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UPCOMING: 700 words, photos by 4 p.m.- LINCOLN, Neb. -- Gov. Pete Ricketts has agreed to meet with one of the Nebraska football players he criticized for kneeling during the national anthem at the Cornhuskers most recent game. SENT: 300 words, photos.- HOUSTON -- The Texans suffered a big blow to their defense when star J.J. Watt was placed on injured reserve with a back injury and is expected to be out until at least December. SENT: 130 words, photo. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos.- Burficts back, just in time for the Bengals. Linebacker Vontaze Burfict has completed his three-game NFL suspension for repeated illegal hits. Cincinnati certainly hopes he returns with an edge to his game, but a controllable one. Well find out Thursday night. UPCOMING: 650 words, graphic by 4 p.m.- As October begins the real College Football Playoff contenders start to emerge. 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By 7:30 p.m.INDIANAPOLIS -- Andrew Luck spent part of his childhood in London, and routinely goes back there to vacation. On Sunday, he will be there on a business trip. UPCOMING: 650 words, photos by 6 p.m.- BEREA, Ohio -- Terrelle Pryor was a one-man show last week at Miami, playing quarterback, wide receiver and even safety for the Browns. His all-around stats had not been seen in an NFL game since 1959. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos.- TORONTO -- Instead of skating off the ice discouraged with a 3-1 loss, Team Europe appears to have had a confidence-boosting performance in Game 1 of the World Cup of Hockey finals. SENT: 600 words, photos.- WUHAN, China -- Angelique Kerber lost her first match as the No. 1-ranked player in a three-set defeat to Petra Kvitova in the third round of the Wuhan Open. 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Winless the past two seasons, Roush Fenway put no drivers in the top 20 in the 2016 standings -- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. finished 21st in points, while Trevor Bayne was 22nd and the recently released Greg Biffle was 23rd.Stenhouse and Bayne remain as Roush Fenways full-time Cup drivers. The teams charter (NASCARs version of a franchise) for what was Biffles No. 16 car will be leased to JTG Daugherty Racing for Buescher in 2017. Stenhouse will have a new crew chief in 2017, as former Biffle crew chief Brian Pattie will replace Nick Sandler, who will head the Roush Fenway engineering department.We have been able to shore up our plans for 2017 and we feel that this will continue to move us in a direction that will yield improved performance and results, Roush Fenway co-owner Jack Roush said in a statement.We saw improvement in our cars and made substantial gains in our performance at times last season, and we will continue to build on that by maintaining a robbust engineering group in order to take the next step by consistently running up front.ddddddddddddBuescher, the 2015 Xfinity Series champion who drove for Roush Fenway Racing affiliate Front Row Motorsports as a rookie in 2016, finished 16th in the standings thanks to making the Chase with a win in the rain-shortened August race at Pocono. He was 29th in the points in the regular season but earned a spot in the Chase with that win. The 24-year-old Buescher now joins AJ Allmendinger, who was 19th in the standings last year, as part of a two-car Chevrolet stable at JTG Daugherty. The team did not announce a car number, crew chief or sponsor for Buescher.Im thankful for the opportunity and look forward to competing for a spot in the Chase, Buescher said.JTG Daugherty racing is co-owned by Tad and Jodi Geschickter and ESPN basketball analyst Brad Daugherty.Roush Fenway also announced an organizational restructuring. General manager Robbie Reiser will be reassigned within the organization. Kevin Kidd, who joined the organization a year ago and has assumed much of that role over the past 12 months as the Cup team manager, has been named competition director. Tommy Wheeler, who has overseen vehicle production, was named operations manager. ' ' '