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… …
By Matt McLaughlin
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 …