Every sport has it own unique set of unwritten rules.

Baseball may have as many as any, after all, America’s pastime has been around in some form since 1845 (The first recorded baseball game was in 1846 at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, N.J.). One of the first things to come to my mind that baseball players are supposedly not to do is walk across the pitcher’s mound. I get it, the mound — for the day at least — is the pitcher’s domain. It’s where he does his work and most feel like MORE

You’d be surprised — well, actually maybe you wouldn’t — at how many times I’ve been walking out of a racetrack after watching a ho-hum main event only to overhear someone raving about what a great race they just witnessed.

I don’t want to thumb my nose at any particular event, because we’ve all seen our share of snoozefests all over the place, even at tracks that have a great reputation for putting on quality, exciting programs. In 2017 my first trip to Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway — MORE

Despite worries from racers and promoters, the great tire shortage of 2022 has yet to slow down Dirt Late Model racing anymore than a cautionary speedbump in the parking lot of an abandoned shopping mall. There have been some minor blips, but there’s been no widespread cancellation of events.

Two years ago I went 55 races. Last season I did 49. Right now I’m on track to get to 75 events this season. That’s a 50 percent increase, which is pretty big. That’s doesn’t seem like a slow down MORE