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   5/26 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race (local programming   
   airs after the race in the west)   
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   Dick Trickle... That is-- was-- a real name?  Sounds like a prank name.   
      
      
   CONCORD, N.C. -- Trickle, 71, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound   
   Thursday in the same cemetery where his granddaughter is buried in Boger   
   City, N.C.   
      
   A day earlier, according to Chuck Trickle, the man known as the sport's   
   greatest local short-track racer went to Duke University for more tests to   
   help determine what was causing pain under his left breast.   
      
   "Last week he told me, 'I don't know how much longer I can put up with   
   this,'" Chuck Trickle, 68, said by phone from Las Vegas.   
      
   Chuck said he didn't realize how bad the pain was until last week when his   
   brother cursed during a phone conversation.   
      
   "He never cussed in his life," Chuck said. "The type of person he is, he   
   never was sad. There were some words that came out last week that were not   
   very good."   
      
   "He raced the way he wanted to race," Evernham said. "He came up with that   
   one hour sleep for every hundred miles. He partied hard. He raced hard. He   
   did nothing his whole life but race and help people that raced. He lived for   
   it.   
      
   "His life was racing. He didn't conform. He didn't worry about all the other   
   things. He lived on his terms."   
      
   " He raced the way he wanted to race. He came up with that one hour sleep   
   for every hundred miles. He partied hard. He raced hard. He did nothing his   
   whole life but race and help people that raced. He lived for it. His life   
   was racing. He didn't conform. He didn't worry about all the other things.   
   He lived on his terms. " -- ESPN analyst and former Sprint Cup crew chief   
   Ray Evernham   
      
   Many remember Trickle for having a working cigarette lighter in his car so   
   he could smoke during a race. Others remember him for being a part of almost   
   every ESPN race report just because of his colorful last name.   
      
   "Man, Dick was a legend, you know, especially up in Wisconsin, ...It's just   
   crazy, surprising news."   
      
   The Trickle family is not a stranger to tragedy. Chuck's son, Chris, was   
   shot in 1997 and died the next year. Police never solved the case. Trickle's   
   granddaughter, Nicole Ann Bowman, was killed in an accident in front of East   
   Lincoln High School in 2001.   
      
   "Whether that was part of the toll, I don't know," Chuck said. "I don't   
   believe so. I believe the pain was the problem."   
      
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