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MANCHESTER, England -- Pep Guardiola is already making history at Manchester City.By beating Bournemouth 4-0 in the English Premier League on Saturday, City opened a season with eight straight wins for the first time in the clubs 136-year existence. Five of those have come in the league and the other three in the Champions League.City is averaging more than three goals a game under Guardiola, who has turned the team into an irresistible attacking unit.And surely title favorites.It was a stroll against Bournemouth at Etihad Stadium, with Kevin De Bruyne and Kelechi Iheanacho scoring in the first half before Raheem Sterling and Ilkay Gundogan added goals in the second. There were audible gasps from City fans relishing the silky passing and buildup play of whats shaping to be the most entertaining team in the clubs history.Theres also intelligence behind the excellence. Iheanacho said City noticed in its research for the game that Bournemouths players jump in the wall at free kicks on the edge of the area. So when De Bruyne got his first chance, he rolled his effort underneath the line of jumping visiting players and into the net.That got City rolling in the 15th minute -- and De Bruyne played a part in the other three goals, too. The Belgium midfielder split Bournemouths defense with through-balls in the buildup to the goals of Iheanacho and Sterling, before saving his best pass until last.The timing and weight of his angled pass to the onrushing Gundogan was perfect, and the Germany midfielder marked his Premier League debut by slotting his finish into the corner.Guardiola said De Bruyne was one of the best players he has managed, adding: (Lionel) Messi is on a table on his own. Kevin is there with the rest.City was one of three teams to score four goals as Arsenal and West Bromwich Albion also enjoyed big wins on a high-scoring day of 22 goals in five games in the league.Heres a look at the other games:---HULL 1, ARSENAL 4Its been a good week for Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez.The Chile international scored a goal in each half to inspire Arsenals third straight league win, four days after grabbing a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.Having a penalty saved blotted Sanchezs performance against Hull -- and manager Arsene Wenger was left wondering why Sanchez took the kick ahead of the usual penalty-taker Santi Cazorla. Arsenal has had four penalties this season, scoring two and missing two.Theo Walcott and Granit Xhaka scored Arsenals other goals, with Robert Snodgrass replying for Hull with a penalty that made it 2-1 in the 79th. Hull played more than half the game with 10 men after Jake Livermore was sent off for two bookings, the second for a handball in the area that earned Arsenal a penalty.LEICESTER 3, BURNLEY 0It was some Premier League debut for Islam Slimani.The Algeria striker scored twice as Leicester eased past Burnley with a second straight 3-0 win, having beaten Club Brugge by that score in the Champions League on Wednesday.Slimani is Leicesters record signing after joining from Sporting Lisbon in August for $33.5 million, and looks to have established himself as the first-choice partner for Jamie Vardy.Ben Mees own goal rounded off a second league win of the season for the champions.EVERTON 3, MIDDLESBROUGH 1Everton is the other unbeaten team along with City, and earned a fourth straight win after coming from behind at Goodison Park, lifting the team in second place.Gareth Barry scored on his 600th top-flight appearance to spark Evertons comeback after goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburgs own goal put Middlesbrough ahead. Seamus Coleman and Romelu Lukaku also scored for Everton.WEST BROMWICH ALBION 4, WEST HAM 2West Ham manager Slaven Bilic said he felt embarrassed during this third straight loss -- and second straight 4-2 defeat -- for his team.West Brom was 3-0 ahead at halftime after goals by Nacer Chadli, Salomon Rondon and James McClean. Chadli added another before Michail Antonio, with his fifth of the season, and Manuel Lanzini pulled goals back for West Ham.West Ham has lost four of its five games. Pekka Rinne Jersey . The 19-year-old Olsen played 34 games with the Kelowna Rockets of the WHL this season. In that time, hes recorded 17 goals and 17 assists with 36 penalty minutes. Miikka Salomaki Jersey . But what about the officials? Every sport has officials and they also have stories about hard work and sacrifice but their accomplishments are seldom recognized by anyone outside their inner circle. http://www.predatorsjerseyscheap.com/?tag=nick-bonino-jersey . 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As news about a football player boycott at Minnesota broke, Northern Illinois athletic director Sean Frazier quickly realized his Huskies might have a chance to play in the Holiday Bowl.One problem: NIU was already on winter break.But in less than 24 hours of frantic work, Frazier and NIU coaches knew they had what they needed most to accept a postseason bid on short notice: a motivated team.With the Huskies having played in San Diego bowl games two of the last three seasons Frazier knew the logistics would fall into place for a game against Washington State on Dec. 27. Easy? No. But far from impossible.Because weve had a relationship with (Holiday Bowl organizers), we felt this was necessary to support the bowl and support our student athletes, Frazier told The Associated Press on Saturday in a phone interview. That was a major part of this. This bowl committee, which had been so nice to us, friends to us, that we would get ourselves together and mobilize.Earlier Saturday, Minnesota players announced they would end the boycott over the university suspension of 10 players accused of sexual assault. The Golden Gophers say they will make the trip to San Diego.Not even two days ago, that was in serious doubt.Frazier began getting text messages and email about what was happening at Minnesota on Thursday evening and immediately knew what that meant. It was time to start making calls.He informed his president and board of regents. Then he had to get his staff moving. Eight straight bowl appearances by NIU made Fraziers staff seasoned veterans when it came to bowl preparation.Most of all Frazier had to talk to coach Rod Carey to determine if NIU had a team that could play in 12 days -- in a top second-tier bowl, nonetheless.Picture me calling him up at 9, 10 oclock at night saying, `Rod, this is the scenario. Talk to me. Frazier said, He took a deep breath and said, `Sean, Ive got to get my guys back and some of them are training for the pros. Some of them are now on vacation. Some of them are here. As you could imagine he did a fantastic job. I definitely have to take him out to dinner.NIU finished its season the Saturday after Thanksgiving at 5-7, but having won four of five as it got healthy after early season injuries. NCAA rules allow bowls to select 5-7 to fill spots if thhere are not enough six-win teams.dddddddddddd The teams are selected in order of their latest Academic Progress Rate scores. NIU was next on the list, but the team hadnt even met since Nov. 27. Fall commencement was Dec. 11. The players had dispersed.Carey told Frazier early Friday morning the players were onboard. Most could drive back to campus, but some would need flights. Frazier said it would have cost the university $15,000-$20,000 to pay for travel expenses.The first practice would likely have been held Monday, Frazier said. The coaches had already started breaking down film of Washington State.Wanting to play is one thing. Being eligible is another. Frazier said he had compliance staff working on whether players, who now had fall grades to consider, would be academically eligible. Also, they needed to determine which players with professional aspirations had signed with agents. That would make them ineligible.We were in the middle of going through those re-certifications as well as those appeal processes to make them eligible, Frazier said. We feel confident we would have ... been able to reverse anything that might have happened.Holiday Bowl officials were not commenting publicly, but they were working on backup plans Friday. Frazier assured them the Huskies were good to go if invited.The Huskies played in the Poinsettia Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium last year and in 2013, a game run by the same group that handles the Holiday Bowl.Frazier said the plan for NIU was mostly to step into whatever Minnesota had already arranged. The Huskies would have redirected the charter flights Minnesota had lined up to leave from Minneapolis to go out of Rockford, Illinois. They would have used the Gophers hotel reservations and practice facilities.As for costs, Frazier said conversations never made it money. The Holiday Bowl payout to its contracted teams from the Big Ten and Pac-12 was $2.8 million last year. NIU would not have been guaranteed that payout, but Frazier said he is confident all costs would have been covered.It would have been great exposure for the Holiday Bowl and NIU, Frazier said.---Follow Ralph D. 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