A TV 'Superman' hangs it up

By Mike Mulhern
mikemulhern.net

   DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
   For some John Daly has been, for the past two years, one of the most powerful men in NASCAR.
   Never heard of him?
   Well, you haven't been reading his blog http://dalyplanet.blogspot.com/
   But you'd better believe those TV moguls up in New York and out in Los Angeles have.
   Daly has been a hard-hitting, sometimes ruthless, TV critic on the NASCAR scene, with exceptionally well-written and researched articles over the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Indeed, it's hard to figure out how one man could find so much time to sit in front a TV set and take such copious notes, without it being his fulltime job.
   Now, for some, Daly's dry sense of humor may have gone right over their heads.
   But usually he was dead-solid perfect in tagging them and bagging them. When he named names, it was often brutal.
   However now he's decided to call it quits. Daly just announced Wednesday's filing will be the final one for The Daly Planet.
   A new job apparently beckons.
   Some in TV-land may breathe a sigh of relief.
   But out here in NASCAR-world this will be a voice sorely missed.
   After all, somebody has to keep all these guys straight.