“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Oh that Willie. He certainly had a way with words. It’s doubtful, however, that upon reflection of their recent accomplishments, neither Bobby Pierce nor Jonathan Davenport will conjure up any of William Shakespeare’s prose.

Both Davenport and Pierce (pictured with his father) have raced their way into the history books with a pair of noted achievements in the last six weeks. Davenport — arguably the sports hottest driver after sweeping a MORE

Everything isn’t always as advertised. Let’s face it. How many times have you spent your hard-earned money to buy a movie ticket, grabbed that $20 box of popcorn and $8 soda and settled in for what you thought was going to be “the funniest movie of the summer” only to realize about halfway through the film that they used up all the funny clips while making the trailers for the flick?

At that point you’re left wishing you’d pocketed the $40 you spent and waited a few months until the MORE

A couple days before the start of last weekend’s Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com weekend at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., World of Outlaws Late Model Series traveler Boom Briggs of Bear Lake, Pa. — a quick-witted guy who’s always busting the chops of his buddies — stood in the pit area at Weedsport (N.Y.) Speedway and suggested that he wanted to do something special for his home-state track’s blockbuster event.

Briggs’s idea had nothing to do with his race car or his MORE

I always get a chuckle when one of my dirt racing colleagues regales me with the best feature race he ever witnessed.

When this trackside veteran first began to tell me one of his favorite racing memories, I expected a thrilling World 100, a last-lap pass at Hagerstown Speedway or perhaps a Florida Speedweeks race with Scott Bloomquist and Billy Moyer dueling in the final laps.

Instead, he waxed poetic about a 20-lap, three-car street stock race at a popular Tennessee track where the third-place MORE