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Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Monday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT:- CHICAGO -- Carson Wentz, the North Dakota State quarterback and No. 2 overall draft pick, looks to build on a strong debut when the Philadelphia Eagles meet Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears. Game starts 8:30 p.m.- From the top of the NFL to the bottom of the heap, injuries have struck key players after two weeks: Adrian Peterson, Jimmy Garoppolo, DeMarcus Ware, Josh McCown, Danny Woodhead, Jonathan Stewart and Arian Foster.- Vikings coach Mike Zimmers made the right call, starting Sam Bradford over Shaun Hill at quarterback. Bradford outplayed Aaron Rodgers in an impressive debut to lead Minnesota over the Green Bay Packers.- LOS ANGELES -- Vin Scully begins his final homestand for the Dodgers on Monday night. The 88-year-old Hall of Famer will call games against the Giants and Rockies before concluding his record 67 years in the booth with a road trip.- PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Tim Tebow is wearing No. 15 again and working out at the Mets instructional league team, beginning in earnest his football-to-baseball career switch.- LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw (11-3) starts for the first-place Dodgers against the Giants Madison Bumgarner (14-9) in an excellent matchup of left-handers. San Francisco holds the second NL wild-card spot. Game starts 10 p.m.- BALTIMORE -- The first-place Boston Red Sox go with Rick Porcello (20-4) against the Baltimore Orioles in the opener of a four-game series between the top two teams in the AL East. Game starts 7:05 p.m.- When Alabama trailed by 21 points it looked as if college football poll voters might have to start from scratch. Not quite. The Crimson Tide rallied, and in the end it was only Louisville that truly entered the national title conversation.- Coming off back-to-back 200-yard games, San Diego States Donnel Pumphrey has built a comfortable lead on the national rushing chart. Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson is second at nearly 155.- TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Jalen Hurts and No. 1 Alabama were anything but perfect against Mississippi. Now the question is whether the Crimson Tide and the freshman quarterback grow from the experience.- CLEMSON, S.C. -- Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson thinks the rout of South Carolina State did the fifth-ranked Tigers good -- and at exactly the right time. Clemson starts ACC play Thursday night at Georgia Tech.- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- After one of the worst losses in school history, No. 13 Florida State needs to fix glaring problems on defense and offensive line if it is to have any hope of salvaging the season.- TORONTO -- Two World Cup of Hockey games: Czech Republic vs. Europe (3 p.m.) and North America vs. Russia (8 p.m.).- SONOMA, Calif. -- No team came close to stopping Team Penskes march to the top of the standings. That dominance overshadowed a season that showed promise for IndyCars future. Nike Vapormax En Gros . -- Most satisfying to Russ Smith about No. Vapormax Svart Dame Norge .C. -- Todd Fiddler scored a hat trick, including the overtime goal, as the Prince George Cougars survived an 8-7 win against the Kamloops Blazers in Western Hockey League play Sunday. http://www.vapormaxnorge.com/vapormax-herre-norge/vapormax-plus.html .com) - The Montreal Canadiens will try to halt their longest losing streak of the season when they host the struggling New York Islanders in tonights clash at the Bell Centre. Nike Sko Vapormax .Y. -- Syracuse has turned up the defence at the right time all season, and when High Point threatened to pull off a monumental upset the second-ranked Orange did what they do best with their quick hands and savvy play. Vapormax Flyknit Dame Norge . Then the Pacers gave Oladipo and his Orlando teammates the cold shoulder. Paul Georges buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter spurred a 21-4 run, finally sending Indiana past the Magic 97-87 in a tougher-than-expected opening night matchup. As entertaining as Les Miles teams have been, the Mad Hatter has been equally fun with a microphone in front of him. Whether he was opining on a family vacation, the importance of Election Day or which stadium has the best-tasting grass, Miles was always required listening. Miles time in Baton Rouge as LSUs football coach may be up, but these quotes will live on.Here are our favorites from Miles LSU tenure:What Miles did on his summer vacation The Miles family, [daughter and Texas student] Smacker Miles, I took a vacation. I went to Austin, took my three children with me, so we had six, two parents and four children on that campus. It was miserable. I hated it. But it was great fun. I mean, it was not a beach, it was not sand, but it was my family, and that was the best.Have a great day Im the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. Ive got a championship game to play, and Im excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Its really all Id like to say. It was unfortunate that I had to address my team with this information this morning. But that being done, I think well be ready to play. Therell be no questions for me. I represent me in this issue. Please ask me after. Im busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day. -- Miles, during an impromptu news conference called before the 2007 SEC championship game, responding to reports that he was a candidate for a job at his alma mater, MichiganGive them a big kiss on the mouth Im proud of those men. How fricking easy it would have been to say it was their night. How [expletive] easy. Excuse my language. Spectacular group of men. You go find them, you throw your arms around them, you give them a big kiss them on the mouth ... if youre a girl. -- Miles after beating Ole Miss in 2012Les talks holidaysColumbus Day I just want to remind everybody that its Columbus Day, that all those of you that know Italians and like Italians are the people that might venture onto a ship and travel to explore and find new lands: This is your day. So its not St. Pattys Day. Thats a different day entirely.Election Day Just recognize that its Election Day coming up, where all those model citizens will get off and take care of their duties to the country. This is not Columbus Day, its not just for the Italians. Its certainly not St. Pattys Day, its not just for the Irish. Its for all of those who have the ability to vote in our country. So get out and do that, please.The grass in Tiger Stadium tastes best I have a little tradition that humbles me as a man, that lets me know that Im a part of the field and part of the game, and its the very bottom as well as the very top. Yeah, thats going to be all over the internet. You know what, you should have seen some games before this. I can tell you one thing: The grass in Tiger Stadium tastes best. -- Miles on eating grass against Alabama during a game in 2010A very stiff dew It would be far from me to say that it ever rained Saturday night in Tiger Stadium. But it was very close to rrain, if not a very stiff dew.dddddddddddd -- Miles on playing Auburn during a rainy night in 2013.If I read books ... When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, its like reading a book and its exciting. I dont read books. But if I read books, it would be like reading a book.?The hammer and the nail Two very quality teams take the field and compete like a son of a b---- for victory, and you know what, its not a hammer-and-a-nail relationship. Its an opportunity for an opponent to be equal and to raise their level of play in such a fashion that they win. And thats how this thing works. That in fact you respect the opponent and hes not the hammer and hes not the fricking nail, hes the opponent. You understand? Im just letting you know I resent that. I resent the fact that suddenly we were nailed. You got it? I mean honest to Petes. I mean, s---, we were a pretty good team last year. I thought we played like a son of a b---- in that stadium. Im just letting you know, I felt differently than the nail, so you know. -- Miles discussing a reporters inference that LSU had been the hammer and Florida the nail in a 17-6 win in 2013 compared to the opposite being true when they met the previous seasonThe upper quadrant of speed I brought the team to the field, and I just want you to know that it appeared to me that the field was strong with excess band members and people with flags and maybe even an occasional mascot or two. And as I made my way through what appeared, again, to be a minefield of people, from the side unbeknownst to me, there was a contact between one of our players and a cheerleader -- male, I might add. That male cheerleader kind of clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good. But I was masked by the flag. There was a flag waver there that certainly hid my embarrassing tumble. ... I was not nicked. I came up gingerly, but kind of walked it off and avoided a baton twirler as I got to the bench. -- Miles on falling down while leading the team out of the tunnel before the Alabama game in 2011Beach vs. beach location He went to a beach location. It wasnt a beach. He had no problem in the beach at all. The beach was not sandy where he was at. It was not ... for instance, there was no, like, crabs there. -- Miles just before spring break in 2016 when asked whether he barred players from visiting places like Panama City Beach, where Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott had been assaulted in a parking-lot fight a year earlierThe chest to lead a program We needed a quarterback. We lost two. We needed a quarterback in this class. There was a gentleman from Indiana that thought about coming to the Bayou State. He did not necessarily have the chest and the ability to lead a program, so you know. -- Miles criticizing Gunner Kiel for decommitting from LSU and switching to Notre Dame ' ' '