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… …
Matt joined Frontstretch in 2007 after a decade of race-writing, paired with the first generation of racing internet sites like RaceComm and Racing One. Now semi-retired, he submits occasional special features while his retrospectives on drivers like Alan Kulwicki, Davey Allison, and other fallen NASCAR legends pop up every summer on Frontstretch. A motorcycle nut, look for the closest open road near you and you can catch him on the Harley during those bright, summer days in his beloved Pennsylvania.
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 …
Beside The Rising Tide: Alan Kulwicki, Running Down A Dream
Though it was not all that long ago in the grand scheme of things, the Winston Cup circuit was very different back in the late …
Beside The Rising Tide: Start And Stop, Parking Lots, And Raceway Park
Something of note happened on Saturday and I’m not talking about April 1st being a day set aside for Brian France and folks of his …
Beside the Rising Tide: NASCAR Goes West, Ratings Head South
Go west young man, haven’t you been told? California’s full of whiskey, women and gold -Toby Keith (Should’ve Been a Cowboy) It had to be …
Beside The Rising Tide: Anger Management
Talk about a tempest in a teapot. The way the media and some elements of NASCAR fandom have focused on the Joey Logano-Kyle Busch brouhaha …