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NFL promotes O'Reilly to run events 08/18/2014 04:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- The NFL has hired Peter O'Reilly as senior vice president of events.O'Reilly served the past nine years in fan strategy and marketing for the league. He replaces Frank Supovitz, who left the NFL to form his own events company.O'Reilly, 42, will be responsible for the execution of al Tricky 18th hole helps Villegas win Wyndham 08/18/2014 01:26pm • JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Camilo Villegas got some help from an unlikely source on his way to his first victory in a while.The tricky 18th hole at Sedgefield Country Club tripped up his top two challengers.Villegas won the Wyndham Championship by a stroke Sunday for hi Villegas claims 1-stroke win at Wyndham 08/18/2014 08:15am • JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- When Camilo Villegas finished his final round in the Wyndham Championship, he was hoping to get into a playoff.Instead, every other contender stumbled, and the Colombian didn't have to hit another shot to win his first PGA Tour title since 201 Renewed fighting in Ukraine rattles stocks 08/17/2014 08:56pm • MATTHEW CRAFT AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Renewed fighting in Ukraine rattled markets on Friday. Reports that Ukrainian forces attacked Russian military vehicles that had crossed the border knocked stock markets down in the afternoon and sent traders into the safety of U.S. government bonds. The world's Pokemon players come to win in D.C. 08/17/2014 05:22pm • WASHINGTON -- The world's best Pokemon players traveled to D.C. this weekend to determine who's the best. How exclusive is it? Invitations were sent to 500 players from 31 countries. The players gathered at the Convention Center to play the card and video games versions of Pokemon. For the fi Andretti hopes to draw more IndyCar fans to Mile 08/16/2014 04:52pm • GENARO C. ARMAS AP Sports Writer WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) -- The IndyCar stop at the Milwaukee Mile has a new date in a series with a tight driver leaderboard.Even the weather is ideal for the race Sunday, which starts a three-week sprint to the series finish with Will Power holding just a four-point l Column: Waiting to hear from Tony Stewart 08/16/2014 12:22pm • PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer Plenty of people have weighed in on the tragic events last weekend at a short track in New York.A few were there. Many weren't.But there's only one person who really knows what happened: Tony Stewart.Until he talks openly and honestly about what was going through his Hornish hoping to finally win in his home state 08/15/2014 06:24pm • RUSTY MILLER AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) -- Sam Hornish Jr. thinks he has a home-track advantage."While Mid-Ohio is so close to my home and my heart, at the same time it's a place where I've got almost as many races here as a fan as I do as a driver," the Defiance, Ohio, native said Friday Bolt expects to run under 10s in Rio beach event 08/15/2014 04:47pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Usain Bolt expects to run under 10 seconds in a 100-meter race set up on a Rio de Janeiro beach this weekend.Bolt says Sunday's race is "going to be a test" to see where he's at with his preparations this season. He will be competing against three other sprinters in the "Mano Dredge atop of lead, Wakefield, Bjorn follow 08/15/2014 04:33pm • AALBORG, Denmark (AP) -- Wales' Bradley Dredge topped the Made in Denmark leaderboard on Friday, with England's Simon Wakefield in second and Dane Thomas Bjorn, who aims to secure a spot in Europe's Ryder Cup team, tied in third.Dredge holds a four-shot lead over Wakefield after a three-under-par 68 Congressman wants to curb military surplus program 08/15/2014 01:33pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Images of police outfitted in paramilitary gear clashing with protesters in suburban St. Louis are giving new impetus to efforts to rein in a Pentagon program that provides free machine guns and other surplus military equipment to local law enforcemen Stewart sitting out Michigan after dirt-car death 08/15/2014 10:30am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Tony Stewart will not race Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, skipping a second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup race since striking and killing a driver in a dirt-track race at a small New York track.Stewart announced the decision in a statement Thursday. His plans for the Morning Notes 08/15/2014 09:00am • State And County Point Fingers Over Voter Registration Mishaps – As many as a few hundred Montgomery County voters had their party affiliations incorrectly altered ahead of June’s gubernatorial primary. Local officials said it happened because of a glitch at the state’s Motor Mekhissi DQed after bare-chested Euro celebration 08/14/2014 05:55pm • RAF CASERT AP Sports Writer ZURICH (AP) -- Mahiedine Mekhissi thought he was winning his third straight European Championship 3,000-meter steeplechase title and wanted to celebrate in style -- bare-chested through the finishing straight.Instead, the Frenchman added yet another chapter to his controv Communities across US recover after floods 08/14/2014 05:52pm • FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press NORTH BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) -- Communities across the U.S. are drying out after unusually heavy rains swamped highways, flooded basements and were blamed for at least four deaths.Long Island residents were urged to remain off the road Wednesday as a round-the-clock recover