[3] In his first newspaper job in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, he was asked to cover a race at the local Rockingham Speedway.

[1] At the same time, then-startup sports news blog SB Nation was looking for a NASCAR reporter to write for their website.

CEO Jim Bankoff would proceed to hire Gluck, before leaving at the end of 2012 for USA Today.

In a meeting without Gluck, someone held a copy of the article as an example of unneeded and unaffordable negative coverage at the time.

[7][8] In 2017, Gluck would leave USA Today due to "family-related reasons" and would instead start up his own site that was funded by his own readers.