Childress has no plans for legal action against NASCAR: Richard Childress, in his first public reaction to lawsuit proceedings between NASCAR and AT&T, told ESPN.com Saturday that he has no current plans to take personal legal action against NASCAR in an effort to retain AT&T as sponsor of his #31 Chevy. "I don't really have any plans to do that right now," said Childress, owner of three Nextel Cup Series teams. The #31 showed up this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway devoid of sponsor logos, and driver Jeff Burton has only small associate sponsor logos on his driving suit. AT&T claims NASCAR left them no choice but to bring a blank car. They said NASCAR would not okay alternate paint schemes submitted for approval following the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to overrule a temporary injunction that allowed AT&T logos under NASCAR's grandfather clause for telecommunication sponsors. Childress hopes cooler heads can prevail and a resolution can be reached between NASCAR and AT&T that would enable him to retain AT&T as a sponsor. He said all four parties -- NASCAR, Sprint, RCR and AT&T -- share responsibility in making that happen. "There's got to be some give and take," he said. "You sit back and look -- at the end of the day it has to be a case of Sprint and AT&T trying to figure a way that they can both live in the same world." He feels they've already proven it can happen. "Let me give you an example: AT&T has been on the car for 14 weeks, and all the media [attention] has been on the Chase. That's Sprint's deal. They're getting plenty of value out of the Chase," he said. "And AT&T is over here marketing Jeff Burton. The world didn't stop when we put it on the car the first week. There's room for all of us. It isn't like AT&T bought Cingular. They owned Cingular anyway. They're just re-branding it. To find a way where all of us can survive in this world it would be good for RCR, good for the sport." Childress wouldn't specify how this development affects his company financially, but did stress that RCR is financially stable. "The main thing is you want to keep a company in the sport like AT&T," he said. "They're really good for the whole sport -- not just for RCR and Jeff Burton. The activation dollars they spend with the media and television -- they spend more in media than they do with us." (see full article at ESPN.com)