I love dates.

No, not the dried fruit, but the four-digit numbers that mark important years in history. I love remembering them. I love guessing the year of a song or a movie. I love knowing the years of Kentucky Derby winners and presidential elections and 100-meter champions at the Olympics. I simply love dates.

I know, I know, a million educational studies have shown that rote memory — like recalling names and dates — isn’t the best way to learn something. But dates are important in MORE

Everyone has a passion for something, and if you’re reading this blog, your passion is most likely Dirt Late Model racing.

But in settling on our full-time occupations, not everyone is blessed enough to see their passion turn into a successful career. I count myself among those fortunate people, and I can remember being a twentysomething trying to find my way while living in western Kentucky many years ago.

Stick with a less-than-satisfying career trajectory? Or take a gamble — ignoring advice MORE

GIBSONTON, Fla. — Recapping the 39th annual Winternationals at East Bay Raceway with a list of superlatives from six Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events at the third-mile oval near Tampa (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Best driver: Who else? Winningest Winternationals driver Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., who won three races and posted five top-five finishes, increasing his East Bay victory total to 36. He owns an unprecedented six multiple-victory weeks at East Bay: 1986, ’90, ’91, MORE