Subject: Eddie Gossage

• Racin' to the Big Stage with Dale and Eddie

  September 20, 2007

• For $15,000, You Too Can Move Your RV Into TMS' Burnout Alley

  Texas Motor Speedway announced today it's ditching some 21,022 seats on the backstretch, which'll put the track's total number of butts allowed at right around 138,000. ESPN says it's because of "the economic recession that has affected most tracks which play host to NASCAR events." But TMS president Eddie Gossage has a different take: They ain't gettin' rid of seats, they're adding ... the $2-million Burnout Alley! Which is? Ahem: "74 expansive sites with numerous amenities that will make it th

  December 1, 2008

• Pickin' Cotton

  March 4, 1999

• Whitt's End: 2.27.09

  Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Sorry to rain on Skip Bayless' - what, 14-year? - crusade, but Troy Aikman ain't gay. Went to the Pro Bowl and hung out with Aikman in Honolulu in '93. Lotsa drinks. LotsaLotsa hula girls. Guaranteed that Aikman "signed autographs" for more women that week than Bayless ever befriended black Cowboys. And, despite numerous pleas from various females one night, the quarterback&nb

  February 27, 2009

• NASCAR drivers start your engines: It's about the most athletic thing you'll be doing during the Samsung 500.

  April 2, 2009

• A Systematic, Somewhat Sane Ranking of the World's Most Athletic Sports

  Holding up my arm during this photo? 'Bout as athletic as Dale Earnhardt's driving.In this week's column in the dead tree version of Sportatorium I maintain that NASCAR drivers aren't athletes. Conversely, Texas Motor Speedway grand poobah Eddie Gossage counterpoints that not only are drivers supremely athletic, but more fit than even soccer players. Got me to thinking: Which sport truly has the world's best athletes? We could peruse this Superstars list or, better yet, come up

  April 2, 2009

• The Fab 50

  Half a hundred power brokers who sculpt our local sports landscape

  July 10, 2008

• The Human Race

  If you like NASCAR... you might be a redneck

  November 10, 2005

• The Fab Fifty

  Or, half a hundred folks with way better seats than you

  July 19, 2007

• The Fab Fifty

  Where would we be without these powerful peeps? In the fetal position, craving sports.

  July 13, 2006

• Greasing the Wheels

  How Texas Motor Speedway got Denton County to pay for a freeway exit to nowhere—except, that is, to the speedway

  March 20, 2003

• Road Warrior

  Texas Motor Speedway needed property to build a road. Someone forgot to tell the landowner.

  November 15, 2001

• It's time for the Dallas Observer’s annual list of the 50 Most Powerful People in Metroplex Sports. Cool.

  July 16, 2009