NASCAR

The Blog swears it heard one hand clapping as it tuned into the women's Olympic volleyball competition. Breathtaking as the action has been, it was impossible not to notice the backdrop: vast pastures of empty seats...

I'm pleased to report that you've heeded my anguished cry for thoughtful commentary and staved off my insidious plan to write a treatise on Keynesian economics. Before I fetch the ol' canvas mailbag and dispense your...

I've been a Yankees fan since I first laid my watering brown eyes on Mickey Mantle (I was six), but I have no qualms sayin' the Boston Hair Farmers warm my sclerotic, pinstriped heart. I've always had a soft spot for...

The Chase for the Nextel Cup -- NASCAR'S bold attempt to give attendance and TV ratings some gas in the face of the NFL and baseball's postseason -- will get rolling on Sunday with the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire....

This is the tale of two sports -- NASCAR and ice hockey. So different, yet similar in that both came from the geographic margins to thrive in mainstream America -- hockey migrating down from Canada, NASCAR up from Dixie.