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NEW YORK -- Quarterback Tom Bradys last best chance to avoid serving a four-game Deflategate suspension to start the new season was flatly rejected Wednesday by an appeals court.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a one-sentence rejection of requests by the National Football League Players Association and Tom Brady to reconsider an April decision that reinstated the suspension.We are disappointed, the players association said in a statement. The track record of this league office when it comes to matters of player discipline is bad for our business and bad for our game. We have a broken system that must be fixed.It added that it will review its options carefully.The NFL declined comment.The courts action left intact a 2-to-1 ruling by a three-judge panel that found NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acted within his powers by upholding the suspension of the star quarterback for his role in a scheme to doctor footballs used in a January 2015 playoff game.The decision affirmed wide-ranging powers given to the commissioner by the NFLs collective bargaining agreement. It was a setback for organized labor groups arguing for due process in employee discipline.The players association and Brady had requested that the panel reconsider or that all the 2nd Circuit judges hear arguments and decide anew.Bradys remaining hope is to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.That is an extremely long shot, said Nellie Drew, a sports law professor at the University at Buffalo. She said the 2nd Circuit acted correctly and that any changes to how the NFL handles arbitrations over player issues will have to be handled at the negotiating table.She predicted Patriots backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo will be getting a whole lot of repetitions as the Patriots prepare for their season opener Sept. 11 at Arizona.Its time to put this thing to bed, Drew said. If it was my kid, Id say: `Let it go.Lawyers and other representatives for the Patriots and Brady did not immediately return messages seeking comment.If he misses four games, Brady will lose just under $250,000 in salary after renegotiating his contract in the offseason to earn only $1 million this season.Anthony Barkow, a lawyer who submitted an amicus brief on behalf of Kenneth R. Feinberg, the special master of the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund and a longtime arbitrator, said: We wish the result were otherwise, but respect and understand the decision and know that it is extremely rare for the 2nd Circuit to grant en banc review.What began as an accusation of cheating in the 2015 AFC championship game has grown into a multimillion-dollar legal battle over three NFL seasons, involving not just an MVP quarterback but also some of the nations elite lawyers and scientists.And as it developed, it evolved from a silly little dispute about the air pressure in footballs into a referendum on the powers of a sports commissioner and the right of all unionized employees to due process in a disciplinary hearing.Joining the case along the way were longtime league adversary Jeffrey Kessler and former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who was involved in the Bush v. Gore lawsuit that settled the 2000 presidential election and the case that overturned Californias ban on same-sex marriages.At stake for the Patriots was not only the availability of their quarterback for a quarter of the season, but their legacy as an NFL dynasty. Already punished by Goodell for an illegal videotaping scheme in 2007 that predictably came to be known as SpyGate, the Patriots saw the suspension as an attack on their legitimacy after Brady and coach Bill Belichick led them to four Super Bowl championships.Suspicions that the Patriots were cheating arose again on Jan. 18, 2015 when the league tested -- somewhat unscientifically it would belatedly learn -- the footballs provided by the home team for the AFC title game against the Indianapolis Colts and found them to be underinflated.After three months, league investigator Ted Wells concluded the Patriots intentionally used underinflated footballs in the game and that Brady was at least generally aware of the scheme. The NFL suspended the four-time Super Bowl champion quarterback four games and docked the team $1 million and two draft picks.Brady appealed -- first within the league, and Goodell affirmed the decision. After both sides went to federal court, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman overturned the suspension. The league appealed to the 2nd Circuit, and the court reinstated the original penalty.That left Brady hoping for a new hearing in front of the complete circuit -- called en banc -- or an even more unlikely hearing at the Supreme Court.Thats always an option to litigants, Olson said after joining the case. It is not something we have resolved ourselves to doing.New England fans rallied behind their quarterback, putting Free Brady on T-shirts, reciting the Ideal Gas Law from memory and giving a heros welcome not only to the quarterback when he took the field for the 2015 regular season opener but also to Kessler and Berman.In other NFL cities, fans were just as convinced that the Patriots and Belichick were up to no good. Added to the videotaping penalty -- along with Belichicks tendency to stretch the rules to their limits, or occasionally beyond -- it was seen as confirmation that the team cant win without cheating.The courts decision is unlikely to change minds on either side.---AP sports writer Jimmy Golen in Boston reported from Boston. 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LOUIS -- St. 5Number of West Indies batsmen who have carried their bat through a Test innings. Kraigg Brathwaite became the fifth. The only other West Indies batsman to carry his bat in the last 20 years was Chris Gayle, against Australia at Adelaide Oval in 2009-10. The three instances prior to Gayle were all by Desmond Haynes, between 1986 and 1993. Frank Worrell (1957) and Conrad Hunte (165) were the other two to achieve this feat.9 Instances of batsmen carrying their bat against Pakistan - the second-most against any side. Three of the last four instances against Pakistan, before Brathwaite, were by Zimbabwe players. There were five instances of batsmen doing this against Pakistan in 1990s but Brathwaite is only the second since 2000. The team against which this has happened the most is England (13 times), and the least is against Sri Lanka (twice).1 Only one of the previous six instances of West Indies batsmen carrying their bat have resulted in wins - Haynes (143*) against Pakistan in Port of Spain in 1992-93. Overall, only 13 of the previous 50 instances have resulted in wins.3 Batsmen who have carried their bat in the last 14 months. Dean Elgar and Cheteshwar Pujara did this last year. There were no such instances for about three-and-a-half years between January 2012 and August 2015.13 Before this match, West Indies had failed to take a lead in 13 consecutive Tests when batting second. In those matches, they conceded an average lead of 204. In away matches, when batting second, in matches excluding Bangladesh, the last time West Indies took a lead was way back in 2006 in Multan.3 Number of top-order batsman (Nos.dddddddddddd 1 to 6) to bag two pairs in a year - Asad Shafiq became the third. The previous two were: Mohinder Amarnath in 1983 and Mark Waugh in 1992. Both Amarnath and Waugh had got those pairs in the same series, unlike Shafiq. Shafiq is only the second Pakistan player from any batting position to get two pairs in a year after Shabbir Ahmed in 2005.2 Instances of Pakistans top-four batsmen aggregating four ducks in a Test. The only previous instance was also in Sharjah, in 2002-03, against Australia. In this match, Shafiq got a pair, Azhar Ali scored zero in the first innings and Younis Khan in the second. This was Younis fourth duck in the UAE, and his third in Sharjah.2 Pakistans 281 in this Test was the second smallest total in a completed Test innings to include four individual fifty-plus scores. New Zealand had scored only 275 in an innings inclusive of four fifties against Pakistan in Hamilton in 2010-11.2 Five-wicket hauls for Wahab Riaz. This is his 20th Test. His first five-for was against England at The Oval in 2010 on his debut, and the second came in this match after a gap of six years.1 Number of three-wicket hauls for Jason Holder in Tests prior to this series, in 17 matches. In this series he has had two such hauls, including the one in the second innings of this Test. This is only his second series, out of eight, in which he has taken more than five wickets. In the four matches of the home series against India recently, he had taken only one wicket. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '