Stanford Stadium Construction

The Saturdays before and after Thanksgiving, we saw the last two football games at the “old” Stanford Stadium. Sadly, Stanford lost to both Cal and Notre Dame, but at least we had some excellent tailgating beforehand. The ND game was the last before the big stadium renovation. At the game’s end, there was a brief ceremonial groundbreaking, then they let fans on the field for one last time. I didn’t come home with a clump of the field or anything, but today I was excited to see an online photo gallery capturing the construction progress, including live webcams. The renovation…

Continue Reading →

Indy Cars in the Bay Area

This past weekend the Indy Racy League series stopped at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. This was the first-ever road course race for IRL and the first top-tier open wheel race in Sonoma in 35 years. Plus, I was almost run over by Danica Patrick…

Continue Reading →

Michael Waltrip and DEI Parting Ways

As many suspected, today it was announced that Michael Waltrip won’t race for DEI (Dale Earnhardt Inc) next year. I’ve always rooted for Michael to do well; he’s such a great spokesman for the sport and is really generous with his time for the fans. My daughters have a fledgling interest in NASCAR (thanks to my brainwashing); the one who love Michael is going to be upset about this. On the upside, those Napa #15 hats might be worth something now. Luckily, Dale Jr is her “backup” and I think we’ll have him around for a long time.

Continue Reading →

Game On?

My friend Chris IM’d me this morning to share the good news…it looks like the NHL is going to be open for business for the 2005 system. On the one hand it’s hard to feel sorry for either side here (“millionaires fighting with billionaires”), but as a San Jose Sharks fan I’m glad to see that they’ll be back on the ice. With the overwhelming popularity of the other “major” sports (NFL, MLB, NBA and of course NASCAR), I can’t believe that NHL would basically take a whole year off over this. Yahoo! Sports is running a quick poll to…

Continue Reading →