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A look at the U.S. Open , the year’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament: SURFACE: Hard courts. SITE: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. SCHEDULE: The 14-day tournament begins Monday. The women’s singles final is Saturday, Sept. 9; the men’s singles final is Sunday, Sept. 10. 2016 MEN’S SINGLES CHAMPION: Stan

CLEVELAND — Kansas City Royals starter Danny Duffy will undergo an MRI after being placed on the disabled list with a sore elbow. The left-hander was sent home Saturday to have medical tests on a condition that has bothered him for the past month. Duffy was scheduled to start Sunday’s series finale, but the team

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions have waived defensive tackle Bruce Gaston from injured reserve. The team announced the move Saturday. Gaston hasn’t appeared in an NFL regular-season game since the 2015 season, when he played in seven for the Chicago Bears and two for the Green Bay Packers. He made one tackle in

NEW YORK — There were plenty of times when the New York Yankees wondered when Greg Bird would play again. This year? Next season? Ever? “We weren’t sure about him,” manager Joe Girardi admitted. Bird’s time finally came Saturday, when he reached base three times in his long-awaited return to the lineup and helped the

LYON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The ashes of a cancer-stricken service dog who served three tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marines have reached their final resting place. The Detroit News and MLive.com report a couple hundred people gathered Saturday for the burial of Cena at the Michigan War Dog Memorial in Oakland County’s Lyon Township.

TORONTO — On Players Weekend, Blue Jays slugger Josh Donaldson is going by the nickname “Bringer of Rain.” To the Minnesota Twins, Donaldson has always been the bringer of pain. Donaldson had three hits, including a two-run home run, Kendrys Morales added a solo shot and Toronto withstood Minnesota’s late rally to beat the Twins

MILAN — There were no surprises in the 25-man Italy squad announced on Saturday for World Cup qualifiers against Spain and Israel. Goalkeeper Mattia Perin returns to the squad for the first time in nearly a year, after injuring his knee in January. The Genoa shotstopper will likely be behind Italy and Juventus captain Gianluigi

WASHINGTON — As Bryce Harper misses baseball while on the disabled list, many of his Nationals teammates are getting close to being healthy again. Even with Harper still out with a bone bruise in his left knee and no timetable for his return, the Nationals are about to get some reinforcements. Stephen Strasburg is back

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots star wide receiver Julian Edelman will miss the 2017 season after tearing the ACL in his right knee in a preseason game. The Patriots announced Saturday that Edelman, Tom Brady’s favorite target and one of the NFL’s most clutch receivers, would be sidelined all season after the non-contact injury

MANCHESTER, England — Raheem Sterling came to Manchester City’s rescue with a stoppage-time winner in a frenzied finale at Bournemouth, and Manchester United overcame Leicester’s resistance to maintain its perfect English Premier League start. Marcus Rashford and Marouane Fellaini struck in the final 20 minutes to seal a 2-0 victory over Leicester on Saturday. In

CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox have placed rookie Nicky Delmonico on the 10-day disabled list with a sprained right wrist. The 25-year-old Delmonico, who can play a couple different positions, got hurt during Thursday night’s 5-1 victory against Minnesota. He was scratched from Friday’s lineup against Detroit. Delmonico made his major league debut on

MASON, Ohio — A search warrant affidavit says the Ohio woman who left her 15-month-old daughter in a car for nine hours at an office building parking lot outside Cincinnati was running late and forgot to drop off the baby at daycare. The warrant was to search the car of Karen Osorio-Martinez, a senior research

COLUMBUS, Ind. — The Indiana gymnasium floor of Jonathon Hunter’s former high school became a place to pay final respects to the solider killed this month in Afghanistan. Family, friends, soldiers and dignitaries gathered Saturday for Hunter’s funeral at Columbus East High School, from which he graduated in 2011. He was lauded for his love

NEW YORK — His voice choking, Andy Murray unexpectedly announced Saturday that he was withdrawing from the U.S. Open because of a hip injury, adding to the lengthy list of top players who will miss the year’s last Grand Slam tournament. Murray was seeded No. 2 at Flushing Meadows, where play begins Monday. “Did pretty

NEW YORK — Roberta Vinci has a U.S. Open runner-up trophy again, after having her tennis hardware stolen from her home in Italy. Vinci was presented with a replacement silver plate by U.S. Tennis Association President Katrina Adams on Saturday, two days before the year’s last Grand Slam tournament begins. “Now I’m happy,” Vinci said,

LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s gambling regulators are grappling with how to deal with the state’s latest legal vice — recreational marijuana— and they’ve made it clear that pot doesn’t belong in casinos. In the first of a series of policy discussions on Thursday, the Nevada Gaming Commission reiterated that as long as marijuana consumption and

WASHINGTON — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC’s “This Week” —Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas; Tom Bossert, White House homeland security adviser; Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan; Douglas Lute, former U.S. ambassador to NATO. NBC’s “Meet the Press” —Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator William

MILAN — The limitations of video review were obvious at Genoa and veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon blasted the “ugly” system despite it helping his Juventus to a 4-2 victory in Serie A on Saturday. Video review (VAR) was used twice in the first half, to give both sides a penalty. However, Genoa forward Andrej Galabinov

PETAH TIKVA, Israel — Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of Israel’s attorney general’s home on Saturday to demand he indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges. The weekly vigils have become the vanguard of a grassroots protest movement against Netanyahu’s alleged financial misdeeds and illicit ties to executives in media, international business and

MANCHESTER, England — Three wins out of three for Manchester United, just like the start of last season. No wonder Jose Mourinho is so restrained this time around. Far from laying the foundations for an English Premier League title challenge, United faded after its trio of successes last August and — with far too many

MADRID — Lionel Messi missed a penalty kick but rebounded by scoring his record 350th goal in the Spanish league in Barcelona’s 2-0 win at Alaves on Saturday. Messi also scored the second in leading the club to its second consecutive victory to start the league. Barcelona was still without Ousmane Dembele, who was announced

ROME — Several thousand asylum-seekers, other migrants and supporters have marched through Rome to protest Italian police’s recent evictions of migrant camps. Some carried a banner Saturday proclaiming themselves “refugees not terrorists.” On Thursday, police used water cannons to clear out 100 asylum-seekers, most of them from Ethiopia or Eritrea, from a Rome square. Authorities

DALLAS — Dallas Mavericks center Nerlens Noel has decided to wait a year to try to cash in as a free agent. Two people with knowledge of the agreement said Saturday that Noel accepted a $4.1 million qualifying offer for one year, essentially betting on himself that he can get something closer to a max

Hurricane Harvey reached land Friday night, securing its place in history as the most furious hurricane to hit the Texas coast since Hurricane Carla in 1961. Carla killed dozens and destroyed nearly 2,000 homes. A look at Hurricane Carla and some of the most damaging hurricanes to hit the United States since 2000: (Figures have

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — New Jersey authorities say a psychic and her son cheated an elderly man out of more than $147,000 for treatment they said would rid him of evil spirits. Galloway police say Sally “Kim” Wando and her son, Frank Marco, face theft and conspiracy charges. Authorities say the pair told police the