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...settling in Monmouth, N.J. After fighting in the Revolutionary War, the Newman clan took its wartime payment in land across the Alleghenies in Ohio. Incidentally, there is a David Newman in the family, Shelley said, who works in a factory in Ohio: “I think he follows NASCAR racing and is definitely not Harvard material.” It was at this point that I learned that Shelley was named after an English poet and is not Jewish (contrary to what many people assume, according to her), clinching the fact that we are not related...
...during the 1994 Winter Olympics, both were riveted by short-track skating, in which competitors race around a tiny oval in tight packs, with no marked lanes, at speeds of up to 35 m.p.h. It's human NASCAR. Ohno had already won a national in-line skating championship, but Rollerbladers don't compete for gold. So Ohno put himself on ice, and Yuki, happy to see his son inspired, shuttled him to lessons and meets...
...patriotic video game. Thundering martial drums play over a Jan. 28 George W. Bush speech as the phrase WORDS OF WAR flashes across the screen, then zooms at you with the swoosh! of an attack jet. This is not news packaged to impress blue-America TV critics; it's NASCAR with Pentagon briefings. Call it crass or pandering--if you get your news from Jim Lehrer, you probably call it both--but it says, viscerally, that the news is worth getting passionate about. And perhaps because of its love of a good fight, Fox seems to book further-left debate...
...DALE EARNHARDT JR. He got behind the wheel of a race car the week after his father--the NASCAR legend, the Intimidator--died in a crash that stunned the nation. Then, in July, he returned to the same Daytona speedway where the crash had occurred to win the first of three races on the year. "One day soon [my] team will headline this joint," noted Earnhardt Jr., sounding just like...
...create a bass-competition circuit, it could harness the wealth of fishermen and -women into a huge new market that would rival NASCAR in popular appeal and in its ability to attract corporate sponsors who would want to reach them. "They'd never been marketed to as a consumer group," says Jacobs, who knows sports, having once been majority owner of the Minnesota Vikings...