Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Thursday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT:- CHICAGO -- No more Lovable Losers. Forget about curses, too. For the first time in 108 years, the Cubs can -- get this -- turn their attention toward a championship repeat.- CLEVELAND -- Nobody gave the Indians a chance all season, yet there they were in extra innings in Game 7 of the World Series. The future looks promising for a team that spent 2016 overcoming every obstacle in its path.- CLEVELAND -- Theo Epstein, baseballs drought-buster, ended long runs of failure for the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs. Its safe to say this baseball guru will find his way to the Hall of Fame.- Theyll relive the game for generations, these Cubs fans, talking about the magical night in Cleveland when the skies opened and the curse of the Billy Goat was buried once and for all.- MIAMI -- President Barack Obama invites the Cubs to visit him at the White House. But Obama (a White Sox fan) reminds them to act quickly. He leaves office in mid-January.- TAMPA, Fla. -- Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons try to tighten their grip on first place in the NFC South when they face Jameis Winston and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Game starts 8:25 p.m.- FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tom Brady has played in only four games, but at 39 he is in the conversation to become the oldest winner of the MVP award.- ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Wade Phillips didnt lose his sense of humor when Melvin Gordon plowed over him on the sideline. The Broncos defensive coordinator discusses the jarring crash.- OAKLAND, Calif. -- Kevin Durant faces Russell Westbrook and the rest of his former Oklahoma City teammates for the first time since joining Golden State. Oklahoma City is 4-0. Game starts 10:30 p.m.- NEW YORK -- Rookie sensation Jimmy Vesey and the surging Rangers look for their sixth win in seven games when they play the Western Conference-leading Edmonton. Game starts 7 p.m.- Two Top 25 college football games Thursday night: No. 12 Oklahoma at Iowa State (7:30 p.m.) and UCLA at No. 21 Colorado (9 p.m.).- The AP announces its womens basketball preseason All-America team.- VILLANOVA, Pa. -- Villanova has basked in a championship celebration for seven months. Now its time to defend the crown. The Wildcats are the Big East favorites and ranked fourth in the nation.- PARIS -- Marin Cilic earns a spot in the ATP finals by defeating David Goffin to reach the Paris Masters quarterfinals. The 2014 U.S. Open champion will next face top-ranked Novak Djokovic or Grigor Dimitrov.- LAS VEGAS -- Opening round of Shriners Children Hospitals Open on PGA Tour. Davis Love III is playing for the first time since he was the winning captain at the Ryder Cup. Cheap Air Max . It was hard for Luck to pull off another comeback, or even get into the end zone, while standing on the sideline. 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MOSCOW -- A wrist injury killed off Carla Suarez Navarros hopes of qualifying for the WTA Finals as the Spanish player retired while facing Australian Daria Gavrilova in the Kremlin Cup on Wednesday.Needing to win the Kremlin Cup to qualify for the season-ending competition in Singapore, Suarez Navarro was down 6-4, 3-0 to Gavrilova in the second round when she retired.Gavrilova, who was born in Moscow, will play seventh-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova?in the quarterfinals. Pavlyuchenkova?beat?Jelena Jankovic 6-1, 6-4.Top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova remains on course to claim the last WTA Finals place after she beat Frances Alize Cornet 6-4, 7-5 in their second-round match. The Russian was in strong form, landing 76 percent of her first serves, and next plays Hungarian Timea Babos.Kuznetsova will qualify for the WTA Finals only if she wins the Kremlin Cupp.dddddddddddd Otherwise, the spot will go to Britains Johanna Konta.The fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine eased past Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-2, 6-2 and into the quarterfinals. Svitolina next plays Croatian Ana Konjuh, 18, who had a second-round walkover when Russian qualifier Anna Blinkova was unable to play.Another seeded player went out as Russian Elena Vesnina, seeded fifth, was beaten 7-5, 6-0 by German Julia Goerges.In the mens event, seventh-seeded Paolo Lorenzi became the first seeded player to go out, losing to fellow Italian Fabio Fognini 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 in the second round. Eighth-seeded Russian Andrei Kuznetsov was tested in his first-round match as he won 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 against Argentinas Guido Pella. ' ' '