Новости за 24.12.2015

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CLEVELAND -- After piecing together lineups for the first quarter of the season, the Cleveland Cavaliers looked around to each other before Wednesday night's game and realized they finally have their full roster intact.

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DETROIT -- For most of the past nine years, wide receiver Calvin Johnson has been the face of the Detroit Lions' franchise.

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JACKSONVILLE -- The Jaguars may not know until Sunday morning which quarterback they will be facing in New Orleans.

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LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Bears running back Matt Forte doesn't know if his future lies in Chicago.

By Larry Fleisher, The Sports Xchange
NEW YORK -- Presented with the names of those ahead of him on the NBA's career scoring list, Dirk Nowitzki said "it sounds pretty good."

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PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers had three offensive players voted to the Pro Bowl.

By Jeff Wallner, The Sports Xchange
CINCINNATI -- For AJ McCarron, being called a "game manager" isn't an insult. But he might need to be more than that in Monday night's showdown in Denver.

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson didn't think Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. deserved a one-game suspension.

By Patti Traina, The Sports Xchange
Beckham had his appeal of a one-game suspension denied by the NFL on Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, the Washington Wizards were lethargic from start to finish during a blowout loss against the Memphis Grizzlies.

Doug G. Ware
BENTON COUNTY, Miss., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Several people were killed Wednesday after severe weather rolled from the Midwest to Southeast, leading to a warning not seen for almost two years.

Doug G. Ware
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Civil rights protesters impacted life in Minneapolis Wednesday when a "Black Lives Matter" rally moved from the world's busiest shopping mall to the airport.

Daniel Uria and Doug G. Ware
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The Minnesota Vikings are suing Wells Fargo for allegedly breaking a deal regarding the team's new $1 billion stadium, which is named for competitor U.S. Bank.

Stephen Feller
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- New research shows that smoking bans are more effective at discouraging smoking than raising taxes, though both are effective at reducing tobacco use.

Alex Butler
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Multiple reports of Odell Beckham Jr. winning his Wednesday appeal proved to be false.

Brooks Hays
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- New images, shared Wednesday by NASA, showcase the size and shape of the Christmas Eve asteroid -- the highest resolution images to date.

Doug G. Ware
PARIS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A man who was facing terror charges for beheading his boss at a French gas plant this summer committed suicide in jail this week, authorities said Wednesday.

Daniel Uria
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A landslide in St. Louis has caused a weekend home in Lake of the Ozarks to slowly begin to slide into the water.

Brooks Hays
WADERN, Germany, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The inheritability of epigenetic changes has been demonstrated across generations in a wild animal.

Stephen Feller
BOSTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Kangaroo mother care, or continuous skin-to-skin contact, can reduce rates of low birth weight infant death, according to a review of studies.

Ben Hooper
JERUSALEM, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Officials with Israel's Antiquities Authority said a suspected "ancient relic" was identified by a Facebook user as a New Age device.

Alex Butler
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Anxious fantasy football owners and New York Giants fans combed keyboards Wednesday.

Alex Butler
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Anxious fantasy football owners and New York Giants fans combed keyboards Wednesday.

Ryan Maass
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Germany has begun withdrawing its Patriot missile batteries from Turkey, concluding its three-year mandate to support the NATO mission in the region.

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New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin defended Odell Beckham Jr. on Wednesday as the star wide receiver arrived at NFL headquarters for his suspension appeal hearing