NFL-SCHEDULE
Chiefs to entertain Broncos
KANSAS CITY (AP) β Tonight’s NFL game is an AFC West matchup as the Kansas City Chiefs entertain the Denver Broncos. Each team is coming off a Week-1 victory. The Chiefs beat the Texans 27-20 and the Broncos dumped the Ravens 19-13.
Denver quarterback Peyton Manning has enjoyed great success in Thursday night games, passing for just under 36-hundred yards and 38 touchdowns. He didn’t have the best of games against the Ravens last week, leading many pundits to question just how much the veteran has left in the tank.
For the Chiefs, quarterback Alex Smith was 22 of 33 for 243 yards last Sunday with three touchdowns.
Before and during the game the Chiefs will honor their Super Bowl I and IV teams.
T25-SCHEDULE
Cardinals entertain Tigers
LOUISVILLE (AP) β Clemson, the 11th-ranked team in The Associated Press poll, is on the road tonight for a game with Louisville. The Cardinals need a win to avoid their first 0-3 start to a season since 1984. The game serves as the opener in Atlantic Coast Conference play for each school.
The Tigers enter the game 2-0 with wins over Wofford and Appalachian (ap-ah-LA’-chin) State. Clemson is off the next two weeks before playing host to highly ranked Notre Dame.
MLB-SCHEDULE
Rangers look for sweep
UNDATED (AP) β The Houston Astros arrived in Arlington, Texas, with the lead in the American League West. They will leave town without it. It’s just a matter of how much they will trail the Rangers.
Texas has won the first three games of this big four-game series and tonight Lance McCullers pitches for the Astros against Colby Lewis, a 15-game winner. The Rangers start the night with a 1 Β½ -game lead over Houston.
The American League East remains the second-closest race in baseball as the Blue Jays top the Yankees by three games. This evening Toronto closes out a series in Atlanta while the Yankees have the night off.
The Nationals, who have trimmed two games off of the Mets’ lead in the National League East over the last two days, look to cut the deficit to seven games with a win tonight. The Nats are playing host to the Marlins in the opening game of a four-game series while the Mets have the night off.
If the season ended today the Cubs and Pirates would be in the playoffs as wildcard entries in the National League. That’s all well and good but each still has its sights set on catching St. Louis to win the Central Division. As a new day of play begins the Cardinals top the Pirates by four games and the Cubs by seven. This afternoon the Cubbies and Pirates are closing out a series in the Steel City, while this evening the Cards finish their series in Milwaukee.
Along with the Cubs-Pirates day game, the A’s and White Sox are playing this afternoon in Chicago.
A check of the remaining evening games shows Baltimore playing the Rays in St. Petersburg, Florida, while the Angels are at Minnesota and Kansas City is in Cleveland. Returning to the mound for the Indians is reigning Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber (KLOO’-bur). He’s been out of action with a strained right hamstring. Kluber is only 8-13 this season but ranks 10th in the league in ERA, third in innings pitched and third in strikeouts with 219.
PGA-BWM CHAMPIONSHIP
Round 3 of the FedEx Playoff
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) β The third leg of the four tournament FedEx Cup Playoffs starts today in Lake Forest, Illinois. It’s the BMW Championship and the winners of the first two events were Jason Day in The Barclays and Rickie Fowler in the Deutsche (DOY’-chuh) Bank Championship.
The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings qualified for the BMW Championship with the field being cut to 30 for the final event, the Tour Championship next week in Atlanta.
Perhaps the top trio playing together today includes Jordan Spieth (speeth), Day and Fowler.
OBIT-MARRONE
STORRS, Conn. (AP) β Joseph Morrone (mohr-OH’-nee), a Hall of Fame coach who led the Connecticut men’s soccer team to the 1981 national title and the semifinals the next two years, has died at the age of 79. The school said Morrone died Wednesday night at his home after a long battle with cancer.
He was inducted into the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame in 2002.
