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Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Thursday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT:- Even if only for two weeks, can Faster-Higher-Stronger overpower deadlier, scarier and bloodier? Can the Olympic Games offer the world momentary levity, distract from terror, shootings, poverty and other worries in globally grim times? And, if not, what use is the multibillion dollar celebration of youthful endeavor and mostly niche sports?- Gold, silver, bronze and Pikachu. The AP travels around the Olympic venues to see how many Pokemon are hiding as Pokemon Go is released in Latin America just in time for the Summer Games.- RIO DE JANEIRO -- The defending champions are ready for their international introduction. The U.S. mens basketball team holds its Olympic news conference, where it will try to explain to a worldwide media that still calls it the Dream Team that winning a third straight gold medal isnt a given. News conference starts 1:15 p.m.- The Oklahoma City Thunder have reached a new deal with All-Star guard Russell Westbrook. The two sides have agreed on a new three-year contract worth $85.7 million, the AP is told.- BALTIMORE -- Left-hander Wade Miley makes his debut with the Baltimore Orioles, who will seek to complete a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers in a matchup of first-place teams at Camden Yards. Game starts 7:05 p.m.- DETROIT -- Jordan Zimmermann returns from the disabled list for the Tigers, who have won eight straight. Jose Quintana starts for Chicago. Game starts 1 p.m.- TAMPA, Fla. -- Nine games into his bid to transform the bumbling Tampa Bay Buccaneers into championship contenders, the normally unflappable Tony Dungy reached a boiling point. A 1-8 record was discouraging, but hardly the only disheartening aspect of yet another slow start for a perennial last-place franchise that suffered through 13 consecutive losing seasons before the young coachs arrival in 1996.- FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- Veteran pass rusher Dwight Freeney meets his new teammates and practices for the first time with the Atlanta Falcons. Coach Dan Quinn plans to bring Freeney along slowly over the next few days.- In the history of college football, only 44 schools have been able to make the claim Were No. 1 and have The Associated Press poll back up the boast. The AP has ranked the No. 1s by number of times holding the top spot.- TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Defending national champion Alabama opens preseason camp in search of a starting quarterback for the third straight year.- CROMWELL, Conn. -- Three-quarters of the U.S. mens Olympic golf team will be playing together in the first round of the Travelers Championship. Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed and Matt Kuchar are scheduled to go out as a trio on the newly renovated TPC River Highlands course.Wholesale Shoes Free Shipping Online . MORITZ, Switzerland -- Fog prevented downhill racers from getting their Olympic dress rehearsal. Wholesale Shoes Free Shipping Worldwide . Miikka Kiprusoff had just announced his retirement after a decade-long run in Calgary and it would be up to Berra and Ramo to fill the void. http://www.wholesaleshoesfreeshipping.com/ . The catch: It needs a lot of money, and it needs it fast. Wholesale Fashion Shoes Free Shipping . Irving scored 23 points, Tristan Thompson had 20 points and 10 rebounds and the Cavaliers beat the Denver Nuggets 117-109 on Friday night. Shoes Wholesale Online Store . The International Olympic Committee released the official list of bid cities on Friday after the deadline for applications had passed. The candidates -- all previously announced in their own countries -- are: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing; Krakow, Poland; Lviv, Ukraine; Oslo, Norway; and Stockholm.PHILADELPHIA -- A popular food vendor at the Philadelphia Phillies ballpark who supports the white nationalist movement has been fired.Aramark, which operates food concessions at Citizens Bank Park, tells The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/2gZ9REe ) that Emily Youcis is no longer employed after publicly connecting our company to views that contradict our values.Youcis tweeted Monday that she was let go last week.Youcis was involved in a tussle last month outside the conference of the National Policy Instittute, a white nationalist group.dddddddddddd Youcis tried to interview protesters, asking questions like: Do you hate white people? A protester spray-painted Youcis hair and a photographer was bloodied. Some protesters were taken into police custody.The conference drew headlines after some attendees evoked Adolf Hitlers Third Reich with cries of Heil Trump and use of the Nazi salute. ' ' '