Tyler Reddick is a Daytona 500 champion.

Reddick passed Chase Elliott exiting Turn 4 on the final lap at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday to win his first Daytona 500. Reddick drives for 23XI Racing, the team co-owned by Michael Jordan.

Reddick passed Elliott, who then crashed into the outside wall before the finish line after Riley Herbst got turned into the wall.

Carson Hocevar was leading when the final lap began, but he too ended up crashed and into the outside wall. 

Take a look at how all the chaos unfolded.

“I didn’t know if I’d ever win this race, it’s surreal honestly,” Reddick said.

Reddick was fourth when the final lap began but somehow avoided the wreck that took out Hocevar. He then ended up behind Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Chase Elliott on the backstretch as Zane Smith pushed Elliott to the lead.

But Elliott was hung out to dry in the final two corners. Reddick got a push from his teammate Herbst after zooming around Zane Smith and went around Elliott before the crash happened behind him as he took the checkered flag.

The final lap was the only lap Reddick led all day. 

William Byron entered the race looking to become the first driver to win three Daytona 500s in a row. He was caught up in an early wreck when BJ McLeod had a parts failure on his right rear wheel, but was in position to steal another victory late in the race. 

However, Byron was slowed by that wreck that included Hocevar and ended up out of contention for the win.

Though Byron's streak is over, Reddick's win continues a streak of Daytona 500 winners who haven't led many laps in their wins. 

Over the last six 500s, Austin Cindric's 21 laps led in 2022 are the most of any winner. Byron led just 14 total laps in his two wins, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. led 10 laps in 2023 and Michael McDowell only led the final lap in 2021. 

Another NASCAR victory for Michael Jordan 

Reddick's win comes two days before Jordan's 63rd birthday. 

"I'm ecstatic, I don't even know what to say. It feels like I won a championship but until I get a ring I won't even know," Jordan told Fox after the race.

Jordan became a NASCAR team owner in 2021 when he went in with Denny Hamlin to form 23XI Racing. The team hired Bubba Wallace to drive the No. 23 car and has expanded to three cars with Reddick and Herbst while also fielding a fourth entry on Sunday for Corey Heim.

Just two months earlier, Jordan and Hamlin scored a massive legal victory over NASCAR. The team, along with Front Row Motorsports, sued NASCAR over the sanctioning body's franchising system. The lawsuit made it all the way to trial, where the two parties finally settled after the trial began. 

The settlement was a clear win for the plaintiffs. 23XI and Front Row wanted permanent charters — NASCAR's version of franchises — for the teams. NASCAR was relenting. But NASCAR gave permanent charters as part of the settlement and the parties also agreed to financial compensation before the jury was needed to reach a verdict.

After the settlement was announced, NASCAR chairman Jim France and Jordan presented a united front about how the settlement would push NASCAR forward. On Sunday, France was there in victory lane with a hearty handshake to congratulate Jordan and the team after the win.

Justin Allgaier’s poorly timed block near the end of the second stage of the Daytona 500 took out a host of cars at the front of the field.

Allgaier was leading with less than 10 laps to go before the stage concluded when Denny Hamlin got a push from Ryan Blaney at the front of the outside line entering the tri-oval. As Hamlin went to Allgaier’s outside, Allgaier moved up. Slowly.

The late block collected Hamlin, Blaney, defending Cup Series champion Kyle Larson, Alex Bowman, Shane van Gisbergen and many others. At least 20 cars were involved. Forty-one cars started the race and 40 were on track at the time of the crash. 

The popcorn at a concession stand at Oklahoma’s Lloyd Noble Center got a tad too toasty on Saturday.

The Sooners’ men’s basketball game against Georgia was delayed briefly early in the first half after a popcorn machine caught fire. Seriously.

Take a look.

The fire happened during the first TV timeout of the game and sprinklers quickly put it out.

That video might not accurate represent how big the fire was in its early stages, either. Here’s a closer angle.

Given how much we all know how a burnt popcorn smell can linger, fans in the sections near that concession stand probably had to deal with the smell of that fire for a while after it was put out. Thankfully (in this case), the arena didn't appear to be at max capacity, so fans could easily have found other seats to watch the game.

Oklahoma came back to win the game, too. Georgia led 43-41 at halftime, but the Sooners outscored the Bulldogs 53-35 in the second half for a 94-78 win. It was just Oklahoma’s third SEC win of the season and the loss dropped Georgia to 5-7 in SEC play.

Seton Hall outfielder Justin Ford was forced to leave the game after he hit a home run in the fifth inning of his team’s loss to Boston College on Friday night.

Ford suffered a gruesome lower left ankle injury after he rounded first base and was celebrating his home run. As he faced his dugout, his left ankle rolled outward with his foot on the ground and he fell to the dirt.

(Warning: the video below shows Ford’s injury)

Ford’s injury was so serious that a stretcher was brought out on the field.

Friday was college baseball’s first day of the season and the two teams were playing in the Puerto Rico Challenge. A junior in 2026, Ford appeared in 17 games as a sophomore with 12 starts. He had a .171 average and his home run against the Eagles was the third of his career.

Boston College won the game 6-4 and will play Houston on Saturday while Seton Hall takes on Manhattan. 

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Tony Stewart’s chances of a win in his first NASCAR race back from retirement ended before the race was even halfway over.

Stewart’s truck was shoved into the wall when Jake Garcia’s truck got loose off Turn 4 in the second stage of the 100-lap Craftsman Truck Series race at Daytona. As Stewart was to his outside, Garcia overcorrected and collided with Stewart as he hit the wall.

The damage to Stewart’s truck was significant enough that it ended any chance he had at winning the race. After his Kaulig Racing team made repairs, it eventually decided to take the truck to the garage.

The three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and NASCAR Hall of Famer was making his first start in a NASCAR race since he retired after the 2016 season. Stewart won 49 races over 618 career Cup Series starts and was one of the best drivers of the 2000s before he stepped away. Stewart won the 2002, 2005 and 2011 Cup Series titles and his final title is widely credited with helping create NASCAR’s recently-ditched winner-take-all championship race.

That season, Stewart and Carl Edwards waged one of the greatest playoff battles in NASCAR history. Stewart, who won five races in the 10-race playoffs after going winless in the regular season, won the final race of the year at Homestead-Miami Speedway to tie Edwards and win the championship via tiebreaker since he had more wins.

Stewart was back in NASCAR on Friday night thanks to Ram’s re-entry into the Truck Series. The manufacturer returned to the NASCAR Truck Series in 2025 and Stewart, whose NHRA team fields Dodges, was chosen to run the team’s No. 25 truck that will have a rotating cast of drivers throughout the 2026 season.

The race was Stewart's first Truck Series start in over 20 years. He had last made a Truck start in 2005 and had won twice in six starts across NASCAR's third-tier series.