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Kangaroos star Sam Thaiday has urged Andrew Fifita not to give up on rugby league, amid claims from the controversial front-rower he is considering defecting to a rival code. Zapatillas Baratas .Fifita was banned from the Australia squad for the Four Nations tournament due to his support for coward punch killer Kieran Loveridge.The Cronulla premiership winner said on Sky News Jones & Co. program on Tuesday night he feared his NRL contract could be ripped up tomorrow.But Thaiday, one of the games leading figures said he would hate to see Fifita lost to rugby league.Definitely. He is a huge character in our game and he is a huge drawcard for a lot of young kids out there as well, Thaiday told AAP on Wednesday.He is someone that young kids look up to and aspire to be.Where he is getting himself into trouble at the moment is, he is making some bad decisions and some bad choices in his life.I think his footballing life is great and it is on track at the moment. It is just the off-field stuff that he needs to knuckle down on and get right.In speaking with broadcaster Alan Jones, Fifita said the NRL and police were trying to make a fool of him after he was warned for consorting with criminals for visiting Loveridge in jailI feel Im on my last chance at the NRL. They all know that, I know that, he said.Im thinking the worst at the moment. Ive got one more mess up and Im out, my contracts ripped up.So Ive already approached my management team, Ive already had talks with the CEO (Cronulla boss Lyall Gorman) about negotiating elsewhere in different codes because of all this stuff thats going on.But Thaiday, who is in Perth with the Australian squad ahead of Saturdays Test against New Zealand at nib Stadium, said Fifita had a big future in rugby league if he could sort himself out away from the game.I am sure if he can figure that stuff out he will play many, many games for Australia going forward, the Brisbane Broncos forward said.But at the moment it is those things that are the problem.We want the best of the best playing for Australia and those players have to be the best of the best on and off the field. Zapatillas Baratas Imitacion . Neymar curled home a free kick from just outside the area to put the 2014 World Cup host ahead in the 44th minute. Three minutes after the break, a simple through pass from Paulinho freed Oscar and the Chelsea star rounded goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryong to extend Brazils lead. Zapatillas Nike España . Jeff Green scored 13 points and Kris Humphries 12 for the Celtics, who nearly blew an 18-point, second-half lead. Sullingers 20-20 was the first by a Celtics player since Kevin Garnetts first game in Boston in 2007. Garnett was dealt -- along with Paul Pierce -- to Brooklyn during the off-season. https:///...et-online-d2288.html . MLS Commissioner Don Garber and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez also will attend the session, which was announced Monday. The league has discussed placing its next two expansion teams in Miami and Atlanta. CROMWELL, Conn. -- Daniel Berger says hes healthy again and hoping to regain the form that helped him to his first PGA Tour title two months ago.Last years rookie of the year followed his first-round 66 with a 67 on Friday for a share of the lead in the Travelers Championship.He matched 2012 Travelers champion Marc Leishman, Russell Henley and?Tyrone van Aswegen?at 7-under 133. Leishman shot?68, Henley shot 65, and Van Aswegen 66.Berger strained his shoulder at the U.S. Open after winning in Memphis at the St. Jude Classic, his fourth top-10 finish in seven starts.The injury forced him to withdraw after hitting his opening tee shot at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and he didnt return until last week at the PGA Championship.I definitely played better than I thought I would, he said. This is my seventh round in six weeks and for a professional golfer thats not a lot.Four players, including 49-year-old University of Hartford graduate Jerry Kelly, were a shot behind. Kelly had a 70 after sharing the first-round lead with a 64.Blayne Barber had the best round of the day with a 64 of his own to top the seven players two strokes back.The wind got up a little bit today, so you had to be playing good golf to shoot a really good number, Leishman said.U.S. Olympians Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed and Matt Kuchar remained in contention. Kuchar shot a 67 to move to 4 under. Reed, who turned 26 on Friday, also shot a 67 and was tied with Watson at 3 under. Watson, the defending champion, had a 70.Seventy-three players made the cut by shooting even par or better.If youre close to the lead, youre close to missing the cut, said Paul Casey, who lost last year in a playoff and was among those tied for ninth place at 5 under.Henley, who is playing this tournament for the first time, joined the leaders by sinking a 20-foot birdie on his final hole, the par-4 ninth.It was just a little bit tricky, he said. I think with no wind on this course we would have seen double digits (under par) by now.Van Aswegen put up an early 66 and led most of the day as the wind picked up and the greens dried out.The 34-year-old, who is looking for his first PGA Tour win, followed up on his 67 Thursday withh a second straight bogey-free round. Air Jordan Baratas. His four birdies included a 45-foot putt on the par-4 10th.You make a birdie on 10, youre gaining a stroke on the field there, he said. Im hitting the ball quite well and putting really well.Kelly had five birdies and five bogeys. He won the last of his titles in 2009.Im tired, he said. Im going to watch a movie and see if I can rest a little bit and see if the old bones will work for two more days.Reed, one of six Olympians playing in the tournament, turned 26 on Friday. He was presented with a cupcake on the first tee, and blew out the birthday candle on top with a practice swing. Watson then led the crowd at several holes in rousing renditions of Happy Birthday.Half the people were chanting Happy Birthday, and the other half chanting for all of us, USA, so it was cool, he said.Andrew Loupe, among the leaders after the first round, held a brief one-stroke lead Friday before on his fourth hole of the day, the par-4 14th. He hit his drive out of bounds left, overcompensated right on his next drive and finished with a seven on the hole and missed the cut after shooting a 76.The most unusual play of the day came from Vaughn Taylor, who put his tee shot on the par-4 17th hole in the courses signature lake. After conferring with a rules official, he was allowed to take a drop from the opposite shore near the 16th tee, because it was no closer to the hole. That gave him a better angle at the green. After a long cart ride around the lake, he was able to make bogey, despite clipping a corporate tent with his approach shot.Matt Jones shot a second consecutive 69, despite suffering from what officials described as nausea and dehydration during his round. He took a 15-minute break at the turn and received three Intravenous bags of fluid.After two days of sun and temperatures in the mid-80s, the forecast for Saturday afternoon includes the possibility of severe thunderstorms. Because of that, tournament officials will have the players going out early in threesomes off both the first and 10th tees. ' ' '