Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Saturday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT:- DETROIT -- The Tigers continue to surge back into the AL wild-card race, and go for their sixth straight win when rookie Michael Fulmer (10-4, 2.58 ERA) takes on the Angels. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Starts 7:10 p.m.- NEW YORK -- Jeremy Hellickson (10-7) starts for the Phillies against Noah Syndergaard (11-7) and the wild card-hopeful Mets. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Starts 7:10 p.m.- Despite everything that Serena Williams has won and done, her sense of self can still fluctuate based on the outcome of a particular match. Doesnt always seem to matter that she owns a record-tying 22 major singles titles heading into the U.S. Open, which begins Monday with a retractable roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the first time. SENT: 800 words, photos- NEW YORK -- A few weeks ago, Monica Puig was a player outside the top 30 with one career title who had never made it past the fourth round at a major. Now she comes into the U.S. Open as an Olympic gold medalist. UPCOMING: 600 words by 5 p.m.- FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Patrick Reed had a two-shot lead over Rickie Fowler and Emiliano Grillo going into the third round of The Barclays. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos by 6:30 p.m.- OAKLAND, Calif. -- Derek Carr and the Oakland Raiders take on Marcus Mariota and the Tennessee Titans in the third exhibition game. UPCOMING: 650 words, photos. Starts 8 p.m.- DENVER -- Trevor Siemian has chance to wind up as Denvers starting quarterback if he has a good showing against the Rams in Saturday nights exhibition game. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos. Starts 9:05 p.m.- A preview of Sundays NFL exhibition games. UPCOMING: 750 words.- PRIDDIS, Alberta -- Ariya Jutanugarn took a three-stroke lead into the third round of the Canadian Pacific Womens Open. UPCOMING: 500 words, photos by 10 p.m.- FORT WORTH, Texas -- The IndyCar Series race at Texas resumes after a 2 1/2-month delay, with James Hinchcliffe leading. The race was first postponed a day in June and then red-flagged after 71 laps the next day because of rain. UPCOMING. 700 words, photos. Race scheduled to resume at 9:15 p.m.- SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium -- With Lewis Hamilton starting from the back of the grid after making too many engine changes this season, Mercedes rival Nico Rosberg has a chance to score some big points at the Belgian Grand Prix. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos.- LINCOLN, Neb. -- Finally, Brad Simpson can call himself a scholarship player at a big-time football school. Its taken him four years, and hes run up student-loan debt into the tens of thousands of dollars. With one season to play, he says his walk-on experience at Nebraska has been worth every penny. SENT: 950 words, photos.- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Edge is this years motivational mantra in the Ohio State football program, one of the latest tactics to motivate millennial players in an age of social media, digital flash and diminished attention spans. SENT: 600 words, photos.- EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- In the final dress rehearsal for the regular season for most of both teams starters, Eli Manning and the Giants take on Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Jets. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos. Starts 7:30 p.m. Cheap Fernando Valenzuela Jersey . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing room, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. Cheap Jackie Robinson Jersey . - NASCAR announced a 33-race schedule for the 2014 Nationwide Series with virtually no changes from this years slate. http://www.cheapdodgersjerseys.com/ . 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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The Asian Football Confederation will try again to elect three delegates for FIFAs ruling council at a rescheduled meeting in February.Last month in India, Asian soccer leaders called off elections at a 27-minute congress to protest against a FIFA ethics investigation into Qatari candidate Saoud Al-Mohannadi.The AFC said Saturday that the elections will now be held Feb. 28 in its home city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.FIFAs ethics committee blocked Al-Mohannadi from standing for one of the two vacant FIFA seats just days before the original poll. The Qatar soccer federation vice president had allegedly not cooperated in a previous ethics case which was not specified.That decision was seen by some of the AFCs 47 member federations as unwanted interference from Zurich. It also improved the election prospects of Irans Ali Kafashian. The other candidaates were Chinas Zhang Jian and Zainudin Nordin of Singapore.ddddddddddddThe third FIFA seat is reserved for women. The candidates in September were: Moya Dodd of Australia, North Koreas Han Un Gyong and Mafuza Akhter of Bangladesh.The three new seats on the expanded and rebranded 37-member FIFA Council have two-year mandates to 2019.In February, the existing FIFA Council seat of Sheik Ahmad Fahad Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the influential Olympic power broker from Kuwait, is als