Nascar Star Helps a Pal ; Edwards Ride-Along Draws Hundreds.

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After celebrating what he called the biggest win of his career on Saturday night, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards joined another celebration yesterday afternoon to benefit a childhood friend who was injured in a mountain biking accident in June.

Edwards, who grew up in Columbia, rode his bike with more than 150 people who came out to "Ride with Carl for Sam," and hundreds more attended the event at State Farm Insurance to benefit Sam Russell, who was paralyzed from the waist down last month in Wisconsin.

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Nascar Star Helps a Pal ; Edwards Ride-Along Draws Hundreds.

"It's so good to be back here in Missouri," said Russell, who flew to Columbia yesterday to attend the event. "It never ceases to kind of amaze how many people are here a...

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