It’s time for the Motocross des Nations, the largest international motocross race in the world. I just signed up for the MediaZone coverage so I can watch the event live on Sunday morning. I attended the Budds Creek event last year and had a blast. I wish I could go every year. My goal is [...]
Entries from September 26th, 2008
LIveNation sells Supercross with Motor Sports division
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Industry, Racing
No surprise here as Live Nation has sold off its entire motorsports division to Feld Entertainment in a deal valued at $205 million. The sale is the latest step in Live Nation’s current corporate gin rummy hand — the predictable, cyclical business of first acquiring unrelated businesses to “leverage synergy for increased profits and growth” [...]
Tags: Feld·LiveNation·SX
Roger Edmondson responds to road racing disaster
September 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Industry, Racing
Late last week NASCAR announced it is acquiring the Grand-Am sports car racing series. This matters to professional motorcycle racing because Grand-Am is the racing series owned by Roger Edmondson and Jim France, the President and Chairman respectively of Daytona Motorsports Group which now owns AMA Pro Racing. Last night Dave Despain had Edmondson on [...]
New therapy heals sever bone breaks in weeks
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health
Australian newspaper The Age reports in “Broken leg bones healed in stem cell first” that a trial for new stem cell therapy has produced some remarkable results in healing the most serious kinds of fractures. The trial included nine patients with severe leg fractures, many unable to walk and spending up to 41 months waiting [...]
Tags: future·medicine·StemCellTherapy
Miss Malaprop should work on her English skills
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Racing, Uncategorized
I have raised this issue before and there may be people who disagree, largely because of the girl’s looks. But Erin Bates is an awful pit reporter. She continues to mangle the English language. Honestly. I was watching the “lites” race from Southwick on SPEED, Bates was interviewing Villopoto, and once again she starts throwing [...]
