On Tuesday, the NASCAR Hall of Fame announced the inductees for next year’s class. Making the cut were Dale Inman, Glen Wood, Cale Yarborough, Richie Evans and Darrell Waltrip. Though there were a lot of tears surrounding the announcement, all I could feel was indescribable joy at the realization that I wouldn’t have to listen [...]
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Thank You Hall Voters For Sparing Us Another Year
June 17th, 2011 
Journo The Hall of Fame Complaining
April 25th, 2011 Journo Do you notice in every sport how quickly the complaining starts when said sport’s hall of fame nominees and then inductees are announced? Unfortunately the status quo has been maintained in NASCAR. And as such, last week when the five new nominees were named for the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the usual brain trust set [...]
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Tags: charlotte, CRVA, David Pearson, Junior Johnson, NASCAR, nascar hall of fame, nominees, Wendell Scott, Winston Kelley 
10 Comments »Should NASCAR Be Doing A Better Job Protecting Its Brand?
January 14th, 2011 Journo Should NASCAR be doing a better job protecting its brand? I think we all probably know the answer to this question, but humor me. Consider these news stories from yesterday: NASCAR is being sued by a company who attempted to affiliate themselves with the “NASCAR Performance” program; there are new owners of the NASCAR Plaza [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: brand, charlotte, foreclosure, logo, NASCAR, nascar hall of fame, NASCAR Plaze, Office, Uptown 10 Comments »NASCAR, Get Your House (or Hall) in Order
October 28th, 2010 Journo The NASCAR Hall of Fame took center stage a couple of weeks ago as they announced their second class of inductees. The morning after the announcement though the Charlotte Observer’s front page story about the Hall wasn’t concerned with the class, instead, its focus was the money problems the Hall is plagued with. For the [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: charlotte, CRVA, NASCAR, nascar hall of fame, Tim Newman, Winston Kelley 17 Comments »It Only Gets Harder From Here
October 14th, 2010 Journo You know that old adage, “you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all the people all the time”? Well, welcome to the selection process for the NASCAR Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees were announced on Wednesday – and as with last year there was disappointment and [...]
