It’s almost racin’ season, baby! We’re mere weeks from the sixtieth running of the Daytona 500 and the official beginning of the NASCAR year. On February 18, the latest edition of The Great American Race will get underway beneath the benevolent Florida sun, as forty or so of the best drivers on the planet hurtle […]
Michael Venutolo-Mantovani
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An Open Letter to Roy Williams’s Haters
I overhear you at Sutton’s lunch counter and around the long communal table at Merritt’s. I read your interminable threads on social media, spewing your misinformed vitriol. I can’t avoid the grumblings of the disgruntled as we shuffle out of the Dean Dome in a post-loss haze. I hear you calling into the local sports […]

