Новости за 10.09.2017

CHICAGO — All Matt Ryan was trying to do was make something out of a broken play when he saw tight end Austin Hooper wide open near midfield. He wound up throwing a huge touchdown pass to help Atlanta squeeze out a season-opening victory. Ryan connected with Hooper on an 88-yard TD and led two

NEW YORK — Jenny Simpson raced to her record-extending sixth New Balance 5th Avenue Mile victory Sunday, matching the event record of 4 minutes, 16.6 seconds. New Zealand’s Nick Willis tied the men’s record with his fourth title, finishing in 3:51.3. The 31-year-old Simpson, second in the world championships in London last month, won for

DETROIT — Matthew Stafford threw two of his four touchdown passes to rookie Kenny Golladay in the fourth quarter Sunday, helping the Detroit Lions rally to beat the Arizona Cardinals 35-23. The Lions picked off three of Carson Palmer’s passes, returning one for a score. They also knocked David Johnson out of the game after

ARLINGTON, Texas — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge has become the second major league rookie to hit 40 homers. With his solo shot in the fourth inning Sunday against the Texas Rangers, the 25-year-old joined Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle as the only Yankees to hit 40 homers at age

MINNEAPOLIS — A test lawsuit goes to trial in Minneapolis Monday against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta for introducing a genetically-engineered corn variety before China approved it for imports. The case alleges Viptera corn wrecked an important export market for U.S. corn and hurt prices. But Syngenta says the 2013 price drop resulted from larger market

GREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina’s latest poor defensive performance has the Pirates changing coordinators. Coach Scottie Montgomery says defensive coordinator Kenwick Thompson has been reassigned within the football program and will no longer coach and defensive line coach Robert Prunty has replaced him immediately. Montgomery announced the changes Sunday, a day after a 56-20 loss

MANKATO, Minn. — Police say six people were hurt when a man deliberately drove his vehicle into a group in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Minnesota. Authorities say the 21-year-old Montgomery, Minnesota, man fled the scene in Mankato early Sunday before Blue Earth County sheriff’s deputies arrested him. Police commander Craig Frericks

CHICAGO — Matt Ryan threw an 88-yard touchdown to Austin Hooper and led two fourth-quarter scoring drives, and the NFC champion Atlanta Falcons held on to beat the Chicago Bears 23-17 in the season opener on Sunday. The butt of jokes following their epic Super Bowl collapse against New England, the Falcons survived as the

LOS ANGELES — By the fourth quarter, the Southern California offensive line could see the physical and psychological effects of a bruising running game had taken on the opposing defense. It’s happened plenty of times over the last decade in the revived Stanford-USC rivalry, but this time the No. 4 Trojans finally turned the tables

HOUSTON — Leonard Fournette ran for 100 yards and a touchdown in his NFL debut, and Jacksonville had 10 sacks and forced four turnovers to help the Jaguars to a 29-7 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday. Blake Bortles threw for 125 yards and a touchdown, Calais Campbell had four sacks and Dante Fowler

CLEVELAND — Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes to tight end Jesse James as the Pittsburgh Steelers, with minimal help from Le’Veon Bell, opened the season by holding off the Cleveland Browns 21-18 on Sunday. Roethlisberger improved to 21-2 in his career against the Browns, who gave their rivals all they could handle — a

LANDOVER, Md. — Carson Wentz threw for 307 yards and two touchdowns as the second-year quarterback guided the Philadelphia Eagles to a 30-17 victory over the Washington Redskins on Sunday in a sloppy, mistake-filled season opener between the NFC East rivals. Wentz was 26 of 39 and threw an interception that Ryan Kerrigan returned for

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Derek Carr threw for 262 yards and two touchdowns, and the Oakland Raiders beat the Tennessee Titans 26-16 in a season opener pitting two of the NFL’s rising, young quarterbacks. And Carr won his third straight against Marcus Mariota and the Tennessee Titans in as many years. Amari Cooper caught a TD

TORONTO — Teoscar Hernandez hit his first two home runs of the season, Darwin Barney had four hits and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Detroit 8-2 Sunday to assure the Tigers of just their second losing season in a decade. Hernandez, who played one game in April and then was brought up from the minors

TAMPA, Fla. — Hurricane Irma has pushed water out of a bay in Tampa, but forecasters are telling people not to venture out there, because it’s going to return with a potentially deadly vengeance. On Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa, about 100 people were walking Sunday afternoon on what was Old Tampa Bay — a body

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Tyrod Taylor threw two touchdown passes and the new-look Bills beat the New York Jets 21-12 on Sunday in Sean McDermott’s debut as Buffalo’s coach. Mike Tolbert also scored on a 1-yard run , while Buffalo’s defense had three interceptions, including linebacker Ramon Humber picking off Josh McCown’s pass to thwart

MARICOPA, Ariz. — The city of Maricopa has scrapped an idea to buy a private water company amid customer complaints about service interruptions and sudden spikes in water bills. The city hired Piper Jaffray, an investment bank and asset management firm, to conduct research on the possibility of acquiring Global Water but learned the company

CINCINNATI — Baltimore’s rebuilt defense picked off Andy Dalton four times and forced him to fumble Sunday, making it easy for Joe Flacco in his return from a back injury as the Ravens pulled away to a 20-0 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. The Ravens (1-0) ended a five-game losing streak in Cincinnati by pressuring

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A week ago, Shareef Miller hobbled to the far end of a cold, wet bench to sit down, rest a sore leg and watch Penn State’s defensive line work without him. Linebacker Jason Cabinda has an idea what Miller might’ve been thinking, sitting there alone in the rain, shaken up only

WASHINGTON — Stephen Strasburg threw eight innings of two-hit ball to extend his scoreless streak to a franchise-record 34 innings, and the Washington Nationals moved closer to wrapping up the NL East title with a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday. Trea Turner homered and tripled for the Nationals, and Victor Robles got

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As Irma marches up Florida’s Gulf Coast toward Tampa Bay, residents fear what the storm will do to an area that hasn’t taken a direct hit from a major hurricane since 1921. From punishing winds to catastrophic storm surge, the area is bracing for devastation. Vulnerable structures range from the towering

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine State Police say two motorcyclists participating in a charitable ride have died in a collision with a pickup truck. Police say the two occupants of the truck and two other motorcyclists were also injured in the crash on Interstate 95 in Augusta early Sunday afternoon. The motorcyclists were participating in the

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis police say a 13-year-old boy has been found shot to death in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant on the city’s far northeast side. The shooting occurred about 10 p.m. Saturday near the Castleton Square shopping mall. The boy suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at

TORONTO — The kind of breakthrough performance where it’s immediately apparent that an actor is going to be a star for years to come is a rarity in movies. Think of Emma Stone in “Easy A” or Jessica Chastain in “The Tree of Life.” But that kind of thunderbolt moment is striking now for 21-year-old

CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson’s defense not only shut down Auburn — it left little doubt which side of the ball would lead its latest try for a national championship. The Tigers (2-0), who stayed No. 3 in the latest rankings, had 11 sacks and held No. 15 Auburn to 117 total yards in a 14-6