Beside The Rising Tide: A Look Back At Darrell Waltrip, Part II… ‘The Road To A Rocking Chair’
Beside The Rising Tide: A Look Back At Darrell Waltrip, Part I… ‘Lady, I Am The Show’ Potential break Junior might have gotten more than …
Beside the Rising Tide
Beside The Rising Tide: A Look Back At Darrell Waltrip, Part I… ‘Lady, I Am The Show’
Friends, charlatans, NASCAR fans, I come here today not to praise to Darrell Waltrip but to bury him. OK, that’s a bit harsh. I wish …
Besides The Rising Tide – NASCAR Martinsville: Hey, You, Get Off My Cloud… Err, Lawn
At the risk of repeating myself, there’s nothing so wrong with the new NASCAR that an old racetrack can’t fix it. Over the last 70 …
Beside the Rising Tide: Fit For a King or Strictly Busch League?
First this week: A brief (and rare) personal note. Friday Nancy Buckwalter went home to the loving arms of her Savior. Nancy was the sister …
Beside The Rising Tide: What’s A Good Race?
Discussion as to whether last week’s Vegas Cup race was a good one or a poor one did something that the race itself failed to …
Beside The Rising Tide: NASCAR’s Great Expectations
Some weeks a topic for my weekly column is self-evident and screams for attention. Some weeks (Hell, most weeks) I hear more of a whisper….or …
Beside The Rising Tide: Solving NASCAR’s Problem … Simple as 1, 2, 3
Okay, perhaps that’s a bit bold. But starting to solve NASCAR’s problems could indeed be as simple as 1,2,3. Problem solving 101 teaches us the …
Beside The Rising Tide: And Now For Something Completely Different
NASCAR is perhaps unique in mainstream sports in that they schedule their biggest event of the season as the first event on the calendar. As …
Does the Daytona 500 Still Matter?
Since its inaugural running in 1959, the Daytona 500 has always been circled in red on the annual NASCAR schedule. (Though it’s now the season …
Beside the Rising Tide: A Ruse By Any Other Name
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. -William Shakespeare Secondary education in the United States certainly has changed since it was the …