Chase for the Sprint Cup

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — NASCAR added Jeff Gordon to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field Friday, a stunning and unprecedented step in the fallout from at least two attempts to manipulate the results at the season-ending race at Richmond last weekend...

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson can secure a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship this week at Watkins Glen International, and he wasn't even thinking about that on Friday. Like his counterparts in the series, Johnson was thinking about injured star Tony Stewart, who broke both the tibia and fibula in his right leg on Monday night in a sprint car race in Iowa...