The tallglassofmilk was interviewed by NASCAR.com for their article on the soap opera lives of drivers. Here are excerpts of the story, written by Raygan Swan:
She knows their breakups and their make-ups. She has positioned her blog as the People magazine of NASCAR.
[Denny] Hamlin, who Jen follows with regularity, became blog fodder for his recent split with a long-time high school girlfriend and now his current love interest.
"If that site didn't write it, someone else would've," Hamlin lamented.
McMurray initially embraced the celebrity attention early in his NASCAR career but now prefers his privacy.
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Why the preoccupation with NASCAR drivers' wives and lives?
"Previously, NASCAR drivers weren't considered celebrities and with that status comes a tremendous amount of interest," said Jen, who in 2004 began tracking the pop culture craze inside the sport. "The interest has always been there but there's never been a place where NASCAR fans could get the info."
And the info they are getting, historically, has been taboo, never written about.
In the infancy of the blog, Jen's reach inside NASCAR circles was limited. The blog was hardly mainstream. That was until her blog was linked by another popular blogger, operated by Jade Gurss, public relations representative of Dale Earnhardt Jr., who reveals behind-the-scene tidbits on the sport's most popular driver.
"Once that happened, the entire NASCAR online world found out about it, until then I had flown under the radar," she said.
Tall Glass of Milk touches on an array of topics, but readers beware -- the information is not always accurate or confirmed.
"We call it 'As the Track Turns,'" Jen said. "We discuss which drivers are cheating, which drivers are sharing the same girls and which girls are hanging on to the drivers who don't want to let go of the lifestyle."
The appetite for NASCAR drama and gossip, Jen said, is human nature. Fans want to know anything and everything about their favorite star or athlete, particularly so with young female fans.
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