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Ryan Fitzpatrick To Start For Buccaneers Vs. Dolphins
Mike Evans Returns To Bucs
LiAngelo Ball And UCLA Teammates Accused Of Shoplifting In China Are Now Back In U. S.
UCLA Players have charges dropped, are back in U.S
It's back to Ryan Fitz- patrick for a Buccaneers team still strapped to life support.
The veteran quarterback will start his second straight game this Sunday against the Miami Dolphins in Miami at 1 p.m., the team announced.
Fitzpatrick led the strug- gling Bucs to a 15-10 win over the Jets in Week 10, throwing for 187 yards and a touchdown in relief of starter Jameis Winston, who was inactive with a lingering shoulder in- jury.
Coach Dirk Koetter em- phasized the organization has not discussed the possibility of shutting Winston down, per the Tampa Bay Times, saying he still expects the third-year passer to return this season.
Bucs Expect Jameis Winston To Play Again This season
Tampa Bay Buccaneers star quarterback Jameis Winston will play again this season for the Buccaneers re- gardless of their record, head
Bucs wide receiver Mike
Evans was
back with the
team on Wednesday,
after serving
his one-game suspension
for his role in
a fight with the Saints.
And he’s vowing to be smarter the next time.
Evans said the fact the Bucs were getting drilled by the Saints was a contributing factor in his decision to drill cornerback Marshon Lattimore from be- hind.
“If we were winning, I don’t think I’d do that,” Evans said. “But we were down 30-3. The game out of reach. I shouldn’t have done it, but there are things I got to fix. I think that’s the dif- ference for me. I’ll never do that again. I’ve got to play calmer. I like playing with passion and ef- fort. I’ve got to be smarter.”
Serena Shows Off Post-Baby Body At Glamour Awards Event
Serena presented her good friend, Gigi Hadid with the Su- pernova award.
Serena Williams gave birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, just ten weeks ago. However, the tennis superstar snapped right back to her toned form, stealing the show at her first post-baby ap- pearance.
The athlete walked the red carpet at Glamour’s Women Of The Year Awards ceremony in Brooklyn, NY on Monday (Nov. 13). Williams wore a black Versace mini-dress with gold embellishments. Her enviably sculpted arms and legs were on display.
Inside the event, Williams presented supermodel Gigi Hadid with the Supernova Award. During her speech, she said that the 22-year-old is one of the only people in the world she’d leave her daughter for a night to celebrate.
RYAN FITZPATRICK AND JAMEIS WINSTON
coach Dirk Koetter said Monday.
Barring a setback to his shoulder, the plan is for Win- ston to eventually be back under center in 2017. Doctors have told him to sit out at least two weeks and he will be re- evaluated following Sunday's game at Miami.
But general manager Jason Licht has said Win- ston could miss an extended period of time. They want the sprained AC joint in his right throwing shoulder to heal as much as possible.
When asked Monday if he believed Winston would play again in 2017, Koetter didn't mince words.
LiAngelo Ball and his 2 UCLA teammates Jalen Hill and Cody Riley were cap- tured at the Pudong Interna- tional Airport in Shanghai minutes before boarding their flight to the United States.
Ball -- along with Jalen Hill and Cody Riley -- were dressed in sweats and sporting UCLA team backpacks and sneakers as they made their way toward the boarding area Tuesday evening (Monday our time).
All 3 men were arrested last Tuesday for allegedly shoplifting at Louis Vuitton and reportedly faced up to 10 years in Chinese prison if con- victed.
Mark Dreyer of China SportsInsider.com reported that all charges were dropped against the trio and that they were not officially deported
from the country.
James T. Areddy of the
Wall Street Journal first re- ported the news of the players' exit from China.
President Donald Trump had said he was work- ing with Chinese president Xi Jinping on having the players returned to the United States.
“I'm going to wait until I get more intel on what's going on," LaVar Ball, LiAngelo’s dad said following his son's ar- rest, per Arash Markazi of ESPN.com. "He'll be fine. Everyone's making it a big deal. It ain't that big a deal.”
LiAngelo Ball is the brother of former UCLA point guard and current Los Angeles Laker Lonzo Ball. Lonzo told reporters LaVar called him and asked him to not worry too much about the sit- uation.
MIKE EVANS
First Black Fulltime NASCAR Driver Is Target Of Racist Tweets
Darrell ‘ Bubba’ Wallace, Jr., left, with Richard Petty during news conference before NASCAR Cup series auto race qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Richard Petty Motorsports announced that Wallace Jr. will drive the No. 43 car for the organization beginning in 2018.
A Wisconsin high school golf coach has resigned and apologized for a series of racist tweets aimed at NASCAR driver, Darrell Wallace, Jr.
Brent Nottestad re- signed Thursday as coach at Cambridge High School. Nottestad apologized, saying the tweets he posted Wednes- day about Wallace, an African-American NASCAR driver, "went way over the line and it became racist.”
The Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent re- ported in one tweet Nottes- tad referred to the number
"1423," which the Anti- Defamation League says is as- sociated with a white supremacist prison gang. Nottestad claims his choice of the number was random.
Wallace is poised to be- come the first black full-time driver at NASCAR's top level since 1971.
“There is only 1 driver from an African American background at the top level of our sport... I am the 1,” Wal- lace tweeted Wednesday. “You’re not gonna stop hear- ing about ‘the black driver’ for years. Embrace it, accept it and enjoy the journey...”
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