Meanwhile, in NASCAR ...

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Yes, another NASCAR post.

I promise, this is the last one for, um, about three months.

This post is simply a hat tip to everyone getting the script right, or karma behaving, or the stars aligning correctly. Because out in Phoenix yesterday, Kyle Larson, who dominated all season, won the 2021 Cup title the way he should have, winning the last race of the season and his tenth all told. 

He did it by holding off Martin Truex Jr. late, which was as it should have been even though Truex is a good dude and no one would have kicked up a fuss if he'd won the Super Bowl yesterday. But Truex won just four races, and only one after Darlington on May 9. And he came into the 10-race playoffs having finished 15th, 10th and 29th in the three previous races before turning it around enough to keep moving on in each round.

But Larson was the man from Day One in '21. So it was only right that, on Day Last, he was the one hoisting the big trophy.

His year. His title.