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Saturday 28 OctOber 2017

BUCKS

STOPPED

HERE

Columbus Crew forward Adam
Jahn (12) and goalkeeper
Zack Steffen (23) celebrates
the game-winning goal after
the shootout of an MLS playoff
soccer game against Atlanta
United, in Atlanta, Thursday,
Oct. 26, 2017. The Columbus
Crew won in a 3-1 shootout.
Defending

champs start

playoffs again

without Clint

Dempsey

By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — For
the second straight season,
the Seattle Sounders will
begin the MLS Cup play-
offs with Clint Dempsey as
a spectator.
Unlike last year’s champi-
onship run by the Sounders,
this absence by Dempsey
will last only one game.
Dempsey was suspended
for Sunday’s first-leg of Celtics finally solves Bucks
the Western Conference
semifinals against Casca- with 96-89 win In Milwaukee
dia rival Vancouver after
picking up a red card in
the regular-season finale
against Colorado. Boston Celtics’ Al Horford puts up a shot over Milwaukee
Dempsey was sent off early Bucks’ Thon Maker during the second half of an NBA
in the first half of Seattle’s basketball game Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, in Milwaukee.
3-0 victory last week that Associated Press
clinched the No. 2 seed in Page 21
the West for the defending
champs.
“We are no longer the
underdog,” Seattle mid-
fielder Cristian Roldan said.
“We’ve accepted that.

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