This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… Friends often try to humor me when I tell them that racism isn’t dead yet. They all point to our Black President, Tiger Woods, the Williams Sisters; the usual suspects. But let’s talk about something that happened to me Saturday afternoon. I…
2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski is getting ready for the 2014 season already. That includes a trip to Phoenix where Kenny Sargent and Bo Brock spent some time with one of the good guys in stock car racing. Brad, in fact, went on a rant that included the difference between rule making and…
NHRA Pomona Pro Stock winner Jason Line is another Friend of the Freaks who had a special mission in Pomona last weekend. His teammate Greg Anderson couldn’t be at the event because he was back at home undergoing a pretty serious medical procedure. That made the win all the more special with Line eventually dedicating…
Ray Evernham has had a brilliant career in NASCAR racing including winning three championships with Jeff Gordon, starting his own team to bring Dodge back to NASCAR and being named the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Illustrated Person of the Year. His next act will see him move from ESPN where he was a NASCAR analyst…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… Sunday morning on ESPN’s excellent Outside the Lines program there was a stat that said participation in little league football programs is down up to 30 percent in the last five years. It said mothers don’t like what they’re hearing about concussions…
Actor and race team owner Patrick Dempsey didn’t have a great Rolex 24 at Daytona but that didn’t stop him from sharing some great time with The Freaks and Bo Brock last week. Dempsey is building a world class racing operation as he continues developing into a world class race car driver. It all makes…
2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona winner Sebastien Bourdais is a great Friend of the Freaks. The four-time ChampCar champion joins a long list of open-wheel drivers who have invaded the sports car world and came away with a Rolex watch proving the race win. Bourdais was a bit tired after a 24 hour race but…
16-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force has been a Friend of the Freaks so long he might be an actual Fourth Freak. Even John remembers when The Freak Nation was born. He thought we’d all end up in jail. But we’ve been with him for several of his championships, a point he reminds The…
Los Angeles Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson is building a life outside of Major League Baseball. His race team took part in the Rolex 24 weekend at Daytona. He’s building up to the time when he’ll have a team inside the 24 hour. He also is building up some feelings about a story inside baseball: A-Rod…
This is the Statt Mann, Baby. It’s time to Scatt a Little Bit… I fully understand and have accepted by dinosaurness. I often laugh at myself hearing my dinosaur Dad in my thoughts and comments. I say this reflecting back on a news release received last week announcing a former American rally champion’s new website.…
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