Mayfield's credibility grows with stepmom's arrest

[Greg Collard, News Director, WFAE]

As I've said before, I don't dismiss Jeremy Mayfield's insistence that he's never used meth. There are too many problems with NASCAR's drug suspension of the driver. For one, its drug-testing program is a joke. Now, we've learned that NASCAR's star witness – Mayfield's stepmother – was arrested Saturday night when she went to Mayfield's home.

Neighbors called police, reporting that someone was intoxicated and pounding on Mayfield's door.

Arresting officers say Lisa Mayfield was "pretty high" when they took her away.

Of course, it's Lisa Mayfield who filed an affidavit with NASCAR saying she saw Jeremy Mayfield snort meth at least 30 times.

Jeremy Mayfield is adamant that his stepmother is a liar, among other things.

With this arrest of his stepmother, Mayfield's credibility is growing.

[Grady Lee Howard]

Alternative headline: "Driving Improves With Every Hit"

[Grady Lee Howard]

You wisely kept your comment very brief, but couldn't help but inject several judgments inappropriate for a news director. You do not reveal if you are a publicist for NASCAR or Mayfield, but sometimes write like one. Are you an intimate of Mayfield or just a racing fan who refuses to have his illusions popped. Greg, as a newsperson you must realize the sensationalist and inaccurate nature of Charlotte area reporting. I have cautioned you before about the ubiquitous condition of drug use in this society and the pervasiveness of performance-enhancers in what we label "sports." Looking at the mess we call a country, and the inflamed sore we call Charlotte, the odds are that Jeremy Mayfield and his stepmother are both methheads.

You say NASCAR drug testing is Stalinist and a "joke", but you fail to provide details or facts that support such an argument. It might be said that Tour de France drug testing and Olympic drug testing and TSA testing of airline pilots are also "jokes" but such claims do not preclude the need for said testing. Several big time sports commentators have suggested we forget the whole thing (especially in baseball) and settle back to watch a retinue of competing incredible hulks demolish one another just before their hearts explode or cancer consumes their kidneys. Our nuclear families are now so economically hopeless that they accrue debt grooming children for an unlikely pro-sports career. Some resort to HGH and steroids to build up children's bodies, often with help from Dr. Frankensteins. Sports celebrity, with the ruthless contradictions is the sickest kind.

I wonder about you Greg. Were you shot up before T-ball, and was pizza conditional on your big victory? Can you still feel Dad's big hand slapping the back of your head as motivation? Most people are not cut out for what we call "sports" (maybe Michael Vick). Others have no potential for the integrity requisite to delivering the news, and no drug or supplement can fix it. I am sick of a featured blog selection that looks like a really puffed-up business page. Are you leaving those presents in my yard, Greg?