Beside the Rising Tide: How Long Has This Been Going On?
Somehow I missed the memo. There’s a rapidly expanding effort to hand the world over to the millennials and great efforts are being made to …
By Matt McLaughlin
Beside the Rising Tide: Blowin’ in the Wind
And now, collection of random thoughts in the wake of Sunday’s Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Yes, meteorologically, Las Vegas offered a little …
Beside the Rising Tide: The More Things Stay the Same In NASCAR The More They Change
Looking at the box score after Sunday’s Atlanta Cup race one might think it was a case of Déjà vu all over again. Jimmie Johnson …
The Big Six: Questions Answered after the 2016 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500
Who…gets my shoutout of the race? We’ll give a call to the “new improved” Kyle Busch. Busch set the fast time in Friday’s qualifying only …
Beside the Rising Tide: Let the Games Start
With the Daytona 500 in the rearview mirror, it’s time for the actual NASCAR stock car racing season to begin. Yes, folks will argue the …
Beside the Rising Tide: There’s a Rule to Every Exception
Hopefully over the next few days the busiest guy in Daytona will get a few hours off to catch his breath. No I’m not talking …
NASCAR 2016 Preview: The Price You Pay
With the Christmas revelry over with and the new year dutifully noted on checks to the home heating oil folks the winter doldrums have set …
Beside the Rising Tide: Ending With a Whimper, Not a Bang
Say what you will about the 2015 Cup season, and a lot of you have had some very unkind things to say about it this …
Beside the Rising Tide: Insanity Rains
For whatever reason, the annals of great rock and roll songs involving rain are too numerous to choose from so I won’t even try. Yeah, …
Beside the Rising Tide: Practice Makes Perfect
To a troubling extent, the outcome of Sunday’s race and several drivers’ chances at a championship were decided not by events during the 500-mile race, …