Opinions on Racing
On the first Monday of January, testing begins at Daytona. Thus begins preparations for the 2002 season in earnest. There are of course issues to anticipate with the coming new year, and Steve McCormick and Holly Cain try their hand at such in separate pieces. McCormick lists eight stories to watch in 2002. He makes […]
Ten years ago. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long since the season that it seems we all most fondly remember. It wasn’t the best as far as on-track competition. But it had the most dramatic outcome of all the seasons of the 1990s, and the cruel sequel of 1993 made it all the […]
Okay, so the makers of Not Another Teen Movie will realize where I got the idea for the title of this piece. So yell at me for using the Not Another title – it’s still a pretty appropriate usage. With all the other Year-end awards columns, it was inevitable from this corner, wasn’t it? So […]
It’s the last day of the year and I for one am in a hurry for the New Year to commence. The reason being, of course, is that it brings us closer to the new season. Just a little over a month and we’ll be on our way again…can’t wait!! What do you think of […]
The death of a seven-time champ . . . The last day of what, at least in my humble opinion, was a horrible, yet memorable, year is indeed welcome, Performing my ‘usual’ routine of reading news/sports stories on the Internet, it’s plain to see there’s not much going on in the NASCAR motorsports world at […]
So here’s a French sporting news publication, L’Equipe, giving its annual awards to champions of the year and the most prestigious to the Champion of Champions. It’s done this for 22 years and, in those 22 years, only two formula one participants have ever been named Champion of Champions. The late Formula One driver Ayrton […]
BETWEEN AN IROC AND A HARD PLACE: Poor Jeff Gordon. Being the Winston Cup champion and a new partial car owner, his time is just not his own these days. That’s why he declined the International Race of Champions I guess. Sorry, but I don’t get it. How much time does it take to run […]
So we enter the two thousand second (or third, depending on how you tabulate it) year Anno Domini. And with the flow from 2001 come the usual annual resolutions for the new year. Entering a new year always brings hope for improvement. For 2002 that hope needs to become reality. What should some of the […]
Nobody asked me but: The NASCAR media world is full of lists these days. The Sporting News, however, has the best list especially for NASCAR observers. It’s the publication’s TSN Power 100, the most powerful people in sports. At the top of the list is NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue , not a surprise. New York […]
If you’re a NASCAR fan, or motorsports journalist covering NASCAR events, the road to providing and receiving information appears to be fraught with more potholes, and actual restraints on reporting. What appears to be brand, spankin’ new legalese has reared its ugly head. The language, in its entirety, reads as follows: "NASCAR owns all rights […]