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Petty Endorsement for John McCain
The “King” of NASCAR Richard Petty came out to endorse John McCain today at the Bank of America 500 today in Charlotte....
Halloween Wasilla Style
Looking to channel your inner maverick this Halloween? This mask isn’t going to scare the way that some people and mainstream media wants. It will allow you to only trick or treat to the houses ...
Laboring Labor Day Weekend
The Labor Day Weekend feels like something other than a holiday weekend. I’ve spent most of my time so far being bombared with Sarah Palin (is she related to Michael Palin of Monty Python?) pund...
It’s Bristol Weekend
If you got watch the Craftsman Truck race in Bristol tonight you saw Kyle Busch get his 17th win for the season between in all three of the NASCAR series. That’s about 25% of all the races run u...
My Tire Shopping List Got Shortened by One Manufacturer
I was watching the NASCAR race at “The Brickyard” today. It wasn’t your average NASCAR race, it was more like heat race at your local dirt track. There was an issue with the tires G...
Give Him The Title Now
Kyle Busch is still rolling on a dream season. After tonight’s win at Indy in the Nationwide series they should give him the Championship Trophy so might not show the rest of the season and give...
Use The Force Kyle
After tonight Rick Hendrick has to be thinking if he made a one the dumbest moves of his life letting Kyle Busch go. Tonight Kyle Busch won his seventh NEXTEL Sprint Cup race of the season and is havi...
Stewart ‘Smokes’ Over the New Opportunity as Owner/Driver
Two time NASCAR champ Tony Stewart announced today that he’s leaving Joe Gibbs Racing to join Haas Racing as a co-owner in the race shop. Stewart will start with the 2009 season. There had been ...
Current Indy Champion Loses NASCAR Ride
NASCAR rookie Dario Franchitti lost his number 40 as Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) announced today it was immediately stop racing that car. Chip Ganassi says that sponsorship has been...
It’s All Racing
I had wrote earlier this week about the three big races that going on this weekend and now the big day is here. In a few hours the Formula 1 Grand Prix De Monaco will kick it off. After lunch the nine...
Meshing of the Medias
I saw on No Silence Here about what YouTube is doing to harness the wave “Citizen Journalist” and the company has started hiring of staff to manage to the content. I can’t help but w...
Kahne Wins All Star Race - First Win for Fan Favorite Vote Winner
Kasey Kahne pulled off three first tonight with his win in the Sprint All Star Race. The first time a fan pick has won the race, the first All Star win to Gillett Evernham Motorsports and first All St...
An Open Wheel Racing Fan’s Dream Car
I’ve watched and covered about every type of racing there is over the years. Dirt track, NASCAR, Indy Racing League, Craftsman Trucks, school bus, lawn mower and about everything that involves r...
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade, I Call It a Slingbox.
Being away from home and wiring in a Slingbox, I was hoping I could watch Mark Martin and his Godaddy Chevy pull off another win in Darlington tonight with three laps to go he might have pulled it off...
Short Tracks - Short Tempers
The NASCAR race in Richmond, VA. looked like it was all Denny Hamlin as he commanded the track in his home state, almost. Those tires all the drivers are complaining about gave out on him. That set u...
Frontrunning
Frontrunning is a practice that gives a lot of people heartburn. They check a domain name, then going on with something else and when they try to register the name they find out it’s already bee...
This Weekend Has a Little of Everything for Sports Fans…
UT played Arkansas in the evening. A close loss that was blindingly painful. Try to watch over the Internet via. a slingbox was had to watch without latency problems. The post tornado venue looked vac...
Mother Nature is on Rip
Looks like Mother Nature is showing her strength. Last night she blew the candles out in Atlanta and today she’s rocked Oregon.s coast with a 5.9 quake. They’ve move the tourney out of...
Today Kind of Has a 1954 Feel to It
Way back on June day in 1954 Al Keller drove a Jaguar in Linden, New Jersey to a win on the road course. That was the first and last time anyone has won a NASCAR race in a foreign manufactured car unt...
There Can Be Only One
It’s official, UT Mens are #1 in the AP and #1 in Coaches polls. Waiting for the poll data was just a formality. The bad part of the rating is the higher on the food chain you are the juicier t...