By now most of the free world knows that Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals in the Olympics this year. He’s scheduled to make a bunch of television appearances including Oprah, Saturday Night Live, Entourage and the Video Music Awards, and he’s already appeared on several shows including Today and The Early Show. This week […]

Next Monday the Oprah show will premiere featuring 150 Olympic athletes including phenomenal Michael Phelps. (Some ladies, including me, probably ought to wear a pulse oximeter when we watch Phelps because his body is so hot physique is so inspiring. Oprah is having the Olympians on the show to welcome them back and to showcase […]

Over the past two weeks we’ve discovered that our youngest son CJ likes to watch golf. Yes, that’s golf. I couldn’t even believe it when I saw it. He sits nicely and watches the players take their turn. When they swing to hit the ball he squeals in delight. Sometimes if it doesn’t get too […]

Since the beginning of the Sprint Cup season Fox has been doing a great job trying to increase autism awareness. There’s even an autism awareness commercial featuring the Fox broadcast team. One thing confuses me though. In the Fox commercial, different members say different things about autism. But not DW. Now you’d think that if […]

Can anyone tell me what happened to the green flag dropping in the televised broadcast of today’s race at Phoenix? We saw part of the pre-race show and then Fox cut to the baseball game. Then all of a sudden Fox cut back to the race to show the end of the first lap. Why […]

I got a laptop computer recently. This morning my Dad and I got the wireless modem connected and got the laptop connected wirelessly. I am now able to sit in the living room while watching tv and use my laptop. I am sitting here watching the Nascar race right now, there’s a commercial on. I’ve never […]

This was Dale Jarrett’s last race, he’s now officially retired after 668 race starts. After today he will start one more time in the all star race in May at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. His first full time Cup ride was in 1987. Dale has 32 Cup victories. He has nothing but praise for his sponsor […]

Bristol is my favorite race track. Bristol at night is my favorite race to watch, and someday I will get to go there. For now I make do watching on the big tv. Bristol is a short track, which always makes for exciting racing. I thought Tony Stewart was going to win but Denny Hamlin […]

This did not end the way I’d hoped, obviously. Yesterday, Kyle Busch got his first win since joining Team Gibbs by winning the Kobalt Tools 500 race in Atlanta. Toyota got was the first foreign made car to win a race since 1954. Drivers were very vocal about the tire Goodyear brought to this race, […]

One of the cuter commercials that used to be shown, particularly during a race, were the Jeff Burton State Farm commercials. The commercials weren’t so much direct pitches for car insurance as they were a cute pr infomercial approach. In one commercial Jeff Burton tells his rep how many accidents he’s had. In another he […]