Новости за 30.09.2017

CROSBY, Texas — The football coach of a private high school near Houston has thrown two players off the team after one knelt and another raised a fist during the national anthem prior to a game. Head coach Ronnie Mitchem told the Houston Chronicle that he had an understanding with his players at Victory and

POWELL, Ohio — An 18-month-old female manatee has arrived at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium from a zoo in Tampa, Florida. Columbus Zoo officials say Agua arrived Friday from Tampa’s Lowery Park Zoo. She had been in Tampa since June 2016 after her mother was struck by a boat. The mother died two months later.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — The International Weightlifting Federation has suspended nine leading countries for a year as it tries to combat an epidemic of doping. Russia, China, and Kazakhstan, which have all won numerous Olympic and world titles, are among those suspended after drug test samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics were re-examined. Countries with

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — No. 21 Florida has tied an NCAA record by scoring in its 365th consecutive game. The Gators found the end zone during their second possession against Vanderbilt on Saturday, tying the NCAA mark set by Michigan between 1984 and 2014. The Wolverines played 365 games over 30 years without being shut out.

LEWISBURG, Ky. — An archaeologist says he’s unearthed a 19th-century tavern in Kentucky while digging for culturally significant items where an airport planned to expand a runway protection zone. The Ledger Independent reports Orloff Miller and his crew weren’t expecting to find the tavern when he began the project in the summer of 2016 near

MADRID — Sevilla defeated Malaga 2-0 with goals two minutes apart in the second half to regain second place in the Spanish league on Saturday. Ever Banega converted a 68th-minute penalty kick and Luis Muriel quickly added to the lead to pull Sevilla within two points of league leader Barcelona, which hosts Las Palmas on

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Former Purdue football coach Joe Tiller has died at age 74. Tiller’s Boilermakers won 87 games over 12 seasons, from 1997 through 2008. That’s the most victories posted by any Purdue coach. In a statement, Purdue says Tiller died Saturday in Buffalo, Wyoming. A cause wasn’t disclosed. Tiller led Purdue to

SCRANTON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man who acknowledged he was driving drunk before a wrong-way crash that killed five people apologized to the victims’ families before he was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison. Thirty-year-old Gennadiy Manannikov, of Lake Ariel, was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in July to five counts of homicide

STOKE, England — Stoke striker Peter Crouch came off the bench to score an 85th-minute winner in a 2-1 victory over former club Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday. Crouch poked in from close range for a goal that will have come as a relief for the player he replaced, Saido Berahino, who had

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Spurs star Kawhi Leonard will miss the entire preseason because of a thigh injury. The Spurs announced Saturday that Leonard is rehabbing from right thigh tendinopathy. They say there is no timetable for his return. Leonard averaged 25.5 points and 5.8 rebounds for the Spurs last season. He made the

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky coach John Calipari says that freshman forward Jarred Vanderbilt is expected to miss the next three months after injuring his left foot in practice. A high school All-American who is part of another class of highly praised Wildcats recruits, the 6-foot-9 Vanderbilt sustained the injury during drill instruction on Friday. A

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Latest on Iowa Democrats (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A House Democrat seen as a rising star says the party is to blame for allowing President Donald Trump to claim voters in reliably Democratic territory. Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio told Democrats at a fundraiser in Des Moines, Iowa, on

LONDON — Diafra Sakho struck in the 90th minute to take West Ham out of the relegation zone by beating Swansea 1-0 in the English Premier League on Saturday. Sakho, who wanted to leave the club for Rennes, came on at London Stadium in the 78th minute of what Hammers manager Slaven Bilic called a

BERLIN — Shinji Kagawa became the highest scoring Japanese player in the Bundesliga on Saturday, showing a touch of class to give Borussia Dortmund a 2-1 win at Augsburg. Kagawa, who scored 21 league goals in his first stint at Dortmund from 2010-12 before leaving for Manchester United, now has 17 in his second after

NEW YORK — Notable quotes from interviews in Playboy magazine, whose founder, Hugh Hefner, died this week at age 91: “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times” — Then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, in 1976 “Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, England — Rory McIlroy moved into contention at the British Masters by shooting a 6-under 64 in the third round, leaving the No. 6-ranked golfer two strokes off the lead held by Robert Karlsson on Saturday. Karlsson shot 67 and was one stroke clear of five players, including overnight leader Tyrrell Hatton, who bogeyed

SALT LAKE CITY — The Latest on the Mormon conference in Salt Lake City (all times local): 10:25a.m. For the first time in more than a half century, the Mormon conference is underway without the presence of longtime leader and current president Thomas S. Monson. The 90-year-old Monson isn’t attending this weekend’s two-day conference that

NEW YORK — The Yankees made a late switch on Saturday, tabbing veteran left-hander CC Sabathia to start their game against Toronto in place of fellow lefty Jaime Garcia. New York entered the day two games behind Boston in the AL East with two to play. If the Yankees win both and the Red Sox

NEW YORK — When Jann Wenner was preparing to launch Rolling Stone in 1967, he had some ideas about how to make the magazine’s interviews stand out. “The Rolling Stone interview was modeled in part on the Playboy interview,” Wenner told The Associated Press this week, discussing the impact of the publication started by Hugh

NEW YORK — As the days pass since Hurricane Maria ripped across Puerto Rico, television reports increasingly echo those after Katrina a dozen years ago in sounding the alarm for a desperate population frustrated by the pace of relief efforts. The question is: how many people are listening this time? Despite being hampered by the

MANCHESTER, England — Romelu Lukaku scored for the sixth straight game after Marouane Fellaini netted twice as Manchester United beat Crystal Palace 4-0 on Saturday, keeping the beleaguered visitor without a point or a goal in the English Premier League. Lukaku was kept relatively quiet at Old Trafford until the 86th minute, when he tapped

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Two days of huge falling rocks hurting and in one case killing people at Yosemite National Park doesn’t mean there is increased danger. That’s according to the park’s geologist Greg Stock. He told The Associated Press on Friday that it’s impossible to predict when a hunk of rock like those

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Martin Lopez was shot in the hand last Saturday by two thieves who made off with his precious cans of gas in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. He was rushed to Centro Medico, a trauma center in the Puerto Rican capital where in ordinary times he would be quickly treated

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Authorities say a 16-year-old Oklahoma student has died after falling from the top of a stadium at the end of a high school football game. Officer James Koch of the Broken Arrow Police Department said in an email Saturday that the fall happened at the Broken Arrow High School stadium as

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Phil Mickelson set the Presidents Cup record with his 25th victory and the Americans moved to the cusp of their most dominant performance ever. Mickelson dropped in two wedges to short range for birdies as he and Kevin Kisner defeated Emiliano Grillo and Jhonattan Vegas in foursomes. The Americans won three