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A breed apart: college grad Ryan Newman is making a run at the good ol' boys.(Interview)

RYAN NEWMAN HAS IT ALL HE'S young, good-looking, talented, and articulate. If anyone rides the wave of NASCAR's future, it's the 25-year-old Purdue graduate from South Bend, Ind. But Newman is still a little difficult for folks in NASCAR to figure out, and who could blame them?

It remains unusual for a college graduate to be racing at the front of the Winston Cup Series week in and week out, and the sport's been waiting more than a decade for Newman's arrival Alan Kulwicki--also a Midwesterner and a college graduate--won the championship in 1992. Unfortunately, Kulwicki's career ended only a few months later, on April 1, 1993, when he died tragically in a plane crash. ...

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