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Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Wednesday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT:- NEW YORK -- Serena Williams plays Simona Halep, and Karolina Pliskova meets Ana Konjuh in the U.S. Open quarterfinals. In the mens quarters, its Andy Murray vs. Kei Nishikori, and Juan Martin del Potro vs. Stan Wawrinka. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by 8 p.m.; updated with night schedule.- NEW YORK -- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell disagrees with Colin Kaepernicks choice to kneel during the national anthem, but recognizes the quarterbacks right to protest. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos by 4 p.m.- Tiger Woods says he hopes to make his comeback next month in the PGA Tours Safeway Open in Napa, California, his first competitive golf since August, 2015. Hes been recovering from back surgeries. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos.- Its week one of the NFL season, and Pro Picks are back as Panthers visit Broncos in Thursday nights opener. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos, graphic.- DENVER -- No Peyton Manning. No Josh Norman. The Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers meet again Thursday night with a new cast of characters, including Broncos QB Trevor Siemian making his first NFL start. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by 3 p.m.- NEW YORK -- The U.S. Open has never put an upper limit on the age of its ball chasers. Of the 275 ball people this year, more than 20 are over 30. Several are in their 50s. SENT: 800 words, photos.- NEW YORK -- Tied for first place in the AL East, the scuffling Jays try to prevent a three-game sweep by the Yankees, who are just a few games off the pace in the playoff hunt. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Starts 7:05 p.m.- If all those exciting and compelling games in the opening weekend wore you out, week two is for you. For the first time since Sept. 8, 2012, there are no games matching ranked teams on the schedule this weekend. However, there are a few in-state rivalries being renewed in Pennsylvania and Utah. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 3 p.m.- HOUSTON -- J.J. Watt is back at practice and preparing for Houstons opener against Chicago. Hell address his recovery from back surgery when he talks to the media for the first time since July 31. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos about 5 p.m.- FRISCO, Texas -- Ezekiel Elliott has been cleared in a domestic violence investigation in Ohio and now turns his attention to something Tony Dorsett and Emmitt Smith didnt do -- start an opener as a rookie. But his preseason left a couple of lingering questions about his conduct. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos by 7 p.m. ET.- Tony Johnson spent Labor Day weekend burying his brother, who committed suicide a week ago. Hell spend next weekend fighting in the main event of Bellator 161 in Texas, believing William Johnson wouldnt want him to miss an opportunity that both fighting brothers craved. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos by 9 p.m.- RIO DE JANEIRO -- The curtain comes up on the Paralympic Games with 4,300 athletes ready to compete in 22 sports. Organizers are promising success despite grave budget problems that threatened the games until the last minute. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos. Cheap Baltimore Ravens Jerseys China .J. -- Josh Cribbs was in the Pro Bowl in February and out of a job six months later. Arizona Cardinals Kyler Murray Jersey . Kozun faked to the forehand and beat Monsters starter, Calvin Pickard, pad side in the second round for the winner. Spencer Abbott also scored in the shootout for the Marlies (25-13-4). http://www.cheapfootballchina.com/cheap-new-york-giants-jerseys-china_525w.html . Scott Kazmir allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, Michael Brantley hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning and the Indians maintained their hold on an AL wild-card spot with a 4-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night. Authentic Football Wholesale . Ashley Youngs cross was inadvertently headed by Chester into his own net in the 66th minute, allowing United to claim a third straight league win. "We had to dig deep with our fighting spirit and weve done that," United striker Wayne Rooney said. Football Jerseys Outlet . -- Anaheim Ducks captain and leading scorer Ryan Getzlaf has been scratched from Sunday nights game against the Vancouver Canucks because of an upper-body injury. RIO DE JANEIRO -- If English is the language of world commerce, Brazil hasnt gotten the memo -- only a small fraction of its 200 million people have a basic proficiency. Fluency is also rare for other languages such as German, French and even Spanish, despite Brazil being bordered by seven Spanish-speaking countries.Many of the hundreds of thousands of tourists expected to descend on Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics in a few weeks could frequently find themselves in a linguistic muddle.Vanderclei Silva Santos, who sells caipirinhas, Brazils national cocktail, says he struggles to communicate with foreign tourists who stop at his stand on Copacabana Beach, so he uses his fingers and toes to write prices and shapes in the sand.Most of the time it works, but trying and funny moments are common, like the time a woman made chomping gestures to ask where she might find fresh corn on the cob. There was also the time a man seemed to be urgently asking for a banheiro, which is a toilet, but it turned out he was trying to figure out where to take a banho, or shower.Communicating is tough. We move our hips, we smile, which tourists like. We find a way, said Santos, a 39-year-old who hopes to one day take a basic English course, something that until recent years generally was available only for wealthy Brazilians and is still not widely offered.Attempting over the last year to bridge the language gap for the Summer Games, Rio de Janeiro state, the Olympic Committee and several companies have offered in-person and online English courses to several thousand service industry workers, Olympic volunteers and police -- those most likely to come in contact with tourists.Do you know the meaning of `Im going to kick your butt? teacher Rafael Vianna asked this week to a dozen tourist police in an advanced course aimed at preparing them to help English speakers sort through any issues that come up, from harassment to robbery. Its often used in sports and can be interpreted in different ways depending on the context.On the blackboard, Vianna wrote and defined some words that tourists in distress may use, such as mace, malice, mayhem and nuisance.Vinicius Lummertz, the president of Embratur, a government agency that promotes Brazil overseas, said Rio will be ready. And he argues that any linguistic struggles will be part of the experience.A lack of English is a problem, but trying to communicate with Brazilians who only speak Portuguese becomes a flavor, Lummertz said. Do you want a world that is exactly the same everywhere?Latin Americas biggest country is roughly the size of the continental United States, which has tended to insulate its people. And vast inequalities permmeate every walk of life, including education.dddddddddddd Most Brazilians have never had a chance to study other languages.Virginia Garcia, former head of the British Council in Brazil, said research by the council a few years ago found that only 5 percent of Brazilians spoke English at a proficient level.Garcia said English instruction in public schools is limited, although several big events hosted by Brazil in recent years, including the Pan American Games, the World Cup and a visit by Pope Francis, have slowly pushed the country to expand language teaching.Twenty years ago, only people coming from the high classes could learn other languages in Brazil, Garcia said. Its slowly getting more democratic.Antonio Carlos de Moraes Sartini, director of the Sao Paulo-based Museum of the Portuguese Language, said Brazils intense focus on Portuguese dates to 1750, when the Portugals monarchy made teaching the language mandatory to create a national identity different from the surrounding Spanish-speaking colonies.At the time, only about 20 percent of people in Brazil spoke Portuguese, while more than 1,000 indigenous languages prevailed. A few hundred of those languages are still spoken, mostly in the Amazonian region, but the vast majority of indigenous peoples now also speak Portuguese.The language spoken here today expresses Brazilians expansive, affectionate nature, said Sartini.That nature often includes having a good laugh when it comes to foreign languages.Joel Santana, a former soccer player and coach, has parlayed his halting English into a second career in television advertising. In 2010, while coaching South Africas national team, he gave an interview in English that was so indecipherable that it became an internet sensation. Since then, he has pitched products such as Pepsi and Head & Shoulders shampoo in commercials, throwing in barely understandable words in English.Jens Heftoy, a journalist from Norway who has visited Brazil several times in the last decade since marrying a woman from Rio, said that in his experience even Brazilians who have a decent level of English prefer not to speak it unless they work in the tourism industry.Three blocks from here, youll have problems in communicating, Heftoy said while walking on the tourist mecca of Copacabana Beach. It works out, but you have to be patient.---Associated Press writer Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo contributed to this report.---Online:Joel Santana interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoxA9ghHkOM---Follow Peter Prengaman at http://twitter.com/peterprengaman ' ' '