Subject: NASCAR

• Texas Tea

  March 5, 2009

• Steak Wreck

  December 12, 2006

• Google Gets New "No Shit, Sherlock" Function

  August 17, 2006

• Cowboys in Third Place!

  June 26, 2006

• Here's Mindy

  June 12, 2006

• NASCAR: A Yankee Pastime

  April 11, 2006

• Pull In to the Motorcycle Ministry

  January 23, 2008

• Central's HOV Lane Drives Me Crazy

  May 14, 2008

• NASCAR = Nincompoops And Scoundrels Carousing Amidst Racism?

  June 16, 2008

• 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

• Get Into Gear

  April 2, 2009

• A Metroplex mega-autoplex?

  December 8, 1994

• Night & Day

  August 20, 1998

• Night & Day

  March 25, 1999

• The Top 10 Things I'd Change in Sports

  Before I run out the door to Arlington this afternoon for a sneak peek at the facelift applied to Rangers Ballpark, thought I'd make a quick to-do list: *Since the Mavs suck and the Stars suck and the Cowboys suck and the Rangers will in all likelihood suck, look into other sports. Like, for example, curling? *Take frustrations out on a baseball or softball at Plano's state-of-the-art Extra Innings. *Play God Commissioner for a day. If I could I'd change a lot about sports. Off the top

  March 3, 2009

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

  April 2, 2009

• Richie Whitt: Unplugged, Unmasked and Universally Apologetic

  This is by far the most difficult post I've ever written. But it's time. I can continue this charade no longer. Over the past 11 months on this blog I've spewed forth a plethora of radical opinions, most of which this morning I'd like to officially denounce. I admit, most of them didn't come from my heart, but only my warped and perverted head. In short, The Sportatorium is one big contrived, fabricated attempt to attract attention, prompt reaction and cash a payche

  April 1, 2009

• Watters Creek Sounds Like A Farm, Right?

  Watters Creek At Montgomery Farm will soon have its own farmers market. One of the first entries listed in Christian Lander's "Stuff White People Like" blog is Farmers Markets. If that's true, the area's newest weekly pickings should be a roaring success thanks to its prime location in the city's outskirts. Located at the south end of Allen's Market Street in Watters Creek At Montgomery Farm (a mixed-use development), the open-air market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday starting t

  April 1, 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

• Whitt's End: 4.3.09

  Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Seems Highland Park-ex and potential No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Matthew Stafford isn't comfortable talking with teams - specifically a psychologist for the San Francisco 49ers - about his parents' divorce. It's wrong for 49ers coach Mike Singletary to go public with the tale, telling a radio station "if you're going to look at drafting a guy in the first round, and you're going to pay him mi

  April 3, 2009

• Sloppy Seconds: Double, Double Your Refreshment

  Well, refreshment, maybe not. Double your fun, though, sure. Toil and trouble all you want. It's been a big week of twos here on City of Ate. A double dose of Veggie Girl, for instance. Two posts recapping the year's first quarter. We even had a couple items for the big race weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.The Week in Review(s):Your own Dallas Observer: Dave finds good things at Five-Sixty, Wolfgang Puck's new spot atop Reunion Tower.Dallas Morning News: Leslie Brenner pulls double duty this wee

  April 3, 2009

• Into the Heart of the Texas Motor Speedway Tailgates... I Lived It.

  Kelly Knickerbocker Not exactly the type of skin we're used to on this blog, but intern Kelly was brave enough to meander through Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend. Her report from the mayhem and mullets ...  I wearily ventured into the world of NASCAR last Friday, knowing I'd stick out like a sore thumb. Or worse, a Democrat. This was a slice of society I had never before encountered in such epic proportions, an eye-opening, somewhat intimidating experience that was also a smidge

  April 6, 2009

• Hot Fun In The Summertime

  July 10, 2008

• Mullet Over

  Let's end this. Now.

  April 26, 2007

• Going for Broke

  NASCAR team owner Jeff Milburn might never win a race, but there's more to life than a checkered flag

  May 24, 2007

• Homey Steak

  Upscale steak houses feel the economic pinch

  December 14, 2006

• 200 mph T-bone

  Steak house announces deal with NASCAR

  June 23, 2005

• Tenors Texas-Style

  August 30, 2007

• The Human Race

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

  November 10, 2005

• Loose Is Fast

  November 2, 2006

• Killer Cars and Trucks

  June 7, 2007

• Road Rage

  In FlatOut 2, life is a highway strewn with carnage

  August 31, 2006

• Cowboy Up

  We just can't quit this countrified Karaoke.

  April 13, 2006

• Skunky Wine | The Mapes File | Round and Round

  November 24, 2005

• Bubble-buster|Beer Boobs and NASCAR|Burden of Proof

  November 17, 2005

• Chevy Speed Stampede, with Willie Nelson, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, more

  Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5, at Main Street and Griffin Street

  November 3, 2005

• Gut Blast From the Past

  Cheeburger Cheeburger captures the essence of the greasy spoon--not in look, but in bloated regret

  June 23, 2005

• Best Auctioneers

  Cash It In

  October 14, 2004

• Macabre Midway

  Cotton candy and corn dogs have nothing on the Carnal Carnival

  July 22, 2004

• Godspeed, Goodspeed

  Plus: John Cocktoastin'; Kick ASSCAR

  April 8, 2004

• In the Ring

  Smackdown offers a Wrestlemania souvenir

  April 1, 2004

• Flag Team

  No contact doesn't mean no fun

  March 27, 2003

• Medieval Empire

  At Hawkwood, participants can escape the daily grind -- but not NASCAR

  August 30, 2001

• Round and Round

  Why do NASCAR drivers go fast in circles? Cuz they're all insane.

  April 5, 2001

• BREAKING NEWS: 105.3 The Fan to Remain Official Home of NASCAR/Texas Motor Speedway

  Today in the 5 o'clock hour 105.3 The Fan will announce a new five-year contract extending its exclusive partnership as the official radio home of NASCAR and Texas Motor Speedway through 2013. As part of the new agreement, The Fan will broadcast live all seven major racing events held annually at TMS. I'm not admitting NASCAR drivers are athletes, mind you, but theirs is indeed a sport. A very popular sport. The Fan will also broadcast NASCAR races throughout its Sprint Cup Series. Whi

  April 20, 2009

• Short Orders: Who's Who Burgers

  Who's Who Burgers69 Highland Park Village214-522-1980I'm almost certain Laura Bush walked by as I readied to try my first Who's Who burger in about five years. I say "almost," because if it really were the former first lady and only cognizant person in the White House, federal agents would have torn me apart like a pack of NASCAR fans on someone drinking imported beer while praising open-wheel road racing.Besides, it would be difficult to imagine older wealthy women in their everyday finest walk

  June 8, 2009

• Foreigner Loves Texas Motor Speedway, Apparently

  Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is reporting that, go figure, it looks like Foreigner has kinda, sorta, maybe named its upcoming three-disc release, Can't Slow Down, as a nod to Texas Motor Speedway, where the band played its first NASCAR gig.Either that or the band's just playing... wait for it... head games with us all. Thank you. Thank you. Don't forget to tip your bartenders; they're working hard for you.

  July 23, 2009

• Cheaters Never Win?

  ​I realize we are a society of cheaters: Steroids and corked bats in baseball. Spying in the NFL. Fudging our taxes. Speeding. Rosie Ruiz in the Boston Marathon. Foot wedges in golf. NASCAR crew chiefs altering specifications. Ponzi schemes. Our spouses. I get it. Cut a corner here or tell a lil' white lie there. Anything in the name of getting ahead. Right? But every once in a while the habitual cheaters get their comeuppance, in the form of $200 finger waggings. On Monday police officer

  August 12, 2009

• What Evan Smith Learned at Texas Monthly: Kelly Clarkson Doesn't Move Magazines

  ​It's been two months since Texas Monthly's president, Evan Smith, announced he was leaving the magazine to go into the virtual newspaper business as CEO of Texas Tribune. In the October issue of the Monthly, Smith offers his adios: "What I've Learned." And among those myriad lessons is this one: The magazine's audience is "middle-aged" (ooof!) and "elite" (pow!) and therefore not inclined to buy issues whose covers feature American Idol winners from Burleson, even if the story was written by

  September 16, 2009

• Gentlemen, Start Your ... 7-10 Splits?

  ​For those of you - both of you - not consumed by Cowboys-Eagles this weekend, NASCAR comes to town in the form of the Dickie's 500 Sunday at.Texas Motor Speedway. Driving. Racing. Wreckin'. Watching. Drinking. Eating. Bowling? It's the events surrounding the race that actually make NASCAR more circus than sport. The fun kicks off tonight at 7, in fact, with the Sam Hornish Jr. Celebrity Bowling Tournament at Main Event in Grapevine. The tournament, benefiting Speedway Charities, has

  November 5, 2009