Новости за 09.04.2016

SAN FRANCISCO - First baseman Brandon Belt and the San Francisco Giants agreed Saturday to a $72.8 million, five-year contract that starts in 2017.

LINCOLN, Nebraska - Nebraska defensive lineman Greg McMullen is taking a leave of absence from spring practice.

CINCINNATI - Gerrit Cole's season debut didn't go as well has he'd hoped. That's usually the result whenever he faces the Cincinnati Reds.

PEORIA, Illinois - Andrea Gorski is returning to Bradley as women's basketball coach.

STONY BROOK, New York - Stony Brook, coming off its first NCAA Tournament appearance, hired Ohio State assistant Jeff Boals as its basketball coach Saturday.

RALEIGH, North Carolina - North Carolina State spent the spring installing a control-the-tempo attack, then drilling itself on the basics over and over again.

AUSTIN, Texas - Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez set up a run at a fourth straight victory at the Grand Prix of the Americas, grabbing the pole position Saturday for the fourth consecutive year.

HONOLULU - Officials say three men who had been missing for three days were rescued Thursday from a deserted Pacific island after a U.S. Navy plane spotted a gigantic "help" spelled out with palm leaves.

WASHINGTON - Home Depot reported an internal outage with its system for processing payment cards on Saturday, slowing purchases at stores across the U.S.

ISTANBUL - A small bomb left on the side of a road in central Istanbul exploded late Saturday, slightly wounding three people, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.

CHICAGO - Comedian Andy Richter says he remembers the chair facing the showers that Dennis Hastert placed in the boys' locker room at the high school where Hastert coached wrestling before becoming an Illinois congressman.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - South Carolina is taking a long look at starting a true freshman at quarterback.

LONDON - The doctor in a legal battle with Chelsea over being demoted after rushing onto the field to treat a player broke her public silence on Saturday with a speech stressing the importance of trusting medics.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Los Angeles Dodgers have placed outfielder Carl Crawford on the 15-day disabled list because of a lingering lower back injury.

DETROIT - Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus has been ejected in the fifth inning of Saturday's game against the New York Yankees.

Arsenal needed a flawless finish to the English Premier League season to stand a realistic chance of reeling in surprise leader Leicester.

ELIZABETH, New Jersey - A decision on whether a woman accused of tweeting anonymous threats against fellow black college students will be entered into a probation program will come next week, a New Jersey judge said.

LAKE HALLIE, Wisconsin - A police officer fatally shot a developmentally disabled woman inside a western Wisconsin Wal-Mart after she refused to drop a hatchet she had grabbed from a shelf, authorities say.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since 2011 has asked President Hassan Rouhani to lobby for an open trial.

MANCHESTER, England - Manchester City recovered from going behind early on to beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1 on Saturday in the English Premier League.

Steve Miller had just performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, but he wasn't finished.

BELFRY, Montana - A Montana sheriff says authorities are working to extradite a man from Washington state who is accused of killing three people.

WOODSTOCK, Georgia - Authorities say a naked man was arrested after breaking into a north Georgia home through a pet door.

LONDON - The Latest on developments relating to the massive leak of financial documents on offshore accounts from a Panamanian law firm. (all times local):

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - The president of Turkmenistan has fired two ministers responsible for the economy and trade and also the head of the tax service.