Beside the Rising Tide: Just Walk Away, Renee
Kasey Kahne’s decision to retire Thursday (Aug. 16) from full-time NASCAR Cup Series racing took me by complete surprise. It is perhaps overstating the moment …
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Beside the Rising Tide: The Most Wonderful Night of the Year
Author’s Note: Monday marked the 29th Anniversary of Tim Richmond’s death. Thus there is an entire generation of new fans who never got to see …
Beside the Rising Tide: NASCAR, How The Mighty Have Fallen
BRIAN FRANCE NEWS Some of you will be surprised that I didn’t write an acerbic column this week discussing Brian France’s arrest for both a …
Beside the Rising Tide: Laughing at the Frozen Rain
One definition of “insanity” has been widely misattributed to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and Ben Franklin. Whomever coined the definition, it is said that insanity …
Beside The Rising Tide: 1313 Turkey Court
Editor’s Note: Matt McLaughlin’s off this week. Enjoy one of his classic columns on the eve of another Pocono Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. While …
Beside the Rising Tide: It’s Summertime and the Living is Easy
It’s summertime and the living is easy, The fish are a jumping and the cotton is high…. Yep, there’s no doubt about it, it’s summertime …
25 Years Later: Remembering Davey Allison, Part II
Editor’s Note: For Part One of Matt’s retrospective on Davey Allison, click here. Robert Yates Racing and the team’s talented young driver Davey Allison made …
25 Years Later: Remembering Davey Allison, Part I
Editor’s Note: July 13 marks 25 years to the day NASCAR lost a shining light, Davey Allison. Allison passed away shortly after crashing his helicopter …
Beside the Rising Tide: Ready, Aim, D’Oh!
I find myself wondering if, somewhere in the sphere of the black helicopter conspiracy types and Armageddon survivalists, someone has developed a pair of bulletproof …
Beside the Rising Tide: A Heat Wave of NASCAR Random Thoughts
Today’s column (July 3) is based on empirical and indisputable fact. As I write this column at 10 o’clock Monday morning, it’s already 89 degrees …