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Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Sunday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. A full Olympic Digest will be sent. All times EDT:- Defending national champion Alabama is No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 college football poll as the Crimson Tide attempts to win a fifth title in eight seasons.- RIO DE JANEIRO -- The U.S. mens basketball tries for its third straight gold medal when it faces Serbia. The Americans beat the Serbs 94-91 last week in group play but blew them out 129-92 two years ago in the gold-medal game at the Basketball World Cup. Game starts 2:45 p.m.- RIO DE JANEIRO -- The marathon will be the last event decided in the Olympic track and field program in Rio, where Kenyans are expecting to wrap it up with a gold. Eliud Kipchoge has been the dominant marathoner across the last two years, and his Kenya teammate Stanley Biwott has a strong chance. Marathon started 8:30 a.m.- RIO DE JANEIRO -- Winning more medals than ever at a fully attended Olympics was obviously a huge takeaway for the U.S. Olympic Committee. The Ryan Lochte matter, however, presented a huge problem as well. News conference starts noon.- ATLANTA -- Washington left-hander Gio Gonzalez (8-9) looks for his 100th career win as the first-place Nationals wrap up a four-game series with the Atlanta Braves. Braves starter Joel De La Cruz (0-6) is still searching for his first big league win. Game starts 1:35 p.m.- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Royals Danny Duffy (10-1) goes for his 10th straight win when Kansas City wraps up its four-game series against the Minnesota Twins, who send Ervin Santana (6-9) to the mound. Kansas City has won seven in a row, moving the defending World Series champs back into wild-card contention. Game starts 2:15 p.m.- Various stories from NFL training camps.- MASON, Ohio -- Angelique Kerber will overtake Serena Williams as the WTAs No. 1 player if she wins the Western & Southern Open. Kerbers match starts 2 p.m., followed by mens match.- GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Si Woo Kim brings a four-stroke lead into the final round of the Wyndham Championship. Kim was at 18-under 192 through 72 holes and is chasing his first PGA Tour victory.- BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- Curtis Luck faces Brad Dalke in the 36-hole final match of the U.S. Amateur.- BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway resumes after rain Saturday night left drivers squeezing in just 48 of 500 laps. Race resumes 1 p.m.- LONG POND, Pa. -- Mikhail Aleshin, the first Russian-born driver to win an IndyCar pole, will lead the field to green at Pocono Raceway for a 500-mile race. Race starts 3:09 p.m.Tarvarius Moore Super Bowl Jersey . 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Raheem Mostert Super Bowl Jersey . -- About a third of the way through the regular season, the Washington Wizards are at .BARCELONA, Spain -- Ivan Rakitic scored in the first half to help Barcelona win 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday for a second straight victory at the start of the Spanish league season.The Croatia midfielder headed in a well-placed cross by Arda Turan to cap a quick attack that broke down Bilbaos high defensive line in the 21st minute.Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez were both off-target with a handful of opportunities to seal the victory at San Mames Stadium, but Barcelonas dominant possession game never let Bilbao mount a serious challenge.The matches here are always like this, intense and attractive. We played a good match, Rakitic said. This shows that we are already in form even at this stage of the season.The defending Liga champions joined Real Madrid and the surprising Las Palmas, which routed Granada 5-1 also on Sunday, as the only teams to have taken all six points.Elsewhere, Sevilla drew 0-0 at Villarreal, while Sporting Gijon drew 0-0 at Alaves.Barcelonas win was its 100th in 126 league matches under coach Luis Enrique, who is starting his third season after winning the last two leagues, along with several other titles including a Champions League crown.Its tough to play here and we go home happy, Luis Enrique said. These three points have a lot of merit. The pace was frenetic, and Athletic makes it complicated. We were facing a great rival and we could have put the result beyond doubt early on.As usual, the match at San Mames was an entertaining, up-tempo contest of two contrasting styles.The visitors fared just fine without the injured Andres Iniesta and Neymar, who wont start his season with Barcelona until after Brazils upcoming World Cup qualifiers.Once Rakitic, Messi and the rest of Luis Enriques side got their collective passing game going, they had little trouble transforming Bilbaos pressure into a fruitless pursuit of the ball.dddddddddddd.They knew we were going to pressure them. At the start, we had a couple of good chances, but as the game went on we wore down, said Bilbao manager Ernesto Valverde. We had trouble playing from behind.Barcelonas biggest scare came from a poor pass by goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who took over as first-choice in the league after Claudio Bravo moved to Manchester City.Ter Stegen made up for his pass directly to Benat Etxebarria by blocking his resulting shot with his face. Other than that mistake, the German was poised and precise with his passes from the back. The league said Ter Stegens 46 completed passes were the most by a goalkeeper since the 2005-06 season.Besides Rakitics excellent overall performance, coach Luis Enrique can also be pleased with new centerback Samuel Umtiti, as well as the continued form of Turan and Sergi Roberto.Turan had another convincing match in place of Neymar, delivering the pin-point pass for what proved to be Rakitics winner.Roberto, besides being solid in defense at right back, led a rapid counterattack that was spoiled when Suarez volleyed Rakitics cross wide in the 57th.Suarez had a golden chance to grab a goal in the dying seconds of the match when Messi laid the ball off for him with goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz off his line, but the strikers shot was cleared by Eneko Boveda.In the Canary Islands, Nabil El Zhar scored two goals and set up another to lead Las Palmas destruction of Granada.Kevin-Prince Boateng also scored his second goal since joining for Las Palmas before leaving the match because of injury.Las Palmas has started the season in fine fashion with a league-leading nine goals in two victories. 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