Ryan McGee

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Ryan McGee, a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, is the author of "ESPN Ultimate NASCAR: 100 Defining Moments in Stock Car Racing History."

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Ryan McGee's NASCAR Now Segment

Ryan McGee

ESPN The Magazine senior writer Ryan McGee has a blog on this website -- this website will be part of Insider next week, as...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 04, 2009

The Hard Sell

Ryan McGee

Down at the local GM dealership the boys are nervous. In the shadow of downtown Charlotte, a group of car salesman sat in the shade outside their sho...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 03, 2009

King for a Day: Landing in Indy with Richard Petty

Ryan McGee

To see all four parts of the the Kings For A Day video series go here. Planes, choppers, racecars, and golf carts…a lot of golf carts. Such i...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 26, 2009

Bring Back Double Duty

Ryan McGee

500 miles is great. 600 miles is better. Driving 1,100 miles in a matter of hours? That's Memorial Day perfection. But sadly, because a very small nu...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2009

The Drive to Darlington

Ryan McGee

Travelling is a pain in the butt. Planes, rental cars, racetrack traffic, layovers, bad hotels, worse food … we all know the drill. But there i...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 12, 2009

Why NASCAR Should Be At Churchill

Ryan McGee

...the racers. Most of these guys came up racing on dirt. Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, you name them, they've all crossed it up sideways in the clay on...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 05, 2009

Crash, Burn...Learn?

Ryan McGee

And they walked away … With all due respect to "Gentleman start your engines," these are the four most popular words in motorsports. Nothing i...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 28, 2009

Behind the Story: Jordan Schafer

Ryan McGee

In the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine, Ryan McGee took a look at Jordan Schafer, a player who -- at an early age -- became a victim...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 23, 2009

Behind the Story: Jordan Schafer

Ryan McGee, ESPN The Magazine

Take one look at the Braves clubhouse these days. It's there that you'll see how Jordan Schafer is a changed man.

Story | Conversation | April 23, 2009

In This Issue: Jordan Schafer Feature

Ryan McGee

In the new issue of ESPN The Magazine, Ryan McGee writes a feature on Atlanta Braves OF Jordan Schafer. A year ago, he was a PED...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 22, 2009

The NASCAR Advice Columnist

Ryan McGee

...at your local short track? Help is here my 5W30 covered brothers and sisters, because Dr. Racy Ryan, the Internet's only motorsports advice columnist, is back on the crankcase. A founding member of the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 21, 2009

24 Hours of Daytona

Ryan McGee

With all due respect to my man Adam Weiner and his 24 Hours of LeMons, down in Daytona the only lemons we like are the ones we spritz onto our crab l...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 15, 2009

To The Top of Rattlesnake Hill

Ryan McGee

In 1997, the first morning of my first trip to the Phoenix International Raceway, I had a list of about 50 things I needed to do, from knocking out so...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 14, 2009

The Track that Ate the Heroes

Ryan McGee

With all due respect to the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and Ben Franklin, when I found myself with some time to kill in Philadelphia I was on the ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2009

How Not To Cheat In NASCAR

The late Smokey Yunick, the greatest rule-bender in motorsports history, described slipping past NASCAR inspectors as "walking under a snake's belly."...

Story | Conversation | April 06, 2009