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Miller, No. 1 Ohio State take care of Virginia Tech, 42-24 (Yahoo Sports)
Braxton Miller has clearly found a new home at wide receiver, and No. 1 Ohio State has found another dangerous weapon. Miller scored two touchdowns – one on a 54-yard catch-and-run where he had to tip-toe down the sideline, the other on an electrifying 53-yard run – and the star-studded Buckeyes began their title defense with a 42-24 victory over Virginia Tech on Monday night. ”I really would have preferred
Murray's major QF streak ends with US Open loss to Anderson (Yahoo Sports)
Andy Murray watched a 130 mph ace zoom by to create a two-set deficit at the U.S. Open, and then sat in his changeover chair and cursed at himself, over and over and over. A little later, Murray cracked his racket against the court once, breaking the frame, and went to the sideline and mangled his equipment even more, before meandering over to hand it to someone in the stands.
Goodell unwilling to give up final say in discipline process (Yahoo Sports)
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is willing to lessen his role in the player discipline process, but he’s still reluctant to give up final say. The players union wants disciplinary power now held by Goodell to be handled by a neutral arbitrator. After a federal judge overturned Tom Brady’s four-game suspension in the ”Deflategate” scandal last week, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank suggested it may be time to revisit the system
AP Source: Injured Jason Pierre-Paul meets with Giants (Yahoo Sports)
Two months after injuring his right hand in a July 4 fireworks accident, two-time Pro Bowl defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul has reported and met with the New York Giants. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not confirmed Pierre-Paul’s arrival. Eugene Parker, Pierre-Paul’s agent, did not return an email seeking comment on the meeting.
Jets' Smith doesn't plan to file charges against Enemkpali (Yahoo Sports)
Geno Smith insists he has moved on from the punch that rocked the franchise and might have cost him his starting job. The New York Jets quarterback has no plans to file charges against former teammate Ikemefuna Enemkpali, the linebacker who broke Smith’s jaw when he slugged him in the locker room last month. Smith, expected to miss at least the first four games of the regular season, would not
Blackstone to buy Strategic Hotels in roughly $4B deal
The private equity firm Blackstone will spend nearly $4 billion to buy real estate investment trust Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc., which specializes in high-end hotels and resorts.
Struggling Germany urges neighbors to do more to ease refugee crisis
By Paul Carrel and Georgina Prodhan BERLIN/MUNICH (Reuters) – Germany told its European partners they must take in more refugees on Monday as it struggles to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers and as police in Hungary used pepper spray on migrants who broke out of a reception center at the border. Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking after a weekend in which 20,000 migrants entered Germany from Hungary by train,
Bomb kills 14 Turkish police officers as jets strike PKK in Iraq
Kurdish militants killed 14 police officers in a bomb attack on a minibus in a Turkish province bordering Armenia and Iran on Tuesday, a government official told Reuters, widening a conflict with the Turkish state. More than 40 Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets overnight in northern Iraq, where the group has bases, in response to Sunday’s killing of 16 soldiers near the Iraqi border, the deadliest attack
Coalition strikes Yemen capital, more foreign troops reported arriving
A Saudi-led alliance launched more air strikes on Yemen’s capital and more foreign troops were reported to be moving into the country as the campaign to rout Houthi forces intensified. The Houthi-run state news agency Saba said that 15 citizens were killed and 77 were wounded in the attacks by warplanes on Sanaa. The alliance, made up mainly of Gulf Arab countries, has increased air strikes on Sanaa and other