Sports Quick Hits: October 6th, 2021
🏁NASCAR: With his win at the YellaWood 500 on Monday, Bubba Wallace became the second Black driver — after Wendell Scott in 1963 — to win a NASCAR Cup Series race. And to celebrate the historic moment, Wallace had his very best boy, Asher, join him for pictures. S’cute.
🏀NBA: Preseason is underway — shoutout to the Toronto Raptors, who finally made it home after 19 months and won their first game — but the Brooklyn Nets are without a key player to start. The unvaccinated Kyrie Irving can’t practice with the team due to NY’s strict gathering rules and could lose millions if he doesn’t smarten up.
- Despite that, the annual NBA general managers survey predicts the Nets will win the championship, and Irving’s teammate Kevin Durant is already a favorite for the real MVP.
🏈NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars new head coach Urban Meyer is in trouble. After losing again on Sunday, Meyer was caught on video getting disgustingly close with a woman who is not his wife in a bar.
- Meyer canceled a team meeting on Monday (apparently too embarrassed to face his players), and Jags owner Shad Khan said Meyer has a lot of work to do to gain the team’s trust back. Just...no.
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