I live in downtown Long Beach. It’s a very convenient place. Lots of stuff within walking distance. One downside? Lots of homeless folks within a few blocks. Well, actually, like one block away. But I have noticed this weekend — the same weekend as the city’s biggest event of the year — that some of […]

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This is strange. I was just looking at nascar.com to see how the points standings are running, and I found this amazing link. If I didn’t know better, NASCAR’s own Web site is reporting something that could easily be construed as bad news! And illustrating it with a picture showing a half-empty grandstand. A happenstance […]

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College basketball teams and organizers ought to be alarmed. Today, I had a television choice between Big Ten basketball and a NASCAR race at Atlanta … and I opted for the gearheads. Which tells us something about the college hoops regular season.

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It doesn’t happen here often, which is why this sort of steady national drumbeat of criticism aimed at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana (nee’ “California Speedway) is out there. But they had a nice race here at Fontana tonight. A fun race. An interesting race that wasn’t determined until the final lap. With two […]

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The Auto Club 500 is going off this weekend at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, and it doesn’t look like it will be a commercial success. Not that failing to sell tickets is a new phenomenon here; the last sellout was in 2003, the final year that Fontana had only one Sprint Cup race. […]

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