{"id":22064,"date":"2009-10-22T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22064"},"modified":"2009-10-22T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:02:23","slug":"automobile-nascar-thanks-to-bet-push-for-diversity-in-nascar-to-be-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22064","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Thanks to BET, push for diversity in NASCAR to be televised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Max Siegel nearly bought himself a NASCAR team five years ago. Along with partners Reggie White, Ronnie Lott and Eddie DeBartolo, he was within two weeks and a few pen strokes of completing a deal to purchase what was then MB2 Motorsports. But White&#8217;s death in December of 2004 scuttled the deal. &#8220;Reggie was my best friend, man. He married my wife and I,&#8221; Siegel said. &#8220;It was amazing to see him the last few days of his life so excited about something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even though the deal didn&#8217;t happen, Siegel remained &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/brant_james\/10\/21\/diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Siegel nearly bought himself a NASCAR team five years ago. Along with partners Reggie White, Ronnie Lott and Eddie DeBartolo, he was within two weeks and a few pen strokes of completing a deal to purchase what was then MB2 Motorsports. But White&#8217;s death in December of 2004 scuttled the deal. &#8220;Reggie was my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22065,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064\/revisions\/22065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}