Former NASCAR crew chief Larry McReynolds has been a mainstay on the FOX NASCAR broadcast team since the network’s first race, the 2001 Daytona 500, but never has he had an offseason quite like this one. As the official translator between automotive engineers, race teams and crewmembers and the FOX Sports graphic artists in Charlotte […]
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21CF news recap for the week ending June 1, 2018
‘Deadpool 2’ hits box office milestone, James Murdoch at Code Conference, Hotstar leads in India This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes 21CF and Disney setting a special meeting of stockholders in July, “Deadpool 2” passing $500 million at the box office, 21CF CEO James Murdoch at the 2018 […]
FOX NASCAR production team brings family perspective, pride to Memorial Day race weekend at Charlotte
FOX Sports again honors service members who have fallen with ‘FOX Sports Remembers’ during the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday, May 27 An overwhelming sense of national pride, that familiar lump in your throat, even unexpected tears… Anyone who has been to Charlotte Motor Speedway on Memorial Day Weekend knows how emotional it is to witness […]
21CF Chats: FOX Sports host, pit reporter Jamie Little on Daytona 500, Danica Patrick, covering 3 racing series’ season openers
Versatile FOX NASCAR pit reporter Jamie Little shifts into overdrive this weekend at Daytona International Speedway for the 60th running of the Daytona 500, live on FOX on Sunday, Feb. 18 (2:30 p.m. ET) – already her third motor sports season opener of the 2018 racing season. Jamie, covering her fourth “Great American Race” for […]
FOX NASCAR analyst Larry McReynolds and race announcer Mike Joy recount ‘One Hot Night’ 25 years ago at the NASCAR All-Star Race
It wasn’t the race that put NASCAR on the map, but the 1992 Monster Energy All-Star Race (then-The Winston) was the one that truly put it under the lights and in the history books. With pressure mounting on Charlotte Motor Speedway President Humpy Wheeler to maintain the non-points race’s relevance, the innovative promoter pulled off […]
NASCAR champion and FOX NASCAR analyst Kevin Harvick on why he enjoys being a race analyst
NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick, the 2014 NASCAR premier series champion, announced last month that his role as part of the FOX NASCAR broadcast team will increase in 2017, with the pilot of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Ford Fusion serving as a full-race race analyst for eight FOX NASCAR events, beginning with the NASCAR XFINITY Series […]
21CF Chats: Carlos Sanchez, EVP and GM of FOX Deportes, on the first U.S. Spanish-language sports network’s 20th anniversary
On Friday, Nov. 1, 1996, FOX Deportes launched in the U.S., becoming the country’s first Spanish-language sports network. Today, FOX Deportes celebrates its 20th anniversary and endeavors to serve an ever-evolving audience with a changing appetite for sports. To learn about what the milestone means to the network and what the future may hold, I […]
The significance of the Daytona 500 (Sunday, Feb. 21, on FOX), why NASCAR starts the way other sports end
Often called the “Super Bowl of NASCAR,” the Daytona 500, which FOX will broadcast on Sunday, kicks off the NASCAR season with a bang. But the Super Bowl comparison underscores a key difference between NASCAR and other televised sports like the NFL, NBA or MLB, which spend their seasons building toward a grand finale at […]
