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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

...en route to and from the Southern 500. From my driveway to the infield tunnel at the Track Too Tough To Tame is precisely 100 miles. That's a century mark of rolling two-lane...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 12, 2009

Starting Five

Ryan McGee

...Hall of Fame's logo pays tribute to the First Five with five white stars against a field of blue separating the words "National" and "Baseball". That's big time, folks. Of course, there were...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 18, 2009

Have car, will race

Ryan McGee

...a car and go try to make the field for the Daytona 500. I said the same...s how we all grew up racing short tracks. That's how NASCAR was built. Run what...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2009

Ryan McGee's Blog: End of an era

Ryan McGee

Petty Enterprises is gone. Like totally gone. Like joined-the-T-Rex-Edsel-and-D.B.-Cooper-in-the-ether gone. So why aren't people making a bigger deal...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 12, 2009

A Day With The BCS Refs

Ryan McGee

...sunning on that slab. "When we were down here for the Virginia Tech-Miami game last month," field judge Jerry McGee said with a chuckle, "We stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn. This is better...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 09, 2009

Untested

Ryan McGee

...effort to slash operating costs for its teams, the league announced a ban on all testing at tracks that are sanctioned by NASCAR's top four series—Cup, Nationwide, Trucks, and Camping World East...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 05, 2009

Return of the King

Ryan McGee

...NASCAR and its current leaders has become, to put it mildly, strained. His greatest success on the track came before the cash came rolling into the garage and like so many of the drivers of...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 08, 2008

2009 NEXT RUNNER-UP: JOEY LOGANO

Ryan McGee

Every year, more and more track dads put their kids into go-karts, hoping...Mark Martin watched the kid run through a field of young all-stars in Atlanta, including his...

Story | Conversation | December 05, 2008

Second & Long

Ryan McGee

Yes, Virginia's Chris Long is a football legacy. But it's his game-not his last name-that makes Howie's boy a pass-rushing phenom.

Story | Conversation | September 17, 2008

THE GRID

Ryan McGee

...hellip; but where was the rest of the field at 18? Let's throw it into reverse...striking distance entering October and the Junior-friendly tracks at Talladega, Charlotte, Atlanta and Texas. WHEN HE...

Story | Conversation | September 10, 2008

LAGANO BACKLASH

Ryan McGee

...first '08 race at Richmond, Cup drivers were pelted with questions about Logano as he blistered the field to win his ARCA debut at Rockingham. Two weeks later they were asked to glorify him again...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 08, 2008

WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?

Ryan McGee

When NASCAR gathers this week in Michigan, unbeknownst to most in the paddock, the numbers that determine their collective worth are being compiled in...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 14, 2008

RYAN MCGEE'S BLOG: WHY MARK MARTIN CAN'T HANG IT UP

Ryan McGee

...most painful memories of my years on the road with RPM2Night, when he celebrated merely making the field for the Coca-Cola 600 as if he had won the race. The old D.W. wouldn...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 07, 2008

RYAN MCGEE'S BLOG: HATING ON THE ALL-STAR RACE

Ryan McGee

...Wheel of Fortune pinwheels, names drawn out of a state lottery-style cage of balls, inverted full fields, partially inverted fields, "Survival of the Fastest" elimination and as many as three qualifying races to backfill...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 20, 2008