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Three concussions in four months sidelined NHRA Funny Car driver Alexis DeJoria from this weekends season finale in Pomona, California, and her condition has left the popular competitor grappling with everyday life.I have limited my outings considerably because it wears me down, DeJoria said Saturday. I end up getting nauseas and headaches. Once a day Ill try to go out if I feel up to it, but I dont drive. Im basically living the life of a cave woman. If Im hungry, I eat. If Im tired, I sleep. No social media, no cell phones, no computers, no sports, no motorcycles. If I watch a movie, it has to be on a light subject, such as a comedy.DeJorias problems began two weeks ago, after she slammed into the wall at Las Vegas during her third qualifying run. That night when she activated her Funny Cars parachutes, they were sucked up under the car. They wrapped around the right-rear axle and got into the brakes, preventing her from slowing the car. The cars body then dug into the left-front tire and kept her from steering it away from the tracks left side. When her car slammed into the wall, her head smacked the roll cage.For several seconds, DeJoria said she could do nothing but hold her head with her hands while still wearing her helmet. She remembers telling members of the NHRAs Safety Safari team to just hold on, that she couldnt move, but she has no recollection as to how she exited her car.My team gives me a very well-prepared, safe race car, but these are still violent race cars; things happen that are out of our immediate control, DeJoria said. We know our job is a dangerous one.DeJoria decided to make her fourth qualifying run that day even though she didnt feel well. The next morning, she said she felt like she had a horrible hangover. She drank a cup of coffee, arrived at the track and participated in warm-ups. It was then that DeJoria realized she had a major problem. Her crew chief, Tommy DeLago, looked at his driver and told her she didnt look right. She knew it, too. She said she felt like a version of herself, almost as if she were having an out-of-body experience. DeJoria had qualified ninth, but her team decided withdrawing from the elimination round was the prudent thing to do.Two days after returning home to Austin, Texas, DeJoria was diagnosed with a concussion by doctors at Texas Sport and Family Medicine. She said they gave her a series of cognitive tests and she failed all of them. DeJoria said Saturday doesnt feel any better than she did then. She is considering seeing a specialist.?Every morning since that Saturday night run at Las Vegas I have woken up with headaches. I feel clouded, I feel hazy, DeJoria said. I cant handle too much noise or bright lights. I can only handle one task at a time.Every morning I wake up thinking, Is today going to be the day I feel better? Can I get in a race car today? And so far its been hell no. I cant imagine me sitting in a race car at this moment and going down the race track. Its heartbreaking, but head trauma is nothing to mess around with. Its scary.DeJoria has reviewed NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.s comments about his concussionlike symptoms this year and has found similarities.I was reading an interesting article that Dale Earnhardt Jr. had written, and it was saying that he couldnt understand why his symptoms showed up so much later, DeJoria said. Hed had a few accidents and a few concussions, but the real big symptoms didnt really show up until much later.Such is the case for DeJoria. Even though it was the concussion she suffered at Las Vegas that sidelined her, it was not the beginning of her head trauma issues. They actually began the weekend of July 22-24 in Denver.We made a run late Friday night, DeJoria said. Ive been through tire shakes a lot in my career ... but this was a certain tire shake that rocked me so hard. ... I hadnt felt that kind of damage in a really long time. You literally felt your brain shaking around in fluid inside your skull and it hits the inside of your skull. I was so affected by it that I wanted to cry. Not because of the pain, but because of the way it made me feel. I felt dumb. I couldnt handle the lights, I couldnt handle sound. I just had to get back to my motor coach and go to sleep.The next day DeJoria said she felt hazy and had a headache, but shook it off. She lost in the first round.A week after the Denver event, DeJoria fractured her pelvic bone of the left iliac wing in an accident at Sonoma, California. She also slammed her head into the roll cage, but due to the severe pain from the broken bone in her pelvis, she brushed the head issue aside.DeJoria spent August recovering and returned in mid-September for the NHRAs Countdown to the Championship. She was 10th in the standings and, therefore, had qualified for the title run. The 39-year-old DeJoria remained 10th throughout the Countdown and was guaranteed a 10th-place finish in the standings after Las Vegas.She wanted to attend the awards banquet in Pomona that follows the season finale, but her doctor vetoed airplane travel. Her team didnt want to compete at Pomona without her, but she believed her crew needed to be there to finish the season on somewhat of a good note. Veteran Jeff Arend substituted for her.The show must go on, DeJoria said. I love my guys. I want them to have a good run at it, and well make it happen any way we can. I just needed extra time to get myself back in order.Deb Williams is a North Carolina-based writer and former editor. She has covered auto racing for United Press International, USA Today and The Charlotte Observer. Mark Bavaro Giants Jersey . As the crowd erupted, Davis knocked the ball off the glass and back into his hands. With 1:14 to go in overtime, Davis sixth block also became his 17th rebound. 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Country Rugby League boss Terry Quinn wants at least two regional NRL games guaranteed each year as a replacement for the axed City-Country fixture.Quinn made the bittersweet announcement on Monday that the central-western NSW town of Mudgee would host the final instalment of the traditional NSW State of Origin audition next year.Penriths sponsored NRL clash in Bathurst is expected to be the only other game played at a country venue when the governing body releases its draw within the next week.With officials vague about their determination to take more top level league to the bush beyond City-Country, Quinn is calling for an assurance of country games in 2018.Ive had discussions with (NRL CEO) Todd Greenberg in his previous position and we discussed trying to get a guarantee of at least two competition games, possibly three if that was the case, depending on what the clubs want, Quinn told AAP.And place them strategically where theyre going to get the best bang for their buck. Keeping it in one spot, I dont think you can get the impact.Quinn, who was in favour of scrapping the City-Country game due to the growing number of player withhdrawals each year, said the governing body also had to cover costs for games.ddddddddddddPenrith are in the middle of a five-year contract to play at Bathursts Carrington Park where they have won two of three games.Dubbo, Tamworth, Wagga Wagga, Albury, Griffith, Lismore and Coffs Harbour are other venues Quinn believes also have the capacity.The benefits are left at the communities (involved) ... helping the junior footy clubs or the senior football clubs developing the game, he said.They cant just fly in, fly out either. Theyve got to spend a few days there doing some of the stuff like they do in City-Country week.Quinn said while the possibility of NRL games going bush was a good trade-off, there was a romanticism that would die with the City-Country match.Out of the current NSW squad, theyve all had their start in City-Country games, which is quite phenomenal, he said.People can see their heroes, kids can touch them and realise theyre only human beings. It encourages development and growth for the game. ' ' '