Who would win in a basketball game between Woody Harrelson and Elliott Sadler?

Six Laps of Separation: Sadler to Harrelson

Elliott Sadler received a basketball scholarship to James Madison University to play for Lefty Driessell. He then suffered a knee injury that allowed him, as he once said, "to pursue a sit-down job."

And what a sit-down job he found. Sadler has three wins and 46 top-10 finishes in NASCAR's top series. He also made the field for the first Chase for the Nextel Cup in 2004 and he's now the newest member of Evernham Motorsports.

Woody Harrelson knows a little bit about basketball. He portrayed Billy Hoyle, a hapless hoops hustler in the 1992 film, White Men Can't Jump. He is, of course, best known as Woody Boyd on the classic 80s sitcom, Cheers.

Harrelson and Sadler have more in common than you might think. Let's drop the green flag on another "Six Laps of Separation."

1.

Sadler won two Nextel Cup Series races in 2004, one at Texas and one at Fontana. In both races, Kasey Kahne finished second. The combined margin of victory in both races was .291 seconds.

2.

After finishing second five times in his brief Nextel Cup Series career, Kahne finally visited Victory Lane in May 2005 at Richmond. The man who finished second to Kahne on that warm Saturday night would go on to hoist the Nextel Cup Series trophy six months later at Homestead -- Tony Stewart.

3.

Stewart was one of several drivers to appear as themselves in the 2005 Disney film, Herbie: Fully Loaded, which starred Lindsay Lohan as Maggie Peyton, a young girl who receives Herbie, a Volkswagen Bug, from her father as a graduation gift. The role of Peyton's father was played by Michael Keaton.

4.

Keaton rocketed to stardom after playing Billy Blazejowski, the obnoxious partner of Henry Winkler's Chuck Lumley in a New York City morgue turned brothel in the 1982 hit movie Night Shift. The movie's director, Ron Howard, also played the role of an annoying saxophone player that bothered Lumley on a New York subway after Blazejowski suggested he and Lumley go into business out of the morgue.

5.

Howard's brother, Clint Howard, has appeared in many of the movies that Ron Howard has directed. Perhaps Clint Howard's greatest achievement came in 1998 when he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at that year's MTV Movie Awards MTV's John Norris was often quoted as saying that Howard's award legitimized the honor, which had been somewhat of a running joke before that.

6.

One movie Clint Howard appeared in that was directed by his brother Ron was the 1999 film EdTV. The movie starred Matthew McConaughey as Ed 'Eddie' Pekurny, an everyman that gets chosen to be followed around by cameras in a non-stop reality series. The role of Ray Pekurny, Eddie''s brother, was played by Woody Harrelson.