Orange Crush runner Carl Brouwer was hurt Third Night when he took an unintentional driver’s door from Junkyard Dog and former teammate, Tom “Brickman” Lewis.  The entirety of the situation surrounding that hit stuck with me throughout the weekend and across the following few weeks.  As Brouwer remained in the hospital, stories trickled back to...

Normally I start out my columns with a pithy one-liner or some reference to the weather.  Not today.  Today, there’s only one way to start: Holy shit, Real Steel won the night! Over the course of the last five years, there have certainly been some surprising teams that made it to the finals—Damage, Inc. made...

In part one of my three part 2013 TDA preview, I covered the new point system.  In part two of my three part 2013 TDA preview, I looked at the four teams that didn’t seem to have much of a chance of repeatedly getting to the finals.  In part three, I’ll look at the four...

In part one of my three part 2013 TDA preview, I covered the new point system and, summing up about 1,200 words into one sentence, figured out that to win the championship, teams are going to have to get to the finals repeatedly.  Shocking, I know.  (Since first round wins are now only worth one...

It was 85 and sunny yesterday and it’s 33 and snowing today.  That can mean only one thing: spring is here in Chicago and the Team Demo Association (TDA) season is right around the corner. Last year I wrote a preview of the season complete with predictions for where each of the teams would finish. ...

As always, I mention that I again live-tweeted the night of racing.  You can read this at www.twitter.com/truedestruction  It’s great if you like things 140 characters at a time with occasional spelling errors.  I want to again mention that you do NOT need to have a twitter account to read this; you do, however, need to have...

Two things to note before getting to my thoughts on Fourth Night… which might be called Awesome Night in the very near future: 1)    I again live-tweeted the night of racing.  You can read this at www.twitter.com/truedestruction  It’s great if you like things 140 characters at a time with occasional spelling errors.  I want to again mention...

As with almost every sport, the team demolition derby has an offense (the runners) and a defense (the crushers).  The offense tries to obtain the elements that help their team win (in this case, laps) and the defense tries to stop them from completing this goal. While it’s not 100% accurate to suggest that half...

Two things to note before getting to my thoughts on Second Night: 1)    I live-tweeted Second Night’s races.  You can read this at www.twitter.com/truedestruction  It’s great if you like things 140 characters at a time.  I want to again mention that you do NOT need to have a twitter account to read this; you do, however, need...

Well, the first night of the 2012 TDA season is in the books.  After an entertaining evening of racing, one thing is clear: it’s hard to know much about any given team.  Thank God I didn’t write up any predictions last week that placed the winner of the night, Mean Green Machine, in sixth or...

Holy God, it’s late May. Perhaps it was that week of 90-degree temperatures in early March, perhaps it was that week of 40-degree temperatures in late April, but whatever the case, my internal season clock is way off.  There is less than a week to the TDA’s opening night of races and it has barely...