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Unbeaten Chiefs unanimous No. 1 in AP Pro32 poll

By SIMMI BUTTAR Morning Quarterback. delphia Eagles gained five
AP Sports Writer The Green Bay Packers, spots to land at No. 7.
NEW YORK (AP) — who routed the Chicago The defending champion
With the regular season 25 Bears on Thursday night, New England Patriots slid
percent complete, there’s moved up two spots to No. five places to No. 8 after
only one unbeaten team 2. losing to the Panthers 33-30
left: the Kansas City Chiefs. The Pittsburgh Steelers, who on Sunday.
So it’s not a huge surprise dominated the rival Ravens The Patriots, a surprising
that Kansas City is the in Baltimore, jumped six 2-2, start off Week 5 as they
unanimous No. 1 team in spots to No. 3. head to Tampa Bay to take
the latest AP Pro32 poll , “Bad news for Pittsburgh on Jameis Winston and the
receiving all 12 first-place opponents: Le’Veon Bell Buccaneers on Thursday
votes for 384 points Tues- has returned from a three- night.
day in balloting by media week slumber ... The Carolina Panthers and
members who regularly and he’s hungry,” SB Na- Los Angeles Rams, who
cover the NFL. tion Radio’s Ira Kaufman were tied at No. 17 last
The Chiefs face another said of the Steelers run- week, rounded out the top
challenge on Sunday night ning back who gained 144 10 at Nos. 9 and 10.
when they travel to Hous- yards in the 26-9 victory. Other teams that made big
ton to face the Texans, The Atlanta Falcons moves were the AFC East-
who scored a franchise- dropped two places after leading Bills, who climbed
record 57 points in a rout of losing to the Buffalo Bills eight spots to No. 11, and
the Tennessee Titans. and will enter their bye the Texans, who jumped
“The Chiefs are the best week at No. 4. nine places to No. 12.
team in football right now, The Denver Broncos, who “Coaching matters. The Se-
thanks to an explosive and were tied with Detroit at ans — McVay (Rams) and
creative offense led by Kansas City Chiefs players celebrate with kicker Harrison Butker No. 6 last week, inched McDermott (Bills) —
Alex Smith, who’s playing (7) after he kicked the go-ahead field goal late in the fourth ahead of the Lions for No. are in a runoff for coach-of-
the best football of his 13- quarter of an NFL football game against the Washington Red- 5 while Detroit remained the-year honors right now,”
year NFL career,” said Jen- skins in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. The Chiefs won sixth. said Charean Williams of
ny Vrentas of The Monday 29-20. The NFC East-leading Phila- Pro Football Talk.q
Associated Press

Kyrgios smashes racket, advances

to China Open quarterfinals

Kyrgios said he found his Martin del Potro 7-6 (6), match, probably the best
rhythm after losing the first 7-5, Steve Darcis defeated she’s played against me
set and smashing his rack- Dusan Lajovic 6-3, 6-4 and in all of our previous meet-
et, choosing at one point fifth-seeded Roberto Bau- ings,” said Sharapova, who
to sing along with the sta- tista Agut beat Aljaz Be- is still rebuilding her game
dium soundtrack. dene after the British player after serving a doping sus-
“Obviously, didn’t have a retired from the match in pension. “And I wasn’t as
great one last year. Obvi- the second set.In the wom- sharp. I wasn’t seeing the
ously, got suspended after en’s tournament, second- ball as well. I wasn’t mov-
that,” Kyrgios said. “I just seeded Simona Halep de- ing up and down as well as
wanted to go out there feated Maria Sharapova I have been against her.”
and redeem myself a little 6-2, 6-2 to reach the quar- Peng Shuai also advanced,
bit from last year.” terfinals.Halep landed 74 beating Monica Niculescu
Nick Kyrgios of Australia returns a shot against Mischa Zverev of Kyrgios missed the end of percent of her first serves, 6-3, 6-2, while Caroline Gar-
Germany during their men’s singles match in the China Open the 2016 season after being while Sharapova recorded cia defeated Elise Mertens
tennis tournament at the Diamond Court in Beijing, Wednesday, suspended by the men’s five double-faults. 7-6 (4), 6-4 and Jelena Os-
Oct. 4, 2017. tour and fined $25,000 for “First of all, I think she tapenko beat Samantha
Associated Press “tanking” a match and played an incredible Stosur 6-3, 7-5.q
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN The eighth-seeded Aus- insulting fans during a sec-
Associated Press tralian rallied to beat Mis- ond-round loss to Zverev at
BEIJING (AP) — Nick Kyrgios cha Zverev 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 the Shanghai Masters. The
smashed a racket after los- Wednesday, finding some ATP said Kyrgios was sanc-
ing the first set, sang a song degree of redemption for tioned for “conduct con-
while relaxing during a his ill-tempered, suspen- trary to the integrity of the
changeover, and then ad- sion-earning performance game” following an investi-
vanced to the China Open against the German last gation into his behavior.
quarterfinals. year in Shanghai. Kyrgios said his latest vic-
tory was more a statement
about his playing ability
than anything.
“I just wanted to prove to
myself how much I have
improved,” he said.
Also, third-seeded Grigor
Dimitrov eliminated Juan