Perhaps we haven’t given NASCAR enough of a chance. The constant left turns get somewhat annoying, and despite plenty of eye candy on the announcing side, let’s face it – Dale Earnhardt’s dalliance with Marissa Miller might as well have happened in the Mesozoic era. But wait! A NASCAR-driving heroin junkie?

On July 7, 2007, Fike and fiancée Cassandra Davidson were arrested in the parking lot of Kings Island amusement park outside of Cincinnati. Security guards knocked on the window of Fike’s Toyota SUV after realizing that a black sheet was preventing anyone from seeing into the back seat. At first the couple attempted to flee, but a search of the vehicle turned up a haul of drug paraphernalia, including a 100-count box of syringes, bloody napkins and black tar heroin.

What is unclear, and we’d love to have cleared up: Did these two attempt to flee on foot, like that Cleveland Browns player, or by car? Because it makes sense for a guy who drives for a living to be able to shake some Cincinnati rent-a-cops. Either way, athletes and drugs are a spectacular way to catapult your sport into relevance (at least on this blog).

Former truck racer Fike admits using heroin on race days (ESPN)