NBA Hall-of-Famer Michael Jordan and his racing team filed an anti-trust lawsuit with another team against NASCAR in federal court on Wednesday in North Carolina. The suit alleges the stock car league of hindering competition and revenue sharing.
Arguably the best basketball player in history is looking to extend his golden touch to another sport. Michael Jordan has his eyes set on high speed racing.
Despite the obtuse commentary from the "keep politics out of sports" crowd and the MAGA-adjacent, the organization is standing with Wallace.
Wallace sat down with CNN's Don Lemon for an interview, telling the host that the investigation into the alleged noose incident was not a staged event as some conservative pundits and critics assert.
NASCAR's decision to do away with the confederate flag and Wallace's activism has seemingly rubbed some race fans the wrong way. However, Wallace is getting support from NASCAR and other star athletes.
With NASCAR promoting diversity in the sport, standing with Black Americans and banning the Confederate Flag at events, Ciccarelli has apparently seen enough.
Wallace, 26, races for the Richard Petty Motorsports team, and has recently called for a ban of Confederate flags at the tracks.
NASCAR, the unofficial “Southern sport,” is taking a bold stand in the country’s Confederate flag issue as the victims from the Charleston church shooting are still fresh in their graves.
Here’s the best case scenario of a joke becoming a reality. J. Cole trolled listeners with his 2014 Forest Hills Drive closer “Note to Self,” in which he tells a fraudulent story about a conversation he had with Dale Earnhardt Jr.; now the rapper and NASCAR driver cover ESPN Magazine’s 2015 music issue.
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is taking his love of sport from the squared circle to the racetrack. His SMS Audio company will serve as an associate sponsor of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team Swan Racing.
The good ol’ boys at NASCAR may start getting nervous. Yesterday (Oct. 26), Darrell Wallace won the Camping World Truck Race in Martinsville, Virginia and in doing so became just the second Black driver to win a race NASCAR since 1963.