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No Remorse: STTA!

by Garrett O’Hara | November 4, 2019 | Sports, Theology | 0 Comments

"Convicted Payday Loan Mogul Scott Tucker Has Absolutely No Remorse," declares a headline on Jalopnik. What did this guy do? Why does he have no remorse? And what is this doing on Jalopnik, an automotive blog? I recently went back to a month — and only one month — of...

Rapid Response (movie review)

by Garrett O’Hara | September 4, 2019 | Sports | 0 Comments

With the deaths of Jessi Combs and Anthoine Hubert coming not long before its theatrical release in September 2019, Rapid Response is a grim reminder of a certain sentiment of every race fan: it stinks to watch drivers die. The other side of that is this: we in 2019...

Destroying Something Special

by Garrett O’Hara | April 25, 2019 | Sports | 0 Comments

Let me do my best attempt to analogize a certain staple of motorsports with an analogy to "stick and ball" sports. The Baseball Split Suppose that from the beginning of the World Series in 1903 that it had been played in the same stadium and on the same field,...

F1 Team Orders Controversy Raises Ethical Questions

Setting the Stage Formula 1 traditionally has consisted of a group of two-car teams. Both cars of...

The IndyCar Championship is Down to the Wire

With just two races left in the 2018 IndyCar Series, veteran Scott Dixon holds onto a narrow...

Book Review — God Speed by Chad Bonham

There were two primary things I didn't know about God Speed before it arrived by parcel. First, it...

An Invitation to Watch IndyCar This Season

This year's IndyCar opener happens this Sunday, March 11th (12:30pm EDT on ABC, YouTube upload sometime later; don't skip church), and this is a friendly invitation to non-fans to give it a shot. Update on March 12th, 2018: The 30-minute "Fast Forward" version of the...

What Do Changes in NASCAR Signal in Our Culture?

What matters to you most as a sports fan: that the sport is officiated fairly or that the competition is close until the very end? Another way to ask this might be whether you want it to be fair or to be entertaining. Suppose you could pick only one or the other. I...