It’s perfect that basketball, far and away my favorite stick-and-ball sport, wraps up just as racing season really gets rolling. It’s kind of poetic, my two favorites running concurrently with little overlap. Of course you could argue that the other two biggies — football and baseball — really never stood a chance with me because they were smack in the middle of racing season, therefore all I was left with, by no real choice of my own, was basketball.

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About this time every year, I have a conversation with my son Riley about getting back to the grind. For him, it’s a basketball conversation. And the grind means getting back to the gym, returning to the weight room and working on things that will both make him a better player and help his high school team next season.

It seems like we’re always thinking about next season. Living in the present can often be a challenge as we work tirelessly toward a loftier goal, or as we like to call it MORE

There’s nothing worse than being stuck at home during a long winter. Gloomy skies and cold temperatures can really get you down. For those stuck in the Midwest and Northeast during this last stretch of the cold season, I really feel for you right now. I know it can be brutal. | Complete Speedweeks coverage

Perhaps even more cruel is logging onto DirtonDirt.com and seeing all of the racing action going on during Georgia-Florida Speedweeks. That’s just plain inhumane.

One of the best ways to MORE