In the newest edition of ESPN The Magazine our motorsports department page looks at the havoc that Jimmie Johnson's amazing three-peat, soon to be four-peat, has wreaked on the NASCAR media corps.
The idea for the story came from actual conversations that I kept having with my print and television colleagues as we hammered away on our laptops from Bristol to Charlotte to Martinsville, as it became more and more apparent that Johnson was pulling away in the point standings -- again. It was a dilemma we were repeatedly forced to face during our "NASCAR Now" Monday night roundtable show. We didn't want to gush about No. 48 for an hour, but we kind of had no choice.