Post Tagged with: "Fernando Alonso"

Is Field Finally Catching Up To Red Bull?

After ten races, Red Bull has a wide lead in F1 in both the driver and manufacturer standings… [Is a change in fortune on the horizon? →]

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NTSF 130: Flying with the Underdogs…

Zach breaks down the stories from Paris-Roubaix, the Malaysian Grand Prix and the Champions League in this week’s edition…

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NTSF 128: Rounding the quarter-pole on the track of 2011…

A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America talks technology and the record book, basketball and barbecue, fast cars and fierce rivalries — with a bonus rant to boot! — in this week’s edition…

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NTSF 127: A Fresh Start for Spring…

Sporting a new look in a new residence, Zach tackles topics ranging from Djokovic’s early-season dominance and an unexpected positive outcome from a positive drug test to a look forward at another season opener in the sports world…

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NTSF 114: Giving Thanks and Looking Back on a Great Year in Sports…

The frantic scrambling of fingers over the tiny keys on a phone — a pocket computer, really, truth be told, as the thing hadn’t made an actual phone call in days — searching for scores, news, updates. On the bus, walking to work, in free moments and moments he should be working, the phone is [...]

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NTSF 113: Turning leaves augur end of season, beginning of new cycle…

I have found myself thinking about my writing an awful lot lately. Between trying my hand at a quick 50,000-word novel and preparing to spend the winter grappling with a Non-Traditional Sports Fan’s almanac/manifesto of 2010, I have a couple huge projects weighing on my mind simultaneously. And that goes without mentioning the pull to [...]

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NTSF 112: Misadventures in the land of the Giants

So I spent the weekend traveling into the land of the Giants. As Dickens said, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Hell, I’ve taken trips to Vegas that wound up being less eventful than this weekend. It was my first trip ever to San Francisco, coming three weeks on [...]

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NTSF 110: New challenges on the horizon, the reality of health and sports and more…

The sports world is in another one of those moments in the year where everything begins to crunch together at once for fans in the United States. The NBA joined the NHL this week in starting its regular season. College football enters its stretch drive, while the NFL prepares for its second half of the [...]

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