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BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU running back Leonard Fournette is sitting out Saturday nights game against Missouri with a left ankle injury that has bothered him since the season opener.Fournette, a junior, is LSUs leading rusher with 386 yards and two touchdowns on 67 carries in three games this season.He also sat out the Tigers second game of the season against Jacksonville State, then returned for a victory over Mississippi State and a loss at Auburn, where he appeared to aggravate his in injury late in the game.LSU interim coach Ed Orgeron, who took over when Les Miles was fired last Sunday, had said this week that Fournettes status would be a game-time decision.Derrius Guice started the last time Fournette sat out, rushing for 155 yards and a touchdown.---AP College Football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org Wholesale Vans Old Skool . Note: The Calgary Flames announced Tuesday that Sean Monahan would not be made available to Canadas World Junior team. Vans Old Skool Shoes Sale . 10 Texas A&Ms offence dominated as usual against SMU. http://www.wholesaleoldskoolaustralia.com/ . Miikka Kiprusoff had just announced his retirement after a decade-long run in Calgary and it would be up to Berra and Ramo to fill the void. Vans Old Skool Australia Cheap . Goals from Jerome Boateng, Franck Ribery and Thomas Mueller extended Bayerns unbeaten run to a record 37 matches. "This record is incredible," Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said. Vans Old Skool Australia Sale . There was no hesitation from the 40th-ranked Pospisil, from Vernon, B.C., who admitted that he cut back on his training sessions over the last few days to conserve energy as the long ATP season finishes next week at the Paris Masters. SPIELBERG, Austria -- Nico Hulkenberg will start from the front row of the grid at Sundays Austrian Grand Prix after the stewards decided not to penalise him for setting a fastest first sector under yellow flags in Q1. However, both Jolyon Palmer and Rio Haryanto were served with three-place grid penalties for speeding under yellows.Hulkenberg was third fastest in qualifying behind the two Mercedes, but will move up to second place alongside Lewis Hamilton once Nico Rosbergs five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change is factored in. Hulkenberg had a stewards investigation hanging over him at the end of the session after he set a fastest first sector in Q1 under yellow flags for Carlos Sainzs stricken Toro Rosso. However, the stewards found that he had lifted enough under the caution area not to be penalized.Although the driver went green in the sector where the double yellow flags were displayed, the telemetry clearly demonstrated that he had decelerated on approaching the flag point and that his speed reduced in the yellow flag sector, the stewards statement said.Palmer was penalised three grid positions, however, for not lifting the throttle for the same incident. He was also given two penalty points on his superlicense.The telemetry clearly showed that the driver made no reduction in speed and was at full acceleration through the yellow flag area, the stewards said. Notwithstanding the fact the driver could see the disabled Car 55 on the side of the track, the regullations are clear that on display of double yellow flags a significant reduction in speed must be made.dddddddddddd This did not happen in this case.It is noted by the Stewards that there appears to be a lack of understanding of the requirement for a significant reduction in speed where double yellow flags are displayed and that drivers should not assume that what is in their field of vision is the only hazard to which the flags refer.Haryanto also received a three-place grid drop and two penalty points.The telemetry clearly showed that the driver made no reduction in speed and was at full acceleration through the yellow flag area. Notwithstanding the fact the driver could see the disabled Car 55 on the side of the track, the regulations are clear that on display of double yellow flags a significant reduction in speed must be made. This did not happen in this case.The Stewards record the fact that the driver was open and honest in his acknowledgement of the breach.It is noted by the Stewards that there appears to be a lack of understanding of the requirement for a significant reduction in speed where double yellow flags are displayed and that drivers should not assume that what is in their field of vision is the only hazard to which the flags refer.Finally, Felipe Nasr was also given a penalty and two penalty points for the same infringement. ' ' '