31 Dec
During the last month, the sports blogosphere, including this blog you’re reading, has remenisced over the best, worst, and most annoying things in sports over the last decade.
It’s been fun, but I feel it’s time to do a little something different.
To send the first decade of the 2000s off right, I feel it would be appropriate [...]
Posted in NASCAR by: Ben Montedonico
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30 Dec
We’ve reached the point in the calendar year where life in the NASCAR world is relatively quiet. As evidenced by the number of posts on here this week(or lack thereof), you can probably guess that there is not a whole lot of stuff going on in the NASCAR world.
That, fortunately, includes Jeremy Mayfield.
We made it [...]
Posted in NASCAR by: Ben Montedonico
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26 Dec
The stock car racing community has lost another strong fighter.
D.J. Richardson, rear tire changer for Kevin Harvick’s #29 Pennzoil Chevrolet, passed away at 10:10 P.M. Christmas night due to complications from Swine Flu.
Richardson, 37, got the virus around Thanksgiving, and worsened with the onset of pneumonia on December 7th.
Team owner Richard Childress called Richardson “A gifted tire [...]
Posted in NASCAR by: Ben Montedonico
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25 Dec
Stock Car Spin would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!
It was about 2,009 years ago when our Lord God sent his one and only Son to walk among us and ultimately save us from our sins. We cannot possibly express enough gratitude towards Him for what he did for us. But we can [...]
Posted in NASCAR by: Ben Montedonico
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24 Dec
No less than 8 drivers have been messed over by what I am officially calling the “Junior” Rule.
For those of you who have not heard, it was announced today that the Budweiser Shootout would be changing its driver criteria once again for 2010.
For more info on that, click here.
Briefly, I would like to correct a [...]
Posted in NASCAR by: Ben Montedonico
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23 Dec
The Budweiser Shootout has just has another format change.
The old format, which allowed the top 6 cars in owner points from each manufacturer to be in the field, is out. This new format is in.
Any drivers that fit the new criteria can race. The criteria is as follows:
-Any Chase driver from the previous season
-Any past [...]
Posted in NASCAR by: Ben Montedonico
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22 Dec
It might be an understatement to say that NASCAR isn’t like any other sport.
The playing field is different. The rules are different. The object which is used to play the game is different. And the lingo is especially different.
Throughout the last 10 years, NASCAR has changed dramatically. And along the way, new phrases began popping [...]
Posted in NASCAR by: Ben Montedonico
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21 Dec
If you haven’t heard by now, Jimmie Johnson has been crowned the Associated Press’ 2009 Athlete of the Year.
The NASCAR driver beat out Roger Federer, Usain Bolt, and every football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and hockey player on the face of the earth. Johnson is the first NASCAR driver ever to win the award.
Actress Cloris Leachman finished [...]
Posted in NASCAR by: Ben Montedonico
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