Новости за 12.08.2016

Kevin Durant will return to Oklahoma City on Feb. 11 and join the Golden State Warriors for an NBA Finals rematch at Cleveland on Christmas. Dwyane Wade will return to Miami and Derrick Rose will go back to Chicago early in the 2016-17 season, which was unveiled Thursday by the NBA. The season begins Oct.

RIO DE JANEIRO — After fulfilling her goal of medaling in five straight Olympics, Britain’s most decorated female athlete isn’t quite sure what comes next. But don’t be surprised if Katherine Grainger’s next endeavor involves studying serial killers and other brutal criminals. “It’s quite a dark subject matter,” the 40-year-old Scottish rower told The Associated

MILWAUKEE — The Atlanta Braves were on the wrong side of history Thursday. Atlanta’s pitching staff gave up at least one run in every inning of an 11-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers are the 19th team since 1900 to score in every inning it batted in during a nine-inning game, the Elias

Give Meryl Streep her due: She’s mastered drama and comedy, musicals and various accents. In her latest film, the multiple Oscar-winner has even crushed an unexpected skill — singing very poorly indeed. As the title character in “Florence Foster Jenkins ,” Streep has been asked to warble operettas like a duck being strangled by a

RIO DE JANEIRO — Liz Cambage scored 37 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as Australia rallied from 16 points down in the fourth quarter to beat Japan 92-86 and clinch the top spot in Group A heading into the medal round. Japan looked like it might join France as the only team to beat the

CHICAGO — A young Muslim woman on Thursday sued Chicago police who mistakenly identified her briefly as a potential “lone wolf” terrorist as she was leaving a city subway station last year on the Fourth of July wearing a headscarf, face veil and carrying a backpack. Itemid Al-Matar says officers violated her civil rights by

PUEBLO, Colo. — Autopsies confirmed that three girls drowned accidentally in a southern Colorado swimming pool earlier this week, but authorities said Thursday they have yet to determine how it happened. Azucena Gandarilla, 3, her sister Amaya, 6, and their baby sitter, Joo Hyun Lee, 17, drowned Monday in the swimming pool at a Pueblo

UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio — Vijay Singh rebounded from a bad shot on the 17th to birdie the final hole Thursday and take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the U.S. Senior Open. Still playing full-time on the PGA Tour at age 53, the big Fijian shot a 4-under 66 on a hot and

MINNEAPOLIS — Of the six pitchers Minnesota used on Thursday, only one got a raucous cheer from the crowd. He played shortstop for the first eight innings. Eduardo Escobar relieved Taylor Rogers during a three-run ninth inning and, after giving up a single, recorded three straight outs in the Twins’ 15-7 loss to Houston in

RIO DE JANEIRO — The first one was for the team. This one was a little more personal. The next three for Simone Biles could be for the record books. Where to start judging Biles after her romp to gold in the gymnastics all around? Perhaps by beginning the conversation with talk about the best

RIO DE JANEIRO — Dance parties. Dark chocolate. Calls to mom. All are helping Missy Franklin cope with an Olympics gone wrong. A huge star at the London Games four years ago, Franklin has been one of the biggest U.S. disappointments in Rio de Janeiro — an inexplicable fall she’s at a loss to explain.

KIEV, Ukraine — A private zoo in Ukraine has a new attraction: five white lion cubs. Volodymyr Shevchuk, director of the “XII Months” zoo near the Ukrainian capital, said the cubs have been separated from their parents, Ivanna and Ludvig. Shevchuk says the cubs have quickly become favorites with the visitors. White lions, which are

RIO DE JANEIRO — Reserve Sandrine Gruda scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead France to a 74-64 victory over host Brazil in women’s basketball on Thursday. France (3-1), which had lost control of Group A with an 18-point loss to Australia, missed its first five shots against Brazil (0-4). The Brazilians opened

RIO DE JANEIRO — At some point, Phil Dalhausser just had to laugh. After the Americans survived a couple of match points — and Italy fought off seven of their own — the final set of their final match in pool play at the beach volleyball tournament at Copacabana was tied 22-22. Dalhausser smiled. His

RIO DE JANEIRO — Kayla Harrison fought her way to judo history. Again. Harrison became the first American to defend an Olympic judo title when she forced France’s Audrey Tcheumeo to tap out in the final of 78-kg competition at the Rio Games on Thursday. The victory in Brazil comes after she won the first

DETROIT — The daughter of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy and one of its biggest stars, Diana Ross, told young Detroiters they should learn about their city’s rich artistic legacy — then forge their own path with a new beat. Rhonda Ross Kendrick told a group of musically inclined high school students Thursday she felt

LOS ANGELES — The Latest on the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (all times local): 3:45 p.m. The attorney for the family of an unarmed man fatally shot by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy is questioning how one of two gunshot wounds was in the

NEW YORK — Don’t look for Jamie Dornan on social media. He’s had it. Specifically, he’s had it with hate-mongering trolls he’s encountered despite a hyper fan base for “Fifty Shades” and “The Fall.” “To be honest, I was very inactive on it in the last year,” he said during a recent round of interviews

RIO DE JANEIRO — Osea Kolinisau didn’t want merely to win Fiji’s first ever Olympic gold medal, he was determined to do it by showing the world how rugby sevens should be played. Done, and done. With his prime minister among the Fijians in the crowd, and knowing 900,000 more back in the Pacific expected

QUITO, Ecuador — An Ecuadorean opposition journalist convicted of libeling President Rafael Correa said on Thursday that he is broke and must take up a public collection to pay the $141,000 judgment. Fernando Villavicencio displayed a piggy bank at a news conference and said he will use banks to collect money in the streets to

RIO DE JANEIRO — A second Kenyan track and field official was expelled from the Olympics on Thursday after he pretended to be one of the team’s 800-meter runners at a doping test and gave a sample in the athlete’s name. The incident may have been the unintended result of the runner, Ferguson Rotich, giving

CORSICANA, Texas — Former Texas A&M football coach Tom Wilson has died. The school announced Wilson died Wednesday in Corsicana after battling cancer. He was 72. An official with Griffin-Roughton (ROW’-ton) Funeral Home in Corsicana, Billy Roughton, said Thursday that Wilson died at home with family at his side. Wilson was Texas Tech’s quarterback from

RIO DE JANEIRO — Michael Phelps goes for history — again — and Katie Ledecky is set up to make some of her own in the Olympic pool. Phelps will be doing double duty Thursday night. He’ll swim the 200-meter individual medley final in pursuit of a record fourth consecutive title in the event and

HARROLD, Texas — The tiny northwest Texas school district in Harrold is known for its independent streak — it was the first to allow teachers to carry concealed handguns and also the first to challenge a federal transgender bathroom policy. The Vernon Daily Record (http://bit.ly/2aP6gpN ) reports that independence has carried over to sports as

RIO DE JANEIRO — Being an archer in South Korea, pressure just inherently comes with the territory. Defending Olympic champion Ki Bo-bae certainly felt that weight. Same with top-seeded Choi Mi-sun, who went out earlier than expected. Good thing teammate Chang Hye-jin was impervious to the effects of tension as she kept the South Korean