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FORT WORTH, Texas -- All four Joe Gibbs Racing drivers are still in contention for the three spots left to race for the NASCAR Sprint Cup season championship.There are only two races left to clinch those spots, and at least one of them wont make it.Plus, JGR teammates Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards arent the only drivers trying to join Jimmie Johnson for a title shot in the Chase-deciding finale at Homestead in two weeks.Our goal was to have four cars at Homestead and now theres only three spots left, Kenseth said. Every week we talk about what we can do to help each other, and make things better but we also realize when they drop the green on Sunday, its one against 39 and have to get the best finish we can for our respective teams.All the Gibbs drivers have won at Texas, where the second race of the third round in the Chase for the Sprint Cup playoffs is Sunday.Led by the former NFL coach as their team owner, they have worked together during Chase races.Still, Busch expressed frustration after Martinsville last week when Hamlin defended his position ahead of Kenseth and Busch. Six-time Cup champion Johnson won the race to lock into the first of the four spots for the championship run at Homestead.Maybe I was expecting a little bit different than what transpired in the race, Busch said. But we talked, forgive and forget, and move on, and here we are.At Talladega the week before that, Busch, Edwards and Kenseth stayed out of trouble at the back of the pack together since they were already guaranteed a spot in the third round of the playoffs as long as they stayed out of trouble. They did, while Hamlin raced up front and did just enough to advance as well.Busch said the team has to focus forward and try to work together the best they can, like they have all season.We know the reason we are in this predicament is because of our teamwork and our relationships and our camaraderie that we have at the race shop each and every week that gets us to the point of being as good as we are on Sunday, he said.Kenseth described their teamwork as second to none.Johnson, who has won the last four fall races at Texas, qualified 19th at Texas. Austin Dillon is on the pole, two weeks after Hamlin had a tiebreaker against him following Talladega to get the final spot in the round of eight.Kenseth, the highest-qualifying JGR car, starts seventh and just ahead of Edwards, who qualified ninth. Hamlin starts 17th and Busch 24th after a water leak kept him from taking a lap in the second round of qualifying Friday.Ive got great teammates, Edwards said. All of us have worked really, really well all year at raising each others level of performance so well just continue to work as hard as we can like weve been doing but then we race each other really hard at the race track too. ... Once the green flag drops we all know how to race each other.The non-JGR drivers other than Johnson who are still contending for a spot to drive for the championship at Homestead:-Joey Logano (fifth, 11 points behind Johnson). The Team Penske driver has five top-10 finishes in the seven playoff races so far. He starts second at Texas, like he did in April when he finished third.-Kevin Harvick (sixth, 23 points behind Johnson). While Harvick has won twice since the playoffs began, the 2014 Cup champion also has finishes of 37th and 38th and two races where he finished 20th in that stretch. He starts third at Texas.-Kurt Busch (seventh, 25 points behind Johnson). The 2004 Cup champion, the Stewart-Haas teammate of Harvicks, was in the 12th and final spot to get into the playoffs. He finished fourth at Talladega, but was 22nd at Martinsville. He qualified 10th this week. Authentic Custom Tigers Jersey .Y. - General manager Billy King says the Brooklyn Nets are looking to add a big man and confirmed the team worked out centre Jason Collins, who would become the first openly gay active NBA player if signed. 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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana, mired in a three-game skid, is sticking with quarterback Richard Lagow.Hes the guy, coach Kevin Wilson said Monday when asked if Indiana would open up practice snaps for other quarterbacks.Lagow has been inconsistent at best and worse than that recently as the Hoosiers (3-4, 1/3 Big Ten) have fallen behind by double digits in the first halves of each loss. Indiana trailed 24-3 at intermission against Northwestern and lost 24-14.The offenses inability to get going early really hurt the defense, Wilson said. I dont think our defense had the time to make the adjustments. We get a quick three-and-out, they score, then we go quick three-and-out and they score again.Maryland (5-2, 2-2) visits Indiana on Saturday. The Terrapins have outscored opponents 54-14 in the first quarter and 133-66 in the opening half.This Indiana team doesnt resemble any from Wilsons recent past, when the Hoosiers were known for scoring in bunches but giving up even more than that on defense. This years defense is allowing 377.6 yards per game, 131.9 fewer than last year -- the largest improvement in the nation.But Indiana is just 96th out of 126 schools in scoring at 24.1 points per game. Lagow, a redshirt junior in his first season as a starter, has completed 147 of 246 passes (59.8 percent) for 1,975 yards with 12 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. The Hoosiers are 118th in that latter category.Sophomore wide receiver Nick Westbrook, who caught 10 passes for 126 yards and a touchdown against Northwestern, suggests Indiana will spreaad the ball around to get more players involved.dddddddddddd And he insists its the little things that have held back the Hoosiers.One of the plays was when Rich missed me on a speedout, and it was a little thing on my part, Westbrook said. I was a yard or two too deep. It looks like Rich threw a bad ball, but its really my fault. Its a little thing that I have to pay attention to and be disciplined about.Indiana began October at 3-1 with a 24-21 overtime upset of No. 17 Michigan State. But the remaining games loom large for the Hoosiers: If Indiana can defeat Maryland, games at Rutgers (2-6, 0-5) and Purdue (3-4, 1-3) offer the opportunity to return to a bowl game for a second consecutive year, which hasnt happened since 1990-91.Yeah, obviously, we want to get the ball rolling, said senior guard Dan Feeney, who returned Saturday from a four-game absence with a concussion. We beat Michigan State and then have lost the next three. Its obviously not where we want to be. Weve got to strike fire and get the ball rolling in some way, shape or form.Junior defensive end Greg Gooch says his teammates are upset about their current situation.Oh, there is some anger built up, he said. I feel like every game is a must win. Every game is critical.Note: The Nov. 5 Indiana at Rutgers game will have a noon kickoff and be televised on the Big Ten Network.---Online:AP College Football site: http://collegefootball.ap.org/ ' ' '

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