The Most Outstanding Driver Award
The topic of an MVP or a Most Outstanding Driver for the year has come up in conversation a number of time with different people involved with the league. And with it always comes a debate. The situation tends to unfold in a similar manner. Someone will ask me who I think the MVP is. ...
The Have Helmet Will Travel Award
The Have Helmet Will Travel Award: MATT “OPIE” PIERCE Matt “Opie” Pierce started out the season on Seek-N-Destroy. After one night with them, he went to Bad Company. After two nights with Bad Company, he left the team. By Fifth Night, Pierce was in Mean Green Machines’ pits, sporting a Mean Green Machines T-shirt and...
The Mel Noble Jr. Award
The Mel Noble Jr. Award: STRANGLEHOLD’S MEL NOBLE JR. Most people wait a year or two before changing the name of an award—in this case The Crazy of the Year—to something honoring an athlete’s contributions to said award. In this case, I’m not waiting a second to officially change The Crazy of the Year Award...
Inside the Statistics (October 11, 2011)
I like statistics. I love reading how Vegas computes its NFL lines, enjoy pouring over the weekend box office totals each Monday morning and, while I hate watching baseball, am fascinated by the myriad stats that are now available to fans. In the latter case, it’s not simply OPS and WHIP, but FIP, WAR and...
TrackSide #16 (October 4, 2011)
Minor Point #1: Transparency Made Its Way to the TDA It brings me great pleasure to be able to write that the TDA handled the scheduling of Fifth Night’s races with as much transparency, class and grace as could have been imagined. In hindsight, there wasn’t one element of the process that I would have...
TrackSide #13 (August 23, 2011)
Race of the Night: Mean Green Machine vs. Full Throttle There were several important races on the evening. The two most important were in the second round when Reckoning had a chance to clinch the season title against Orange Crush, and in the finals when Mean Green Machine battled tooth-and-nail against Orange Crush to secure...
TrackSide #11 (August 2, 2011)
Minor Point #1: Stranglehold had a really tough night of racing You want to talk about having your work cut out for you… Stranglehold started out the evening of Third Night in last place (along with Damage, Inc). In the bracket that was pulled, Stranglehold ended up facing the third place team in the first...
TrackSide #10 (July 26, 2011)
Let’s start this off right. As of Sunday night, both Matt Wilson and Nick Hartung were released from the hospital and are resting uncomfortably at their respective homes. Wilson reported that his neck hurt, his ribs were really sore and that he found it hard to move, but that he was well on the road...
TrackSide #9 (July 19, 2011)
Over the last ten years, I have spent entirely too considerable an amount of time in front of my TV watching Australian Rules Football, jai-lai and Tough Man Competitions. I have spent far more time doing that than reading classic works of American literature, learning a second language or discussing the philosophies of Richard Rorty...
TrackSide #7 (June 28, 2011)
Minor Point #1: Damage, Inc’s Matt Wilson is Mr. Persistent During the first two races of his young racing career, Matt Wilson has been active, fearless and determined. This is almost the exact opposite of the Damage, Inc team as a whole. At numerous points during Damage, Inc’s opening round match-up against Full Throttle, Wilson’s...