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Catching Up On The Week That’s Been, Part Five: I Hope He’s Right

Jeremy Mayfield’s statement about being suspended by NASCAR for failing a drug test: “As both a team owner and a driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, I have immense respect for the enforcement policies NASCAR has in place. In … Continue reading

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So That’s Where They Wound Up At

Remember the brouhaha a year and a half ago when some anonymous bureaucrat suggested staff aides for the House Committee on Homeland Security get immunized before visiting the health facilities at Talladega and Lowe’s? I’m pretty sure they now work … Continue reading

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The Difference Between Tomfoolery And Being A Fool

As you probably gathered from the previous post, I’m not much for April Fools’ Day.  Not that I’m averse to spinning yarns, mind you.  But on April first, no. That said, a good April Fools’ Day joke is always appreciated; … Continue reading

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Support Your Local Twit… Er, Twitterer

For the most part, the Great NASCAR Blogger/Journalist War of recent years seems to have wound down.  There’s still the occasional skirmish, and twats like John Daly continue their shouting into the wind for having the temerity to blow without … Continue reading

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Why No Love For Dale Jr.?

Each season, when NASCAR comes to Auto Club Speedway there’s an overriding theme permeating the assorted scribbles by those who cover the stock car racing beat.  “Oh, how we hate this place.  The races are boring.  There’s no one in … Continue reading

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Same Old… Old

Marc at Full Throttle and Charlie at On Pit Row, who unlike yours truly actually work at this auto racing blogging thing, have recently noted some flotsam and jetsam floating about in cyberspace warranting observation: The theory currently making the … Continue reading

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You’re A Yahoo, All Right

Now that it’s The Day After The Day Of, the question arises as to which is more difficult: wading through the rain puddles at Daytona, or sloshing through the muck created by gallons of muddy electronic ink spilled by assorted … Continue reading

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I Don’t Like ESPN Very Much

ESPN is the eight hundred pound gorilla of sports journalism, an omnipresent force suffocating the competition in its seemingly inexorable march toward utter domination.  It has its hand wholly or at the least substantially in so many pies it’s hard … Continue reading

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A Conversation with Ellen Siska

Over the years, Hollywood has carefully created an image of the reporter as something of a colorful rogue standing, ofttimes alone, against some kind of evil force meaning society such as corrupt government or big business.  The only rule a … Continue reading

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