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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

Action Sports Report

Alyssa Roenigk & Chris Palmer

...John Cena, Philadelphia Flyers center Jeff Carter and freestyle skier Kristi Leskinen, the only female in the field of eight. Just two days after watching her hometown team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, clinch their sixth Super...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 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

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

Door To Door

David D. Mccall

Morty Buckles and Terance Mathis have a dream to compete against Nascar's best. But first they have to sell it

Story | Conversation | November 15, 2008

2009 NEXT Candidates: The Back and Forth

Ryan McGee, Jay Busbee, Larry Brown and Ted Bauer

You can always visit the entire 2009 NEXT candidates page by going here. Voting for NEXT 2009 begins on Monday. This week, we've laid out a bunch of ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2008

2002: THE 'NEXT' ONES

Various Magazine Staffers

In 2002, who did ESPN The Magazine think was poised to break out?

Story | Conversation | October 13, 2008

NEXT ONES

KHALID EL-AMIN Before Khalid El-Amin, the Connecticut Huskies were a mere basketball team, a regional novelty, trusting in mere mortals. Now they're ...

Story | Conversation | October 09, 2008

Tour De Champ

Marty Smith

A broken wrist kept Jimmie Johnson from racing, but it didn't stop him from waving Nascar's flag at the Race of Champions in Paris.

Story | Conversation | October 09, 2008

BF … F?

Melba Newsome

NASCAR prodigy Joey Logano has hit the big time at 18. Now he has to figure out how to move ahead without leaving his best racing buds behind.

Story | Conversation | September 10, 2008