Like any big business, NASCAR not immune from big problems
- June
- 16
Comments Off
will focus on drivers standing next to their wives or girlfriends on pit road prior to Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway. Some drivers, like four-time champion Jeff Gordon, may be holding a child.
You can’t blame NASCAR when an employee or employees get out of line anymore than you can blame the NBA [...]
Coding for Dollars - and Bragging Rights
- April
- 25
Thunderdome for Devs
As an online software developers’ community, TopCoder.com is a chat room, practice range and gladiatorial arena for more than 145,000 members who compete for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Membership is free, said Hughes’ brother and cofounder, Robert Hughes, 38, TopCoder’s chief operating officer.
Online competition directly contributes to TopCoder’s business , which [...]
What to watch
- April
- 12
CBS News collaborates with Loki Films, producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Jesus Camp, for The Lord’s Boot Camp, a special edition of 48 Hours. It looks at three teenage girls who, in the summer of 2007, were among hundreds of youngsters attending a no-frills training camp in Florida that prepared them to embark on [...]
Praise precedes Jarretts last race
- March
- 18
BRISTOL, Tenn. - NASCAR
As Dale Jarrett prepared for the last real start in his 24-year career at NASCAR’s top level, praise for the 1999 Cup champion flowed around Bristol Motor Speedway.
Jarrett will start his final points race at the track today in the Food City 500, his last time behind the wheel except [...]
NASCAR tracks fertile for road rage
- February
- 24
“You smack me in the helmet, and I’m going to punch you in the face,” Hamlin said after his run-in with Petty. “You meet me someplace else and we’ll settle it.”
Hardly a NASCAR race passes without fans seeing at least one driver’s road rage in the premier Sprint Cup Series, a 36-race circuit that holds [...]
Animal Crazy That purring wasnt the truck engine
- February
- 3
“A local service garage couldn’t help, so I drove to Station 31. Lt. Scott Clugston and his squad spent 2 hours taking apart the front end and other components of my truck and eventually rescued the kitten.
“One of the deputies who stopped by mentioned the rescue to a server at Perkins, and she came and [...]
Airports’ race to diversify
- January
- 21
Many of Colorado’s general aviation airports are hosting developments ranging from racetracks to nonprofits to help to diversify business and extend reach beyond recreational pilots and jet- setters.
At Centennial Airport, a go-kart track opened in March 2006, a Wings Over the Rockies Air %26 Space Museum location is being planned and a nonprofit child-abuse [...]
National Western mooooooving on?
- January
- 20
The National Western Stock Show has become, over the course of the last two decades, a victim of its own success.
Attendance has tripled, and the event is considered to be among the nation’s top tier of livestock and horse shows. The show, ensconced in Denver for the last century, is at a crossroads.
It [...]
National Western planning for move
- January
- 17
National Western Stock Show leaders on Wednesday revealed plans to move from their 95-acre home north of downtown Denver to a 1,000-acre prairie site near Denver International Airport.
They’re negotiating an alliance with Daytona Beach, Fla.-based International Speedway Corp. for a $600 million to $800 million project that would require significant public funding, National Western [...]
2007 was a year of ups and down and upsets in Volusia County
- January
- 13
*IN JANUARY,
the Deltona City Commission, worried about rising costs, derailed an organized effort to build a $23 million structure called the Partnership Center, which had been envisioned as a multiuse gathering place for southwest Volusia. The commissioners, as well as several residents, were disappointed that the center’s proposed [...]
