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Oladipo: NBA players will follow Kaepernick's protest, Shumpert raps agreement
- September 22, 2016

For the most part, the San Francisco quarterback has done only good by fueling this movement, and any negative press only helps to spread his message at this point. "I respect it, and I respect what's going on and I have some personal opinions on that, but for us, we're not really affected by that because we're always in the locker room". (more...)

Twins, Tigers rained out; plan doubleheader on Thursday
- September 22, 2016

With an 8-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers in another game in which they were hardly competitive, the Twins are now 55-96 this season with 11 games remaining. The significance of the situation wasnt lost on Cabrera, who started the fourth inning by crushing a double to right field. Then Boyd retired 14 straight batters until Grossman went deep with one out in the seventh. (more...)

Gruden endorses under-pressure Cousins as starter
- September 22, 2016

These are only a few of the things that are coming out of a rookie. The former Mississippi State standout keeps telling people he felt ready for the National Football League from the beginning. Prescott was later found not guilty on the first day of Cowboys' training camp, and has moved forward ever since. And he became the starter when Romo broke a bone in his back in the third preseason game at Seattle. (more...)

Chinese Paralympic delegation welcomed home after successful Rio campaign
- September 22, 2016

British Columbia's premier is hailing the hard work and dedication of six athletes who brought home eight medals from the Paralympic Summer Games in Rio. The most-decorated British Paralympian in British history with 14 gold medals, Dame Sarah Storey , told Sky News the reception at Heathrow had been fantastic: "It's been awesome". (more...)

India has to focus more on batting, says Virat Kohli
- September 22, 2016

Paceman Tim Southee's ankle injury has robbed them of their most experienced Test bowler, while all-rounder Jimmy Neeshan has been ruled out of the Kanpur contest, which will be India's 500th Test match, with a rib injury. "Good thing is that we are playing a lot of Test cricket", he said. Dhawan himself has said that competition is good for the Indian team and it will not be a surprise if Rahul gets to open with Murali Vijay. (more...)

Philippines president Duterte hurls abuses at EU
- September 22, 2016

According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer , in an address to government officials on Tuesday in the southern city of Davao, he said that I read the condemnation of the European Union against me. "Iba't ibang kagustuhan ngunit iisang patutunguhan - pagkakaibigan", and then provided a translation for it: "Orange and Lemons, we have our own differences by the way we look, different wants but we only want one goal and if I may add friendship". (more...)

Kaufman opens with 72 in Evian Championship
- September 22, 2016

The field also includes Brooke Henderson (Canada), In Gee Chun (South Korea), Carolta Ciganda (Spain), Suzann Pettersen (Norway), Charley Hull (England), Anna Nordqvist (Sweeden) and Stacy Lewis (United States). "There's no flat lie anywhere, and then the greens are impossible", the 30-year-old American said. Heavy rain is forecast for Sunday's final round. (more...)

Tebow begins move from football to baseball
- September 22, 2016

More than 67 media outlets were credentialed for the start of workouts. And, of course, it marked the Mets' first opportunity to sell Tim Tebow jerseys, which hit online stores this past weekend. This is probably the most you will ever read about a home run in the instructional league. . He was again playing the game he loved as a kid. And yes, he'll be the only one having press conferences, and asked questions outside the boundaries of baseball. (more...)

Fake Tom Brady shows up and entertains fans during tailgate
- September 22, 2016

I should have been smarter than that. It seemed reasonable to doubt though. Looks the Patriots will be just fine without Brady for a few more games. The New England Patriots have been anticipating their 2016 season. You'll look at this once and say "Hey, that's Tom Brady! ". For us to go in there and get a win like that, it was great for obviously our offensive football team, the defense played great, special teams; it's such a team sport. (more...)

Colts Fall To Broncos, 34-20
- September 22, 2016

And more importantly, to prove to everyone that they are still the team to beat. He was hit 11 times, sacked five times, had no running game to support him and was throwing into tight coverage all afternoon. "We did a great job on him at some points in the game". Now, after two miserable weeks of poring through game tape of what went wrong, Indianapolis is looking for solutions. (more...)

Tampa Bay's Dirk Koetter makes impressive debut as coach
- September 22, 2016

Second year quarterback and former first round pick, Jameis Winston , will lead his Tampa Bay Buccaneers against Julio Jones and the Atlanta Falcons to kick off their 2016 season. On that drive Winston went 6-for-6 for 59 yards. After that, however, he completed 25-of-33 passes (76 percent) for 323 yards with four passing touchdowns. (more...)

Raggi sinks Rome 2024 Olympic bid
- September 22, 2016

Previous Mayor Ignazio Marino, who was forced out over an expense account scandal, had supported the bid. Voters in Hamburg rejected the German citys 2024 bid in a referendum. He has said the bid would be doomed if Romes mayor doesnt support it. Withdrawal of Rome's bid leaves Paris, Budapest and Los Angeles contesting in the race for the 2024 Games, which will end in September 2017. (more...)

Sanchez hits 2 more homers, Yankees beat Rays 11-5
- September 22, 2016

Follow the Daily News Sports on Facebook . "It's great when you achieve something like that, but what makes it better is that you're helping the team win", Sanchez said through a translator. The Rays have been playing spoiler this month, and were set to strike again, having the Yankees down 2-1 at the top of the seventh inning, despite an 11-strikeout performance from Michael Pineda . (more...)

Eduardo Rodriguez pitches in as Red Sox maintain control of AL East
- September 22, 2016

Andrew Benintendi hit a three-run homer for the Red Sox, who will seek to complete a four-game sweep on Thursday. For the second straight night, the O's looked rather poor as they lost a game to the Red Sox, 5-2. "A slow roller over there, I was just heading over to the bag, and when I picked up (the sight) of the ball it was just coming a little hard to me and a little bit out of my reach", Brach said. (more...)

Zidane laments first-half display as Real Madrid miss shot at history
- September 22, 2016

After his side had missed a chance to move well clear of Barcelona and Atletico Madrid before their rivals met at the Camp Nou later on Wednesday, the Los Blancos coach told his post-match news conference that his players had not been intense or focused enough during the opening 45 minutes. (more...)

Sane will play against Swansea - Guardiola
- September 22, 2016

The magnificent Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring with a clever free-kick and had a hand in three other fine goals which followed for Kelechi Iheanacho, Raheem Sterling and Ilkay Gundogan . It's been a good week for Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez. "We knew we had to come back to the Premier League and had to carry on from where we left off in the Champions League", Leicester midfielder Danny Drinkwater said . (more...)

Liverpool to host Tottenham Hotspur in League Cup 4th Round
- September 22, 2016

After successive Premier League defeats, Manchester United will hope to re-energise their faltering campaign and make up ground on the early pacesetters with victory at home to champions Leicester City. In the hat with a number of strong Premier League sides including Arsenal and Chelsea, Jurgen Klopp's side are set to take on Spurs. Since then we have earned two crucial wins on the bounce, first a 1-3 away win at Watford with Cazorla, Sánchez and Özil scoring the crucial goals, followed by ... (more...)

Early World Cup exit may lead to big changes for USA Hockey
- September 22, 2016

Canada knocked rival Team USA out of playoff contention at the World Cup of Hockey, but weren't totally satisfied with their play. - The victor of the Team Europe vs. Crawford, defenceman Jake Muzzin and forward Claude Giroux all saw their first action in the tournament, giving Carey Price, Shea Weber and Ryan Getzlaf a much-needed night off. (more...)

Rosberg wins Singapore GP; retakes lead over Hamilton in title race
- September 22, 2016

For sure, yes, it's been a good weekend for me. The only thing that would have been better was to get Nico at the start. Hamilton finished his disappointing weekend in a auto lacking grip which although it didn't prevent him from driving a composed race, it prevented him from challenging the first two and he will have to lick his wounds and come back strongly next time at the Malaysian Grand Prix. (more...)

Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina vows to continue proving himself
- September 22, 2016

However, while the Frenchman's arrival initially sparked greater urgency in attack, PSG started to dominate like they did in the first half and the Gunners were indebted to Ospina who made three important interventions in the space of a few minutes. (more...)