Новости за 21.09.2016

The Lions have lost their top running back. Ameer Abdullah has been placed on injured reserve with a foot injury suffered in Sunday’s loss to the Titans. The IR designation means Abdullah will miss at least half the season. The league now allows teams to take one player off injured reserve and back on the…

Caris LeVert shows promise, which is why the Nets traded to select him at No. 20 in last June’s draft (he was part of the Thaddeus Young deal with Indiana). LeVert is a 6’7″ two guard who can shoot the rock — 45 percent from three at Michigan last season — who has the potential […]

The Giants have not had any players taking a knee or raising a fist during the playing of the national anthem at their first two games of the season, but a couple of players on the team said there may be a change in the wake of the death of Terrence Crutcher in Tulsa. Crutcher…

Another unarmed black man has been shot and killed by white police officers. This time, Terence Crutcher had his hands up when police arrived at his stalled out car on the highway near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dashcam and helicopter footage show a man with his hands in the air, but officer Betty Shelby chose to use […]

Elliott Sadler enters the Chase with two wins, at Talladega and Darlington.

At a launch event the branding for EURO 2020 has been revealed.

Week Two was a nightmare for the Buccaneers offense as quarterback Jameis Winston turned the ball over five times in a 40-7 loss to the Cardinals that also saw running back Doug Martin leave early because of a hamstring injury. Martin downplayed the severity of the injury after the game, but there was enough concern…

The Falcons are bringing back another veteran in hopes of adding some spark to their defense. According to D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Falcons are expected to sign veteran linebacker O’Brien Schofield this week. He  played in all 16 games and started 10 for the Falcons last year, and had a pair of…

When Bears coach John Fox discussed quarterback Jay Cutler’s injured right thumb on Tuesday, he said that the quarterback doesn’t need to have surgery right now and deemed the quarterback “day-to-day” when it came to how long he’d be out of the lineup. Recent history with Bears injuries has shown that Fox is fond of…

With recent reports that some offensive teammates are already grumbling about Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins, some might wonder how widespread the problem is. But Giants linebacker Keenan Robinson has seen it up close, and says the locker room there was a toxic place. “When I was there, three out of the four years it was…

The Patriots listed quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo as a limited participant in Tuesday’s practice, which is in line with the team’s overall approach when it comes to keeping the possibility that Garoppolo plays on Thursday alive. With Garoppolo’s chief limitation being his ability to use his throwing arm as a result of a right shoulder injury,…

Patriots coach Bill Belichick deserves credit for continuing to win no matter who plays quarterback. Said Bills C Eric Wood of changing offensive coordinators, “There’s some difficult aspects, but at this point in the season, we can’t reinvent the wheel. A lot of the plays we’re going to be pretty familiar with. We’ll see how…

Eric Wood has been with the Bills since 2009, so he knows from chaos. And the latest upheaval — firing offensive coordinator Greg Roman and replacing him with running backs coach Anthony Lynn after two weeks — isn’t it. “It just doesn’t feel chaotic around here,” Wood said, via Jay Skurski of the Buffalo News.…

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell isn’t ready to pull the plug on Oakland, and now of the game’s greatest stars is part of a group trying to keep the Raiders there. According to David Debolt of the Bay Area News Group, the group of investors offering to purchase the decrepit Coliseum includes Hall of Famer Ronnie…

Houston Texans defensive back Charles James denies that he flopped to get a flag on Tyreek Hill’s 105-yard kickoff return in Sunday’s victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Chiefs head coach Andy Reid implied that James flopped on the play when Steven Nelson was called for a holding penalty on the return. “[James] knew he…

Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers has added the title of president of basketball operations to his duties.

The performance of Cardinals first-round pick Robert Nkemdiche in Arizona’s season opening loss to the New England Patriots drew criticism from head coach Bruce Arians. Now Nkemidche will have to earn a chance at more playing time and Arians doesn’t anticipate that being an easy thing to do. “It will depend on the practice,” Arians…

"You look at some of those players on our roster, there are some pretty good skill players, and we just simply did not do enough offensively."

Team USA lost to Canada on Tuesday.

The last time the Packers and Lions played, a controversial facemask penalty game Green Bay one last chance to steal a victory. And they did, thanks to a rafters-kissing moonshot from Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers that ended in a touchdown to tight end Richard Rodgers. This year, for the first of two installments between the…

Jeremy Lin will be urged to become a better leader. Brook Lopez will be challenged to rebound and defend better.

Let the second-guessing and criticism begin.

Manchester United, West Ham, and Spurs aim to avoid upsets from Northampton Town, Accrington Stanley, and Gillingham. QPR hosts Sunderland.

The Seahawks have had a couple of key offensive injuries. Most notably, quarterback Russell Wilson has an ankle problem and running back Thomas Rawls has a leg injury. The injury suffered by Rawls, which knocked him out of Sunday’s game against the Patriots, apparently is bad enough to get the Seahawks to explore other options.…

Might as well set the money on fire.