Andrew Posts

The Busch that everyone expects to win took the checkered flag in the Sprint Cup Series for the sixth time Saturday night at Daytona.

Kyle Busch, instead of his brother Kurt who won last week thanks to rain at New Hampshire, won a crazy finish in the Coke Zero 400 by holding off Carl Edwards in turn one on the white flag lap of a green-white-checkered finish. The race ended in turn one thanks to a big wreck behind the leaders involving Michael Waltrip and a host of others, with Busch edging Edwards by a nose on video replays.

And new teammate Gabe Pruitt, too.

According to The Boston Herald, both rookies were told by their respective agents that they'd be going to the Pistons in the first round:

"My agent told me I was going there, and when the pick came and I didn't get selected, I was surprised," Pruitt said.

Added Davis: "That's the team I thought I was going to. Yeah, they told me some things, but I guess they did what they had to."

I guess you'd have to call these soft guarantees; as Davis puts it, "they really wanted me and they didn't pick me." But it does make you wonder about the role agents play in getting players' draft night expectations up. We've always heard about the nefarious crew members who make underclassmen overestimate their worth. Once there's an agent involved, there's no turning back from the pro path. That doesn't mean, though, that they also aren't telling prospects what they want to hear.