got in there, they just kind of changed their mind and decided to take a chance on us, Brittany said. I hope theyre happy. Weve brought home three wins for them, and theyve been awesome to work with. Its just by chance we met [Covington] at a wedding, and we got into the board room and met with the bosses, and they really liked Courtneys and my personality, our passion or driving.We were girls in the sport, and they said they had a lot of female athletes, but none in their motorsports division, and I think that was the key.And now the pieces are in place -- just maybe -- for Brittany Force to make a run at the championship in 2017. Air Jordan 4 Nz Online . Meanwhile, there were huge victories for Sunderland and West Ham over fellow relegation rivals, leaving the battle to avoid the drop up for grabs with the bottom 11 teams separated by just six points. Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres scored second-half goals to seal a fourth straight victory for Chelsea, which climbed above Arsenal and Manchester City in the standings ahead of their games on Monday and Sunday respectively. Cheap Air Jordan 4 Nz . Rinne played two periods in his first game since left hip surgery in early May. 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LAS VEGAS -- A Nevada judge sentenced former NFL star Darren Sharper on Thursday to as many as eight years in prison for attempted sexual assault in Las Vegas as part of a four-state plea deal that could keep him behind bars for nearly two decades.Sharper was ordered to serve the Nevada sentence concurrently with an 18-year sentence he has already begun on state and federal charges in Louisiana.The former All-Pro defensive back is appealing the conviction and sentence in Louisiana after previously pleading guilty to drug and sexual assault charges.The Nevada charges stemmed from a 2014 incident in Las Vegas where two women said Sharper drugged them after they met him at a nightclub.Civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred spoke in court on behalf of one of the victims before Clark County District Judge Michelle Leavitt sentenced Sharper to 38 to 96 months in prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender in Nevada.Writing this statement brings me to tears even though its been so long, Allred read from the womans statement. I have been fighting for almost three years and to not get the opportunity for my voice to be heard in person makes me sick.Allred said the woman could nott attend because she would have had to travel a long way and several continuances made the timing of the sentencing uncertain.ddddddddddddDuring a 14-year NFL career, Sharper played in Super Bowls with the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints. He retired in 2011 and was working as a broadcast NFL analyst when allegations surfaced that he had drugged and raped women.Sharper pleaded guilty or no-contest in state and federal courts to charges that he drugged and sexually assaulted women in Arizona, California, Nevada and Louisiana. The four-state deal was initially expected to send Sharper to prison for about nine years.However, U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo in Louisiana rejected that sentence as too light.Two other men were sentenced earlier this month after pleading guilty in state and federal courts in the Louisiana case, which involved women being assaulted in 2013.Brandon Licciardi, a former Louisiana sheriffs deputy, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison, and Erik Nunez, a former restaurant worker, was sentenced to 10 years. ' ' '