Новости за 26.08.2017

MADISON, Ill. — Helio Castroneves is a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and has 30 victories overall and 50 poles in his 19-year career. The popular 42-year-old driver is still looking for a season championship. He hopes to change that this season. With three races left, including Saturday night at Gateway Motorsports Park, Castroneves sits third

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Houston is sending its football team to Austin to practice and get out Hurricane Harvey’s way. The University of Texas has agreed to let the Cougars use their indoor practice facility. Austin is supposed to get some rain from the storm but nothing like the deluge expected for several

COLOGNE, Germany — Hamburger SV defeated Cologne 3-1 for its second consecutive win to start the Bundesliga in a match stopped for nearly 10 minutes because of an injury to the referee on Friday. Referee Felix Brych was hurt early in the second half and the match had to be halted until he was replaced

NEW YORK — A radical Muslim cleric who was convicted of stirring up racial hatred in Britain and deported to Jamaica was indicted Friday in New York on charges of recruiting would-be terrorists. Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal was arrested in Jamaica. Jamaica’s Ministry of National Security said that el-Faisal was arrested in the capital of Kingston

LAS VEGAS — Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee don’t consider it a betrayal of their profession to say Conor McGregor will probably lose his boxing match with Floyd Mayweather. “I’ve got to be honest,” said Ferguson, the UFC’s No. 2-ranked lightweight. “It’s going to go past four rounds, but it’s going to be Mayweather.” Ferguson

WASHINGTON — Hurricane Harvey is shaping up as just about a worst-case scenario storm with possible flooding from two different directions. Harvey intensified rapidly because it’s been meandering over deep warm water and has calm air at 40,000 feet (12,192 meters) high. It’s moving slowly and will be stuck over the Texas coast through the

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s congress cleared the way Friday for Vice President Jorge Glas to be investigated for allegedly taking bribes from a Brazilian construction giant involved in a sprawling regional graft scandal. The unanimous vote by the legislature makes Glas the highest-ranking official in Ecuador to be probed for purportedly receiving some of the

WATERVILLE, Maine — A naked man who startled a mother and her children on a nature trail in Maine has been issued a summons by police. Officers say 67-year-old Ricky Thompson told them he was sunbathing when the family spotted him in Waterville on Thursday. The woman described to police a “naked elderly man” with

SALT LAKE CITY — Real Salt Lake forward Ricardo Velazco has been arrested on accusations he had unlawful sexual activity with a minor and was suspended by Major League Soccer. Authorities say Velazco had sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl in May in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper. He was 23 years old

TANEYTOWN, Md. — Authorities say two bodies have been found in the rubble of a Maryland house that exploded and caught fire. The Office of the State Fire Marshal says in a statement that a neighbor reported hearing an explosion about 5 a.m. Friday at the home in Taneytown (TAW-nee-town), near the Pennsylvania line. When

DALLAS — Refinery operators along the Texas Gulf Coast are hunkering down for Hurricane Harvey, while motorists far from the storm’s path are also feeling the effects as gasoline prices rise. Nearly one-third of the nation’s refining capacity sits in low-lying areas along the coast from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Several refineries

NEW YORK — Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera has been suspended seven games and New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez got banned four games for their actions on a fight-filled afternoon at Comerica Park. Major League Baseball announced the penalties Friday, a day after the Yankees and Tigers got into a series of beanball-related clashes

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers have released outside linebacker Ahmad Brooks after eight seasons with the team. The Niners cut Brooks on Friday because they determined he would not make the roster and wanted to give him a head start on finding a new team. The 33-year-old Brooks signed with San Francisco

PARIS — French league leader Paris Saint-Germain beat Saint-Etienne 3-0 for a fourth straight win on Friday, with Edinson Cavani scoring twice and Neymar involved in two goals. Saint-Etienne came to Paris on the back of three straight wins and as the only team yet to concede a goal. But the defense had not faced

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — He’s an undersized underdog, underpaid and unshakable. Trevor Siemian, who considered going into real estate when his college career ended on crutches, has spent three consecutive summers forcing the Denver Broncos to rethink their plans. Siemian has dispatched two former first-round QBs the last two summers following a year’s apprenticeship under Peyton

SAN DIEGO — A U.S. government watchdog agency on Friday dismissed a company’s objections to the bidding process to build a prototype for a proposed border wall. The U.S. Government Accountability Office found that Ft. Worth, Texas-based PennaGroup did not file comments in time to protest the bid. “Allowing PennaGroup to file its comments late