The View From the NASCAR pits

    I had the honor, privilege and fun of attending last weekend’s NASCAR race at the Kansas Speedway as a journalist. I was going to file a story for my radio station if a.) our local boy (Clint Bowyer of Emporia, KS) made good, or b.) something dramatic happened, like 12 cars pinwheeling into the [...]

F1: scoring or boring?

Gold, silver and bronze are convenient ways to measure a single event. I think they are a lousy way to measure progress over an entire season.
The man who owns Formula 1, Bernie Ecclestone, the little garden gnome hisself, wants to change the scoring system to determine a season-long champion from total points accumulated across all [...]

Heisman Hooey

Signing expensive free agents ALWAYS works