This past weekend was notable for its sheer breadth of sporting events—NBA and NHL playoffs, great golf from North Carolina, intense NASCAR racing from Talladega, baseball, soccer, and the Kentucky Derby all combined to make for a smorgasbord of sporting delights. What caught my attention, however, was the reminder that sometimes sports is not about…
Read More »To say that Bristol Motor Speedway has not been kind to Tony Stewart would be putting it mildly. In 29 career Sprint Cup races at the World’s Fastest Half-Mile, Stewart has only 1 win and 8 top tens. This for a driver who has multiple championships and 47 total career wins. I think Tony could…
Read More »Last Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race from Daytona was expected to be an exciting, action-filled launch to the 2013 NASCAR season, and it lived up to that expectation—until the final lap. Trying for the win, Regan Smith moved to block Brad Keselowski and set off a chain-reaction that crashed out what was left of the…
Read More »When we last saw NASCAR at Homestead, Florida, last November, Brad Keselowski was winning his first ever Sprint Cup championship. The back story, however, was all about the growing feud between Clint Bowyer and Jeff Gordon. Gordon, as you may recall, had intentionally wrecked Bowyer the previous week in Phoenix, resulting in a brawl between…
Read More »The roar that you heard last Saturday night was coming from Daytona where the new NASCAR Generation 6 cars took to the track competitively for the first time in the 2013 Sprint Cup season. In the Sprint Unlimited race, a match reserved for pole winners from the previous season, 19 cars took the track—and seven…
Read More »With this weekend’s festivities at Homestead, Florida, the NASCAR season came to an end. A season that had begun in February at Daytona finally concluded when the checkered flag was waved to conclude the Ford Ecoboost 400. But, not only did that checkered flag signal the conclusion of the race, it brought to an end…
Read More »In NASCAR, there are a lot of things you don’t want to happen to you, but at the top of the list is being tagged with the dreaded label “DNF.” DNF stands for “Did Not Finish”—and a handful of DNFs can wreck (both literally and figuratively) your entire season. Whether because of a blown engine…
Read More »Going into Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race, the Pure Michigan 400, there were 6 drivers fighting it out for, basically, the one remaining spot in NASCAR’s version of the playoffs—the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Hugely successful drivers like Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, and Carl Edwards are in the mix, and the fact is that…
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We all face moments when we have to decide between trusting God or moving forward in our own strength. On Sports Spectrum, we’ll visit with NASCAR driver Michael McDowell, and Kansas City Royals outfielder Jeff Francoeur to discover how they learned to ”Trust God through Desperate Times.” Hear it on this edition of Sports Spectrum.
Read More »In NASCAR garage areas, it is not uncommon to hear comments like, “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying” and “It’s our job to cheat and it’s their (NASCAR’s) job to catch us.” This weekend, as NASCAR’s top series headed to Kentucky for the Quaker State 400, we were reminded why it is so tempting…
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