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Dan Marino not alone: Great athletes who never won a championship

Some consider him the best NASCAR driver to never win the championship. He came in second five times in the overall point standings. He also had never won the Daytona 500, the most prestigious of NASCAR races, with his best finish in 2007, in which he was leading on the final lap, but lost by 0.020 seconds to Kevin Harvick. Martin won 40 races in NASCAR's top-tier (now known as the Sprint Cup) series over his career as well as 49 in the minor league Nationwide Series.

Some consider him the best NASCAR driver to never win the championship. He came in second five times in the overall point standings. He also had never won the Daytona 500, the most prestigious of NASCAR races, with his best finish in 2007, in which he was leading on the final lap, but lost by 0.020 seconds to Kevin Harvick. Martin won 40 races in NASCAR’s top-tier (now known as the Sprint Cup) series over his career as well as 49 in the minor league Nationwide Series.  (Todd Warshaw / Getty Images for NASCAR)

By Keven Lerner
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo, who will play in his 1,oooth game tonight, is the latest South Florida star to never won a championship.

Carl Edwards, auto racing

Edwards came oh-so-close to winning his first Cup championship in the 2016 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He spent 13 years in the Cup Series and has 28 career victories in 445 starts.

  (Ralph Freso / Associated Press)

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Keven Lerner

Keven Lerner graduated from Florida State University in 1990. After an internship with the New Jersey Nets, he spent the next eight years as Lead Editor for ESPN SportsTicker in Jersey City, N.J. After a two-year stint at USAToday.com, he joined the Sun Sentinel in 1997 - just in time to cover the Marlins’ first world championship.

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