What are they saying?

Yours truly had to attend to internship duties last night and only saw the last twenty laps of Race 2 in the Firestone Twin 275s at Texas Motor Speedway. As such, past protocol dictates that if I do not see a race live, either in person or on TV, I must give you links to coverage from those that did see it:

– AP story from The Dallas Morning News and a pair of stories from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Anthony Andro and Carlos Mendez.

– Here’s last night’s race through the eyes of Curt Cavin from The Indianapolis Star.

– ESPN Dallas has four stories: One from Terry Blount, and two from Richard Durrett on Danica Patrick and potential tweaks to the Texas format for 2012. ESPN.com national writer John Oreovicz also chipped in as well.

– SI.com’s Bruce Martin focuses on the controversial blind draw, while RacinToday.com’s John Sturbin contributes a race recap and USA Today’s Nate Ryan does the same.