SPORTS digest

YSU’s Dellovade earns MVFC honor

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State linebacker Armand Dellovade was named one of the Missouri Valley Football Conference’s defensive players of the week.

In Saturday’s 19-7 win over South Dakota State, Dellovade tackled Daniel Mikey in the end zone for a safety in the third quarter. Then he intercepted a Taryn Christian pass at the Penguins’ 19 yard line to end an SDSU drive with 8:38 remaining.

Overall he four total tackles, including three solo stops. The INT was the first of his YSU career.

Americans romp to Presidents Cup

JERSEY CITY, N.J.

President Donald Trump showed up about an hour after the final match was under way Sunday at the Presidents Cup. Had he shown up much later, he might have missed the start of a long celebration for an American team that rarely had it this easy.

This really was over before it started.

“Honestly, it was really weird being out there today, knowing there was no chance of losing,” Dustin Johnson said after going unbeaten in five matches. “I don’t know how to explain it, but it was like playing golf with my buddies. We were going to win no matter what.”

The Americans so thoroughly defeated and demoralized the International team that they needed just one point from 12 singles matches to win the gold trophy. Daniel Berger delivered the cup-clinching moment in the fourth match.

The final score was 19-11, the seventh straight victory for the Americans.

49ers earn boos for anthem formation

GLENDALE, Ariz.

Before Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco players formed two lines for the national anthem. The players in the front kneeled and the players in the back remained standing, setting off a round of boos at University of Phoenix Stadium.

Many of the standing players placed one hand on their heart, the other on the shoulder of a kneeling teammate in a sign of solidarity.

“For more than a year, members of our team have protested the oppression and social injustices still present in our society,” the 49ers said in a statement. “While some may not have taken a knee or raised a fist, we have all shared the desire to influence positive change.

“Today, our team chose to publicly display our unity in a new way and, in turn, urge others do the same. Our demonstration is simply a representation of how we hope our country can also come together by putting differences aside and solving its problems.”

More than 200 players kneeled or sat during the anthem last Sunday after Trump criticized the NFL in a speech and a series of tweets .

A week later, the protests had diminished, even after the president tweeted about the anthem the day before.

Most players in the early games Sunday stood for the national anthem, with a few exceptions.

In Cleveland, nine Browns players, including LB Christian Kirksey, raised their right arms with closed fists.

The Pittsburgh Steelers, as promised, stood on the sideline during the national anthem after watching from the tunnel last week in Chicago. With the exception of center Ryan Jensen and guard Matt Skura, the Ravens all took a knee on the field before the national anthem and received boos from many in the crowd. The team then stood on the sideline after the music started.

Marshawn Lynch was on the only player who didn’t stand for the national anthem prior to the Denver Broncos’ game against the Oakland Raiders. Last week, 32 Broncos knelt and almost all of the Raiders sat on their bench during the anthem.

The 49ers were at the center of the anthem protest issue a year ago, when quarterback Colin Kaepernick started it in response to police brutality and racial injustice. Safety Eric Reid joined him and had become a vocal leader in the movement.

Staff/wire report