Word: earnhardts
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...this was Dale Earnhardt, whose life was racing, and like the cliché goes, he knew the risks. His wife and family knew the risks. Dale Jr. knew the risks, risks that basketball, baseball or even football would not tolerate. There is something undeniably noble about this superstar's exit, a racer dying in the thick of the thing he loved. A soldier carried out on his shield at the Daytona...
...Dale Earnhardt is dead; that is not the way we are used to having a sports superstar depart the field. Sadly, race fans are more used to death than those of other pastimes. NASCAR officials maintain that safety will always be a top priority. But whether you tune in for the competition or the crashes - look deep in your heart before answering - danger is part and parcel of the thrill. When a sport's competitors strap themselves into two-ton steel thoroughbreds and take off around the crowded oval at nearly 200 miles an hour, death will always hover above...
...Earnhardt tragedy may well cause some fans to take another hard look at the thing they love. What risks are fans willing to tolerate as spectators/abettors to an inherently dangerous sport? For some, the death of a hero of Earnhardt's magnitude will awaken disgust, or shame. There is a reason that today, gladiators do battle only in the movies...
...those who knew Earnhardt's totemic name but not his story or his sport's, the rush of coverage surrounding his death this week was a stirring introduction. They saw NASCAR nation revealing its nobility in its tears. That Earnhardt was, by all accounts, not only a great racer but also a heck of a guy was flattering to the sport, and that he died on the track was in a grave way flattering to every driver who takes to the track this Sunday in Rockingham...
...Everyone's best guess is that Dale Earnhardt, particularly - who parlayed an eighth-grade education into a multimillion-dollar empire, just by being the best at the thing he loved - would have wanted it that...