NASCAR announcer Benny Parsons diagnosed with lung cancer (USA Today)

Updated 7/26/2006 2:26 PM ET E-mail | Save | Print | CHARLOTTE (AP) — Former NASCAR champion Benny Parsons has been diagnosed with lung cancer and began treatments on Wednesday. Parsons, the 1973 Cup champion and currently a NASCAR commentator on NBC and TNT, was diagnosed two weeks ago after he had trouble breathing. "Needless to say this was a huge shock," Parsons said. "The first thing everyone asks me is, 'Are you a smoker?' The answer is that I smoked my last cigarette way back in 1978 ...