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LONDON -- With the Russian doping scandal still causing bitter discord across the international sports world, Olympic leaders meet Saturday to consider ways of revamping a global drug-testing system battered by political disputes and a loss of public confidence.The role of the World Anti-Doping Agency, proposals for an independent testing body and the continuing investigation into state-backed Russian doping are expected to be discussed at the Olympic Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland.The finger-pointing and blame game against WADA have ramped up recently, with several IOC members publicly blasting the organization for its handling of the Russian doping crisis.There seems to be a lot of people who refuse to accept that the base problem was institutional Russian cheating, WADA President Criag Reedie told The Associated Press. WADA cannot and will not be held responsible for Russian cheating.The International Olympic Committee said officials will debate ideas for a more robust, more efficient and more independent worldwide anti-doping system, including further talks on making the entire system independent from sports organizations.We will make recommendations for WADA to improve in a very constructive way, IOC President Thomas Bach said. We will ask WADA to take the organizational measures to perform these tests in a more efficient and more robust way.The closed-door meeting, to be held at a luxury Lausanne hotel, will be attended by about 20 officials, including IOC vice presidents, heads of major international sports federations, and presidents of the U.S., Russian and Chinese national Olympic committees.Its uncertain whether the deliberations will produce concrete decisions or simply a set of broad principles ahead of an extraordinary world conference on doping next year.We need to really properly understand who is responsible for what, IAAF President Sebastian Coe told the AP on Friday. We need to settle on arrangements that satisfy the clean athletes. Im not sure its any more complicated than that.The delegate with perhaps the most at stake is Reedie, whose agency has been harshly criticized by IOC members. The fallout from WADAs recommendation to ban Russias entire team from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro- rejected by the IOC -- continues to roil the waters and will hang over Saturdays discussions.A report by WADA investigator Richard McLaren detailed state-supported doping and cover-ups across dozens of winter and summer Olympic sports in Russia. It also backed allegations by Moscows former lab director that doping samples of Russian athletes were manipulated during the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.The IOC turned down WADAs call to impose an outright ban on Russia from the Rio Games. The IOC deferred to individual international sports federations, and about 270 Russian athletes wound up competing in Rio. Bach said the decision was made in the name of justice to prevent clean athletes from being punished for the violations of others.The Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations said Thursday the IOC lost the anti-doping battle before the Rio Games, declaring: The IOC failed the clean athletes of the world.McLaren is scheduled to release his final report by the end of the month, focusing on the doping manipulation in Sochi. Those findings could lead to disqualifications, stripping of medals and calls for Russia to be banned from 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang.IOC members have accused WADA of failing to act soon enough on Russian doping and criticized the agency for releasing the McLaren report so close to the Rio Games.We made a recommendation when we got the (McLaren) report, Reedie said in a telephone interview this week. The IOC chose a different decision on eligibility. Weve moved on. We need to move on together with calmness and cool heads.In the past few weeks, several IOC members -- notably Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., Sergei Bubka and Gerardo Werthein -- have publicly castigated WADA.They are responsible for what goes on inside international laboratories but their labs in Sochi and Moscow were like Sodom and Gomorrah, Samaranch told a Spanish newspaper.Some have suggested that WADA be restructured or replaced. But Reedie and others believe the agency should be strengthened with greater funding and more powers to investigate, monitor compliance and apply sanctions.IOC executive board member Gian Franco Kasper believes WADA should stick to technical issues and stay out of politics.The summit is not to punish WADA, he told the AP. For the anti-doping, WADA is an excellent organization.Bach has proposed the creation of an independent body -- under WADAs umbrella -- to carry out global drug-testing, making the system more independent by taking it out of the hands of sports federations. He said the body should be operational before the Pyeongchang Games.Reedie said WADA experts have done all the technical work on the proposal, which will be discussed at the agencys executive committee meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, in November. WADA could set up a subsidiary company to run the new body, which would cost tens of millions of dollars, Reedie said.Its unclear whether the proposed body would take over anti-doping for all Olympic sports. Coe said he plans to brief the summit on the IAAFs plan to launch its own integrity unit in early April that will act as an independent anti-doping body handling results management and sanctioning for track and field.We want to share our insights on this, Coe said. 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I feel like we put ourselves in position to win, and we just didnt capitalize when we should have.Appalachian State was trying to stage a repeat of its 2007 upset of No. 5 Michigan, which marked the first time a Football Championship Subdivision program had beaten a Top 25 team. The Mountaineers have since left the FCS ranks and had their first season as a full-fledged Bowl Subdivision member last year.Tennessee faced third-and-goal from the 2 when Dobbs ran to his right and lost control of the ball as he tried to stretch his arms across the goal line. Hurd won the scramble for the loose ball in the end zone to give the Volunteers their only lead of the night.I thought I was in, and then I just saw Jalen dive on the ball and I said, `All right, were good. We scored, Dobbs said. A touchdowns a touchdown.Micah Abernathy ended the game by breaking up a pass into the end zone on fourth-and-5 from the 20.The Vols tied it on Dobbs 67-yard touchdown pass to Josh Malone with 10:30 left in regulation. Appalachian State redshirt freshman kicker Michael Rubino, who earlier missed an extra point, was wide right on a 42-yard field goal attempt with 5:24 remaining.Rubinos miss wasted a 57-yard punt return by Jaquil Capel that gave Appalachian State the ball at the 28.Tennessee entered the season with its highest ranking since 2006 after winning its final six games last year, but the Volunteers looked nothing like a Top 10 team Thursday. The Volunteers committed two first-half turnovers and lost linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin to a targeting penalty in the opening quarter as Appalachian State built a 13-3 lead.On a night where just about everything and anything went wrong, we found a way to win, Tennessee coach Butch Jones said.Cam Suttton fumbled on a punt return and Appalachian States Alex Gray recovered at Tennessees 36 to set up the first touchdown, a 5-yard keeper from Taylor Lamb barely four minutes into the game.dddddddddddd Appalachian States other touchdown came in the second quarter on a 33-yard completion from Lamb to Cox.THE TAKEAWAYAppalachian State: The Mountaineers had lost by at least 28 points in each of their six meetings with Power Five teams since that Michigan game, but they showed Thursday that they could compete with college footballs big-name programs. Appalachian State refused to get pushed around and kept Tennessees offense out of the end zone for the first 49 1/2 minutes.Cox showed he can run effectively against any team from any conference. Cox now has 4,203 career yards rushing to rank second among all active FBS players, behind San Diego States Donnel Pumphrey.Tennessee: The Vols vowed they werent overlooking Appalachian State and werent distracted by sky-high preseason expectations, but something was clearly missing Thursday.The biggest question surrounding Tennessee during the offseason was whether it could add efficiency and explosiveness to its passing attack. That area remains a major concern. Dobbs went 16 of 29 for 192 yards with one touchdown and an interception.Im never going to apologize for a win, guys, Jones said. I think weve learned around here wins are pretty hard to come by.KEY NUMBERSAppalachian State reached Tennessee territory on four second-half possessions but failed to score on any of them. ... Appalachian State controlled the ball for 33 1/2 minutes to keep Tennessees offense off the field. ... Tennessee rushed for just 127 yards on 43 carries. ... Dobbs, who ran for a combined 1,160 yards in 2014-15, had minus-4 yards rushing on nine carries.UP NEXTAppalachian State: The Mountaineers have their home opener Sept. 10 against Old Dominion. Appalachian State must avoid looking ahead to its Sept. 17 home game with Miami.Tennessee: The Volunteers face Virginia Tech at the Bristol Motor Speedway. The Sept. 10 Battle at Bristol is expected to draw over 150,000 fans, which would mark the largest recorded attendance for a college football game. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '