Новости за 30.10.2017

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska quarterback Tanner Lee has gone from being a liability the first month of the season to giving the Cornhuskers their best chance to win. Unless the Huskers (4-4, 3-2 Big Ten) suddenly find a running game, how they finish the season will depend on whether Lee keeps playing like he did

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Injuries mount. Sympathy doesn’t. Indiana coach Tom Allen understands that. “Injuries are part of it,” he said. “Other guys have to step up.” The Hoosiers (3-5) host No. 4 Wisconsin (8-0) on Saturday with a three-game losing streak and a depleted roster that will be missing at least five starters — defensive

ASHBURN, Va. — Tight end Jordan Reed and defensive lineman Matt Ioannidis are among the injured Washington Redskins players expected to miss their game at Seattle. Coach Jay Gruden expects Reed’s hamstring and Ioannidis’ broken hand to keep them out Sunday against the Seahawks. Several other players could miss the game, including tight end Niles

Jeff Brohm continues to educate Purdue in the art of the turnaround. First, he had to get his players to buy into a new system. Then he needed them to believe in themselves. Now he wants them back in the classroom for another crucial lesson: Learning how to win. “All of us have to kind

MADISON, Wis. — College Football Playoff rankings or not, the Wisconsin Badgers play with week-to-week blinders. No-nonsense coach Paul Chryst doesn’t get caught up in debates about poll positioning. The collective focus for his team is trained on getting ready for Indiana this weekend, even with the first playoff rankings being released Tuesday night. Really.

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Denny Hamlin loves Martinsville Speedway, where he has won five times at a place he considers one of his home tracks. Yet when he was shown on the infield big screen after wrecking Chase Elliot, he was roundly booed. Yes, the guy from Virginia was booed at his own track. It took

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Home games ahead against Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech. Road trips to Louisville and Miami. Virginia is coming off not-even-close losses to Boston College and Pittsburgh and, two weeks after there was talk of an ACC Coastal Division championship, the Cavaliers can’t help but wonder if a bowl game is still in

NEW YORK — Shares of Sprint and T-Mobile have tumbled as several news reports cast doubt on a long-expected deal between the two wireless carriers. The Nikkei Asian Review kicked off by reporting from Japan that Sprint’s owner, Japan’s SoftBank, plans to break off deal negotiations with T-Mobile’s parent company, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, over disagreements

WASHINGTON — In an odd twist, low-income people in about half of U.S. counties will now be able to get a taxpayer-subsidized “Obamacare” policy for free, according to a new study that suggests some actions by President Donald Trump against the health law could backfire. Monday’s analysis of government data by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family

SKHIRAT, Morocco — Morocco is hosting a regional meeting on migration aiming at developing an African agenda on the issue. The three-day meeting gathers representatives of African states, the United Nations, the African Union, NGOs and academics. Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita said during the opening speech Monday that the set of informal

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia coach Kirby Smart clearly was influenced by his former boss, Nick Saban, on the subject of dealing with national polls. “They would talk about rat poison a lot and things like that,” Smart said Monday, referring to Saban’s description for rankings and praise for his Alabama team. The comment drew a

An epic game. No, make that an instant classic. Words that get tossed around way too much to have much meaning. Words that don’t really describe Game 5 of the World Series, no matter how entertaining much of it was. And entertaining it was. By the time Alex Bregman and Kenley Jansen combined to finally

LAS VEGAS — The Latest on the federal trial of in Las Vegas of four defendants, including Nevada rancher and states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy, on charges stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents in April 2014 (all times local): 12:55 p.m. Jury selection is expected to take several days and trial could take

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX has racked up another rocket launch, its 16th this year. That’s double last year’s count, and 2017 still has two months remaining. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off Monday afternoon from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, hoisting a communications satellite for the South Korean company KT SAT. This newest Koreasat will

SAN FRANCISCO — The bullet that killed a woman on a San Francisco pier two years ago ricocheted off the ground about 100 yards away before hitting her in the back and later launching a criminal case at the center of a national immigration debate. A police officer who helped supervise the investigation into the

PITTSBURGH — The offense expected to light up scoreboards is instead grinding it out. The way the Pittsburgh Steelers defense is playing, it hardly matters. The team expected to compete for a Super Bowl berth looks the part at the season’s midway point. The Steelers just aren’t doing it the way most envisioned. Rather than

DAKAR, Senegal — Amnesty International says a military court in Cameroon has sentenced an opposition leader to 25 years in prison for hostility against the homeland and contempt of the president. The international rights group said Monday’s sentence against Aboubakar Siddiki came after an unfair trial. It called for his release and that of well-known

KIEV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian lawmaker says a Chechen man sought by Russia on charges of involvement in a botched plot to kill President Vladimir Putin has been wounded in an ambush near the Ukrainian capital. Anton Gerashchenko, a member of parliament and adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said that Adam Osmayev was wounded when

SHERIDAN, Mich. — Michigan State Police have identified the parents injured when a horse-drawn buggy and pickup truck collided, killing three of their children. They say 40-year-old buggy driver Paul Martin of Sheridan was in stable condition Monday at a Flint hospital. His wife, 34-year-old Judith Martin, was in critical condition at a Grand Rapids

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Confederation of African Football executive committee member Isha Johansen has been charged with 10 counts of corruption and abuse of office in her home country of Sierra Leone. Johansen, the president of the Sierra Leone Football Association, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which relate to her work at the association.

AMES, Iowa — Iowa State’s rise to the top of the Big 12 standings has been one of the nation’s biggest surprises this fall. The Cyclones can thank their vastly improved defense. No. 14 Iowa State (6-2, 4-1 Big 12) has the league’s top-rated defense through five games, allowing just 13.6 points in league outings

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Patrick Marleau woke up in his own home in San Jose and drove to the rink to prepare for a hockey game just like he has done countless times during his stellar career. This night will be different than any of those others as Marleau will be the opponent in the

BILLINGS, Mont. — A political watchdog organization has accused the dormant congressional campaign of U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of skirting contribution laws when it sold a motor home to a friend of Zinke at a steep discount. The Campaign Legal Center complaint was filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission. It also accused Zinke’s

WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators want to remove a health claim about the heart benefits of soy from cartons of soy milk, tofu and other foods, saying the latest scientific evidence no longer shows a clear connection Monday’s announcement by the Food and Drug Administration marks the first time the agency has moved to revoke

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The NFL has suspended injured Chicago Bears linebacker Jerrell Freeman 10 games for violating the league’s policy against performance-enhancing drugs. It was the second PED suspension in as many years for Freeman, who received a four-week punishment last season. The league says he will begin serving this one immediately. A sixth-year