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Travel and Sports Category—Silver Winner: Getting Up to Speed

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

by Peter Mandel
How do the hungry drivers of NASCAR fuel up? With Ragu Rich & Meaty Spaghetti Sauce.
I snap off the TV. I flip past the magazine ads screaming about speed and about the men in helmets who achieve it.
I am sure that America’s top drivers burn calories thundering around tracks in sponsored [...]

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Travel and Sports Category—Gold Winner: Smackdown in Tijuana

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

by Jim Benning
It’s Friday night in a small Tijuana arena, the kind of rickety Mexican structure that can make you misty for American building-and-safety codes, and in the ring before me, masked wrestlers are smacking and flipping and generally abusing one another for my viewing pleasure.
Whap! The great Hijo del Santo goes down. That’s gotta [...]

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