Terry Blount, who spent the last three years covering the Seattle Seahawks's rise to the top of the NFL for ESPN.com, is moving to the PR side as VP of PR and communications for the NHRA, the governing body for drag racing.
Blount is a veteran auto racing reporter and member of the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame who chronicled NASCAR's rise in Texas during the 1990s. He was a sports reporter for the Houston Post, Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News before moving to ESPN in 2006, first to cover auto racing.
For the NHRA, Blount will handle corporate comms., media relations and PR, starting July 30.
He penned "The Blount Report: NASCAR's Overrated and Underrated" in 2009.
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