INDIANAPOLIS --?Jeff Gordon tried to have fun in his first practice session Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, his first laps in a race car since last November when he thought he had hung up his fire suit for good.But he couldnt have fun. The four-time Sprint Cup champion had to focus on his new job as a substitute for Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is out battling concussion-like symptoms.Im trying to have fun, said Gordon, who was an analyst for the 18-race Fox Sports portion of the schedule. But I take it too serious to have fun right now. ... Ive enjoyed what Ive been doing, which has been a challenge of its own and one Ive enjoyed.The first run out there, I realized why. The intensity level is high [in the garage]. My heart hasnt beat like that in a while. Its an awesome experience. I want to take it in to the fullest.Gordon, ninth in the first practice session, said his goal is to not screw it up, and his team will need to work on the balance of the car. He said he felt he was doing the best he could do, but it is difficult to get back in the car after eight months.In the second practice session of the day, Gordon finished in 25th place.?When you get to drive a race car like this it certainly just helps you focus on what you need to do out there. Being out of the car that long and not really having a lot of experience with this package it was a tall task, I will be honest. It was one of the most challenging days Ive had in a race car to try to get comfortable, be consistent, have the speed and give good feedback, Gordon said.?One thing he did make sure to do: Gordon and the team asked that the speedway take down the placard over his garage that had Gordons name on it. They want it to say Dale Earnhardt Jr., which is consistent with the name across the windshield and above the door.Im honored to be driving Dales car, Gordon said. I really am. ... We made a conscious decision this is Dales car. Im here until he gets back and I hope thats soon. We want everything to be respectful of him.The desire to please his business partner and friend Rick Hendrick is what got Gordon to come out of retirement.With 93 career victories, including five in the Brickyard 400, Gordon will go for another win Sunday as he replaces?Earnhardt, who is battling balance issues and nausea likely related to concussions. Gordon, an equity owner in Hendrick Motorsports will also replace Earnhardt next week at Pocono.[Hendrick] has never asked me for many things that I can contribute and help that werent valid and werent something I was proud to be able to do, Gordon said Friday before practice at IMS. This is just me helping out the organization.Well see what happens on Sunday. If were out there having fun and putting a good result together, I can tell you whats in it for me is to make that team proud and not let them down. Thats what I did as a race car driver.Gordon has scrambled to get prepared to race since arriving Tuesday night from a vacation in France. He needed the NASCAR-mandated physical and drug test.He had to meet with the team to get his seat and steering wheel as well as do other minor tweaks to the car for his preference. He took information from past Hendrick tests at Indianapolis to put data into a Chevrolet simulator in North Carolina that could mimic how the car should feel while racing at Indianapolis.That process itself was really interesting and exciting and fun and gotten me pretty fired up to get in the car and feel what its like to be in there, Gordon said.I was at the GM simulator yesterday morning. If were racing simulators, I feel like Ive got a shot at winning this race.Because he spent the first 18 race weekends of this season working as an analyst, he was unable to fill in for the injured Tony Stewart at the Daytona 500, Gordon said Friday.Gordon would not commit to any races beyond Pocono, refusing to speculate on when Earnhardt might return.My goal is to come here and give this team the best effort that I can and give them the best result -- hopefully a good one, Gordon said.Coincidentally, Gordon was scheduled to drive the pace car for the race Sunday. Now hell compete.I didnt even have to think twice about it, Gordon said. When Rick calls, he has that confidence in me and asks me to step up and do something for the organization, whether it was driver or other responsibilities, the way he has been there for me, the way this team and organization has been there for me over the years.I didnt anticipate this. This is certainly the last thing I thought was going to happen.It isnt rare for drivers who have retired from full-time racing to do select races or return in a substitute role. Stewart, a three-time Cup champion, who has announced that this would be his last Sprint Cup season, said he never had thoughts about being a substitute driver for one of the four cars he co-owns until watching what Gordon is doing this week.Well talk about it Im sure at some point, but Im definitely open to this scenario if it were to happen down the road and we needed somebody, Stewart said. I definitely would be open to doing what Jeff is doing this weekend.By racing this weekend, Gordon could impact when he gets inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. For drivers with under 30 years of NASCAR racing and under age 55, they must be retired for two full years before being nominated. 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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, who retired after the 2015 season, will drive in the Rolex 24 at Daytona for the first time in a decade.Gordon will drive in the twice-around-the-clock endurance race next month for Wayne Taylor Racing. Gordon will share seat time in the No. 10 Cadillac with Jordan Taylor, Ricky Taylor and Max Angelelli. The team has podium finishes in each of the last four Rolex races, although its third-place showing in 2015 was later disqualified for a drive-time violation.The Rolex opens the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar season Jan. 28-29.Gordons lone previous Rolex appearance came in 2007, also with Wayne Taylor Racing. He helped drive the No. 10 Pontiac with Angelelli, car owner Wayne Taylor and Jan Magnussen to a third-place result.When I announced I would no longer be competing full time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, my hope was that I would get an opportunity like this to compete again in such a prestigious event -- with Konica Minolta and Wayne Taylor Racing -- with the hopes of winning it this time, said Gordon, who works as a NASCAR television analyst. I know that Ricky and Jordan are super-fast, and I believe it will be a very strong combination.The Wayne Taylor entry will compete in the prototype class. It will be one of three Cadillac DPi-V.R cars in the field. Three-time defending series champions Action Express Racing will field two Cadillacs.Gordon has participated in private test sessions with the team in recent weeks and is expected to take part in an upcoming IMSA-sanctioned test at Daytona International Speedway in two weeks.---More AP auto racing: www.racing.ap.org Cheap Redskins Hoodies Jerseys . -- The boos poured down on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at the end of a horrible first half. Redskins Hoodies Jerseys Outlet . The Barrie Colts defenceman, who impressed many with his play for Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship, is the top-ranked skater in the February rankings. He has 19 goals and 24 assists for 43 points in 45 games with the Colts this season. http://www.cheapredskinshoodiesjerseys.com/ . Aside from the trilogy main event title fight, there are a number of intriguing matchups in the heavyweight, welterweight and lightweight divisions. Cheap Redskins Hoodies Store . As the crowd erupted, Davis knocked the ball off the glass and back into his hands. With 1:14 to go in overtime, Davis sixth block also became his 17th rebound. That, along with his 32 points -- which tied a career high -- proved too much for Denver to overcome, and the Pelicans held on for their third straight victory, 111-107 on Sunday night. Shaun Dion Hamilton Hoodie . 1 position. The Mustangs (6-0), who beat Queens 50-31 last weekend, earned 17 first-place votes and 287 points in voting by the Football Reporters of Canada. Western was last ranked first in the country in October 2011. BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU has suspended offensive lineman Josh Boutte for one game after his late hit Saturday in the final minutes of the Tigers loss to Wisconsin.A release from the school states Boutte called Wisconsin defensive back DCota Dixon on Monday to apologize for the hit, which came after Dixon had sealed a Wisconsin victory with an interception. Boutte was ejected after hitting Dixon as he celebrated the interception.Boutte will sit out No. 5 LSUs home opener against Jacksonvillle State on Saturday.ddddddddddddCoach Les Miles also apologized on behalf of the school for what he said was a mistake by Boutte.The SEC issued a statement from Commissioner Greg Sankey saying the league has accepted the one-game suspension imposed by LSU and that it not impose any additional penalties.---AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org Jerseys Wholesale Cheap NFL Gear White NFL Jerseys Cheap Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Wholesale Stitched Jerseys Wholesale NFL Camo Jerseys ' ' '

Two years ago, Jeremiah Briscoe didnt have a choice but to leave his FBS program behind. Last year, it was the same for James Tabary.Its working out awfully well for both of them in the FCS. Theyre the Southland Conferences passing leaders.Briscoe is the real breakout star thus far, recently earning a spot on the STATS FCS Offensive Player of the Year Watch List.Back in 2014, he was among the most highly rated prep quarterbacks in the country and took a scholarship with UAB. He appeared in six games as a freshman, but the Houston native would never take another snap for the Blazers because the university chose to drop the football program.That led to Briscoes arrival at Sam Houston State. Hes flourished in his second year there, and oddly enough, it might not be happening if it wasnt for the FBS. Thats because he split time last season with Jared Johnson, who shuffled off to UTSA of Conference USA after being named the 2015 Southland offensive player of the year.Left to run the offense on his own, Briscoe has dominated every opponent thrown his way in 2016. Hes passed for at least 300 yards and three touchdowns in all four games. His 368.3 yards per game and 16 TD passes rank second in the FCS behind Eastern Washingtons Gage Gubrud, lifting the Bearkats to No. 2 in the STATS FCS Top 25 behind only reigning champion North Dakota State.Jeremiah has really blossomed as a quarterback and his leadership skills are special, Sam Houston coach K.C. Keeler said. Its been powerful to see him take this team over. With the tempo and the confidence we play at, I think the sky is the limit for this offense.Just as Briscoe is turning what has long been a run-first offense into a pass-heavy attack, Tabary is the reason for a similar switch at McNeese.Tabary was under center for Arkansas State last year, starting three games and appearing in four others as a freshman. However, he was dismissed from the team for an undisclosed reason, though its clear it was for some type of action he took after learning he wouldnt begin this season as the starter.The Cowboys scooped him up, and Tabary won the starting job. Hes shown exactly why through five games, throwing for 1,438 yards and 10 touchdowns -- both second in the Southland to Briscoe. Tabary is the first McNeese quarterback to throw for at least 200 yards in the first five games of a season.He continues to get better and better as hes getting familiar with the offense, and hes making it his own now which is good, first-year coach Lance Guidry said. 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The Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders face off twice a year and have done so in their 57 seasons together in first the American Football League and since 1970, the National Football League.The games are almost always entertaining, aggressively played and sometimes have extracurricular activity during the play and after the whistle. Its considered one of pro footballs most storied rivalries.That has not been the case over the last two decades, however. Both franchises have struggled for consistent winning and been unable to grab a Super Bowl victory.As the Chiefs (2-2) come off their bye week and head to Oakland for Sundays game against the Raiders (4-1), both teams are without losing records. Kickoff is 3:05 p.m. CDT at the Oakland Coliseum.The last time the teams did not sport at least one losing record before the game was 2010. The most recent case where both teams had a winning record going into one of their two games was in 2002.Oakland reached the Super Bowl after that 02 season, before losing to Tampa Bay in the title game. Thats also the last time the Raiders were 4-1.Coach Jack Del Rios team is on a three-game winning streak that hasnt always been pretty, but has the Raiders tied for the AFC West lead with Denver.I think we have a healthy perspective of what we want to look like and knowing that were not quite there, Del Rio said. There is a lot of work in front of us. I dont think anybody would disagree with that. A lot of things we must do better as we go forward. 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Colombo, August 23, 2015. Kumar Sangakkara walks in to bat for the last time in Test cricket. Sri Lanka are chasing 413 to beat India. More realistically, they need to bat out three and a half sessions to save the match. They are 8 for 1.R Ashwin is bowling, and Sangakkara steps out and works his first ball into the leg side for two. Next ball, a confident stride forward for a drive to mid-off.Sangakkara doesnt face Ashwin for the next five overs. Camped at the other end against Ishant Sharma, he unfurls a couple of trademark shots that rouse the P Sara Oval, a whip off his toes and a straight punch past the bowler.Then, off the fourth ball of the ninth over, Dimuth Karunaratne gets off strike, giving Ashwin a shot at Sangakkara.Sangakkara is batting for the fourth time in the series. He has been out to Ashwin three out of three times so far: caught at silly point, caught at slip, caught at slip.Before the tour, Ashwins research had thrown up an interesting fact about Sangakkara. Hes been lbw very few times to an offspinner, Ashwin tells the Cricket Monthly, and a quick glance through his dismissals reveals it has happened only three times: to Chris Gayle in 2003, Saeed Ajmal in 2009, and Moeen Ali in 2014.It suggested to me the fact that hes actually looking to play for the balls that are hitting his pads, and that is what is happening almost all through international cricket. The spinners are getting wickets hitting the pads on the front foot, because umpires are willing to give it out. The trend is completely changed.It certainly has. Of the 14 offspinners with at least 150 Test wickets, no one has got left-hand batsmen out lbw as often as Graeme Swann and Ajmal, whose peaks coincided with the widespread use of the DRS, and the consequent willingness of umpires to uphold lbw appeals. Lbw was central to the way they bowled to left-handers - usually from around the wicket, trying as hard to beat the inside edge as they did the outside edge. Out of Swanns 122 wickets against left-hand batsmen, 43, or 35.25%, were lbw. The figure for Ajmal is 33.93%. Before the series against Sri Lanka, Ashwins lbw rate against left-handers was nearly as high as those of Swann and Ajmal: 32.35% (it has since dipped to 29.20%). But Sangakkaras success against that line of attack, exemplified by his spectacular record against Ajmal - 1224 balls faced, 531 runs scored, four dismissals, and an average of 132.75 - told Ashwin he needed to try something different.When you have to play in front of your pad and start protecting your pad, you start opening up, Ashwin says. Your shoulder starts coming out a little in front. I decided that I should start spinning the ball and start beating them [left-hand batsmen] on this side [gestures to show an imaginary ball going past an imaginary outside edge].So what I was doing was, trying to really put body into the ball, go really hard at Sangakkara, and start drifting the ball into him. When I drift the ball, I start opening him up.With Sangakkara back on strike, Ashwin moves an extra catcher, M Vijay, to gully. From around the wicket, Ashwin gets the ball to drift in towards middle stump, and Sangakkara, following its trajectory, opens up as he comes forward, just the way the bowler wants. At the top of his backlift, his front shoulder points wide of mid-on and his bat points to the newly stationed gully fielder. By the time it comes down, the bat is at an angle, face closed towards the leg side. Apart from drifting in, the ball has also dipped late in its flight, and Sangakkara is nowhere near its pitch. He is exactly where Ashwin wants him to be.I was just going through a good spell. He had a plan. That innings he wanted to use his feet, play me through the on side, play me against the spin, hit me straight over the top, so I was seeing what was coming.So immediately I brought my air speed down. I started bowling slower. Because his intention was to come at me, he was not going to sit on the back foot looking for me to bowl a bad ball, so immediately hes committed to the front foot. I started slowing it down, just to [make him] reach for the ball. So when he reached for it, it just spun a wee bit. Nothing in the wicket also, just spun a wee bit.Its an elaborate description of a contest that only lasted three balls, but thats just how Ashwin speaks.Sangakkara reaches for the ball, trying to adjust as it spins away from him, and Vijay catches the edge near his right hip.Pats and handshakes from the Indian team, an ovation from the crowd, two rows of ball boys raising their bats to give Sangakkara a guard of honour. A great career is over.Drift it one way, open up the batsman, turn it the other way, take the edge. It takes skill, control and a whole lot of revolutions on the ball to do this, innings after innings. Ashwins mastery over Sangakkara, and his bowling right through the series - 21 wickets an average of 18.09 - showed a bowler at his peak.Less than a year earlier, however, his career was stuck in an extended rut. At Adelaide Oval in December 2014, he had been left out of Indias XI for the seventh time in nine Test matches.It was perhaps the lowest point in his career. It was also, according to B Arun, Indias bowling coach at the time, probably the best thing that happened to him. Not so much the fact of being dropped as the time and impetus it gave him to re-examine his goals as an international cricketer.I guess he was really disappointed because he could not play, Arun says. But then I guess youve got to move on, and we sat down and spoke a lot about what he has achieved and what he would like to achieve as a bowler.He told me that he wants to be the best in the world.The history of cricket is also a history of career-changing moments, their effects rippling down the ages. A nameless Surrey professional nailing Ranjitsinhjis back boot to the crease. Don Bradman advising Greg Chappell to change his grip. Sunil Gavaskar advising Martin Crowe to rest his head against a wall. Brian Lara reading a book by Michael Jordan. Steve Waugh shelving the hook. James Anderson tearing up every scrap of advice he had been given and going back to his original, idiosyncratic method.To these you can add Ashwins net sessions with Arun in Adelaide.His confidence was a little dented, Arun says. I wouldnt say low, but definitely dented, and those hours we spent in the nets - we spent long hours bowling. He would bowl before the Test match, he would bowl during lunchtime, bowl during teatime. He bowled a hell of a lot, and with a lot of purpose, you know? In trying to say, I want to be the best in the world. It was not just, Im bowling because Im hurt, Im not playing.A seam-bowling allrounder who was an important member of Tamil Nadus Ranji-winning side in 1987-88, Arun played two Tests and four ODIs. He took over as Indias bowling coach towards the end of the England tour in 2014, and was part of the back room until the 2016 World T20. Ashwin calls him an absolute encyclopedia when it comes to technical adjustments and knowledge about bowling.On the phone, Arun unspools his knowledge methodically, step by step, pausing to check if you are keeping track. The source of Ashwins troubles, he says, was his alignment at the crease, in his delivery stride.See, he says, it is about the positioning of your body, by which I mean the alignment, from the back foot to the front foot, from your back-foot impact to your front-foot impact. Youre more likely to succeed if the alignment is towards the batter. Then youre perfectly balanced.If your alignment is either towards leg slip, or its falling away, its going towards first slip, if its not in line, then the body position changes. Also, what happens is, you tend to compensate when you deliver the ball towards the batsman, and you are most likely to deliver only one kind of delivery, because youre compensating.If your alignments are right, what happens is, there can be a lot of variation. I can bowl where I want: outside the off stump and turn, or I can turn it from the stumps - whatever I want to do, its a lot easier if Im pretty well aligned.If youre imbalanced when you bowl, the effectiveness comes down, consistency, everything it affects. You may bowl a few good balls - again, youre bound to bowl a few good balls - but your consistency will come down, and also, you may tend to get a lot more tired than normal, because youre compensating consistently.Ashwins alignment was off-kilter, his front foot going too far across in his delivery stride. It was only a matter of three or four inches, according to Arun, but it was enough to lose balance at the crease.It wasnt a new issue. A number of experts had spotted it during Indias home series against England in 2012, when Monty Panesar and Swann comfortably outbowled Pragyan Ojha and, in particular, Ashwin, who routinely dropped short or strayed onto the pads while taking 14 wickets in four Tests at an average of 52.64.After that series Ashwin worked on his alignment with Sunil Subramaniam, his personal coach since his Under-19 days, and bounced back with 29 wickets at 20.10 in Indias next series, a 4-0 whitewash of Australia at home.By the end of the year, when India went to South Africa, Ashwins form had flagged again. There, and in the tour of New Zealand that followed, he took just two wickets in the space of eight ODIs and one Test. In the fourth innings of the Johannesburg Test, he bowled 36 wicketless overs as India nearly let South Africa chase down 458.Ashwin was dropped for the next Test, in Durban. That was the start of his extended spell out of the Test side.By the time India toured Australia in 2014-15, Ashwin still hadnt found a lasting solution to his alignment issue. Finally, in Adelaide, Arun identified the cause, which occurred further back in the bowling-action chain: the load-up, the way he sets up with his bowling and non-bowling arms prior to his delivery stride.See, a bowler has control only over two things - his run-up, and the way he loads, Arun says. The rest, everything is reaction. Reaction gives you feedback as to what needs to be done, but most people tend to correct the reaction rather than the action. So you need to work backwards and see what exactly you need to address. So subtle things like how you load can determine where your foot lands.With this insight, watching videos of Ashwins action before and after Adelaide is illuminating.Focus on his right hand, and what it does during his pre-delivery jump. In the 2012 home series against England, it is above his right shoulder when he takes off, off his left foot. By the time he is at the top of his jump, it has wandered outwards - dipping behind his shoulder and then sweeping to the right until his arm forms an L by his side.The sideways movement of his right hand and arm seems to influence a change in his bodys momentum. He jumps at an angle to his run-up, to his right, and by the time hes in his delivery stride, the line between his back and front foot doesnt go down the pitch towards the batsman, but across to fine leg.It forces him to pivot around a front leg that leans uncomfortably, and by the time he releases the ball, his right arm has gone beyond the vertical too. From the batsmans viewpoint, it is at 1 oclock rather than 12. From that position, it seems near impossible for Ashwin to achieve any drift away from the right-hander.When he finishes his action, his follow-through pulls him away towards cover rather than down the pitch.Fast forward to Indias one-off Test against Bangladesh in Fatullah in June 2015, two months before the Sri Lanka tour. By now, Ashwin is comfortable with the new action he began to use in Australia, and over the fourth and fifth days of a Test match frequently interrupted by rain, he takes his first Test-match five-wicket haul in over two years.At the start of his pre-delivery jump, not much has changed: the right hand is still over his right shoulder. But now, instead of moving to his right, the hand stays close to his shoulder all the way through his jump, pulling backwards like a catapult before moving forward just as he lands on his back foot to begin his delivery stride.Where the movement of his right arm used to disrupt his forward momentum, they are now in sync. His jump continues along the straight line of his run-up, ensuring an efficient transfer of momentum that carries on through his delivery stride, all of it driving towards the batsman. At release, the right arm is at 12 oclock, as high as it can possibly be. His action just looks so much better.If you are better balanced, you are in a better position to impart more spin, and also, the transfer of weight that takes place is very effective, Arun says. It is towards the target, which is again the batsman. Its about being nippy, getting that extra bounce, and also spinning the ball.With this new action, Ashwin is a transformed bowler. The numbers tell the story well enough: before Adelaide, he averaged 28.65 and had a strike rate of 59.10. Since Adelaide, up until the start of the series against England this year, he averaged 21.49 and takes a wicket every 43.7 balls.Since Adelaide he has won four Player-of-the-Series awards on the bounce, in Sri Lanka, against South Africa at home, in the West Indies, and against New Zealand at home. He has become the second fastest bowler, ever, to 200 Test wickets, and his career strike rate - 49.40 - is better than that of any other spinner with a minimum of 150 wickets. Relax the qualification to 100 Test wickets, and only two bowlers sneak in ahead of him. Both - Johnny Briggs and Colin Blythe - bowled before the First World War.Ashwins rise, of course, has coincided with India playing their home Tests on pitches that frequently turn from day one. It is possible to imagine Indias spinning greats from the past being just as effective in such conditions. Harbhajan Singh put out a tweet to that effect. He may have come across sounding a little mean-spirited, but he had a point.Indias pitches have certainly become harder to bat on. From 2000 to 2013, visiting teams scored 400 in India at least once each year. In seven Tests since the start of 2015, no visiting team has managed to get as far as 300*. Indias own batsmen average 35.88 at home since the start of 2015, as opposed to 40.95 from 2000 to 2014.It is possible to suggest, therefore, that Ashwins average after 39 Tests (24.29) might be closer to those of Harbhajan (27.92) or Kumble (28.63) at the same stage of their careers had he played his home Tests in similar conditions. It is hard to argue against the effect of recent home pitches. How else do you explain Ravindra Jadeja, relentlessly accurate but possessing a fairly limited skill set, averaging 17.53 at home and 41.80 away?Ashwin averages 33.23 away, but his record in less helpful conditions, outside Asia and the West Indies, is 24 wickets from nine Tests at 56.58. Nine Tests, however, is too small a sample, and the bulk of them came before his bowling had achieved its current level of completeness.For now, he appears to have all the tools a spinner needs to trouble batsmen anywhere. In his present avatar, he poses as much of a threat with what he does in the air as with what he does off the pitch. Time and again his flight draws batsmen forward, almost against their will, before the ball dips and lands six inches shorter than they expect.Then theres the drift. The era of the mystery spinner, when it seemed de rigueur for spinners to turn the ball both ways off the pitch, dulled the cricket watchers appreciation of the idea that a bowler turning the ball in only one direction could beat both edges of the bat. Ashwin routinely threatens both edges with his offbreak, because he gets the ball to curl in the air before it lands, scrambling batsmens judgement of line.In the Kolkata Test against New Zealand in October, he did this to Ross Taylor in the 18th over of a 28-over spell broken only once for a change of ends. The ball drifted away late, causing Taylor to play inside the line, before turning in just enough to miss his outside edge and hit his front pad.From time to time Ashwin still slips in his other variations: the carrom ball, which usually makes its appearance against lower-order batsmen, an orthodox legbreak, when trying to break a long partnership, and a seam-up arm ball that swings prodigiously, particularly with the new ball.With these weapons at his disposal, Ashwin has got on top of some of the best in the world, dismissing Sangakkara four times in four innings, doing the same thing to Kane Williamson a year later, in between leaving Hashim Amla stranded down the pitch in Mohali and deceiving AB de Villiers with a carrom ball in Nagpur.The experience of watching Ashwin bowl is enhanced at the stadium: here you may not get to see pitch maps and close-ups of his release positions, but you can always see where the fielders are. It is the best way to tell how well someone is bowling.November 14, 2015, the first day of Indias second Test against South Africa in Bangalore, was the only day of a rain-ravaged match with any cricket in it. South Africa had just lost their first wicket - the left-hander Stiaan van Zyl lbw off Ashwin - and the fielders rearranged themselves as the right-hander Faf du Plessis took strike.The leg side was packed: short leg and leg slip hunched around the bat, a catching short midwicket, a square single-saving midwicket, deep backward square-leg, long-on. On the off side were only three fielders: slip, backward point, mid-off.On the first day of a Test match, on a flat surface where India picked three seamers and chose to bowl first, Ashwin, bowling the eighth over of the innings, was leaving the cover region entirely vacant, and telling a batsman of some repute to go ahead and drive him against the turn.It isnt a revolutionary idea; skilful bowlers often leave gaps in the field. Yasir Shah, for instance, often bowls without a midwicket, daring right-hand batsmen to play him against the turn. Ashwin says he has bowled without anyone at cover - or, occasionally, at backward point - since the start of the Sri Lanka tour in 2015. It is a reflection of three things: his confidence, his control over length, and his ability to beat batsmen in the air.The vacant cover region is both an invitation and an illusion. The batsman sees a big gap but barely gets an opportunity to exploit it. By leaving that side empty, Ashwin bottles up the leg side, where the ball goes when batsmen play with the turn. Like football teams that reduce the size of their opponents pitch by maintaining a high offside line and pressing from the front, Ashwin shrinks the batsmans scoring areas with his 6-3 leg-side field. It is made possible by his length and deceptive trajectory.Many people say a field enhances your chances of getting wickets, but actually its the other way round, he says. Your ability to get wickets demands those fields. You have to understand where your good balls go for runs. You have to understand each and every ball, that if youre trying something to get a wicket, that it will go in a certain place, and you have to protect that field. So understanding of your own bowling, understanding of the game scenario, understanding of the batsman, just controls the entire aspect of the game.That morning in Bangalore, du Plessis had only faced two balls when he jumped out of his crease. He may have been looking to get to the pitch of the ball and drive through cover, or perhaps to pick up a single down to long-on. It was impossible to know, because he did not get anywhere near the pitch and played a shot of pure desperation, reaching out as the ball turned into him, trying to flick it somewhere, anywhere, into the massed leg side, praying it didnt go in the air. It did, and Cheteshwar Pujara took a low, tumbling catch at short leg.The new action, Ashwin says, is similar to the one he started his career with, and that some of the faults that crept in were the inadvertent result of changes he made while trying new things. This included one match in the Asia Cup in 2014 when he came out in full sleeves and bowled with an action not dissimilar to Sunil Narines, down to a slight kink in the elbow. Why should I lag behind if someone else is getting a competitive edge? he asked at the time, but shelved the experiment after that one match.He has no regrets about all the experimentation, even if its indirect effects on his bowling caused him a spell out of the side.Over a period of time, there were a lot of changes, he says. My loading changed, my wrist position changed, the way I was bowling changed. I had a hyperextension, so all these things were happening, but to get an in-depth knowledge of what exactly I was doing myself took a bit of time.And I think its only natural that you give someone time to understand themselves, because all these things had to be done for what I am today. I think a learning graph should be exactly like a semicircle - start at a good point, go down, and go up again - I think you need to go that whole semicircle.Going through that semicircle took a lot out of Ashwin. Prithi Narayanan, his wife, says he was pretty down during the months he spent out of the Test side, but that he emerged from that period a calmer and more reflective person.He was a bit upset, but thats the thing, she says. If he gets upset about something, that means hes just going to come back stronger. He went on working on his game like, you know, like a maniac. The first thing he questioned was himself, like, what am I doing wrong, what is it that I need to work on… I think the mental conditioning, eventually, during those eight-nine months helped him come back stronger.Not only the fact that he didnt play, but when you sit out, you really see a lot more than you would on a normal game-day, so that mental wave I think he really needed to ride, and its a lot easier for him to deal with things that are happening now. To be honest, I think its showed a lot on his personal life also, in the sense, he grew a lot more patient. So he became… theres this new, calm Ashwin that Im seeing. Looking back, I think it just made him a much, much stronger person than he was.A brief, unexpected, and soon-to-be-explained detour into my own childhood, and the academic year 1994-95. A third-standard classroom at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB) Senior Secondary School, a substitute teacher using an age-old tactic to keep students engaged: she invites everyone, in roll-number order, to come up to the front and show off any talent they may possess.When my turn comes, I sing Tu cheez badi hai mast mast, the Bollywood hit that has topped the Superhit Muqabla countdown for many weeks leading up to this moment. I also dance.In the same classroom is R Ashwin. He isnt among my close friends, and the threads that connect us will only weaken in the years to come. The following year he moves to a different classroom, having chosen Sanskrit rather than Hindi as his second language. After Class 10, he moves to St Bedes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School.By the time the journalist meets the first-class cricketer, we havent met for at least six years. On July 14, 2008, I am at the Pachaiyappa College cricket ground, where Ashwin is playing for Vijay CC against Globe Trotters. I am chatting with a physio, who is unhappy that the lunch menu includes puliodharai (tamarind rice), and is spelling out its deleterious effects on player hydration.The lunch break ends and the Vijay CC players re-enter the field. One of them calls out my name. It is Ashwin. He grins and breaks into Tu cheez badi hai mast mast, jiggling his hips.By this time, I have had the chance to interview Ashwin, a little before this game, and to get to know the serious, analytical side of him. Here, out of the blue, is a glimpse of the boy I had known, not all that well, in school.Another memory. A school bus, a field trip. We are on our way to the Guindy National Park, perhaps, or the Birla Planetarium and the Periyar Science and Technology Centre. We are claiming ownership of the road and everything on it, by means of a nonsensical chant that has been passed down through generations of Chennai schoolkids. You can still hear versions of it at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.Askalakkadi galagalagala Hoo ha! Hoo ha! Askalakkadi galagalagala Hoo ha! Hoo ha!And so on. Ashwin leads the chant, in more or less the same stentorian voice you hear today. You could imagine him playing serious cricket one day, but perhaps not becoming international crickets most obsessive nerd.Prithi was also struck by this change. Years before she married Ashwin, she was his classmate, from classes eight to ten. She lost touch with him when he moved schools, and bumped into him again when she worked for an event-management company that handled Chennai Super Kings.[He was] quite different, actually, because I couldnt stand him in class eight, she says, chuckling. I couldnt stand him at all. He was extremely naughty, and his group - not his group, but just this bunch of guys in class - ended up getting pulled up for something or the other. They were the same bunch that went out and played cricket, they played ball-badminton, they played tennis or football or whatever, and they were also the same group that got in trouble… I was trying to be studious and all in school, but this guy was this brat who would be up to something or the other.He still has a bit of a playful side to him, but behind all that is a great level of maturity. What I liked [when I met him again] was how grounded he really was - very, very easy and straightforward guy to talk to. Very clear about what he believed in and what he stood for and how his career was coming and how things were going to go in the next couple of years. A lot of differences, in fact, but what hadnt changed was the playfulness and the passion for the game.But otherwise, yeah, hes just grown up to be way nicer than what he was in Class 8.Perhaps the serious, driven side was always there, visible to those in close cricketing contact with Ashwin. Perhaps as cricket began to define him, so did this side of his personality. You need to develop that fierce drive to get as far as Ashwin has in Indias highly competitive cricket universe.An early turning point in Ashwins career came during a City v Districts Under-14 match in Tirunelveli, when he suffered a pelvic ligament tear while batting. I just went on the front foot and blocked the ball, he says, and just collapsed.The injury triggered two decisions. The first was to move to a school that would allow him a better chance to further his cricket career.PSBB was very, very helpful in actually giving me two months off, he says. I was in bed rest, never turned up for school, and then wrote my annual exam, and went on to tenth. I had to take a break [from the game], full year, because I was not allowed to play cricket, but then I wanted to take one good shot. I thought if I moved on to St Bedes the opportunities were better. I could practise on a daily basis, which was not possible at PSBB, so I took a final shot and went to St Bedes in 11th.The other decision was to bowl offspin. At the time, Ashwin was an opening batsman who bowled medium pace, and while his batting remained his primary focus through his junior years - he even played for India Under-17 as a batsman - he gave up medium pace.I stopped bowling medium pace because of my hip injury, had not given offspin any try, he says. I just played a couple of games for PSBB where I bowled offspin, but my coach was very disappointed. He said, you should be bowling medium pace, India doesnt have any medium-pace-bowling allrounders, medium-pacers are very important, and all that, very disappointed.So when I moved on to St Bedes, they needed someone to bowl, because generally towards the end of a net [session] everybody becomes tired. So they call upon the batsmen to bowl to the bowlers, and I started. The coach there, Vijayakumar, he asked me, Why arent you bowling otherwise? I said, I dont know, they didnt give me any chance to bowl.Ashwin began bowling regularly in matches thereafter, but not in state-selection trials. It was an odd situation, reflecting the quandary before CK Vijayakumar, the coach at St Bedes: he rated Ashwins bowling highly but knew he would make Tamil Nadus junior teams on the strength of his batting alone, and therefore asked him not to bowl in trials and jeopardise the chances of the schools other offspinners.He categorically told me that I shouldnt bowl offspin in the selection trials, Ashwin says. But when I played Under-17 and I was about to leave the school, he told me very clearly, One day youll play for India as an offspinner.Ashwin had become a seriously good offspinner by the time he attended the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) Under-19 spin camp where he first met Sunil Subramaniam, the former Tamil Nadu spinner who would go on to become his personal coach through the first few years of his senior career.Sunil, a tall, aggressive left-arm spinner who took 285 first-class wickets at 23.53 and considers it a miscarriage of justice that he never got to play for India, recognised something of himself in Ashwin.Very similar, even the actions are pretty similar, Sunil says. Just that I bowled left-hand and he bowled right-hand. He could generate the same bounce I was generating, and when I first saw him he was not somebody who was bowling one type of… [usually] you ask somebody to bowl, and they just bowl, a certain type of bowling. You could see a thinker, he kept trying something - not that he was not consistent with his length, but the trajectory was different, the angles were different, he was trying different things.He also saw something of the personality cricket fans would get to know in the years to come.If youre a player-turned-coach, you will obviously have certain insights, so youll all know whether somebody can turn the ball or somebody can swing the ball or somebody can play good shots or somebody is very good at defence. That we know. Few sessions, well know. But does he have it within him to combat various conditions, to combat challenges, how is he in terms of concentration, can he bowl long spells, can he still be the same venomous bowler in the third session, in the fourth or the fifth day? Those are things that I would…You know what I used to do?Sunil would give his players a questionnaire, to try and get into their minds, and see what made them tick.Generally to dwell on why is he bowling in the first place, why spin bowling - there are so many other things to pursue, why spin bowling? Then where did he learn his cricket from, what do you want to be - strengths, weaknesses - youll get an insight. You ask logical questions youll get to know. At that age people write, you know, normal answers theyll give, and very few reveal a part of themselves. Some do, but very few.I still have the first questionnaire that I gave [Ashwin] when he was about 17 or 18. I could dwell into his mind, what is there in his mind. The answers he gave me were super blunt. Frank, straightforward, no PR business, no trying-to-please-the-coach answers. Those things, they gave me a kind of insight about what kind of a person he would be. The person behind the bowler.Typically, at 400 for 3, you would want to have such persons around you. He wants the ball, he wants to have his field, and at the same time he would be flexible as to how to go about it. He wont shirk. Ive seen a lot of bowlers, if the conditions were good theyll all be queueing up. But if the conditions looked a little challenging, they wont be very enthusiastic. Ive seen it at state and almost Indian level.[Ashwin] struck me as somebody who would be up for it.At school level, Ashwin says his relationship with his coaches was not always smooth.Because I liked a certain sense of individuality, I did things my own way. When youre playing Under-10 and Under-12 cricket, school coaches never really appreciated the fact that you can have slips. But I couldnt fathom the fact that you cant have slips when you start with the new ball. I always used to have two slips. At ten years old, people used to drop catches at slip, make no mistake about it, but I would always start off with slips.I didnt like the idea of having a third man, because a third man was always a wasted fielder as far as I saw, and to actually hit the ball to third man you needed a basic sort of control with your batting, and otherwise you nicked it to third man, so you might as well have slip in position to get a wicket.Right from ten years old, I was always a rebel, and I used to take a lot of flak for it, and they used to drop me from being a captain, not make me captain sometimes, all that happened, but since 12 years, once I matured and I was able to communicate better, I was always a captain for my school team, college team, or wherever I went.Unlike his school coaches, Sunil welcomed Ashwins questioning attitude.I didnt want to be coaching somebody seriously who would listen to everything the coach says and take it as gospel, he says. You can skin a cat various ways. All it requires is a guys persistence to doing it his way. At times, I would never agree with what he says, and he would never agree [with what I said]. But it was interesting. Something came out of such conversations.Sunil also encouraged Ashwins tendency to try new things - bowl with the new ball, use variations.My dad, says Sunil, he was in the air force, he used to say - youre not going to die. The bullet is not killing you. If youre in a war, you try the wrong thing, youre dead. But if youre going to play, what will happen? At worst it wont come off. But if it comes off, youll be brilliant.Thats one thing people who try different things have to live with. You will cop a lot of criticism. When the going gets good in India - you know, our whole society is based on all this - everybody will pile on. That is something we must accept if youre trying different things.Ashwin has faced all kinds of criticism over the course of his career, fair and unfair. Quite early in his career, possibly during the 2011-12 tour of Australia, when he became Indias unofficial spokesperson as they lost 4-0, he began to develop a homespun defence mechanism in his media interactions. A sense of suspicion about the interviewers motives, conscious or subconscious, jostled with his natural tendency to speak his mind and explain things in often circuitous detail. It gave you the sense that he wasnt just answering the question you had asked but also other questions he assumed you were implying. It took him into unpredictable tangents, which made him both highly interesting and a little frustrating to talk to.Prithi says he has become less defensive and better at communicating his thoughts as his career has gone on.Earlier, I think he was a little too upfront in what he was saying, or… he was talking a lot faster than he was thinking, but now hes probably able to communicate his thoughts and channelise them a lot better, she says. Im sure you, being media guys, would have seen. I mean, initially, he was always considered a bit arrogant…Combative? I suggest.She laughs. See, you must give it to him. In 2011, when we toured Australia, he was handling a lot of press conferences, and he was still, I think, a newbie at that time. So as a much younger guy, he started, maybe, being a bit defensive, or, I dont know, maybe he had to be defensive at that point in time.I need to be clear that his thought process has been the same, the only thing [that has changed] is the way he communicates and makes you probably understand what hes trying to say.There is definitely a greater ease about Ashwins media interactions now. His responses are more considered, more direct, and when he speaks his mind he does so in a more confident manner than before: whether hes talking about the effect of T20 on spin bowlers or his ambitions as a batsman.If that differentiates him from other India cricketers, his Twitter feed sets him further apart, offering a genuine window into his personality. It tells you how much of a cricket nerd he is - Englands field placing has been spot on.The short extra for Rogers and mid on really straight for Watson. #Ashes - and how that nerdery extends into other sports as well - Gasquet v Dimitrov likely to be the match of the day??It tells you about his love for Chennai - Midnight drive through the beach road, havent done this for a long time. Will get to do this a lot more this summer - and for the Tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja - Rain and Raja sir music, surely better than most combos that I know. On YouTube, he does inch-perfect impressions of Tamil cinemas two biggest stars, Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan.He also interacts directly with fans, whether to reminisce about bus rides across Chennai, or, quite often, to hit back sarcastically at uninformed criticism. He comes across as someone eager to bring down some of the walls that come between cricketers and fans in India. Social media allows him to do this with a degree of control over the exchanges. It simply wouldnt be possible in his day-to-day life.He loves to talk, and he likes to dig your brain, says Prithi, whos just as active on Twitter. So if its something - a good subject, a good topic, a heated debate, something that he really is passionate about… He doesnt really get too much into politics, but say science, or technology, or a general, like a human thing somewhere, he would definitely get into it. He would have a chat if he had the time, and if he knows that theyre just not trapping him to get something out of him.Ashwin has reconciled himself to not being able to live an entirely normal life while at home, but still treats himself to the occasional taste of his pre-celebrity life.I cant go to all the places with a lot of freedom, Ashwin says. I believe that however big a celebrity you are, you can still do what you want. If you want to go to the corner shop and have a glass of tea you can still afford to do it, but there are a lot of repercussions you invite. You invite a lot of people, you tend to hear a lot of things that you dont want to hear, sometimes. Sometimes you encourage a lot of people coming to you asking for your autograph, photographs. After 10 or 15 it becomes one too many, but I still end up doing a lot of things I like.For me it is very important to go to a place you want to go to. It gives me immense joy and pleasure. I still live around the same area, I live in the same place for a particular reason. I know all my neighbours. On the weekends I still like playing on the roads, but I cant play on the roads anymore, so I play inside my house, I invite my friends over.Back in 2010, when Ashwin had just returned to Chennai after playing the IPL final in Mumbai, he showed up at the Guru Nanak College cricket ground to watch his Vijay CC team-mates play a TNCA league match. He cycled to the ground, wearing a skullcap and sunglasses to conceal his face, which was by then well-known thanks to the IPL.Ive done it quite a few times, he says. On another day I might not have worn a skullcap and glasses and I might have gone, but I just didnt want to attract too much attention. Because even on that day actually people recognised me and came behind on a bike and all that, and I didnt want to do that.I used to ride my Scooty around the area, I still love doing it, but my father doesnt allow me, and on top of that my wife really takes a stand about it.Three days after the third India-New Zealand Test in Indore, Im riding around Ashwins neighbourhood on a scooter.Most high-profile Tamil Nadu cricketers tend to move to posh localities in Chennais south-eastern corner: Adyar, Thiruvanmiyur, MRC Nagar, or beachfront properties along the East Coast Road. Ashwin simply rebuilt the house he grew up in, in West Mambalam.Chennais suburban railway line forms the eastern border of West Mambalam, separating it from T Nagar, the citys busiest shopping district, leaving its residents within touching distance of, but clearly demarcated from, the pulsing heart of commerce and enterprise and blatant zoning-law violations.Fifteen years ago West Mambalam was the definition of staid: somnolent streets, grocery stores advertising High Class Provisions, and a far-above-average concentration of temples and shops selling boli. The perfect sort of place, in short, to grow up playing street cricket in, with barely any distractions.The temples and bolishops remain, but my ride around the neighbourhood reveals that it is now bursting with other food options. Not fancy food; every second shop on its main thoroughfares is a tiny, stand-up eatery selling chaat or parotta or plantain chips or juice or soup. Its soup that I am specifically looking for, a soup stall that Ashwin used to visit every evening after playing tennis-ball cricket, until as recently as 2012 or 2013, when he was already an India regular.We would finish playing by around 6.30 in the evening and go there, says Sai Kumar, one of Ashwins closest friends, who now lives and works in the UK. People would recognise him, but he wouldnt care; hed come there wearing the same T-shirt and shorts.The stall is a pushcart with a tubelight and a string of marigolds hanging from its roof, and tacked to its outer cladding is a list of daily specials, one of which is mind and coriantar soup. It is located at a busy intersection, and at this moment, roughly a quarter to eight in the evening, a throng of slurping patrons stare placidly at a minor jam of honking scooters.It is easy to see why Ashwin cant come here any longer. That he did until not so long ago says something about Ashwin; it probably says something about Chennai as well.I learn from the man running the stall that Ashwin likes his sweetcorn soup and French onion soup. I order the mushroom. It is scalding, and I ask for a second paper cup to insulate my fingers, a move Ashwin would no doubt scoff at given that he got his 200th Test wicket with a corn on his middle finger. The soup comes with a topping of cornflakes and coriander, which add textural contrast and a herby freshness to the savoury depth of the mushroom. It is an excellent way to finish a session of street cricket: flavourful, nourishing, and light on the pocket.The soup stall is now off limits, but Ashwin finds the tug of some old haunts harder to resist. I go to Sathyam Cinemas, my father buys a ticket. Me and my father have watched every single movie that could be ever watched. We book our tickets and go and get our own private parking, because the theatre acknowledges that. They come and accompany me but I dont make any hue and cry or fuss about getting people to actually protect me. I just cannot avoid going to Sathyam Cinemas.Then on a fine day I go in the mornings with my dogs to the beach, 5.30 in the morning. But I go to the extreme corner, and before the sunlight comes out I come out.He reveals something about the kind of Chennai person he is when I ask which beach he means: Marina beach, full of character with its lighthouse, wide expanse of sand and long promenade punctuated by statues, but often derided by the citys yuppies for being too dirty? Or the smaller, more upmarket Elliotts beach in Besant Nagar, with the Karl Schmidt memorial (named after, according to Wikipedia, a European man who drowned in 1930 trying to save the life of a girl) looming incongruously out of the sand, and a cluster of cafés and restaurants across the road?Marina, Ashwin says, before I complete the question. I love Marina. I dont quite like going to Besant Nagar. 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LINCOLN, Neb. -- Ryker Fyfes second career start sure went a lot better than his first.Fyfe passed for 220 yards and a touchdown while filling in for injured starter Tommy Armstrong Jr., leading No. 19 Nebraska to a 28-7 win over Maryland on Saturday.The Cornhuskers (9-2, 6-2 Big Ten) stayed alive in the West Division. They must win at Iowa on Friday and Wisconsin must lose to Minnesota on Saturday for Nebraska to go to the conference championship game.Fyfe, who walked on in 2012 and earned a scholarship two years ago, created a lifetime memory on senior day in what will be his only start at Memorial Stadium. He said he was motivated by the opportunity to redeem himself for his five-turnover performance in his previous start, a 55-45 loss at Purdue last year.I put a lot of pressure on myself, he said. You want to come out and play well and get a win and not lose to teams like Purdue. That was a tough one last year. For sure I came out playing hard.Terrell Newby ran for a career-high three touchdowns and Nebraska limited the Terrapins to 207 yards, including 11 rushing. Maryland (5-6, 2-6) lost for the sixth time in seven games and has been outscored 149-13 over three weeks.Fyfe prevailed over Max Bortenschlager in a battle of backup quarterbacks.Armstrong injured his hamstring against Minnesota and was not in uniform Saturday. Perry Hills was dressed but didnt play for the Terrapins because of shoulder problems.Fyfe was effective if not always pretty. He was 24 of 37, often dropping back deep and angling toward the sideline before throwing downfield, sometimes sidearm, sometimes off his back foot. He also hurt the Terps with a couple runs.Ive always had a special spot for Ryker, Nebraska coach Mike Riley said. Hes a guy who could have gone to a smaller school and thrown for 3,000 yards one year. He stuck it out here with teammates and friends and won a big game for us to get our ninth win.Bortenschlager, a freshman who entered the game having thrown four passes in one previous appearance, was 14 of 29 for 191 yards. He was sacked five times.Throughout the year, weve been able to run the ball in just about every game, Terps coach DJ Durkin said. We werent able to do that today. That affected Max as well. If you cant run the ball, thats hard on any quarterback.Maryland ended an 11-quarter stretch with no touchdowns when D.J. Moore caught a screen pass and took it 92 yards to the end zone early in the fourth quarter.I would say thats one of the best touchdowns Ive had, Moore said.THE TAKEAWAYMaryland: The Terrapins missed Hills but werent likely to win this game even if he played. The week off might help him get ready for a winnable home game against Rutgers.Nebraska: Fyfe was good in the first half and OK in the second against an overmatched opponent. 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If you make mistakes, you pay for it.Jerad Eickhoff (6-9) gave up two runs and five hits, striking out eight in 7 2/3 innings to win for the fourth time in five decisions.He mixed his pitches well and kept us off-balance, Snitker said. Hes really good.After sweeping three games in Arizona and taking two of three from the defending World Series champion Royals, the Phillies didnt let up against the worst team in the NL.Atlantas Erick Aybar lined a solo shot out to right for a 1-0 lead in the first. Aybar snapped a streak of 217 at-bats without a homer. He hadnt gone deep since Oct. 3, 2015 for the Angels against the Rangers.De La Cruz allowed seven runs -- four earned -- and nine hits in his second career start.Theyre aggressive, Snitker said. They dont miss that fastball. You better keep the ball down and hit your spots or theyll hurt you.Eickhoff, who had the longest outing of his career, hasnt given up more than three runs in seven straight starts. 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We do our best and carry the whole country on our backs, and hopefully people can realize that.That the LPGA arguably is sports best melting pot -- there are 127 players from 28 countries other than the United States on tour in 2016 -- is no news flash. As long ago as the late 1990s, there were dozens of international LPGA members, and Stacy Lewis (2012, 2014) is the only American to win Rolex Player of the Year in two decades.Yes, the United States won the 2015 Solheim Cup over Europe and won the 2016 UL International Crown in a field that included teams from Asia, the hotbed of womens golf. But the paucity of American individual success is still jarring. Ranked fifth in the world, Thompson, 21, is the only American in the top 10, with Lewis (13th) and Gerina Piller (18th) the only other U.S. golfers in the top 20.I find it a little scary, says Golf Channel analyst Judy Rankin, a star player in the 1960s and 1970s. I almost hate to say anything to put more pressure on the American players, because I think they feel it. There is no doubt its a sticking point. I am really hopeful that there are big crops of juniors coming up in the U.S. that might be the next wave.Efforts to boost youth participation in the United States are underway and growing, with 60,000 girls now involved in the USGA-LPGA Girls Golf program. The PGA of Americas Junior Golf Leagues are popular too, with 36,000 participants. The same goes for the Drive, Chip and Putt Championship, a skills initiative from the Masters Tournament, USGA and PGA of America in which finalists compete at Augusta National Golf Club.But growing the game, to use the biz-speak term that has filled so many conversations in the golf industry in recent years, doesnt necessarily translate into emerging elite American young women who can compete toe-to-toe with international competitors.There is very little depth in America right now in the womens game, not a big pool, says veteran instructor David Leadbetter, who coaches world No. 1 Lydia Ko, the Korea-born New Zealander. Whether pros or amateurs, if you took the 10 best 18-year-olds from the U.S. and South Korea and had a competition, I guarantee you it would be a complete whitewash. Thats just the fact of the matter.Talented female golfers in other parts of the world frequently are immersed in golf at younger ages through organized channels of a national scope -- federations or associations charged with developing and supporting young talent. No existing American entity has that responsibility.It really is a missing link here, says Hall of Famer and 31-time LPGA winner Juli Inkster. Places are trying to grow the game but not really grow individuals. We dont have a federation to push our young athletic girls into golf, and weve come to a point where we need a federation to really grow top-level golfers. Im not saying our girls arent good, because they are. But theyve grown up in a different type of golf atmosphere.That overseas atmosphere, particularly in Asia, often is an intense and focused approach.Theyre starting earlier and working harder, veteran instructor Jim McLean says. Youve got to give the South Koreans credit -- they start the girls early and they train. Its P.C. in America to say you want a well-rounded child, you want them to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that. But if you look at the greatest people in the world, the greatest achievers, theyre not well-rounded, theyre laser-focused.None of the women in the current top 10 of the world rankings went to college (although several have or are taking online courses). Many players overseas look at it from an occupation standpoint, a jobs standpoint, Leadbetter says, Look at Lydia: When she was 5, her mother decided that she was going to be a golfer. Theyre almost pros when theyrre 16, and theyre fully mature tour players when theyre 18 or 19.ddddddddddddIm not belittling anyone who goes to college, but whether college prepares them for the tour is another question.The globalization is well underway on American campuses. The University of Washington won the 2016 NCAA womens golf championship with two players from New Zealand, one from England, one from China and one from the United States. This year, longtime coach Mary Lou Mulflurs team has a similar international makeup with a majority of players from abroad.We have certain things we look for in a kid, and it just so happens of late people we bring in are international kids, Mulflur says. Its a combination of things, but if you put us coaches in a room, we would probably say there is more appreciation for the opportunity. Most other countries, you either turn pro and become a golfer or you go to school and become a doctor, accountant or whatever. It takes a lot of nerve to move 5,000 miles from home to where you dont know anybody. The sacrifices people make are quite great.Neil Coulson is the director of golf at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, where aspiring athletes in nine sports go to school and train. Approximately 80 percent of the female junior golfers are from outside the United States. A native of England, Coulson spent 15 years as a senior executive for IMG Golf in Asia before taking his current position.I think there is a different work ethic in Asia, Coulson says of youth golfers in that part of the world. There is less of a need for instant feedback than required in the West. If juniors over there can understand the goal, they will try to achieve the goal even if it takes a long time. They are willing to work longer to achieve a goal than a Western child generally would.Overseas, developing players also tend to experience less than ideal conditions, things that can contribute to toughness and creativity.When you look at the way other countries train, Mulflur says, they dont always have the most perfect practice facility or every blade of grass cut perfectly, and greens that roll at 12 [on the Stimpmeter] all the time. They just learn to play the game.All one has to do is glance at Thompsons Instagram feed to see her strong work ethic. There are frequently workout pictures. The other day she posted an image of her hands, calloused and blistered, after a long practice session.I dont think its a lack of effort, Rankin says. You have a bunch of players from around the world who are very talented, who are very work-driven and seem to have a very special mental attitude for the game. I think that plays well for them, many from the Far East, for the long haul.At age 21, Thompson, who won her first LPGA event at 16, has seven career wins, including a major. Rarely, though, is her putting as good as her powerful ball-striking. Thompson is ranked 61st in putts per green in regulation for 2016.Inkster laughed when informed that, at age 56, she is the only American in the top 10 in that important statistical category.Lexi and Gerina, too, theyre good putters but not great putters, Inkster says. You can say what you want about hitting the ball, but if youre not putting well, youre not going to win. When Lexi wins, she putts well. Thats the bottom line. Most of the Asian players can roll the rock. Thats where you make your living.Whether the formation of new programs to mold elite female golfers would help their short games is an unknown. But there is growing consensus that unless some type of coordinated approach is developed in America in which kids of all financial backgrounds take part, the LPGA landscape of 2016 might be the long-term future despite Kerrs contention that the lack of wins is just a blip.Theres no reason why it shouldnt happen, Coulson says. Whether you could get everybody around the table to come up with an aligned strategy and make it happen is probably a different discussion. There are a lot of stakeholders, and they all have their own interests. 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While one goal (and zero assists) in six games from Boedker is nothing to bark about, San Joses coaching staff is giving the speedy winger a fresh opportunity on the clubs top line with Joe Thornton and Joe Pavelski.Tanner Pearson, LW, Los Angeles Kings Ownership percentage: 24.5Boy, that short-lived suspension certainly got Pearsons motor running. After spending two games in the press box, the Kings winger quickly made up for lost time with four goals and one assist in three contests. Right now, the 24-year-old is skating on a line with center Jeff Carter.Andre Burakovsky, LW/RW, Washington Capitals Ownership percentage: 18.9Identified in this space last week, Burakovsky is again worth mentioning by way of his promotion to the Capitals top trio with Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov. Capitals management is expecting much from their young forward this season, and hes getting a shot to prove them right with this new assignment.David Perron, LW, St. Louis Blues Ownership percentage: 11.8Bumped to a scoring unit with Vladimir Tarasenko and Jaden Schwartz, Perron notched a hat trick plus an assist in Saturdays win. Encouraging stuff. Just realize that head coach Ken Hitchcock wont hesitate to throw his lines back in the blender at the first sign of diminishing chemistry.Vladislav Namestnikov, C/LW, Tampa Bay Lightning Ownership percentage: 4.0A few minutes on a dynamic scoring line with Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov, and presto, Namestnikov has his first two points -- a goal and an assist -- of the season. While DFS competitors may want to wager on a similar performance from the 23-year-old versus the relatively porous Maple Leafs Tuesday, Namestnikov also sports dark-horse potential in deeper season-long leagues, especially while he remains on that top scoring unit.Nick Ritchie, LW, Anaheim Ducks Ownership percentage: 4.0Competing on a line with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry, Ritchie potted a goal in Sundays win against the Canucks. The 20-year-old, former first-round draft pick (10th overall, 2014) could relish a breakout sophomore season if keeps a grip on that gig, though Rickard Rakell is looming.Artturi Lehkonen, LW, Montreal Canadiens Ownership percentage: 1.1So far, Alexander Radulov is clearly having a blast in his NHL reawakening with the Canadiens. Do you know who else is having fun? The 21-year-old Finn playing on the line with Radulov and Tomas Plekanec. While still adjusting to the North American game, Lehkonen already has two goals and an assist in his first half-dozen contests. And hes already showing a promising inclination for generating shots on goal.DefendersMatt Dumba, Minnesota Wild Ownership percentage: 24.1With Jared Spurgeon nursing an upper-body injury, Dumba takes over alongside franchise defenseman Ryan Suter at even strength and with the extra skater. Eating up monster minutes (26-plus per game) in his past couple of games, the 22-year-old young defenseman is projected to improve on last seasons totals of 10 goals and 16 assists, whether he sticks with Suter or (most likely) not.Nikita Zaitsev, Toronto Maple Leafs Ownership percentage: 6.4An NHL rookie in name only, the 24-year-old top-four defenseman brings seven seasons of KHL experience to Torontos blue line, along with a proclivity for contributing to the score sheet. So far, so good, as Zaitsev has three assists while continuing to adjust to the game in North America. Fantasy owners in deeper leagues should certainly give the Leafs D-man serious consideration, and owners in shallow leagues should keep an eye on him.Philip Larsen, Vancouver Canucks Ownership percentage: 0.5Back in the NHL after spending two seasons overseas, the 26-year-old Dane finds himself contributing as member of the Canucks top power-play unit -- two of three assists collected in his most recent two contests have counted with the man advantage. While keeping expectations in check, Larsen certainly merits a thought as an inexpensive DFS asset, but only as long as he continues to see power-play time with the Sedins.GoaltendersCam Talbot, Edmonton Oilers Ownership percentage: 65.2Before you dismiss the Oilers early-season success as anomalous good fortune, realize a few insightful pundits are quickly crediting the new defensive top pairing of Adam Larsson and Oscar Klefbom for the teams stingy success in their own end. That means Talbot -- named the NHLs first star for this past week -- may not soon fall to pieces after all.Jacob Markstrom, Vancouver Canucks Ownership percentage: 29.6If you believe, as many do, that Markstrom is poised to take over for Ryan Miller as the Canucks No. 1 sometime this season, consider investing in the future right now. While Miller has already missed out on action due to injury, the 26-year-old Markstrom has played well, with a 3-0-1 record, a 1.95 goals-against average and .923 save percentage this season.Jimmy Howard, Detroit Red Wings Ownership percentage: 21.2Theres no denying Petr Mrazek is the Red Wings No. 1 to start 2016-17, but Howard is already making the most of his opportunities. Give the Red Wings backup a look as a solid spot-start option, or DFS option, when hes next in action. The 32-year-old has only allowed one goal through two victories thus far.Carter Hutton, St. Louis Blues Ownership percentage: 4.9Tapped to start Tuesday in relief of Jake Allen, Hutton serves as a particularly appealing option in DFS play when he gets the nod. 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Also know that Jason Spezza is considered questionable this week with an undisclosed injury.Adam Henrique, C, New Jersey Devils Ownership percentage: 76.1It wasnt that long ago fantasy owners and New Jersey fans were eagerly anticipating the fresh, forward pairing of Henrique and star winger Taylor Hall. Fast forward to the present, and we find coach John Hynes skating teen rookie Paval Zacha on Halls line, after experimenting with Travis Zajac in the centermans slot. Meanwhile, Henrique has all of one assist to show for himself through five games.Jussi Jokinen, LW, Florida Panthers Ownership percentage: 58.1The 33-year-old winger could miss the rest of this week -- if not longer -- with a knee injury. 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At the grand age of 42, Misbah is in the midst of an incredible batting run.It is remarkable that 84% of Misbahs Test runs have been scored after he turned 35 (3753 out of 4466). Only Graham Gooch and Sachin Tendulkar have scored more runs than him after turning 35, though Misbah has a marginally better average than both of them.Till 2009, though, it was scarcely believable that Misbah could go on to have such a long and prolific Test career. At the end of that year, he had played just 18 Tests after making his debut in 2001. Eight of those Tests were in 2009 itself, but he averaged just 27.16 from 13 innings in those Tests, with no score of over 70.All of that changed from the series against South Africa in the UAE, when Misbah scored three fifties from four innings. In 17 series since then (excluding one-off Tests), he has averaged 50 or more in 11, and the average since the start of 2010 has soared to 55.06. Its a reflection of the overall dominance of batting that six batsmen average more than him during this period (with a 3000-run cut-off). Unlike many batsmen who move up the batting order as they gain experience, Misbah has stayed at No. 5 and made a success of it as well. Of his 4466 runs, 3992 have come at that position, which is 89% of his aggregate. Only four batsmen have scored more Test runs from that slot, while Misbahs average of 53.94 at the position compares favourably with most of the batsmen on the list below. Drilling down a bit deeper into those stats at No. 5, here is a look at how the top batsmen perform depending on when they come in to bat. Given Pakistans relatively brittle top order, Misbah had found himself coming in to bat early quite often: 25 times in 89 innings he has come in when Pakistan have been three down with 50 or fewer runs on the board. While he has had a few meaty contributions in these situations, his overall average in these 25 innings is underwhelming - 34.83, with eight fifties, but no hundreds. His highest in these situations is 97, against Sri Lanka in Dubai in 2014, when he came in at 19 for 3. A couple of months earlier against South Africa at the same venue, he made 88 when Pakistan were 48 for 3, his second-highest score in these situations.He has done much better, though, when Pakistans top three wickets havee done slightly better: in innings when Pakistan have been between 51 and 100 for 3, Misbah has averaged an impressive 59.dddddddddddd05, with four hundreds and eight fifties in 27 innings. His Lords century, which came from a team position of 77 for 3, is the lowest entry point from which he has gone on to score a hundred in his Test career so far. His previous lowest entry score had been 83 for 3, when he scored 135 against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi in 2013-14.His best numbers, though, have come when the top four have scored more than 150. Six of his ten hundreds have come in these situations, in which he averages nearly 70. The three tables below compare those numbers with those of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Steve Waugh and Michael Clarke, the top three run-getters at that position. All three have done better when coming in to bat early, with Clarke having outstanding numbers when coming in before 50: his unbeaten knocks of 329 against India and 259 against South Africa both came from early entries. Waugh averages nearly 60 too from early entries.What also stands out about these stats is the number of times Misbah has come in to bat at 100 or earlier, compared to the two Australians: for Misbah it has happened 52 times in 89 innings (58%), compared to 43% for Waugh and 44% for Clarke. 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We are in that stage at the moment.After a wildly inconsistent 2016 Steiner thinks Haas needs the right line-up next year to make a step forward.What you have to understand is that we are still a young team, the confidence in us... someone needs to understand that and want to be with us. We had a good start but then we dipped a little bit, weve got ups and downs, we need to sort them out. So not everyone wants to come but we wanted to speak and get the best we could get. Thats what you always want to do if you want to grow a team and we genuinely want to get better.This is the message we want to say to the racing world. There is more than one reason why you change driver, is it money? Is it you want to do better? There are so many reasons. Its not easy, were in quite a unique spot at the moment where some people want to come, some people dont want to come. It is fairly difficult to do it and thats why it took us longer than I thought it would.There was interest from people I would have thought, six months ago, would not have been interested. They all speak with you but they say thanks, but no thanks. There was quite a lot of interest and some talks went on, some stopped, and then new ones came in. I hope, as much as you guys, that we get it done as soon as possible because Im quite tired of the process and speaking about it. Id rather have it done.Gutierrez is yet to score a point this season -- a stark contrast to Grosjean, who currently has 29 alongside his name. Steiner refused to comment solely on Gutierrezs performances, however, saying instead the whole team wants to improve in 2017.You can always do better. I could do better, Im not happy with what we did. We had a fantastic start to the season and then had our dip. But with hindsight you can always do better. I want to leave it at that. 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West Coast forward Josh Kennedy says he has 100 per cent faith in Scott Lycett to fill the ruck void created by Nic Naitanuis absence.Kennedy said he and his teammates were shattered to hear the news of Naitanuis AFL season-ending knee injury.Naitanui is set to spend up to a year on the sidelines after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during Friday nights 25-point win over Hawthorn.The setback has severely dented West Coasts premiership chances for both this season and next.Sixth-placed West Coast need to beat the high-flying Crows in Adelaide on Friday night to secure a home final.If they lose they are likely to slip to seventh, consigning them to an away elimination final.Lycett will be thrust into the No.1 ruck role while Naitanui is sidelined.Jonathan Giles, Mitch Brown, Jeremy McGovern, Jack Darling and Fraser McInnes will be back-up options.The Eagles won five of their six games when Naitanui was sidelined with achilles tendon issues earlier this year and Kennedy said the group was confident Lycett can lead the way again.Hes taken a lot of steps forward this year and grown as a person and as a player, Kennedy said.Nic is such a valuable player for our team, but we can win without him.Weve just got to make sure we play as a unit. Its not about one player. Its about the other 22 on the field.Kennedy said Naitanui was devastated.The injury came just six days after Naitanui kicked the match-winning goal against Greater Western Sydney.Its pretty shattering for him, Kennedy said.As a close mate, and a great bloke around the club, to see it happen is pretty devastating.You have your extreme highs and your extreme lows (in footy), and hes probably had them both in the matter of seven days.Were feeling for him. Hell put the right foot forward, get it all sorted and come back bigger and stronger.Kennedy moved eight clear in the Coleman medal race following his five-goal haul against the Hawks.With one round remaining, Kennedy leads the way on 75 goals with Sydneys Lance Franklin (67), Eddie Betts (65) and Tom Lynch (65) needing something special to overtake him.But Kennedy, who also won the Coleman medal last year, is far more interested in West Coasts premiership plight, rather than an individual award.Its the furthest thing from my mind at the moment, Kennedy said. Wholesale Jets Jerseys . John Tavares, Thomas Vanek and Kyle Okposo were also being counted on to slow down sizzling Rangers forward Rick Nash. That plan didnt go so well early. Cheap Jets Jerseys http://www.wholesalejetsjerseys.com/ . Philadelphia is 2-0 against the Senators this season and scored five goals in each victory. The Flyers recorded a 5-0 win in Ottawa on Nov. 12 and then earned a 5-2 home decision on Nov. 19. 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