"Then Tony Said to Junior. . ."

Mike Hembree is a newspaper and magazine journalist and an associate editor at Street and Smith's Sports Group. He has covered auto racing for two decades and hasseen more than 600 NASCAR races. He has won numerous national, regional, and state writing and reporting awards, including National First Place in Investigative Reporting from the Associated Press Sports Editors Association. He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association's Writer of the Year Award and has won the Russ Catlin Award for Excellence in Motorsports Journalism twice. In 2008 he was named the winner of the Henry McLemore Award for career achievement in motorsports journalism.He is the author or coauthor of13 books on a variety of subjects, including five on stock-car racing. He lives in Gaffney, North Carolina. Carl Edwards is a NASCAR driver and the 2007 Busch Series champion.