Новости за 10.01.2017

CHICAGO — The World Series champion Chicago Cubs have agreed to three-year contract extensions through 2019 with television play-by-pay announcer Len Kasper and analyst Jim Deshaies. Kasper and Deshaies have been working together the past four seasons. The 45-year-old Kasper was hired in 2005 and is entering his 13th season calling play-by-play on Cubs telecasts.

PITTSBURGH — Offensive lineman nirvana arrived for the Pittsburgh Steelers late in the first quarter on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. Ten snaps. All handoffs from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to Le’Veon Bell. Each one of them chewing up clock, yardage and whatever mettle Miami’s defensive front seven might have brought north to chilly Heinz Field

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jabrill Peppers is taking his do-it-all talent to the NFL. The Heisman Trophy finalist announced his plans Tuesday to enter the draft and skip his senior season at Michigan. “It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do,” Peppers said in an interview with Sports Illustrated. “I’m choosing between

Ben Affleck is no doubt an ambitious and tasteful filmmaker, but he’s gotten himself in a bit of hot water with the bloated period gangster epic “Live by Night .” It looks and sounds right and all the elements are there: A conflicted anti-hero with a granite jaw, a fast-talkin’, two-timin’ moll, crooked cops, and

LONDON — A Romanian tennis player has been banned from the sport for life after admitting to a charge of match-fixing. The Tennis Integrity Unit says Alexandru-Daniel Carpen was found to have approached another player in October 2013 to fix a match in return for payment. The TIU said Tuesday that Carpen admitted to the

ARCADIA, Calif. — Trainer Ron Ellis has been banned from entering any horses in the Breeders’ Cup world championships this fall after being sanctioned by the event for a positive drug test involving his horse that finished second in last year’s BC Sprint. Breeders’ Cup officials said Tuesday that the ban also applies to the

MINNEAPOLIS — Wildlife managers have found two more deer suspected of being infected with chronic wasting disease near the southeastern Minnesota town of Preston, raising the number of confirmed and presumed cases in the area to five, the Department of Natural Resources announced Tuesday. The does were killed within a mile of where the first

CINCINNATI — Right-hander Louis Coleman agreed to a minor league deal on Tuesday with the Cincinnati Reds, who invited him to big spring training with a chance to win a role in their historically bad bullpen. The 30-year-old reliever went 2-1 with a 4.69 ERA in a set-up role for the Dodgers last season, making

SAN FRANCISCO — The National Transportation Safety Board is requesting faster action to correct unsafe wiring found in a type of small airplane that crashed in Northern California. The Piper PA-31T was carrying a flight nurse, transport medic and patient from Crescent City, near the Oregon border, to Oakland on July 29 when the pilot

NEW YORK — The hottest Broadway show is now shining its spotlight on a collection of historic American documents: Alexander Hamilton’s letters, being auctioned at Sotheby’s. Dozens of Hamilton letters will go on the block Jan. 18. Their estimated worth tops $2 million. But a Sotheby’s manuscript expert says the feverish interest in the musical

PHILADELPHIA — Police in Philadelphia say a school bus driver is facing charges for leaving a 7-year-old boy on a running bus while he went grocery shopping. WPVI-TV reports (http://6abc.cm/2jAdKUt ) that 28-year-old Jamar Henry picked up the boy Monday afternoon from a Christian school in West Philadelphia. Henry then stopped at a ShopRite supermarket,

HARGESIA, Somalia — The al-Shabab extremist group announced Tuesday it has killed a teenage boy and a young man for engaging in sexual conduct. This is the first known time that al-Shabab has carried out what it calls executions over homosexuality. The Somalia-based extremist group announced the killings via its Andalus radio, saying they were

NEW YORK — A former Fox News personality who accused Bill O’Reilly of sexual harassment was paid a sum in the high six figures by the network’s parent company in exchange for her silence and agreement not to sue, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The employee, Juliet Huddy, said O’Reilly, the network’s biggest star,

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump pushed Congress Tuesday to act swiftly to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, and follow up quickly with a replacement. House Speaker Paul Ryan, after talking with Trump, announced that the House would aim to take both steps “concurrently.” The push for speed and coordination came as growing numbers

MUNICH — Bayern Munich is sending injury-prone defender Holger Badstuber on loan to Schalke to get more game time. The center-back has struggled with repeated injuries in recent years and is not in Bayern coach Carlo Ancelotti’s plans, having played only three games this season, starting just once. Bayern’s chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says Badstuber

BOSTON — A judge has ruled that jurors in the double murder trial of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez can consider tattoos that prosecutors contend amount to an admission of guilt. Judge Jeffrey Locke on Tuesday denied a defense request to exclude his tattoos as evidence. Prosecutors say Hernandez got two tattoos added

EL PASO, Texas — A driver must serve 40 years in prison for the 2016 death of a West Texas police officer who was struck while on his stopped motorcycle. John Paul Perry was charged with capital murder but on Tuesday pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in a plea deal in El

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Latest on the U.S. citizen arrested by Mexican authorities in last week’s shooting of a U.S. consular official in Guadalajara: 3 p.m. Prosecutors say a U.S. citizen arrested by Mexican authorities in last week’s shooting of a U.S. consular official in Guadalajara is a 31-year-old man from Chino Hills, California. U.S.

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s main journalists’ union and opposition parties have expressed concern over the arrest of an executive in a small media group for allegedly trying to blackmail the country’s defense minister. The Parapolitika group’s manager was arrested in his office Tuesday. The publisher of Parapolitika newspaper also turned himself in to police later.

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D’Amato of New York was escorted off a plane for making a commotion after a 6½-hour delay. The incident occurred Monday night in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A witness told the New York Post (http://nyp.st/2iYQigB ) that passengers were already cranky when the JetBlue crew asked people who’d paid

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors in New York have charged two relatives of former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with plotting to bribe a Middle East official to influence the $800 million sale of a building complex in Vietnam. The relatives were named in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday. One of those charged

BAD GASTEIN, Austria — Italian snowboarder Christoph Mick won a floodlit parallel slalom Tuesday for his second career victory. Mick defeated Kaspar Fluetsch of Switzerland in the final, while Andreas Prommegger of Austria beat Nevin Galmarini of Italy in the small final to place third. Mick and Fluetsch are also first and second in the

RIO DE JANEIRO — Almost five months after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics ended, another venue is struggling to find a use. Rio de Janeiro’s city hall said Tuesday that the Deodoro Olympic Park, which was to be used as a park and recreation area after the games, has been closed. Deodoro was the second-largest

JERUSALEM — U.S. President Barack Obama warned in an interview broadcast Tuesday that “unfettered support” for Israel’s settlement policies would lead to a “worsening situation” over time between Israelis and Palestinians. The interview with Israeli TV program “Uvda” comes 10 days before Obama, who has been an outspoken critic of Israeli settlements, hands over to

WASHINGTON — The top Republican in the Senate outlined a series of actions he hopes President-elect Donald Trump will take to overturn environmental regulations imposed by President Barack Obama, including a rule to protect streams from coal-mining debris. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., urged Trump in a letter to scrap a rule to protect small