This Is Africa

The wind rushes to meet me as the motorcycle accelerates; less than an inch of flimsy plastic protects my head from the cool night…

Home Again: Clint Bowyer in Photos

Home Again: Clint Bowyer, as told through the lens of my iPhone and the Hipstamtic app.

The man himself.

UPDATE: Picture Too Perfect

Story of a Race

Ken Squire’s Milk Bowl

FIRST LOOK — Home Again: Clint Bowyer

Home Again: Clint Bowyer

I Don’t Belong Here

I am an intruder.

I was near the back of a small Elks lodge in Barre, Vermont, nearly a thousand miles from home — -might as well have been a million. An audience of Canadian and New England racers listened respectfully as legendary TV announcer Ken Squier spoke of…

Driven: Kris Martin

Picture Too Perfect

Guy snaps his neck in racing accident, fights back from comas, paralysis, death itself, miraculously regains mobility, and, against every odd there is, drives a race car again. That story contains some larger significance, some poetic closure, right? I mean, it’s got to. He’s conquered…

Sending a Message

The school board chose to send a message. That message was that the health and continuity of the football team is more important than the health and safety of young women in that community.

When future anthropologists point to the moment that American sports fully…

Into the Void

After driving one and a half hours through the monotonous, mind-erasing nothingness that is the Kansas countryside, I’ve finally made it to my destination: Emporia, KS. What, you may wonder, am I doing in this flat slab of Midwestern Americana? I’ll get to that, but here’s a hint — it’s not for…