Out of a playoff spot, seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson is moving on to another new crew chief.
Hendrick Motorsports on Monday replaced Kevin Meendering with Cliff Daniels, will be atop the pit box for Sunday’s road course race at Watkins Glen International in New York.
Johnson won seven championships with crew chief Chad Knaus over 17 years before they were split up after last season. Meendering failed to steer Johnson into victory lane, and the former champ is 12 points out of the 16-driver playoff field with five races left before the cutoff.
The 43-year-old Johnson has 83 career wins but none since June 2017 at Dover and is mired in the longest losing streak of his career. Johnson finished 15th in the No. 48 Chevrolet on Sunday at Pocono Raceway. He has just three top-five finishes this season and eight top 10s.
LAS VEGAS — A person familiar with the situation says the Washington Mystics and Las Vegas Aces on Aug. 5 will finish their game that was suspended earlier this month because of an earthquake.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Monday because no official announcement has been made. The game will be played at T-Mobile Arena instead of the Aces’ normal home at Mandalay Bay because that venue isn’t available.
The original game on July 5 was suspended at halftime with Washington leading, 51-36, when a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit California.
NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils acquired left wing Nikita Gusev from the Vegas Golden Knights and signed him to a two-year contract with an average annual salary of $4.5 million.
The Devils sent a 2020 third-round draft pick and a 2021 second-round pick to Vegas in the deal announced on Monday.
The 27-year-old Gusev has spent his entire professional career in the Russian Kontinental Hockey League. He is a four-time KHL All-Star who had 17 goals and 65 assists for SKA St. Petersburg in 2018-19.
Gusev has 119 goals and 213 assists in 391 career games.