ROSSBURG, Ohio — Predictions for Saturday’s six Dream XXX heat races at Eldora Speedway, where the 100-lap feature pays $100,030-to-win and a division-record $6,000-to-start. Senior writer Kevin Kovac’s transfer predictions are included (complete Dream coverage):

BARBERVILLE, Fla. — Recapping the 53rd annual Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park with a list of superlatives from the two World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series features and three DIRTcar-sanctioned programs contested at the half-mile oval near Daytona Beach (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Best DCN driver: Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., tallied two victories on Wednesday — a 20-lap semifeature for $5,000 and a $7,000 score in the 25-lap A-main held over by rain MORE

GIBSONTON, Fla. — Recapping the 48th annual — and final — Wieland Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park with a list of superlatives from six Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events at the third-mile oval near Tampa (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Best driver: Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., won his eighth career Winternationals feature with a strong run worth $12,000 in Friday’s 50-lapper and was the only driver to score four top-five finishes as he started the week with MORE

Is the sky really falling? I hadn’t quite decided if I was Team Chicken Little or Team Cocky Locky — perhaps you should stop right here and take a minute to brush up on the 1943 version of Walt Disney’s “Chicken Little” if you’re not sure where I’m going — until I really started thinking about it.

In short, the panicked Chicken Little, taking his queue from the conniving Foxy Loxy, believes the sky is falling, thus the end is surely near. Cocky Locky, the leader of the flock at MORE

I genuinely hate that lately I have only been inspired to write in the wake of the death of someone within the sport. I realize that it's just part of growing older — people I have known for years will start to pass on. But that doesn’t make it any easier. Just last week we lost the great Evans, Ga., racer Ed Basey, and then a few days later my old buddy Jeff Walker of McMinnville, Tenn.

I remember the very first time I ever met Jeff Walker. In my earliest days working for the Southern All MORE