As a track promoter, I would love to have someone that could cover the track for the paper and do feature stories every month or so about something behind the scenes. We do it ourselves for our weekly shoppers tabloid and our local paper is fairly cooperative in sending a reporter out to cover a certain angle now and then, but while good folks, they typically don't know enough about racing to get the story to be credible to the racing fan.

Last year I had an email exchange with the Sports editor at one of our nearby cities hoping we could get some occasional articles for MOWA. There was very little interest. High School stick and ball is what they think sells papers.... and that's what the reporters know how to write about.

I've had a very tough time getting the daily newspaper very interested at the stories at the race track. That's why we write them ourselves for our shoppers tabloid and why this season we are doing our own Tabloid/Program to distribute at the track and have laying around in restaurants and waiting rooms in the area.

If anybody around Jacksonville/Springfield Illinois can write and knows racing... don't be a stranger.