NASCAR is my life for the most part. Right now I work on different cars through the entire year between Late Models, Modifieds, Rolling Thunder Modifieds and Arena Racing USA. My passion is spotting and I hope to one day do that in one of NASCAR's big 3 divisions. But I also am interested in working in the broadcast/promotional side of NASCAR.
I'm a student at Campbell University in my fourth year in the Mass Communications department. I have been published on several websites now including foxsports.com, racerap.com and ucarclash.com. I'm also on Twitter, Mason51. I will also be covering local racing particularly the Langley Speedway Late Model Stock division for www.Race22.com. Also new website I am kicking off to house some of my stuff and some random off-topic ramblings about music, movies, video games, etc. http://pitroadrumblings.blogspot.com/
**Personal Note**
To anyone who edits:
If you don't know about the subject of the article, don't edit it. Odds are you will screw up the message. Also please do not change the article tags, I picked them for a reason. OK I'm done ranting LOL.
And we still have to finish the remaining 207 laps of the rain delayed Myrtle Beach 400 tomorrow for the NASCAR Late Model Stocks
Congrats Ben on a well earned Creature championship. Maybe you can start your own Johnson-like championship reign. Sorry I missed the last few weeks been super...
Kelly Crandall replied…
Would you like to play next year?
Mason Dunn replied…
I don't know yet, not sure what I'll be doing but I'll let you know as...
I hope to be able to go to Langley soon. I haven't been in a few years... I work retail, and in fact my schedule has me working every other Sunday for the next month! Ah well, the Wonderful World of Retail.
However, I was able to obtain some free passes to Langley so perhaps soon!
What if I message you here, through the 'send a message' function that has been recently added to B/R.
Later.
157 days ago
Well, I HAD to become a fan, as I live in Langley [Field} Speedway's "hometown."
Yes, I'm old enough to remember when it was 'Dude Ranch' then "Langley Field Speedway" watching David Pearson and Ned Jarrett winning Grand National [Cup] races there and, of course, when it was still dirt!
157 days ago
Mason,
There is an "Editing Queue" that works pretty well, but sometimes the system doesn't warn editors that someone is already in it (Dabney overwrote my edits because she started editing after me but before I submitted, so my edits weren't there yet). I know the tech people are working on it. It usually does put a warning on the screen that someone else is in there.
Separate from that, part of my shift every day is editing headlines of stories that are on the front page, so I edit previously edited stories all the time. Your headline had "Lifelock" instead of "LifeLock" and it made sense to add "NASCAR" to it because that's a good keyword. Plus, you can make a series out of it and do "NASCAR Studs and Duds" all the time, so I think my edit was worth making even though other people had already been there. While I was there, I noticed that the other editors neglected to implement official B/R formatting, so I did that for you to make it easier to read.
I can't speak to the reasons why three other editors edited the story with certainty. Justin and I are the only staff editors who edited your story...we have a ton of interns, but it's possible the other two aren't even interns. Some people do it for fun or to be helpful. We're also doing a good job of editing every story that's submitted right now, so sometimes there is nothing to edit and our editors will go and find a story on the front page, etc., that could use a brushup.
Hope that clears things up. You are free to undo any change to your story that you don't like, so don't let it annoy you. Some of the best articles on the site that win POTDs will have like 20-30 revisions. Every extra pair of eyes can help.
-Tim
165 days ago
Mason,
I didn't mean to upset you by posting my postponement article on the Prelude To The Dream. I totally forgot you were going to the event, was in the process of ordering the event when it showed up on my TV as postponed. My only intention was to make those on B/R aware of it that I knew would be ordering it and if I had seen Kara's I never would have posted anything.
Just a note with writing the truck series stuff, if no one comments on it, it doesn't stay long on the NASCAR page, but switches over to the truck page. If I saw your rookie article, I would have responded to it sooner and commented that it stayed longer on the NASCAR front page. You did a great job with it, definitely do part two and three, since we'll be seeing a few of these guys in Cup in a couple of years. Just BB when you post them and I'll comment on them so they stay longer on the NASCAR page. it's something that I've had to deal with from when I first started writing about the CWTS and B/R is hit or miss.
Take Care,
Mike
177 days ago
Yes -- unless you write about that, most everything else is going to fall off! ha It's common when there is a breaking news story and/or a race, but a breaking news story involving Earnhardt Jr.? Forget about it! ha
183 days ago
welcome to the creature community mason!!!! from one creature to another good luck!
190 days ago
Mason,
Drop me an e-mail at bbomberger@bleacherreport.com -- the other seven seem OK with the idea of expanding, so if you drop me an e-mail, I'll write a quick story asking those interested in joining to e-mail me or you.
What we'll do is just keep our points and wins the same as they've been and then the other writers could come in at 0 -- fortunately, the top writer only has 2 wins, and a couple of us have no wins, which is all that really matters when the Chase rolls around anyway, so the most anyone is behind would be 20 points, but we have plenty of time to make that up...
191 days ago
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52 days ago