Marty Smith’s Sunday Money: Kevin Harvick, Rodney Childers Break Winless Streak and Build Momentum
When Kevin Harvick went to Victory Lane at Michigan Sunday, it ended a 65-race winless streak for the 2014 Cup champion…
Marty Smith is an Outsider.com contributor with a passion for finding nostalgia and community within country music lyrics and sports moments. He is known for his work with ESPN on NASCAR and college football coverage. Smith's memoir Never Settle: Sports, Family, and the American Soul was released in 2019 with a foreword by Eric Church.
When Kevin Harvick went to Victory Lane at Michigan Sunday, it ended a 65-race winless streak for the 2014 Cup champion…
The response to Sunday Money has been wonderful, and it intrigues me that I hear from industry folks as much…
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Sunday Money comes at you on Wednesday this week. The Cup race was delayed to Monday, during which I was…
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When Eric Church returns to the stage for the 2021 summer festival circuit—a set of preliminary warmup sprints for the…
I grew up a thousand miles from nowhere in a thousand square-foot ranch, red brick with a concrete carport hanging…
It’s the idea that there is a running tally of your life’s victories and failures and joys and hurts, that…
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I was driving a rented gray Jeep on South Carolina Highway 9. Or maybe it was 38. Or 52. Hard…