Beside the Rising Tide: NASCAR’s Blue Plate Special
There’s a place in nearly every small town across America, or at least there still was during those years I was making a somewhat feeble …
By Matt McLaughlin
Beside the Rising Tide: Random Notes on the ROVAL
If you’re old enough that you hear the term “anticipation” and you still think Carly Simon and not catsup the lead up to Sunday’s ROVAL …
Beside the Rising Tide: Now, For Something Completely Different – A ROVAL
Be careful what you wish for… you just might get it, or so I’m told. After all, when you asked your parents for a pony, …
Beside the Rising Tide: A Brand-New NASCAR
While I’m hardly prehistoric, this old world of ours is, in fact, a very different place than where I grew up. Thanks to my lifelong …
Thinkin’ Out Loud: Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard
The Key Moment Denny Hamlin took the lead from Clint Bowyer by pitting two laps earlier than the No. 14. He seemed to have the …
Beside the Rising Tide: Texas Two-Step Treading on Toes
Don’t you hate when that happens? There’s two events you’re eager to participate in and they invariably end up scheduled for the same date and …
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 …
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 …