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(Top photo of Niko Mikkola: Joe Puetz / Getty Images)

Now that Niko Mikkola is in the NHL, his older sister, Nina Linnainmaa, laughs hysterically when she remembers the story.

As it goes, 20 years ago, the now-24-year-old St. Louis Blues rookie was in daycare in Finland and was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up.

“Ice hockey was always his thing, so he said that he will be an NHL player,” Linnainmaa recalls, bursting between words. “But he had a backup plan, and that was to be the driver for the trash car. You know, those cars that pick the trash from people’s houses? Garbage truck! That seemed like a compelling option. NHL player or drive the garbage truck.”

When Mikkola is told over the phone that Linnainmaa has shared that with a stranger, you can almost hear the 6-foot-4, 185-pound defenseman’s shoulders slumping.

He sighs and can only surmise that the big truck had him in awe.

“Yeah, probably that’s why,” he says, shifting the conversation back to hockey. “But I think it was NHL player. I always like all kind of sports, so probably that’s my career option.”

It has turned into a wise choice for Mikkola, who scored his first NHL goal in San Jose on Monday night. Just 21 games into his NHL career, the fifth-round pick from 2015 has many in awe of his veteran-like ability. In an era in which young defensemen are coming into the league looking like forwards and wanting to make their marks in the offensive zone, he seems to enjoy coverage responsibility and physicality.

“Yeah, he has a different element in today’s game,” Blues general manager Doug Armstrong says. “He’s a defender, and there’s not a lot of defenders out there anymore.”

It’s as if he chose the more thankless of his two career aspirations.

To learn more about how that make-up evolved, The Athletic spoke to those who have known Mikkola since his garbage-truck-loving days, those who were there for his path through Finnish hockey, and those who identified him as a player who could make an impact at the NHL level.

A young Niko Mikkola skates at an outdoor rink in Finland. (Photo: Nina Linnainmaa.)

Sports were always part of life for Timo and Pirjo Mikkola’s two children: Nina, who is three years older, and Niko.

Timo played ice hockey and was a coach, so that was the family’s main sport in Kiiminki, a municipality that is now part of the larger city of Oulu. Both kids played, and Pirjo would volunteer at the rink.

Mikkola played for his dad from ages 4 to 10, and as he grew older, he was always on the ice.

“He would spend a lot of hours on ice hockey,” Kinnainmaa says. “Even after the official trainings, he always wanted to go to the public rink to skate with his friends.”

Blues defenseman Niko Mikkola rollerblades with his sister, Nina. (Photo: Nina Linnainmaa.)

And if it wasn’t hockey, it was some other competition: soccer, baseball, skiing or orienteering, which combines hiking and navigational skills.

“We used to compete a lot. And it didn’t matter where, we competed,” Linnainmaa says. “Our parents would sometimes play a trick on us and say, ‘Run around the yard, and we will take time.’ They didn’t take time. They were just telling us, ‘OK that was a bit faster than last time. Please try again.’ That was their way (to get rid of us).”

Asked who won those races, Mikkola doesn’t hesitate in responding. “Me.”

Linnainmaa jokes, however, that her younger brother has never won a fight between the siblings. She let that slip in an interview with a Finnish gossip newspaper a few years ago.

“That became like a headline, like shocking news: ‘Niko has not won against his sister on a fight,’” she says. “He was embarrassed.”

Mikkola didn’t find out what his sister had said until he read it in the article.

“I was laughing first, and then I call her,” he says. “I say, ‘Don’t say that again.’ She was laughing.”

So is it true?

“I don’t know,” Mikkola says.

“Yes,” Linnainmaa says. “I was three years older, and Niko moved away when he was 15, so …”

In 2012, Mikkola left Kiiminki to play for the U18 team of the Finnish Elite League’s KalPa, which is located in Kuopio, about 3 1/2 hours away from his home. He would be living on his own, which he admitted was “a little bit scary.” But his parents would visit and bring him food, and Linnainmaa wasn’t worried. Her brother had always been independent. When he was little, he would pack his own hockey bag, making sure he had his helmet, skates, etc.

“It’s not just something he learned,” she says. “It’s something he’s always been.”

Mikkola played just 12 games in his first season for KalPa but suited up in 46 his second year and finished with four goals and 17 points.

“It was kind of like a fresh start,” he says. “I did get more ice time on that team, so I feel like that was good for me for sure.”

Meanwhile, the defenseman was sprouting. His dad is 6-foot-1 and both his mom and sister are 5-9, but Mikkola was well on his way to towering over all. In 2014, the year before he would be eligible for the NHL Draft the first time, he grew three inches.

“Niko was in Kuopio, and I was busy with my university studies, so living in different cities, I didn’t see him often,” Linnainmaa says. “It was like an instant that he became so tall.”

But despite his game developing and his frame extending, Mikkola, not unsurprisingly, went undrafted.

Timo Koskela, a former Blues area scout in Finland, was in his first year with the team when he spotted Mikkola.

“He caught our eye the year he went through the draft, but in the second year, his game really improved,” Koskela says. “But he was a late bloomer, a little bit, over here. He was a lanky kid, but every time when I saw him, the two things that caught my eye: He really wanted to make a difference and his ability to skate as a big man.”

In Mikkola’s third season with KalPa, 2014-15, he had nine goals and 23 points in 37 games on the U20 team and also made his first appearance in the Finnish Elite League. But still, when Central Scouting released its mid-term rankings of European skaters in January, he was not among the 210 on the list, and when the final rankings came out in early April, he was No. 111.

The Blues thought at the time they might be able to get Mikkola in the sixth or seventh round of the 2015 draft. But that changed when Koskela watched him at an international tournament in April, two months before the draft.

“He played really well at the end of the season, and I was nervous because there was a lot of scouts (at the tournament),” Koskela says. “I kind of thought that he wasn’t (a secret) anymore.”

Two years earlier, the Blues had made a trade with New Jersey, sending forward Matt D’Agostini to the Devils for a conditional 2015 seventh-round pick. The condition was if D’Agostini was not re-signed by New Jersey, the selection would become a fifth-rounder.

D’Agostini was not re-signed, therefore the Blues got pick No. 127 from the Devils.

“I remember we were discussing closely, like, ‘What would be the right time to take him?’” Koskela says. “We had a pick early in the fifth round, and we thought that’s the place where we can get this guy.”

Then Koskela had an idea. A day or two before flying to the U.S. for the draft, which was held in Sunrise, Fla., that year, he would drive to Kuopio to meet Mikkola in person.

“I wanted to get an idea of how many teams interviewed him,” Koskela says. “I waited a long time to be the last one who could interview him before the draft, so that’s why I drove and tried to get all the possible information. But you know, Niko was smart. He said he had some interviews.”

Mikkola says he wasn’t fibbing when he told Koskela that he had spoken with 10 to 15 NHL clubs.

Either way, the Blues knew if they wanted him, they had to grab him sooner than later.

“He was late on to our list,” says Bill Armstrong, the club’s ex-director of amateur scouting, who drafted Mikkola. “Timo kept talking about the kid, and then he played well in the late tournament. We went to go see him at the end of the year, and everybody just came away excited about him. You’ve got to give a lot of credit to the area scout for really going to town on him and getting him on the board.”

That year, the Blues took Vince Dunn in the second round, followed by forwards Adam Musil and Glenn Gawdin in the fourth.

“As the head scout, at that point, you’re looking for something of a quality,” Bill Armstrong says. “I’ll give you an example: So, OK, a guy has 110 points in junior, but he has no size and he’s just playing with somebody good, so his game is not going to translate. … He might be a great junior player, a great college player, a great European player, but you want to see NHL qualities so you can sink your teeth in and say, ‘This is why we’re taking this guy.’ With Mikkola, we could sink our teeth into the quality of his size, his compete and his ability on the defensive side of the puck.”

So after Carolina made its pick at No. 126, the Blues took him. Mikkola actually thought the fifth round is about where he’d go, and because typically only players who are projected to go in the first few rounds attend the draft, he was not in Florida.

“No, no, no. He was in the sauna somewhere in Finland,” Bill Armstrong says.

Actually, with Rounds 2-7 taking place in the afternoon, Mikkola was out for dinner with some friends when his agent called to tell him the news.

“I think I was like one step closer,” he says.

Before he became the Blues’ GM, Doug Armstrong worked in Dallas under Bob Gainey, and one of the many lessons he learned from the Hall of Famer applied in the decision to keep Mikkola playing in Finland after he was drafted.

“The feeling was: Until you can play in the World Championships, there’s enough you can develop over there,” Armstrong says. “A lot of organizations see it totally different. They want to get them over to North America as quickly as possible. I personally have no problem leaving a European there until (age) 22-23 and let them just develop in a very comfortable environment.”

Mikkola agreed with the decision.

“I wasn’t ready for the NHL back then, but I was growing up as a player,” he says. “There’s no rush to get there if you’re not ready. So I stayed for a couple of years. I think that was good for me, growing up as a player. … I found more of my game, like my style.”

Growing up, Mikkola had watched skilled Finnish defensemen Teppo Numminen and Kimmo Timonen, along with the likes of Janne Niinimaa and Joni Pitkanen. But he modeled his game more as a sturdy blueliner who liked to defend.

“He has a big frame, and since I’ve known him and played against him, he’s always been willing to go in and battle and lay the body on people,” says Jani Hakanpaa, a Ducks defenseman who played with and against Mikkola in Finland and trains with him in the offseason. “He knows how good he is, and that’s one thing that keeps him going. He always wants to challenge himself and be in your grill out there. He always wants to win and be the best guy out there.”

Koskela remembers a story that demonstrates Mikkola’s competitiveness. It was Mikkola’s second full season playing in the Elite League, and he was eyeing a more prominent role on the team.

“The coach (Pekka Virta) told me that he interviewed Niko and he asked, ‘What’s your goal for the upcoming season?’ and Niko told him, ‘To play in the top six,’” Koskela says. “They had a really good D that year, and the coach told him, ‘OK, this is the list. Who is the guy that you are going to push out from the lineup?’ Niko’s answer was, ‘That’s your problem, but I’m going to be one of those six who’s going to play.’ And he did it.”

“Just be confident and trust myself,” Mikkola says. “I knew I’m going to take that spot on the team. Yeah, I took that top-six spot.”

Niko Mikkola participates in a Blues’ camp in 2017. (Photo: Scott Rovak / St. Louis Blues.)

The Blues would get glimpses of Mikkola’s ability when he visited St. Louis for development camps, rookie tournaments and one training camp.

“The first thing you notice is his size,” Doug Armstrong says. “He’s got great reach, good size. And then you watch him play, and he’s competitive. He was raw at that time, but he is a very competitive person. You either have that or you don’t have that, and he had that right from the get-go.”

For the first time, Mikkola was measuring himself against future NHL players.

“I felt pretty good at that time,” he says. “I just knew that it was my goal to get here someday.”

After one final season in Finland, Mikkola came to North America in 2018-19, making the transition to a new country, new language and smaller rink in San Antonio, Texas, where the Blues’ AHL affiliate played at the time.

Everything translated.

In 70 games, Mikkola had just two goals and nine points, but his defensive play was impressive.

“You don’t have that much time on the puck, so that was the thing maybe took a little time, to move the puck quicker than back in Finland,” he says. “The Blues said that, and I felt that myself. But it was getting better.”

Doug Armstrong remembers the minor-league reports on Mikkola.

“It just re-enforced what you saw his first time: that high level of competitiveness — sort of a North American stature to his game,” he says. “He was willing to play on the edge. He fought. He did the things that aren’t common in European hockey. Then the rougher edges started to get smoothed out. His passing became accurate, quicker, harder. His reading the first play was becoming natural to him and just keeping the game in front of him.”

The World Championship was in Slovakia the next season, and when Jere Lehtinen, a former NHL player who is Finland’s national team GM, reached out to Armstrong. The two were in Dallas together.

“Jere said, ‘We don’t really have him on our radar screen,’ and I just said, ‘Well, he’s played really good in the American League this year,’” Armstrong recalls. “So they brought him in, but he had to go there not knowing if he was going to make the team.”

Jukka Jalonen, the coach of the national team that year, already knew Mikkola, having coached him in 2015 at a U20 international tournament.

“He made an impression for me, but back then, he didn’t have great puck skills,” Jalonen says. “He wasn’t that major, to be honest with you, because he was a younger guy. (But) we hadn’t seen him so much lately because he had played for AHL team. I thought we will need size on our roster in the World Championships. (Lehtinen) was also very positive watching him play on TV from videos.

“When he came in, right away we noticed that he will make the team.”

The configuration of the World Championship lineup is a little bit different because teams play as many as 10 games in 17 days, so they dress eight defensemen. Mikkola was in the second pair, logging about 14 to 16 minutes per game, which included time on the penalty kill.

In that tournament, which features many NHL players whose clubs aren’t in the playoffs, Finland ran into some serious offensive talent. Sweden, whom the Finns edged 5-4 in overtime in the quarterfinals, had Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson and Toronto’s William Nylander.

“I remember that first faceoff in overtime,” Mikkola says. “It was like Nylander, Pettersson and like (Oliver) Ekman-Larsson. Yeah, I was like, ‘Oh fuck. I have to skate hard.’ But it went pretty well.”

Finland advanced to play Russia, which had Washington’s Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov and Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin, in the semifinals, and blanked them, 1-0.

“Just looking back at the last minutes of the game, (Mikkola) did a good job of handling them,” says Hakanpaa, who was also on the team. “He doesn’t care who’s coming at him, if it’s Ovechkin or Malkin.”

Niko Mikkola defends fellow NHL rookie Kirill Kaprizov at the World Championship in 2019. (Photo: Robert Hradil / Getty Images.)

Finland won the gold-medal game 3-1 over Canada, which was led by Vegas’ Mark Stone and Philadelphia’s Sean Couturier.

Mikkola finished the tournament with two goals and five points in 10 games and was a plus-3.

“He did exactly what we wanted or imagined,” Jalonen says. “He didn’t play the power play, but still he had five points, which was very good. … I remember him defending against very good NHL players. He’s a little bit like a horse. He’s in very good physical condition, and he battled all night long.”

“I played pretty good,” Mikkola says. “It was kind of a breakout, for sure.”

Back in San Antonio in December 2019, Mikkola was anticipating a visit from Linnainmaa and her boyfriend (now husband), spending a few days together for Christmas. But with the couple’s flight laying over in Chicago, Mikkola was called up by the Blues. So they rented a car and made the five-hour drive to St. Louis.

“We wanted to make sure that when we were in the United States, we will get to see Niko at whatever costs,” Linnainmaa says.

Unfortunately, Mikkola didn’t play that night, but he did skate in the warmups.

“We made these really big placards, saying, ‘Niko’ and ‘Mikkola,’” Linnainmaa says. “There were like three times that the security personnel were stopping us saying, ‘Why do you have those kind of fan posters?’ They were OK because they were only ‘Niko Mikkola.’ So we went to really near the ice hockey rink, hanging our cards there. I think that I got noticed by the team.”

Nina Linnainmaa and her boyfriend show support for Linnainmaa’s younger brother, Blues defenseman Niko Mikkola. (Photo: Nina Linnainmaa)

Mikkola, who beforehand begged them not to embarrass him, doesn’t believe any players saw it.

“But our equipment guy noticed and asked me if I had family here,” he says. “I was like, ‘Yeah, my sister and her boyfriend.”

Shortly after, Mikkola was re-assigned to San Antonio, and they got their holiday time.

His sister had returned to Finland by the time he was recalled again and made his NHL debut against the Sharks on Jan. 6, 2020.

“The first game, we had to watch. That was huge!” Linnainmaa says. “Niko texted us that he will play on that night. So, yeah, we spent 30 Euros ($35) to get to see the game. I think he was excited, but sometimes it’s hard to tell because he doesn’t like scream or anything. He just says, ‘OK, I will play tonight in my first NHL game.’ You know he’s excited, but he’s really casual.”

“I know it’s a big deal, and those are big moments,” Mikkola says. “For sure I was a little bit nervous, but that was a very exciting day.”

He remained on the Blues’ roster for five games, averaging 14:22 of ice time. He was impressive enough that two weeks later the team signed him to a two-year, $1.6 million contract. It’s a one-way deal, meaning he’ll be paid an NHL salary even if he’s assigned to the minors.

“I give him credit. We’ve obviously given him a one-way contract because we think he can play in the league,” Doug Armstrong says. “When he’s in there, he’s proven he can play in the league. It’s just a matter of a consistent opportunity.”

In 16 games this season, Mikkola is averaging 13:17 of ice time, and that elusive first goal came Monday.

“He’s done a great job of kind of doing what’s been asked of him,” Blues defenseman Justin Faulk says. “He’s open to everything. He listens. He works hard. And as a young guy, if you continue to do that, it generally makes your job a bit easier. You start to settle in and get more comfortable. He hasn’t played a ton of games, but he’s going to have an opportunity here to kind of cement his spot in the lineup and show what he can do. We all think he’s capable of kind of taking the reins and stepping up.”

In addition to now being a regular in the NHL, Jalonen says, “I’m sure he’ll be fighting for a spot on the national team for the (2021) Olympics. He has a chance to be involved, for sure.”

Linnainmaa can’t fathom the opportunities her brother is creating for himself.

“It’s hard to believe because there are so many people that dream of it,” she says. “But on the other hand, he has always been really hardworking and diligent and responsible person. So, in a way, he had the qualities to make it.”

“Niko has done the work,” Koskela says. “I was the first guy who saw him play, but keep the credit for Niko.”

Don’t talk about credit with Mikkola, though.

“I don’t think about it like ‘I made it,’” he says. “I’m still on the way, and there’s still things I want to do to be better.”

And whenever his hockey career ends, there will always be an opportunity to drive the garbage truck.

“Yeah, usually you don’t play ice hockey when you’re 60, so you still have some good years after the career,” Linnainmaa says.

“He can do that when he’s retired from the first part,” Doug Armstrong adds.

“That’s true,” Mikkola says.

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When Donald Trump flew to Pennsylvania for a 9/11 anniversary event this week, he brought an unusual companion: a 9/11 conspiracist named Laura Loomer. Loomer has been a quasi-journalist on the fringe right for about a decade, with a penchant for saying things that make even hardened MAGA types recoil. She is a self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has cheered the deaths of migrants and called for Muslims to be banned from driving for ride-hail apps. She ran for Congress twice, in 2020 and 2022, and failed both times. More recently, Loomer has called Kamala Harris a “drug-using prostitute” and warned that, if she wins, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center.” Despite all of this, Trump has long displayed a soft spot for Loomer. He endorsed her House bid in 2020 and, in 2023, tried to offer her a spot on his campaign — only to back down after aides revolted. Undeterred, he hosted her at Mar-a-Lago afterward, repeatedly boosted her content on Truth Social, and traveled with her on the 2024 campaign trail.

It’s not clear what Trump gets out of this relationship. But his ties to Loomer have become a major controversy since the 9/11 event, with some of the former president’s closest allies speaking publicly against Loomer. “The history of this person is just really toxic,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the HuffPost. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — who claimed a Jewish family was using space lasers to start wildfires! — thinks Loomer is a bridge too far, calling Loomer’s tweet about Harris and curry “appalling and extremely racist.” (Loomer responded by accusing Greene of sleeping with a “Zangief cosplayer.”) It’s hard to take these condemnations all that seriously. Trump and his vice presidential pick have spent this week pushing a nasty conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating people’s pets that appears to have inspired real-world hate crimes. If you’re worried about racism and conspiracy theorizing, maybe take a look at the top of the ticket. But what makes Loomer different from Trump is that she has literally no filter. She says the quiet part out loud, every single time. The more time Trump spends with her, the harder it is to deny that his thinly veiled bigotry is anything but the genuine article. And that, for the Republican Party, is a very big problem indeed.

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Loomer isn’t a household name for most Americans, but she’s been a presence in the conservative media ecosystem for quite some time. She first attracted attention in 2015 when, as a college senior at Barry University in South Florida, she secretly filmed a meeting with administrators in which she attempted to form a campus club supporting ISIS. The video was released by Project Veritas, the conservative group that specializes in (questionably edited) sting videos. Loomer worked for Project Veritas during the 2016 presidential campaign and learned to build a career out of political stunts. She grabbed the national spotlight in June 2017 when she stormed the stage at a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in New York that dressed the Roman general like Donald Trump. The disruption earned Loomer a booking on Sean Hannity’s show.

“You were making a very strong point. I applaud you for what you’ve done,” Hannity told her. Loomer parlayed the notoriety from the Julius Caesar incident into a kind of internet celebrity on the pro-Trump right. The problem with celebrity, though, is that it can give you too many opportunities to show yourself. And Loomer proved to be someone with truly out-there opinions. After an ISIS supporter killed eight people with a truck in November 2017, she went on an Islamophobic rant on Twitter, blaming popular ride-hailing apps for employing Muslim drivers. “Someone needs to create a non Islamic form of Uber or Lyft because I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver,” she wrote. The two services subsequently banned her, the first of many bans from high-profile tech platforms.

[...] This particular cocktail of hate speech and conspiracy theory misinformation became the hallmark of Loomer’s political style, prompting bans from major social media platforms. The straw that broke the camel’s back on Twitter, for example, came in November 2018 when Loomer tweeted that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) supported female genital mutilation because she is Muslim. In response to the ban, which came a year after Twitter stripped her blue check mark (then something given to notable people rather than a badge to be purchased) as punishment for similar false and offensive claims, Loomer physically chained herself to Twitter’s headquarters in New York while wearing a Nazi-style yellow star. It’s worth noting here that Loomer is Jewish but has long had tight links to the white nationalist movement. She is, for example, close with the avowed anti-Semite Nick Fuentes who dined with Trump in 2022, and once broadly boasted that “I’m going to fight for white people.”

Presenting herself as a victim of Big Tech censorship, she found allies in popular far-right publications like Breitbart as well as in Washington. In December 2019, then-President Trump retweeted a Loomer supporter calling for donations to her campaign. In May 2020, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) sent a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr calling on him to open an investigation into Loomer’s Facebook ban. She was reinstated on Twitter after Elon Musk’s purchase of the site.

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Why Laura Loomer matters

There is a reason that Laura Loomer has even Marjorie Taylor Greene panicking, and it’s not just that the two reportedly have personal beef. It’s that Laura Loomer makes the rest of the Republican Party look terrible. For decades, right-wing flirtation with racism has taken place through dog whistles and coded messages. Ronald Reagan’s attacks on “welfare queens” didn’t involve actual racist slurs but conjured up a mental image for some white voters of a poor lazy Black woman exploiting taxpayer dollars to live comfortably. Liberals would call this rhetoric racism, conservatives would say liberals are just trying to shut down legitimate debate, and round-and-round we went. [...] But after capitulating to Trump, the GOP fell back into its old habits. No matter how outrageous Trump’s rhetoric and even his actions became — from the Muslim ban to family separation — liberal critiques were met with the same kinds of dismissals. Trump’s rhetoric about immigration and crime can’t be racist, they would say; he’s just speaking the language of forgotten Americans left behind by globalization. Liberals, they’d say, are making everything about race when it’s not.

Vox gives an insightful overview into the right-wing MAGA shill that's too toxic for even MTG and virulently anti-Islam hack Laura Loomer.

See Also:

MMFA: Donald Trump and “pro-white nationalism” pundit Laura Loomer: A guide to their relationship

MMFA: Trump amplified Laura Loomer on Truth Social over 20 times in 9 months

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[morganwallenfs]

accidentally dating, chapter one

read the full story here ^^^^

below is chapter one!!!

pairing: anna-marie x morgan wallen

read chapter two on wattpad.....or right here

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"why are you acting surprised that i would cheat on you? i mean, you're always studying something and you never go out and have any fun. you never do anything i want to do because you're always too busy so i went out and found me a girl just as hot who does stuff with me. what's so weird about that?" 

a crazy thing to say to your girlfriend of a year, right? that's what she thought too.

and for a brief moment, that was the only thought that went through her mind. she stood in front of her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend holding her phone out in front of her with a screenshot of him wearing one of his ugly flannel shirts with his arm draped around the shoulder of a blonde woman in a low cut top.

the worst part?

afterthought: the entire situation was a massive train-wreck and no word, not even "worst" could possibly describe this fact.

the blonde woman was one of her sorority sisters.

okay, so maybe not the earth-shattering revelation it once was to anna, but it definitely still stung.

which is why, half an hour later, anna sat with her college roommate and best friend, rachel, scheming. she came up with idea after idea on how to get revenge, albeit mostly unhinged and completely unrealistic.

every so often, she would burst out in tears as she processed the enormity of the night's events as she worked her way through her discovery, their conversation turned argument and the following confession of cheating on her now ex-boyfriend's part.

this led to a wave of anger washing over her and she was once again back to describing, in detail, how she planned for his truck to end up destroyed with the tires slashed carrie underwood-style.

rachel would occasionally reel her back in and ground her, telling her that she was too pretty for this and that she deserved so much better.

this would then loop the conversation back around to how anna planned to ruin his near future.

"how about...instead of cutting his dick off with a kitchen knife, you come with me to see florida georgia line in concert?" rachel questioned her from where she was sitting.

for the last few minutes, anna had been laying on the floor curled into the fetal position trying to relax her stiff body.

rachel was sitting in anna's bed, her legs criss-crossed on her plush, sage green comforter.

"what? i thought you were going with jason?" anna replied, sitting up on her elbows to stare at rachel.

months ago, rachel had scored two tickets to see country music superstar duo florida georgia line in the girls' college town of nashville, tennessee. but that wasn't the reason rachel had bought the tickets. she had eyes for the opening act: morgan wallen. the roommates had watched him audition on The Voice and rachel had rooted for him until he was eventually eliminated.

since then, rachel had been following his career because he was "downright sexy."

she had been planning to take her long-term boyfriend, jason and had been hyping this concert up since she purchased the tickets.

one would think that a little dignity would accompany attending a prim and proper four-year university but deep in her heart, rachel was resigned to the fact that she was just another sorority girl who would "absolutely die" to see her favorite singer in concert.

sure, attending college in nashville definitely had its perks and the unlimited country music was one of them. every friday night, barring work, testing and studying, rachel would grace broadway street and its glorious bars with her presence alongside anna.

but anna wasn't always like that. when she came to college as a freshman, she was strictly focused on studying as she worked towards her pre-medical biology degree.

but five semesters later, vanderbilt university saw her join a sorority and befriend her future roommate, rachel.

rachel's personality was the exact opposite of anna's and she only studied when she absolutely had to. fake id and all, rachel could be found at the bar before she'd ever be caught in the library.

and now the two meshed very well, with rachel being exactly the same and anna meeting her somewhere in the middle.

the pair had lived together for two years with no end in sight.

jason had always been around, and anna was actually quite fond of him. he treated rachel very well and she knew deep down they were going to end up getting married.

but numerous blind dates with jason's friends revealed two things: one, anna's love life was hopeless and two, all of jason's friends were idiots.

"i mean...i was going to take jason, but i feel like this is a best friend-mergency. i just know this will make you feel better. he'll understand. besides, morgan is a girls night." rachel nodded her head at her friend, silently promising it was okay for anna to agree to take jason's ticket.

"okay, if you're sure..." anna replied, still feeling the turmoil deep inside her.

[brokehorrorfan]

Paramount Scares: Volume One will be released on October 24 via Paramount. The 4K Ultra HD box set collects Rosemary's Baby, Pet Sematary, Crawl, Smile, and a mystery fifth title making its 4K UHD debut.

1968's Rosemary's Baby is written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on Ira Levin’s 1967 novel. Mia Farrow stars with John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, and Ralph Bellamy.

1989's Pet Sematary is based on the 1983 novel by Stephen King, who also penned the script. Mary Lambert (Urban Legends: Bloody Mary) directs. Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, and Miko Hughes star.

2019's Crawl is directed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, High Tension) and written by Michael & Shawn Rasmussen (The Ward). Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper star. Sam Raimi produces.

2022's Smile marks the feature debut of writer-director Parker Finn, based on his 2020 short film Laura Hasn’t Slept. Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, Kal Penn, and Rob Morgan star.

The limited edition set comes with an special issue of Fangoria magazine, Paramount Scares enamel pin, sticker sheet, and exclusive slipcovers for all five films. Special features are listed below.

Rosemary's Baby special features:

Rosemary’s Baby: A Retrospective

Mia and Roman

Theatrical trailer 50th anniversary trailer

Like most first-time mothers, Rosemary experiences confusion and fear. Her husband, an ambitious but unsuccessful actor, makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward.

Pet Sematary special features:

Audio commentary by director Mary Lambert

Interview with Mary Lambert

Fear and Remembrance

Stephen King Territory

The Characters

Filming the Horror

3 image galleries: storyboards (with introduction by Mary Lambert), behind the scenes, marketing

Dr. Louis Creed, having just moved to Maine with his wife and two children, is heartbroken when he finds that his daughter’s beloved cat has been hit by a truck and killed. Thankfully, a strange, elderly neighbor called Jud knows a secret that may spare the young girl’s tears. He takes the dead cat to an ancient Indian burial ground that lies hidden in the surrounding hilltops; and when he buries the feline there, it comes back to life a few days later. But Louis can’t be trusted with the secret, and, despite strong warnings that something horrible will happen, he uses the power of the burial ground to bring his son back from the dead.

Crawl special features:

Beneath Crawl featurette

Category 5 Gators: The VFX of Crawl featurette

Alligator Attacks

Alternate opening

Introduction to alternate opening

Deleted and extended scenes

As a category 5 hurricane tears through Florida, Haley rushes to find her father, who is injured and trapped in the crawl space of their home. The storm intensifies and water levels rise, just as the pair face an even more terrifying threat—alligators lurking below the surface, ready to chop.

Smile special features:

Audio commentary by writer-director Parker Finn

Laura Hasn’t Slept - Original short film with introduction by director Parker Finn

Something’s Wrong with Rose: Making Smile

Flies on the Wall: Inside the Score featurette

Deleted scenes with optional commentary by director Parker Finn

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

Pre-order Paramount Scares: Volume One.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Kamala/ James Arthur Harris

James Arthur “Kamala” Harris was a professional wrestler best known for his professional wrestling persona, Kamala, a fictional Ugandan giant. Harris was born on May 28, 1950, to Jessie Harris and Betsy Mosely in Senatobia, Mississippi. He had four sisters as well. Harris grew up in Coldwater, Mississippi where his family owned a furniture store. When he was four years old, his father was murdered after a dice game. Growing up, he worked as a sharecropper to help provide for the family. Harris dropout out of high school in the ninth grade and became a burglar.

In 1967, on the advice of police, Harris left Mississippi and moved to Florida where he worked a truck driver and fruit picker. He next moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan where he met a professional wrestler Bobo Brazil who became his trainer. In 1978, Harris made his professional wrestling debut as “Sugar Bear” Harris. One year later, in 1979 he won his first professional wrestling championship in the National Wrestling Association (NWA) Tri-State Tag Team competition with wrestler Oki Shikina. In 1980 he joined Southeastern Championship Wrestling as “Bad News” Harris and later that year won its championship. In 1982, Harris joined the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) after being offer by a job by promoter Jerry O’Neal “The King” Lawler.

While wrestling for CWA, Lawler and another wrestling promoter, Jerry Winston Jarret, created a new wrestling character for Harris. This character, named Kamala, was a stereotypical Ugandan headhunter with face and body painting who was supposed to be the bodyguard of former President of Uganda Idi Amin. Harris then joined Mid-South Wrestling owned by promoter William Harris and remained with the organization until 1986.

Harris wrestled with other wrestling organizations during his career including World Class Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE), and World Championship Wrestling before retiring in 2010 at the age of 60.

Despite his long successful wrestling career, Harris had numerous personal and health related issues. In 2011, had his left leg amputated below the knee due to complications from high blood pressure and diabetes. A year later, his right leg was also amputated below the knee. As a result of the amputations, a charity fund was set up to help with his financial needs.

In 2016, Harris was part of a class action lawsuit filed against World Wrestling Entertainment claiming that wrestlers received traumatic brain injuries during their time with WWE. Unfortunately for Harris and other wrestlers, the lawsuit was dismissed by Judge Vanessa Lynne Bryant in 2018.

Harris was married twice during his lifetime, first to Clara Freeman. That marriage ended in divorce. He later married Emmer Jean Bradley and that marriage lasted until his death. He was also father six children, five daughters and one son.

In 2017, Harris underwent lifesaving emergency surgery to clear fluid from around his heart and lungs. His health problems continued. He was hospitalized on August 5, 2020, after testing positive from COVID-19 during the pandemic in Mississippi. Four days later, on August 9, Harris died from complications from diabetes and COVID-19 in Oxford, Mississippi. He was 70.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/kamala-james-arthur-harris-1950-2020/

[strawberryblondebutch]

Sports ask: 20

20. what's a narrative you can go on and on about?

I let this one percolate for a couple days because most of the narratives I like haven't come full circle yet. But the 76ers season starts today, so let's talk about Joel Embiid.

Joel was born in Yaounde, Cameroon, and he wanted to play soccer professionally. Then he thought maybe volleyball would be better. But he was a giant (his current listed height is 7'0", I think he's probably closer to 7'2"), and when you're that tall, everyone wants you to play basketball. His dad didn't approve at first, and so Jo didn't pick up a basketball until he was 15. In this era of the NBA, that's basically unheard of. Gone are the days of practicing at a pickup court until you're passable. You have private lessons at 8, and by 15, colleges have started to court you.

Three months after picking up a basketball, Jo gets an invitation to a b-ball academy in Florida. He gets this invitation solely because he's seven feet tall. He'll be the first person to tell you about it. The adjustment period took a toll on him. His classmates had been doing this for years. Jo spends every night in the gym, trying to figure out how to get better.

How did it happen?

I kid you not. This man opened up YouTube and searched "white people shooting 3 pointers". That was his version of watching tape. And the crazier part? It worked.

No one gets more shit in the NBA than Embiid. I'll say it. It's a league of trash talking and somehow he's always on the end of racist bullshit about his appearance. They whine about how he flops (doctors told him to fall backwards to preserve what's left of his knees). You could argue pretty solidly that Sixers ownership has tried to sabotage his chances at winning a title every step of the way: his high-caliber teammates have had thoracic outlet syndrome, developed a life-threatening sesame allergy, and quit on the sport. Twice. Right before his NBA career started, his brother was struck and killed by a truck in Cameroon, and he lost his best friend. He could have requested a trade any time, even retired, but he's stuck around Philly, because he cares. Because this is home to him.

The latest reason Jo's gotten shit was because he played for Team USA in the Olympics. His detractors insisted, through sneers, that he just wanted to join a superteam and get an easy win, but Jo really genuinely loves America. He got his citizenship two years ago, calling it a "blessing to be an American". And he endured the cheers from the French, who thought he should have played for their team because hey, no fair! We're the ones who colonized your country, not the Americans!

A guy who picked up a basketball when he was 15 and learned to shoot from watching YouTube is an NBA MVP and an Olympic gold medalist. How cool is that?

Now just get him a championship.

Sports asks!

[gossipontheasphalt]

Top 10 Favorite Drivers in NASCAR History

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the list of my top 10 favorite NASCAR drivers of all time. These are the drivers that I highly prefer, compared to all the other drivers in the history of the sport. This list only has somewhat to do with how good of a driver they were on the track, this is mostly personal bias. I would also like to point out that this is all my personal opinion. I you want to talk about your own favorites, feel free to put your own top 10 down in the comments. With that out of the way, let’s begin.

#10: Ross Chastain

He is probably the youngest driver on this list. Ross Chastain grew up in Florida, as a watermelon farmer, and this is something that he references constantly throughout his career. This guy has a watermelon addiction. In the early days of his career, he did something that was very unconventional, and something that nobody has done since then. He was infamous for competing in nearly every single race, across all three of the top series of NASCAR. The reason why this is rarely ever done is because of how much stress it can put on a driver. Having to concentrate on three different racing series takes a lot of time out of a driver’s schedule. You gotta respect his dedication.

While he truly stood out in the Xfinty series and truck series, his time in the cup series was not very impressive, rarely finishing on the lead lap. In his defense, he wasn’t in the very best equipment. He finally started competing for cup series points in 2021, and started seeing much better results, now that he was driving for a much better team. You can also chalk up his good results to the amount of practice he had, having run several races already. The following season in 2022, was when his career really took off. For the first time, he was able to make the NASCAR cup series playoffs, scoring two wins, and finishing second in the standings.

This was also the season, where he infamously pissed off almost the entire field. There were numerous occasions of him knocking other drivers out of the way, as opposed to passing them cleanly. His wildest moment definitely occurred during the second to last race of the season at Martinsville. He was on the verge of missing the championship four, so he attempted something that by all accounts, should not have worked. He put the car in fifth gear and nailed the gas all the way down on the outside lane. He rode the wall through turns three and four, gaining six positions, and destroying the right side of his car. Due to his background as a watermelon farmer, and the fact that he always smashed a watermelon every time he won a race, this move was dubbed the hail melon.

Because of how dangerous this move was, NASCAR banned this move the following season. Since 2022, Ross Chastain hasn’t been to the championship four, but has won a couple more races, and still consistently finishes in the top 10. It’s unknown what’s going to happen with him next, but it will probably involve several more watermelons getting destroyed. Who knows? He might cause another reason for a rule to be changed at some point.

#9: Robby Gordon

Oh dear, this is a very controversial pick. Forget what I just said about Ross Chastain’s rough driving, this guy was a maniac behind the wheel when he was in NASCAR. He did more than just bump other drivers, he flat out wrecked other drivers. Dude also had a massive temper, constantly getting angry with other drivers, and shouting profanities at them when he felt like they were being dumb. Somethings, he would reach his boiling point and get physical. He also has quite a bit of a history with being in court, having sued numerous companies in the later years of his career. What puts him on this list is something that he did that I think other drivers should do more often. In 2007, Robby Gordon was leading late in the Busch series race at Montreal.

Then, while the race was under caution, second place Marcos Ambrose intentionally spun him out. When Robby Gordon came back onto the track, NASCAR instructed him to restart in thirteenth, despite him having the lead when the caution came out. What made the situation even worse was that despite intentionally spinning out another driver while the field was frozen, Marcos Ambrose was being scored as the race leader. Having put up with a lot of BS in NASCAR already, Robby Gordon refused to listen to NASCAR and drove back up to second place. He would pass Marcos Ambrose on the restart and cross the finish line first.

The driver who crossed the finish line right behind him, Kevin Harvick, was declared the winner. In his post-race interview, Robby Gordon would point out that he was the real race winner, and he is absolutely right. If you are leading at the time of caution, you are therefore the leader on the restart. He did not break any of NASCAR’s rules. This should be the precedent moving forward. If a driver is being penalized for something that isn’t their fault, they should ignore the penalty and keep racing.

#8: Kyle Petty

Kyle Petty is a driver that many people tend to overlook, due to the fact that his father is NASCAR legend, Richard Petty. While his father is considered to be one of the greatest in the history of the sport, Kyle Petty only won eight races throughout his career. But even though he didn’t win that often, Kyle Petty still had really good results, finishing in the top 10 on numerous occasions. There were even a few times where he was a legit championship threat.

The most notable instance was in 1992, when he was one of six drivers in contention for the Winston cup championship, going into the final race of the season, the Hooters 500. That race has been considered a classic since that day, and many fans consider it to be the greatest race in NASCAR history. Kyle Petty is proof that winning alone, is not what ultimately defines a good driver. There are several other factors. He also had a short singing career during the 80’s, and he has proven to be a really good singer. Also, am I the only one who thinks he looks a little bit like Snoop Dog? Specifically, the glasses and the ponytail.

#7: Morgan Shepherd

This is another case of a driver constantly that has had really good points finishes, but not a lot of wins. Morgan Shepherd had one of the longest careers in the history of professional sports, starting in 1970, and retiring in 2019. He is also probably the number one driver in the history of the sport, when it comes to loyalty to God. Before he started his racing career, he did some questionable things and went through several divorces. Now he has completely turned his life around and has a wife that he has been married to for decades.

He is probably the most polite driver in the history of the sport, rarely ever having anything bad to say about his fellow racers. Something else that he was known for was occasionally roller skating up and down pit road before the race. The reason for this is actually interesting. He said himself that he was a terrible dancer, so he skated instead. One time, as he was skating outside of a grocery store, he was successfully able to chase down a shoplifter and tackle him.

You have to admire that kind of bravery. He had no idea if that man was armed or not, but still went after him.

#6: Jeff Gordon

This guy is one of NASCAR’s greatest legends. His cup series career actually started, with the very famous 1992 Hooters 500. At the time, nobody could have known that he would become one of the sport’s biggest icons. Over his 23 seasons of competing, he was successfully able to get 93 race wins, and four cup championships. When he first started off in the 90’s, he had a massive rivalry with another NASCAR legend, Dale Earnhardt. Once Jeff Gordon started dominating, Earnhardt wasn’t winning as much as he used to.

Fans in the 90’s who had Earnhardt as a favorite driver, couldn’t stand Jeff Gordon. The same could also be said about fans of Earnhardt’s son, Dale Earnhardt Junior. In 2004, Jeff Gordon won at Talladega with Junior finishing second, and several fans in the stands began throwing beer cans at him during his victory burnouts. He also holds the record for most consecutive races competed in, 788.

Even in his later years, he was still running up front and winning races, finishing third in the final standings in his final year. Now he is the second in command of Hendrick motorsports and will take on full ownership of the team when team owner Rick Hendrick steps down or passes away.

#5: Kyle Busch

There was a point where Kyle Busch was probably the most hated driver in NASCAR. Early in his career, he was a massive hot head. While it wasn’t to the lengths that Robby Gordon went to, Kyle Busch was not afraid to be aggressive out on the track. If he wasn’t happy with someone, he wasn’t afraid to call them out on their bullcrap. It wasn’t just the other drivers he was critical of, he also constantly got annoyed with the officials. One time, he actually got in trouble for flipping one off. In recent years, Kyle has actually calmed down a bit and isn’t getting as booed as much as he used to. Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that he can drive.

He currently holds the record for most consecutive seasons with at least one win. Back in 2015, he pulled off what was arguably the greatest comeback in NASCAR history. Before the Sprint cup series season even started that year, Kyle Busch would break both legs after crashing in the season opening Xfinity race at Daytona. After several weeks of healing, he would return to the track after missing the first 11 races of the season.

In sports, most athletes tend to underperform after coming back from an injury. Kyle Busch did the exact opposite and went on to win the championship that year. He was also the first driver I ever started rooting for. The first NASCAR race I ever watched was the final race of the 2015 season. Kyle Busch won that race along with the championship, and he’s been one of my favorites ever since.

#4: Dale Earnhardt

We have yet another driver, who is known for being quite aggressive on the track. Without Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR probably wouldn’t be as popular as it is today. It all started during his rookie season in 1979, when Dale got his first win at Bristol. What’s interesting is that this happened on April Fool’s Day. Since then, he would go on to win 75 more races, and a record tying 7 cup series championships.

He got his success by not hesitating to make moves that nobody else would even take time to think about. Making the slightest contact with him out on the racetrack was a huge mistake, as Earnhardt would be ready to quickly pay that driver back. He also couldn’t stand restrictor plates, which is ironic because Earnhardt had probably more success than anyone else at the drafting tracks. He was a master of the draft, and people claim that he could see the air. Unfortunately, it would be a drafting track that would end his career. On the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt would crash into the outside concrete wall in turn four.

He was launched forward, and his face bashed into the steering wheel, which resulted in him dying instantly. This was arguably considered the saddest moment in the history of the sport. Since this incident, NASCAR has made several changes in an effort to make the cars safer. Since this accident, there has not been another fatality within the top three series of the sport. As of 2024, this is the longest amount of time NASCAR has gone without a driver dying. While Dale Earnhardt may be gone, his legacy will never be forgotten, and he will always be remembered as one of the greatest drivers in the history of racing.

#3: Cale Yarborough

Cale Yarborough recently just passed away late last year, but nobody will ever forget his legacy.  Yarborough began racing at a time when NASCAR wasn’t as safe as it is now. He was considered to be one of the tougher drivers in the sport, overcoming several obstacles that were thrown at him throughout his career.

His 83 career wins put him sixth on NASCAR’s all time wins list. He’s also infamous for being the first driver in the history of the sport, to win 3 consecutive cup championships. And of course, nobody will ever forget the infamous finish of the 1979 Daytona 500. On the final lap of the race, Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison were battling for the lead. Then the two slammed into each other and crashed head on into the wall. They slid down the track and came to a complete stop in the infield. Third place Richard Petty, who was far behind those guys when the accident happened, ended up passing them and winning the race.

Once Yarborough and Allison got out of their cars, all hell broke loose, as the two began throwing punches at each other. I would like to point out, that this was the first time a NASCAR race was broadcasted on tv, from the beginning of the race to the end. What a way to start a legacy.

#2: Darrell Waltrip

Darrell Waltrip was very similar to Cale Yarborough, also having three cup championships. He has Yarborough beaten in the wins category though, having won one more race than him. Waltrip is another one of those drivers who started off as one of the most hated due to having an attitude problem, but eventually calmed down and became one of the sports most loved.

After retiring from NASCAR after the 2000 season, he would then transition over to the booth, where he would be one of the most iconic broadcasters in the sports history. D.W always had the most energy in the booth, and had a tendency to say things that were absolutely hilarious. Before every single race, he would shout this at the top of his lungs. “BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY, LET’S GO RACING BOYS!!!” He didn’t have to become a broadcaster after he retired from driving, he could have been a really good comedian if he wanted to.

I doubt I’ll ever make a list of my top 10 favorite NASCAR broadcasters, but do I really need to say who would take the top spot?

#1: Richard Petty

What can I say about Richard Petty that hasn’t already been said? He is without a doubt the best driver in the history of NASCAR. 200 cup series race wins, 7 championships, 10 wins in a row, 27 wins in one season, this guy set records that will more than likely never be broken. Nearly every time he showed up to the track, there was a high probability of him leaving the track with the trophy. Because of his dominance, he was given the nickname, The King.

Long after his retirement at the end of 1992, he still continues to make frequent appearances at the track, always wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses. Sometimes during the opening pace laps, he can be seen driving around in one of his old cars. He is also very humble and denies the fact that he’s better than everyone else at driving a racecar. Hundreds of years into the future after he is long gone, nobody will forget the impact he had on the sport. “LONG LIVE THE KING!!!”

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ARTICLE: Meet America's Next F1 Hope, Logan Sargeant (Autoweek, 2020)

source: matt weaver, autoweek.com published: february 1st, 2020 series: f3, 2020

He doesn’t view himself as anything more than a racer trying to win races and championships, but Logan Sargeant inherently represents more than himself, as he is also the current best chance the United States has to return an American full time to the Formula 1 grid.

For American racing enthusiasts, the Sargeant name might sound familiar, as the 19-year-old is the younger brother of former NASCAR prospect Dalton Sargeant, who spent several seasons in the ARCA and Truck Series system.

Meanwhile, the youngest racing Sargeant has done nothing but win since moving to Switzerland as a 12-year-old to chase a career at the highest level of international motorsports. Sargeant won the Karting Federation Junior championship in 2015, becoming the first American to win an FIA karting championship since 1978, when Lake Speed earned the honors.

He has victories in the F4 British Championship and Formula Renault.

Sargeant suffered his first significant career setback in 2019, finishing 19th in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Carlin, with just one podium, albeit in the nonpoints prestigious Macau Grand Prix.

There were valid reasons for the adversity, of course, as 2019 was the first season with a new chassis and rules package that allowed for adjustable downforce during practice but one fixed amount during a race.

With three first-year Formula 3 drivers on its roster, Carlin struggled to develop the chassis, and each of them finished outside of the top 15 in the standings.

It was uncharacteristic of Sargeant, who had adapted to everything he had driven up to that point, which makes 2020 all the more interesting as it comes with a return tour of Formula 3, albeit with a change to the championship-winning Prema Racing Team organization.

If Sargeant simply repeats what the three Prema drivers accomplished last year, sweeping the championship’s podium, an American will likely be one step below the highest level of international motorsports in 2021 for the first time since Alexander Rossi made five Formula 1 starts with Marussia.

Get to know Sargeant—an avid fisherman who enjoys returning to his Boca Raton, Florida, home as much as he is able—in this Autoweek exclusive below.

Autoweek: Let's start on the performance side—what went wrong in 2019?

Logan Sargeant: In hindsight, Carlin has had a lot of success over the years, but we really struggled with the new car. We had three rookies on the same team, inexperienced drivers who couldn't lead us in the right direction. A tenth or two makes such a difference. I understand the situation. I'm not saying I wasn't responsible to a degree either. I wasn't satisfied with myself. I have an obligation to help develop the car as much as possible, and we just couldn't figure it out for most of the year.

AW: Do you view last year as a setback or are you still on schedule?

LS: To be perfectly honest with you, I actually feel like we're still ahead of schedule. I just turned 19. We did really well in Formula Renault and made the jump to Formula 3 and now I'm in a really good spot to be with the team (Prema) that won the championship last year.

AW: What's it like to be an American in the F1 ladder system?

LS: I moved to Switzerland when I was 12 and went to a school for Americans so I got used to everything from an early age. Then I moved to London. When you move at such an early age, it's shocking how different everything is, but it's easier to adjust to, as well. I try to go home at least twice a year for a couple of weeks, so that helps. As for the racing side, there is so much quality racing back home between NASCAR, IndyCar and IMSA, and that's the only reason there aren't more of us trying. There is a really good racing culture in the States, so that's the only reason we don't see it more often.

AW: I understand you have a dog back home—how tough is it to have to leave a beloved pet when you return to London? The same thing with friends and family?

LS: It's really tough, especially when you're really attached to a pet, like a dog or cat. She used to live with us in Switzerland, but we had to take her back home because she was getting older. It's the same with your friends, right? I have friends in Europe, but they're all my racing friends. They're really nice to have, but you miss your friends you have back home. It's part of the sacrifice you make to do this.

AW: On that note, you've been in Europe now for almost a decade—does it feel like home when you come back from Florida?

LS: Oh, no. Florida is home. I really enjoy it in London. I came early so I've adjusted, but you only have one home.

AW: Do you allow yourself to entertain racing in the States or do you commit everything to what you're doing now?

LS: I'm fully committed to Formula 1, but I wouldn't have a problem if I ended up with the opportunity to race in IndyCar someday. That would be really exciting. I really enjoy sports car racing, too. It would be really cool to hop into a LMP2 or something one day. I want to race and I'll race anything.

AW: How much American racing are you able to keep up with?

LS: I watch as much racing as I can, period. It's tougher to watch certain races here because of the time difference, but I watch nothing but racing. That's the sport I'm in so I'm studying everything.

AW: Is this a championship-or-bust season for you?

LS: I'd say, to be honest, that I'm aiming for the championship. The goal is to win races and compete for the championship. Last year was tough because I'm so used to being at the front of the team. I'm aware of what Prema did last year. That's what I hope to accomplish, too.

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The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider (1970) Gregg Allman / Robert Kim Payne from: "Idlewild South" (LP) "Midnight Rider" / "Whipping Post"(Single)

Southern Rock

JukeHostUK (left click = play)

Personnel: Gregg Allman: Lead Vocals / Keyboards Duane Allman: Acoustic Guitar / Slide Guitar / Lead Guitar Dickey Betts: Lead Guitar Berry Oakley Bass Jai Johanny Johanson: Drums / Percussion Butch Trucks: Drums / Percussion

Produced by Joel Dorn

Recorded: @ The Capricorn Sound Studio in Macon, Georgia @ The Atlantic South-Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida @ The Regent Sound Studios in New York City, New York February, 1970 - July, 1970

Album Released: on September 23, 1970

Single Released: on March 26, 1971

Capricorn Records Mercury Records (CD Reissues)

Gregg Allman called it "the song I’m most proud of in my career." - Wikipedia

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Indycar Driver Lore

Indycar Driver Lore Masterlist

Marco Michael Andretti

Birthdate: March 13, 1987 Hometown: Nazareth, Pennsylvania Residence: Nazareth, Pennsylvania/Miami, Florida Height/Weight: 5’8”/147 lbs

Rookie Year: 2006

Team: Andretti

Follow him on: Instagram Twitter

Career Stats

2006: Andretti Green Racing - 7th Overall 2007: Andretti Green Racing - 11th Overall 2008: Andretti Green Racing - 7th Overall 2009: Andretti Green Racing - 8th Overall 2010: Andretti Autosport - 8th Overall 2011: Andretti Autosport - 8th Overall (last race, Las Vegas, was abandoned after Dan Wheldon's death) 2012: Andretti Autosport - 16th Overall 2013: Andretti Autosport - 5th Overall 2014: Andretti Autosport - 9th Overall 2015: Andretti Autosport - 9th Overall 2016: Andretti Autosport - 16th Overall 2017: Andretti Autosport - 12th Overall 2018: Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Curb Agajanian - 9th Overall 2019: Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco Andretti & Curb Agajanian - 16th Overall 2020: Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco Andretti & Curb Agajanian - 20th Overall 2021: Andretti Herta-Haupert Autosport w/ Marco Andretti & Curb-Agajanian (Indy 500) - 19th 2022: Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco Andretti and Curb-Agajanian (Indy 500) - 22nd 2023: Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco Andretti and Curb-Agajanian (Indy 500) - 27th

IMSA 2021 Andretti Autosport LMP3 class

SRX 2021 4th Overall 2022 1st Overall 2023 2nd Overall

NASCAR Xfinity Series 2022 Big Machine Racing Team (1 race) Truck Series 2023 Spire Motorsports (3 races) 2024 Roper Racing (1 race) ARCA Menards Series 2024 Cook Racing Technologies (2 races)

The French room is the most prized room at Marco’s house which overlooks the pool and has its own glass-walled shower. -Third-generation driver; grandfather, Mario, won 52 races (including the 1969 Indianapolis 500) and four NTT INDYCAR SERIES championships; father, Michael, won 42 races and one championship. 2022 was his 17th season competing in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES. -Has competed in SRX, American Le Mans Series, the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, 24 Hours of Le Mans and the FIA Formula E Championship. -2006 Indianapolis 500 and NTT INDYCAR SERIES Rookie of the Year -Two-time race winner, six-time pole sitter -Purchased his childhood home in Nazareth, Pa. From his father for $2 Million. -Operates a real estate business. -Planned to compete in the 2020 New York City Marathon before COVID-19 Pandemic canceled the event. -Loves to run. Runs for miles daily. At one point, he was running so much that it became a concern to his friends and it’s rumored that they staged an intervention. -As per family tradition, Marco's first born son will have a first name that starts with M, with Marco as a middle name. -left handed

Iconic/memorable moments The INDYCAR Off-Season with Marco Andretti, James Hinchcliffe, Josef Newgarden and Conor Daly Andretti Autosport Driver Q&A 2013 IZOD Firestone 550 Texas - Marco Andretti - Hand Gesture & The F Bomb IZOD Race to the Party Commercial Marco Andretti Hires Body Double Marco Andretti Hires Body Double - Bloopers Marco Andretti shares his recipe for a Turkey Truffle Burger Andretti IndyCar Drivers Test Their Pit Stop Skills | #AllAndretti | Indy 500 INDYCAR Chronicles: Marco Andretti Marco Andretti wins Camping World SRX Series race at Slinger Speedway | FRAM The Andretti Curse: 2006 Indy 500 Last Laps of the 2006 Indy 500 INDYCAR TEST DRIVE Episode 12: Marco Andretti Marco Andretti's AWESOME car control with slick tires in the rain We All Have A Story: Marco Andretti Trackside 6: Marco Andretti Honda Driver Profiles: Marco Andretti 11 in 11 with Marco Andretti Marco Andretti - Magnaflow (2008) Marco Andretti at Indy This or That with Marco Andretti by Texas Motor Speedway This Is May | Marco Andretti 15 year old Marco The Driven 1.0 | Marco Andretti Marco and Michael Andretti Alexander Rossi on Marco Andretti's Car Name Marco Andretti Is Ready For An Indy 500 Mic Drop | Drivers Eating Donuts U2S: Marco Andretti Interview One hour highlight reel of his career A tour of Marco's house

IndyCar Racer Marco Andretti’s Pennsylvania Palace (article is paywall locked but video is watchable) Gillette Changing Blades Marco Andretti 2008

Most people probably think of Marco as a spoiled rich boy, heir to a family considered to be racing royalty, and in many ways they are not wrong. Fame and fortune have been his from an early age with opportunities available to him that most of us can only dream of. Always somewhat shy and introverted, he was bullied in school for not being like his famous father and grandfather, the first time he felt the pressure of his family name. It wouldn’t be the last.

He began as most drivers do, racing go-karts at a local track at the age of 8. Three years later, his father pulled him out of racing, feeling the that stress and pressure was too much for him. A year later he was back racing at a different track. And winning. And he continued to win as he rose through the junior racing categories. At just barely 19 years old, he began his rookie season in Indycar. His career has been filled with near misses and what could have beens, most of them largely out of Marco’s control. Whispers of unfulfilled potential have plagued him for years.

As if this wasn’t enough angst for one man, tragedy and accidents have stuck some of those closest to him. Dan Weldon’s death devastated him. Dan had been a friend and like a big brother to Marco, looking out for him. A few years later, another terrible crash would force Marco’s honorary uncle Dario Franchitti to retire. And then he nearly lost one of his best friends, James Hinchcliffe. Marco was there when James woke in the hospital and still has the piece of paper James used to ask questions.

Off track, Marco is generous with his friends. His home is almost always open to them. He gave Conor Daly $3k for testing, no strings attached, enabling Conor to land his first Indycar ride. (James Hinchcliffe also contributed.) Conor has referred to something called ‘Wine Wednesdays” at Marco’s house. Caymus is Marco’s favorite brand.

In 2010, Marco purchased his childhood home from his father, first built in 1986. He also bought much of the furniture and décor back from his mother, all things she had received after divorcing Marco’s father in 1996, restoring it to the way it had been when he was a child.

In 2021, Marco transitioned to running only the Indy 500, the race win that had eluded him and his father their entire careers, deciding to focus all his efforts on that one race. This also freed up time for him to pursue other forms of racing. He won the 2022 SRX championship and has run a few NASCAR races.

The Andretti curse – explaining this would take a post all by itself so I will offer these sites to explain. The 'Andretti Curse' Andretti curse

Fanfic Lore

Good friends with James Hinchcliffe, Alexander Rossi and Conor Daly. The four could be considered a 'band of brothers’ and he is often paired with one (or several) of the others of the band.

Also paired with Graham Rahal, as they grew up together in the paddock, both of their fathers racing at the same time. Relationship is antagonistic at times from Graham's side.

To be honest, it might be easier to list who Marco has NOT been paired with. He is sometimes referred to as the ‘paddock bike’. (Because everyone has taken him for a ride.)

Historically paired with Dan Wheldon (sometimes as more of a big brother/little brother relationship), Dario Franchitti, Tony Kanaan, Bryan Herta, sometimes in groups.

Often considered a ‘woobie’ or a character that writers love to abuse.

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Ed and Roy are like Jake and Holt from B99 except only the Florida undercover versions, so "Monster Truck Larry" Jake trying to make "Heterosexual Greg" Holt's life hell by upstaging him in a children's playground Greg has staked his career on, solemnly to piss him off. The fact that they end up working together to take down organized crime(/the government) is purely coincidental.

Al isn't in this scenario because Al decided from the get go he wasn't going to touch this mess with a ten foot pole. And honestly, good for him! He misses out on the ice cream truck coup and the zombie fights but he gets his own mad car chase/car crash out of it, because Al is perfectly capable of making his own, normal friends, thank you very much.

Roy Mustang is not the Elric brothers’ found family father figure hes not anyones father figure. He’s like the manager of a mini golf course which is Ed’s summer job and they hate each other.

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For truck drivers in Florida, passing the Medical Examination for CDL Florida is crucial to ensuring a successful career. This medical examination isn't just another formality; it’s designed to keep you and everyone else safe while you’re behind the wheel of your big rig. Navigating through highways and byways requires not only skill but also sound health.

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Crest At Pinecrest Apartments in Miami, Florida

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Miami, Florida

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Kaseya Center

The Kaseya Center that is located near Miami, Florida is well-known. Many people go there for sightseeing purposes. Kaseya Center, formerly American Airlines Arena, FTX Arena, and Miami-Dade Arena, is a multi-purpose arena located along Biscayne Bay in Miami. Moreover, it is currently named by the company Kaseya. Apart from that, the construction started on February 6, 1998, for Miami Arena's replacement venue. Additionally, the arena is directly served by the Miami Metrorail at Government Center station by means of free transfers to Metromover Omni Loop, providing direct service to Freedom Tower and Park West stations. Have you visited the place before?

Man found dead in truck on Palmetto Expressway after shooting: Police

There are many thought-provoking and shocking news reports in Miami, Florida area at present. One of the stories has something to do with a shooting. Based on the news, it happened before a man was found dead inside a pickup truck on the side of the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade on Monday, according to police. Besides, the discovery was made just after noon on the shoulder of the northbound lanes of the Expressway near Northwest 103rd Street. Then, Florida Highway Patrol officials shared that they received a call of a suspicious silver Ford truck and when troopers arrived, they found the man's body inside. Lastly, his identity hasn't been released.

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