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Monday, August 18, 2014
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Florida State tops AP preseason football poll (AP) — Finish No. 1. Start No. 1. Even Bobby Bowden’s best Florida State teams never did that. Jimbo Fisher’s Seminoles will. Jameis Winston and the defending
national champions are preseason No. 1 for the sixth time. In two of the previous five seasons Florida State started No. 1, the ‘Noles went on to finish No. 1, including a wire-to-wire
title in 1999. But they never did start the following year top-ranked. OK, the 2000 Seminoles were preseason No. 2, and after Bowden, the Hall of Fame coach whom Fisher replaced, won his first
national championship in 1993, Florida State started 1995 ranked No. 3. Fisher’s Seminoles have a long way to go to compare to Florida State’s unprecedented run of national championship contention, a string of 14 straight seasons during which the ‘Noles finished the season ranked in the top five of the AP rankings. Still, make no mistake: Florida State 2.0 is built to last. “We’re the secondwinningest team in
the country the last four years, the winningest team the last two years and have had the most NFL players,” Fisher said. “We’ve recruited well, too. Recruited a lot of great young players we’ve been able to mentor and develop as we go, so we’re very comfortable with the guys who are replacing the guys that left.” The Seminoles were an overwhelming choice as No. 1, receiving 57 of 60 first-place votes from the media panel. No. 2
Alabama, No. 3 Oregon and No. 4 Oklahoma got one first-place vote each. Ohio State is No. 5 and Auburn, which lost the final BCS national championship game to the Seminoles 34-31, is No. 6. Last season was a good reminder that preseason rankings can look pretty silly by the end of the season. Four teams that finished in final top 10 last season (No. 2 Auburn, No. 3 Michigan State, No. 5 Missouri and No. 10 UCF) were unranked to start the season.
Nadal out of U.S. Open By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer
Rafael Nadal pulled out of the U.S. Open today because of an injured right wrist, making him the fourth reigning men’s champion in the last 45 years to sit out the tournament. Nadal and the tournament announced his decision simultaneously, exactly one week before the year’s last Grand Slam tournament begins. The 28-year-old Spaniard was hurt July 29 while practicing on his home island of Mallorca ahead of the North American hard-court circuit. The next day, Nadal said he had been told by doctors to wear a cast on his wrist for two to three weeks, and would have to sit out U.S. Open tuneup tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati. Nadal also said at that time he expected to be able to return for the U.S. Open itself. But today, he issued a statement on his Facebook page, saying he is “very sorry to announce” he would not play in New York.
Carolina Panthers' Cam Newton (1) gets sacked by Kansas City Chiefs' Husain Abdullah (39) in the first half of their preseason game Sunday at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. MCT/CHARLOTTE OBSERVER/DAVID T. FOSTER III
Chiefs: Panthers claw out win Continued from B1
Chiefs’ other wide receivers stood out. Cam Newton made a successful return following ankle surgery and Jonathan Stewart ran for two touchdowns for the Panthers. Newton completed 4 of 9 passes for 65 yards and led a pair of touchdown drives before exiting late in the second quarter with Carolina (1-1) up 14-6. Stewart ran for 26 yards on four carries and made a strong case to be the Panthers’ goal-line back — if not their primary ball carrier — with scoring runs of 3 and 2 yards. Newton has been hit more than any quarterback in the NFL over the past three seasons and Panthers coach Ron Rivera has said he’d like to reduce the wear and tear on his franchise quarterback’s body. “If we can run the ball effectively with the backs and not have to rely on him running we would much rather do that,” Rivera said. Newton was rusty early. Carolina’s first three possessions netted a
yard and no first downs. Newton compounded the problem by overthrowing Kelvin Benjamin on a deep ball after the rookie receiver got behind the secondary. But Stewart replaced DeAngelo Williams and immediately gave the Panthers a boost with a 17-yard carry around left end. The Panthers found their rhythm after that, driving 66 and 50 yards for touchdowns on their next two possessions. “We had a slow start tonight, which is unacceptable,” Newton said. “We have to stay on schedule and not waste opportunities like the shot to Benji. Kansas City’s a good football team and we didn’t match their intensity early.” He missed on five of his first six passes and was sacked for a 13-yard loss, leading to three straight three-and-outs to start the game. Carolina benefited from a 32-yard pass interference penalty on Chiefs cornerback Ron Parker that set up Stewart’s first TD — a run in which the 5-foot-10, 235-pounder bounced off a defender and bowled
his way into the end zone. Newton connected on a 24-yard pass to Benjamin over the middle on Carolina’s next series leading to Stewart’s second score. It was an encouraging return to the field for Stewart, a former firstround draft pick who has missed 17 games the past two seasons with foot and ankle injuries. Stewart has been limited to 516 yards rushing and one touchdown the past two seasons. “It’s been a while since I’ve touched the end zone,” said Stewart, who sat out the first preseason game because of a strained hamstring. The Panthers had a chance to extend their lead before halftime, but Benjamin lost his cool and head-butted Chiefs defensive back Chris Owens. That cost the Panthers 15 yards and took them out of fieldgoal range.
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“I am sure you understand that it is a very tough moment for me since it is a tournament I love and where I have great memories from fans, the night matches, so many things,” Nadal’s posting read. “Not much more I can do right now, other than accept the situation and, as always in my case, work hard in order to be able to compete at the highest level once I am back.” The second-ranked Nadal plays left-handed, but he uses a twohanded backhand. The other U.S. Open men’s singles champions who did not return to the field the following year were Ken Rosewall in 1971, Pete Sampras in 2003 and Juan Martin del Potro in 2010. Nadal won his second championship at Flushing Meadows in 2013, part of a run of reaching the final in each of his last three appearances in the U.S. Open. He beat Novak Djokovic to win the titles in 2010 and last year, and lost to Djokovic in 2011. But now Nadal will be skipping the tournament for the second
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