Quick Hitters Bowyer to retire and move to Fox NASCAR coverage in 2021
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Clint Bowyer will retire at the end of the NASCAR season and join the Fox Sports booth as an analyst.
Bowyer, in his 15th full season, heads into Sunday’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway facing elimination from the playoffs. He’s ranked 11th in the 12-driver field that will be trimmed by four for the next round.
In a media availability earlier Thursday, the 41-year-old gave no indication he planned to announce his retirement hours later. But in a a two-page letter later posted to Twitter, Bowyer said he’s moving full-time into television.
“Now I get to the point of what I want to tell you,” he wrote. “I have a new opportunity to do what’s next in my life. In 2021 my suit will no longer be fireproof. I will be joining the Fox booth on Sundays.”
Bowyer is a popular veteran who has won races for Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota during his career with Richard Childress Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing and now Stewart-Haas Racing. He won the 2008 Xfinity title for RCR.
“The opportunity to have won races with all three manufacturers is something I’m proud of,” he wrote in his letter. “Chevrolet, Toyota and Ford all have great people and build great products and all share the same passion to be first on Sunday. It was truly an honor to represent all three.”
Florida Atlantic has third game PPD due to COVID-19
Florida Atlantic’s game at Southern Mississippi on Saturday has been postponed because COVID-19 issues.
The schools said they will work with Conference USA to reschedule. FAU has already had two nonconference games called off.
The Owls were unable to play Georgia Southern last month because of their COVID-19 problems. They were also scheduled to host South Florida, but the Bulls had to pull out because of contract tracing related to their game against Notre Dame.
FAU played its first game last week, beating Charlotte 21-17 at home.
This is the 26th game involving FBS teams to be postponed or canceled since Aug. 26.
Calvert-Lewin leads trio of 1st-time England scorers vs Wales
LONDON – Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Danny Ings and Conor Coady scored their first England goals in a 3-0 victory over Wales in a friendly on Thursday when international football returned to Wembley after 11 months.
It was the least experienced lineup deployed by England in four decades, with only 54 international appearances among the starting XI and Calvert-Lewin one of two players making their debuts.
Reproducing the form with Everton that earned him a first call-up, the striker took only 26 minutes to head in from Jack Grealish’s cross inside an empty north London stadium.
“It is a shame there are no fans here to celebrate, and my family could have been here, so bittersweet in that sense,” the 23-year-old Calvert-Lewin said. “I have worked very hard to get here, it has felt like a long road.”
It included a spell playing nonleague football before breaking into the Premier League and also featuring in in a World Cup final win for England’s under-20 team in 2017.
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