Monthly Archives: September 2007

Tony Stewart drops an f-bomb, life goes on.

Nothing newsworthy here just Tony being Tony other than ESPN’s reaction.

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A dissertation on NASCAR’s COT.

As explained by one Jeffrey Michael Gordon.

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Breaking news … and MORE BREAKING NEWS!!

Or, “I was right … and I WAS RIGHT!!”

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What $1.99 buys you nowadays.

I’m researching a piece on San Bernardino native Dave Stockton, currently a golfer on the Champions Tour and a Ryder Cup captain. He’s more famous these days for appearing at corporate functions and instructional videos on putting.

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How anonymous is Clint Bowyer?

You’d think that making the Chase for the Nextel Cup, and winning his first career race last week, would earn Clint Bowyer some measure of fame. The type of fame that means your name isn’t misspelled, ever.

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A sense of humor in times of wildfire.

The song that plays as you wait to be connected to Big Bear High School football coach Dave Griffiths’ cell phone is a familiar one.

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Breaking the Bonds of servitude.

There were three chairs on the dais at Barry Bonds’ farewell press conference today, one for San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean, one for owner Peter Magowan and one, presumably, for Bonds. Guess which seat was empty?

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1-2-3-4, I declare blog war!

Note the playful tone? That means it’s not really war.

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NASCAR miscellany: Alcohol, Donuts, and a First.

I need to rectify something: The Chase for the Nextel Cup started without a whisper here, and while the New Hampshire race last Sunday was, by all accounts, a boring piece of crap, something amazing happened for the first time … Continue reading

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Marc Ecko, a John Locke for the 21st century.

There is a Web site that had no reason to exist before August, 2007, yet has become one of the best examples of modern democracy, and best uses for the Internet, ever.

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