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That would mean taking Alex Iwobi out of the team but, at this stage of his development, there are signs that might just now also benefit him.
Can either team win the Premier League?
It was a result that prompts most questions of Arsenal. Yes, a draw is hardly a disaster in the context of eight wins in a 10-match unbeaten run but, equally, this was another of those moments to make what you might call a statement.
Victory would have put Arsenal clear at the top of the Premier League table for the first time this season. They were facing a weakened Tottenham team. They were at home and, having taken the lead, looked capable of winning comfortably.
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When the Pittsburgh Steelers take the field against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, they"ll do so with Ben Roethlisberger back in the lineup. The Steelers announced Sunday morning that Roethlisberger is not only active, but will also start the game against the Ravens.
The Steelers had considered Roethlisberger a game-time decision all week.
He was injured during the Steelers" win over the Miami Dolphins three weeks ago, tearing the meniscus in his left knee. He was originally expected to miss 4-6 weeks after surgery, but will once again return earlier than the team originally planned.
He actually only missed one game for the Steelers -- a Week 7 loss to the New England Patriots -- because the team was on a bye last week. Landry Jones made the start against New England and took the loss.
The Steelers still hold a lead in the AFC North, but the Ravens and Bengals are close behind. There"s plenty of time left in the season, but a win on Sunday would put some separation between Pittsburgh and the teams behind them, and Roethlisberger starting is a pretty good sign that they consider this an important game for their season.
Brian shows you what the TCS NYC marathon feels like | ASICS
NEW YORK - Forty years ago, the worlds top two marathon runners were each handed an envelope with a check in it for $3,000 - secret rewards for helping raise the profile of the very first five-borough New York City Marathon.
It was an instant hit, a Wow! says George Hirsch, chairman of the board of the New York Road Runners club that on Sunday hosts the 2016 race.
What is now the worlds largest marathon began in 1970 when 126 men and one woman circled Central Park. Six years later, about 2,000 amateurs, including Hirsch, took the race to the streets of New York for the first time, touching all five boroughs.
Leading the pack were American marathon record-holder Bill Rodgers and Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter, paid to push the 26.2-mile run into the global spotlight. Hirsch - then a prominent publisher - passed them the checks under the table, he remembers.
We wanted to give the most important runners in the world an incentive to be here, Hirsch says. They made a big difference.
Rodgers won the first of his four New York marathons.
The payments to hit the pavement certainly paid off.
This year, about 50,000 people from more than 120 countries - half of them women - have registered. The elite athletes will be competing for a prize purse totaling $803,000, with potential time bonuses. The mens and womens champions will each receive $100,000. And $25,000 goes to the fastest competitor in a wheelchair.
All eyes will be on the two Kenyans who won last year - Mary Keitany, also the 2014 champion, and Stanley Biwott.
Among Americans, Gwen Jorgensen, the triathlon gold medalist at the Rio Olympics in August, will be running her first marathon. Molly Huddle, who set a U.S. record while finishing sixth in the 10,000 meters in Rio, is making her first try at this longer distance.
The star-studded American field also includes Olympians Dathan Ritzenhein and Kim Conley, who is making her marathon debut.
Scattered amid the crowded, sweaty runners will be eight amateurs in their 60s and 70s - all trailblazers in New York in 1976.
d**k Traum was the first person to complete a marathon with a prosthetic leg, in 7 hours, 24 minutes. Asked to step off ahead of the thousands of others, he was the first person to start the five-borough marathon.
I ran as if you broke your leg and had a cast, trying to get across the street quickly, hopping-style, says Traum, who has a business Ph.D. and created his own computer app company to help companies maximize resources.
At 75, h**l mount his handcycle Sunday at the start line near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the borough of Staten Island. A knee replacement on his natural leg disqualifies him from actually running; one leg must be intact by the rules of the race.
He lost his limb as a young man when a runaway car crashed into him at a New Jersey gas station.
Traum was a member of New York Road Runners, the club led by Fred Lebow, a Romanian-born New Yorker and avid runner whose energy fueled the early efforts to expand and elevate the marathon to a global level. Even after his death, Lebow symbolizes the race, his statue standing near the Central Park finish line.
For the citys first five-borough run, Lebow, Hirsch and Percy Sutton, Manhattans borough president, had persuaded Mayor Abe Beame to ban traffic from the route that spanned the whole city. On the sidelines were tens of thousands of spectators - a far cry from the 2 million or so now cheering on runners.
The three men told the mayor that the crime-ridden, nearly bankrupt New York of the mid-1970s needed the marathon to lift the citys spirits, Hirsch says.
Rodgers and Shorters payments were legal but defied a regulation of the sports governing body, now called USA Track & Field, which classified marathoners as unpaid amateurs. Many struggled financially.
New York spurred the worldwide running boom, with ordinary people huffing and puffing their way through big urban marathons that followed in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and elsewhere.
The Boston Marathon is the oldest, launched in 1897.
On the first Sunday in November, when exhausted participants finally finish, some collapsing into the arms of loved ones, many take away new friendships while collecting funds for more than 300 charities.
Four decades after a small group of hard-core enthusiasts started it, the NYC Marathon has become an athletic and social democracy.
In every neighborhood, spectators come at us with a lot of enthusiasm - and that may be conga drums, it may be somebody banging on cookware, says Paul Fetscher, who ran in 1976. You get to see the best neighborhoods, you get to see the worst, you get to see the richest, you get to see the poorest, and you get to see the immigrant population of Brooklyn, where more than a million people were not born in the United States.
But they all love sport, he adds. And running is the most basic of all sports: left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot.
In 1976, Fetscher aced the race in 2:29.
At 70, still working in commercial real estate, he plans to run the 26.2 miles again.
Inside College Football: College Football Playoff rankings reactions
Hey, we have College Football Playoff rankings now! The years first top 25 that actually matters didnt serve up too many surprises that significantly changed the course of the season even Texas A&M over Washington and the other one-loss teams was sure to work itself out one way or the other, and it did in Week 10 but its still nice to know what the committees thinking, as best we can.
Below, the final scores of every top-25 game in Week 10, with quick Playoff ramifications notes on each. As always, this includes paying attention to how teams stack up in the committees rudimentary strength-of-schedule stats, which largely boil down to raw win-loss records.
No. 1 Alabama 10 (9-0), No. 13 LSU 0 (5-3)
One Iron Bowl win away from the SEC Championship, unless something weird happens. Entrenched at No. 1 until Thanksgiving weekend, unless something even weirder happens.
No. 2 Clemson 54 (9-0), Syracuse 0 (4-5)
The Tigers have all but locked up an ACC Championship trip, and a win this dominant against a potential bowl team could raise an eyebrow.
No. 3 Michigan 59 (9-0), Maryland 3 (5-4)
Believe it or not, this will count as another of those wins against teams better than .500, boosting the Wolverines strength of schedule in the committees eyes.
Mississippi State 35 (4-5), No. 4 Texas A&M 28 (7-2)
See? That controversy about the Aggies ranking ahead of unbeaten Washington just sorted itself out. The Bama-LSU winner and Auburn are your clear SEC West favorites.
No. 5 Washington 66 (9-0), Cal 27 (4-5)
Long-term, the Apple Cup likely remains on course to decide the division. Short-term, this probably wont count as a win over a good enough opponent to move the Huskies up in the rankings. UWs still win-and-in, though.
High-quality win, based on win-loss record (which the committee likes), and thus might mean the Buckeyes jumping Washington, in addition to the spot theyll gain from A&M. OSUs still on course to win the East if it wins out.
No. 7 Louisville 52 (8-1), Boston College 7 (4-5)
Nothing much changes, but U of L adds another hilarious score. If BC astounds the world by getting to .500, it still wont change things much.
No. 8 Wisconsin 21 (7-2), Northwestern 7 (4-5)
For now, the Wildcats will no longer count as a quality W for Wisconsin, Western Michigan, or Nebraska. Or, um, Illinois State, an FCS team. Yep, a team with an FCS loss counts as a decent opponent, as long as it has a .500 record. See how silly the committees strength-of-schedule metric is?
No. 9 Auburn 23 (7-2), Vanderbilt 16 (4-5)
Unlikely anything changes. Vandy falls below .500 and no longer provides whatever boost it was providing to Florida.
Arkansas 31 (6-3), No. 11 Florida 10 (6-2)
One of the SEC Wests teams that still has a losing record in-conference just about knocked the East out of the Playoff. The jokes will never stop. Another boost for A&M, Auburn, and Bama.
No. 12 Penn State 41 (7-2), Iowa 14 (5-4)
Hey, guess whos probably moving ahead of Nebraska in the rankings and in good shape for a New Years Six bowl? PSU adds a respectable W.
No. 14 Oklahoma 34 (7-2), Iowa State 24 (1-8)
Doesnt matter. The two-loss Sooners remain the Big 12 standings leader, which goes to show you how bad the Big 12s Playoff condition is.
No. 15 Colorado 20 (7-2), UCLA 10 (3-6)
Nothing much changes, unless UCLA somehow wins out and makes this an OK win. Still the Pac-12 South leader. What a time to be alive.
TCU 62 (5-4), No. 17 Baylor 22 (6-2)
Seriously, the Big 12 is almost officially out of the Playoff. This was great for Arkansas, though.
No. 18 Oklahoma State 43 (7-2), Kansas State 37 (5-4)
You dont lose to Central Michigan and make the Playoff (even if it was on some BS), but how about a Cotton Bowl? Just keep winning, and this one shined the resume a little.
No. 19 Virginia Tech 24 (7-2), Duke 21 (3-6)
ACC Coastal favorite still. No other news to report.
No. 20 West Virginia 48 (7-1), Kansas 21 (1-8)
Nobody cares. The Eers are the Big 12s last Playoff hope, though.
No. 21 North Carolina 48 (7-2), Georgia Tech 20 (5-4)
Still alive in the ACC Coastal, adding a potentially decent win.
No. 22 Florida State 24 (6-3), NC State 20 (4-5)
NC States no longer .500, but its ranked opponents played FSU anyway. Not much consequence.
No. 23 Western Michigan 52 (9-0), Ball State 20 (4-5)
This could count as an OK road win, if BSU can reach .500, but the Broncos lead the race for mid-majordoms automatic New Years Six bowl regardless. Even if Boise State wins out, Wyoming might win that division, and the autobid only goes to conference champions.
No. 24 Boise State 45 (8-1), San Jose State 31 (3-7)
Keeping pace behind Wyoming (in the division) and WMU (in the Playoff rankings), but this W wont count for anything.
No. 25 Washington State 69 (7-2), Arizona 7 (2-7)
No changes, though that is a very #nice score. The Apple Cup remains on course for importance.
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Intheir last outing on Saturday Night Live before the election, Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin used the cold open to mock the candidates one final time and urge viewers to vote.
The segment began as a parody of Erin Burnetts CNN show OutFront with Cecily Strong playing the news anchor, grilling the candidates on the tightening race.
It might be the bottom of the ninth and its tied and its raining, but this old Chicago Cub is still gonnabring it home, said McKinnon-as-Clinton.
Much to Clintons chagrin (Please be his taxes, she begged), Burnett brought up the big story of the week: Clintons emails.
Trump-as-Baldwin countered that he neveruses emails, instead using a very private, very secure site: Its called Twitter.
Burnett said, Mr. Trump, everyone can see your tweets. A surprised Trump replied,Really? And Im still in this thing? America, you must really hate this lady.
Clinton grew ever more frustrated as Trump cozied up to the FBI, Putin, even the Ku Klux Klan kissing them on the lips.
Shecountedoff a long list of things that Trumphas single-handedly ruined that we as Americans hold dear: kindness, decency, Tic Tacs, Skittles, taco bowls, father/daughter dances, the word great, the color orange, men.
In four years once you all realize youve been tricked, youre going tocome running back to me, begging me to run again, said Clinton. And guess what, idiots? Ill do it.
Baldwin and McKinnon then broke character, stepping back to reveal the SNL stage. Im sorry, Kate, I just hate yelling all this stuff at you like this, said Baldwin. Added McKinnon, I know right. This whole election has been so mean.
I just feel gross all the time, Baldwin said. I mean, dont you guys feel gross all the time about this?
You know what I think can help us? said McKinnon. Lets get out of here. The pair then ran through the streets of Manhattan, holding hands and hugging passersby(even someone wearing a Trump that bh shirt), sharing a pretzel and cotton candy, joiningin a ring dance.
Theyregrouped back on the Saturday Night Live with a message for viewers to vote: Now its time to get to out out there and vote, said Baldwin. None if this will have mattered if you dont vote.
We wont tell you who to vote for, said McKinnon. But on Tuesday, we all get to choose what kind of country we want to live in.
Aside from a regular season-ending matchup with the Auburn Tigers, the most difficult game remaining on the Alabama Crimson Tides schedule was on Saturday at LSU. The Tigers entered the game on a three-game win streak under interim head coach Ed Orgeron and the offense had looked rejuvenated after the coaching change.
All of those positives disappeared on Saturday for the LSU Tigers as they ran into the best defense in the country. Alabama held the Tigers to 125 total yards and six first downs on its way to a 10-0 victory in Baton Rouge that runs the teams record to 9-0 in 2016.
Alabama scores 10 in the fourth to remain unbeaten! #BAMAvsLSU #RollTide pic.twitter.com/hKmnqfMtVp
Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) November 6, 2016
The biggest factor in the victory for the Crimson Tide was the play of the front-seven. Jonathan Allen, Tim Williams, Ryan Anderson, Reuben Foster, DaRon Payne, Dalvin Tomlinson, and Shaun Dion Hamilton combined to make life a living nightmare for the Tigers. Star running back Leonard Fournette only rushed for 35 yards on 17 carries while the Tide sacked LSU quarterback Danny Etling five times and forced an errant throw that resulted in an interception in the second-half.
It didnt matter what offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger called, the Alabama front-seven just beat the LSU offensive line like a drum all night long. This game was a perfect example of why the Crimson Tide could have as many as five defensive players selected in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
ROLL TIDE!
Alabama wins its 6th-straight game over LSU and 13th-consecutive against an AP-ranked opponent to remain unbeaten. pic.twitter.com/2YrdCAvP9R
SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 6, 2016
Offensively, it was a bit of a struggle most of the night for true freshman Jalen Hurts. The Alabama Crimson Tide didnt score their first points of the game until the clock showed 13:08 remaining in the fourth quarter as Hurts scrambled into the end zone from 21 yards out to give the Tide a 7-0 lead.
On the night, Hurts was only 10-of-19 through the air for 107 yards and he threw his sixth interception of the season. He did, however, find great success on the ground as he carried the ball 20 times for 114 yards and that one touchdown. As a team, Alabama rushed for 218 yards on the night on its way to quite possibly the biggest win of the season to this point.
POINTS!
Jalen Hurts finds the endzone and Alabama takes a 7-0 lead over LSU with 13:08 left in the game. pic.twitter.com/umZl2QDQxD
NCAA Football (@NCAAFootball) November 6, 2016
Nick Sabans club will now return home to square off against the Mississippi State Bulldogs next week. Dan Mullens team is coming off of a shocking 35-28 victory over Texas A&M on Saturday. The Aggies got a gift this past week when they were named the No. 4 seed in the College Football Playoff ahead of the Washington Huskies despite the Huskies being undefeated and the Aggies already having one loss.
As for the Tigers, its the same old story against Alabama. This is now six straight wins for the Crimson Tide in the series and athletic director Joe Alleva has some serious decisions to make between now and next season. Orgeron is a tremendous recruiter and injected some life into the Tigers after the firing of Les Miles, but the folks at LSU expect to compete for a national championship every year and the school cant do that without beating Alabama.
Ed Orgeron could still keep the LSU job, but beating Alabama sure wouldve helped https://t.co/kVpaaPyxJT pic.twitter.com/Z5oRvgOaH1
The Gridiron Times (@thegridirontime) November 6, 2016
As the Inquisitr reported earlier this week, there were some rumors going around that LSU would remove the interim tag from Orgeron if he were to find a way to beat Alabama. Now that hes lost, it would seem that Alleva must target the biggest coaching names in college football in order to get the LSU Tigers back on the national championship landscape.
Donald Trump visits traditionally blue Minnesota on Sunday while Hillary Clinton has added an extra stop in Michigan as the candidates attempt to shore up their positions and undermine the others in the final stretch of a tight and bitter U.S. presidential campaign.
A flurry of polls on Sunday showed Clinton maintains a lead nationwide, but key states including Ohio and Florida are still neck-and-neck.
The Republican nominee, a New York real estate developer whos waged a controversial outsider bid for the White House, told supporters in Florida on Saturday that he is going to Minnesota, and swapped a Twin Cities appearance for a previously announced Wisconsin event. No Republican has carried Minnesota since 1972.
Were going into what they used to call Democrat strongholds, where were now either tied or leading, Trump said at a rally in Tampa. Were going up to Minnesota, which traditionally has not been Republican at all, and were doing phenomenally, we just saw a poll.
Trump may have been referring to an Ipsos/Reuters poll that showed Clinton ahead by 5 points in the state yet with many voters still undecided and, in theory, ripe for the picking.
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Nationwide, Clinton leads Trump by a 1.8-point margin head to head, and by 2.2 points when third-party candidates are included, according to a RealClearPolitics average.
The latest polls suggest voters may again be leaning Clintons way after narrowing over recent weeks. The Democrat leads Trump 44 percent to 40 percent, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released on Sunday. The final Politico/Morning Consult poll showed Clinton up by 45 percent to 42 percent. And an ABC News/Washington Post daily tracking poll put Clintons lead at five points, its widest since Oct. 26.
Millions have already cast ballots, and voting tallies in some states are exceeding levels of four years ago. In Florida, some 5.7 million ballots had been cast through Friday, up 19 percent from 2012, with Democrats holding a small edge.
Democrats have done well in Nevada, propelled by a surge of voting in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, on Friday. Trump on Saturday called conditions there rigged become some polling places stayed open late to process large numbers of voters already standing in line -- a common and legal practice across the country.
Ballot-Harvesting Ruling
Meanwhile, the race in Arizona could be roiled after the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday reinstated a Republican-backed law that makes it a crime to collect early ballots from voters and bring them to a polling place. So-called ballot harvesting is one of the most popular and effective methods for Hispanics and Native Americans to vote in Arizona, where the race is close.
Clinton, the former secretary of state, spent Saturday in Florida and Pennsylvania and plans another appearance in the Keystone state on Sunday. She also will visit Ohio with NBA star LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and New Hampshire. President Barack Obama will campaign for Clinton in Florida on Sunday and Michigan on Monday. Former President Bill Clinton will hit Michigan on Sunday.
Trump is basically going everywhere over those last few days and just cramming in every single state, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told reporters aboard the candidates campaign plane on Saturday. As far as Im concerned, the more time he spends in Minnesota and Nevada, the better. We have tried to calibrate our schedule to be in states at the peak time for voting.
Outsider Message
While Minnesota hasnt been thought of as competitive, Trump is betting that his outsider message, vow to drain the swamp in Washington and economic appeal to disaffected middle- and lower-income white people could give him a chance there.
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He plans a frenetic day of barnstorming on Sunday that includes stops in Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia as well as Minnesota. Mondays schedule so far has rallies in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
Trump and his aides insist his supporters enthusiasm will give him an edge on Tuesday. Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway predicted serpentine-like lines of voters ready to cast their ballot for the former host of televisions The Apprentice.
Clintons team, meanwhile, has staged a massive voter-outreach effort capped off this weekend by what it estimated would be almost 1 million volunteers.
In a race that may be won by a razor-thin margin, the Clinton and Trump campaigns have said theyve readied vote-monitoring programs including lawyers and election observers in key states, anticipating shenanigans. The Republican has warned for weeks of a rigged political system, and in the final presidential debate he declined to say he would accept the elections outcome if he lost.
New Allegations
The election was upended with 11 days left when FBI Director James Comey announced hes reviewing thousands of new e-mails that may be connected to the investigation of Clintons use of a private e-mail server. Yet even as that episode breathed life into a central line of attack used by Trump for months, he found himself fending off new allegations of an extra-marital affair published Friday by the Wall street Journal.
The paper reported that the parent company of the National Enquirer paid former Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 for her account of an affair with the New York developer -- and never published it. Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks has denied the story.
Deciphering Electoral Map
Mook said the Clinton team feels good based on the amount of early voting in Florida, where Clinton doesnt plan to campaign again. If Clinton wins Florida, she could afford to lose a battleground state such as Pennsylvania or Michigan and still win the race, while Trump needs to capture all the key battleground races, he said.
Clintons campaign touted the strength of its outreach, saying it had made 45 million direct contacts with voters - either knocks on doors or phone calls -- since the start of early voting in September. It has released new television ads set to run through Election Day in the battleground states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Clinton also has been using big-name performers to help push voter turnout, especially among younger voters and blacks she needs to win. Besides Saturdays concert in Philadelphia with pop star Katy Perry, she attended a performance with singer Beyonce, rapper Jay Z and other musicians in Cleveland on Friday, and with Jennifer Lopez in Miami last weekend.
I really think were going to send a message from coast to coast, east to west, north to south, about who we are as a country, Clinton said before Perry performed in Philadelphia on Saturday night.
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