Earnhardt Heads To Winter Olympics For some NBC On-Air time

Dale Jr. (C) in NBC booth with Adam Alexander and Michael Waltrip

Dale Earnhardt Jr. today is set to "jet off to Pyeongchang" for on-air work with NBC Sports over the final week of the Winter Games. A "few weeks ago, he was working the Super Bowl" in Minneapolis. Earnhardt said of his first offseason since retiring from NASCAR, "The calendar has been really full." USATODAY.com

He said of NBC, "I know that they won't set me up to fail. They want to have good TV and they're not going to put me in position where I won't be able to somehow help deliver that." AP