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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Tony Stewart will not race Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, skipping a second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup race since striking and killing a driver in a dirt-track race at a small New York track. Stewart announced the decision in a statement Thursday. His plans for the rest of the season have not been determined. Jeff Burton will drive Stewarts No. 14 Chevrolet in Michigan. Stewart also sat out Sunday at Watkins Glen, a day after he struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. during a sprint car event in Canandaigua, New York. After Stewart clipped Wards car, sending it spinning, Ward got out of the car during the caution period, walked down the track and was hit by Stewart. Wards funeral was Thursday in Boonville, New York. He died of blunt force trauma. Stewarts dirt-racing career is on hold, and he could face criminal charges. Stewart has not commented since he made a statement Sunday. "There arent words to describe the sadness I feel about the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr.," Stewart said in the statement. The three-time NASCAR champion is winless and 21st in the Cup standings this season. He would have needed a victory in one of the final four races to have a chance to become eligible for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Its not clear what sitting out does for Stewarts Chase chances. NASCAR rules says a driver must either qualify the car or race the car each weekend. NASCAR does have the power to grant a waiver. Stewart has 48 career Cup wins in 542 starts. Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero said that investigators dont have any evidence at this point to support criminal intent. The investigation could last another two weeks. His sponsors have stayed with him as the investigation unfolds. Mobil 1 has served as the primary sponsor of the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 14 Chevrolet for 19 of the 22 Sprint Cup Series races this season. "The investigation continues, and we are monitoring the situation," ExxonMobil spokesman Christian Flathman said Thursday. Regan Smith started for Stewart at Watkins Glen and finished 37th. Burton made only two starts this season, the last coming in July at New Hampshire. The 21-time Sprint Cup winner parted ways with Richard Childress Racing at the end of the season, and Ryan Newman replaced him at RCR. Burton works as an analyst for NBC. Adidas NMD R1 White . - San Diego Padres centre fielder Cameron Maybin is going to be out two to three months after rupturing his left biceps tendon during a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday. Adidas NMD Black And White . American Lindsey Jacobellis was third, while Japans Yuka Fujimori finished just off the podium. Maltais, from Petite-Riviere-St-Francois, Que., earned bronze at the 2006 Olympic Games and is set to return to the Games this February in Sochi, Russia. http://www.cheapnmdonline.com/. Brooks replaces right-hander Yordano Ventura, who left his last outing with a sore elbow. Ventura is expected to miss one start. Brooks has made one relief appearance for the Royals this season, allowing six runs in two innings in a May 3 loss to Detroit. Adidas NMD R1 Japan Black .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Adidas NMD R1 Triple Black .com) - There may be a debate in Philadelphia about who should be the starting quarterback of the Eagles.CHICAGO - Rahm Emanuel traded Washington politics for the City of Big Shoulders because here, at least, he figured he could actually fix things.The Chicago Bears were not on his list.There are certain things that are just above my pay grade, the citys straight-talking mayor laughed, and thats one of them.When Emanuel announced in October he was bringing the NFL draft back to Chicago in 2015 — 51 years after the last one outside New York City was held here — the Bears were a .500 team, but still loaded with big-play talent, and he was on a roll.Five months earlier, Emanuel had wrestled the Beard Awards show — The Oscars of Food — away from New York. The month after that, he made filmmaker George Lucas an offer he couldnt refuse — a prime piece of real estate on the lakefront — to build a museum here instead of San Francisco. Then came the news that hed outmanoeuvred Los Angeles once the NFL announced the draft was leaving New York and going back out on the road.Asked why the NFL chose Chicago, which hosted the draft five previous times, Emanuel responded with a rapid-fire tourism pitch. If he had his way, no one would even consider going anywhere else — ever.I believe the reason the NFL picked Chicago is that were the centre of the country, within 400, 500 miles are a dozen teams, with millions of fans. Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, there are more — thats where you have the heart and soul of this country and the heart and soul of the NFL.If youre going to go to American, you come to the capital of America, he paused triumphantly, and thats Chicago.Noticing a skeptical glance, Emanuel sped up.Chicago is ... Look, let me put it this way. New York looks to the world. LA looks to itself. Chicago is the centre of the country, OK? ... The most American of American cities, OK? ... The main thing when I talked to the leadership at the NFL was You picked Chicago. Im not only to going to make you proud that you picked the city, Im going to make you doubt whether you should go back to New York.Or as I like to say, he summed up, smiling, Youre in your mothers arms now, dont worry about a thing.That kind of bravado will come in handy next February, when Emanuel — whose approval rating cratered at 35 per cent of likely voters in a Chicago Tribune poll earlier this week — facees at least two challengers in his bid for a second term as mayor of this overwhelmingly Democratic town.ddddddddddddIf elected, he might need it again, two months after that, if angry Bears fans ruin the atmosphere of the April 30-May 2 draft.When Emanuel landed the NFLs premier offseason event, almost no one predicted the Bears would be 5-9 and banished from the playoffs. They were expected to at least make the playoffs. That was before the defence failed to show up, and the guaranteed three-year deal the team gave Jay Cutler began to look like a $54 million ball-and-chain.Now, the man with the rocket arm and perpetual frown has been benched and may be on his way out of town — making the already overheated question of what the Bears should do with a suddenly critical pick seem hotter still. Its far from improbable that many of those out-of-towners Emanuel wanted to pack the galleries at the graceful Auditorium Theater will be elbowed aside by out-of-sorts Bears fans eager for somebody to blame.Whether Emanuel knows about any of that, let alone cares, is hard to say. The former congressman and White House chief of staff works out daily, runs marathons occasionally and is as fit as a 55-year-old can be. But Emanuel was never much of a ballplayer — he wound up ditching soccer for ballet as a teenager — and is only so much of a sports fan today.Hes really smart, very funny, very competitive and he knows the legislative process inside-out because he used to do the work, said Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, a longtime colleague. He also doesnt swear nearly as much as his reputation makes it sound.But sports? I doubt he gives it a lot of thought, Cullerton added a moment later. I went to the Cubs opener with him this year and he didnt seem to know much about it.Yet even that could work to Emanuels advantage. He conceded only watching snippets of past NFL drafts and listened with interest to the story of how Donovan McNabb, coincidentally a Chicago native, was booed long and mercilessly by a busload of Philly fans at the 1990 draft when the Eagles took him with the first pick.If thats the experience, Emanuel said finally, breaking into a wide grin, its a natural for an elected official.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '