2017 Louis Vuitton Challenger's Trophy, Results, Qualifier round robins
Emirates Team New Zealand and defender Oracle Team USA were dominant in the round robins, with 8 wins each. New Zealand did not lose to a single challenger, both of their losses coming against Oracle. Artemis Racing and Land Rover BAR had shaky starts to the series (aided in part by a controversial penalty assessed against Artemis), but both came back strong in the second round robin. SoftBank Team Japan and Groupama Team France both struggled to win races, especially the French, who often lost races by several minutes.


2017 Louis Vuitton Challenger's Trophy, Results, Qualifier round robins
With only two wins, the French were eliminated and did not advance to the semi-finals. By virtue of their single point from the AC45 World Series, Oracle Team USA won the Qualifiers, giving them an automatic bonus point in the America's Cup match. As the highest-placed challenger, Emirates Team New Zealand won the right to choose their semi-finals opponent.


2017 Louis Vuitton Challenger's Trophy, Results, Challenger playoffs, Semi-finals
The top four challengers after the round robins advanced to best-of-nine semi-finals, held between 4 and 8 June 2017. As the highest placed challenger, Emirates Team New Zealand had the right to choose their opponent, and chose to face Land Rover BAR.


2017 Louis Vuitton Challenger's Trophy, Results, Challenger playoffs, Semi-finals
Land Rover BAR retired on leg 2 of the first semi-final race due to a camber arm failure; With the team unable to effect repairs before the subsequent race scheduled that day, two points were awarded to Team New Zealand. With winds peaking at 25.9kt during races on June 6, all four teams suffered visual damage to aerodynamic fairings, notably the port hydraulic daggerboard rams aboard Artemis Racing were exposed. After rounding mark #6 90s behind Team Japan and unable to reduce deficit, Artemis Racing retired.


2017 Louis Vuitton Challenger's Trophy, Results, Challenger playoffs, Semi-finals
Pinned at the windward mark of the start line by opponent Land Rover BAR in the second race of June 6, Team New Zealand lost control of trim whilst bearing away after the starting gun, pitchpoling and capsizing their yacht; With the crew unable to right the boat without help from their support boat, they were subsequently disqualified when they were boarded by other team members. Team New Zealand and Artemis Racing won their respective semi-finals, advancing to the Challenger's Final.


2017 Louis Vuitton Challenger's Trophy, Results, Challenger playoffs, Final
A best-of-nine final was held between 10 and 12 June. Team New Zealand registered five wins within the first seven races, advancing to the 2017 America's Cup match, which will be a best-of-thirteen races held between 17 and 27 June 2017.


2017 Louis Vuitton Challenger's Trophy, Results, Challenger playoffs, Final
Team New Zealand were presented with the newly made Louis Vuitton Challenger’s Trophy.


2017 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team
The 2017 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Ragin' Cajuns played their home games at Cajun Field in Lafayette, Louisiana, and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by seventh-year head coach Mark Hudspeth. They finished the season 5–7, 4–4 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.


2017 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team
On December 3, the day following their final season game (a blowout lost against Appalachian State 63-14), head coach Mark Hudspeth was fired. He finished with a seven-year record of 51–38. However, due to NCAA sanctions in 2016 because former assistant coach David Saunders arranged fraudulent college entrance exams for recruits, his official record was 29–38. On December 15, the school hired Billy Napier as head coach.


2017 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Previous season
The Ragin' Cajuns finished the 2016 season 6–7, 5–3 in Sun Belt play to finish in fifth place. They were invited to the New Orleans Bowl where they lost to Southern Miss.


2017 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Schedule
Louisiana announced its 2017 football schedule on March 1, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of five home and seven away games in the regular season. The Ragin' Cajuns hosted Sun Belt foes Georgia Southern, Louisiana-Monroe, New Mexico State, and Texas State, and traveled to Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Idaho, and South Alabama


2017 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team, Schedule
The Ragin' Cajuns hosted one of the four non-conference opponents, Southeastern Louisiana from the Southland Conference, and traveled to Tulsa from the American Athletic Conference and Southeastern Conference members Ole Miss and Texas A&M.


2017 Louisiana State Treasurer special election
The Louisiana State Treasurer special election took place on October 14, 2017, to elect the state treasurer of Louisiana, with a runoff election to be held on November 18, 2017, if necessary. Incumbent Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. First Assistant Treasurer Ron Henson replaced Kennedy as treasurer, and served until the special election. Henson did not run in the special election.


2017 Louisiana State Treasurer special election
Under Louisiana's jungle primary system, all candidates appeared on the same ballot, regardless of party and voters may vote for any candidate, regardless of their party affiliation. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote during the primary election, a runoff election will be held between the top two candidates. Louisiana is the only state that has a jungle primary system (California and Washington have a similar "top two primary" system). Republican candidates received over 65% of the vote as John Schroder and Derrick Edwards advanced to the runoff. Republican John Schroder defeated Democrat Derrick Edwards in the runoff.


2017 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team
The 2017 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team represented Louisiana Tech University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs played their home games at the Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, Louisiana and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by fifth-year head coach Skip Holtz. They finished the season 7–6, 4–4 in C-USA play to finish in fourth place in the West Division. They were invited to the Frisco Bowl where they defeated SMU.


2017 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Louisiana Tech announced its 2017 football schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consists of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Bulldogs will host C-USA foes Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Southern Miss, and UTSA, and will travel to Rice, UAB, UTEP, and Western Kentucky (WKU).


2017 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Schedule
The Bulldogs will host three of the four non-conference opponents, Mississippi State from the Southeastern Conference, Northwestern State from the Southland Conference, and South Alabama from the Sun Belt Conference. They will travel to South Carolina, also from the Southeastern Conference.


2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team
The 2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team represents the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Ragin' Cajuns play their home games at M. L. Tigue Moore Field at Russo Park and were led by twenty-third year head coach Tony Robichaux.


2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on February 8, 2017. Louisiana-Lafayette was picked to finish first in the West Division with 72 votes and 12 first-place votes; every first place vote available.


2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt team
The Preseason All-Sun Belt Team was announced on February 2, 2017 and consisted of four Ragin' Cajun players.


2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Schedule and results
Louisiana–Lafayette announced its 2017 baseball schedule on October 31, 2016. The 2017 schedule consists of 27 home and 29 away games in the regular season. The Ragin' Cajuns will host Sun Belts foes Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Georgia Southern, South Alabama, and Texas State and will travel to Coastal Carolina, Little Rock, Louisiana–Monroe, Texas–Arlington, and Troy.


2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball team, Schedule and results
The 2017 Sun Belt Conference Championship will be contested May 24–28 in Statesboro, Georgia, and will be hosted by Georgia Southern.


2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team
The 2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2017 NCAA Division I softball season. The Ragin' Cajuns play their home games at Lamson Park. This would also be the last season that a Lotief would be the head coach of the Ragin' Cajuns. This came after the university fired Lotief, both Malveauxs, Director of Operations Kelsey Vincent, and one manager, Sara Corbello on November 1, 2017 due to allegations of physically and verbal abuse to his players and for laying a finger on the university's strength coach.


2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team
The Ragin' Cajuns softball players strongly disagreed with his firing. Several even transferred schools with most making a pack that "if they couldn't play with Lotief, they wouldn't play at all." However, most of the team remained and competed in 2018. Nearly a year later, Lotief filed a lawsuit against the university claiming that they fired him over retaliation from Lotief claiming that the university violated NCAA Title IX laws which state that women's sports must be treated the same as their male counterpart. In the lawsuit, Lotief called University President Joseph E. Savoie, Athletic Director Bryan Maggard, and Assistant Athletic Director Dr. Jessica Leger as the defendants.


2017 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on January 30, 2017. Louisiana-Lafayette was picked to finish first in the Sun Belt Conference with 100 votes and 10 first place votes, every first place vote available.


2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks baseball team
The 2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks baseball team represents the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Warhawks play their home games at Warhawk Field.


2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks baseball team, Schedule and results
Louisiana–Monroe announced its 2017 football schedule on December 16, 2016. The 2017 schedule consists of 23 home and 33 away games in the regular season. The Warhawks will host Sun Belts foes Coastal Carolina, Little Rock, Louisiana, South Alabama, and Texas–Arlington and will travel to Arkansas State, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Texas State, and Troy.


2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks baseball team, Schedule and results
The 2017 Sun Belt Conference Championship will be contested May 24–28 in Statesboro, Georgia, and will be hosted by Georgia Southern.


2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football team
The 2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football team represented the University of Louisiana at Monroe in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Warhawks played their home games at Malone Stadium in Monroe, Louisiana, and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by second-year head coach Matt Viator. They finished the season 4–8, 4–4 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.


2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football team, Previous season
The Warhawks finished the 2016 season 4–8, 3–5 in Sun Belt play to finish in seventh place.


2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football team, Schedule
Louisiana–Monroe announced its 2017 football schedule on March 1, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of five home and seven away games in the regular season. The Warhawks hosted Sun Belt foes Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, and Georgia State, and traveled to Idaho, Louisiana-Lafayette, Texas State, and South Alabama


2017 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football team, Schedule
The Warhawks hosted one of the four non-conference opponents, Southern Miss from Conference USA, and traveled to Auburn from the Southeastern Conference, Florida State from the Atlantic Coast Conference and Memphis from the American Athletic Conference.


2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball team
The 2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball team represents the University of Louisville during the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Cardinals play their home games at Jim Patterson Stadium as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They are led by head coach Dan McDonnell, in his eleventh year at Louisville.


2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball team
Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Cardinals were selected to host their fifth consecutive NCAA Regional. The Cardinals would win both the Louisville Regional and Louisville Super Regional and receive an invitation to the 2017 College World Series before eventually losing to TCU by a score of 3–4. Five players from the team, including Brendan McKay, were selected in the 2017 MLB Draft.


2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball team, Previous season
In 2016, the Cardinals finished as champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference with a record of 46–10, 22–8 in conference play, in their second season in the conference. They qualified for the 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, where they played in Division B of inter-conference tournament play. The Cardinals would finish 1–2 in the tournament, not advancing to the conference tournament finals.


2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball team, Previous season
With the Cardinals finishing the season as regular season champs of the Atlantic Division of the ACC, they would qualify for the 2016 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, and were selected as hosts of the Louisville regional and Louisville Super Regional, if they advanced to that round. The Cardinals would wins three straight matches in the Louisville Regional and would advance to the Super Regional (of which they were hosts) by defeating Western Michigan 6–1, Ohio State 15–3, and Wright State 3–1. In the Super Regional, Louisville hosted UC Santa Barbara in a best-of-three matchup. Louisville would lose the first two games to UC Santa Barbara, ending their playoff run.


2017 Louisville Cardinals football team
The 2017 Louisville Cardinals football team represented the University of Louisville in the sport of American football during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cardinals competed in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference and were led by fourth-year head coach Bobby Petrino, who began his second stint at Louisville in 2014 after eight years away. Home games were played at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky. They finished the season 8–5, 4–4 in ACC play to finish in a three-way tie for third place in the Atlantic Division. They were invited to the TaxSlayer Bowl where they lost to Mississippi State.


2017 Louisville Cardinals football team, 2018 NFL Draft
The Cardinals had four players selected in the 2018 NFL draft.


2017 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team
The 2017 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team represents University of Louisville during the 2017 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Cardinals are led by head coach Ken Lolla, in his twelfth season. They play home games at Lynn Stadium. This is the team's 39th season playing organized men's college soccer and their 4th playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2017 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team, MLS Draft
The following members of the 2017 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team were selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft.


2017 Louisville City FC season
The 2017 Louisville City FC season was the club's third season in Louisville, Kentucky playing in the United Soccer League, which as of 2017 is one of two second-tier leagues in the United States soccer league system.


2017 Louisville City FC season
The club began their pre-season campaign on March 4 before the league commenced on March 25. They also competed in the U.S. Open Cup.


2017 Louisville City FC season
Louisville City would finish the season on top of the Eastern Conference for the first time in club history and have the second best record in the league overall for the third consecutive year. They would also win the USL Cup after the season for the club's first title.


2017 Louisville City FC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
Louisville City entered the 2017 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of the United Soccer League in the second round.


2017 Louth Senior Football Championship
The 2017 Louth Senior Football Championship is the 124th edition of the Louth GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Louth, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Louth in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2017 Louth Senior Football Championship
Seán O'Mahonys were the defending champions after they defeated the St. Mary's Ardee in the previous years final.


2017 Louth Senior Football Championship
This was St. Joseph's return to the senior grade after claiming the 2016 Louth Intermediate Football Championship title. This ended their 8-year absence from the senior grade after they were relegated to the I.F.C. in 2008.


2017 Louth Senior Football Championship
The draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 9 March 2018.


2017 Louth Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2016 championship season.


2017 Louth Senior Football Championship, Group stage
There are 4 groups called Group A, B, C and D. The top two finishers in each group will qualify for the Quarter-Finals. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Play Off. The draw for the group stages of the championship were made on 9 March 2017.


2017 Louth Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Relegation Play Off
The four bottom finishers from each group qualify for the relegation play off. The team to lose both matches will be relegated to the 2018 Intermediate Championship.


2017 Louth Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Finals
The winners and runners up of each group qualify for the quarter finals.


2017 Lower Saxony state election
The 2017 Lower Saxony state election was held on 15 October 2017 to elect the 18th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Stephan Weil was defeated. Though the SPD became the largest party in the Landtag largely fueled by the personal popularity of Weil, their gains were offset by losses for the Greens, depriving the government of its majority. The SPD subsequently formed a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Weil continued as Minister-President.


2017 Lower Saxony state election
This was the last election, state or federal, in which the SPD gained seats or increased their share of the popular vote until the 2021 German federal election.


2017 Lower Saxony state election, Background
Following the 2013 state election, a red-green coalition between the SPD and Greens was formed, holding a one-seat majority in the Landtag. After Green parliamentarian Elke Twesten controversially defected to the CDU on 4 August 2017, the coalition lost its majority, which prompted Minister-President Stephan Weil to schedule an early election for 15 October. The Landtag was officially dissolved on 21 August after 135 of 137 parliamentarians voted in favor, with 91 votes required for its dissolution.


2017 Lower Saxony state election, Electoral system
The Landtag of Lower Saxony is elected using mixed-member proportional representation. Its minimum size is 135 seats. Of these, 87 are elected in single-member constituencies, and the remainder are determined by party lists. Voters have two votes: the "first vote" for candidates within each individual constituency, and the "second vote" for party lists. There is an electoral threshold of 5% of second vote to qualify for seats. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method, with additional overhang and leveling seats provided to ensure proportionality. The normal term of the Landtag is 5 years.


2017 Lower Saxony state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 17th Landtag of Lower Saxony.


2017 Lower Saxony state election, Government formation
Neither the incumbent red-green coalition between the SPD and Greens nor the black-yellow opposition of the CDU and FDP secured a majority of seats in the election. Because the FDP ruled out the possibility of a traffic light coalition (between the SPD, FDP, and Greens) and the Greens ruled out a Jamaica coalition (between the CDU, Greens, and FDP), the SPD and CDU subsequently agreed to start negotiations to form a grand coalition.


2017 Lower Saxony state election, Government formation
On 16 November, the SPD and CDU agreed to form a government.


2017 Lunar New Year Cup
The 91th 2017 Lunar New Year Cup is the annual edition of the Lunar New Year Cup, held in Hong Kong to celebrate the Lunar New Year in late January 2017. This year, four teams were invited to participate, playing two games each in a knockout tournament. Australia under-23 withdrew before the tournament and were replaced by Auckland City.


2017 Lunar New Year Cup, Teams
Four teams were invited to participate: Australia under-23 were initially scheduled to participate, however, Football Federation Australia withdrew the side following complaints from A-League clubs about losing players mid-season. They were replaced by Auckland City.


2017 Lunar New Year Cup, Final standing
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2017 Luxembourg communal elections
The 2017 Luxembourg communal elections were held on 8 October to elect the communal councils of the 102 municipalities of Luxembourg.


2017 Luxembourg communal elections, Electoral system
Luxembourg citizens aged over 18 and living in the country were able to vote. Citizens from any EU country could vote if they were registered on the electoral list, the requirements for which were to have lived in Luxembourg for at least 5 years and to be living in Luxembourg during the election. Citizens from any other country could vote subject to the same requirements as for EU citizens, plus the requirement of holding valid visa or residence permit.


2017 Luxembourg communal elections, Electoral system
The number of seats in each communal council was determined by the population of the commune. The population-seat ratio on each communal council was established on the following scale:


2017 Luxembourg communal elections, Electoral system
Plurality-at-large voting was used in municipalities with a population of under 2,999 inhabitants. In municipalities with a population of over 3,000 inhabitants, proportional representation with open lists was used. Voters could vote for a party list or cast multiple votes for as many candidates as there are seats. Seat allocation was calculated in accordance with the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota. On 1 January 2018, 6 municipalities will be merged and 3 new municipalities will be created as a result. The councillors will be elected in different constituencies, which correspond to the old boundaries.


2017 Luxembourg communal elections, Candidates
There were a total of 3,575 candidates. The total number of councillors elected with proportional representation was 600, corresponding to 45 municipalities plus the section of Hobscheid (future municipality of Habscht).


2017 Luxembourg communal elections, Candidates
The different political parties ran in the following number of municipalities:


2017 M-150 Cup
The 2017 M-150 Cup is the tournament for under-23 national teams, held from 9–15 December  at Buriram, Buriram Province, Thailand. The tournament is sponsored by M-150.


2017 M-150 Cup, Venue
All matches held at the New I-Mobile Stadium in Buriram Province, Thailand.


2017 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held from March 2–6, 2017 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. No. 3 seed Iona defeated No. 4 seed Siena 87–86 in overtime in the tournament championship game. As a result, Iona received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The championship marked Iona's 10th MAAC title, the most in MAAC Tournament history, and the second consecutive MAAC Tournament championship for the Gaels. It was also the fifth consecutive championship game for Iona, which is a MAAC record.


2017 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 11 teams in the conference participated in the Tournament. The top five teams received byes to the quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2017 MAAC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held March 2–6 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. The winner received an automatic trip to the 2017 Women's NCAA Tournament.


2017 MAAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams are seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.


2017 MAAC Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2017 MAAC Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference held from October 28 through November 1, 2017. The ten-match tournament took place at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The eleven-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Monmouth Hawks were the defending champions and successfully defended their title.


2017 MAC Championship Game
The 2017 MAC Championship Game was an NCAA Division I college football conference championship game for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Championship that was played on December 2, 2017. The game featured the East Division champion Akron Zips against the West Division champion Toledo Rockets. It was the 21st MAC Football Championship Game and was played in Detroit at Ford Field.


2017 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament is a post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). Tournament first-round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 6. The remaining rounds here held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio between March 9–11, 2017. The sixth-seeded Kent State Golden Flashes won the tournament and the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament with a 70–65 win over the top-seeded Akron Zips. It is Kent State's sixth tournament title overall and first since 2008.


2017 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 12 MAC teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top four teams received a bye to quarterfinals.


2017 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2017 Mid-American Conference Men's Soccer Tournament will be the 24th edition of the tournament. It will determine the Mid-American Conference's automatic berth into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. The tournament will be held November 10 & 12 on the campus of Western Michigan University, the regular season champion.


2017 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
The top four teams in the Mid-American Conference based on their conference regular season records qualified for the tournament.


2017 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Mid-American Conference women's basketball tournament was a post-season basketball tournament for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) 2016–17 college basketball season. Tournament first round games were held on campus sites at the higher seed on March 6. The remaining rounds were held at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland between March 8–11. Toledo won their 8th MAC Women's Tournament and received the conference's automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Tournament.


2017 MAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Format
Unlike with the recent tournaments, where the top two seeds received byes into the semifinals, with the three and four seeds receiving a bye to the quarterfinals. The tournament reverted to its original structure. The top four seeds received just one bye into the quarterfinals.


2017 MB7
2017 MB7 is a trans-Neptunian object and damocloid on a cometary-like orbit from the outer Solar System, approximately 6 kilometers (4 miles) in diameter. It was first observed on 22 June 2017 by the Pan-STARRS survey at Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii, United States. This unusual object has the largest heliocentric aphelion, semi-major axis, orbital eccentricity and orbital period of any known periodic minor planet, even larger than that of 2014 FE72; it is calculated to reach several thousand AU (Earth-Sun) distances at the farthest extent of its orbit.


2017 MB7, Orbit and classification
2017 MB7 orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.5–3,419 AU once every 70,825 years (semi-major axis of 1712 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.9974 and an inclination of 56° with respect to the ecliptic.


2017 MB7, Orbit and classification
As it has an eccentricity higher than 0.50, the distant object is labelled an (other) unusual object by the Minor Planet Center. The Johnston's Archive groups it to the damocloids, due to its extreme orbital elements and a TJupiter of less than 2, while in JPL's Small Body Database, it is a trans-Neptunian object with a semi-major axis larger than that of Neptune.


2017 MB7, Orbit and classification
It is by far the most distant and eccentric known asteroid orbiting the Sun, varying in its distance from the Sun over its orbit by 99.89% from slightly within the orbit of Jupiter, to more than 7,000 times Earth's distance to the Sun. While its orbit extends to the inner Oort cloud, it may not be a member of it, as it approaches very near to Saturn, implying Saturn has either captured a past Oort Cloud object onto this orbit, or it was a centaur ejected by Saturn from a much smaller orbit. However, it would be impossible to project its orbit far enough into the past to determine which scenario is true.


2017 MB7, Orbit and classification
Like most objects on an extremely distant orbit around the Sun, 2017 MB7's barycentric orbit is very different from its heliocentric orbit, the latter being based only on the current position of the Solar System barycenter, and the former is based on the long-term movement of the barycenter. While the heliocentric aphelion is 7,000–9,000 AU, depending on the calculation, the current barycentric aphelion (as of 2018) is only 1,700 AU. Before its perihelion in 2016 AD (after that of ~30500 BC), it reached 2,000 AU from the sun around ~14300 BC.


2017 MB7, Physical characteristics
Very little is known for certain about the body's physical characteristics. The Johnston's Archive assumes a generic distant-object albedo of 0.09 and calculates a diameter of 8 kilometers. Like other distant objects, it is probably also fairly red in appearance due to tholins on its surface.


2017 MBC Drama Awards
The 2017 MBC Drama Awards (Korean: MBC 연기대상; RR: MBC Yeon-gi Daesang), presented by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) took place on December 30, 2017. It was hosted by Kim Sung-ryung and Oh Sang-jin.


2017 MBC Drama Awards, Presenters
Actor Kim Sang-joong gave a memorial speech for late Kim Ji-young (1938–2017), late Kim Young-ae (1951–2017), late Lee Mi-ji (1960–2017) and late Kim Joo-hyuk (1972–2017).


2017 MBC Entertainment Awards
The 2017 MBC Entertainment Awards (Korean: MBC 방송연예대상; RR: MBC Bangsong Yeon-ye Daesang) presented by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), took place on December 29, 2017 at MBC Public Hall in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. It was hosted by Kim Hee-chul, Han Hye-jin and Yang Se-hyung. The nominees were chosen from MBC variety, music shows and sitcom that aired from December 2016 to November 2017.


2017 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place March 6–11, 2017 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. The champion, North Carolina Central, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament with a 67–59 win over Norfolk State in the championship game.


2017 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top 12 teams were eligible for the tournament, Savannah State was ineligible for postseason play due to APR Sanctions.


2017 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2017 MEAC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament will take place March 6–11, 2017 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. First round games will be played March 6 and March 7, with the quarterfinal games played on March 8 and 9. The semifinals will be held March 10, with the championship game on March 11.


2017 MEAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2017 MENA Golf Tour
The 2017 MENA Golf Tour was the 7th season of the MENA Golf Tour. It was the first full season in which events received Official World Golf Ranking points. OWGR points were introduced during the 2016 season.


2017 MENA Golf Tour, Schedule
The schedule included 15 events for 2017. It featured two 72-hole events, the Pattana Golf Championship and the MENA Tour Championship. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of MENA Golf Tour events he had won up to and including that tournament.


2017 MENA Golf Tour, Schedule
The three events in South Africa were co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Big Easy Tour.


2017 MENA Golf Tour, Graduates
The top five players on the Order of Merit were:


2017 MFF Charity Cup
The 2017 MFF  Charity Cup is the 6th MFF Charity Cup, an annual Myanmar football match played between the winners of the previous season's Myanmar National League and 2016 General Aung San Shield. The match was contested by Magwe, the 2016 General Aung San Shield winners, and Yadanarbon, champions of the 2016 Myanmar National League.


2017 MFF Cup
The 2017 MFF Cup is the tenth edition of the MFF Cup, the knockout football tournament in Mongolia.


2017 MFF Cup
It is sponsored by Arvain Undes. 30 teams were accepted into the tournament. It began with the 1st Round in 2017.


2017 MFF Cup, First round
United Frees "Юнайтед Фрейндс" 1–3 Tuul Big Tigers "Туулын Том Тулнууд"


2017 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2017 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament was the state championship tournament for boy's ice hockey in Massachusetts, held from February 27 to March 19. The tournament involved 10 teams in play to determine the state champion of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA).


2017 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament
Arlington defeated Central Catholic 3–2 to win the program's 1st MIAA Division 1A title.


2017 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The Catholic Conference had 3 teams receive a berth in the tournament, while the Atlantic Coast League, Bay State Conference, Catholic Central League, Catholic West Hockey Conference, Merrimack Valley Conference, and Middlesex League had one team receive a berth. An independent program, Hingham, also received a berth.


2017 MIAA Division 1A Boy's Ice Hockey Tournament, Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime; ** denotes double overtime; *** denotes double overtime and shootout


2017 MLB Little League Classic
The 2017 MLB Little League Classic was a Major League Baseball (MLB) game held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, during the 2017 Little League World Series on August 20, 2017. It was the first playing of what is now an annual MLB Little League Classic game, part of MLB's effort to get more children interested in and involved with baseball at a younger age.


2017 MLB Little League Classic, Background
On March 9, 2017, MLB officially announced the game, selecting the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals as the participants.


2017 MLB Little League Classic, Background
Residents from Lycoming County were eligible to win a very limited number of tickets to the game via a lottery system found on the MLB website. The game was originally scheduled to be a home game for the Pirates; ticket holders for that game were offered a food-and-beverage credit, tickets to another game, or a refund.


2017 MLB Little League Classic, Background
Both teams were allowed by MLB to add a 26th player to their active rosters for the game; the Cardinals added outfielder Stephen Piscotty, who started in right field, and the Pirates added catcher Jacob Stallings, who did not appear in the game.


2017 MLB Little League Classic, Background
The Cardinals and Pirates also wore special uniforms, including features such as pullover jerseys with bright colors and contrasting sleeves, specially colored caps, and a unique logo that drew design cues from the official logos of both MLB and Little League Baseball. In addition, players were encouraged (though not required) to put nicknames on the jerseys' rear nameplates. These uniforms were worn again by both teams on August 25–27 for Players Weekend, an initiative of MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association that saw all 30 MLB teams wear similar uniforms.


2017 MLB Little League Classic, Background
The Cardinals entered the game with a 63–60 record, 2+1⁄2 games behind the Chicago Cubs in the National League Central; the Pirates were 59–64, 6+1⁄2 games back of the Cubs. The game was featured on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, and was also available on ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, and MLB Network.


2017 MLS All-Star Game
The 2017 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the 22nd annual Major League Soccer All-Star Game. The game took place on August 2, 2017 (7:30 p.m. local time) at Soldier Field in Chicago. The game was televised live on Fox Sports 1 and Univision in the United States, and on TSN and TVA Sports in Canada. La Liga side Real Madrid were the opponents. Real Madrid won 4–2 on penalties following a 1–1 draw in normal time.


2017 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, MLS All-Stars
Tim Howard, DaMarcus Beasley, Graham Zusi, Greg Garza, Miguel Almirón, Michael Bradley, Kaká, Bastian Schweinsteiger, David Villa, and Nemanja Nikolić were voted to the MLS All-Star Fan XI, announced on July 7, 2017. Sebastian Giovinco was chosen as the FIFA 17 More Than A Vote Winner. Stefan Frei, Jelle van Damme, Hernán Grana, Matt Hedges, Johan Kappelhof, Michael Parkhurst, Dax McCarty, Diego Valeri, Giovani dos Santos, Ignacio Piatti, and Jozy Altidore were selected as coach Veljko Paunović's picks on July 18. Dom Dwyer and Kellyn Acosta were announced as Commissioner Don Garber's picks for the squad.


2017 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, MLS All-Stars
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, Real Madrid
Real Madrid's 26-man United States squad was announced on July 11, 2017. However, Álvaro Morata and Danilo later withdrew from the squad following their transfers to Chelsea and Manchester City, respectively.


2017 MLS All-Star Game, Squads, Real Madrid
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 MLS Cup Playoffs
The 2017 MLS Cup Playoffs (branded as the 2017 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs for sponsorship reasons) began on October 25, and ended on December 9 with MLS Cup 2017, the 22nd league championship match for MLS. This is the 22nd version of the MLS Cup Playoffs, the tournament culminating the Major League Soccer regular season. Twelve teams, the top six of each conference, compete in the MLS Cup Playoffs.


2017 MLS Cup Playoffs
The first round of each conference has the third-seeded team hosting the sixth seed while the fourth-seed hosts the fifth seed in a single match to determine who advances to the Conference Semifinals. In the Conference Semifinals, the top seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the second plays the next-lowest. The winners advance to the Conference Finals. Both the Conference Semifinals and Conference Finals are played as a two-legged aggregate series. The winners advance to the MLS Cup, a single match hosted by the participant with the better record.


2017 MLS Cup Playoffs, Conference standings
The top six teams from each conference advance to the MLS Cup playoffs. Chicago and Portland won seeding tiebreakers over Atlanta and Seattle, respectively, based on total wins.


2017 MLS Expansion Draft
The 2017 MLS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Los Angeles FC held on December 12, 2017. Lists of protected rosters and draft-eligible players were released by MLS on December 10, 2017.


2017 MLS Expansion Draft, Format
The rules for the 2017 MLS Expansion Draft as laid out by Major League Soccer.


2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft
The 2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 15, 2017 (Stage 1) and December 21, 2017 (Stage 2). All 23 Major League Soccer clubs were eligible to participate. The priority order for the MLS Re-Entry Draft was reverse order of finish in 2017, taking into account playoff performance. The 2018 expansion team, Los Angeles FC, had selection 23.


2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft
Available to all teams in Stage 1 of the Re-Entry draft were:


2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft
Players who were not selected in Stage 1 of the Re-Entry Draft were made available in Stage 2. Clubs selecting players in Stage 2 were able to negotiate a new salary with the player. Players who remained unselected after Stage 2 were made available to any MLS club on a first-come, first-served basis.


2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft
Teams also had the option of passing on their selection.


2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Available players
Players were required to meet age and service requirements to participate as stipulated by the terms of the MLS Collective Bargaining Agreement. The league released a list of all players available for the Re-Entry Draft on December 14, 2017.


2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Stage One
The first stage of the 2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 15, 2017.


2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Stage Two
The second stage of the 2017 MLS Re-Entry Draft took place on December 21, 2017.


2017 MLS SuperDraft
The 2017 MLS SuperDraft was the eighteenth SuperDraft conducted by Major League Soccer. The SuperDraft is held each year in conjunction with the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention. The first two rounds of the 2017 SuperDraft were held in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2017 as part of the NSCAA 2017 convention. Rounds three and four were held via conference call on January 17, 2017.


2017 MLS SuperDraft, Format
The SuperDraft format has remained constant throughout its history and closely resembles that of the NFL Draft:


2017 MLS SuperDraft, Player selection, Round 1
Any player marked with a * is part of the Generation Adidas program.


2017 MLS SuperDraft, Player selection, Round 2
Any player marked with a * is part of the Generation Adidas program.


2017 MLS SuperDraft, Player selection, Round 3
Any player marked with a * is part of the Generation Adidas program.


2017 MLS SuperDraft, Player selection, Round 4
Any player marked with a * is part of the Generation Adidas program.


2017 MNL-2
The MNL-2 2017 is the MNL-2's fifth full regular season.


2017 MNL-2, Name Change, Personnel and sponsoring
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 MNL-2, Name Change, Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to four per MNL-2 club. A team can use three foreign players on the field in each game, including a slot for a player from among AFC countries.


2017 MNL-2, Matches
Fixtures and Results of the Myanmar National League 2017 season.


2017 MSBL season
The 2017 MSBL season was the 29th season of the Men's State Basketball League (SBL). The regular season began on Friday 17 March, with round 1 seeing a 2016 grand final rematch between the Cockburn Cougars and Joondalup Wolves. The 2017 MSBL All-Star Game was played on 5 June at Bendat Basketball Centre – the home of basketball in Western Australia. The regular season ended on Saturday 29 July. The finals began on Saturday 5 August and ended on Saturday 2 September, when the Perth Redbacks defeated the Wolves in the MSBL Grand Final.


2017 MSBL season, Regular season
The regular season began on Friday 17 March and ended on Saturday 29 July after 20 rounds of competition. In an exciting move by the SBL, all games over the Easter Weekend were played on a blockbuster Thursday night with six venues all hosting games before the league took a break for the Easter long weekend. Anzac Round took place again in round 6 of the competition with the Kalamunda Eastern Suns and Willetton Tigers continuing their Anzac Day game tradition while being joined this year by the Cockburn Cougars hosting the Rockingham Flames on the Tuesday afternoon. There was also Women's Round in round 9, Rivalry Round in round 12, and Heritage Round in round 16.


2017 MSBL season, Finals
The finals began on Saturday 5 August and ended on Saturday 2 September with the MSBL Grand Final.


2017 MSBL season, All-Star Game
The 2017 MSBL All-Star Game took place at Bendat Basketball Centre on Monday 5 June, with all proceeds going to Lifeline WA for suicide prevention.


2017 MTN 8
The 2017 MTN 8 was the 43rd edition of South Africa's annual soccer cup competition, the MTN 8. It featured the top eight teams of the Premier Soccer League at the end of the 2016-17 season.


2017 MTN 8, Teams
The eight teams that competed in the MTN 8 knockout competition are (listed according to their finishing position in the 2016/2017 Premier Soccer League Season):


2017 MTV Europe Music Awards
The 2017 MTV EMAs (also known as the MTV Europe Music Awards) were held at The SSE Arena in Wembley, London, United Kingdom, on 12 November 2017. The host of the ceremony was Rita Ora, with voiceovers provided by Capital FM DJ Roman Kemp. This was the sixth time that the UK has hosted the awards show, and the second time London has been the host city. London first hosted the awards ceremony in 1996 at Alexandra Palace. The ceremony was directed for television by British award-winning multi camera director Hamish Hamilton.


2017 MTV Europe Music Awards
Taylor Swift was nominated for six awards followed by Shawn Mendes who was nominated for five. Mendes won four awards becoming the most awarded artist of the night.


2017 MTV Millennial Awards
The 5th Annual MTV Millennial Awards were held on June 3, 2017 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, and was broadcast on June 4, 2017 through MTV Latin America. The awards celebrate the best of Latin music and the digital world of the millennial generation. The ceremony was hosted by Lele Pons and Juanpa Zurita. J Balvin and Sebastián Yatra led nominations with five each, while Lali was the biggest winner of the night, with two awards. Furthermore, Lady Gaga received the UNHCR's Change Agent Award.


2017 MTV Millennial Awards, Winners and nominees
Nominees were announced on April 24, 2017. Winners are listed in bold.


2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards
The 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards was held on May 7, 2017, from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, U.S. It was the 26th edition of the awards, and for the first time it presented honors for work in television as well as cinema; it was also the first time men and women competed jointly in the acting categories since 2007. The awards ceremony was hosted by Adam DeVine and broadcast on numerous Viacom channels, MTV.com, and the MTV app on mobile devices.


2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards
The ceremony was preceded by the "Movie & Television Festival". It was a day-long event that was held outside the Shrine Auditorium and featured live performances by Bea Miller, All Time Low, and Zara Larsson; plus red carpet appearances by celebrities. Issa Rae served as the announcer for the event.


2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards, Winners and nominees
The full list of nominees was announced on April 6, 2017.


2017 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards were held on August 27, 2017 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, honoring music videos released between June 25, 2016 and June 23, 2017. It was hosted by Katy Perry. The 34th annual award show aired live from the venue for the second time in its history. The music video for Taylor Swift's song "Look What You Made Me Do" premiered during the broadcast. Lil Yachty co-hosted the pre-show with Terrence J, Charlamagne Tha God, and MTV News' Gaby Wilson, while Gabbie Hanna hosted backstage for the show. It was broadcast across various Viacom networks and their related apps.


2017 MTV Video Music Awards
Compared to the previous year, viewership was down from 6.5 million to 5.68 million viewers, making it the lowest viewed show since 1994. A combination of having to compete with the season finale of HBO's Game of Thrones, which drew over 12.07 million viewers, and the ability to now stream the award show online is said to account for the drop in viewership.


2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees
The list of nominations was revealed on July 25, 2017. For the nominations, MTV continued to eliminate gender-specific awards categories, as they did at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards. MTV also announced the "Moonman" statue would be renamed a "Moon Person". The Best Female and Best Male Video awards were replaced with one category, Artist of the Year. Kendrick Lamar leads the list of nominees with eight categories, while Katy Perry, The Weeknd, and DJ Khaled received the second most nods with five. Nominees for Song of the Summer category were announced on August 22, 2017. Winners are listed in bold.


2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Collaboration
Zayn and Taylor Swift — "I Don't Wanna Live Forever"


2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Direction
Kendrick Lamar — "Humble." (Directors: Dave Meyers and The Little Homies)


2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Visual Effects
Kendrick Lamar — "Humble." (Visual Effects: Jonah Hall of Timber)


2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Choreography
Kanye West — "Fade" (Choreographers: Teyana Taylor, Guapo, Matthew Pasterisa, Jae Blaze and Derek Watkins)


2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Winners and nominees, Best Editing
Young Thug — "Wyclef Jean" (Editors: Ryan Staake and Eric Degliomini)


2017 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards Japan was held in Tokyo on September 27, 2017.


2017 MZ8
2017 MZ8 (also written 2017 MZ8) is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid, meaning that it has an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact. It is an Apollo asteroid, meaning that it is an Earth-crossing asteroid that has an orbit larger than the orbit of the Earth. It was first observed on 22 June 2017, when the asteroid was about 1 AU from Earth and had a solar elongation of 131 degrees.


2017 MZ8
This asteroid is a lost asteroid. It has a short observation arc of 1.1 days and has not been seen since 2017, so it has an orbit that is only roughly calculated.


2017 MZ8
This asteroid is in both the Risk List of the European Space Agency (ESA) – Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and in the Sentry List of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). According to the Sentry List, of the possible close encounters with Earth in the foreseeable future, an encounter on 19 October 2020 has the highest Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale value.


2017 MZ8
According to the Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site (NEODyS), of the possible close encounters with Earth in the foreseeable future, an encounter on 20 November 2030 is the most likely. This encounter has a minimum possible distance of zero, meaning that an impact onto Earth is possible.


2017 Macanese legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Macau on 17 September 2017 according to the provisions of the Basic Law of Macau. Out of a total of 33 seats, 14 were directly elected by universal suffrage under the highest averages method, while 12 were voted on from the Indirect eleciton, and 7 from nomination by the chief executive.


2017 Macanese legislative election, Background
Formerly a Portuguese colony, Macau has been a Special Administrative Region within China since 1999. As a Special Administrative Region it is entitled to a high degree of autonomy from the mainland Chinese legal system through the year 2050, although China represents the city on foreign policy matters. Macau's economy is based primarily on its status as a tech and financial sector, as well as its internationally famous casino industry.


2017 Macanese legislative election, Background
The previous legislative election took place in 2013. The pro-establishment camp ACUM, led by Chan Meng Kam, received 18.02% votes with 3 seats, and the next largest party, the pro-democracy camp ANMD+APMD, led by António Ng, received 15.73% of the votes with 2 seats while the pro-establishment camp UGM received 11.09% with 2 seats. Due to the characteristics of the Macau election system, only 14 members are directly elected.


2017 Macanese legislative election, Background
On 10 July 2017 twenty-five parties have submitted their nominations for the direct election including current incumbents (Ho Ion Sang, António Ng Kuok Cheong, José Pereira Coutinho, Leong Veng Chai, Song Pek Kei, Si Ka Lon, Wong Kit Cheng, Au Kam San, Angela Leong On Kei, Lei Cheng I, Melinda Chan Mei Yi, Zheng Anting, Mak Soi Kun) and new candidates.


2017 Macanese legislative election, Election Laws in Macau
Macau's direct electoral system is based around proportional representation, with elections carried out through a closed party-list balloting system. This means that each geographic electoral district has multiple members, with the number of its seats filled by each competing party determined by the proportion of the vote that party receives. Parties nominate a slate of candidates (generally, one per seat in each district where the party is competing). After the election, party leaders decide who from the slate will fill the party's legislative seats.


2017 Macanese legislative election, Election Laws in Macau
Shortly before usual campaign period for the 2013 elections, the Electoral Affairs Commission of Macau banned the use of commercial advertising by election candidates. The new election rules stipulate that candidates should not carry out activities that could influence voters in the two-month period between their registration and the start of the campaign period on August 31. Commercial advertising is barred from most public areas, except those specially designated by the government. Even in areas where campaigning is permitted, it is still limited to a 14-day official campaign period.


2017 Macanese legislative election, Election Laws in Macau
These restrictions are intended to limit the advertising advantage of wealthy business interests. However, they have been criticized for limiting the amount of canvassing candidates with less money can do, thus encouraging clientelistic bloc voting where parties simply strike deals with associations, business interests and community leaders to turn out assured votes in their favor. Working around the rules, candidates resorted to using loudspeakers to promote their campaigns.


2017 Macanese legislative election, Election Laws in Macau
Among the most powerful special interests in Macau are casinos. Macau's casino industry has a long history of Triad and other organized crime connections. Since laws around casinos were liberalized in 2002 to promote more foreign investment, the Triad has lost its stranglehold on Macau's casino industry (although it remains deeply embedded in it). Casinos have long played a major role in clientelistic politics in Macau, and since liberalization their influence has further increased.


2017 Macau Grand Prix
The 2017 Macau Grand Prix (formally the 64th Suncity Group Macau Grand Prix – FIA F3 World Cup) was a motor race for Formula Three cars that was held on the streets of Macau on 19 November 2017. Unlike other races, such as the Pau Grand Prix, the 2017 Macau Grand Prix was not a part of any Formula Three championship, but was open to entries from all Formula Three championships. The race itself was made up of two races: a ten-lap qualifying race that decided the starting grid for the fifteen-lap main race. The 2017 race was the 64th running of the Macau Grand Prix, the 35th for Formula Three cars and the 2nd edition of the FIA F3 World Cup.


2017 Macau Grand Prix
The Grand Prix was won by Motopark driver Dan Ticktum, having finished eighth in the previous day's qualification race which was won by Theodore Racing by Prema driver Callum Ilott. Ticktum led only the final lap of the Grand Prix after Ferdinand Habsburg and Sérgio Sette Câmara crashed at the final corner while battling for the victory. Second place went to Lando Norris, competing for Carlin, while the podium was completed by the highest-placed rookie driver, Ralf Aron for Van Amersfoort Racing.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Entry list and background
The Macau Grand Prix is a Formula Three race considered to be a stepping stone to higher motor racing categories such as Formula One and is Macau's most prestigious international sporting event. The 2017 Macau Grand Prix was the 64th running of the event, the 35th time the race was held to Formula Three regulations and the 2nd edition of the FIA F3 World Cup. It took place on the 6.2 km (3.9 mi) 22-turn Guia Circuit on 19 November 2017 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Entry list and background
The Guia Circuit underwent modifications following the 2016 event with several kerbs modified for safety purposes along with the installation of TecPro barriers and the strengthening of recovery protocols for stranded vehicles. After being sidelined by Pirelli for the 2016 race, Yokohama was reinstated as the event's official tyre supplier. Yokohama organised a test session with the 2017 Formula Three aerodynamic package to prevent a driver or team from gaining an unfair advantage.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Entry list and background
In order to compete in Macau, drivers had to compete in a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-regulated championship meeting during the calendar year, in either the FIA Formula Three European Championship or one of the domestic championships, with drivers placed high up in the rankings of these respective championships given priority in receiving an invitation to the meeting. Within the Formula Three record-low 22-car grid for the event, only one of the major Formula Three series was represented by their respective champion.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Entry list and background
Lando Norris, the Formula Three European champion, was this sole representative as the Japanese series winner Mitsunori Takaboshi was not entered for the race. It marked the first time since the 2014 edition that the overall champion of the All-Japan Formula Three series did not race in Macau. Seven drivers outside of Formula Three entered the race through invitations: they were Formula Two race winner Sérgio Sette Câmara, Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 competitors Dan Ticktum and Sacha Fenestraz, All-Japan Formula Three national class champion Ryuji "Dragon" Kumita, Super GT racer Kenta Yamashita and Super Formula driver Yuhi Sekiguchi.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Two 40-minute practice sessions were held before the race on Sunday: one on Thursday morning and one on Friday morning. Sette Câmara set the fastest time for Motopark in the closing minutes of the opening practice session with a lap of 2 minutes, 14.808 seconds, one-tenth of a second faster than any one else. His closest challenger was teammate Joel Eriksson in second. Ticktum, Pedro Piquet and Ferdinand Habsburg, the Theodore Racing by Prema duo of Guanyu Zhou and Callum Ilott, Norris, Mick Schumacher and Yamashita followed in positions three through ten.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Jehan Daruvala's session ended early when he hit the barriers at Moorish corners and Maximilian Günther lost a large amount of time in the pit lane as his car needed gearbox repairs. Eriksson narrowly avoided damaging his car when he slid sideways at Fisherman's Bend while Norris regained control of his at Lisboa corner. Kumita crashed into the tyre barriers at Police corner, ending the session early.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Qualifying was split into two sessions; the first was held on Thursday afternoon and ran for 40 minutes with the second held on Friday afternoon and lasted for half an hour. The fastest time set by each driver from either session counted towards his final starting position for the qualification race. The first qualifying session had Norris at the top of the time sheets with a lap of 2 minutes, 11.570 seconds after he improved on his own personal best.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
He was fastest in the circuit's mountain section but admitted to the press most of his advantage came out on new rear tyres at his pit stop after struggling to locate a decent car balance. Norris was nine-tenths of a second faster than the second-placed Pedro Piquet after he fitted new tyres to his vehicle. Günther was second but fell to third in spite of improving his fastest lap time on worn tyres. Ticktum ended up provisionally fourth and was narrowly in front of teammate Eriksson in fifth.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Sekguicki finished sixth, with Fenestraz the best-placed rookie in seventh and he was followed closely in the time sheets by Sette Câmara. Zhou and Yamashita rounded out the top ten. Following them were Ralf Aron, Schumacher with Tadasuke Makino and Habsburg, Daruvala, Marino Sato, Devlin DeFrancesco, Ritomo Miyata, Álex Palou,and the Japanese duo of Kumita and Sekiguchi who both failed to register a lap time.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
The session was tumultuous and was stopped four times: Kumita crashed at San Francisco Bend early on, and shortly after the restarted, a second red flag was necessitated for Palou who went into the wall at Paiol turn and stopped on the circuit. Sette Câmara went into the barriers heavily at Fisherman's Bend with his car's rear, prompting a one-hour delay before running could resume. First qualifying was prematurely ended with less than two minutes remaining because of Daruvala impacting the wall at San Francisco Bend.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
After cracking a bone his left hand, Kumita was withdrawn for the rest of the weekend. In the second 40-minute practice session, Ticktum led the way early on with a benchmark lap time and held it for the most of the session until Eriksson had two new tyres fitted to his car's left-hand side to claim the top spot in the closing minutes with a lap of 2 minutes, 12.032 seconds. Ticktum followed 0.110 seconds adrift in second and Habsburg improved late in practice to finish third-fastest.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Ilott was satisfied with alterations to his car and was fourth with a late lap that put him ahead of teammate Günther in fifth. After his car was repaired by his mechanics overnight, Sette Câmara was sixth and Norris seventh. Sekiguchi, Zhou and Darvala completed the top ten. Piquet swiped the barriers and removed the car's front left corner but returned to the pit lane. This caused the session's first stoppage as debris was left on the track. A second red flag was prompted when Schumacher lost control of his vehicle, locked his tyres at Police corner and hit the wall. The final stoppage came when Aron went into the wall at Moorish Hill turn.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
In the second qualifying session, the first red flag came out when Daruvala crashed at the Solitude Esses complex. Soon after, Sette Câmara crashed for a second time at Fisherman's Bend and this prompted the second stoppage of the session. Ticktum was the early pace setter before Norris returned to the top of the time sheets on a new set of tyres by being the first driver to go into the two minutes and 10 seconds range more than halfway through.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Eriksson fitted four new tyres to his car and found a gap between traffic to better Norris's time with a lap of 2 minutes, 10.720 seconds. With five minutes left, Zhou hit the wall and stopped with heavy damage to his vehicle, causing the session's third stoppage. Norris and Eriksson elected not to venture onto the track at the restart after Seguicki ended the session early by crashing. Thus, Eriksson became the sixth Swedish driver to secure pole position at the Macau Grand Prix.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying
Norris was 0.027 seconds behind in third and Ilott was hindered by slower traffic and oversteer and settled for third having been eighth beforehand. Günther dropped one position from his provisional grid slot to start from fourth. Habsburg damaged his suspension after hitting the wall but limped back to the pit lane. Habsurg fell to fifth due to Ilott improving his position and him choosing not to venture onto the track at the restart. Ticktum was bulked by the slow-moving Habsburg but his earlier effort placed him sixth with Schumacher the best placed rookie in seventh. The top ten was completed by Sekiguchi, Sette Câmara and Zhou. Behind them the rest of the field lined up as Fenestraz, Makino, Piquet, DeFrancesco, Sato, Yamashita, Aron, Tsuboi, Daravala, Miyata and Palou.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Practice and qualifying, Qualifying classification
Each of the driver's fastest lap times from the two qualifying sessions are denoted in bold.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race
The qualifying race to set the grid order for the main race started at 10:20 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 18 November. On the grid, in dry and cloudy weather, Eriksson maintained the lead into the first turn. Norris was slow off the line and Ilott overtook him for second place. Günther followed suit and overtook the slow moving Norris for third position. At the end of the first lap Eriksson led Ilott by 1.127 seconds. Sette Câmara passed Habsburg to take fourth into Lisboa corner on lap two.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race
He then slipstreamed onto the back of Günther and overtook him for third place on the next lap. Habsburg lost a further position to Ticktum on the same lap and fell behind Schumacher who overtook him braking for Lisboa on the fourth lap. Schumacher locked his tyres driving towards Lisboa corner as he attempted to overtake Habsburg for sixth and ran onto the turn's escape to allow him to continue driving. The gap between the first two drivers remained stable over the next three laps until Ilott drew closer to Eriksson and got onto the latter's slipstream by the end of the fifth lap. Ilott immediately attempted to overtake on Eriksson on the outside of Lisboa corner but failed to pass.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race
Callum Ilott, talking about his victory in the qualification race.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race
Ilott remained close behind Eriksson on the following lap and elected to stay back until he exited the Mandarin Bend kink before attempting a pass on Eriksson who had worn tyres. This allowed Eriksson to cover the inside and keep the lead when the duo drew alongside each other braking for Lisboa corner. Ilott had a large amount of momentum on Eriksson, that at the start of lap seven, he passed Eriksson on the inside at the Mandarin Bend kink for the lead. After he was overtaken by Ilott, Eriksson immediately came under pressure from his teammate Sette Câmara.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race
Norris fell to ninth after his slow getaway and overtook Ticktum to return to the top five on lap seven but then slowed without warning and fell down the order. Ilott opened up an lead of nearly eight seconds and crossed the start/finish line after ten laps to win the qualification race and pole position for the Grand Prix itself. He was joined on the front row of the grid by Eriksson who fended off consecutive overtaking attempts from Sette Câmara. Behind the trio, Günther followed with Habsburg in fifth.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Qualification race
Piquet, Norris and Ticktum were in close formation for positions six to eight and Sekiguchi and Zhou were similarly close to round out the top ten. Yamashita, Fenestraz, Aron, the Japanese duo of Sato and Tsuboi, Daruvala, Makino, Palou, Miyata, Schumacher and DeFrancesco (delayed by an unnoticed incident) completed the 21 classified finishers.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race
The race started at 15:30 local time on 19 November. The weather was cloudy and dry although some rain had fallen earlier in the day. Eriksson made a brisk start and clung onto the slipstream of pole position starter Ilott heading towards Lisboa corner and moved into first place. Competitive racing was temporarily suspended with a full course yellow flag on the second lap after Sato crashed at the kink going into the entry for Fisherman's Bend.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race
As the field were travelling down the straight heading towards Lisboa corner, the green flags were waved to signal to drivers that racing resumed. This appeared to catch out race leaders Ilott and Eriksson, with Ilott steering into the corner earlier than anticipated and made contact with the front-left suspension on Eriksson's car. Eriksson reached the turn in first position but the damage to his car meant he retired from the Grand Prix after he stopped before the tyre barrier at San Francisco Hill a few hundred metres later.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race
The incident allowed Sette Câmara into the lead with Günther moving into second and the Carlin pairing of Habsburg and Norris inherited third and fourth places. Eriksson's stranded car necessitated a second full course yellow flag, which was later converted to a safety car because he was deemed to be in a dangerous position.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race
Ilott made a pit stop for repairs to his car under the safety car while Schumacher had gearbox issues that needed tending to. The race restarted on the seventh lap with Sette Câmara ahead of Günther, Habsburg, Norris and Ticktum. Günther could not get back up to speed, allowing Sette Câmara to establish a healthy lead and the former came under attack from Habsburg. DeFrancesco was another retiree when he went into the barriers at Lisboa corner after ten laps.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race
On the 11th lap, Habsburg used the slipstream of Günther and the braking area at the Lisboa turn to overtake him for second position. He set about reducing Sette Câmara's two-second lead over the rest of the field. Meanwhile, Ticktum pressured Norris. Ticktum used a four-wide battle of Norris, Günther and Aron into Lisboa corner for third place on the Grand Prix's 14th lap and slipstreamed past both into third place. As the leading two started the final lap, Habsburg drew close to Sette Câmara into Mandarin corner. Habsburg's higher straight-line speed allowed him to attempt a pass to the left of Sette Câmara heading into Lisboa corner. Despite drawing alongside Sette Câmara, he did not take the lead in the braking zone as the latter held onto the position on the inside.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race
As the two cars slid in the mountain complex, Habsburg could not take the lead due to a lack of on-track space. Habsburg however got a fast exit leaving the penultimate turn and used the momentum on the straight linking the Melco and Fisherman's Bend corners to challenge Sette Câmara. Habsburg passed Sette Câmara on the outside for the lead but, in an attempt to brake later than each other, both drivers braked too late for the corner, drove onto some dust and understeered into the barriers on the left of Fisherman's Bend.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race
Habsburg ricocheted off the wall and managed to limp to the line, whilst Sette Câmara was left stranded in the tyre wall. Thus, in his third Formula Three race, Ticktum inherited the lead and swerved to avoid hitting debris to win the race. Norris finished half a second later in second and Aron completed the podium in third having moved up ten from his starting position. Off the podium, Habsburg limped his car which had its left-front suspension deranged to fourth ahead of Günther in fifth. Piquet took sixth place ahead of Fenestraz and Zhou. The top ten was rounded out by Makino and Daravala. Outside the top ten, Palou finished 11th having moved up seven from his starting position, in front of Miyata and the stricken Sette Câmara. Tsuboi, Ilott and Schumacher were the last of the classified finishers.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race
The top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in a later press conference. Ticktum spoke of an "pretty unlucky weekend" for himself before the Sunday race and admitted that his victory was serendipitous, owing to the Sette Câmara and Habsburg crash on the final lap, "I was due a bit of luck with what happened at the final corner. But there are no words to describe what it was like coming across the line."


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race
He thanked Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko for signing him and said he sought to improve himself, "I think if you are a second-year driver in the Red Bull programme, then Helmut has established that you are bloody fast – unless something else has gone wrong with the team and he cannot quite gauge what the driver is doing."


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race
Though Norris congratulated Ticktum for his victory he spoke of his disappointment over not winning, but expressed a desire to return to Macau in 2018 and sought an improvement in his tyre's life span, "I came to Macau to win, and in some ways I didn't prepare for it as much as I should have done and maybe I could have done – because I was focusing on other things" Third-placed Aron said of his achievement, "It could be said that it was a happy one too, but that's Macau. Macau's always the race that everyone wants to win, and it often ends with silly maneuvers. I finally got the third place, probably a tenth, but it was time for luck to finally end up on my side."


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race
Habsburg spoke of his pride on his weekend and stated that he was "100 percent" unwilling to finish second as he attempted to put off Sette Câmara on the final lap, "I was crying when I crashed, because I knew I’d lost it. and I was wiping my tears away. But I don't think you can say you’ve lost it when you’ve thrown everything into winning it at the final corner. The move was either win or crash – and for me it was crash."


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race
Sette Câmara revealed he lost aerodynamic grip just before his crash, "It hurts a lot, it is not easy. But it's a World Cup, it's not a championship. Either you win or you lose, I do not have to get upset about it." Eriksson apportioned blame for his crash on Ilott, who received a ten-second penalty from the stewards which could not be applied since he retired, who he felt was overaggressive, "Callum crashed into me.


2017 Macau Grand Prix, Main race, Post-race
He thought he was already past me and he was not; it was his mistake and we both had to pay the price for it." Ilott stated his belief he was unworthy of a penalty because his car's onboard footage was not made available to the stewards and it reportedly showed Eriksson steering left. He argued he provided Eriksson with enough room and stated his belief he had passed the latter before the collision.


2017 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold
The 2017 Macau Open was a badminton tournament which took place at Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion Macau in Macau from 7 to 12 November 2017 and had a total purse of $120,000.


2017 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold, Tournament
The 2017 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold was the sixteenth Grand Prix badminton tournament of the 2017 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix and also part of the Macau Open championships which has been held since 2006. This tournament was organized by the Badminton Federation of Macau and sanctioned by the BWF.


2017 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold, Tournament, Venue
This international tournament was held at Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion Macau in Macau.


2017 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold, Tournament, Point distribution
Below is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the Grand Prix Gold event.


2017 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold, Tournament, Prize money
The total prize money for this year tournament is US$120,000. Distribution of prize money will be in accordance with BWF regulations.


2017 Maccabiah Games
The 2017 Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: משחקי המכביה 2017), also referred to as the  20th Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: המכביה ה-20), were the 20th edition of the Maccabiah Games. They took place from 4 to 17 July 2017, in Israel. The Maccabiah Games are open to Jewish athletes from around the world, and to all Israeli citizens regardless of their religion. A total of 10,000 athletes competed, a Maccabiah Games record, making the 2017 Maccabiah Games the third-largest sporting competition in the world (after the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup). The athletes were from 85 countries, also a record.


2017 Maccabiah Games
Countries represented for the first time included the Bahamas, Barbados, Cambodia, the Cayman Islands, Haiti, Malta, Morocco, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Trinidad (according to the official Games website Morocco debuted in 2013, and it does not list The Bahamas, Cambodia, Haiti, Malta, the Philippines, or Trinidad among participating nations). The athletes competed in 45 sports.


2017 Maccabiah Games, History
The Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932. In 1961, they were declared a "Regional Sports Event" by, and under the auspices and supervision of, the International Olympic Committee.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Opening ceremonies
On 6 July 2017, the opening ceremonies took place at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, with 10,000 competitors in front of 30,000 spectators. Seven athletes took part in the torch lighting ceremony, including Olympic gold-medal-winner swimmers American Anthony Ervin and Frenchman Fabien Gilot. Five Israelis participated in the torch lighting ceremony:  Olympic medalists in judo Ori Sasson and Yarden Gerbi, three-time Olympic gymnast Neta Rivkin, National Basketball Association player Omri Casspi, and Paralympic world champion rower Moran Samuel.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Opening ceremonies
The delegation march took place before Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and others. British Prime Minister Theresa May and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to the crowd by means of pre-recorded videos.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Opening ceremonies
Canadian ice hockey player Avi Steinberg proposed to his girlfriend Rachel on stage, and then married her under a chuppah on stage minutes later. Singers who performed included Lior Narkis, Ester Rada, Omer Adam, Victoria Hanna, and Marina Maximillian.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists
American three-time Olympic champion swimmer Anthony Ervin won gold medals in the 50-meter freestyle (with a time of 22.05 seconds), the 100-meter freestyle (with a time of 49.76 seconds), and the 4 × 100 m medley relay (with the Americans clocking 3:41.82). American B. J. Johnson won gold medals in the men's 100m breaststroke, with a time of 1:01.27 (a new Maccabiah record), as well as in the 200m breaststroke, with a time of 2:11.60.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists
In the special 4x50m relay race between Israeli and American all-star teams, American Olympic champions Lenny Krayzelburg (four Olympic golds), Jason Lezak (four Olympic golds), and Ervin, with masters swimmer Alex Blavatnik, swam a time of 1:48.23 and defeated Israeli Olympians Guy Barnea, Yoav Bruck, Eran Groumi, and Tal Stricker, who had a time of 1:51.25. American Jessica Antiles won the silver medal in the 400m individual medley and a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley. American Sam Raben was part of Team USA's gold medal winnings soccer team. Team USA won a gold medal in basketball with among others Jordan Cohen, Sam Singer, and Travis Warech. American Olympic fencer Eli Dershwitz won the gold medal in sabre.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists
Canadian Olympian Josh Binstock and his partner won the gold medal in men's beach volleyball. Canadian Pan American Games medalist Sasha Gollish won gold medals running in the 800m, 1,500m, and 5,000m events. Cricketer Zac Elkin won a gold medal with Team South Africa, and cricketer Mark Bott won a silver medal with Great Britain. Josh Kennet won a silver medal with Great Britain in soccer.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists
Israeli-American Olympic swimmer Andrea Murez (competing now as an Israeli having moved to Israel in 2014) won the women's 100m freestyle, with a time of 55.15 seconds, and set a new Games record as she also won the 200m freestyle in 1:59.80. Israeli Olympic swimmer Keren Siebner won the 200m butterfly with a time of 2:16.57. Israeli Olympic swimmer Amit Ivry (59.37) and Siebner (1:00.01) won the gold and silver medals in the women's 100m butterfly.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists
Ivry, Siebner, Shahar Menahem, and Or Tamir set an Israeli national record in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay  with a time of 4:11.67 as they won a silver medal. Israeli Olympian and former European Junior Swimming Champion in the 100m backstroke Yakov Toumarkin won the men's 200m backstroke in a time of 2:00.17.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists
Israeli Olympic judoka Gili Cohen won the gold medal in the under-57 kg judo event. Israeli Olympian Misha Zilberman won a gold medal in badminton mixed doubles. Israeli javelin thrower Marharyta Dorozhon won the women's competition with a throw of 63.07m, qualifying her for the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Israeli individual rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram, the 2015 Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix all-around silver medalist, won all five gold medals (the all-around, ball, ribbon, hoop, and clubs). Israeli Artem Dolgopyat won two gold medals in the floor exercise and pommel horse, and a bronze medal in the vault. Israeli soccer player Shani David scored a goal in the final for Israel as it beat Team USA to win a gold medal in women's soccer. Israeli Daniel Poleshchuk won a gold medal in Men's Open Squash.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Participating countries
The Maccabiah Games are open to Jewish athletes from around the world, and to all Israeli citizens regardless of their religion. Some delegations have more relaxed rules about participation; for example, the Brazil junior football team included Ronald, the son of former three-time FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldo, who is not Jewish, but has been a member of the Jewish football club Hebraica for years.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Participating countries
The athletes were from a record 85 countries. Countries represented for the first time include the Bahamas, Cambodia, the Cayman Islands, Haiti, Malta, Morocco, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Trinidad (according to the official Web site of the Games, Morocco debuted in 2013, official Web site of the Games does not list Malta or Trinidad among participating nations) A total of 10,000 athletes competed, a Maccabiah Games record, making the 2017 Maccabiah Games the third-largest sporting competition in the world (after the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup).


2017 Maccabiah Games, Participating countries
Israel fielded the largest delegation, with 2,500 competitors led by Olympic windsurfer Maayan Davidovich. The US delegation of over 1,100 athletes came from over 42 states, and was the second-largest delegation. For Team USA, Olympians Eli Dershwitz (fencing), Anthony Ervin (swimming), and Zach Test (rugby 7's) competed, and Olympic gold medalists and Maccabiah Games alumni Lenny Krayzelburg and Jason Lezak joined the team as Maccabi Ambassadors, and swam two exhibition relays. The Argentinian, Australian, and Canadian delegations each had approximately 650 athletes, Brazil's delegation had 491 members, and Great Britain was represented by 375 competitors.


2017 Maccabiah Games, Participating countries
The following countries sent delegations to the 2017 Maccabiah Games; numbers in parentheses indicate number of competitors:


2017 Maccabiah Games, Sports
Athletes at the Games competed in 45 sports, at 68 sports complexes throughout Israel. The Games recognize all Olympic sports. The sports with the greatest number of competitors were soccer (1,401 athletes from 20 countries), swimming (712 competitors from 34 countries), tennis (537 competitors from 35 countries), and basketball (466 competitors from 13 countries). The sporting events included:


2017 Maccabiah Games, Medal count
Israel won the most medals, a total of 470 (173 gold medals, 150 silver, and 147 bronze). Team USA finished second with 164 medals (50 gold, 67 silver, and 47 bronze). Australia came in third (40; 9 gold, 19 silver, and 12 bronze), and Canada came in fourth (23; 10 gold, 6 silver, and 7 bronze). Hungary took fifth with 17 medals (6 gold, 7 silver, and 4 bronze).


2017 Maccabiah Games, Medal count
South Africa came in sixth with 15 medals (9 gold, 1 silver, and 5 bronze). Tied for seventh with 14 medals were Germany (7 gold, 1 silver, and 6 bronze), Great Britain (4 gold, 5 silver, and 5 bronze), and Russia (1 gold, 2 silver, and 11 bronze). Ukraine came in 10th with 13 medals (3 gold, 8 silver, and 2 bronze), followed by France with 12 (3 gold, 5 silver, and 4 bronze).


2017 Maccabiah Games, Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony in Latrun, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, on July 17, 2017, was hosted by Bar Refaeli. Refaeli presented Canadian Pan American Games medalist Sasha Gollish, who won three gold medals in track, with the Female Athlete of the Games Award. Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev passed the Maccabiah torch to a number of Maccabiah athletes.


2017 Macedonian Basketball Cup
The 2017 Macedonian Basketball Cup was the 25th season of the Macedonian Basketball Cup. The Final Eight was held in the Jasmin Sports Hall in Kavadarci from 17 February until 19 February 2017. Karpoš Sokoli won its first cup in club history.


2017 Macedonian local elections
The 2017 Macedonian local elections were held on October 14-15 and 28-29, 2017 in the Republic of Macedonia to elect mayors and members of municipality councils of the 80 municipalities in Macedonia. These were the sixth local elections since the independence of Macedonia.


2017 Macedonian local elections
The mandates of the current mayors and municipality councils ran out on May 22, and unlike those of government ministers, they are not automatically prolonged until new ones are elected. The delay in this respect prevented institutions under municipal authority, such as schools, kindergartens, public enterprises, fire-fighting units, to execute their duties. The new parliamentary majority extended the mandate of the local councils and mayors until new election are held.


2017 Macedonian local elections
On June 3 the newly established government set October 15, 2017 as the date of the upcoming local elections. On August 6, Macedonian parliament speaker Talat Xhaferi announced that local elections would be held October 15, 2017.


2017 Macedonian local elections
The local elections were held as scheduled, on October 15, 2017. The election started in 7AM (local time) and the process was held in relatively peaceful mood, with several minor incidents throughout the country. The polling stations were closed 12 hours later. However, only 45 municipalities elected a mayor in the first round, and 35 had to vote again on October 29.


2017 Macedonian local elections
The second round of the local elections was held as scheduled, October 29, 2017. The election started in 7AM (local time) and the process was held in relatively peaceful mood, with several minor incidents throughout the country. The polling stations were closed 12 hours later.


2017 Macedonian local elections
In both of the first two rounds, voting was held a day early (October 14 and 28) for hospitalized and disadvantaged persons, and those in home detention or prison. A third round re-vote was held on November 12 in the municipality of Čair only.


2017 Macedonian local elections, Incidents and reactions
Alit Abazi, an independent candidate for the council of Kičevo Municipality, was killed in public with a hand gun, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a statement that the murder was not politically motivated. The house of Vlado Misajlovski, a candidate for mayor in Gjorche Petrov, and the bakery of his father caught fire. Police statement said the bakery caught fire because of defective installation and the fire spread to the house. Elvis Bajram, a candidate for mayor in Shuto Orizari, was attacked with a metal pipe after arguing with activists of the opposing candidate.


2017 Macedonian local elections, Incidents and reactions
An NGO activist from Struga was beaten after speaking against Ziadin Sela, leader of the Alliance for the Albanians. Voters were caught trying to photograph the ballot and were immediately arrested. People were also arrested for inciting and participating in physical showdowns. Polling stations were briefly closed until the situations were sorted out.


2017 Macedonian local elections, Incidents and reactions
The leading opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE filed dozens of complaints all of which were rejected by the State Election Commission. The leader of the party, former prime-minister Nikola Gruevski, said that he does not recognize the election as free and democratic and asked for an early parliamentary election. After losing in Struga, the city's former mayor Sela said that he does not recognize the result and called DUI to a showdown at an early parliamentary election. The Besa Movement reported that irregularities were noted and complaints were filed.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election
The 2017 Machakos gubernatorial election took place on 8 August 2017 to elect the governor and deputy governor of Machakos, concurrently with Machakos Senator to the Senate as other Counties and Machakos MPs to the Kenya National Assembly and Elections of  County Assembly MCAs.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates
Incumbent Governor Alfred Mutua had won the 2013 elections having run on a Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya ticket. The Governor however decamped to his own new Maendeleo Chap Chap Party in 2015. Machakos, like most counties, holds primary elections for Governor then the winners pick their own running mates. The incumbent Governor Mutua had avoided his deputy Bernard Kiala who had remained in Wiper Democratic Movement party. Alfred Mutua picked Francis Maliti as his running mate to contest for a final term as Governor. The Jubilee party nominated Lemi Muia, a former Chief Officer in the county.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, MoU Between Wiper and CCU Parties
The party primaries saw the rise of Wavinya Ndeti who rose from an underdog (at the beginning of the year) to favourite to win the elections on August 8. In a coalition deal captured in an MoU between Ms. Ndeti's Chama Cha Uzalendo and Kalonzo-led Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya Ms Ndeti for the first time since in 2007 made a return to the party which was the most popular party in the county.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, MoU Between Wiper and CCU Parties
In the deal, the former Chama Cha Uzalendo leader was to resign from her party and in return be guaranteed the Wiper Party nomination for the Machakos Gubernatorial Election. The date of Wavinya's resignation from CCU would later be contested in a string of legal suits and petitions. According to the Wiper Party, Wavinya Ndeti had resigned from Chama Cha Uzalendo on the deadline day and had become a registered member of the Wiper Democratic Movement Kenya, through writing copied to the CCU secretary General and Registrar of Political Parties (Kenya). The MoU between the Wiper and CCU parties had also guaranteed the Wiper ticket running mate position to Peter Mathuki, the party's then Deputy Secretary-General. According to the MoU, Wavinya Ndeti and Peter Mathuki would share power in the Machakos County Government on an equal basis if they won.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, MoU Between Wiper and CCU Parties
Bernard Kiala was by then on the campaign trail for the Wiper Party Ticket nominations expressed concern that the deal was pre-emptive. An offer to Bernard Kiala for 30% control of the Machakos County Government in the event of a win had been initially tabled.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, Repeated Wiper Nominations
Incumbent Deputy Governor Bernard Kiala cried foul on the entry of Wavinya Ndeti into the umbrella party and insisted the party should hold Primaries as opposed to the Direct Nomination implied in the pact between the Wiper and CCU parties. The Wiper party's National election board organized a nomination exercise that saw a landslide win for Wavinya Ndeti announced in spite of a boycott by Bernard Kiala. The political parties tribunal on Nominations nullified the results of the initial process and called for fresh nominations citing defiance of its orders.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, Repeated Wiper Nominations
The second round of the nominations saw in a low voter turnout amid another boycott by Bernard Kiala and resulted in a win for Wavinya Ndeti. According to Bernard Kiala, The Wiper Party had rushed to conduct the fresh nominations before addressing the concerns in his petition to the political parties tribunal. Bernard Kiala had sought the tribunal's intervention on the agreement that was in force between the Wiper and the CCU parties. The pact had effectively guaranteed Wavinya Ndeti the Wiper nomination certificate regardless of nomination results while acknowledging Wavinya's membership in the CCU party according to Kiala and his supporters. This would form the basis of subsequent legal suits against Wavinya Ndeti's nomination by the Wiper Party.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, Fallout within Wiper
Bernard Kiala who was the sole challenger to Wavinya Ndeti in the Wiper democratic Movement Kenya primaries quit the party, protesting disobedience of the court orders he had sought. Kiala sought to contest the gubernatorial seat as an Independent candidate, choosing scholar Evelyn Mutula as his running mate. Wavinya Ndeti Picked Peter Mathuki as running mate. Wavinya's nomination by Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya didn't go well with former Spokesman of the party Johnstone MuthamaMuthama who was then-Senator for Machakos County.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, Fallout within Wiper
protested the move and declined to defend his Senatorial seat in what would result in the wiper party losing both the Gubernatorial and Senatorial seats in a county where it was considered dominant. Muthama claimed that defending his seat in the Senate with an impending win for either Alfred Mutua or Wavinya Ndeti in the gubernatorial position would make no positive change to the Machakos electorate he would be representing.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, Fallout within Wiper
Peter Kyalo Kyuli, a Wiper Party member and then County Assembly Member (MCA) for Wamunyu Ward in Machakos filed a petition against Wavinya's Nomination on the grounds that she was a stranger to the party. The Wiper Party member's petition also included a supporting affidavit from Johnson Muthama being a member of the party's national leadership organs.


2017 Machakos County gubernatorial election, Nomination of Candidates, Legal suits and Withdrawal by Candidates
As a consequence of the petition by Wiper Party Member Peter Kyalo Kyuli, an IEBC Tribunal Chaired by Commission Chairman Wafula Chebukati on June 8, 2017 nullified the candidature of Wavinya Ndeti on the grounds that she was a member of two political parties CCU and Wiper at the same time. In a rejoinder the Registrar of political parties Lucy Ndung’u regretted the decision saying that according to her database Wavinya is in the register of Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya. The IEBC tribunal had relied heavily on the affidavit from the office of the Registrar of Political Parties. In a subsequent appeal, High Court Judge George Odunga stayed the decision and directed IEBC not to remove Wavinya Ndeti's Name from the Ballot faulting the manner at which the tribunal arrived at the decision.