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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Hendrick Motorsports has locked down the driver and sponsor of its No. 5 car with an extension of Great Clips for driver Kasey Kahne.The two-year agreement covers the 2017 and 2018 seasons and gives Kahne 10 races of sponsorship each year. Great Clips, which has been with Hendrick Motorsports since 2012, also will be a major associate sponsor of the No. 5 team each year.Kasey has been a member of the Great Clips family for over 13 years and is a great ambassador of our brand, said Terri Miller, senior vice president of marketing and communications for Great Clips.Kahne has been with Hendrick since 2012 and has five wins and three berths in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. He has not made the Chase the last two years, and is currently 17th in the standings. There had been speculation that Hendrick would replace him in the No. 5, but his contract and sponsorship keeps him with the organization at least through 2018.Great Clips has believed in me throughout my career, Kahne said. Theyre a big part of the No. 5 team, and we feel like members of their team, too.---SADLER BACK IN THE CHASETwelve years after participating in his first Chase for the championship, Elliott Sadler is back in the field.This time, though, its the inaugural Chase in the Xfinity Series.Sadler is one of the 12 drivers competing in the Chase for NASCARs second-tier series title. In 2004, he was among the 10-driver field that made the original Chase. He finished ninth in the standings that season.I dont know if thats good or bad, Sadler said, unsure if it gives him any sort of edge over 11 drivers who have no playoff experience.Its not like Im a seasoned quarterback that can read the defense better than a rookie quarterback coming in. I think thats when experience plays a part, he said. I think now its just about which teams can get their cars the fastest, what driver can get the best information and not make mistakes on the track. I feel like everybody thats a part of this Chase, all 12 guys, can do just as good a job as anybody else, no matter their age or where theyre from or how many years theyve raced.---PAGENAUD-PETIT LE MANSFresh off his IndyCar championship, Simon Pagenaud has already lined up another race.Pagenaud will join Action Express Racings points-leading No. 31 Corvette at Petit Le Mans on Oct. 1. Hell joint drivers Dane Cameron and Eric Curran on the team that holds a one-point lead in the standings over fellow Action Express teammates Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa. The Fittipaldi-Barbosa lineup will be bulked for Petit Le Mans with Filipe Albuquerque.Pagenaud was a regular competitor in sports car racing from 2008 until 2010, primarily participating in the American Le Mans Series. In three years, Pagenaud had eight wins.He then transitioned to IndyCar and earned his first title on Sunday driving for Team Penske.Also getting an additional driver for Petit Le Mans will be Wayne Taylor Racing, which added Max Angelelli to the lineup of brothers Ricky and Jordan Taylor. Ryan Hunter-Reay will join Marc Goossens and Ryan Dalziel on the Visit Florida Racing Corvette lineup.Ford Chip Ganassi Racing has added a pair of IndyCar stars to its two-car lineup. Four-time champion Scott Dixon will join three-time winners Richard Westbrook and Ryan Briscoe, who are second in the standings in the No. 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT.Le Mans 24-Hour GTE Pro class winners Joey Hand and Dirk Mueller will co-drive with four-time IndyCar champion Sebastien Bourdais in the No. 66 Ford GT.Air Max 200 Canada . LOUIS -- Mike Smith is used to facing plenty of shots, so this was nothing new. 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The second-ranked Norwegian made her season debut after missing the LPGA Tours opening event last month in the Bahamas because of a shoulder injury.On Aug. 5, Larry Fitzgerald caught a Hail Mary?that would elude most wide receivers older than 30: He snagged an $11 million contract extension.As starting salaries escalate, surveying the market for aging wide receivers in their 30s?is becoming as painful as going across the middle of the field against an awaiting safety. The crash point is around?32, although some veterans can buy more time by playing at a lower wage.Last season, 25 wide receivers who were 30 years old or older caught at least one pass. Thats significantly fewer that the number of 30-or-older receivers who caught at least one pass in 2008 (37). There could be as few as 20 in 2016.Each year the league says goodbye to big names who filled fantasy leagues. Look at the current group of unemployed wide receivers: Wes Welker, Roddy White, Jerricho Cotchery, Jason Avant, Marques Colston, Dwayne Bowe, Devin Hester and Miles Austin. All are 31 or older. James Jones just landed a job with the San Diego Chargers. Andre Johnson had to accept a $975,000 salary to sign with the Tennessee Titans. Greg Jennings, Malcom Floyd and Lance Moore retired.The only aging receivers going strong in?both pay and play are Fitzgerald, of the Arizona Cardinals, and the New York Jets Brandon Marshall. Both are 32, though Fitzgerald turns 33 on Aug. 31.With Larry and I, you never know, but we are feeling good, Marshall said. We are living in the moment and we have no plans of slowing down anytime soon.Fitzgerald caught 109 passes for 1,215 yards last season. Marshall, dumped by the Chicago Bears for a fifth-round pick, had 109 catches for 1,502 yards. He makes $8.6 million per year.I think I can play as long as I want to, barring any significant injury, Lord willing, Marshall said. My game has never been built off speed. Its built on separation and understanding the game and knowing what Im doing. The big thing is using my body and my strength, and you have until you are 50, 60 and 70 years old using your strength. Im still pretty fast and pretty quick, which still gives me the ability to go for 1,500 yards.But both players know the NFL stands for Not For Long. Any drop in production could lead to a drop in salary and a quick career exit. Last month, Fitzgerald said he would be lying if he didnt think about retirement, but hes not close to that point yet.I have lot of good football left in me, Fitzgerald told the NFL Network. But I feel great. I can still play aat a high level, so I just take it one year at a time.ddddddddddddNow he has another year and contract through the 2017 season.Normally, aging receivers have to adjust their mindset as they maneuver toward their 30s. An ESPN?study showed the peaks and valleys of receivers as they age. The study reviewed receivers who had at least four years of experience dating back to 2001 through last season; it took into account the 50 most productive receivers during that 15-year period.The study showed that the top?50 receivers peaked at 27, averaging?79.2 catches?and 1,083 yards at that age. There was?little drop-off in yards over the next two years, from?1,049 at age 28 to 1,027 at 29. By age 30, the receivers average yards per season dropped below 1,000, to 962, though there was a slight uptick at the age of 31 to 990.The big fall took place at age 32, when the receivers average yards per season dropped all the way down to 827.Declining numbers means declining pay.Coaches tend to move outside receivers into the slot as they cross the 30-year-old barrier, and that usually lessens their salaries. Anquan Boldin was lucky enough to get a two-year, $12 million deal at the age of 33, but he just took $2.75 million, at 35, to be a slot receiver for the Detroit Lions. At the age of 33,?Steve Smith Sr. went from $7.5 million a year to $3.5 million.For a 32-year-old receiver to accept playing for less than half his old salary is tough. Marshall joked that he could go into TV?rather than take the big pay cut, even though he loves the game.In fact, Marshall loves the game so much he it took to heart this spring when Jets coach Todd Bowles asked him to?lose weight. Marshall?usually weighs between 240 to 245 pounds in the offseason. He remembers Michael Strahan once telling him the older a player gets, the more weight he needs to lose.So he did it. Marshall is now around 220 pounds and is having a good camp.Odds still go against receivers once they?reach the age of 32. Since 2010,?only four (Fitzgerald, Johnson, Smith and Reggie Wayne) have had?1,000-yard seasons at that age, and only two have had 1,000-yard seasons at 33 (Boldin and Wayne) and 34 (Boldin and Smith).Can Fitzgerald and Marshall break the trend and follow up their monster 2015 seasons with huge numbers again? Only time will tell. ' ' '