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10. Shinedown/P.O.D./Three Days Grace (Tuesday 7pm 1st Mariner Arena); Dirty Heads/Shiny Toy Guns (Wednesday 8pm Rams Head Live), Wale (Thursday 9pm Rams Head Live); Imagine Dragons (Friday 8pm Fillmore Silver Spring); Matisyahu (Tuesday 8pm Rams Head on Stage); Matchbox Twenty (Monday 8pm Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric); Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers available in stores/on iTunes (Tuesday)

Shinedown is that band you’ve always liked but never fully admitted to it…

I could listen to Wale’s first full record on repeat for like a week straight.

Imagine Dragons not only does one of your favorite songs but also MY favorite song from Madden 13…

I will sign up for ANY amount of more Robert Randolph.

9. Joel McHale (Sunday 7:30pm Towson Center); Eddie Griffin (Friday & Saturday Magooby’s Joke House); “Argo” available on Blu-Ray/DVD (Tuesday); “Snitch” out in theaters (Friday); Baltimore Winter Wine Celebration (Friday-Monday); “The Gathering” (Saturday 3pm The Castle at Keswick Hampden)

I saw Joel McHale after Preakness a few years ago. He was LEGITIMATELY funny. Also there’s this.

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10. Summer Spirit Festival feat. Erykah Badu, Common, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (Saturday 3pm Merriweather Post Pavilion); George Thorogood & The Destroyers (Wednesday 7:30pm Wolf Trap), The Temptations/The Four Tops (Thursday 8pm Wolf Trap); 12 Stones (Sunday 6pm Recher Theatre); Old Crow Medicine Show (Thursday 7pm Friday 8pm 9:30 Club), Our Lady Peace (Saturday 8pm 9:30 Club); Toadies (Tuesday 8pm Fillmore Silver Spring), Ted Nugent (Friday 8pm Fillmore Silver Spring); Dick Dale (Tuesday 7:30pm Birchmere); Daughtry (Wednesday 8pm Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric), Lyle Lovett (Saturday 8pm Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric); Aaron Neville (Sunday 8pm Howard Theatre); Civil Twilight (Friday 8pm Rock & Roll Hotel)

It’s really tough for me to choose whether I enjoy Sharon Jones or the Dap-Kings more…

Do people throw Wagon Wheels at OCMS shows? Should they just be called Old Crow Medicine Shows?

We all know America > Canada, but what do we make of the fact that Our Lady Peace is from Canada???

I’m man enough to admit I’m excited about Daughtry. Are you?

9. Tracy Morgan (Thursday 7:30pm & 10pm Howard Theatre); Jerry Seinfeld (Friday 7pm Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts); John Mulaney (Friday & Saturday DC Improv); “Hatfields & McCoys” available on Blu-Ray/DVD (Tuesday); “Totall Recall” out in theaters (Friday)

Total Recall is about three days away from release. The number three seems to be relevant for some other reason I can’t think of ohyeah…

Oh and also, here’s Tracy Morgan giving birth. Neat!

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10. Infieldfest feat. Maroon 5, Wiz Khalifa, Little Big Town, The Darkness (Saturday 11am Pimlico Race Course); New Edition (Sunday 7pm 1st Mariner Arena); Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys (Friday 6:30pm Merriweather Post Pavilion), Lucinda Williams/Drive-By Truckers (Saturday 6:30pm Merriweather Post Pavilion), Lady Antebellum/Darius Rucker (Sunday 5:30pm Merriweather Post Pavilion); Styx/REO Speedwagon/Ted Nugent (Friday 7pm Jiffy Lube Live); Buckcherry/Foxy Shazam (Thursday 7:30pm Power Plant Live), Mr. Greengenes (Friday 8pm Power Plant Live); 2 Skinnee J’s/All Mighty Senators (Friday 8pm Rams Head Live); Kenny Wayne Shepherd (Tuesday 8pm Rams Head on Stage, Thursday 8pm Howard Theatre); Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (Tuesday 7pm 9:30 Club), SOJA (Friday 7pm Saturday 8pm 9:30 Club); Fishbone (Thursday 7pm State Theatre); Less Than Jake/Ballyhoo! (Friday 8pm Rock N Roll Hotel); Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival feat. Jonny Lang, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Big Head Todd and the Monsters (Saturday & Sunday Sandy Point State Park); Justin Jones & The Driving Rain (Monday 7pm Ottobar); Night of 1000 Dylans (Friday 7:30pm Creative Alliance); Tenacious D “Rize of the Fenix” available in stores/on iTunes (Tuesday)

Totally underrated Black Keys tune? “I Got Mine.” See you at MPP Friday night…

If Maroon 5 promised to not play a song they’ve released in the last 10 years I’d be excited to see them Saturday. But if they did nothing but tunes from “Songs About Jane” I would be in…

If you haven’t seen Darius Rucker play country music, you’re going to have to trust me. He kicks a little ass…

I’m hoping Justin Jones will stop by the studio Monday. He’s quite talented…

9. Brian Regan (Friday & Saturday Warner Theatre); John Henton (Thursday-Saturday Baltimore Comedy Factory); Bobby Slayton (Thursday-Sunday DC Improv); “The Dictator” (Wednesday), “Battleship” and “Crooked Arrows” (Friday) open in theaters; “The Grey” available on Blu-Ray/DVD (Tuesday); Preakness Crab Derby (Thursday 12pm Lexington Market); Preakness Frog Hop (Wednesday 12pm Patterson Park)

Crab races? Okay I guess. MUCH more kickass? PIG races.

And as far as the frog hop goes, I think you already know which frog I’ll be pulling for…

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If you are afraid that you don’t know enough about NASCAR to have a chance, you couldn’t be more wrong. And if you’re afraid that you’re too late in joining to have a realistic shot at the money, wrong again.

Playing is easy, you simply click on the link to enter the contest, register a user name, and you’re in. If you already have a user ID from one of the other WNST fantasy games, you can simply go to the NASCAR page and sign in to begin playing.

Once you’ve registered, simply drag and drop the names of the 10 racers that you predict will finish in the top 10. Even if you don’t know much about racing, surely you’re familiar with 10 drivers. Failing that, you can always simply go with your favorite numbers.

You’ll receive 100 points for every driver that you successfully predict in the top 10, and additional bonus points for picking the exact finish of any driver. And the best part is that the money is going out based on the highest single week score, so signing up today, and finding yourself in the money by Monday is completely realistic.

The race starts tomorrow at 2 pm, so get there now, and get your entry filled out.

For my picks this week, I looked at the field and went with the 10 drivers with the highest average finishes at Sonoma. They were Juan Montoya (3.5), Cint Bowyer (8.0), Jeff Gordon (9.3), Ryan Newman (9.4), Tony Stewart (10), Mark Martin (10.1), Greg Biffle (14), Kyle Busch (15), Elliott Sadler (15.8), and Denny Hamlin (16.3). These are my top 10.

In order to determine the order of finish, I ranked those 10 guys in 4 categories: average finish at Sonoma, average finish on road courses in general, starting position, and place in the current standings. After ranking each driver 1-10 in each of these categories, I added the rankings together, with the lowest numbers first, to determine my finishing order.

Here are my picks, along with their rankings amongst the group in avg. finish at Sonoma, avg. finish on road courses, place in the current points standings and starting position:

1. Tony Stewart (5,2,1,1) = 9

2. Jeff Gordon (3,5,2,3) = 13

3. Ryan Newman (4,3,3,7) = 17

4. Mark Martin (6,6,5,2) = 19

5. Juan Pablo Montoya (1,8,8,5) = 22

6. Kyle Busch (8,1,6,8) = 23

7. Clint Bowyer (2,10,9,6) = 27

8. Greg Biffle (7,7,4,10) = 28

9. Denny Hamlin (10,9,7,4) = 30

10. Elliott Sadler (9,4,10,9) = 32

Feel free to use mine if you like, since I can’t win anyway, or come up with your own picks. Either way, get registered and get in line for this money. The highest single week score is walking away with $1250 in cash, second place is getting $750, and third place is getting $500. It could be you.

Here are the marks to beat if you hope to get into the money:

1^st – Broham’s – 1175 pts.

2^nd – Mervin 901 – 965 pts.

3^rd – WB3GXW – 940 pts.

Good Luck and What Are You Waiting For?

Click Here to Join WNST’s Fantasy Racing Contest

Click Here for the Starting Grid for Tomorrow’s Race

Click Here for Up to Date NASCAR points standings

Peace,

T

(thyrl@wnst.net)

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