NRA 500 might cost NASCAR drivers their guns

Although the tradition of the race winner putting on a cowboy hat and shooting two six-shooter cap guns will continue for the other race weekends, Texas Motor Speedway might not have the celebration for it's upcoming April weekend. Following Monday's announcement, track president Eddie Gossage said he expects no fallout from the sponsorship, but did say "We have to be sensitive to that, so we'll let the team owner make the call."

Read more at USA Today. 

Regis to Fox Sports?

Fox is expected to announce Tuesday their jump into all-sports cable with Fox Sports 1, which will be a rebranding of Speed (originally a motorsports-based channel whose programming is now limited to "Are You Faster Than A Redneck?" and reruns of "Pimp My Ride"). Among the new shows that Fox will use to take on the ESPN giant? Regis Philbin hosting a new morning show described as "The View" with guys.

Read more at HuffPo.

Student Journalist Tweets False Story From A Message Board

Deadspin has the story of a student journalist who not only used a message board as a source in a false story about Les Miles, but because he used the words "allegedly" and "rumors," thinks he did a good job.

NRA To Sponsor NASCAR Race

Reports are Texas Motor Speedway will announce today their spring race will be sponsored by the NRA. Sports Business Daily reports NASCAR was concerned word would get out during Daytona Speedweeks, when Micheal Waltrip raced a car to raise money for Newtown charities, an idea conceived by NASCAR president Mike Helton.

 

Image Courtesy MySanAntonio.com.

Is Chivas' roster racially motivated?

In 2004, Major League Soccer added Chivas USA in Los Angeles, a team related to the famed Mexican team Chivas del Guadalajara. At the end of last season, the owner of Guadalajara bought out the other shareholders of Chivas USA, and the team immediately started making player moves.  They shipped out 14 players and brought in 11, but only one of the incoming players was not born Mexican or of Mexican decent, compared to only one outgoing player who was. While the club denies the moves are racially motivated, Chivas Guadalajara has had a policy of only playing Mexican players since 1906. Beyond the racial controversy, some see this as a way of using Chivas USA as a farm team, and four players were sent to the L.A. team for more playing time this season. Saturday night, Chivas USA's home opener had an official 7,000, although television pictures looked even worse (for comparison, LA Galaxy's opener in the same stadium the next day had over 20,000).

 

Image courtesy NBC's ProSoccerTalk.

Gary Busey Has A Hobbit's Foot

It's a widely accepted fact that Gary Busey is now nuttier than squirrel shit. But now he has a hobbit's foot, and you don't.

NASCAR Suspends Driver For "Insensitive Remark" That No One Knows About

NASCAR Nationwide driver Jeremy Clements has been suspended indefinitely for violating NASCAR's Code of Conduct policy. Senior VP of Race Operations Steve O'Donnell said "During the course of an interview, Jeremy Clements made an intolerable and insensitive remark," which occurred some time last Saturday. Only problem is, no one knows what he said: it wasn't mentioned in the press release, no one can find an article with it, and Twitter right now is a mix of fans asking reporters what they know and reporters admitting they don't know anything. All that is known is Clements will have to go through some kind of "recovery" program before he can return to the track, which by that time we hopefully will know what was said...

Read more at ESPN.