Новости за 11.09.2016

CHICAGO — The Kansas City Royals want to wait a week before deciding whether to shut down Lorenzo Cain. The outfielder may or may not agree. The Royals’ 6-5 comeback victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night was overshadowed by the unknown future of their former All-Star. Whit Merrifield hit a go-ahead two-run

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Jozy Altidore had a goal and an assist and Toronto FC beat the Chicago Fire 2-1 on Saturday night to move into first place in the Eastern Conference. Altidore opened the scoring in the 33rd minute, finishing Justin Morrow’s cross from the middle of the area. Altidore assisted Jonathan Osorio’s goal in

PITTSBURGH — Joey Votto is having one special finish to the season. So good even he isn’t sure it can continue for much longer. Votto celebrated his 33rd birthday with four hits, including a home run, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the collapsing Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7 on Saturday night. Votto led off the ninth inning

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Nick Mullens threw for three touchdowns and ran for another and the Southern Miss defense allowed the fewest total yards in Conference USA history in the Golden Eagles’ 56-0 win over Savannah State on Saturday night. Mullens completed 16 of 20 passes for 216 yards. Ito Smith had 128 yards rushing —

DETROIT — The Baltimore Orioles caught Jordan Zimmermann at the perfect time. Saturday, in Zimmermann’s first start off the disabled list, the Orioles hit three homers before chasing him in the second inning and moved back ahead of the Detroit Tigers in the AL wild-card race with an 11-3 rout. “That’s a very, very good

MOBILE, Ala. — Favian Upshaw ran for 108 of Georgia Southern’s 304 yards rushing and the Eagles beat South Alabama 24-9 on Saturday night, a week after the Jaguars upset Mississippi State. Younghoe Koo got the Eagles (2-0, 1-0 Sun Belt) even at 3-3 before L.A. Ramsby went in from 1 yard out — the

NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma can finally talk about Ohio State. Baker Mayfield passed for 244 yards and three touchdowns in a half of work, and the 14th-ranked Sooners beat Louisiana-Monroe 59-17 on Saturday night in a warmup for their showdown with the Buckeyes. Oklahoma lost its opener to Houston and fell from No. 3 to

TAUNTON, Mass. — Authorities say three speed boats collided during a race on a Massachusetts lake, leaving one driver dead and two others injured. The Bristol County District Attorney’s office says the collision happened Saturday afternoon during the Bill Giles Memorial Regatta on Watson Pond in Taunton. Taunton Fire Chief Timothy Bradshaw said in a

BRISTOL, Tenn. — The “Battle at Bristol” between No. 17 Tennessee and Virginia Tech at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday night drew an NCAA single-game record crowd of 156,990. The speedway was temporarily converted into a football stadium to accommodate this game. The previous NCAA record was 115,109 for Michigan’s 2013 victory over Notre Dame

SRINAGAR, India — Before the crack of dawn and before the protesters hit the streets to resume demands India leave Kashmir, he dressed like an ordinary man and made sure not to carry anything identifying him as police. He joined six passengers in a shared taxi outside his village in a lush pine forest near

Univision, which bought Gawker Media, has removed several posts on Gawker websites because they are involved in lawsuits. Gawker Media’s executive editor, John Cook, said in a memo to staffers that two Univision executives voted to remove six posts on Gizmodo, Jezebel and Deadspin. Cook said Univision believes that leaving the posts up would expose

AUSTIN, Texas — In meetings, in practice and when he was just thinking to himself, Charlie Strong pleaded with his team not to be a one-game wonder after a big season-opening win. That turned out to not be a problem at all. Freshman quarterback Shane Buechele passed for 244 yards and four touchdowns and No.

WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper looked simply bewildered during his first three at-bats against the Phillies, all ending in swinging strikeouts. He came through big in his fourth plate appearance. Harper hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the Washington Nationals to a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies

OTTAWA, Ontario — New York Islanders star John Tavares scored twice to lead Canada to a 5-2 victory over the United States on Saturday night in a World Cup of Hockey exhibition game. Logan Couture, Jay Bouwmeester and Matt Duchene also scored for Canada. Braden Holtby allowed two goals on 13 shots, and Corey Crawford

Observations, thoughts and takeaways from the second weekend of the college football season, which lacked big games, but still provided some drama and controversy. 1. Going back to fix officiating mistakes after games are over, even when it seems easy and obvious to do so, is a bad idea. Sorry, No. 22 Oklahoma State. Maybe

NEW YORK — Designer Alexander Wang is, by his own description, a total sneakerhead. He once even designed a whole clothing collection around them, with dresses, tops and handbags emulating his favorite sneaks, like the classic white-and-green Adidas Stan Smith. Now, Wang has taken his sneaker love to a new level, partnering with Adidas for

ST. LOUIS — Randal Grichuk showed off his impressive ability at a key moment for the St. Louis Cardinals. Grichuk made two big plays and Adam Wainwright pitched eight strong innings to help the Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 on Saturday. Stephen Piscotty also drove in two runs as St. Louis won for the

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Diego Fagundez had a goal and an assist to help the New England Revolution beat New York City FC 3-1 on Saturday night. The Revolution (8-12-9) have won two straight to close within a point of Orlando City for the sixth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. NYCFC (12-9-8) had just moved

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Andrew Jacobson scored the go-ahead goal in the 74th minute, Erik Hurtado added another in the 82nd and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the Columbus Crew 3-1 on Saturday night. Jacobson dribbled in from near midfield and slotted home a right-footed shot from the right side of the arc — Vancouver’s first shot

TORONTO — “Hidden Figures,” a drama about an African-American mathematician at NASA in the early 1960s, isn’t finished yet, but a sneak peak of about 30 minutes of footage was enough to move one of its stars, Taraji P. Henson, to tears. Twentieth Century Fox previewed the film Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason turned the lights out in the locker room for 10 minutes during a weather delay that lasted for an hour, 44 minutes. He wanted his Commodores to picture themselves playing good football. Aside from a blocked punt on the first play once the game resumed, Ralph Webb and

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Mark Walton saved Miami against Florida Atlantic last year. He was even better in the rematch. Walton rushed for career highs of 155 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 25 Miami shook off a slow start to beat Florida Atlantic 38-10 on Saturday night. He ran for three touchdowns against FAU

MIAMI — Rich Hill’s lingering blister made Dave Roberts sick on Saturday night. Roberts made the tough decision to pull Hill after seven perfect innings in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 5-0 victory over the Miami Marlins. Hill (12-3) had thrown 89 pitches and struck out nine when Roberts replaced the 35-year-old left-hander with Joe Blanton

LOS ANGELES — Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are sharing Emmy gold as “Saturday Night Live” hosts. They were honored jointly in the best guest actress in a comedy series category at Saturday’s creative arts Emmy ceremony. Fey and Poehler won as co-hosts of last year’s Christmas episode on “SNL.” The pair didn’t attend the

BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado wanted to build momentum with a big win over an FCS school. Idaho State was happy to fill its coffers by being the fall guy for the Buffaloes. Sefo Liufau passed for 204 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 54 yards and another score in less than a half as