Wide World of Sports and Petty: Seven-time Winston Cup champion Richard Petty will be among the athletes, and the only stock car driver, featured in ABC’s Wide World of Sports 40th Anniversary show. The show will be broadcast nationally at 4:00pm/et Sunday, April 27th (yep, right during the Cup race). Petty was interviewed a couple of weeks ago as a staple of the well-known sports show, which broadcast events such as the Southern 500 from Darlington. “I’m just glad they are using me in the `thrill of victory’ part, instead of the `agony of defeat,’ ” Petty said. “For a long time, they were all we had if we were going to be on television,” he said. “For a long time, if you were going to watch sports on television, that’s pretty much all there was. Just about anybody who has been around for any length of time knows the show.”(That’s Racin’)(4-27-2001) (4-26-2001)
