PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ryan Newman is about out of time to make the Chase field. Newman is 15th in the standings, 118 points behind Clint Bowyer for the final spot with two races left to qualify for the 12-driver, 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Professional athletes with repetitive head trauma--and possibly others with a history of head injuries many years previously--may be prone the development of a motor neuron disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or "Lou Gehrig's disease"), reports a study in the September Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, official journal of the American Association of ...