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PITTSFORD, N.Y. -- The Buffalo Bills patience with Marcell Dareus grew thin on Tuesday, when the team announced the NFL suspended the star defensive tackle for violating the leagues substance abuse policy for the second time in two years.This time the discipline is more severe for Buffalos highest-paid player.After sitting out the season opener last year, Dareus was suspended without pay for the first four games of this season.From ownership down, we have made it clear his behavior is unacceptable, the Bills said in a statement. We are very disappointed Marcell chose to put himself first, before his teammates, coaches, the rest of the organization and fans through his recent actions.Without going into detail, the Bills said they would continue taking the necessary steps to work with Dareus. The team did not reveal any details or name the substance Dareus used that led to the suspension.Dareus posted a lengthy note on his Instagram account apologizing to the Bills, his fans, family and the league.I will not (hashtag)makeexcuses for the events in question, Dareus wrote. Calling the suspension a temporary setback, he asked fans to continue believing in him.I will continue to invest all that I have to bring honor and respect to the organization and my fans, Dareus added. I will rise above this setback, as with every challenge brings an opportunity for growth and supreme (hashtag)success!Dareus can continue practicing and playing through the preseason. His suspension begins the week before the Bills open the season at Baltimore on Sept. 11. He will be eligible to rejoin the team on Oct. 3, a day after Buffalo plays at New England.Dareus is a five-year starter since being selected with the No. 3 pick in the 2011 draft. Last year, the Bills signed him to the most expensive contract in team history, a seven-year deal potentially worth $104 million.The suspension is the latest blow to Rex Ryans revamped defense, which is already depleted by injuries. And it is the latest in a series of off-field troubles for Dareus.His one-game suspension last year stemmed from being arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia after being stopped by Alabama State Police on May 5, 2014.Dareus avoided trial, during which he would have faced felony drug charges, by agreeing to enter an NFL substance abuse program a few months later.That wasnt his only run-in with the law.In April 2015, he reached a plea agreement to have misdemeanor charges dropped for crashing his Jaguar into a tree near a busy suburban intersection the previous spring.On the field, the 26-year-old is considered one of the NFLs top defensive tackles. Hes a two-time Pro Bowl selection and earned All-Pro honors in 2014, when he had a career-best 10 sacks.The Bills were counting on Dareus to anchor a three-man line alongside veteran Kyle Williams and rookie third-round pick Adolphus Washington.Buffalos defense is already missing starting outside linebacker Shaq Lawson. The rookie first-round pick had shoulder surgery in May and is expected to miss at least the first month of the season. The defense is also down rookie second-round pick Reggie Ragland, who was pegged to start at middle linebacker. Ragland suffered a season-ending injury to his left knee 10 days ago.Dareus becomes Buffalos second player to earn a four-game suspension to open this season.Last month, the NFL issued backup running back Karlos Williams a similar suspension for violating the substance abuse policy.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/AP-NFL Scarpe Nmd Italia .C. -- Rodney Hood connected from all over the court while freshman Jabari Parker was busy swatting shots and scoring in transition. Scarpe Yeezy 350 Bianche Scontate . To the surprise of many, it isnt the Wolverines but their in-state rivals the Michigan State Spartans. http://www.scarpenmdscontate.it/scarpe-nmd-uomo-outlet.html . The Oilers come in having lost five in a row (0-4-1) and 16 of their last 20 games, dropping a 2-1 decision to the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday. Nmd Human Race Italia . 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Build up the Christmas spirit by sharing the stats with everyone you meet or speak to, as loudly as possible.December 1In Mohali, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Jayant Yadav each made a half-century and took four wickets in the match - the first occasion in Test history in which three team-mates have scored a fifty and taken four or more wickets in the game.There had only been four previous instances of three players on the same side scoring a half-century and taking three wickets in the match, most recently when Malcolm Marshall (76), Roger Harper (60) and Michael Holding (73) all reached 50 in West Indies first innings against England in Antigua in 1986, before going on to take five, four and three wickets respectively as England crumbled to their fifth defeat of the series. Viv Richards scored his famous 58-ball 110 in West Indies second innings, so the match is sadly no longer remembered for being the first time that Nos. 7, 8 and 9 had all made half-centuries in the same Test innings against England (and the third time in all). The lack of stadium-demolishing batsmanship in Mohali means that the Indian spin trios triple half-centuries have more chance of being fondly recalled by history as the second time that Nos. 7, 8 and 9 all made half-centuries in the same Test innings against England (and the seventh time in all).December 2 The balance of Englands team, with its unusual depth of batting and bowling, has thrown up some statistical quirks. Having six front-line bowlers has seldom been considered necessary in the history of Test cricket, and Gareth Batty duly had a deeply unremarkable match, through little fault of his own. The joy of stats, however, is that even the deeply unremarkable can be remarkable.Batty was only the fourth player since 1976 to be the sixth bowler (or later) used in both innings, and to bat at least one innings at 10 or 11.Had it not been for nightwatchman duty, and he had batted at 10 in the second innings, he would have become only the fifth player ever to bowl outside the first five and bat outside the top nine in both innings of a Test (after Ian Johnson, Lindsay Kline, Bapu Nadkarni, and Lance Gibbs). December 3 Nadkarni is one of the few cricketers, alive or dead, who might justifiably look at Ravi Jadejas throwback remorseless water-drip left-arm spin and think: Thats a bit flamboyant. He might even look at the following stat and think: This planet has become unbearably flippant.Ravi Jadejas Test economy rate of 2.24 is the lowest of the 191 bowlers who have taken 50 wickets in the last 30 years.The Saurashtran scoring-suffocator is narrowly ahead of his Indian slow-left-arm gradual-interrogation predecessor Venkatapathy Raju (2.25); New Zealand fill-in dobster Nathan Astle (2.26), whose batting was rather more interesting than his bowling; and 1990s South African seam metronome Craig Matthews (2.26), the parsimonious paceman who would reportedly cry uncontrollably for at least a week if he ever bowled a slightly overpitched delivery. (When I use the word reportedly, I mean that I have reported this claim to myself.)Nadkarni conceded 1.67 per over in his 41-Test career, which ran from 1955 to 1968. The overall Test economy rate in that time was 2.33, so in terms of economy relative to contemporaries, Jadeja and Nadkarni are almost identical - the latters economy was 71.7% of the overall figure, the formers is currently 71.8%. Even allowing for the propitious conditions in which Jadeja has played many of his Tests, his unhittability is impressive.December 4 In Indias first innings in Mohali, Englands opening pair and first-change bowlers, James Anderson, Chris Woakes and Moeen Ali, between them took 0 for 167 in 58 overs.This was only the fifth time that the first three bowlers England have used in the first innings of a Test have all gone wicketless, and only the second of those five in which all three have bowled at least eight overs each.The only previous wicketless-first-three-England-bowlers first innings involving a significant number of overs was in the deeply harrowing Lords Test of 1993, when Andy Caddick and Peter Such, in their second Tests, and the bafflingly recalled and about-to-retire-from-all-cricket Neil Foster, in his penultimate first-class match, combined for 0 for 304 in 104 overs against a grindingly dominant Australia.Lords 1993 was the only time that Englands openers and first-change bowlers have bowled more fruitless overs in any Test innings than those sent down by Anderson, Woakes and Moeen in Mohali; and one of only two occasions in which they have conceded more wicket-free runs than Mohalis 167, the other being the Greenidge-inspired Westt Indian run chase at Lords in 1984, when Willis, Botham and Pringle were splatterthrumped for 0 for 209 in 43.dddddddddddd.1 overs.Mohali also provided:a) Only the 18th time in any Test innings that the bowlers 1, 2 and 3 have each bowled 12 or more overs without a wicket between them; b) The tenth time that both England opening bowlers have pounded through at least 20 wicketless overs (Lords 1993 was the most recent previous instance);c) Andersons second wicketless match in his last 75 Tests (after the Lords Ashes Test in 2015).Woakes has now had two wicketless innings in this series in which he has bowled at least 20 overs. Steven Finn also had two such innings in last summers series against Pakistan. Before then, the last England bowler to have two wicketless 20-over innings in a series was Ashley Giles in the 2005 Ashes, and the last England pacer to do so was Chris Lewis, in 1996 against Pakistan. The only England pacers to suffer similar struggles against India were Fred Ridgway (twice) and Allan Martin (three times) in the 1951-52 series. Ridgway never played another Test, Martin had three more the following summer.Woakes long-term prospects are considerably rosier. He has bowled better than his series figures of 2 for 165 suggest. And by bowling two wicketless 20-over innings in a series, he joins an illustrious list of opening bowlers including Steyn, McGrath, Ambrose, Marshall, Hadlee, Kapil, Lillee, Imran, Trueman and many other all-time luminaries of pace.December 5Mohali was the 16th occasion in which a team has won a Test without anyone either scoring a century or taking four wickets in an innings, and the first such victory by India.The two other occasions this decade both involved England, in their win over Pakistan at Edgbaston last summer, and their defeat to West Indies in Barbados in May 2015.December 6 Before Pakistans impressively catastrophic final-session implosion in Hamilton, Azhar Ali and Sami Aslam had patiently constructed Pakistans first century opening stand outside Asia since 2010.It was also Pakistans highest first-wicket partnership outside Asia since Imran Nazir and Mohammad Wasim (two stalwart members of the Pakistan Players Younger Than Misbah-ul-Haq Who Have Not Played Test Cricket Since January 2003 XI) put on 219 against a West Indian attack led by Walsh and Ambrose, in May 2000.December 7 The Sami-Azhar stand was also the highest fourth-innings opening stand by anyone for more than ten years, since Chris Gayle and Daren Ganga added 148 for West Indies against New Zealand in Auckland in March 2006.Perhaps the disappointment of not seeing their team-mates bring up the first 150 first-wicket partnership since 1997 is what prompted the subsequent collapse.More for your Stat-vent Calendar next week. No peeking. Be patient. Wait your turn. To help pass the aching void of time between now and then, more on Bapu Nadkarni.Like Jadeja, Nadkarni was a useful lower-order batsman as well as a run-abhoring stifler with the ball, averaging 25, with a first-class batting average over 40. The match mentioned in the above stats in which Nadkarni did a Batty (allowing for the fact that Battys nightwatchmanship precluded him from doing a Batty himself) illustrates that long-batting orders are not a modern development.Nadkarni was the sixth Indian bowler used in both West Indies innings in the Trinidad Test of April 1962, but was rather more extensively utilised than Batty was in Mohali, frugalising his way through 63 overs in the Test, taking 2 for 103, and scored 1 and 23, adding 93 for the ninth wicket in the second innings with Polly Umrigar.Ten of the India team ended with at least 12 first-class hundreds (and the exception, Rusi Surti, made six, and scored 99 in a Test, as well as eight other Test fifties). The only player who ended his Test career without scoring 99 or more, ironically, was the opener Vijay Mehra. The astonishing depth of batting did not help India - they lost by seven wickets, the fourth of the five heavy defeats they suffered in the series.Indias No. 11 in the Trinidad Test was wicketkeeper Budhi Kunderan, already a first-class double-centurion, who two years previously had made 71 as an opener, in Chennai against Australia, the best team in the world at the time, out of a total of 149 all out, against a high-class attack featuring Alan Davidson, Ian Meckiff, Richie Benaud and Lindsay Kline.Quite how Kunderan found himself, five Tests later, batting at 11, is something of a mystery. He batted 10 in the following Test, and scored 2 and 1, prompting the Indian selectors to think: Wed better promote this guy up to open in our next Test. This they duly did, and Kunderan scored 192 against England in January 1964, again in Chennai, and went on to make more than 500 runs in the series. Then, after one more Test as opener, he was shunted back down to No. 9. Then back up to open again. It must have been fun being a selector in those days. A lot of fun. ' ' '