Just for laughs, Dirk gets the race started
"I think the drinking part has been overstated."
Texas Motor Speedway general manager Eddie Gossage had a good idea for a joke at a news conference to introduce Dirk Nowitzki. But the joke was close to the truth.
Gossage thought it would be funny to introduce the Mavericks forward, who gave the start-engine command at Sunday's Dickies 500, as 'one of America's great comedians,' and then say, 'Oops, wrong card.'
He got a laugh, but Nowitzki made him look good. Dirk sounded a lot like a good comedian.
Looking at the reporters -- some working, some not -- assembled in the infield media center as he took a question from Gossage, Nowitzki said, 'Half of them are not paying attention. What are they doing? Are they writing already?' Read more