Ryan: For a contact sport, NASCAR's newsmakers need more conflict - NBCSports.com
When Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Reimann announced their engagement as dawn broke Wednesday – ensuring a full day of nonstop chatter about a sport desperately fighting for a larger slice of water-cooler relevance in the crowded American cultural... — Sprint Cup drivers vote to create a small collective designed to meet regularly with NASCAR brass about pressing concerns and initiatives. — Several big names miss races for myriad reasons, from domestic violence allegations to injuries to mysterious ailments. — NASCAR executives curiously vacillate (“Next year’s rules at this year’s All-Star Race. ”) on a blueprint for incremental rules changes hailed as critical to create captivating racing. With the very notable exception of Martin Truex Jr. and Furniture Row Racing’s sudden and impressive emergence as a championship powerhouse, not enough is happening on the track to drive the compelling storylines that make the Sprint Cup Series... Aside from a spike in SAFER barrier construction (triggered by the season’s most negative racing-themed development this season in Kyle Busch ’s broken limbs from smacking an unprotected concrete wall in Daytona), there hasn’t been much action to... Source: nascartalk.nbcsports.com
