Bubba Wallace Riding High Into Martinsville Speedway NASCAR Cup Series Race After ‘Really Good’ Day

After a modestly disappointing 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season, Bubba Wallace has more than one reason for optimism a half-dozen races into 2025. No, the 23XI Racing driver hasn’t won a race this year. Earning a berth in the playoffs is also far from certain. But Wallace — in his fifth season with the team […]

Jared Turner  •  28 Mar 2025
NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 Entry List: Dates, Event Times At Martinsville Speedway

No doubt, Bubba Wallace entered last weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series event at Homestead-Miami Speedway feeling pressure. Wallace does, in fact, drive for 23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan, the NBA Hall of Famer.  In his opening five outings this season, Wallace registered an average finish of 23rd. The No. 23 Toyota team needed a strong finish and […]

Jeff Hawkins  •  24 Mar 2025
NASCAR Cup Series EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix: Qualifying, Tyler Reddick’s Pole Position, Lineup At COTA

Co-owned by Michael Jordan, 23XI Racing jumped out Saturday to secure both spots of the front row as Tyler Reddick earned the pole position for Sunday’s EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, while teammate Bubba Wallace qualified second at Circuit of The Americas.  Reddick turned a hot lap of 88.095 mph, edging the top-five efforts of Wallace […]

Jeff Hawkins  •  01 Mar 2025
NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 Entry List: Dates, Event Times At Daytona International Speedway

23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan is taking on the NASCAR Cup Series establishing body, challenging the take-it-or-leave-it charter deal. The Huntersville, North Carolina-based garage, along with Front Row Motorsports, were the lone two organizations that did not sign the charter.  Entering 2025, Jordan’s showdown, backed by co-owner and three-time Daytona 500 champion Denny Hamlin, remains […]

Jeff Hawkins  •  10 Feb 2025
4 Drivers With a Scorching-Hot Seat Heading Into NASCAR Cup Series Season

In the weeks leading up to every new NASCAR Cup Series season, optimism abounds among those who will be sharing a race track from February through November. Ask just about any driver this time of year to offer a forecast for the upcoming season, and they’ll claim they’re “excited” about the possibilities. In reality, though, […]

Jared Turner  •  11 Jan 2025
LeBron breaks Michael Jordan’s record for most 30-point games

It’s another night, another record for LeBron James. With just under six minutes to play, the L.A. Lakers superstar hit an 18-foot turnaround fadeaway over the Atlanta Hawks’ Onyeka Okongwu to reach the 30-point mark in a game for the 563rd time in his career. With that, he surpassed Michael Jordan’s 22-year record for most […]

Vivek Jacob  •  04 Jan 2025
‘Not Good Enough’: Bubba Wallace Knows a Repeat of His 2024 Performance in NASCAR Cup Series Won’t Cut It

Off the race track, life was pretty good for Bubba Wallace in 2024. In late September, he became a dad for the first time when his wife, Amanda, give birth to the couple’s first child — a son named Becks. Earlier in the month, 23XI Racing co-owners Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin announced they had […]

Jared Turner  •  24 Dec 2024
NASCAR Cup Series YellaWood 500: Qualifying, Michael McDowell’s Pole Position, Lineup At Talladega Superspeedway

Wonder what the pre-season sports betting odds would have been on driver Michael McDowell earning six pole positions through 31 NASCAR Cup Series races this season?  That would have been an interesting wager, considering he went 466 Cup starts without earning one pole.  For the sixth time this season, McDowell on Saturday earned the right to […]

Jeff Hawkins  •  05 Oct 2024
Former Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko loves the fact that he was ahead of his time

In any conversation about NBA players who were ahead of their time, you won’t go long without hearing the name of Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko. In 2004, if you asked the average person where Kirilenko stood in the league hierarchy, they would probably say that he was in the back end of the top […]

Mat Issa  •  15 Aug 2024