Новости за 11.10.2018

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke linebacker Koby Quansah is out indefinitely with a broken bone in his left foot. Team spokesman Art Chase said Quansah had surgery Thursday to repair his fractured fifth metatarsal. Quansah has 14 tackles in five games with nine coming in the opener against Army. The junior has made four career starts.

MILWAUKEE — Gio Gonzalez will start for the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 1 of the NL Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. The Brewers have chosen Wade Miley to start in Game 2 on Saturday, meaning that Milwaukee will open up the NLCS with two straight lefties. Right-hander Jhoulys Chacin will

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina, without rested Barcelona striker Lionel Messi, thrashed Iraq 4-0 in a friendly on Thursday with goals from Lautaro Martinez, Roberto Pereyra, German Pezzella and Franco Cervi. Inter Milan striker Martinez’s 18th-minute goal at the Prince Faisal bin Fahd stadium was his first for his country. The friendly marked the return

OMAHA, Neb. — Challenger Jose Benavidez Jr. has been displaying lots of bravado in advance of his fight with Terence “Bud” Crawford. The WBO welterweight champion expects Benavidez to respect him by the time things are settled in the ring Saturday night. “I don’t see anything special in him. I don’t know why everyone hypes

CINCINNATI — Coach Marvin Lewis routinely shows his Bengals players video of egregious conduct from around the league as a way of trying to keep them in line. Exhibit A would be their game last December against the Steelers. The Bengals were penalized 13 times for a club-record 173 yards during another meltdown against Pittsburgh

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday: Square Inc., down $8.42 to $69.03 The mobile payments services company said Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar will leave to become CEO of the social media app Nextdoor. L Brands Inc., up $1.69 to $30.21 The parent company of Victoria’s Secret said its sales

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Authorities say a National Park Service ranger shot a suspect at Grand Canyon National Park. They say both the ranger and suspect sustained minor injuries in the incident at the canyon’s South Rim about 1 a.m. Thursday. Park officials say the suspect is in custody and taken to a

SAN FRANCISCO — Regulators fined the San Francisco Bay Area’s transit agency $650,000 on Thursday for safety failures that led a commuter train to strike and kill two workers inspecting track five years ago during a union strike. The California Public Utilities Commission also placed the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency on three years of

WASHINGTON — This week’s dizzying sell-offs in the financial markets have been a rude reminder that the U.S. economy is no longer relying on ultra-low interest rates to fuel growth. Borrowing costs are rising for companies, homebuyers and the U.S. government — all of which could eventually dampen economic growth. Yet the climb in interest

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers have placed Omari Johnson and Elijah Stewart on waivers. The moves came less than a week before Indiana’s regular season opener against Memphis. Johnson is a 6-foot-9, 220-pound forward who made his NBA debut in 2017. The Oregon State alum did not appear any preseason games with Indiana. Stewart is

MEXICO BEACH, Fla. — The small Gulf Coast community of Mexico Beach was known as a slice of Old Florida. Now it lies in splinters. Hit head-on by Hurricane Michael, numerous homes in this resort town of about 1,190 people were shattered or ripped from their foundations. Boats were tossed like toys. The streets closest

MEXICO BEACH, Fla. — The small Gulf Coast community of Mexico Beach was known as a slice of Old Florida. Now it lies in splinters. Hit head-on by Hurricane Michael, homes in this town of about 1,190 people were shattered or ripped from their foundations. Boats were tossed like toys. The streets closest to the

NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees, perhaps only half joking, explains that fatherhood and having a son who is highly critical of his living room passing accuracy, is what has kept the Saints’ record-setting quarterback sharp as he’s approached his 40th birthday. “My kids are what make me be better,” Brees began, describing how his son,

WILMINGTON, N.Y. — Jeanne Ashworth, the first American woman to win an Olympic speedskating medal, has died. She was 80. The website of the Heald Funeral Home in Elizabethtown, New York, says she died at home Oct. 4 of pancreatic cancer. Ashworth competed in three Olympics and captured 14 North American championships. She won the

SALT LAKE CITY — Disrupting the run game has become Utah’s defensive trademark once again. After leading the Pac 12 in rushing defense in 2015 and 2016, the Utes slipped to third place a year ago. Only one league opponent, Washington State, failed to generate at least 100 yards on the ground against Utah. It

MIAMI — Last week the Miami Dolphins resorted to eight-man pass protection, so desperate were they to slow an onslaught against quarterback Ryan Tannehill. And now they have to block Khalil Mack. That will be a daunting task when Miami faces the Chicago Bears on Sunday in a matchup of first-place teams headed in opposite

LOS ANGELES — Ambitious, lavishly produced television series are routine in the era of big-spending streaming platforms. But the latest entry, Amazon’s “The Romanoffs,” tests viewers with its classic TV format. It’s an anthology series made up of eight self-contained episodes, a contrast with the season-long narratives of other recent anthologies including “American Crime Story.”

INDIANAPOLIS — The Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis has named 23 priests who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor or young person dating to the 1940s. The archdiocese published the names Thursday on its website, fulfilling a promise that Archbishop Charles Thompson made in August . Thompson said in a statement he

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Facing the Southeastern Conference Western Division brings out the worst in Tennessee. The Volunteers have lost 15 straight games to the SEC West. Tennessee’s last win against a Western Division opponent was a 52-14 trouncing of Mississippi in 2010. Tennessee (2-3, 0-2 SEC) is looking to end the skid as the Vols

Marshawn Lynch and Bruce Irvin helped win a Super Bowl in Seattle before becoming stalwarts in Oakland. Sebastian Janikowski rewrote the record book for the Raiders before booming long kicks for the Seahawks. Seattle defensive coordinator Ken Norton Jr. and Oakland offensive line coach Tom Cable spent the past few seasons doing the same job

NEW YORK — Facebook says it has purged more than 800 U.S. pages and accounts for spamming users with garbage links and clickbait. Facebook accuses their backers of “coordinated inauthentic behavior” for setting up networks of pages and accounts designed to mislead users about who they are and what they’re doing. The social network says

MONTPELIER, Vt. — The rediscovery of a Revolutionary War diary belonging to one of the American commanders of the Battle of Valcour Island is offering historians a fresh first-person view of the fight that historians credit with helping the fledgling United States of America survive. The diary of Col. Edward Wigglesworth, the third in command

UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier said he turned down a rematch against Stipe Miocic because of concerns his broken right hand had not properly healed. “(UFC) asked me a few weeks ago and I didn’t know if my hand was going to be OK,” Cormier told The Associated Press on Thursday. “Also, because of the

NEW YORK — The last time the stock market was falling this much , this fast, earnings season helped come to the rescue. Stocks swooned in March. Then a parade of companies lined up to report profits that were even fatter than Wall Street had forecast, which helped turn momentum and get stocks back on

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian disaster officials say at least 12 people have died in a mudslide that swept through their mountainside homes. Officials say the slide occurred at about 2 a.m. Thursday in the central Colombian town of Marquetalia and caught the victims during their sleep. Four children were killed by the mudslide and 53