No, it was something that NASCAR.com did. I happened to catch the
"death" article a minute or two after it had been posted, when I
reloaded the page. When I again reloaded a few minutes later to see if
there was any update, the article was gone...in it's place was the old
"injured" article - but this time with a later timestamp. I was in a
couple of chat rooms at the time, and a number of people saw the same
thing. I don't know why NASCAR.com pulled the article, but I'd suspect
some editor jumped the gun...
DennyK
> I experienced the same thing, except I didn't see the updated page until
> after 7pm est on nascar.com. The reason this happened is that you and I
> were viewing cached pages. I figured that out, cleared my page cache, and
> reloaded the page. Then I was able to see for myself the horrible news that
> to that point I was hoping was just usenet rumor. It wasn't nascar.com's
> fault, it was how our technology works.
> --
> Philip D'Amato
> 00 ZX-6R
> 00 S4
> > Another weird NASCAR.COM tidbit - they were the first to announce his
> death,
> > just after 6:30 EST. I had just gotten home from the store, and I was
> > checking all over the place for news - even NASCAR's front page only said
> > "Earnhardt to Hospital". When I clicked the link, the headline was
> > "Earnhardt fatally injured at Daytona", and mention in the story of
> "massive
> > chest wounds". The time on the story was 6:33 EST.
> > I immediately called my dad (he lives in North Carolina, I'm in
> > Massachusetts) to see if he'd heard. He hadn't, so I went back to the
> > NASCAR site to get the exact wording, and the front page now said
> "Earnhardt
> > Injured". The story now had a headline reading "Earnhardt Injured at
> > Daytona", and the first paragraph was completely changed. This wasn't
> five
> > minutes later.
> > For the next twenty minutes, I hoped that somebody had jumped the gun,
> > gotten it wrong. Then the story started to show up at other sites -
> > Speedvision, ESPN - then on TV on CNN, finally on ESPN as well. Through
> all
> > of this, the NASCAR site continued to only say that he was "injured".
> > I can only imagine that somebody at NASCAR.COM got the news and put the
> > story up, then was told by NASCAR to pull it until after the official
> > announcement, which came at 7:00pm EST. It made for a very surreal
> > half-hour, as I started to wonder if I'd imagined the original story.
> > Sadly, I hadn't. I was never a fan, but I'll miss him all the same.
> > Rick
> > > Nascar.com it seems have no respect for the deceased.
> > > They have a replay of the crash on their website.
> > > I'm speechless.
> > > My thoughts go out to Dale Earnhardt's family & friends.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Adam
