NASCAR

Jackalopes Spotted at the Texas Motor Speedway

On the off chance that you're one of those NASCAR types, you should know there's some interesting new menu items that will be available at the Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. Joel Pena, the executive chef at the race track is planning on doling out some serious bacon abuse. Cotton candy will be ... More >>

The NRA is Now Sponsoring the NASCAR Race at Texas Motor Speedway, Because of Course they Are

File this one under things we're surprised to learn didn't happen 50 years ago: the folks at Texas Motor Speedway announced today that the National Rifle Association -- as in the rabidly pro-gun lobbying group -- is now the title sponsor of the NASCAR race there this spring. But no. This is new. So ... More >>

An Ode To Summer, My Favorite Grill and Popsicles

Helllloooo summer! While some of you might go out this weekend and celebrate the last handful of days to be outdoors comfortably until sometime in mid-October, I'm going to do my best to enjoy what is traditionally the best season for leisure. And while some people (the smart ones) view grilling as ... More >>

Racing With Class

Good Guys, Hot Rides

Cars 2: Life in the Breakdown Lane

Animated franchise stalls out.

Pile On Loads of Earthy Fun

With Richie Whitt on his pit crew, Tony Stewart faded fast at Texas Motor Speedway

We're almost sure it was a coincidence.

NASCAR in Texas: Gentlemen, Start Your Hormones

​As you guys have probably figured out, I'm not a big fan of NASCAR the sport. But I dig NASCAR the scene. During this weekend's annual spring visit to Fort Worth -- capped by Saturday night's Samsung Mobile 500 -- there will be female roller derby, pig races, white trash, blue collars, ... More >>

Fastest Show on Earth

NASCAR's Ringmaster

A wacky Daytona 500 is won by a young driver who cut his NASCAR teeth in Texas.

Whitt's End: 2.18.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Coming to you today live from the Daytona 500. Literally. I awoke this morn -- as did hundreds of thousands of NASCAR fans -- to the public address blaring first, at precisely 6 a.m. "We ... More >>

A Field Guide to Dallas Wildlife

For Fans Who Want to Belly Up to the Bars and Those Who Inhabit Them

MyPlates Probably Picked the Wrong Day (Or Season) To Debut Two New Cowboys Plates

​A year ago the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles bowed the do-it-yourself personalized-plates-maker known as MyPlates, and only a few weeks it rolled out some proposed plates that include one for Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. Well, just this morning MyPlates sent word that it's in ... More >>

After Further Review, NASCAR Has Everything

Wild weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. I saw girls in checkered-flag bikinis, monkeys selling programs, a rare pit-crew substitution and even a NASCAR fight. Delicious.

Whitt's End: 11.5.10

  Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Roy Williams can hyperbolize(?) about winning nine consecutive games all he wants, but the only drama left in the Dallas Cowboys' failed season is not if - but when - head coach Wade Phillips ... More >>

Texas Motorplex Celebrates Its Unlikely Silver Anniversary With A Little Help From Championship Driver John Force.

Gearing Up For The Tour De Cure

Whitt's End: 4.16.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Not only should Dirk Nowitzki be on the first-team All-NBA squad and a legit MVP candidate, he'll be unstoppable against the Spurs. San Antonio has its nucleus back - Tim Duncan, Manu Ginob ... More >>

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 NASC ... More >>

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: ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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... w ... More >>

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 annu ... More >>

Get Into Gear

NASCAR hits TMS for some serious fuel-burning

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

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 presiden ... More >>

NASCAR = Nincompoops And Scoundrels Carousing Amidst Racism?

Pull In to the Motorcycle Ministry

Tenors Texas-Style

Sung in the key of Redneck major

Going for Broke

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

Mullet Over

Let's end this. Now.

Homey Steak

Upscale steak houses feel the economic pinch

Steak Wreck

Loose Is Fast

NASCAR invades North Texas

Cowboys in Third Place!

NASCAR: A Yankee Pastime

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

The Human Race

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

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

Best Auctioneers

Cash It In

Macabre Midway

Cotton candy and corn dogs have nothing on the Carnal Carnival

Godspeed, Goodspeed

Plus: John Cocktoastin'; Kick ASSCAR

In the Ring

Smackdown offers a Wrestlemania souvenir

Round and Round

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

Night & Day

March 25 - 31, 1999

Night & Day

August 20 - 26, 1998

A Metroplex mega-autoplex?

Buckle your seat belts, Dallas: NASCAR is coming