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Oct 12 2011 - 3:40pm

SCOOP is a'Callin'

Another week, another SCOOP, penned in Charlotte by yours truly.This week's edition is up, and you can read it at your leisure...by clicking here!

Oct 12 2011 - 3:37pm

The boys are back in town.Well, since they’re based here, it’s kind of anticlimactic, but hey, they don’t RACE here every week, so work with me!The Bank of America 500 will get the green on Saturday evening with more than the usual bragging rights at...

Oct 11 2011 - 3:51pm

Queen City Query

Is this going to be a “good” Charlotte race, or a “bad” Charlotte race?Saturday night’s Bank of America 500 will be one or the other, I’m thinking, and when I say good or bad, I don’t mean whether it’s going to be entertaining or not. It will be. What...

Oct 10 2011 - 4:15pm

Play It Again...and Again...and Again...

Back up the truck. Turn off the lights. Get ready for next year.After Jimmie Johnson won the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, the outcome of the 2011 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup is all but over.Oh, sure, there’s this little thing...

Oct 7 2011 - 3:28pm

No Oz References, Please

Just to be clear, there will not be any Toto-Dorothy-Tin Man references in this blog. I did that in the spring and was descended upon by Kansans who are, quite frankly, sick and tired of that tired old rap.So, I won’t be talking about the Yellow Brick...

Oct 6 2011 - 3:10pm

Chase Changes

Kurt Busch. Tony Stewart. Jimmie Johnson.Those are the three drivers who have won Chase titles since the program was implemented for the 2004 season.No Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick. No Jeff Gordon. No Dale Earnhardt Jr.Is that what we...

Oct 5 2011 - 4:35pm

SCOOPage Is Upon Us!

I've been to Dover a lot over the years, and the place always awes me.Not the area, not the casino looming over the backstretch...it's the sheer white cliffs that the drivers race upon that does it.Point-and-shoot, rhythm track, whatever you want to...

Oct 5 2011 - 4:31pm

The Curse of the Monster Mile?

Miles the Monster is a cunning beastie. He laid a trap for several of the Chase drivers and they fell right in, with Ryan Newman, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and point leader Tony Stewart finishing 23rd, 24th and 25th, respectively. Meanwhile, Kurt Busch went...

Oct 3 2011 - 4:53pm

One More Ride on the Roller Coaster...

One thing that the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup has engendered, through trial and error, is the feeling that you have in a deciding game. You know the feeling. “We’ve got to win this one or we go home, so let’s pull out all the stops…”In previous...

Sep 28 2011 - 3:06pm

Will It Last?

Tony Stewart has been, so far at least, money in the Chase. But will it last? Smoke knows how to win races, and he’s won a NASCAR title under the old system (2002) and under the Chase (2005), so he’s been here and done this. Darian Grubb was a member...