I love it when someone so obviously admits it, they have to extract their foot from their stomach.

Brian Tuohy has a "News of Note" column, where he basically has ongoing discussion of current events which either are or may well be articles about (potentially) rigged events.

ESPN gave me a DOOZY to send to Brian on Saturday.

Speedway Motorsports Inc. chair Bruton Smith basically wants the entire scope of racing changed to a multi-tier tournament/shootout concept like the All-Star Race.

Mandatory cautions, double-file restarts...

But here's the rub, Bruton:  Everything that comes with it.  Cautions breed cautions for a REASON.

You want crashes.  No problem in admitting that the public usually watches these races to see people get wrecked.

The problem is admitting it so cleanly, as in the money quote of this entire article:

"If you have one [mandatory caution] every 20 laps, I don't care," Smith said. "It adds to the show. Someone once said we're in show business. Well, if we're in show business, let's deliver that show. Right now, we're not delivering it.

And if you want to take it that far, ensuring certain drivers (*cough*the 88) win the title would not be that far off, would it, Mr. Smith?