Новости за 04.08.2018

PITTSBURGH — Dexter Fowler’s difficult season has taken another downturn as the St. Louis Cardinals outfielder has sustained a broken left foot. Fowler was put on the 10-day disabled list prior to Saturday night’s game with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Second baseman Kolten Wong was activated from the 10-day DL. Fowler was removed in the eighth

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates have activated left fielder Corey Dickerson from the 10-day disabled list. Dickerson, who is second in the NL in hitting, has been out since July 25 with a strained left hamstring. Dickerson goes into Saturday night’s game with the St. Louis Cardinals with a .318 batting average, three points behind

WASHINGTON — Defending champion Alexander Zverev has reached the final at the Citi Open. The No. 1-seeded Zverev defeated 10th-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 6-4 in the semifinals Saturday. Sixteenth-seeded Andrey Rublev beat unseeded Denis Kudla 6-1, 6-4 in one quarterfinal and will face Alex de Minaur in the other semifinal Saturday night. De Minaur reached

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Even the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs is excited to see what Patrick Mahomes II can do. Clark Hunt doesn’t seem worried about putting too much pressure on his young quarterback, either. The chairman and most visible face of the ownership family said after Saturday’s training camp session at Missouri

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay Rays infielder Daniel Robertson has been put on the 10-day disabled list with a sprained left thumb and might miss the rest of the season. Robertson was hurt sliding into second base on a double Friday night. He will see a hand specialist Sunday to determine if surgery will

LEXINGTON, S.C. — Authorities say a reality television star from the series “My 600-lb Life” has been found dead at a South Carolina home. James “LB” Bonner was 30. A Lexington County Sheriff’s Department incident report states that deputies performing a welfare check found Bonner dead from a gunshot wound Thursday. It didn’t appear foul

MOSCOW — Russia has appointed action movie star Steven Seagal as a special envoy for humanitarian ties with the United States. The Foreign Ministry announced the move Saturday on its Facebook page, saying Seagal’s portfolio in the unpaid position would be to “facilitate relations between Russia and the United States in the humanitarian field, including

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Martin Truex Jr. has a chance to join former NASCAR greats Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart as kings of the roads. Truex is seeking his third consecutive victory on a road course in NASCAR’s stop Sunday at Watkins Glen. The 11-turn, 3.4-mile circuit joins Sonoma (California) Raceway as the only two

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Pornanong Phatlum made the Royal Lytham course sing for her again as she held on to her overnight one-shot lead of the Women’s British Open after the third round on Saturday. Pornanong has been singing Thai songs in her head to calm herself on a links course she admits to

JOHANNESBURG — Congo opposition leader Moise Katumbi has been blocked from entering the country to register as a candidate in December’s long-delayed presidential election, a spokesman said Saturday, as a dramatic attempt to drive in from neighboring Zambia appeared to fail. Zambia’s government told Katumbi of the refusal by Congolese authorities, Olivier Kamitatu Etsu said

LYNDON, Vt. — Experts from across the world will be meeting in Vermont to discuss the writings and the impact of the late Russian author and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Reading Solzhenitsyn conference will be held Sept. 7 and 8 at the Lyndon campus of Northern Vermont University. It is believed to be the only

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian troops have clashed with a local police force in the restive Somali region, with the defense ministry saying it will “take the necessary measures” to restore order. Witnesses say the fighting on Saturday in the regional capital of Jigjiga led to the burning of two churches and the destruction of

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reports that a man taking part in a protest in the northern province of Alborz was fatally shot. The Saturday report says a protest was taking place a day earlier in Karaj, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tehran, when someone fired from a car. There

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Jalen Hurts finally got to give his own take on Alabama’s much talked about quarterback situation. Since getting benched for the second half of the national title game, the two-year starter with the sparkling record has had to remain silent publicly about the situation. Hurts was blunt in his first chance to

SHENZHEN, China — Paris Saint-Germain won the curtain-raiser to the French season by ominously crushing Monaco 4-0 for the French Super Cup on Saturday. New coach Thomas Tuchel earned his first silverware with PSG and gave Neymar a 15-minute cameo, the Brazilians’ first appearance for the club since February when he broke a foot. Neymar

The latest on Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions Saturday in Canton, Ohio, and Terrell Owens’ separate celebration in Chattanooga, Tennessee (all times local): 9:20 p.m. Weapon X is now a Hall of Famer. Brian Dawkins, one of the hardest-hitting and most versatile safeties in NFL history, has been inducted into the pro football shrine.

The Latest on Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions Saturday in Canton, Ohio, and Terrell Owens’ separate celebration in Chattanooga, Tennessee (all times local): 4:55 p.m. Terrell Owens spent 39 minutes explaining why he was in Chattanooga alone and not in Canton with the seven other members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame who

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says all five people on board were killed when a small passenger airplane crashed in northern Oklahoma on Saturday. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford. “A single-engine Extra EA-400 crashed under unknown circumstances … shortly after taking off

MURRAY, Ky. — Protesters shouted “shame” as people entered a Republican fundraiser featuring a National Rifle Association leader and coming months after a shooting spree at a nearby Kentucky school left two students dead and several others injured. News media outlets report that inside the Friday event, incoming NRA president Oliver North received a standing

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Hayden Hurst has finally found a sport, position and team that are best suited for his athletic ability: football, tight end, Baltimore Ravens. After being selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 17th round of the 2012 draft, Hurst pitched in the Gulf Coast League in 2013. He tried first base

PARIS — As Europe struggles through a major heatwave, the French energy company EDF says it has halted a fourth nuclear reactor, this time one at the country’s oldest nuclear plant at Fessenheim in eastern France. In a statement, EDT said the Fessenheim nuclear reactor was temporarily shut down Saturday. Since Thursday, four French nuclear

GLASGOW, Scotland — Russian swimmer Kliment Kolesnikov set a world record in the final of the men’s 50-meter backstroke at the European Championships on Saturday. Kolesnikov finished in 24 seconds to beat the previous best mark set by Britain’s Liam Tancock, who timed 24.04 at the 2009 world championships in Rome. Robert-Andrei Glinta of Romania

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J — Breaking his left ankle and having his career put in jeopardy has given New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. a new perspective on life in which he is more thankful, seemingly more mature and looking forward to having fun playing football again. Speaking to reporters for the first time since

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s comments on former Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James (all times local): 3 p.m. A spokeswoman for Melania Trump says it appears that LeBron James is “working to do good things” and that the first lady would be willing to visit the new school he opened in

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s comments on former Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James (all times local): 1:45 p.m. A number of athletes are jumping in to defend NBA superstar LeBron James after President Donald Trump insulted his intelligence. Trump tweeted late Friday after apparently watching an interview James did with CNN