2017 Next Generation ATP Finals, Rules
A number of innovative rule changes were introduced in 2017 including best of five sets, first to four games in each set, tie break at 3-All, no-ad scoring (server’s choice) and no lets. There were amended rules regarding time, the match started five minutes from entry of second player onto court, a shot clock to ensure 25 second rule, a maximum of one medical timeout per player per match, limits on when coaches can talk to players and the public was allowed to move around during a match (except at baselines).


2017 Next Generation ATP Finals, Rules
In September 2017, the ATP announced that there would be no line judges at the event. The only official on court was the umpire and all line calls were made by Hawk-Eye. All calls were therefore final; however, foot faults, which are usually called by the baseline official, could be challenged and would be reviewed by a camera monitoring the server's feet.


2017 Next Generation ATP Finals, Qualification
The top seven players in the Emirates ATP Race to Milan qualified. The eighth spot was reserved for an Italian wild card, determined at a qualifying tournament. Eligible players must be 21 or under at the start of the year (born in 1996 or later for 2017 edition). 18-year-old Denis Shapovalov was the youngest and only teenage player.


2017 Next Generation ATP Finals, Qualification
Alexander Zverev withdrew from the tournament, as he would play the ATP Finals the following week.


2017 Next Generation ATP Finals, Draw, Group A
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, then head-to-head records; 5) ATP rankings


2017 Next Generation ATP Finals, Draw, Group B
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, then head-to-head records; 5) ATP rankings


2017 Next Generation ATP Finals, Controversy
For the tournament draw, players were asked to choose a female model to escort them onto the stage, and some of these models lifted or removed various articles of clothing to reveal a letter of the alphabet. This letter signified who would be playing whom. Widespread criticism followed. The ATP explained their choice, "The intention was to integrate Milan's rich heritage as one of the fashion capitals of the world. However, our execution of the proceedings was in poor taste and unacceptable. We deeply regret this and will ensure that there is no repeat of anything like it in the future."


2017 NextEra Energy Resources 250
The 2017 NextEra Energy Resources 250 was a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race held at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida on February 24, 2017. The race was the first of the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.


2017 Nicholls State Colonels football team
The 2017 Nicholls State Colonels football team represented Nicholls State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Colonels were led by third-year head coach Tim Rebowe and edtheir home games at Manning Field at John L. Guidry Stadium. They played as a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 8–4, 7–2 in Southland play to finish in a tie for third place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they were defeated by South Dakota in the first round.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup
The 2017 Nicky Rackard Cup was the 13th staging of the Nicky Rackard Cup hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 2005. It is the third tier of senior inter-county championship hurling.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup
Mayo, the 2016 champions, were promoted to the 2017 Christy Ring Cup after defeating Derry in the promotion/relegation playoff 1-21 to 1-14.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Format
The 2017 Nicky Rackard Cup is played in a double-elimination format. For clarity, the match-ups are explained in each round below.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Format
The seven teams competing in 2017 were  Armagh,  Derry,  Donegal,  Longford,  Louth,  Monaghan, and  Tyrone. Fingal were scheduled to compete but withdrew for 2017.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Round 1
Six of the seven teams play in Round 1. The seventh team receives a bye.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Round 2, Round 2A
Contested by the three winners of Round 1 and the team that received a bye.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Round 2, Round 2B
One match contested by two of the three losers of Round 1. The other losing team from Round 1 receives a bye.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Quarter-finals
The two losers of round 2A played the winner of round 2B and Monaghan, who had received a bye from that round. These two matches are referred to as quarter-finals.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Semi-finals
The winners of round 2A play the winners of the two quarter-finals.


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Final
The winners of the Nicky Rackard Cup (tier 3) are automatically promoted to next year's Christy Ring Cup (tier 2).


2017 Nicky Rackard Cup, Relegation play-off (cancelled)
Normally contested by the two losers from round 2B as both these teams lost their first two matches. In 2017, no team was relegated as Fingal withdrew, thereby creating a vacant place in the normal eight-team Nicky Rackard Cup which was taken up by Warwickshire, the winners of the 2017 Lory Meagher Cup.


2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships
The 2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Winnetka, United States between 11 and 16 July 2017.


2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:


2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships – Doubles
Stefan Kozlov and John-Patrick Smith were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships – Doubles
Sanchai Ratiwatana and Christopher Rungkat won the title after defeating Kevin King and Bradley Klahn 7–6(7–4), 6–2 in the final.


2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships – Singles
Yoshihito Nishioka was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Nielsen Pro Tennis Championships – Singles
Akira Santillan won the title after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 7–6(7–1), 6–2 in the final.


2017 Nigeria Professional Football League
The 2017 Nigeria Professional Football League was the 46th season of the top Nigerian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1972, and the 27th since the rebranding of the league as the "Professional League". Plateau United won the league on the Saturday, 9 September 2017 with a 2-0 victory over Enugu Rangers.


2017 Nigeria Professional Football League
Enugu Rangers won the previous edition, their seventh league title and first since 1984.


2017 Nigeria Professional Football League
Plateau United's win of this edition is their first ever title, which came in their second season after being promoted to the top flight.


2017 Nigeria Professional Football League, Clubs
A total of 20 teams will contest the league including 16 teams from the previous season and four teams promoted from the Nigeria National League. The season will begin 14 January.


2017 Nigeria Women Premier League
The 2017 Nigeria Women Premier League began on March 25, 2017. The date was fixed during the congress for women football league system in Nigeria on February 22, 2017 in Abuja, which had the Minister for Sports, Solomon Dalung in attendance. Martin White Doves, Tokas Queens, Capital City Doves and Taraba Queens were relegated from the previous season. Heartland Queens of Owerri and Sadaatu Kolo Amazons of Niger State were promoted to the elite division.


2017 Nigeria Women Premier League
Rofiat Sule, the top scorer of the last two seasons and Evelyn Nwabuoku, captain of the national team amongst others were signed by Rivers Angels F.C. In March 2017, previously relegated Capital City Doves were re-added to the league, increasing the number of teams to seventeen. On 24 March, COD United Amazons F.C. and Capital City Doves were confirmed to be excluded from the league after failing to meet the registration deadline. This reduced the number of teams to fifteen.


2017 Nigeria Women Premier League, Format
The league board adopted an abridged format of eight teams in two groups. The top two teams in each group will play in a super 4 tournament to determine the overall winner of the league. In August 2017, Bayelsa Queens, Rivers Angels, Nasarawa Amazons and Delta Queens qualified for the super four tournament in Benin city .


2017 Nigeria Women Premier League, Super 4 tournament
In August 2017, the league board fixed September 11 to 16th for the commencement of the mini-tournament. Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium will host the event. The winner and runnerup is to get  ₦3,000,000 and ₦2,000,000 respectively. On September 7, 2017, it was announced that the super four has been rescheduled to hold on October 9-14th in the same venue. This was due to the scheduling conflict with 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualifiers and Aiteo Cup games within same period. In October 2017, the NWFL reached an agreement with Akogate Waters for the third place team to get ₦1,000,000 as prize money.


2017 Ningbo Challenger
The 2017 Ningbo Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ningbo, China.


2017 Ningbo Challenger, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Ningbo Challenger – Doubles
Jonathan Eysseric and Sergiy Stakhovsky were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Ningbo Challenger – Doubles
Radu Albot and Jose Statham won the title after defeating Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Christopher Rungkat 7–5, 6–3 in the final.


2017 Ningbo Challenger – Singles
Lu Yen-hsun was the defending champion but retired in the semifinals facing Taro Daniel.


2017 Ningbo Challenger – Singles
Mikhail Youzhny won the title after defeating Daniel 6–1, 6–1 in the final.


2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft
The 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on 26 October 2017 at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB. It was arranged with the special cooperation of Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. with official naming rights. The draft was officially called "The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by Lipovitan D". 2017 marked the 5th consecutive year in which Taisho Pharmaceuticals had sponsored the event.


2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft, Summary
Only the first round picks were allowed to be contested with all picks from the second round onward being based on table placing in the 2017 NPB season in a waiver system. Waiver priority was based on inter-league results. As the Pacific League teams came out on top against Central League opposition, Pacific League teams were given preference. From the third round the order was reversed continuing in the same fashion until all picks were exhausted.


2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft, Summary
Apart from the selection of Katsuki Azuma by the Yokohama DeNA Baystars, all other picks in the first round went on to be contested being the most this had occurred since 2008.


2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft, Summary
87 new players were drafted with a further 28 development players selected.


2017 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 68th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950.


2017 Niuean general election
General elections were held in Niue on 6 May 2017.


2017 Niuean general election, Electoral system
The 20 members of the Assembly are elected by two methods; 14 are elected from single-member consistencies and six are elected from a single nationwide constituency. Both types of seat use first-past-the-post voting.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition on such weapons," according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement on October 6, 2017.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize
The award announcement acknowledged the fact that "the world's nine nuclear-armed powers and their allies" neither signed nor supported the treaty-based prohibition known as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons or nuclear ban treaty, yet in an interview Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen told reporters that the award was intended to give "encouragement to all players in the field" to disarm. The award was hailed by civil society as well as governmental and intergovernmental representatives who support the nuclear ban treaty, but drew criticism from those opposed.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize
At the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony held in Oslo City Hall on December 10, 2017, Setsuko Thurlow, an 85-year-old woman Who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and ICAN Executive Director Beatrice Fihn jointly received a medal and diploma of the award on behalf of ICAN and delivered the Nobel lecture.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award
A global civil society coalition of 468 peace, human rights, environment, development and faith groups as of 2017, ICAN was recognized for its decade-long consensus-building support for the Humanitarian Pledge and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen described ICAN's work as having "brought the debate forward by focusing so heavily on the humanitarian consequences of using nuclear arms."


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award
The Peace Prize announcement came in the midst of the 2017 North Korea crisis, uncertainty over certification of Iran's compliance with the 2015 accord that limits Iran's nuclear program, the Doomsday Clock assessment in January 2017 of the highest threat of nuclear war since 1953, heightened rhetoric between Indian and Pakistani military officials to target each other and retaliate with the early use nuclear weapons, Russia's strategic doctrine calling for early use of nuclear weapons against any "major NATO assault" on its territory, and opposition by nuclear powers to the nuclear ban treaty and its ratification.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award
In a telephone interview immediately after the announcement, ICAN Executive Director Beatrice Fihn said that, the Cold War being long over, possession and use of weapons of mass destruction "is no longer acceptable" in the 21st century. In a formal statement, ICAN called the 2017 prize a tribute to "the tireless efforts of many millions of campaigners and concerned citizens worldwide who, ever since the dawn of the atomic age, have loudly protested nuclear weapons" and to "the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—the hibakusha—and victims of nuclear test explosions".


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award
Holding a press conference at UN Headquarters, in New York, the ICAN executive director said that disarmament campaign efforts of a "new generation," of "people who grew up after the Cold War and don't understand why we still have the [nuclear] weapons," were in effect also being recognized by the award.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award
Nominations for the prize numbered 318, including 215 individuals and 103 organizations, second highest to the record 376 nominations considered in 2016.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award
Though the Nobel Committee does not release names being considered for 50 years, reportedly they included: Tong Jen and Onodera Toshitaki seeking justice for Chinese victims of wartime atrocities during World War II; organizers Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini of the 2015 Iran Deal negotiations; UNHCR and High Commissioner Filippo Grandi for their work on the rights and dignity of refugees; Turkish journalists Cumhuriyet and Can Dündar; The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for their work securing Gambia's political transition; and the humanitarian White Helmets, also known as the Syrian Civil Defense, and Raed al Saleh.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
Congratulatory messages in the days following the award announcement came from individual disarmament supporters as well as ICAN coalition organizations, other civil society groups, public figures, governments and the United Nations, including: survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings (hibakusha), The ATOM Project, Peace Boat, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, Ploughshares Fund, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Germany, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, UK Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas, Austria, Canada's New Democratic Party Critic for Foreign Affairs Hélène Laverdière, Mexico, and Nigeria. Twenty-three countries included congratulatory remarks in their statements at the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, including Sweden and New Zealand.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
Pugwash President Sergio Duarte wrote that the award designation reflects "growing public recognition" of banning nuclear weapons as part of the international humanitarian norm to abolish weapons of mass destruction, citing examples of the abolition of bacteriological weapons in the 1970s and chemical weapons in the 1990s. He also called on State parties to make further progress at the UN High Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament slated for 2018, noting the role of civil society organizations such as ICAN in supporting such multilateral disarmament processes.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
UN Secretary-General António Guterres relayed in a press statement that the award "recognizes the determined efforts of civil society to highlight the unconscionable humanitarian and environmental consequences that would result if they [nuclear weapons] were ever used again," noting that the first UN General Assembly resolution, in 1946, had "established the goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction." The UN's top disarmament official Izumi Nakamitsu in a statement said that the 2017 Peace Prize "recognizes once again the vital and indispensable role of civil society in advancing our common aspirations peace, security and a world free of nuclear weapons."


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev in a statement said the award designation was "a very good decision" and signified that "a world without nuclear weapons—there cannot be any other goal! ", also recalling a joint statement with then US President Ronald Reagan at the 1986 Reykjavik Summit that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
William McNeilly defended his WikiLeaked report in 2015 that claimed Trident nuclear programme safety and security failures and that sparked nuclear-deterrent debates in the UK the same year.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
New Zealand's Green Party Spokesperson for Social Development, MP Jan Logie, said that "Our Pacific Ocean and its peoples have suffered the terrible effects of nuclear explosions and today we acknowledge the survivors of nuclear weapons use and testing. This Nobel Prize honours them."


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
Aging survivors of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, known as hibakusha, have long campaigned to abolish nuclear weapons, often recounting the horrific suffering they endured and from which many more died. At gatherings to watch the broadcast Peace Prize announcement and in other press interviews, their reactions included:


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
Speaking at Bowling Green University with fellow Hiroshima bombing survivor Keiko Ogura, who founded Hiroshima Interpreters for Peace, Setsuko Thurlow likened ICAN's work to other social movements eventually embraced by nations, saying "it is our moral imperative to abolish nuclear weapons" and that the Peace Prize for ICAN "represents a break from the typical state perspective."


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulatory reactions
Supporters from faith communities issued congratulatory statements, including: the Dalai Lama, Daisaku Ikeda, Father Shay Cullen, the Holy See, Pax Christi International, and the World Council of Churches.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Critical reactions
While the majority of reactions from the international community hailed the Nobel Committee's decision, other reactions were critical about the announcement's implications.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Critical reactions
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO has in common with ICAN the goal of "preserving peace and creating the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons" and welcomes the attention drawn by the award announcement to nuclear non-proliferation issues, but that the nuclear ban treaty supported by ICAN "risks undermining the progress we have made over the years," citing the existence of nuclear arms as the reason to maintain nuclear arsenals and for NATO remaining a nuclear alliance since the Cold War. In a press release Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg praised ICAN for promoting their common goal of a world free of nuclear weapons but reiterated that Norway will not sign the ban treaty, echoing NATO's stance.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Critical reactions
Similarly, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin believes the award decision should be respected and that Russia as a member of the nuclear club both supports nuclear non-proliferation and maintains its position expressed by President Vladimir Putin that "there is no alternative to nuclear parity" in global security measures.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Critical reactions
The government of Australia as of October 9, 2017 did not comment on the award designation but, through its spokesperson, acknowledged "the commitment of ICAN and its supporters to promoting awareness of the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons" and restated the government's position that "so long as the threat of nuclear attack exists, US extended deterrence will serve Australia's fundamental national security interests."


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Critical reactions
The USA reacted by saying in its statement that the award announcement "does not change the U.S. position on the treaty" which in its view "risks undermining existing efforts to address global proliferation and security challenges," and that "no state possessing nuclear weapons or which depends upon such weapons for its security supports" the ban treaty. When asked to clarify whether Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wanted to congratulate ICAN, the  prime minister's office did not respond, though in a June 2017 statement Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland's press secretary said that "Canada remains firmly committed to concrete steps towards global nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation."


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Commentaries
The Economist questioned the appropriateness of ICAN's winning of the prize, arguing it was doubtful their nuclear-ban treaty effort would do anything to advance global peace due to its rejection by the world's nuclear powers.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award funding
On October 20, 2017, Euronews reported that, through research with German broadcaster ZDF into Nobel Prize Foundation index funds investments, German campaign group Facing Finance had determined that the Peace Prize award was funded in part by Foundation investments in companies contributing to nuclear weapons programs, including Textron, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, and urged ICAN not to accept the 9 million SEK award money.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award funding
According to Agence France-Presse, the head of the Nobel Institute Olav Njolstad was confronted on October 26, 2017 with the revelation confirmed by environmental group The Future in Our Hands, and Foundation director Lars Heikensten said the following day that "[a]t the latest, by March next year [2018] we will have no investment in anything that is connected with any kind of production which is classified as connected with nuclear weapons."


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Award ceremony
A day ahead of the December 10th award ceremony at Oslo City Hall, ICAN installed outside the Norwegian Parliament building 1,000 red and blue paper cranes made by children in Hiroshima.


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Past Award recognition of disarmament efforts
After the first wartime use of nuclear weapons, in 1946, the Peace Prize began to recognize nuclear disarmament efforts:


2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Past Award recognition of disarmament efforts
In the award presentation speech on December 10, 2017, Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen recalled that "twelve Peace Prizes have been awarded, in whole or in part," to honor "efforts against the proliferation of nuclear weapons and for nuclear disarmament," and included 2009 Nobelist Barack Obama.


2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."


2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 5 October 2017.


2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, Reactions
The choice of Kazuo Ishiguro as the Nobel Prize Laureate was generally well received. Salman Rushdie said “Many congratulations to my old friend Ish, whose work I’ve loved and admired ever since I first read A Pale View of Hills". Former UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion said "by resting his stories on founding principles which combine a very fastidious kind of reserve with equally vivid indications of emotional intensity. It’s a remarkable and fascinating combination, and wonderful to see it recognised by the Nobel prize-givers.” Kazuo Ishiguro himself said : "It's a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a terrific commendation."


2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, Award ceremony speech
In her award ceremony speech on 10 December 2017  Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said of Ishiguro: "An Ishiguro story is like a mix of Jane Austen and Franz Kafka. This may sound odd. Strictly speaking, it should be impossible. But Ishiguro shows that it works. It works well indeed. Herein lies much of his greatness. On the one hand, there is depiction of the ordinary, the enforced protocols of social life, the irrevocable ironies of human existence.


2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, Award ceremony speech
On the other hand, an awareness of the absurdly comical, like Kafka’s Gregor Samsa waking up after a restless night only to realise that he has been transformed into an insect. ", "His writing comes out of the realistic nineteeth-century tradition, with innovators such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot. This was when the novel opened its window onto the quotidian world. Ishiguro too is an innovator, always taking risks. With every new book he investigates a new genre-mix, with elements of the detective story, science fiction, myth … The window of the novel has always been wide. Ishiguro has widened it even more."


2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel lecture
Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel lecture My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs was delivered at the Swedish Academy on 7 December 2017.


2017 Nokere Koerse
The 2017 Nokere Koerse was the 72nd edition of the Nokere Koerse road cycling one day race. It was held on 15 March 2017 as part of the UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.


2017 Nokere Koerse
The race was won by Nacer Bouhanni of Cofidis, ahead of Adam Blythe and Joeri Stallaert.


2017 Nokere Koerse, Teams
Twenty-three teams of up to eight riders started the race:


2017 Nor.Ca. Women's Handball Championship
The 2017 NorCA Women's Handball Championship was the second edition of the Nor.Ca. Women's Handball Championship. The tournament took place in Río Grande, Puerto Rico from 30 March to 3 April. It acts as the North American and Caribbean qualifying tournament for the 2017 Pan American Women's Handball Championship.


2017 Nordic Figure Skating Championships
The 2017 Nordic Figure Skating Championships were the Nordic Figure Skating Championships of the 2016–2017 season. The competition was open to elite figure skaters from Nordic Countries. Skaters competed in two disciplines, ladies singles and men's singles, across three levels: senior (Olympic-level), junior, and novice.


2017 Nordic Figure Skating Championships
The  were held at the Egilshöll in Reykjavik, Iceland from March 2nd through 5th, 2017.


2017 Nordic Futsal Championship
The 2017 Nordic Futsal Championship, was the seventh edition of the Nordic Futsal Championship hosted by Espoo, Finland.


2017 Nordic Futsal Cup
The 2017 Nordic Futsal Cup was played in Norway from 28 November to 3 December 2017.


2017 Nordic Golf League
The 2017 Nordic Golf League was the 19th season of the Nordic Golf League, one of four third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour.


2017 Nordic Golf League, Schedule
The season consisted of 23 events. With the exception of a four-event Winter Series held in Spain, all official tournaments were held in Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Denmark. Although the ranking is calculated in euros, many prize funds are set in Danish krone or Swedish krona.


2017 Nordic Golf League, Graduates
The top five players on the Nordic Golf League Ranking earn Challenge Tour cards for 2018.


2017 Nordic Junior Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2017 Nordic Junior Artistic Gymnastics Championships was an artistic gymnastics competition held in Oslo, Norway. The event was held between 19–21 May.


2017 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships
The FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2017 took place in Park City, United States from 30 January to 5 February 2017. It was the 40th Junior World Championships and the 12th Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing.


2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger
The 2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 30th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Aptos, United States between 7 and 13 August 2017.


2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:


2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger – Doubles
Nicolaas Scholtz and Tucker Vorster were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger – Doubles
Jonathan Erlich and Neal Skupski won the title after defeating Alex Bolt and Jordan Thompson 6–3, 2–6, [10–8] in the final.


2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger – Singles
Dan Evans was the defending champion, but did not play to defend his title.


2017 Nordic Naturals Challenger – Singles
Alexander Bublik won the title after defeating Liam Broady 6–2, 6–3 in the final.


2017 Nordic Opening
The 2017 Nordic Opening or the sixth Ruka Triple was the 8th edition of the Nordic Opening, an annual cross-country skiing mini-tour event. The three-day event was the first competition round of the 2017–18 FIS Cross-Country World Cup.


2017 Nordic Opening, World Cup points distribution
The winners of the overall standings were awarded 200 World Cup points and the winners of each of the three stages were awarded 50 World Cup points.


2017 Nordic Opening, World Cup points distribution
A total of 350 points was possible to achieve if one athlete won all three stages and the overall standings.


2017 Norfolk County Council election
The 2017 Norfolk County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom.


2017 Norfolk County Council election
The Conservative Party won control of the council from No Overall Control.


2017 Norfolk County Council election
All three major parties made gains at the expense of the UK Independence Party and the Green Party of England and Wales, both of which lost all their seats. The Conservatives benefited the most, making a net gain of 15 seats from UKIP and the Liberal Democrats, while Labour bucked its national trend of poor results and made a net gain of 3 seats. The Liberal Democrats saw their seat number rise from 10 to 11, winning one off UKIP. An independent candidate was also elected.


2017 Norfolk County Council election
This was the first election since 2001 in which no UKIP or Green candidates were elected. The election saw significant changes in the popular vote, with UKIP's vote share declining by 17.5 percentage points and the Green Party winning just 4% of the county-wide vote, its worst result in Norfolk since the 1997 election.


2017 Norfolk County Council election, Previous composition, Changes between elections
In between the 2013 election and the 2017 election, the following council seats changed hands:


2017 Norfolk County Council election, Previous composition, Changes between elections
The leadership of the Council also changed from 2013. In May 2016, a Leadership election saw George Nobbs (Labour) removed as Council Leader and replaced with Cliff Jordan (Conservative). The vote was 41 for Cliff Jordan and 37 for George Nobbs.


2017 Norfolk County Council election, Summary of Results, Election of Party Leaders
Cliff Jordan (Yare and All Saints) was re-elected leader of the Conservative Group. Steve Morphew (Catton Grove) challenged the incumbent group leader George Nobbs (Crome) for the leadership of the Labour Group and won. Marie Strong (Wells) who had been leader of the Liberal Democrat group, stood down and was replaced by Dan Roper (Hevingham and Spixworth) (with newly elected Steffan Aquarone (Melton Constable) as deputy leader of the group).


2017 Norfolk County Council election, Summary of Results, Election of Leader of the Council
Leader of the Conservative group, Cliff Jordan was re-elected Leader of the Council, and was able to form a majority Conservative administration.


2017 Norfolk County Council election, Summary of Results, Election of Leader of the Council
He stood down in May 2018 after being diagnosed with lung cancer, and was replaced in June by Andrew Proctor (Blofield & Brundall), with Graham Plant (Gorleston St Andrews) replacing Alison Thomas (Long Stratton) as Deputy Leader. Less than a month after stepping down as Leader Cliff Jordan passed away on the 9 June.


2017 Norfolk County Council election, Candidates and results by division, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
†Alexandra Kemp was elected as a Labour councillor for Clenchwarton & King's Lynn South in September 2012 and reelected in May 2013, but left the party on 27 February 2014 to sit as an independent councillor.


2017 Norfolk State Spartans football team
The 2017 Norfolk State Spartans football team represented Norfolk State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Latrell Scott and played their home games at William "Dick" Price Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 4–7, 4–4 in MEAC play to finish in sixth place.


2017 North African Tri Nations
The 2017 North African Tri Nations was the second annual North African Tri Nations rugby union tournament held between the national rugby union teams of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The 2017 tournament was held in Oujda between 17 and 23 December. Morocco won their second consecutive title after winning in the final against Algeria with a score of 20-13.


2017 North Alabama Lions football team
The 2017 North Alabama Lions football team represented the University of North Alabama during the 2017 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by first-yer head coach Chris Willis. The Lions played their home games at Braly Municipal Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference. They finished the season 5–5, 5–3 in GSC play to finish in a five-way tie for second place.


2017 North Alabama Lions football team
This was their final season as a member of the GSC and NCAA Division II as they will begin a transition to NCAA Division I and the Football Championship Subdivision where they will be a member of the Big South Conference in 2019 after playing 2018 as an FCS independent.


2017 North Alabama Lions football team, Schedule
North Alabama announced its 2017 football schedule on April 12, 2017. The schedule consists of five home and away games in the regular season. The Lions will host GSC foes Delta State, Florida Tech, Mississippi College, and West Alabama, and will travel to Shorter, Valdosta State, West Florida, and West Georgia.


2017 North Alabama Lions football team, Schedule
The Lions will host one of the two non-conference games against Texas A&M–Commerce from the Lone Star Conference and travel to Central Washington from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.


2017 North American Indigenous Games
The 2017 North American Indigenous Games were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 16 to 23. The event featured 5000 athletes aged 13 to 19 in 14 sports.


2017 North American Indigenous Games, Bidding process
The 2017 North American Indigenous Games bidding process began on January 12, 2015 and Toronto submitted its bid on January 30, 2015. The bid to host the Games in Toronto, led by the Aboriginal Sport & Wellness Council of Ontario and the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation, received unanimous support from the NAIG's International Governing Body. The Games was awarded to Toronto on June 26, 2015 after bids from other cities did not materialize.


2017 North American Indigenous Games, Funding
The total budget for the Games was $11 million. Three levels of government provided funding to the 2017 North American Indigenous Games. Government of Canada provided $3.5 million through Sport Canada and Government of Ontario provided $3.5 million in matching funding. City of Toronto contributed $400,000 funding. Other major sponsors included Hydro One, Rogers Communication and Unifor.


2017 North American Indigenous Games, Broadcasting rights
CBC provided 100 hours of live and on-demand streaming for competitions and opening ceremony. Indigenous groups and academia called the absence of live TV coverage due to lack of funding as "unfortunate".


2017 North American Soccer League season
The 2017 North American Soccer League season was the 50th season of Division II soccer in the United States and Canada, and the 7th season of the modern North American Soccer League. The defending champions are the New York Cosmos who defeated Indy Eleven in Soccer Bowl 2016.


2017 North American Soccer League season
Eight clubs played in the NASL after provisional sanctioning by the United States Soccer Federation. Expansion side, San Francisco Deltas joined the league. After the 2016 season, Minnesota United left the league to join Major League Soccer, and the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Ottawa Fury left the league to join the United Soccer League. The Carolina RailHawks FC rebranded as North Carolina FC. The Fort Lauderdale Strikers and Rayo OKC did not return to NASL for the 2017 season.


2017 North American Soccer League season, Fall season, Results
Home  •  Away  •  Neutral  •  Win  •  Loss  •  Draw


2017 North American Soccer League season, Attendance
* Five home games moved to other venues due to Hurricane Maria. † One result missing. That game was rescheduled at an alternate venue. There was no admission charged and no attendance figure given. Source:  &


2017 North Ayrshire Council election
The 2017 North Ayrshire Council election took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of North Ayrshire Council. The election used the ten wards created as a result of the 2015–16 boundary review, with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 33 Councillors being elected.


2017 North Ayrshire Council election
After the election, the Labour Party took control of the authority as a minority administration with outgoing council Leader Joe Cullinane being reappointed.


2017 North Ayrshire Council election, Election result
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. There were three more seats in this election than the previous and, as a result, this may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team
The 2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team represented North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in the  2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. This season marked the 94th for the program, and the final season for head coach Rod Broadway, who retired at the season's end. The Aggies finished the season undefeated with a record of 12–0, 8–0 in MEAC play, capturing their ninth conference title. The Aggies also earned an invitation to the Celebration Bowl where they defeated Southwestern Athletic Conference champion Grambling, earning their fifth black college football national championship. The Aggies played their home games at Aggie Stadium and were members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team
On January 8, 2018, head coach Rod Broadway announced his retirement. He finished at North Carolina A&T with a seven-year record of 57–22.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Previous season
The Aggies finished the season 9–3, 7–1 in MEAC play, to finish in second place behind chief rival North Carolina Central and received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the first round to Richmond.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Before the season
At the conclusion of the 2016 football season, the Aggies lost key players such as Running Back Tarik Cohen, Wide Receiver Denzel Keyes, Defensive End Angelo Keyes and Kicker Cody Jones.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Before the season, Recruiting
Prior to National Signing Day in February 2017, five players enrolled for the spring semester in order to participate in spring practice. On National Signing Day, A&T signed 12 additional players out of high school that completed the 2017 recruiting class. Of the class, 10 players were from North Carolina, two players from Greensboro and six players offensive linemen.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Gardner–Webb
This game marked the 1st ever meeting between the Aggies and In-State Division I FCS opponent Gardner–Webb. Going into the game, Gardner-Webb had a 10–4 record against MEAC competition. Junior Quarterback Lamar Raynard threw for 321 yards, 3 touchdowns and 19 of 21 completions. this marked the first time in his career that he threw over 300 yards in a single game. Junior Running Back Marquell Cartwright scored the first points of the game with a 3-yard run and finished with 19 carries for 58 yards.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Gardner–Webb
Other standouts include: Wide Receiver making 2 touchdown catches; receiver Jaquil Capel with 5 receptions, 91 yards and 1 touchdown and return specialist Khris Gardin who had 5 returns for 150 yards and set a new career best return of 88 yards. Gardner-Webb, who was selected to finish 3rd in the Big South preseason poll, were held to 114 yards of offense and 80 yards rushing.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Mars Hill
This game was the home opener for NC A&T and marked the 1st ever meeting between the Aggies and In-State Division II opponent Mars Hill. Going into the game, the aggies held a 25–11 record against opponents in their home openers at Aggie Stadium. This game also marked the sixth time since 1980, that A&T faced a division II opponent from outside of the CIAA, another conference made up of predominantly HBCUs. Quarterback Lamar Reynard threw for 262 yards and 5 touchdowns matching a school record set in 1985 by Alan Hooker.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Mars Hill
Other standouts include: Junior Running Back Marquel Cartwright who ran for 121 yards on 8 carries and 1 touchdown; Wide Receiver Elijah Bell had 6 catches and 3 touchdowns; Senior safety Jeremy Taylor earned 10 tackles, forced one fumble, recovered one fumble and a returned interception for 32 yards. Mars Hill was held to only 7 yards rushing, but did gain 285 passing yards. This was the 40th time under coach Broadway that A&T held an opponent to under 100 yards rushing.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Charlotte
This game marked the 1st ever meeting between the Aggies and In-State Division I FBS program Charlotte. Going into the game, Charlotte was 1–1 against MEAC competitors as they split a two-game series with North Carolina Central, A&T's arch rival. The standing room only crowd of 18,651 was a new attendance record for Charlotte's Richardson Stadium. It was expected that attendance for this match up of regional schools would be high as A&T has a large number of alumni in Charlotte and surrounding areas.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Charlotte
Freshman Defensive Back Mac McCain, had 2 interceptions including on in the final minute of the game where he ran 74 yards for a touchdown. Other stand out performances include Quarterback Lamar Raynard who completed 16 or 26 passes for a total 256 yards and 1 touchdown; 244 of those yards were before halftime. Also Junior defensive lineman Justin Cates had 3 sacks and 4 tackles for loss. The Aggies' win over Charlotte was the 2nd straight win the FCS program had over a higher tier Division-I FBS opponent, as they defeated Kent State, the previous season. This win also puts the Aggies at a 3–0 start to the season, a feat that has not been repeated since 2013.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Morgan State
This game marked the 83rd meeting between the Aggies and Morgan state. Morgan State holds the all-time lead in the series at 43–38–3. In their last meeting in 2014, the Aggies shut out the bears with a 45–0 win. Going into the game, the Bears were 0–3 and had been outscored 101–0 against opponents this season. The Aggies, who were ranked in both national FCS polls, were in pursuit of their first 4–0 start since the 1993 season.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Morgan State
The Aggies amassed 514 yards of total offense, with 169 yards passing and 345 rushing. Freshman Defensive Back Mac McCain earned 3 Interceptions, 2 of which for touchdowns, including a 100-yard interception from the bears endzone to put the Aggies up 35–0 at Halftime. In the game's second half, Morgan state scored their first points of both the game and season with an 83-yard pass from Elijah Stanley to Brian Gentry for a touchdown. In addition to McCain's performance, other standouts included: Quarterback Lamar Renard who threw for 169 yards and 3 touchdowns; Running Back Marquell Cartwright who ran for 176 yards and a touchdown and Wide Receiver Elijah Bell who had 4 receptions and 2 touchdowns.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, South Carolina State
This game marked the 54th meeting between the Aggies and Bulldogs. The Bulldogs hold the lead in this rivalry with a record of 31–20–3. In their last meeting, in 2016, the Aggies defeated the Bulldogs 20–30 in Greensboro. Going into the game, the Aggies are on a 2-game winning streak against SC State. They entered an environment at Dawson Stadium in which they have only won 5 out of the last 21 games played there against the Bulldogs.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, South Carolina State
The Aggies ended the game with 425 Yards in total offense. Quarterback Lamar Raynard threw for 18 of 31 completions for 298 passing yards and 2 touchdowns. Raynard's streak of 159 passes without interception was broken by SC State's Graduate free safety Jason Baxter in the games' 3rd quarter. Other Aggie standout performances include: Running Back Marquell Cartwright who ran for 98 yards and a touchdown and Freshman Kicker Noel Ruiz who made 3 of 4 field goals from 36, 41 and 27 yards respectively. SC State were held to 279 yards of total offense, including 82 rushing yards. The bulldogs now have an 0-2 start in conference play for the first time in 16 seasons. The Aggies have now increased their streak against SC State to 3 games; a feat last completed in the 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Delaware State
This game marked the 46th meeting between the North Carolina A&T and Delaware State. Going into the game, A&T held a one-game lead in the all-time series with 23–22–1. In their last meeting, the Aggies defeated the Hornets 45–14 in Dover, Delaware. Quarterback Lamar Raynard completed 20 of 36 passes for 324 yards and 3 touchdowns in their homecoming victory. Other standouts include: Running Back Marquell Cartwright who recorded 96 yards rushing on 19 carries and two touchdowns; and sophomore Wide Receiver Elijah Bell who had nine catches for 178 yards and 1 touchdown. The Aggies held Delaware State to 128 total yards, including minus -38 yards rushing. The A&T defense recorded 8 sacks for 41 yards against the Hornets.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Florida A&M
This game marked the 64th meeting between North Carolina A&T and Florida A&M. Going into the game, Florida A&M held a 44–17–3 all-time record against the Aggies, with the A&T winning the last meeting 42–17 the year before in Greensboro.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Florida A&M
Both teams were able to score on their first drives of the game, with A&T Running Back Marquell Cartwright and FAMUs Devin Bowers getting their respective teams onto the scoreboard. In the second quarter, the Aggies recorded 159 yards of offense, held the Rattlers to 29 yards and kept the ball 12 of the 15 minutes allotted in a quarter and scored 21 unanswered points extending their lead to 28-7 at halftime. FAMU were able to mount some offense, outscoring the Aggies 13-3 in the second half of the game, but were not able to overtake the Aggies.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Florida A&M
Quarterback Lamar Raynard recorded 215 yards in the air, completing 20 of 32 passes. He also threw for 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. Wide receiver Elijah Bell had 6 receptions for 53 yards and 1 touchdown. On the defensive end, Redshirt freshman Defensive end Najee Reams and fifth-year safety Jeremy Taylor led the team. Reams finished with eight tackles and Taylor had five tackles, an interception and a pass break up. The Aggie's win was their seventh straight of the season, making them the third team in school history to start 7-0 since the 1927 and 1943 seasons.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Bethune-Cookman
This game marked the 38th meeting between North Carolina A&T and Bethune-Cookman. Going into the game, Bethune-Cookman held a 22–15 all-time record against the Aggies, with the A&T winning the last meeting 52–35 the year before in Daytona Beach.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Bethune-Cookman
In the first quarter, both teams were able to make scoring plays, with Bethune-Cookman kicker Uriel Hernandez completing a 33 Yd Field Goal for the first points of the game. The Aggies responded with a 62-yard pass from Lamar Raynard to Jaquil Capel for a touchdown. The Aggies went into halftime with a 1-point lead over the Wildcats. In the 3rd quarter, the Wildcats scored, shifting the momentum in Bethune-Cookman's favor as they closed the quarter leading the Aggies 20-14.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Bethune-Cookman
With under five minutes left in the quarter, BCU quarterback Akevious Williams attempts however in an attempt for an interception, the ball bounces off Mckain's hands and into the hands of fifth-year linebacker Jeremy Taylor. Taylor is then stripped by BCU's Anthony Cruz, however, A&T junior linebackers Deion Jones was able to regain possession for the Aggies on the Wildcats 43-yard line. In the fourth quarter, the Aggies went on a 10-play drive resulting in a 30-yard field goal that brought them within 3 points of the Wildcats.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Bethune-Cookman
A&T's defense then forced B-CU to a three-and-out that resulted in a punt out of bounds by the Wildcats on A&T's 48-yard line. With possession of the ball, A&T made a four-play drive resulting in a four-yard pass from Lamar Raynard to fifth-year tight end Trey Scott, putting the Aggies back in the lead 24-20. A&T's defense forced another three-and-out drive for Bethune-Cookman with the Wildcats ending the game on an incomplete pass.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Bethune-Cookman
The Aggies recorded 307 total yards, with quarterback Lamar Raynard accounting for 177 of them on 11 passes. Raynard's performance made him the fifth Aggie quarterback to throw for over 2,000 yards in a single season. The team's win has placed them as only 1 of 2 teams in the program's history to have an 8-0 record, the other being the 1927 team that won the school's first championship.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Norfolk State
This game marked the 40th meeting between North Carolina A&T and Norfolk State. Going into the game, the Aggies held a 29–11 all-time record against the Spartans, with  A&T winning the last meeting 35–0 the year before in Greensboro.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Norfolk State
The game began with the Aggies scoring the first 14 points of the game. The Spartans scored their first points of the game with an 8-yard pass to Isaiah Winstead. The spartan's touchdown was the first in 14 quarters against A&T. Going into Halftime, A&T lead the Spartans 14-7. In the second half, A&T took control with 21 unanswered points. In the 3rd quarter, the Aggies scored on two successful 1-yard TD runs one by quarterback Lamar Raynard and the other by running back Marquell Cartwright. In the fourth quarter, running back Jamari Smith scored the final points of the game with another 1 yard run.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Norfolk State
A&T held Norfolk state to -4 rushing yards on 21 attempts, while the Aggies recorded 203 yards rushing and 497 total. Lamar Raynard threw for 277 yards on 31 attempts and ran for 13 rushing yards and scored 2 Touchdowns. Other stand out players include: Marquell Cartwright who recorded 104 rushing yards on 17 carries and 1 touchdown and receiver Elijah Bell who recorded 114 yards on 7 receptions. The team's win marked the first time in the program's history that a team has gone 9-0.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Savannah State
This game marked the 3rd meeting between North Carolina A&T and Savannah State. Going into the game, the Aggies held a 2–0 all-time record against the Tigers, with A&T winning the last meeting in 2014 34–0 the year before in Savannah.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Savannah State
The Aggies scored the first points of the game with a 1-yard run for a touchdown early in the 1st quarter. Freshman kicker Noel Ruiz recorded 2 field goals in the 2nd quarter giving the Aggies a 13-3 lead at halftime. In the 3rd quarter, Raynard threw a touchdown pass to 5th year tight end Trey Scott and Savannah State responded with their first touchdown of the game with a 2-yard run from quarterback D'vonn Gibbons, bringing the score to 19-10. The Aggies finished the 3rd quarter with 1 yard run by Marquell  Cartwright resulting in a touchdown.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Savannah State
In the 4th quarter, the Aggies added 10 more points to their total between a Noel Ruiz field goal and an 18-yard pass to Elijah Bell for a touchdown. The Tigers scored the final points of the game with 13 yard pass from D'Vonn Gibbons to Jaylen McCloud in the final seconds of the game.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Savannah State
The Aggies recorded 443 total offensive yards, with 252 passing and 191 rushing yards. The defense was able to hold Savannah State to 261 yards of offense, and forced 4 turnovers. Quarterback Lamar Raynard recorded 252 yards passing completing 17 of 27 passes and 2 touchdowns.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Savannah State
Other standout performances include: wide receiver Elijah Bell who led the receivers with five catches for 77 yards including an 18-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter to tie the school's single-season touchdown receptions record at 10; tight end Trey Scott who recorded 3 receptions for 78 yards and a touchdown; Kicker Noel Ruiz who was perfect on three field goal attempts from 25, 30 and 32-yards out and running back Marquell Cartwright, who rushed 127 total yards on 27 carries for two touchdowns to go over 1,000 yards rushing for the season. The win clinched a share of the MEAC championship for A&T, earning the school's 3rd conference title in the past 4 seasons and 9th overall.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina Central
This game marked the 89th game in the rivalry between North Carolina A&T and In-state conference member North Carolina Central. Going into the game, the Aggies held a 49–34 all-time record against the Eagles. The Eagles have won the last 3 meetings between the two teams, which has decided both conference championships and had post season implications for both A&T and NCCU. In 2014, NCCU's victory secured them a share of the MEAC Championship, split among 5 teams, including A&T. In 2015, an Eagle victory helped split the MEAC Championship again with A&T, who went on to win the 2015 Celebration Bowl and in 2016, NCCU secured an outright championship sending them to compete in the 2016 Celebration Bowl, while the Aggies earned an at-large spot in the FCS playoffs.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina Central
Quarterback Lamar Raynard recorded a total 193 yards of Total offense, completing 10-of-18 passes for 153 yards and 40 yards rushing on 7 carries. Other stand out performances include: Running backs Marquell Cartwright and Jamari Smith and wide receiver Elijah Bell. Smith recorded 123 yards of total offense, including a season-high 99 yards rushing on 14 carries and 2 receptions for a combined 23 yards. Cartwright recorded 60 yards rushing on 20 carries for 2 consecutive touchdowns in the 3rd quarter.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, North Carolina Central
Bell, who recorded 82 yards on 4 receptions, broke the school's single-season touchdown receptions record, earning his 11th of the season and surpassing former teammate from the 2016 Season Denzel Keyes and Craig Thompson from the 1991 team. The Aggies win over arch-rival NCCU gave A&T its 11th win of the season and the team's 1st undefeated MEAC season in 18 years. This is the Aggies 9th MEAC conference championship and their first outright title in 14 years.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Grambling State - Celebration Bowl
This game marked the 3rd Celebration Bowl game, and only the 8th meeting between the A&T and Grambling from the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The Aggies were invited to participate in the Celebration Bowl after winning the MEAC Championship with an 8-0 record. Grambling earned their bowl invite after defeating Alcorn State in the SWAC Championship game. Going into the matchup, Grambling holds a 4-3 all-time record over the Aggies. The last meeting between occurred during the 1997 Season in which the Aggies defeated Grambling 37-35.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Grambling State - Celebration Bowl
Quarterback Lamar Raynard recorded a total 242 of total offense, completing 23-of-43 passes for 225 yards and 17 yards rushing on 8 carries. Raynard scored the game-winning touchdown with a 1-yard sneak with 38 seconds left in the game. Other standout performances include: running back Marquell cartwright, receiver Elijah Bell and cornerback Mac McCain. Cartwright and McCain were named offensive and defensive most valuable players. Cartwright recorded 110 yards rushing on 20 attempts and 54 receiving yards on 3 catches. Cartwright's efforts resulted in 2 Touchdowns for the Aggies. McCain recorded 4 tackles and a key second-half interception at the Grambling goal line. Bell led the receivers with 10 receptions, gaining 95 yards for the Aggies.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Game summaries, Grambling State - Celebration Bowl
The win over Grambling gave A&T its 2nd Celebration Bowl win and the program's 5th HBCU National Championship overall. In the 7 seasons under coach Broadway, the Aggies have 59 wins compared to the 15 games total in the 7 seasons prior to Broadway taking over the program.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Statistics
Considered by most the best team statistically in the program's history, the 2017 Aggie football team reached a number of historical benchmarks and set new records for the program. The team broke the program's record for wins and is the first team to finish their regular season undefeated in 74 years. The team's 12-0 record made them the first team in the history of the MEAC conference to finish the season undefeated. Performances from players such as Quarterback Lamar Raynard, offensive lineman Brandon Parker and return specialist Kris Gardin broke a number of records during the season.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Statistics
Raynard's 2017 performance saw him break the program's single-season records in yards passing with 2,707; completions with 186; touchdown passes with 26; touchdowns responsible for with 29 and total offense with 2,875 yards. Nationally, Raynard ranked 3rd in passing efficiency (171.6), 4th in yards per pass attempt (9.50) and 10th in passing yards per completion (14.55) and completion percentage (65.3). Brandon Parker's stingy defense at the left tackle position resulted in 0 sacks by his opponents.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Statistics
In addition to his 2017 performance, Parker never allowed a single sack in his entire career at A&T. Khris Gardin, who set the FCS single-season record in punt return yardage as a sophomore, finished his senior season with 29 returned punts for 371 yards and a touchdown, including an 88-yard punt return for touchdown in the season opener against Gardner-Webb.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season
Following the victory over Grambling for the HBCU national championship, the team returned to Greensboro on the afternoon of December 17, greeted by a host of family, friends, and members of the local media. In recognition of the national championship and undefeated season, the team was sent out on a 5 stop victory tour to celebrate the historic accomplishment. On January, 15th, the team served as grand marshals of the Greensboro Martin Luther King Day parade. The following day, the team was recognized by the Greensboro City Council with a resolution honoring the season's accomplishments.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season
On January 19, the team was invited to meet with the Governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, in a reception at the North Carolina Executive Mansion. At the reception, Governor Cooper signed a proclamation recognizing the team and was presented with a gift from the University by A&T's Chancellor Harold Martin. On January 27, the team was again recognized during halftime of the basketball game against arch rival North Carolina Central. Lastly, on January 30, the university held a pep rally inside Corbett Sports Center, celebrating the team and their accomplishments.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season
On April 19, the team received their championship rings for winning both the MEAC and National Championships. The MEAC championship ring, which is silver in color, has the interlocked A&T lettering as the centerpiece of the ring. The HBCU national championship ring is gold with the Celebration Bowl trophy at its center.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, Rod Broadway's retirement
As the season concluded, many media outlets speculated the Rod Broadway was contemplating retirement. It was reported by media sources that as of the end of the regular season, Broadway had yet to sit down with A&T's Athletic Director Earl Hilton & Chancellor Harold Martin to renew his contract. According to Brant Wilkerson-New of the Greensboro News & Record, when asked about the retirement rumors, Broadway responded by saying “We’re going to sit down and discuss the direction of the program and go from there...


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, Rod Broadway's retirement
It’s in a pretty good place; We’ve taken some giants steps forward and still have a lot of room for improvement. That’s the goal, and we’re going to sit down and talk about all those things in January.” On January 8, Broadway held a press conference confirming that he is retiring from coaching. Athletic Director Earl Hilton also announced that assistant coach Washington has been named as Broadways's successor. According to sources within the A&T athletic department, Broadway will serve out the remainder of his contract as a special assistant to the Athletic Director.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, Awards
In the weeks following the finale of the 2017 MEAC regular season, many organizations began to announce finalists and winners of various post-season awards and honors. Coach Rod Broadway, in addition to several players for the Aggies, were honored with postseason awards and accolades including Redshirt Junior quarterback Lamar Raynard and Senior Offensive Lineman Brandon Parker.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, Awards
Coach Broadway was named MEAC Coach of the year for the first time his 7 seasons as head coach of the Aggie program. In addition to Broadway, Quarterback Lamar Raynard was named MEAC Offensive player of the year. Raynard was presented with the award at the 60th annual National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame press conference in New York City. He is the first Aggie Quarterback to win the award since Connell Maynor, who won in 1991.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, Awards
Offensive lineman Brandon Parker earned the MEAC Offensive Lineman of the Year award, becoming the first player to win the award in 3 consecutive seasons. His performance also earned him 1st team FCS All-America honors and an invitation to the Senior Bowl where he was one of 3 players from a HBCU in attendance. In addition to Parker Freshman Defensive Back Mac McCain and Return Specialist Khris Gardin also earned FCS All-America honors, gaining third team recognition. Gardin ranks second in all of FCS with 1,594 punt return yards, behind Marquay McDaniel of Hampton University.


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, Awards
The following A&T players were also named to the All–MEAC First, Second, and Third Teams:


2017 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team, Post season, 2018 NFL Draft
The 2018 NFL Draft was held on April 26–28, 2018 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The following A&T players were either selected or signed as undrafted free agents following the draft.


2017 North Carolina Central Eagles football team
The 2017 North Carolina Central Eagles football team represented North Carolina Central University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Jerry Mack. The Eagles played their home games at O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). They finished the season 7–4, 5–3 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for fourth place.


2017 North Carolina Central Eagles football team
On December 8, head coach Jerry Mack resigned to become the offensive coordinator at Rice. He finished at North Carolina Central with a four-year record of 31–15.


2017 North Carolina Courage season
The 2017 North Carolina Courage season is the team's first season as a professional women's soccer team. North Carolina Courage plays in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States. The Courage finished the regular season atop the table, winning the NWSL Shield and earning a spot in the NWSL Playoffs. After defeating Chicago 1–0 in the semi-finals of the playoffs, it lost 0–1 to Portland in the final.


2017 North Carolina Courage season, Review
The team played its previous season as the Western New York Flash, which won the 2016 NWSL Championship. The owners of North Carolina FC purchased the Flash and moved them to Cary, North Carolina, in January 2017 to create the Courage franchise, and retained most of the Flash's roster and coaching staff.


2017 North Carolina Courage season, Team, First-team roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 North Carolina FC season
The 2017 North Carolina FC season was the club's 11th season of existence, and their first season rebranded as North Carolina FC. The club was previously known as the Carolina RailHawks. North Carolina FC finished the 2017 NASL Season in 3rd place in the combined standings earning a spot in the 2017 Soccer Bowl, where they lost 1–0 to the San Francisco Deltas. After the conclusion of the season on November 16, 2017, North Carolina FC announced it would be leaving the NASL effective immediately, and would be joining the USL for the 2018 season.


2017 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Winter
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2017 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Winter
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2017 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Winter
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2017 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Summer
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2017 North Carolina FC season, Transfers, Summer
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2017 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 2017 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by sixth-year head coach Larry Fedora and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The Tar Heels finished the season 3–9 overall and 1–7 in ACC play to place last out of seven teams in the Coastal Division.


2017 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team
The 2017 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2017 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 71st season of the university fielding a program. The Tar Heels  played their home games at WakeMed Soccer Park in nearby Cary, North Carolina while Fetzer Field is undergoing renovations.


2017 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team, Roster
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2017 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team, MLS Draft
The following members of the 2017 North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer team were selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft.


2017 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team
The 2017 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team represented the University of North Dakota during the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Bubba Schweigert and played their home games at the Alerus Center. The Fighting Hawks were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 3–8, 2–6 in Big Sky play to finish in a three-way tie for 9th place.


2017 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team
This was North Dakota's final year as a full member of the Big Sky. While most of the school's athletic programs will move to the Summit League in 2018, the football program will be classified as an FCS independent in 2018 and 2019 before joining the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020. Their games against Big Sky members will still count in the Big Sky standings but they will be ineligible for the Big Sky championship.


2017 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team, Previous season
In 2016, North Dakota finished with a record of 9–3, 8–0 in Big Sky play, to share the conference title with Eastern Washington. They qualified for the FCS Playoffs for the first time and lost to Richmond in the second round.


2017 North Dakota State Bison football team
The 2017 North Dakota State Bison football team represented North Dakota State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Chris Klieman. The team played their 25th season in the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota as members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The Bison finished the season 14–1, 7–1 in MVFC play to win the MVFC championship for the seventh consecutive year. As a result, the Bison received the conference's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs as the No. 2 seed.


2017 North Dakota State Bison football team
In the playoffs, they defeated San Diego, Wofford, and Sam Houston State to advance to the National Championship game. There they defeated James Madison 17–13 to win the school's sixth National Championship in seven years. The September 30 game against Missouri State was the 700th victory since the team's founding in 1894.


2017 North Dakota State Bison football team, Previous season
The Bison finished the 2016 season 12–2, 7–1 in MVFC play to win a share of the MVFC championship for the sixth consecutive year. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated San Diego and South Dakota State before losing to James Madison in the semifinals, ending their five-year championship run.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was a below average yet deadly season in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. This season produced only three named storms, of which one only intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm. The North Indian Ocean cyclone season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December with the two peaks in May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. The season began with the formation Cyclone Maarutha on April 15 and ended with the dissipation of a deep depression on December 9.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The scope of this article is limited to the Indian Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere, east of the Horn of Africa and west of the Malay Peninsula. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean – the Arabian Sea to the west of the Indian subcontinent, abbreviated ARB by the India Meteorological Department (IMD); and the Bay of Bengal to the east, abbreviated BOB by the IMD. The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the IMD, while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) releases unofficial advisories. On average, three to four cyclonic storms form in this basin every season.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
The season officially had an early start compared with the last two seasons, with the formation of Cyclone Maarutha over the Bay of Bengal in mid-April. Cyclone Mora, formed in late May over the Bay of Bengal. At its peak intensity, it was equivalent to a marginal Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. The cyclone produced severe flooding across Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh and caused 15 deaths directly and 208 deaths indirectly. The floods persisted in Bangladesh since a Deep Depression over Bay of Bengal made landfall and killed 156 people in Bangladesh.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
A depression formed in northwestern Bay of Bengal and produced torrential rainfall. It was followed by a depression over Jharkhand which killed 70 people in West Bengal. Under the influence of strong monsoon surge a disturbance developed over Bay of Bengal travelled westwards and intensified to an unnamed depression. It also affected neighboring Karachi in Pakistan. A strong monsoon surge prevented formation of systems until a deep depression formed over West Bengal in October and caused heavy rainfall. A couple of depressions formed between mid-October and November which continued the rain spell causing destruction of life and property.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season summary
Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Ockhi formed in early December and wreaked havoc in the countries where it impacted. It was equivalent to a strong Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale at peak intensity. The twin storm of Ockhi was a deep depression which originated in Bay of Bengal while its counterpart was in Arabian Sea.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Maarutha
On April 13, an area of low pressure formed in the South Bay of Bengal, under the influence of a persistent area of convection, in a span of six hours. Under favorable conditions, rapid deepening took place, and the system was classified as a depression on April 15. Later on the same day, it further intensified into a Deep Depression, and then into Cyclonic Storm Maarutha. The system moved very fast under the influence of mid-latitude trough inwesterlies lying over India in the middle and upper tropospheric levels.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Maarutha
However, strong vertical wind shear and unfavourable MJO inhibited rapid intensification or further intensification of the system. Moving northeastwards, it reached its peak intensity in the early hours of 16th. The system maintained its peak intensity till landfall near Sandoway (Thandwe) in Myanmar in the midnight. After landfall, the system weakened into a Deep Depression in early hours of 17th, into a Depression in the morning and well marked low-pressure area over central Myanmar and neighbourhood in the forenoon of 17th.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Maarutha
Maarutha had already triggered heavy rainfall as a depression in Sri Lanka, as well as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India). Due to a heavy swell in the sea around the Andaman Islands, all ferries to Havelock Island from Port Blair were suspended on leaving nearly 1,500 tourists stranded. In Kyaukpyu, Maarutha destroyed more than 81 households and total damages amounted to Ks31.8 million (US$23,400) as of April 18. Four people were reported to be killed in the Irrawady division of Myanmar. Maarutha developed as a depression in the first fortnight of April. Climatologically, the formation of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal at this time of the year is rare. Only twelve Cyclonic Storms have developed over the Bay of Bengal this early in the year between 1891 and 2016.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Mora
Under the influence of a persistent area of convection, a low-pressure area formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal on May 26. It rapidly strengthened on May 28, with the IMD classifying it as a Depression and subsequently upgrading it to a Deep Depression on the same day, designating it as BOB 02. In the early hours of May 29, the IMD reported the storm to have reached Cyclonic storm intensity, naming it Mora. The storm followed a north-northeasterly track parallel to Myanmar coast.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Mora
The system moved fast under the influence of mid-latitude trough in westerlies lying over India in the middle and upper tropospheric levels and the anti-cyclonic cyclonic circulation lying to the northeast of the system. Shortly before landfall, the storm reached its peak intensity as a severe cyclonic storm with winds of 110 km/h and a minimum central pressure off 978 hPa (28.9 inHg).


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Mora
The JTWC analyzed it having reached Category 1 hurricane strength on the same day, with winds of 120 km/h. At peak intensity, the storm made landfall on the southern coast of Bangladesh near Chittagong at 6:00 a.m. IST. After landfall, the storm steadily weakened due to land interaction, before weakening into a well-marked low-pressure area over Nagaland on May 31.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Mora
A total of 31 people have been killed—9 in Bangladesh and 1 in Myanmar and 19 in ManipurDamage throughout all the affected countries totalled almost US$1.37 billion. Two people were reported killed in Malda district of West Bengal.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Mora
Additionally, although not directly related to the storm, the precursor low of Mora strengthened the arrival of the monsoon, which caused heavy flooding in Sri Lanka and the Andaman Islands that killed 208 people.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03
A low-pressure area formed over west central & adjoining north Bay of Bengal off north Andhra Pradesh south Odisha coast in the morning of June 10. It concentrated into a well marked low-pressure area over northern parts of central Bay of Bengal & adjoining north Bay of Bay on 11th morning and into a depression over north Bay of Bengal in the evening of 11th.). An anti-cyclonic circulation lay to the southeast of the system centre leading to poleward outflow favouring genesis of the system.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03
Moving nearly north-northeastwards, it intensified into a deep depression over north Bay of Bengal in the night of 11th (1800 UTC)and peaked with estimated 3-minute sustained windspeeds of 55 km/h (35 mph). Moving north-northeastwards, it crossed Bangladesh coast near Khepupara between 2300 UTC of 11th and 0000 UTC of June 12. As the system moved over land, it weakened gradually into a depression over east Bangladesh & neighbourhood due to land surface interaction and thereafter into a well marked low-pressure area.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03
At least 156 people have been confirmed dead following landslides caused in the Rangamati, Bandarban and Chittagong districts of Bangladesh along with 14 others in Northeast India caused by torrential rainfall. Cherrapunji received 320 mm rain in association with the system. The system helped in the advancement of monsoon over the regions of West Bengal and Odisha. Damages included loss of Tk 18 billion (US$223 million).


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 04
A low-pressure area consolidated into a depression over the northwestern and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal, off the Odisha coast on July 17. The IMD began issuing advisories on the depression, which was very likely to cross the coast by night. The depression moved in a generally northwestwards direction without intensifying, and made landfall on India's Odisha coast, south of Puri, at about 15:00 UTC (20:30 IST) on July 18.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 04
Heavy rainfall peaking at Dondilohara in Chhattisgarh receiving  270 mm (11 in) and Dabubagan in Odisha receiving  200 mm (7.9 in) in 24 hours, along with sustained winds of 45 km/h (30 mph) affected the region, causing at least a dozen villages to be submerged in floodwater and five bridges to be washed away. As many as 6,000 people were evacuated in Nabarangpur, and an estimated 65,000 people were directly affected by the dangerous weather. By July 31, at least seven people had been killed as a result of the storm. Total losses were estimated at Rs 2187.2 million (US$34 million).


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Land Depression 01
A well-marked low-pressure area over Jharkhand and adjoining the Gangetic West Bengal intensified into a depression on July 26. It moved in a west-northwest direction until degenerated to a well marked low-pressure area over east Madhya Pradesh during the next day.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Land Depression 01
As a precursor low, the storm caused dangerous floods in West Bengal. At least 152 people died, while nearly 2 million people were affected in over 160 villages, which were inundated due to heavy rains. 2,301 people were evacuated from their houses and 202,957 hectares (501,520 acres) of agricultural land were submerged. Around 7,868 houses were entirely destroyed, while 44,361 were partially damaged in West Bengal. The state lost around Rs 14000 crores (US$2.18 billion) due to the storm. Eleven people were reported to be killed in Jharkhand, due to the heavy rains. The system caused flooding rains from West Bengal to East Rajasthan. In Jharkhand, Latehar recorded 270 mm (11 in) of rain, and Pratapgarh in Rajasthan recorded 240 mm (9.5 in) of rain, along with sustained winds of 45 km/h. In West Bengal, Halisahar recorded 189 mm.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Land Depression 02
Under active monsoonal conditions, a low-pressure area formed over the north Bay of Bengal, near south Bangladesh on October 8. On the following day, the system intensified further into a well-marked low-pressure area over the same region, and later, into a depression over the northern Bay of Bengal, near the West Bengal coast. The Madden–Julian oscillation lay over phase 4 with amplitude 1 and these conditions helped in maintaining the intensity of the system and associated convection and thus the storm intensified further into a deep depression later on the same day. An anticyclonic circulation lay over central India in the middle & upper tropospheric levels thus making the system move in a north-northwesterly direction. The storm encountered with strong wind shear, which caused it to weaken rapidly into a low-pressure area over west Jharkhand, on October 10.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Land Depression 02
The system produced heavy rainfall in East India, and also caused 3 deaths in Odisha by lightning and heavy rainfall. The system caused 200 mm of rainfall in Durgapur. Halisahar recorded 105 mm with strong gusty wind of 65 km/h. Kolkata was badly affected by the dangerous weather receiving rain up to 124.4 mm (4.9 in). Strong winds along with incessant rains slowed down traffic, uprooted trees and collapsed buildings. Departure of flights from Kolkata Airport were canceled, due to strong gusty wind of about 70 kmph, at least 23 domestic flights were diverted due to the bad weather.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Land Depression 02
Couple of accidental death also happened due to the rain. An elderly person was electrocuted when he accidentally touched a lamppost. A youth died after an uprooted tree fell on him. Bangladesh was also affected by severe weather conditions. Torrential rain fell, peaking at Jessore receiving  109 mm (4.3 in) in 24 hrs. Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra had been advised in Bangladesh to hoist local cautionary signal number three.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 05
On October 18, the JTWC noted an area of thunderstorm activity located in the eastern Bay of Bengal as having a partially exposed low level center while located in a marginally favorable environment for further development. Later that day, the IMD upgraded the system to Depression BOB 05 as the system developed formative banding surrounding a center of deep thunderstorm activity. Despite being initially forecasted to intensify further, the depression tracked into an environment with strong wind shear and failed to intensify, making landfall on the Odisha coast near Paradip during the afternoon of October 20.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 05
After landfall, the system remained near the coastline, allowing moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal to prevent rapid weakening. Initially tracking northwards, the system soon recurved towards the northeast before weakening into an area of low pressure early on October 22, while located over northeastern Bangladesh, Meghalaya, and southern Assam.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 05
On October 20, the Odisha state government declared the heavy rains caused by the storm as a "State-Specific Disaster". Up to 25 blocks of eight districts in the state had received rainfall exceeding 135 mm (5 in), with the Kanas block of the Puri district recording rainfall of 274 mm (10 in). Heavy damage to homes were reported in Balasore and Bhadrak districts, with an infant reported to have died in the former district following the collapse of a wall.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 05
West Bengal was similarly affected by torrential rain, with Kolkata reporting 110 mm (5 in) of rain and the Bankura district reporting 279 mm (10 in). In North 24 pargana district, Halisahar recorded 116 mm and strong winds of about 55 km/h. In the East Midnapore district, a key bridge linking the seaside tourist destinations of Shankarpur and Tajpur collapsed due to strong waves and a storm surge of 1.5 m (5 ft) from the Bay of Bengal as the storm passed through the area. Large portions of the Jamura-Shyampur village near the bridge were similarly reported to have been inundated by the storm surge. In addition, the town of Cherapunji in Meghalaya reported rainfall of 283 mm (10 in) – among the highest reported in association with the depression.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 05
In Bangladesh, the ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra raised Signal No. 3 as a result of the strong crosswinds and heavy rainfall. Heavy rainfall was witnessed in the country, with the highest total reported at Gopalganj of 279 mm (10 in) of rain.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 06
On November 9, an area of low pressure formed in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of Sri Lanka. The storm moved northwards, but failed to organize further, due to strong wind shear. Conditions later improved while the system moved north-northeastwards, and intensified into a depression on November 15. The IMD subsequently gave the system the identifier BOB 06. On November 17, BOB 06 weakened off the coast of north Odisha into a well-marked low-pressure area as it encountered strong wind shear, with the IMD issuing their final advisory on the system.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 06
Depression BOB 06 caused heavy rainfall, damaging standing paddy crops in Sompeta, Vajrapukotturu, Ichchapuram, Mandasa and some other areas in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. The system caused heavy rain in Odisha as it tracked along the coastline. Kolkata recorded 53.7 mm rainfall, Digha recorded 60 mm rain while Halisahar recorded 58 mm rain and Diamond Harbour in coastal South 24 Parganas district recorded 50 mm rain as the system moved closer. The rains from the storm caused an epidemic, which caused the death of hundreds of cattle at Gumabirsinghur village in the Ganjam District, in Odisha. As a precursor low, the storm caused heavy rain in Tamil Nadu including Chennai, and caused 20 confirmed fatalities.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Ockhi
On November 20, the remnant energy of Tropical Storm Kirogi led to the formation of a new low-pressure area over the Gulf of Thailand. During the next several days, the system moved into Bay of Bengal and slowly drifted westward, but the storm was unable to organize significantly, due to unfavorable conditions. On November 29, the storm organized into a depression just off the southeast coast of Sri Lanka, and the IMD gave the storm the identifier BOB 07.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Ockhi
Due to the storm's rapidly consolidating low level circulation center the JTWC issued a TCFA on the system, shortly before classifying it as Tropical Cyclone 03B. The IMD followed suite and upgraded the storm to a Deep Depression, and soon afterwards to Cyclonic Storm Ockhi. The storm tracked towards the west-northwest around the southern periphery of a subtropical ridge located over India. The storm tracked westwards, and intensified further into a Severe Cyclone Storm, early on December 1. Soon afterwards, Ockhi intensified further into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Ockhi
On December 2, a 23 mi (37 km) eye formed, prompting the JTWC to upgrade it to a Category 3-equivalent cyclone. But the storm had a sudden turn to the north and the northeast and interacted with a Western Disturbance and a rapid deepening trough along with strong wind shear which deteriorated the overall structure of the storm. It moved further north-northeastwards towards Gujarat coast and encountered cooler sea surface temperatures and dry air intrusion from the Arabian Peninsula and was last noted as a well-marked low-pressure area off the coast of Gujarat.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Ockhi
As a precursor low, the system produced heavy rainfall in Sri Lanka, killing at least 13 people and displacing another 200,000. As a Deep Depression, the system lashed the coast of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, damaging infrastructure, and taking the lives of 72 more people in Kerala and 14 in Tamil Nadu.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 08
A low-pressure area formed in the Malay Peninsula in early December. The system slowly drifted westwards in the Bay of Bengal, but failed to organize rapidly due to strong wind shear. Warm sea surface temperatures and a pole-ward channel helped the system to consolidate, and on December 6, the IMD initiated advisories on Depression BOB 08, while the JTWC to issued a TCFA on the system, as it intensified to a deep depression. The following day, the system depicted flaring convection to the north of the low level circulation center.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 08
At that time the storm was located in moderate vertical wind shear along with moderate poleward outflow. The system steered under the influence of a subtropical ridge. The system produced 40 knots winds in the western quadrant and the JTWC upgraded to a tropical storm. But the storm encountered high wind shear and started to rapidly decay, leading to an exposed low level circulation center with limited convection and shallow banding wrapping into a broad circulation. However an overall weak structure of the storm was noted and it rapidly weakened into a well-marked low-pressure area off the coast of West Bengal and Bangladesh on the evening of December 9.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 08
Due to heavy rains under the influence of the storm paddy harvests died down in some parts of Rupsa block in Balasore and some pockets in Mayurbhanj district in Odisha. Paddy in acres of land was damaged in the rain at Badaopalasa, Bagedihi, Badepataka, Kendua, Olidihai, Burupalsa, Tupaghutu, Segeghutu, Jharadihui, Badakedam, Pokharia, Kuladiha, Rangamatia, Suruda, Anlajodi, Bahalda, Kanki, Basing and Gidighati.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 08
In Bangladesh, the maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra had been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal no three. All the fishing boats and trawlers over the North Bay had been advised to remain in shelter owing to roughconditions in the sea. At some places of Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong, moderate to heavy rainfall were witnessed from the remnants of the system.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 08
As a precursor low, the system caused massive floods and landslides in Indonesia and Thailand. As of 10 December 20 people were reported killed and 5 remained missing.


2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season effects
This is a table of all storms in the 2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. It mentions all of the season's storms and their names, duration, peak intensities (according to the IMD storm scale), damage, and death totals. Damage and death totals include the damage and deaths caused when that storm was a precursor wave or extratropical low, and all of the damage figures are in 2017 USD.