Beside The Rising Tide: 1313 Turkey Court
Editor’s Note: Matt McLaughlin is off this week. In his usual spot, enjoy one of his classic columns we always rerun as the joy of …
Beside the Rising Tide
Beside the Rising Tide: The Wheel
The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down You can’t let go and you can’t hold on You can’t go back and you can’t …
Beside the Rising Tide: NASCAR’s Endless Summer & Bobby Allison’s Missing Victory
How do you define summer? Meteorologically speaking, summer begins June 21st and ends September 22nd. For younger folks, “summer” is that magical period when school …
Beside the Rising Tide: For Everything, There Is a Season
A bit belatedly, NASCAR finally released the 2018 schedules for its top three touring series last week: Cup, XFINITY and Trucks. Naturally, the release of said schedule …
Beside the Rising Tide: The Last Circus
It’s hard to believe but the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus performed for the last time this weekend. Not for the last time this season… …
Beside the Rising Tide: Superstar
Who on earth do you think you are? A superstar? Well right you are! But we all shine on… -John Lennon- The Winston, NASCAR’s All-Star …
Beside the Rising Tide: Up In Smoke
Author’s Note: Long-term readers know occasionally I’ll write a rather self-indulgent column only tangentially related to NASCAR and some that take their good sweet time getting …
Beside the Rising Tide: New Kid in Town
I think most NASCAR fans were stunned last week when Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced his retirement from Cup Series racing at the conclusion of this …
Beside the Rising Tide: Making The Call
Rain at a race track. It’s never much fun but sometimes it’s inevitable, like ants at a picnic, right wing lunatics with wild conspiracy theories, …
Beside the Rising Tide: NASCAR 2017 So Far
For some it feels like the 2017 Cup season is just getting underway. For others it already feels like it’s been going on a very …