His sponsor is the Miccosukee Indian Gaming Resort, near Miami, and it has only enough money to sponsor him in three more races.
So he relied on a watch that connects to a wireless G.P.S. unit from Timex, the company that sponsors him in triathlons, to figure out how fast he needed to run to finish within his three-hour goal.
Wallace said he got into ownership because companies wanted to sponsor him in Busch Series races, which often are run the day before Nextel Cup events at the same tracks.
And why he took no offense when the golf manufacturer sponsoring him in 1998 thought a great idea would be to poke fun at Furyk's homemade golf swing in a commercial with Johnny Miller doing a telestrator analysis of the distinctive, figure-eight move.
In time, he paid his debts to the New Castle folk who sponsored him, although in his first year of trying to break into magazines and newspapers he had whittled his stake down to five cents.
Instead, he moved in with a family in Birmingham, Ala., that sponsored him and believed in his golf dream.
His mother, a housekeeper in New York for many years, was a legal American resident when she sponsored him for entry in 1985.
Guttenberg had made only two films, the comedy "The Chicken Chronicles" and the Nazi-hunter drama "The Boys From Brazil," when his "Brazil" costar, actor Gregory Peck, sponsored him for academymembership in 1978.
Guttenberg had made only two films, the little-seen comedy "The Chicken Chronicles" and the Nazi-hunter drama "The Boys From Brazil," when his "Brazil" costar, the influential actor Gregory Peck, sponsored him for academy membership in 1978.
