by Bill Pollock | Jun 15, 2015 | Sports Features
By Bob Priddy, Contributing Editor (NASCAR)—Mother Nature won at Michigan but Kurt Busch finished in first place. Rain stopped the 400-mile Cup race at Brooklyn, Michigan before Columbia driver Carl Edwards couldn’t recover from a bad pit stop to climb higher...
by Bill Pollock | Sep 6, 2010 | Sports Features
Tony Stewart won his first race of the year, edging out Columbia native Carl Edwards in Sunday night’s 500 mile race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Stewart, who has not won is 31 races, beat Edwards by 1.316 seconds. Jimmie Johnson was third, Jeff Burton ran fourth,...
by Bill Pollock | May 7, 2010 | Sports Features
Back in February, Jamie McMurray won the Daytona 500, he was on David Letterman and Regis and Kelly and was honored by Governor Jay Nixon, but since then finding wins or top finishes have been hard to come by for the Joplin, MO. native who sits 19th in the Sprint Cup...
by Bill Pollock | Mar 1, 2010 | Sports Features
A war of words or mostly a one-sided spat between Jamie McMurray and his teammate Juan Pablo Montoya has brewed over into the media. This comes after the two crashed during Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It appears Montoya is being a bit of a baby on...
by Bill Pollock | Feb 25, 2010 | Sports Features
What a great idea! Have Jamie McMurray drive his #1 car from the Jefferson City airport to the South Lawn of the Capitol steps. So, I perched myself up on the steps on the west side of the Capitol and caught McMurray coming off Highway 54 heading east on Main Street. ...
