Новости за 19.01.2018

NEW YORK — The flu season in the U.S. is getting worse. Health officials last week said flu was blanketing the country but they thought there was a good chance the season was already peaking. But the newest numbers out Friday show it grew even more intense. “This is a season that has a lot

HOUSTON — The NCAA handed Houston Baptist’s football program two years of probation Friday along with a public reprimand and recruiting penalties after coach Vic Shealy failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance by creating his own student host program. Shealy asked his daughter to be a student host and she enlisted members of her

PHOENIX — Back when Bruce Arians announced his retirement, Arizona Cardinals President Michael Bidwill said he would be in no rush to find a new head coach. He pointed out that Arians was the last coach hired in 2013. But while the Cardinals have followed their methodical, and quite secretive, process, the pool of potential

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina pitching coach Jerry Meyers is back in the athletic department as assistant director of athletics development. Athletic director Ray Tanner, Meyers former boss on the baseball staff, announced the hiring Friday. Meyers had spent 16 years on the Gamecocks staff in two separate stints. In his last one, Meyers

Mikaela Shiffrin often finds herself fixating on two thoughts that are completely detached from reality. “I feel every single day, first of all, like I’ve never won a World Cup in my life,” the Alpine ski racing star told The Associated Press. “And I feel like I’m never going to win again.” Really? She is,

MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins have announced several changes in Adam Gase’s coaching staff, including the hiring of Dowell Loggains as offensive coordinator. Jeremiah Washburn was hired as offensive line coach. Defensive backs coach Lou Anarumo, running backs coach Danny Barrett and defensive line coach Terrell Williams were not retained, the Dolphins said Friday. Three

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans have interviewed Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur as the third candidate for their head coach opening. The Titans announced Friday they had concluded the interview. LaFleur, 38, is coming off his first season as offensive coordinator, though Rams coach Sean McVay called the plays. LaFleur was quarterbacks

CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has announced he will run for a second, four-year term in elections due in March. The former general made the announcement in televised comments carried live on Friday. Winning the election is virtually a foregone conclusion for el-Sissi, who led the military’s ouster in 2013 of Egypt’s first freely-elected

BERLIN — Borussia Dortmund has left star striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang out of its squad for the second Bundesliga match in a row. The Gabon player, who was dropped from the squad for Dortmund’s 0-0 draw with Wolfsburg last Sunday, was again omitted from the side that was playing at Hertha Berlin on Friday. Dortmund sporting

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thunder coach Billy Donovan can’t pinpoint the best thing about Paul George. Oklahoma City’s versatile forward averages just over 20 points per game, leads the league in steals and is third in 3-point goals while shooting 43 percent from beyond the arc. “I think that’s what makes him the player he is,”

KITZBUEHEL, Austria — Andrew Weibrecht’s wait for another top-three result in a super-G reached the two-year mark on Friday. But struggling with persistent knee problems and finishing 24th in the last World Cup race before the Pyeongchang Olympics haven’t dashed the American’s hopes for the games. The racer nicknamed “The Warhorse” has twice before won

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State dropped back-to-back games to highly ranked teams, lost one of its top players to a foot injury and experienced a heartbreaking defeat to bitter rival Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse. In other words, the perfect setup for routing the No. 4 team in the country. The Wildcats rebounded from their lousy

ALAMEDA, Calif. — The NFL said Friday that the Oakland Raiders complied with the “Rooney Rule” when they hired Jon Gruden as head coach. The league said a review found the Raiders conducted “bona fide” interviews with minority candidates during their search for a replacement for the fired Jack Del Rio. The “Rooney Rule” requires

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee says it has created a pool of 389 Russians who are eligible to compete under a neutral flag at next month’s Winter Olympics amid the country’s doping scandal. An IOC panel whittled down an initial list of 500 to create what the IOC calls “a pool of clean

SHERBROOKE, Quebec — Three men charged in a criminal negligence trial stemming from a 2013 derailment that killed 47 people in the Canadian province of Quebec have all been found not guilty. The jury of eight men and four women reached the verdict on Friday after nine days of deliberations. A runaway train carrying crude

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Matt Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman have heard all the jokes. They are grown men wearing matching skintight racing suits who lay flat on their backs while sharing a little sled for 80 mph trips down ice-covered mountainside chutes for a living. They don’t get rich by doing this, the risk rarely

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Minnesota Vikings starters WR Adam Thielen (lower back) and S Andrew Sendejo (concussion) are both listed as questionable for Sunday’s NFC championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Thielen, the Vikings’ top receiver, was a limited participant in practice on Thursday and Friday after not practicing Wednesday. Sendejo is still in concussion

The Philadelphia Union have acquired winger David Accam from the Chicago Fire for $1.2 million in allocation money. Accam had 14 goals and eight assists last year in his third season with the Fire. For his Major League Soccer career, the 27-year-old native of Ghana has 33 goals and 15 assists. When the trade was

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says Justice Sonia Sotomayor is “doing fine” after emergency medical personnel treated her at home for symptoms of low blood sugar. Sotomayor is diabetic. The court’s public information office says in a statement that Sotomayor experienced symptoms of low blood sugar Friday morning. The court says she later came to

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois has hired Arizona assistant Rod Smith as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Smith spent six years with the Wildcats and has been a coach for 22 years, focusing on the offensive side of the ball. He replaces Garrick McGee, who was fired last month after the Illini averaged just 19.7

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors say two people in Italy and five U.S. residents have been charged in a fraud and drug trafficking conspiracy to distribute opioids in Florida and Tennessee, leading to hundreds of deaths. The indictments were unsealed by federal officials Friday in Knoxville but handed down earlier this month. They allege the

Tom Brady is staying mum on his status for the AFC championship game after suffering a right-hand injury earlier in the week. Brady said a bit contentiously only “We’ll see” at a news conference Friday when asked whether he would play in Sunday’s conference title game against Jacksonville. The quarterback wore red gloves and responded

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: Oprah Winfrey on Racism “Old White People Need to Die” THE FACTS:

CHICAGO — Chicago’s renowned sketch comedy club The Second City has expanded its class offerings for people with autism to include teenagers in the city’s suburbs. The Chicago Tribune reports the comedy club has partnered with the Lisle-based Giant Steps to expand its Improv for Autism program. Giant Steps runs a private school for students

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State coach Urban Meyer and his assistants annually brace for announcements about elite and not-so-elite players leaving the program early for the NFL draft. But Monday’s deadline to declare came and went, and the damage wasn’t so bad for the Buckeyes. There were some predictable early departures in cornerback Denzel Ward,