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FedEx Cup: Where a week can change everything 08/28/2014 11:30pm • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- Stuart Appleby knows how one week can change everything during the FedEx Cup playoffs.Geoff Ogilvy can only hope he's next.Ogilvy was the 100th and final player to get into the Deutsche Bank Championship, the second of four playoff events. He's a lo College Football Playoff era begins 08/28/2014 10:38pm • JOHN MARSHALL AP College Football Writer A new era in college football is here.After years of deriding the BCS, fans will finally get what they -- well, most of them -- wanted with the new College Football Playoff.It's new, it's exciting and, as was the case with the old system, will probably cause Fighting the aging process? Exercise the key 08/28/2014 08:02pm • WASHINGTON -- Many people spend a lot of money trying to turn back the hands of time. But doctors say the best anti-ager of all is free. A study in the September issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says exercise has the power to minimize or delay the effects o No. 13 LSU expects big jump from DE Hunter 08/28/2014 07:31pm • BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- When LSU defensive end Danielle Hunter studied video of his play last season, one thing in particular stood out."Last year, pretty much 80 percent of the time, I was the last man off the ball," Hunter said, referring to how long it took him to m Attempt to call missing jet may alter search area 08/28/2014 07:29pm • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Shortly after the missing Malaysian airliner disappeared from radar, airline officials on the ground tried repeatedly to call the crew of the Boeing 777 using a satellite phone that might have left clues to the jet's flight path.Now an analysi Oklahoma coach Stoops takes nothing for granted 08/28/2014 04:20pm • CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Those close to Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops say he's one of the best because he takes nothing for granted.Stoops is the only coach to have won every BCS bowl game and a national title. He has coached two Heisman winners -- Jason White and Sam Bradford. Fitness Wisdom: Pain and Gain? 08/28/2014 01:30pm • Editor’s Note: This column is sponsored by FitnessWise (4801-B Montgomery Lane). Visit their Facebook page for more. By now you’ve learned the old adage “No Pain, No Gain” isn’t always a good motto to live by when it comes to exercise and overall he Missouri opens season with veteran D-line 08/28/2014 04:50am • JAKE KREINBERG Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Markus Golden isn't a conventional team captain. The senior defensive end transferred to Missouri from Hutchinson (Kansas) Community College two years ago, and has no career starts with the Tigers.He's not without experience, though.Golden backed 2-time Horse of Year Wise Dan to return to races 08/27/2014 11:10pm • SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) -- Two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan is set to return to the races this weekend at Saratoga, 3 ½ months after having emergency surgery.Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez will be aboard Wise Dan in the $250,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap, a 1 1/16-mile race on turf. The 7-y Girls in Colombian town struck by mystery illness 08/27/2014 10:00pm • JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A mystery illness has overwhelmed a small town in northern Colombia as scores of teenage girls have been hospitalized with symptoms that parents fear could be an adverse reaction to a popular vaccine against cervical cancer.Authorities say the Parents: Mom didn't understand abandoning baby 08/27/2014 07:52pm • KEARNS, Utah (AP) -- A newborn girl was fighting for her life a day after Utah police say her mother dumped her in a neighbor's trash can, an act the woman's parents said Wednesday that she didn't fully comprehend.The 2-day-old girl was on a ventilator and in critical condition in a hospital, Unifie Arsenal in 17th straight Champions group stage 08/27/2014 07:33pm • ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) -- Alexis Sanchez scored his first Arsenal goal, and the Gunners beat Besiktas 1-0 Wednesday night to reach the Champions League group stage for the 17th consecutive season.The Bulgarian club Ludogorets reached the group stage for the first time when defender Boy hurt in California quake: 'I should be dead' 08/27/2014 07:30pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Thirteen-year-old Nicholas Dillon's screams could be heard throughout his pitch black house when the earth shook and the falling bricks hit him. His mother, who later called it the worst night of her life, couldn't get to him."I should be dead," said Nicholas, whose pelvis Police: Deaths of 2 dumped in river drug-related 08/27/2014 05:57pm • SEAN CARLIN Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Two men were found dead in a river Wednesday, bound and weighted down with makeshift anchors and their throats slit, in drug-related abductions and killings that authorities said may also have been gang-related. A third victim who was badly wounded a AP source: American militant said killed in Syria 08/27/2014 12:58pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW HOPE, Minn. (AP) -- An American man believed to have been killed in Syria was there to fight alongside an extremist militant group, most likely the Islamic State, a U.S. official said Tuesday.Investigators were aware that Douglas McAuthur McCain was in the country to