How NBA star Michael Jordan saved NASCAR | Column

Did it take a Black man to carve a future for NASCAR? I wondered at the irony last week after watching NBA legend Michael Jordan celebrate in Victory Lane after his team won NASCAR’s-season opening Daytona 500. It was a startling moment only weeks after NASCAR settled Jordan’s federal antitrust lawsuit against the racing behemoth, in what seemed like a storybook payback on the biggest day of the NASCAR calendar.