Patriots quarterback Tom Brady just wants to move on. Making his first public comments since the ”Deflategate” court ruling, Brady said he is focused on preparing for Thursday’s game against Pittsburgh. ”Everything that’s happened over the past seven months, obviously I have a lot of personal feelings, but I really don’t care to share many of those,” Brady said Sunday.
The Redskins open the regular season at home against Miami on Sunday. Griffin missed Washington’s final two preseason games after sustaining a concussion against Detroit on Aug. 20. Gruden demoted Griffin and selected Cousins to be the starter last Monday, setting off speculation that Griffin might be cut or even traded.
No. 11 Notre Dame’s big victory over Texas came with a big loss. Running back Tarean Folston, who led the Irish in rushing last season, is out for the season after tearing a right knee ligament in Saturday night’s 38-3 win over Texas. Coach Brian Kelly said Folston tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) on his third carry of the game.
Matt Harvey now insists he will pitch in the playoffs if the New York Mets get there. After a two-day uproar over his innings limit this year, Harvey wrote Sunday on The Players’ Tribune website that he would definitely participate in the postseason. Harvey said he is communicating with his doctor, agent Scott Boras and the first-place Mets to come up with an innings-limit plan that would make the right-hander
By Paul Carrel and Georgina Prodhan BERLIN/MUNICH (Reuters) – Struggling to cope with a record influx of asylum seekers, Germany told its European partners on Monday they must take in more refugees too, saying the burden could not fall on just a few countries. Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking after a weekend in which 20,000 migrants made their way to Germany from Hungary by train, bus and on foot, described the
The clashes, weeks before polls the ruling AK Party hopes will restore its majority, threaten to sink a peace process President Tayyip Erdogan launched in 2012 in an attempt to end an insurgency that has killed more than 40,000 people. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels said they had killed 31 servicemen in an attack on a convoy and clashes on Sunday in the mountainous Daglica area of Hakkari province, near
The United States is rethinking its strategy for battling the Islamic State in Syria, the New York Times reported on Monday, with the Pentagon looking into moving more fighters into safer zones, providing better intelligence and improving the skills of trained rebels. The options, which are classified, are circulating among top officials at the Department of Defense, the newspaper reported, citing sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Last month
By Renee Maltezou, Tom Perry and Lidia Kelly ATHENS/BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United States has asked Greece to deny Russia the use of its airspace for supply flights to Syria, a Greek official said on Monday, after Washington told Moscow it was deeply concerned by reports of a Russian military build up in Syria. Russian newswire RIA Novosti earlier said Greece had refused the U.S. request, quoting a diplomatic source
By Yoruk Bahceli AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Ten suspected Islamist radicals went on trial in the Netherlands on Monday, accused of recruiting Dutch Muslims to fight with Islamic State insurgents in Iraq and Syria. The trial, the largest against alleged jihadists in the Netherlands in a decade, is seen as a test of whether a court can convict suspects who may endorse a radical ideology but have not carried out any
Italy’s top court threw out a conviction of American Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British flatmate due to “glaring errors” in the case against her, a document showed on Monday. The brutal stabbing of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher prompted a zigzag of contradictory rulings which ended in March with the acquittal of Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, casting an uncomfortable spotlight on Italy’s legal system. The