LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler is scheduled to undergo surgery to repair a torn right labrum and will be placed on injured reserve, coach John Fox announced Thursday.We did try to exhaust all the non-surgical remedies. Jay is a tough guy and proved that to me in the past, Fox said. We did multiple different types of rehab. Its been a couple weeks now. Now the next alternative is to have surgery. Hell have surgery on Saturday.Cutler, 33, suffered the tear in Chicagos loss at New York on Nov. 20 but finished the game.Fox initially described the injury as day to day.Hes tough and waited the weeks doing a lot of rehab, Fox said. They are in there doing rehab at all hours of the day. There were some different treatments -- Im not going to get into all the specifics -- but he did things you do to try and avoid surgery. They didnt take form like they were expecting, and were at the surgical mode at this point.Cutlers future in Chicago is in question. Since the guaranteed portion of Cutlers contract runs out after 2016, the Bears would take a $2 million cap hit if they trade or release Cutler in the offseason, but the move would open up $13 million worth of space.Fox refused to discuss Cutlers long-term status.Right now we have five games left and all of our focus is on San Francisco, Fox said. The offseason is the offseason. We are not there yet.Cutler is 51-51 with the Bears since he arrived in 2009 from the Denver Broncos. During that span, Cutler ranks 26th in the NFL in Total QBR, 25th in completion percentage, 27th in yards per attempt and 35th in touchdown to interception ratio -- among 47 qualifying quarterbacks. Cutler led the Bears to one playoff berth in 2010.Cutler posted a career-high 92.3 quarterback rating under former coordinator Adam Gase last season, but he appeared in only five games in 2016.Aside from the torn labrum, Cutler missed five games because of a thumb injury. He finishes the year with four touchdowns and five interceptions (78.1 passer rating). Cutler also lost two fumbles.Still, Cutlers current playcaller, Dowell Loggains, said he learned a lot about the embattled quarterback.Just how tough he is, Loggains said. How much he cares. How much the team means to him. Thats been incredible to watch. There is a perception, and then there is a reality of that. Its been really fun the last two years being able to coach him. Ive enjoyed every minute of it. http://www.bengalsrookiestore.com/Bengals-Shawn-Williams-Jersey/ . After slipping from the summit during the week, the Gunners overcame struggling Crystal Palace 2-0 on Sunday thanks to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlains second-half brace. http://www.bengalsrookiestore.com/Bengals-Brandon-Lafell-Jersey/ .Y. -- Jayna Hefford scored the winning goal Friday as Canada survived a scare with a 4-3 win over Sweden at the Four Nations womens hockey tournament. http://www.bengalsrookiestore.com/Bengals-Jordan-Willis-Jersey/ . - Connor McDavid scored 53 seconds into overtime as the Erie Otters came from behind to defeat the visiting Guelph Storm 4-3 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action. http://www.bengalsrookiestore.com/Bengals-Joe-Mixon-Jersey/ . The players spoke Jan. 13 during a Major League Baseball Players Association conference call after Rodriguez sued the union and Major League Baseball to overturn an arbitrators decision suspending him for the 2014 season and post-season. http://www.bengalsrookiestore.com/Bengals-Geno-Atkins-Jersey/ . The Islanders dealt Thomas Vanek to the Montreal Canadiens after less than a year on Long Island. Meanwhile, the Oilers dealt long-time sniper Ales hemsky to the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday for a fifth-round pick in 2014 and a third-rounder in 2015. Each day, well provide you with the players to target in your daily leagues, from high-priced stars to solid midrange values to cheaper, riskier players with upside.In general, you want to use safer options in your cash games and rely on some riskier, high-upside options in your biggger tournaments.dddddddddddd If you can average at least five points per $1,000 of salary, youll typically end up with at least some cash in your pocket. Wholesale Hoodies NFL Shirts Outlet Jerseys NFL Wholesale Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping Wholesale Jerseys Cheap Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '

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The three-time captain and All-Conference player saw limited action early in the season and then had to shut it down because of a knee injury.Hamilton could have left for the NFL with a degree in labor studies. Instead he came back for a fifth season despite the firing of coach Kyle Flood following a tumultuous 4-8 season that included player arrests and an academic scandal.It wasnt the first time Hamilton has seen a coach leave. He was recruited by Greg Schiano, who then left to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.The son of former New York Giants defensive lineman Keith Hamilton understands there is a business side to sports.Hes always been the one to explain to me how things work, Darius Hamilton said of his father. Especially when I was getting recruited, never get too emotionally tied to too many coaches. Its good that theyre people that change and people that impact you forever, but it is what it is at the end of the day (when they change).Hamilton has bought in to what first-year coach Chris Ash is doing to revamp the program, which includes taking it slow with his injury.Its not easy, but strength coach Kenny Parker reminded him its about getting through the season, not just to it.At this point, hes tired of people talking about his knee.A lot of people get caught up in how healthy I am this year and this, `100 percent this, and `is he close? or whatever, but I think what people got to understand is my junior year I wasnt 100 percent, Hamilton said. Thats when I was going through playing almost every play a game and at 245 (pounds) I was hurt.Bulked up to 286 pounds, the knee injury that sidelined Hamilton is his first major injury of his football career. And Ash wants him healthy. So when Hamilton didnt play in the first scrimmage of training camp, Ash gave a simple rationale.Im not nuts, he said. Hes one of our best players. Im not going to get him hurt before we get to a game.While he led from the sidelines last season, Hamilton knows his impact as a leader will change dramatically.I dont know if it made me quieter, Hamilton said. But to lead is tougher when you dont play because no one wants to hear from someone whos sitting here in a sweater and sweatpants when were in a tough spot.While the expectations arent as high as his freshman year, when Rutgers was one of the favorites to win the Big East, Hamilton thinks highly of this team.The only people that are going to predict how well were going to do this year is ourselves, Hamilton said. I can remember when we were picked last in the Big Ten and we went 8-4, so its going to be up to us to control our own destiny this year. 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On Monday, Warwickshires Jonathan Trott continued to stick with the old helmet and scored an unbeaten 62 against Middlesex at Lords, but Cook did not have such a good day after switching his headgear.With Sussex making 360 in their first innings at Hove, Essexs run chase got off to a poor start with Cook nibbling outside off stump from the bowling of Steve Magoffin and thick-edged the ball to Chris Nash at second slip.The new rules brought in by the ECB also state that international and county batsmen wear a helmet at all times, even when facing the spinners. Wicketkeepers also need to wear the new headgear standing up to the wicket, as do close fielders. Laying down the law ECB speaks to Alastair Cook about new helmet regulations Former England skipper and Sky Sports cricket pundit Nasser Hussain has sympathy for Cook and feels it is unfair to dictate what headgear a batsman should use.Hussain told the Daily Mail: The fact he nicked off to Steve Magoffin may have had nothing to do with the new lid but he would have gone to bed thinking if he had been wearing his old helmet he would have been able to see the ball better. Former England captain Nasser Hussain thinks Alastair Cook should be able to decide which style of helmet he wears. The last thing a batsman wants is any doubts over their equipment and, however trivial it may seem to move the grille up a few centimetres, I can assure you it makes a huge difference.Cook is a sensible man who knows his responsibilities to the wider game. I would rather have the England captain confident and comfortable. He has earned the right to make his own choices. 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I dont know if in two games youve been through enough to be able to create that identity that you have. Another couple of games I think well know who this team is.The problem for the Tar Heels (1-1) is familiar: run defense. After surrendering nearly 1,000 yards on the ground in their last two games of 2015, UNC gave up 289 yards rushing to the Nick Chubb-led Bulldogs.Then the Tar Heels allowed a 65-yard touchdown run on the third snap against the Illini, though they tightened up and allowed 117 yards rushing the rest of the night in the 48-23 win.The Dukes (2-0) have rushed for 810 yards in two games.They probably watched our film and thought, `Oh these guys may not be that good in the run defense, they gave up all those yards to Nick Chubb, all that type of stuff, UNC linebacker Andre Smith said. So theyre going to come in really hyped, playing against Carolina, and so I just cant wait for the opportunity to play against those guys.The Dukes are seeking to beat an Atlantic Coast Conference team for the third time, the last coming against Virginia Tech in 2010.You see some of these games that get way out of whack with the score -- most of the time that happens because you go in there and do things you normally dont do in a ballgame, new JMU coach Mike Houston said. If we can go in there and be us I think thats going to be our best chance for success.---Some other things to know about Saturdays James Madison-North Carollina game:DEFENSIVE HELP: UNC junior defensive end Tyler Powell hasnt played due to personal issues.dddddddddddd He returned to practice this week. 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The Dodgers had 18 hits to top their previous best by one, a night losing 5-1 to the Cardinals, and are 16-3 since the All-Star break. "We dont even look into that stuff, man," Jerry Hairston Jr. said of the road streak. "I know its big and we had a lot of things go our way and we know thats not going to be the norm. "Were a confident group, we feel we can get the job done." X-rays were negative for the 22-year-old Miller, among the league leaders with a 2.89 ERA while going 11-7 in 22 starts, on what the team described as an elbow contusion. Miller pivoted after the pitch to Crawford with his back to the plate, but couldnt get his arm out of the way of the liner that bounded into shallow left field for a double. "Its not what you want to see on the first batter of the game for any pitcher," manager Mike Matheny said. "Hes sore, but its good we didnt have any fracture or break." 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WACO, Texas -- Lauren Cox learned very quickly that Natalie Chou has a voracious appetite, will sing along to anything that comes on the radio and wont put a skateboard down until she has learned how to skate.Before they became roommates at Baylor this summer, Cox and Chou mostly knew each other as highly competitive, decorated rivals in Dallas.It was always us two, me against Lauren in seventh and eighth grades, Chou said. And then in high school, we were in the same district so we would play against each other at least two times. That would always be a big game.Cox and Chou, ranked the No. 1 and No. 8 recruits in the country by ESPN, will play in many more massive games for the next four years as teammates. The prized freshmen, along with No. 40 prospect Calveion Juicy Landrum, take their first road trip on Thursday, and it will surely will be one they wont forget.No. 2 Baylor visits No. 3 UConn with the Huskies looking to extend their 76-game winning streak with a victory in Storrs. The Huskies (1-0) will be Baylors second top-10 opponent this week after the Bears (2-0) beat ninth-ranked UCLA at home, 84-70.Usually, UConn has the star-studded recruiting class. But Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey might have her best crop of freshmen in her 17 seasons at Waco, and thats saying a lot.While Cox and Chou had been teammates once before on the 2014 USA U17 World Championship team -- they helped USA go 7-0 and bonded half a world away in the Czech Republic -- the two never really considered playing together at the collegiate level.At least not until Mulkey had the two in her office for a visit at Baylor.Mulkey made a detailed, eye-opening pitch of seamless pick-and-rolls, perhaps allowing Cox and Chou to fantasize about becoming the Green and Gold version of Stockton and Malone. The coach also talked about the 6-foot-1 Chous perimeter shooting, passing and versatility to play three positions -- and how that would fit nicely with the 6-foot-4 Coxs stellar post game.Apart, the two would be just fine wherever they went. Together, however, Cox and Chou could be a championship-caliber combination in the future.When I recruited them, I talked about together, Mulkey said. The combination of a post player and a perimeter player and what they could mean to each other.Their personalities are similar in that they are very basketball savvy. They grew up in homes where their parents are very involved in their careers, and now they can go to the next level and do it together.Cox stunned Mulkey by committing as she posed for a photo shoot in a Baylor uniform on her official visit, and Chou signed two weeks later.(Mulkeys pitch about teaming up) was eye-opening, Chou said. She put everything into reality. Lauren is like the best post power forward, and I am a really good shooter, so having her would help me a lot, and we know eeach others games so well so it would be great.ddddddddddddThe two McDonalds All-Americans joined Landrum to give Mulkey whats considered the best recruiting class in the country by some and the second-best class?according to ESPN. All three have deep basketball roots, too. Chous mother, Quanli Li, played professional basketball in China. Coxs parents, Dennis and Brenda, played college basketball, and Landrums sister, Porsha Roberts, plays professionally.How much Mulkey will play her freshmen remains to be seen. Cox logged just four minutes and missed all four of her shots against UCLA as Mulkey relied on an impressive frontcourt with the likes of preseason All-American forward Nina Davis and Kalani Brown. Brown had 25 points, 19 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 blocks against the Bruins.Chou and Landrum play behind a veteran backcourt of Alexis Jones, Alexis Prince and Kristy Wallace. Chou logged 12 minutes and went scoreless, while Landrum did not play against UCLA.Of course, the freshmen trio came to Baylor knowing they would try to support a Bears squad that returned four starters from a 36-2 team last season.I am really hard on myself, so I do have high expectations for myself, said Cox, who is Baylors first No. 1 recruit in the country since Brittney Griner in 2009. If I do want to have that playing time and contribute to the team, I will have to work hard because we have really good returning posts on the team.In Baylors first non-exhibition game of the season, the three freshmen saw extended playing time in a 118-43 blowout over Houston Baptist. Chou led the freshmen with 11 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, while Cox had 8 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks. Landrum added 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 points, 2 steals and 1 block.Mulkey hopes her freshmen will wreak havoc on opponents in the future. For now, she wants them to find enough harmony on the court to be the pieces that make this Baylor juggernaut a championship team.The three Texas girls havent come up with a nickname for their class, but their goal and the teams motto is clear and catchy: Destination Dallas. Baylor hopes to return to the Final Four for the first time since 2012, when the Bears went 40-0 and won the national championship.Once local rivals, Cox and Chou would love nothing more than to come home and compete for a championship together.From over the years, we would know how each other play, and we knew each others strengths and what we liked to do, Chou said. So having that connection already and history really, I think, helps.We have a lot of Dallas girls on this team. 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Fixture pile-ups, injuries and squad rotations might be considered the preserve of present-day football, but when Manchester City won a domestic and European double in 1970, they had it every bit as tough as the 2016 vintage, perhaps even tougher. One of the key characters in the Blues dressing room back then was a full-back who played in almost every outfield position for the club in his 14 year career. Now 69 years old, Glyn Pardoe looks back fondly on the manic week that led to Citys first taste of League Cup glory against West Bromwich Albion at Wembley.I think what made it a better win was we played Academic Coimbra in the Cup Winners Cup in Portugal on the Wednesday. It was about 70 degrees and the pitch was like a rock, Pardoe said. We travelled back to London and couldnt land because of the snow so we touched down in Birmingham and had to travel down to London through the night. We got there the next day and won the match. The conditions were testing and I thought we played tremendous. Pardoe didnt just take part in the match, he scored the winner, his only goal of that season and while the rest of the game and the celebrations that followed are now something of a blur, his recollections of his golden moment beneath the Twin Towers are razor sharp.I do remember the goal, Franny (Francis Lee) went down the wing, he chipped one into Belly (Colin Bell), Belly flicked it on and I beat the keeper and the centre-half to it, right footed into the corner. I remember it like sitting here now. The lap of honour by Manchester City after they won the 1970 League Cup Final against West Brom at Wembley City had come from behind to beat West Brom, their other goal on the day was scored by Mike Doyle and he and Pardoe went from being great friends and team-mates to relatives. Mike passed away in 2011 but the pair share grandchildren, one of whom, Tommy, now plays in the same Manchester City Academy in which his grandfathers both learnt their trade. In fact Pardoe also holds the record for being the youngest ever player to make his debut for the clubs first team, that game a 4-1 battering by Birmingham at Maine Road when he was just 15 years and 314 days old.Birmingham City, April 1962. Trevor Smith was the centre-half, England centre-half, I remember that well. I didnt do too bad actually, I thought I did alright but we got hammered didnt we? But at that time we were getting hammered lots so that doesnt help.Its a record that, despite Manuel Pellegrinis recent tinkerings with Citys youngsters at Stamford Bridge last weekend, Pardoe believes will stand the test of time, although hes a big fan of giving academy starlets first-team opportunities.I think its brilliant, I think if youre young enough, youre good enough. It doesnt matter how old you are, but the trouble is now its governed a little bit more by money. But I cant see that record ever being beaten, I mean I might be wrong but I cant see anybody playing in the first team at 15, simply because of the money side of it all, not the football side. Youre going to have to be some player. David Faupala was one of five full debuts for City against Chelsea in the FA Cup fifth round Still, he believes some of the players weve glimpsed this season will be given their chance to cement places in the Manchester City first-team squads to come.Theyre doing fantastic. I mean Id love to see one or two of them get in there. I mean [Kelechi] Iheanacho, hes just beginning to get in there. He looks like he could turn the corner and start being a regular and Id love that. The fans would love it as well. Pardoe is a fan of young Man City striker Kelechi Iheanacho If his League Cup winning goal and debut are two of the fondest memories of a career he still cherishes, the darkest day of Pardoes time as a City player came nine months after that Wembley triumph in a Manchester Derby at Old Trafford. The Blues ran out 4-1 winners, but during the first half Pardoe was tackled by George Best in a challenge that broke his leg and left him fighting for his life as well as his limb.It was serious, I was within 20 minutes of losing my leg, I was very lucky to keep it, another 20 minutes and theyd have cut it off or it would have killed me, he continued. Even now I havent got the full movement in my ankle, having said that Im fine, Ive played football in the garden with my grandson for the whole of his life. It was a shame, it did harm my career no doubt about that. I would have been an international, I think, if he hadnt done that but I look at it on the other side, I could have lost my leg and Ive got it. So to me thats all that matters. Manchester Citys Mike Doyle (front) and his team-mates celebrate Doyles equaliser Pardoes recovery from such a grave injury took almost two years and although he went on to play for Manchester City until 1976, he admits he was never the same player again. Now a club legend, he doesnt harbour a grudge for that incident on the Red side of Manchester in December 1970.Ive no regrets in football but Id have loved to have played for my country. I played for the schoolboys, the Under-23s, so it would have been fantastic, but it wasnt meant to happen. I look at life and if its not meant, its not meant. You can work your socks off and it might not happen for you and other people dont seem to do it and it happens for them!I hold my hand up, Ive been lucky. What a career I had, I mean how many people have won the trophies Ive won? And played with the players I played with and against? I mean it was a fantastic era.Which brings us onto the last question. Talk to Pardoe and hell tell you about the aggression, the passion and the flamboyance of the teams that saw him win the First Division, the FA Cup, the Cup Winners Cup, as well as the League Cup. Hes looking forward to the arrival of Pep Guardiola and believes that Pellegrinis displayed all the qualities of one of his former managers, Joe Mercer, in how hes dealt with the constant speculation. Manuel Pellegrini will be guided City into their Capital One Cup final against Liverpool So who would win if Pardoes boys of 1970 were pitched into battle against the team that Pellegrini will pick for Wembley this weekend? Pardoe has no doubts.Wed beat them. Because we had so much going forward and we had so much aggression, whereas today I dont think they play with that sort of aggression. 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MINNEAPOLIS -- Dupree McBrayer scored 21 points and Nate Mason added 19 points and seven assists for the Minnesota Gophers, who pulled away late to beat LIU Brooklyn 76-66 on Wednesday night.Jordan Murphy added 13 points for Minnesota (11-1) as the Gophers won their fifth straight game. Eric Curry had 11 points and a team-high eight rebounds off the bench as Minnesota used its size advantage to outscore the Blackbirds 38-20 in the paint.At the end of last season both of us put in our minds that we were going to come back better players than ever, Mason said McBrayer and himself. We definitely put in the work, put in the work together sometimes. It is good to see both of us excelling.Trailing by 14 at halftime, LIU Brooklyn scored the first 12 points of the second half while connecting on four 3-pointers. But two points was as close as the Blackbirds would get, despite hitting seven 3s in the second half.Were a pretty-efficient 3-point shooting team, LIU Brooklyn coach Jack Perri said. We dont usually take a lot. We know how good -- theyre holding teams to 26 percent from 3 on the year. So, we said take the right ones and I thought, for the most part, we did.Iverson Fleming had 24 points for the Blackbirds (7-4), who were coming off a win against St. Johns. Nura Zanna had 10 points and 10 rebounds.BIG PICTURELIU Brooklyn: Against a team with a significant height advantage, the Blackbirds continued to outrebound their opponent. LIU Brooklyn entered the game with a plus-4.6 rebounding margin. The Blackbirds finished with a 38-32 edge in rebounding against the Gophers on Wednesday.Minnesota: Mason is the expected leader and steadying influence as a junior point guard and the most-experienced player on the team. Mason is bringing more than leadership, though. Hes developed an outside shot. Mason hit four 3s for the third time in four games. 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It was my first in-home visit as a head coach, not really knowing what the heck I was doing . Im proud of him. I always thought hed be a pretty good player and he showed that. I think hell be one of the better players in their league.Frink had 13 points on Wednesday against Minnesota and he entered the game leading the Blackbirds with 17.3 points per game.UP NEXTLIU Brooklyn: The Blackbirds host winless Dartmouth on Dec. 18, playing a game on their home court at the Steinberg Wellness Center for the first time since a season-opening win against John Jay.Minnesota: The Gophers have a long break before hosting Arkansas State on Dec. 23. The final game before Big Ten play isnt an easy one as Red Wolves entered Wednesday 27th in the nation in the Ratings Percentage Index and defeated Georgetown earlier this season. 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The sight of Sachin Tendulkar in Rio recently caused quite a flutter in the cricket world. What did the sighting of him with IOC chief Thomas Bach at a Rugby sevens match mean? Other than the Great Ts duties as the Indian Olympic Associations (IOA) goodwill ambassador. Was cricket making a pitch for the Olympics by sending in its biggest living superstar?Should cricket even be played under the tent of the Big O? Did the Big O want the sport in? Could T20 be the new Rugby sevens?Turned out Tendulkar was in Rio not as a cricketing emissary of either the ICC or the BCCI. His duty as Indian Olympic goodwill ambassador was to pep up Indias athletes and mingle with the upper echelons of the Olympic Family. La Famille are members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the not-for-profit independent international organisation made up of volunteers that owns and runs the Olympics. During the two weeks the event runs, OF members are awarded head-of-state privileges in the host city.Its a good gig. As it happened, in a curious coincidence, when Tendulkar was in Rio, one of his besties - Nita Ambani, owner of the Mumbai Indians IPL franchise and wife of Mukesh, a regular in the top 50 on the Forbes billionaires list - was elected into the OF as an IOC member from India.World rugbys chief executive, Brett Gosper, reported to the wires that Tendulkar had spent a whole session watching Rugby sevens. Tendulkar loved it and was interested in rugbys journey to the Olympics and why thats an interesting prospect, possibly, for cricket, Gosper said. He was being kind, refraining from exercising rugbys well-established bragging rights. After all, which Commonwealth-centric sport played by a handful of nations at the very top, has an expanding and competitive World Cup, a wide player base, and has made the most of a format that has gone from being considered a tiddlywinks version of the real stuff to a globalisation-magnet?Rugby appears to have found a way past the problems cricket currently wrestles with. The Olympic question was previously somewhere near the bottom of crickets laundry list, but it appears now that there is a bit of a stir round it - for which Tendulkar is not the only one responsible. Once the Olympics have ended and Brazils citizens are left cleaning up after the party and coping with the shock of horrendously large bills, a Very Important Meeting will take place - later in the year, between IOC chief Thomas Bach, ICC chairman Shashank Manohar and BCCI president Anurag Thakur, somewhere in India. No one will talk about it formally, but you heard it here first.The meeting is meant to extend the discussion beyond the broader existential arguments that rise when the words cricket and Olympics are placed in the same sentence. It lies beyond whether cricket needs to bother with the quadrennial event or not. Or, using a phrase copyrighted by colleague Andrew Miller, OlympIN or OlympOUT. The sport, at the moment, is floating somewhere in the netherworld between these two, called OlympHOW on earth?Should it even want to, the earliest Olympics that cricket can make a pitch for is 2024. The announcement of the new sports to figure in the 2020 Games was made a week before the Rio 2016 opening ceremony. They are karate, skateboarding, sports climbing, surfing, and the return of baseball/softball (possibly due to its great traction in Japan). The choice of these new sports owes partly to the need to reel in the young, for whom the modern pentathlon might represent some ancient idiosyncrasy, combined with the logistical ease of putting up temporary venues for these sports.If cricket is interested in making a run for Rome, it must have a blueprint, and must hard-sell between now and the opening ceremony in Tokyo 2020. Which is where the argument gets messy and the matter of cricket wanting the Olympics and/or the Olympics wanting cricket is deemed under consideration and exploratory. Gaining Olympic status comes with conditions attached, which the IOC is within its rights to lay down, but which dont quite serve crickets purpose. The Olympics requires that the sports it hands out medals in bring their best teams and best players. Most sports and nations obediently toe the line. There are some exceptions, like football, which controls its own Olympic destiny and places age restrictions on competitors (all but three players per squad are under 23), or golf, a newbie, which in Rio had to deal with the lily-livered constitutions of its higher-ranked male players - four from the top ten pulled out. For cricket to stick to its best teams and best players defeats the theoretical purpose of its inclusion in the Olympics - broadening the sports presence in non-traditional territories.Someone suggested beach cricket. As if balancing three formats is not headache enough, batsmen and bowlers in swimwear doesnt provide the best solution either.Then theres the infrastructure - drop-in pitches offer a solution, but what about the real estate required around that pitch? Outfield? Stands? Whats the point if no ones watching? Tree falling in a silent forest, and so on. A cricket ground is far more high-maintenance than setting up a temporary skateboarding venue. Or even squashs easily dismantled all-glass courts, which turn up in front of the pyramids of Giza, in Hong Kong harbour, and in shopping malls. The candidate cities for 2024 are Budapest, Paris, Rome and Los Angeles. Of the lot, only LA has turned two baseball grounds into cricket fields.The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported that a 2008 briefing paper titled Cricket Within the Olympic Program - A Golden Opportunity for the Development of Cricket and the Olympic Movement was turned down by the ICC board. The sum and substance of it was that there was an East-West divide among the Full Members over cricket in the Olympics.This is not to say that Asian wariness comes from its dislike of the Olympics. India, for one, have gone more than ten days without a medal in Rio, and the country is in a state of deep gloom and introspection. It is safe to say other subcontinental nations are as hooked to the Games if they have medal stakes. Rather, Asian cricketing nations sweat over being involved in Olympics cricket because it instantly makes them answerable to their national Olympic body, and through that, more vulnerable to more intrusive governmental footprints in their operations.The judges of the Indian Supreme Court would agree that the IOA makes the BCCI look like a cross between the efficiencies of Sony Corp and the humane purpose of Amnesty International. As Indias most self-sustaining and most profitable sports body, it is no surprise the BCCI wants zero conversation with the IOA, and thus with Olympic sport.Yet there is more about crickets dilemma over its best possible relationship with the Olympics than the fact that it is limited by Asian shyness. It will require a straightening out of many glitches in the ICCs functioning to let them catch up with the rugby example. Rugby, through its organised, multi-tiered structure of competition and clear qualification pathways for teams to make it to its biggest events, is about five to seven years ahead of cricket. The ICCs multiple tiers of competition and ranking systems are well intentioned and try to serve the smaller nations, but the routes for qualification to its biggest events are muddied and keep being changed. Sixteen teams in a World Cup or ten? Champions Trophy or whats the point? How many teams in the World T20? Unless cricket accepts that insularity at the highest level eventually fosters inbreeding, the sport could be stuck in the same cyclical conversations every four years.What about Sach and Bach, you ask? Who knows: maybe it is another kind of Olympic debut for cricket. Tendulkar is certainly a member of the global sporting elite. What if the next step up for him is a sporting knighthood of sorts: membership - through some category - of the ultimate athletic aristocracy, the IOC? 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Teaira McCowan, a 6-foot-7 sophomore center, added nine points and 16 rebounds, including seven on the offensive glass.The Spartans (2-4) were held to their second-lowest scoring output of the season and shot just 37 percent from the field.San Jose State had 24 turnovers, leading to 35 points for Mississippi State.Thats what we try to do: disrupt you and not let you run what you want to run, Schaefer said.Jasmine Smith had nine points for San Jose State, which was outrebounded 58-28 by the Bulldogs.We wanted to compete against them and force them to make adjustments and, for the most part, and I thought we did that, San Jose State coach Jamie Craighead said. We knew we were going to give up size on our offensive end. It was really difficult. Our players had to battle a lot and it took its toll. 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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State will enter Atlantic Coast Conference play off to one of the best starts in school history.The 21st-ranked Seminoles got a career-high 19 points from Terance Mann on Monday as they took control in the second half for a 76-68 victory over Samford.Florida State has won eight straight and is 12-1 for only the third time, matching the 1988-89 and 2008-09 squads.Even though the Seminoles are ranked and off to a strong start, Mann said that might not mean a lot in a couple months unless they can play well in the conference.You cant make the tournament winning 12 games. We know we have to keep winning, Mann said. We havent done anything really in five years. We just got to keep getting better and prove to the world that were here and were good.Mann, whose previous career high was 18 last season against Georgia Tech, is on a roll. The 6-foot-6 sophomore guard is averaging 14.7 points and 6.7 rebounds in his past three games along with going 17 of 23 from the field.Samford led for most of the final five minutes of the first half before FSU scored the final five points to go up 31-27. Xavier Rathan-Mayes, who scored 15 points, had the key shot with a 3-pointer at the buzzer that bounced in off the rim.The Seminoles scored the first six points to start the second half, pushing the lead to double figures. Florida State led by 17 with 6:12 remaining after a 12-2 run.FSU shot 42.2 percent from the field (27 of 64), which was its second-worst shooting game of the season.Its a learning experience and preparing us for the ACC, Rathan-Mayes said. We did a good job of relying on our defense. I dont think there are too many nights where we are going to struggle like that offensively.Christen Cunningham led the Bulldogs (7-4) with 16 points while Demetrius Denzel-Dyson added 14.We gave ourselves chances but we battled, Samford coach Scott Padgett said. Ive got a play card with 150 plays but I think we ran just one tonight. It was tough to drive inside.BIG PICTURESamford: The Bulldogs are 17-9 in nonconference games over the past two seasons but are 0-2 this season against teams currently ranked in the Top 25 (they lost to Cincinnati 70-55 on Nov. 23). Samford was picked to finish seventh in the Southern Conference but might exceed expectations based on how it has done so far.Florida State: The Seminoles struggled in the first half for the second straight game before pulling away in the second half. If it werent for blowing an 18-point, second-half lead on Nov. 24 against Temple, Florida State would be undefeated going into the Atlantic Coast Conference part of its schedule.HOT IN DECEMBERFlorida State has won 12 straight games in December and 16 of its last 17. It has also won 17 of its last 18 non-conference games in the month.TOUGH DAYEach teams leading player struggled. Florida States Dwayne Bacon, who came into the game averaging 17.2 points, scored 14 but was 4 of 15 from the field.Samfords Wyatt Walker, who is averaging a double-double with 13.7 points and 11.6 rebounds, was held scoreless in the first half. He had eight points and four rebounds.UP NEXTSamford: The Bulldogs host Florida A&M on Thursday. It is the first of two more nonconference games before they open Southern Conference play Dec. 31.Florida State: The Seminoles begin ACC play Dec. 28 against Wake Forest. 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Wherever he goes these days, Dodgers outfielder Andre Ethier runs into friends, neighbors and total strangers who want to talk.Mostly, they want to ask questions. Very similar questions.I cant tell you how many people from the regular haunts I go through LA now -- my restaurants, my places I get coffee that know me that for the last five, six years in the neighborhood I live in -- are always, `Hey, when are we going to win the World Series? How is Vin doing?`Its been a while since Kirk Gibson helped launch Los Angeles to the 1988 crown, the last one the Dodgers won.Of course, thats nothing compared to fans of the Indians and CubsCleveland hasnt won it all since 1948 -- thats two years before Vin Scully began calling Dodgers games. And the Cubs have been waiting since 1908 -- thats before there even was a commercial radio station.Among the four teams still in the playoffs, Toronto most recently won the World Series. The Blue Jays took two in row, capped by Joe Carters game-ending homer in 1993 against Phillies reliever Mitch Williams.That makes it 23 years since any of the final four clubs won the title. Since baseball went to a League Championship Series format, never before have all four remaining teams waited so long.Blue Jays manager John Gibbons is eager to bring this years trophy to Toronto.Id always heard the stories of back in the heyday when they won the back-to-back World Series and when the new stadium opened up, there wasnt a better baseball town out there, he said Friday before Game 1 of the AL Championship Series at Cleveland.Cubs shortstop Addison Russell preferred to focus on the present, rather than the Billy Goat Curse and things in the past.We dont care about the goat. We dont care about the last time that the Cubs won, he said at Wrigley Field, a day Chicago hosted the Dodgers in the NLCS opener.Nah. Thats like the least thing on our mind. Coming and being a part of this team right now, you obviously have to know the history, he said. But I feel we embrace the history a little bit and we try to make new history.Also worth watching this week:NEW WAVEGame 5 of the Dodgers-Nationals matchup might someday be known as the day a new bullpen strategy was born. Manager Dave Roberts daring, unconventional and ultimately very successful gamble of summoning closer Kenley Jansen in the seventh inning helped push LA into the NLCS. Its long been a tenet of sabermetricians -- use the closer for the most important situations, not just the ninth inning. Lets see how this plays out.OLD SCHOOLSacrifice bunts and stolen bases have gotten devalued in recent years across the majors. Teams dont want to give away outs, or even risk losing one. Then comes the postseason, and moving up 90 feet becomes a premium, and the third base coach gives the signal. But what if someone cant bunt? Watching the Dodgers Charlie Culberson try was painful. 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For the first time in Worlds history, three South Korean teams will be playing in the semifinals. After years and years of domination of the game, this is the crowning moment for the region, sending all of its representatives to the final four without being close to elimination in the quarterfinals.The ROX Tigers showcased their fangs on Saturday night, overwhelming Chinas champion EDward Gaming in four games to take the series in convincing fashion. While the two other South Korean clubs in the semifinals, Samsung Galaxy and SK Telecom T1, are cautious counter-punchers, ROX is a team that flips the switch on in the mid game and never looks back. Although ROX can also be considered a counter-attack team by sometimes falling behind in the laning phase before galvanizing around the 15-minute mark, the Tigers dont play a methodical style. When the Tigers counter-attack, its like an avalanche of punches roaring down atop the suffocated opponent.Samsung likes to counter, teamfight and find the cleanest route to victory. SKT T1 counters and play at a tempo where you can almost find yourself bored with how much control it has over the game.When ROX finds an opening, an opportunity to pounce, its lights out for the other team for all intents and purposes. The South Korean domestic champion will throw everything and everyone in waves of dives and pressure across the map.The first two games against EDG were par the course for ROX. It got ahead through smart roams and ganks heading into the mid game, and it didnt stop putting on the pressure until the gold lead and objective deficit were too much for the Chinese champion to come back from.In the third set, the Tigers, laughing in their seats, went for a more lax drafting style, putting ace top laner Song Smeb Kyung-ho on a stylish individual pick instead of something that could have secured them a simple 3-0 sweep. ROX didnt pick a composition with waveclear or any momentum if it fell down early, and EDG was able to punish ROX for playing with its food and push it to a fourth map.On that fourth map, it was back to business for the Tigers. Han Peanut Wang-ho was gifted Olaf for the first time in the series, and the technical jungler was able to take over with his immense pressure in the early game. 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West Indies captain Jason Holder has credited Shoaib Malik as the catalyst for Pakistans series-clinching victory in the second ODI at Sharjah. Pakistan had lost two wickets in three balls to bring Shoaib to the crease at 40 for 2 in the sixth over, but the allrounder scored 90 off 84 balls and teamed with Babar Azam to add 159 for the third wicket to put Pakistan back on course for a match-winning total.If I go back to our innings when we bowled, I just felt we leaked too many boundaries at a crucial stage of the innings, Holder said after the game. I thought Shoaib Malik played an outstanding innings. He changed the impetus in terms of the middle overs. I think he put us under some pressure in the middle overs which we probably didnt react to as well as we would like.Holder defended his tactics after the game when asked if he had attacked enough with Pakistan two men down inside the Powerplay. Sulieman Benn, who Holder said was his best bowler in the first ODI, was held back until the 19th over, but Shoaib responded to his arrival by hitting him for a six in his first and second overs before striking three more off consecutive deliveries in the 27th.Our most successful bowler in the last game was Sulieman Benn and he was taken to by Shoaib Malik, Holder said. Again I thought Shoaib truly changed the momentum of the game there. I didnt think Benn bowled badly but I just think he got on top of Benn at that stage. I went to my two wicket-takers and Sulieman Benn at that stage. He got the better of Benn today.The West Indies captain also paid tribute to Babar Azam, who top-scored with 123 for his second century in as many games. Holder had encountered Azam at junior level too and said his batting pedigree was just as strong then.I first saw Babar a couple years ago in Under-19 cricket and he scored a hundred against us there, Holder said. Hes a good player. I felt he played really really nicely. He assessed the conditions quite well and he took his time. He was able to take his time in both innings. He had lots of overs to bat and I think credit must go to the way he played. Having said that as I said before, we could tighten up a bit more especially on the boundaries that we leaked and I think once we do that we can make it a lot more competitive.Facing a target of 338, Holder said he felt it was not out of reach. However, a clump of wickets fell between the 35th and 45th overs, disrupting momentum at a pivotal time.Chasing 330 odd, you really need to stay up with the run rate, Holder said. We fell behind, not too far behind quite early but I still felt we were in the game with 20 overs left. We had bargained for 160 odd to chase in 20 overs or probably 180 odd in the last 20 but at the end of the day we were probably too far behind. It was a lot to do for the lower half. 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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Ever since the season opener, the results for the San Francisco 49ers havent changed each week: 10 straight losses for the worst skid in franchise history.With the playoffs, a winning record and just about any positive now officially out of reach this season, the 49ers (1-10) are left searching for any signs of progress that could provide optimism for the struggling franchise.Colin Kaepernick provided just that in Sundays 31-24 loss to the Miami Dolphins. Kaepernick threw for 296 yards and three touchdowns, ran for 113 yards more and nearly led a late game-tying drive before being tackled at the 2 on the final play in a performance that looked like a flashback at times to when he emerged as one of the NFLs top young quarterbacks in 2012 and `13.Hes made a progression from game to game where you see improvement from him, which is what youre looking for, coach Chip Kelly said on a conference call Monday. I think that part of it is positive. I think in all facets, its not just one facet where its just this and this is all hes done. Its in everything; his pocket presence, his accuracy, understanding and knowledge of protections.Kaepernicks struggles last season led to his benching midway through the year and then he struggled with injuries all offseason. With his practice time limited, Kaepernick was beaten out for the starting job by Blaine Gabbert before regaining it last month against Buffalo.After struggling his first two starts when he completed just 46 percent of his passes and had a 66.2 rating, Kaepernick has stepped it up since the bye week. He has completed 59.3 percent of his passes the past four games for 1,110 yards, eight TDs, two interceptions and a 96 rating. He has also rushed for 223 yards in that span, averaging 7.7 yards per carry.Despite gaining at least 475 yards for the second time in four games, the Niners were unable to translate that into a big scoring output. Garrett Celek lost a fumble in the red zone, San Francisco settled for a field goal on another drive inside the Miami 20 and then the final drive was stopped 2 yards short of a tying touchdown.ddddddddddddIm just disappointed in how we really hurt ourselves in that game, Kelly said. On the drives that we were stopped, all but one of them I think were our fault. We had the fumble in the red zone and then a couple times the penalties put us back, put us in long yardage situations, so it was tough to get out of those. But, I thought the offense did a nice job. You just wish with 475 yards of offense youd have more than 24 points.The other good sign for San Francisco has been an improving run defense. After allowing a 100-yard rusher in an NFL-record seven straight games, the Niners have been stouter on defense in recent weeks.They held David Johnson and Arizona to 80 yards rushing on Nov. 13 and then bottled up Jay Ajayi on Sunday. Ajayi had just 45 yards on 18 carries, far below the 137 yards rushing he had averaged over the previous five games.But it wasnt enough as Ryan Tannehill threw for 285 yards and three scores, including a 43-yarder to Kenny Stills.I thought our run defense played well yesterday, Kelly said. When you hold Ajayi to 45 yards, one of the premier backs coming in, I think our guys did a good job. I thought they tackled well by and large, but there were some, I think on the negative side, some of the pass-coverage stuff. Weve got to do a better job just contesting balls. There were guys there, but we need to make a play on the ball when its in the air.Game notes The 49ers arrived in Orlando on Sunday night and will stay there before traveling to Chicago before Sundays game against the Bears. ... LB Shayne Skov had an MRI on his injured knee but Kelly did not have the results. ... 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