You can't say no to Bristol.(NASCAR)

From: The Sporting News | Date: August 25, 2003| Author: Spencer, Lee | Copyright information

If I retire as a sportswriter tomorrow, it will take a lot to lure me back to a racetrack.

It will take a lot to get me up at 5 in the morning to arrive at the track ahead of a crowd of more than 100,000 rowdy fans, only to sit out in the sun ripening, or has often been the case this year, getting drenched while waiting hours for the main event.

After spending most of the 1985 Super Bowl--I was five months pregnant at the time--searching for an elusive functio...

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