NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick will trade his steering wheel for golf clubs Wednesday in the Kevin Harvick Foundation's third annual John Paul Linville Memorial Golf Classic Presented by BB&T Wealth.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. would have loved to have won Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star race and the million dollars that went with it. But after putting on a strong performance from the Sprint Showdown to the main event, he’s anticipating a bigger night when the points are on the line next Sunday.

As the checkered flag flew on the 2012 Sprint All-Star Race, people immediately began to talk. How can the All-Star Race reward $1 million to a driver who ran the majority of the race in the back of the pack, riding around trying to avoid trouble?

Rick Hendrick was at the end of pit road and told Johnson to come pick him up. Once Hendrick put his leg inside the car, he was in for a ride.

Kurt Busch rallied from an early-race brush with the wall to score an eighth-place finish in the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race Saturday night at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway. It was his sixth top-10 finish in 12 career All-Star Races.

Richard Childress Racing's Jeff Burton finished eighth in the NASCAR Sprint Showdown while teammates Kevin Harvick and Paul Menard finished sixth and 16th, respectively, in the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

Why it is that NASCAR feels it has to tweak the All-Star race. Consider this. The All Star Game, the mid-summer classic plays nine innings and all rules apply. The NBA All Star event follows the rules and the NFL late season All Star game still plays four quarters and follows the rules.

Jimmie Johnson used a carefully planned strategy of driving his No. 48 Lowe’s Patriotic Chevrolet hard for the first and last segments, and coasting for the three in between, to capture his third NASCAR Sprint All-Star race plus a cool $1 million.

DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 88 DALE JR. FOUNDATION/NATIONAL GUARD/DIET MOUNTAIN DEW CHEVROLET – FINISHED 5th - AN EVENTFUL NIGHT. THERE WERE SOME HIGH POINTS AND SOME LOW POINTS. WALK US THROUGH IT: “First off I have to thank the Dale Jr. Foundation employees and all the people who donate and my sponsors Diet Mountain Dew and National Guard for allowing us to get this weekend to raise awareness and put the decals on the car."