Archive for 'Sports'

A Future For Brainerd International Raceway?

Some of my best memories seem to involve times spent with my best friends at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minnesota. We particularly make a big deal about the NHRA drag races that come every year in August. Recent news suggests that we may not be able to revisit these memories as BIR [...]

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The Big Inflatable Toilet

Minnesota’s big controversy for years has been the need to construct a new baseball stadium in the Twin Cities. Everyone hates the Metrodome, or the “Big Inflatable Toilet” as they call it. As a result the state has come up with an idea to impose a 3 cent per $20 sales tax on [...]

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No Hockey Season, But NASCAR Is Back

One of the nice things about working normal hours now is that I actually have time to watch all of the races on the weekends. Yeah, I’m pretty excited about the new NASCAR season starting this weekend. It eases all the suffering over a lack of hockey this year.
Last night I [...]

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Weekend At The Races

I had a very nice weekend up in Brainerd, Minnesota for the NHRA drag races. I have a lot of pictures to share, and will post them to the pics page when I have time. I’ll probably do that this upcoming weekend. I have midterms this week so it’s really not going [...]

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NASCAR Is A Sport!

I had the afternoon off from work for once. As you may know I’m a big racing fan, but now that I’ve been working every Sunday I never get to watch the races anymore. Finally today I got the opportunity, and I was somewhat bored by it. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t [...]

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