Opinions on Racing
VIVA WHAT?: If I hear another gambling reference or joke about gambling, I"m gonna throw something through the TV. Guys, once or twice it’s cute, but after about the 50th reference to Elvis, gambling, and other Las Vegas attractions, it gets way past old. JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY: I don’t care what the Orlando paper says, or […]
TRIBUTES: I’ve seen a lot of suggestions about how to pay tribute to Dale Earnhardt. Everything from retiring the number 3, to immediately inducting him into the hall of fame, to only running 42 cars last weekend, to having every car come in on the last lap and wave the checkered flag to an empty […]
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this web site. NASCAR now enters Week II of its season and no doubt a lot of people are already wishing the season was over. In Week II came the first visit of the year at Rockingham, and three […]
Once the mourning stops, the debate over safety will pick up. Already, though, the debate has renewed with several pieces critical of NASCAR’s response to the deaths of drivers over the past ten months, and the agendas are being pushed with renewed vigor. There is a common denominator in these pieces – that NASCAR should […]
Nobody would have ever mistaken me for a Dale Earnhardt fan. I was like every other typical Anti-Earnhardt fan. I screamed at him, bitched at him and generally cussed him out every time he showed even the smallest amount of disrespect for MY man. I was as mad as anyone at him when he knocked […]
I’m sitting here at work, waiting for Sunday when the racing season will start, and the Daytona 500 is run. There’s a lot of anticipation as usual, with the excitement of the 125’s and the Shootout just giving us a taste of what to expect. It should be a good year for racing, and the […]
THE LAST WRONG WORD: Every now and then I happen to catch Jim Rome on Fox Sports Net… really just when I’m channel surfing and there isn’t something more interesting on like Sesame Street. For some reason, I instinctively didn’t like his cocky style. Now I know why. His latest “word” is that he doesn’t […]
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this web site. Sam Moses memorably wrote in 1981 that NASCAR would not be NASCAR, or nearly as much fun, without controversy. On occasion, though, a controversy goes beyond silliness and beyond parody and into sheer idiocy, and right […]
DISQUALIFIED: The time turned in by the #25 car driven by Jerry Nadeau was disallowed by NASCAR. OK. If he’s illegal, then that’s correct. But how about some consistency? If NASCAR had found the EXACT same problems after a race, instead of after a qualifying effort, Nadeau would have gotten to keep his win or […]
Now have come the first races of Speedweeks 2001 and already it is a vastly different atmosphere from that of 2000. Where last year fans were wondering if the racing would be competitive, this year we know that it will be very much so. With the annual race fest at Daytona International underway, comments from […]