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Life as an underfunded NASCAR team

I was watching the start of the Nationwide race at Bristol on Saturday and at the start Jennifer Jo Cobb just got out of her car and quit.  The details were sparse and the story got old pretty quickly as ABC moved on to the cars that were actually racing.  Here is what happened. “Five [...]

I am 60% that I don’t like Tony Kornheiser. No, make that 100%

I have never been a Tony Kornheiser fan.  I thought he was a waste of booth space on Monday Night Football and Pardon the Interruption seems to be totally devoid of any serious reflection or research.  Here is Kornheiser on NASCAR Did NASCAR rig things so Dale Earnhardt Jr.could win the pole for Sunday’s Daytona [...]

No wonder Jimmie Johnson keeps winning and winning

Check out Jimmie Johnson’s 2011 NASCAR setup… actually its a promo shot for Transformers 3 but I like it a lot.  With Saskatoon’s traffic getting worse, this may help me get home from work a little faster.  Of course that last sentence was just a segue so I can link to The Gladiator, a 1986 [...]

What to do in Saskatoon during the summer of 2010

With Wendy working at Safeway and her shifts being all over the map, we need to plan ahead as a family if we are going to enjoy all of what Saskatoon has to offer this summer.  While we won’t get to all of these events this summer, here is my list of why I think [...]

Flu

Oliver has had the flu all week.  He recovered yesterday but I have it now.  Fever, funny nose, ear ache, and sore throat.  I am fine if I don’t swallow or move.  Earlier this week he would just sit motionless beside me.  Now I feel like he does. I had some plans to go out [...]

Danica

I have to admit, I couldn’t stand Danica Patrick when she was just racing Indy cars.  I thought she was a whiny, over-rated Diva that as much a product of those creepy GoDaddy commercials as she was of her one win (a fuel consumption win that had no impact on the points race). I was [...]

The NASCAR version of the Bible

You know, for when the Word of God isn’t exciting enough for the NASCAR fan in your life, this version brings testimonies and photographs of the popular race personalities with whom they work on a daily basis: the drivers, the pit crews, the media spokespeople, and others associated with the world of racing.

Stay Classy Coach

Michael Silver has a great column on the lack of social skills shown by many in the Bill Belichick coaching tree. It’s the latest testament to Mangini’s apparent lack of tact and people skills, personality traits he honed under his estranged mentor, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Like two other Belichick disciples, new Kansas [...]

NASCAR is coming to Saskatoon

I am pretty excited about this race in July at the Auto Clearing Motor Speedway north of Saskatoon.  I know it is the NASCAR minor leagues but Saskatoon is a minor league kind of town. Two hours of watching a bunch of cars who can only turn one way.  Although when I type it out [...]

I’m moving out of Junior Nation

For years I hated NASCAR but then Mark got into it and then for Father’s Day bought me a Dale Jr. watch which by default made me a member of Junior Nation.  Every Sunday after that we watched a race and spent our fair share of time watching practice and qualifying as well (great background [...]

Don’t Check Up

As a NASCAR fan, you lose perspective over how many job losses hit the sport this year but there has been 700 highly educated mechanic, fabricators, and engineers who have been laid off.  Don’t Check Up is a job search website just for NASCAR employees who have been let go during the recession.  The back [...]

Bandwagon Jumping

I was shopping with Mark today and we were in a sports collectible place.   He saw some NASCAR replica cars and asked me if I liked the #24 (Jeff Gordon) car.  I told him yeah but I am a #88 (Dale Jr.) fan.  Mark goes, “I think you should change to #24″.  I told him [...]