Driving to an End: NASCAR's Impact on the Environment

By jwalte04, Section Other Sports
Posted on Sun Dec 02 2007 at 8:57 PM EST
More on: NASCAR (all tags)

I hate NASCAR.  Hate it.  I can see cars driving anywhere and at any time.  The last thing I want to do is watch 500 miles of it on a track that goes nowhere.  Yes, I have heard it all, "It's the environment and the people surrounding the race", and "THEY ARE JUST SO FAST, IT'S AWESOME".  I get it.  Not to knock these...drivers?  I certainly can't call them athletes, though what they do is very dangerous.  But I just feel that it takes no athletic skill to drive a car at high speeds.  Maybe I just haven't done it, but I feel that it has more to do with mental awareness and attentiveness.

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What I Hate About Football

By jwalte04, Section NFL
Posted on Thu Nov 15 2007 at 11:19 AM EST
More on: NFL (all tags)

Yeah I know, the title startled me too after I wrote it.  But as the old biblical saying goes, "You can't truly love something until you hate it and point out all its flaws".  Now don't get me wrong, football is the best thing since sliced bread, even Canadian football (which I would still watch over baseball), but there are definitely some things that I would change.  Enjoy.

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A Monkless Hall

By jwalte04, Section NFL
Posted on Wed Nov 14 2007 at 6:38 PM EST
More on: Art Monk, Redskins, Pro Football Hall of Fame (all tags)

The only thing a Redskins fan hates more than the toothless grin of a Cowboys fan is Canton, Ohio.  And I know there are a lot of losers out there who are furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand why a Washington resident would have a grudge on this quaint city of 80,000.  Well, this so called city is the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  As you know, the Hall of Fame holds the current record for longest bad-decision streak in Major League sports.  In the past SEVEN years, the Hall of Fame selection committee has neglected to enshrine Art Monk, the gravity-defining, ever-consistent Redskins receiver that amazed us in the 80's.  Not only that, but they have let in people that are far inferior, both in skill and morality.  Here, let me show you what I mean:

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