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Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Thursday. Sokratis Papastathopoulos Arsenal Jersey . 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. Matteo Guendouzi Arsenal Jersey . Olli Jokinen, Mark Scheifele, and Bryan Little each had a goal and an assist as Winnipeg won 5-2, handing Calgary its record-setting seventh consecutive loss on home ice. Emiliano Martinez Arsenal Jersey . -- Matt Ryan needed one of the best games of his career to lead the Falcons and their depleted offence out of their three-game losing streak last week. http:///...iner-Arsenal-Jersey/ .25 million option on reliever Jose Veras. TORONTO -- A milestone win for Rick Porcello gave the Boston Red Sox some breathing room atop the American League East.Porcello pitched seven innings to become the first 20-game winner in the majors, Hanley Ramirez hit a three-run homer and the Red Sox increased their AL East lead to two games by routing the Toronto Blue Jays 13-3 on Friday night.Xander Bogaerts homered and Dustin Pedroia had three hits and four RBIs as the Red Sox used 18 hits to rough up the sloppy, slumping Blue Jays in the opener of a pivotal three-game series between the divisions top two teams.Porcello (20-3) allowed two runs and six hits to become Bostons first 20-game winner since Josh Beckett in 2007.Its definitely a huge honor, Porcello said. Its hard to win one game in the big leagues, let alone 20. Im definitely very proud of that.Porcello has worked at least seven innings and held opponents to three earned runs or fewer in nine consecutive starts, the longest streak by a Red Sox pitcher since Pedro Martinez did it in 11 straight in 2000.Just a model of consistency, Red Sox manager John Farrell said. He keeps rolling along and we play with a lot of confidence. His execution has been outstanding. Hes pitching with average velocity, but his location is tremendous.Porcello said he had received a number of congratulatory text messages, but had one he was going to respond to right away.Ive got to call my parents, he said. Thats first and foremost.Porcello came in 6-7 with a 5.27 ERA in 15 career games against Toronto but kept the Blue Jays in check.The Red Sox broke it open by scoring six runs in a 10-batter seventh. Bogaerts hit a leadoff drive off Scott Feldman, his 18th. Three batters later, Ramirez connected off Feldman, his 22nd. Pedroia capped the rally with a two-run single off Ryan Tepera.Boston (79-61) surpassed its win total from a last-place finish in 2015, when it went 78-84.Toronto, which was swept in a three-game series at Yankee Stadium earlier this week, fell to 1-6 in September. The Blue Jays had won six of their previous eight against the Red Sox.We havent necessarily been playing good baseball the last week, but I still believe, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. Matteo Guendouzi Jersey. Blue Jays right-hander Marco Estrada (8-8) allowed four runs, three earned, and six hits in 2? innings, his shortest outing of the season. The last time Estrada failed to finish three innings was June 30, 2015, also a home loss to Boston.He was off, no question about it, Gibbons said. He lives on the edges, and he was just missing.Estrada is 3-5 with a 5.32 ERA in nine starts since being named an All-Star for the first time. He missed the All-Star Game after being placed on the disabled list because of a sore back.Nothing went our way today and obviously it started with me, Estrada said.Parka for PapiBlue Jays sluggers Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion presented retiring Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz with a winter parka and a leather jacket before his final series in Toronto. Ortiz has 40 career home runs at Rogers Centre, more than any other road ballpark. Ive seen enough of him, Gibbons joked about Ortiz. The Blue Jays made a donation to Ortizs foundation.StreakingPedroia has at least one hit in 27 consecutive games against Toronto, the longest streak by any Blue Jays opponent.Trainers roomRed Sox: OF Andrew Benintendi (left knee) ran the bases before the game and will try sliding as early as Saturday. A very good day for him, Farrell said. There is still no timetable for Benintendis return. ... Boston recalled LHP Henry Owens from Triple-A Pawtucket.Blue Jays: C Russell Martin (left knee) was held out of the lineup. Martin aggravated the injury in Wednesdays loss at New York and was replaced by a pinch hitter in the ninth. Hes still pretty sore, Gibbons said.Up nextRed Sox: LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (2-6, 4.83) has a 2.73 ERA in nine starts since the All-Star break. Rodriguez is winless in his past five outings.Blue Jays: LHP J.A. Happ (17-4, 3.44) is winless in three starts since his 11-game winning streak ended Aug. 25. Happ won his only start against Boston this season, allowing one run in seven innings. ' ' '