Three words she often used to encourage him — “Faith, Fight, Finish” — are front and center in the name of the charitable foundation he established in her loving honor. And for the second consecutive year, Prescott is taking his personal fight against cancer and the adversity it causes for individuals and their families to another level with “Ready. Raise. Rise.” Along with actors Eric Stonestreet and Tia Mowry, Prescott once again has joined forces with the Immuno-Oncology team from Bristol-Myers Squibb to get the word out on the newest ways those afflicted and affected are battling all types of cancer....

Letarte and NBC announced the move Thursday afternoon. Letarte has been Earnhardt’s crew chief at Hendrick Motorsports since 2011. The duo has one win — at Michigan in 2012 — and has made the Chase the past three seasons. Earnhardt finished fifth in the final standings last season. Letarte is expected to join play-by-play announcer Rick Allen and driver Jeff Burton in the NBC booth when the network returns to NASCAR in 2015....

Earnhardt and his fiancee Amy Reimann toured the Nationwide Children’s hospital in Ohio on Thursday and visited a number of patients. And although he hasn’t won a race this season, the situations of those in treatment put his plight in perspective. MORE: 10 things to know at Kentucky | Changes tax teams at Kentucky “We’ve struggled pretty bad to get results. And it’s hard not to be disappointed and feel embarrassed and all kinds of emotion about it,” Earnhardt told USA Today about his frustrating season....

They saw the real thing Wednesday visiting Indiana National Guard troops at Camp Atterbury. They got an up-close look at some of the weapons and explosives used and they honored soldiers who recently committed to the National Guard and others who served in Afghanistan. The two drivers are sponsored by the National Guard, and they loved every moment. “Oh yeah, they’re entertaining us,” Rahal said after setting off an explosive so big that mud and clay landed nearly 300 yards from the detonation site....

The NASCAR star has had to overcome a near-death experience when he, his wife Amy, and their daughter were involved in a crash after Earnhardt’s private jet veered off the runway and burst into flames at a small Tennessee airport earlier this month. Earnhardt has since been planning to participate in the Xfinity Series race on Aug. 31 at Darlington Raceway and addressed media Friday ahead of the weekend’s festivities....

Dale Earnhardt Jr. topped 215 mph during a test Wednesday morning at Michigan International Speedway, one of NASCAR’s fastest tracks. Track president Roger Curtis tweeted about Earnhardt's fast speed. Joey Logano set the track qualifying record at 2-mile Michigan last year at 203.949 mph with NASCAR’s new Gen-6 Sprint Cup car. Cup teams are setting new track records again this year with new aerodynamic rules that generate more downforce and NASCAR's new group qualifying procedure....

She had the line of spring training — and put into words what her son and his new teammates are feeling — at a gathering the pitcher organized (and paid for) last month in Arizona. FAGAN: Overreactions to strong spring training starts As USA Today and NBCSN Chicago tell the tale, she stood to toast the more than 100 attendees and then uttered something that is headed to a T-shirt near you:...

“As a Cowboys fan, this was a shot in the gut,” the Dallas Mayor told The Dallas Morning News on Thursday. MORE: Cowboys’ Hardy signing a smart football move | Why Bucs said no thanks Hardy signed with the Cowboys earlier this week despite well-known domestic violence allegations levied against him. Charges were dropped, but the situation has left a bad taste with Rawlings. “I’m a big Cowboys fan. I love them to death and I want them to beat the Eagles every time they play,” he said....

Portland’s All-Star guard got the Trail Blazers to the second round of the playoffs against the Spurs last season, but the eventual NBA champions bounced them out in five games. Maybe Lillard was angry about that. MORE: Celtics finally trade Rondo | Grizzlies buy intern new car | Possible Kings replacements You wouldn’t like Damian Lillard when he’s angry. In a triple-overtime thriller, the Blazers guard scored a career-high 43 points on 16-of-29 shooting with six assists and three rebounds....

“I don’t listen to many suggestions,” Mullen said at his weekly press conference. “If you’re in our staff meeting, I might listen to your suggestion. I don’t run down to Shands Hospital and say, ‘Boy, I think you should really do that procedure this way.’ I think those guys probably got that under control.” The most-frequent suggestion for Mullen this week revolves around freshman quarterback Anthony Richardson, the freshman quarterback who made the most of his sample through two games....

The animosity between organizations dates back to several up-and-in pitches to Cubs infielder Kris Bryant in recent years, spilling into this week when Bryant took another two offerings from the Rockies to his body. In a departure from what baseball fans witnessed a couple of days before, when Josh Donaldson and Joe Musgrove were given quick ejections for a confrontation in Atlanta, umpires did not dismiss anyone from the Rockies-Cubs contest....

Selbst takes a huge step back this week, sliding to #17 in the World, weeks after shining at the top. With Selbst moving out of the Top 10, her good friend, Scott Seiver (GPI#9, +3) makes his way back in, after dropping out of the Top 10 earlier this month. MORE: Schemion Back on Top of GPI World Rankings | Paul Pierce, Richard Seymour Playing WSOP Main Event | WSOP November Nine Set...

Both are hoping they can solve each other’s problem. A week after being released by the Braves and just days after signing a minor league deal with San Francisco, the Giants purchased Uggla’s contract from Triple-A Fresno. They put him in the starting lineup for the opener of a three-game series against the Dodgers on Friday night. “I know what I bring to a clubhouse. I know what I can bring on the field, and I’m just looking forward to going out there and having fun with the guys,” Uggla said after slipping into his newly stitched No....

The movie soundtrack, released on Eastwood’s new jazz label, Malpaso, is selling fast. The star also plans to re-release the original Hartman album, “Once in Every Life,” under a deal with Bee Hive Records, run by a Chicago couple as a sideline to a lighting-supply business. His best-known record, with Coltrane, is being reissued next week. The “Bridges” record could also revive interest in Dinah Washington, among the queens of the big-band era (and once the pianist at Hart-man’s South Side Baptist church)....

Mail distribution at CBS News, CNN and ABC News’s New York and Washington offices was suspended while executives evaluated their mail systems and put precautionary measures into place; NEWSWEEK took similar steps. J.P. Morgan Chase issued an internal “anthrax advisory” asking employees to scrutinize all mail and packages carefully and to report anything suspicious. A Wal-Mart spokesman at the company’s Arkansas headquarters said the company was being “prudent and vigilant on incoming mail....

A Stewart-Haas Racing spokesman confirmed Monday that the team had removed the “interim” title given to Knost as Patrick’s crew chief last October. MORE: Danica hopes for better luck for Stewart | New faces in new places | Tony Eury to head driver development program Patrick’s former crew chief, Tony Gibson, already had been appointed crew chief for Busch for 2015 and they enjoyed three solid races together at the end of the 2014 season....

Patrick will have to go to a backup car for the remainder of the Food City 500 weekend. Kligerman, who suffered damage to the front end of his car, sat in his car as his team made repairs after the accident. MORE: Danica best in class at Vegas | SHR struggles | Bristol picks | Meet Keselowski’s new girl The damage to Patrick’s car, though, was too much for her team to fix and she had to go to her backup car....

And his status among the all-time greats can take a significant hit if he ends falling short Saturday. This is one hell of a bet that Cormier has made on himself and one that could swing his pendulum of greatness drastically depending on the outcome. “He’d be neck and neck for greatest exit with [Georges] St-Pierre,” UFC president Dana White said in of a Cormier victory in a live-streamed conversation with Kevin Iole of Yahoo!...

Cormier’s rematch with Miocic was ended in the fourth round on Saturday, with the latter having landed a flurry of punches. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year Miocic (19-3) was fighting for the first time since losing his title to Cormier (22-2) at UFC 226 in July 2018. Prior to the bout, Cormier’s coach Javier Mendez had suggested the fighter should retire, rather than take on Jon Jones — who labeled Miocic “the greatest heavyweight of all time” — in a trilogy fight....

Rian Johnson, the director of the 2019 whodunnit and its follow-up Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, confirmed the detail in a press conference ahead of Glass Onion’s screening at the London Film Festival on Sunday. The news has sparked debate across social media, with some praising the decision as progressive while others have accused Johnson, Craig and the films’ producers of “queer-baiting.” Ian Kinane, a senior lecturer in popular literature and culture at the University of Roehampton in London, compared the remark about Blanc to J....