2017 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Awards and honors
*The NCAA and Ohio State only recognize the AP, AFCA, FWAA, Sporting News and WCFF All-American teams to determine if a player is a Consensus or Unanimous All-American. To be named a Consensus All-American, a player must be named first team in three polls and to be Unanimous, they must be named first team in all five.


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2017 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 24 through 28. The top six regular season finishers will meet in the double-elimination tournament, to be held at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama. The tournament champion will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Among current members, Austin Peay has won the most championships, with six, while Belmont (joined in 2012), SIU Edwardsville (joined in 2008),and Tennessee–Martin (joined in 1992) have never won championships. The Tournament began in 1979.


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top six regular season finishers will be seeded by conference winning percentage. Teams will then play a double-elimination tournament, with the top two seeds receiving a single bye.


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the conference tournament for the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held March 1–4, 2017 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Jacksonville State defeated UT Martin, 66–55, in championship game to win the tournament and earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the Tournament. The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds went to the division champions. The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds also received double byes to the semifinals under the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received a single bye to the quarterfinals.


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


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Softball Tournament
The 2017 OVC Softball Championship was held May 10–14 at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama. This marked the 24th time the championship had been held and the fifth year it featured eight teams. This year was the second straight year it was held at the neutral site in Oxford instead of on the home field of the No. 1 seed. The tournament winner, Jacksonville State, earned the OVC's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. All games were streamed courtesy of the OVC Digital Network.


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Softball Tournament
In 2016, Jacksonville State had won its fifth OVC Championship and first since 2013 by topping SIUE in the Championship Game.


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held from March 1–4 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Format
The OVC women's tournament is a traditional single-elimination eight-team tournament, seeded with the #8 seed facing the #1 seed in the first round, #7 facing #2, and so on. There is no reseeding, so if the #8 team were to defeat the #1 seed it would continue in the tournament playing the team which would have faced the #1 seed in the subsequent round (winner of #4 vs. #5).


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2017 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Ohio Valley Conference held from October 27 through November 5, 2017. The first round and quarterfinals of the tournament were held at campus sites hosted by the #3 and #4 seeds, while the semifinals and final took place at Cutchin Field in Murray, Kentucky. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play.


2017 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
The SIU Edwardsville Cougars were the defending champions, but they were eliminated from the 2017 tournament with a 2–1 quarterfinal loss to the Eastern Kentucky Colonels. The Murray State Racers won the tournament with a 1–0 overtime win over Eastern Kentucky in the final. The conference tournament title was the third for the Murray State women's soccer program and the second for head coach Jeremy Groves.


2017 Okayama GT 300km
The 2017 Okayama GT 300km was the first round of the 2017 Super GT Series. It was held at the Okayama International Circuit in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Ryō Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy won the GT500 category whilst Nobuteru Taniguchi and Tatsuya Kataoka won the GT300 category.


2017 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Qualifying
The #8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri entry of Tomoki Nojiri and Takashi Kobayashi claimed pole position with the time of 1:20.604. The session itself was filled with attrition, with two red flags as well as varying weather conditions ultimately determining the final part of qualifying. Daisuke Nakajima's best time was erased due to causing a red flag, thereby dropping the #16 Team Mugen entry down to seventh. The other red flag was caused by Kazuki Nakajima, whose best time was also erased; dropping him to eighth.


2017 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Qualifying
In the GT300 category, the front-row was locked out by a pair of Mercedes-AMG GT3's, with the #65 K2 R&D LEON Racing entry of Naoya Gamou and Haruki Kurosawa claiming pole position and the #4 Goodsmile Racing & TeamUKYO taking out second.


2017 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Race
In what was a dominant display by the Lexus brand, the opening round of the Super GT season was won by the Lexus Team KeePer Tom's duo of Ryō Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy. The start was delayed due to several vehicles stopping on the formation lap. One of these included the pole sitting car of Tomoki Nojiri and Takashi Kobayashi. The race was eventually started under safety car conditions. Wasting no time, Cassidy made a bold move down the inside of Kazuya Oshima, locking up both wheels in the process. Shortly thereafter, the #52 Saitama Toyopet Green Brave GT300 entry crashed, bringing out the safety car. After a round of pitstops, the #6 Lexus Team LeMans Wako's entry was catapulted into the lead. A long battle between Andrea Caldarelli and Ryō Hirakawa ensued, which ultimately saw the #37 Lexus Team KeePer Tom's entry emerge victorious.


2017 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Race
In the GT300 category, Nobuteru Taniguchi and Tatsuya Kataoka took victory ahead of Haruki Kurosawa and Naoya Gamou, with both Mercedes maintaining the top two spots, albeit in reversed order.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 123rd season of Sooner football. The team was led by Lincoln Riley, who was in his first year as head coach, after the retirement of Bob Stoops in June 2017. They played their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They are a charter member of the Big 12 Conference.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Conference play began with a 49–41 win against Baylor in Waco, Texas and ended with a 59–31 win against West Virginia in Norman, Oklahoma. Oklahoma finished conference play with the best record in the conference with an 8–1 record. They went on to play TCU in the 2017 Big 12 Championship Game which they won 41–17 to win their twelfth Big 12 Championship and their third consecutive.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Oklahoma was selected as the 2nd seed to play in the 2017 College Football Playoff and lost to the 3rd seed Georgia in the Rose Bowl.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield earned several national honors, including winning the school's sixth Heisman Trophy, distinguishing him as the best player in college football during the 2017 season. Mayfield threw for 4,627 yards and 43 passing touchdowns on the year, second in FBS in both categories. He broke his own NCAA FBS record for passing efficiency rating with a rating of 198.9.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Previous season
The Sooners finished the 2016 season 11–2, 9–0 in Big 12 play to win their 10th Big 12 Championship. By winning the conference championship Oklahoma was selected to play in the Sugar Bowl where they defeated Auburn 35–19.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Coaching staff
On June 7, 2017 Bob Stoops announced his retirement after 17 seasons as head coach. Offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley was promoted to head coach. On June 14, Riley hired former ECU head coach Ruffin McNeill to coach defensive tackles. With the offensive coordinator positions vacant Riley promoted Cale Gundy and Bill Bedenbaugh as co-coordinators, but Riley will continue to call plays for the season.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Schedule
Oklahoma announced their 2017 football schedule on December 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home games, 5 away games and 1 neutral-site game in the regular season. The Sooners hosted two non-conference games against UTEP and Tulane and traveled to Ohio State. Oklahoma hosted Iowa State, Texas Tech, TCU, West Virginia and traveled to Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State in regular conference play. Oklahoma played the Texas Longhorns in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl stadium on October 14 for the Red River Showdown, the 112th game of the series.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, UTEP
To start the 2017 season, No. 7 Oklahoma hosted UTEP at home. It was Lincoln Riley's first game as head coach of the Sooners. Quarterback Baker Mayfield shined in a 56–7 rout of the Miners. Each team scored touchdowns on their first drives of the game, but Oklahoma shut out UTEP the rest of the way. Mayfield completed 19 of 20 passes, including 16 straight completions to start the game. He threw for 329 yards and three touchdowns in the game. Wide receiver Mark Andrews had a career high 134 receiving yards and seven receptions, all in the first half.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, at Ohio State
For the second game of the season, the No. 5 Sooners traveled to Columbus, Ohio for a highly anticipated matchup against No. 2 Ohio State, a game which many pundits speculated would have College Football Playoff implications. The previous season, Ohio State beat Oklahoma in Norman by a score of 45–24. Oklahoma was a 7.5-point underdog in the 2017 match-up according to Las Vegas sports books.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, at Ohio State
Both teams were held scoreless through the first quarter, and exchanged field goals for a 3–3 tie going into halftime. Each team scored touchdowns on their first drives of the second half, with Ohio State's J. K. Dobbins capping a 44-yard drive with a six-yard touchdown run, and Oklahoma answered with a 67-yard drive of their own which ended with a 36-yard touchdown pass from Baker Mayfield to Dimitri Flowers. Oklahoma scored two more unanswered touchdowns in the second half to take a 31–13 lead before a late Ohio State field goal made the final score 31–16. Baker Mayfield finished the game with 27 pass completions on 35 attempts, with 386 yards and three touchdowns. After the game, Mayfield sprinted around the Ohio State field with an Oklahoma flag before planting the flag at midfield.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Tulane
Following the victory over Ohio State, No. 2 Oklahoma hosted Tulane in the first ever match-up between the two schools. The two teams were tied in the second quarter 14–14 before Oklahoma's Parnell Motley returned an interception 77 yards for a touchdown, after which the Sooners' coasted to a 56–14 victory. Quarterback Baker Mayfield passed for 331 yards and four touchdowns, while wide receiver CeeDee Lamb had 131 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the game.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, at Baylor
Oklahoma opened its Big 12 Conference schedule with a road game against Baylor. The Sooners were nearly upset by the Bears, who were winless with a record of 0–3 going into the game. The Bears scored a touchdown with 1:41 remaining in the game to bring the score to 49–41. Baylor recovered the onside kick and needed to score a touchdown to tie the game in the closing minutes.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, at Baylor
Bears quarterback Zach Smith fumbled the ball on the third play of the drive after being sacked by Oklahoma's Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, which was recovered by the Sooners, allowing them to run out the clock and win the game. Oklahoma's Abdul Adams had a 99-yard rushing touchdown in the first quarter, and had 164 rushing yards total in the game. Baker Mayfield threw for 283 yards and three touchdowns.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
After a bye week, Oklahoma played their second Big 12 Conference game, a home game against Iowa State. The Sooners were upset by the 31-point underdog Cyclones, 31–38. The game snapped Oklahoma's nation-leading 14 game win-streak, and 18-game win streak over Iowa State dating back to 1990. Iowa State backup quarterback Kyle Kempt, who had just two career pass attempts before this game, led the Cyclones to victory with 343 passing yards and three touchdowns.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Oklahoma took an early 17–3 lead early in the second quarter before taking a 24–13 lead into halftime. In the second half, Iowa State opened with two scoring drives while Oklahoma lost a fumble and missed a 44-yard field goal, bringing the score to 31–24 Iowa State with 12:46 remaining in the fourth quarter. Baker Mayfield led a 75-yard drive capped by a one-yard touchdown run by Dimitri Flowers to tie the game 31–31. Iowa State then had their own 75-yard drive, ending in what would be the decisive 25-yard touchdown pass from Kyle Kempt to Allen Lazard with 2:19 remaining. Oklahoma failed to convert on fourth down with 1:27 remaining, and Iowa State ran out the clock to complete the victory.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas
Following the loss to Iowa State, No. 12 Oklahoma traveled to Dallas, Texas to face Texas in the annual Red River Rivalry game. Oklahoma won the game 29–24. The Sooners jumped out to an early 20–0 lead by the mid-second quarter, but Texas scored on a 16-yard pass from Sam Ehlinger to Kyle Porter and then, off a Baker Mayfield interception, kicked a 34-yard field goal as time expired in the second quarter to bring the score to 20–10 entering the half.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, vs. Texas
After an Oklahoma field goal and Texas touchdown brought the score to 23–17 Oklahoma, Texas took the lead with 8:01 remaining in the fourth quarter with an eight-yard touchdown run from quarterback Sam Ehlinger. Oklahoma responded with a three-play, 78-yard drive that ended in a 59-yard touchdown pass from Baker Mayfield to Mark Andrews with 6:53 to go in the game. The Sooner defense held Texas scoreless the rest of the game to secure the 29–24 victory. Baker Mayfield was 17 for 27 in passing attempts, finishing with 302 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State
Following the victory over Texas, No. 9 Oklahoma traveled to Manhattan, Kansas to play conference foe Kansas State. Oklahoma won the game 42–35. After a touchdown pass from Kansas State's Alex Delton to Isaiah Kuber with 2:25 remaining in the fourth quarter, the game was tied 35–35. Baker Mayfield led a drive down to the Kansas State 22-yard line with 24 seconds remaining, and then running back Rodney Anderson scored the game-winning 22-yard touchdown run with 7 seconds remaining. Anderson had 147 rushing yards and one touchdown, while Mayfield threw for 410 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech
Following the win over Kansas State, Oklahoma played their homecoming game against Texas Tech. Oklahoma won the game 49–27. Both teams scored touchdowns on each of their first three drives, resulting in a 21–20 Oklahoma lead in the second quarter. The Sooners dominated the rest of the game, however, with the Red Raiders failing to score after their first drive in the second half. Oklahoma wide receiver CeeDee Lamb set school freshman records with nine receptions for 147 yards. Quarterback Baker Mayfield threw for 281 yards, four passing touchdowns and another touchdown on the ground.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State
Following the win over Texas Tech, the Sooners traveled to Stillwater, Oklahoma to play in-state rival Oklahoma State in the Bedlam Series. Oklahoma won the game 62–52. In an offensive shootout, the teams combined for 1,446 yards of total offense. After a rare Baker Mayfield interception on the third play of the game, the two teams traded touchdown drives for much of the first half. The score was 38–38 at the half, and Mayfield had a one-half school-record 387 passing yards.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State
Leading 55–52 late in the fourth quarter, Oklahoma running back Trey Sermon scored the decisive touchdown on a 53-yard run with 54 seconds remaining. Mayfield finished with a career-high and school-record 598 passing yards, five touchdowns, and two interceptions. Wide receiver Marquise Brown caught nine passes for a school-record 265 receiving yards.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, TCU
Following the win over Oklahoma State, No. 5 Oklahoma returned to Norman for a top-10 match-up against TCU. Oklahoma won the game 38–20 in front of a record 88,308 fans at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Oklahoma jumped out to an early lead due to several touchdown-capped drives by Baker Mayfield. The Sooners led 38–14 at the half. Both teams' offenses struggled to score in the second half, as an early-fourth quarter TCU touchdown was the only score of the half. Sooner running back Rodney Anderson had 290 yards from scrimmage and four touchdowns in the game.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, at Kansas
Following the win over TCU, No. 3 Oklahoma traveled to Lawrence, Kansas to play Kansas. The Sooners won in a 41–3 rout. Baker Mayfield led the Sooners with 257 passing yards and three touchdowns. Mayfield generated controversy when he was caught on camera grabbing his crotch and cursing at the Kansas bench. Mayfield later released an apology for the incident.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
In their final game of the regular season, No. 3 Oklahoma faced West Virginia at home. The Sooners won the game 59–31. Quarterback Baker Mayfield, as punishment for his taunting act during the previous game against Kansas, did not start the game, his last game of his career in Norman. Mayfield was subbed into the game in the first quarter and the Sooners scored touchdowns on all five drives Mayfield played in before the half. Running back Rodney Anderson ran for 118 yards and four touchdowns in the game.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Big 12 Championship Game
The Big 12 held its first football championship game since 2010 during the 2017 season. The championship game participants were to be the two conference members with the best conference records. Oklahoma earned its place in the game by finishing with a conference-best record of 8–1, and TCU finished in second with a conference record of 7–2. Thus, a rematch was set between the two teams, playing their second top-ten match-up in four weeks.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Big 12 Championship Game
Oklahoma won the conference championship game and the Big 12 title by a score of 41–17. The Sooners jumped out to a quick 17–0 lead, in part thanks to an 18-yard fumble return for a touchdown by Caleb Kelly. After two touchdown drives led by TCU's Kenny Hill, the score was 24–17 at the half. Oklahoma's first offensive play of the second half was a 55-yard touchdown pass from Baker Mayfield to Mykel Jones, and their next drive concluded on a 52-yard touchdown connection between Mayfield and Marquise Brown. The Sooner defense surrendered zero points in the second half. Mayfield finished with 243 yards and four touchdowns in the win.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, vs. Georgia (Rose Bowl)
In the final College Football Playoff rankings of the 2017 season, Oklahoma was ranked second, which earned them a spot in the national semifinal game to be played at the 2018 Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Their opponent was the third-seeded Georgia Bulldogs, champions of the Southeastern Conference. It was the first ever match-up between the two schools. The Rose Bowl winner would go on to play in the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, vs. Georgia (Rose Bowl)
Oklahoma lost in double overtime, 48–54, in a game many observers described as an "instant classic". It was the highest-ever scoring Rose Bowl game, and the first CFP game to go to overtime. The Sooners were the first to score, with a 13-yard pass from Baker Mayfield to Marquise Brown. Georgia's Sony Michel scored two first-half touchdowns, first on a 13-yard pass from Jake Fromm, then on a 75-yard run in the second quarter.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, vs. Georgia (Rose Bowl)
With 13 seconds left in the first half, the Sooners scored on a trick play in which freshman wide receiver CeeDee Lamb threw a two-yard touchdown pass to quarterback Baker Mayfield. Oklahoma had a 31–17 lead at the end of the half. Their lead was chipped away by the Bulldogs early in the second half by two touchdowns by Sony Michel and Nick Chubb. A 46-yard fumble return touchdown by Oklahoma's Steven Parker gave Oklahoma the lead again late, but a two-yard touchdown run by Georgia's Nick Chubb tied the game 45–45 with 55 seconds left in regulation. In the first overtime, Georgia and Oklahoma exchanged field goals. In double overtime, Oklahoma kicker Austin Seibert's 27-yard field goal was blocked, and on the ensuing Georgia possession, running back Sony Michel won the game on a 27-yard touchdown run.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team, 2018 NFL Draft
The 2018 NFL Draft was held on April 26–28 in Arlington, Texas. Four Oklahoma players were selected as part of the draft, and five were signed to NFL teams as undrafted free agents. Baker Mayfield became the fourth Oklahoma player to be selected with the first overall pick, and the first since Sam Bradford in 2010.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners softball team
The 2017 Oklahoma Sooners softball team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 2017 NCAA Division I softball season. The Sooners were coached by Patty Gasso, who led her twenty-third season. The Sooners finished with a record of 61–9. They played their home games at OU Softball Complex and competed in the Big 12 Conference, where they finished first with a 17–1 record.


2017 Oklahoma Sooners softball team
The Sooners were invited to the 2017 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, where they swept the West Regional and then completed a run through the Women's College World Series to claim the NCAA Women's College World Series Championship.


2017 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team
The 2017 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys played their home games at the Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by 13th-year head coach Mike Gundy. They finished the season 10–3, 6–3 in Big 12 play to finish in third place. They were invited to the Camping World Bowl where they defeated Virginia Tech.


2017 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Schedule
Oklahoma State announced its 2017 football schedule on December 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home and 6 away games in the regular season. The Cowboys hosted Big 12 foes Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, and TCU, and traveled to Iowa State, Texas, Texas Tech, and West Virginia.


2017 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Schedule
The Cowboys hosted one of the three non-conference opponents, Tulsa from the American Athletic Conference and traveled to Pittsburgh from the Atlantic Coast Conference and South Alabama from the Sun Belt Conference.


2017 Okolo Slovenska
The 2017 Okolo Slovenska (transl. 2017 Tour of Slovakia) was a five-day cycling stage race that took place in Slovakia between 7 and 11 June 2017. The race was the 61st edition of the Okolo Slovenska; it was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2017 UCI Europe Tour, an upgrade from 2.2 in 2016. The race included four stages and a race-opening prologue individual time trial, starting in Levoča and finishing in Trnava.


2017 Okolo Slovenska
The race was won by Slovenian rider Jan Tratnik, riding for the CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice team.


2017 Okolo Slovenska, Participating teams
Twenty-five teams participated in the 2017 edition of the Okolo Slovenska. These included five UCI Professional Continental teams, sixteen UCI Continental teams and four national teams.


2017 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership table
In the 2017 Tour of Slovakia, five different jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints (three seconds to first, two seconds to second and one second to third) and at the finish of mass-start stages; these were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. The leader of the classification received a yellow jersey; it was considered the most important of the 2017 Tour of Slovakia, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2017 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership table
There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey with red polka dots. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either first, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs; however points were awarded to the top three riders in both categories.


2017 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a white jersey with blue polka dots. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage, with the exception of the prologue. For winning a stage, a rider earned 10 points, with 9 for second, 8 for third and so on, down to 1 point for 10th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued – awarded on a 3–2–1 scale – at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above.


2017 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership table
The fourth jersey represented the classification for young riders, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. The fifth and final jersey represented the classification for Slovakian riders, marked by a white, blue and red jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Slovakia were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting
On February 22, 2017, Adam Purinton shot two Indian men, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, whom he had allegedly mistaken for Iranians, at a restaurant in Olathe, Kansas, killing Kuchibhotla. He reportedly yelled "get out of my country" and "terrorist" before firing. A third man, Ian Grillot, was wounded after he came to the two men's aid. Several hours later, Purinton was arrested in Clinton, Missouri.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Incident
According to witness accounts, the incident, at Austin's Bar and Grill at Mur-Len Shop on 151st St. and Mur-Len Rd., began as patrons were watching a basketball game; a man started yelling racial slurs at the victims, asking them whether their "status was legal". The man had been escorted from the premises after he was confronted by restaurant staff and other guests, but returned later with a gun and began firing. He reportedly told the two targeted victims—South Indian men who work for Garmin, a technology firm—to "get out of my country" before firing. Ian Grillot, a 24-year-old white American, was shot and suffered multiple bullet wounds as he came to the victims' aid.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Incident
The suspect, Adam Purinton, was arrested while drinking at a restaurant bar in Clinton, Missouri, about 82 miles (132 km) away. He had attracted the barman's attention by saying he needed a place to hide because he had just killed one Middle Eastern man and injured another.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Incident, The perpetrator
Adam Purinton, 51, was arrested for the killing. After fleeing the bar, he was pursued by police in the Kansas City area who also went to his home. He eluded them, but was arrested after he was said to have admitted to "killing two Middle Eastern men  [sic]" at a bar to which he had fled, 82 miles from the scene of the crimes. Purinton was said to have been a drinker whose alcohol consumption increased and whose behavior rapidly deteriorated after his father died from pancreatic cancer, 18 months before the crimes. Prior to his arrest, he had recently held a series of unskilled jobs including in hardware and liquor stores and as a dishwasher in a pizza parlor. He is a United States Navy veteran, had been an air traffic controller, and previously worked in information technology.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Legal proceedings
Purinton was charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. He was held in the Johnson County jail, with his bond set at $2 million. He faced a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years. His preliminary hearing was initially scheduled for September 18; then postponed to January 2018. In November Purinton waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was arraigned on one count of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, initially entering a not guilty plea.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Legal proceedings
Purinton later pleaded guilty to the state charges of murder and attempted murder on March 6, 2018. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility for parole for the murder on May 4, 2018.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Legal proceedings
Purinton later pleaded guilty to federal hate-crime charges, thereby avoiding a death sentence, and received three consecutive life in prison sentences.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Reactions
Sushma Swaraj, India's Foreign minister, said on Twitter that "I am shocked", and that she would help the family to bring the victim's body back to Hyderabad.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Reactions
Garmin later issued a public statement about the incident: "We’re saddened that two Garmin associates were involved in [the] incident, and we express our condolences to the family and friends of our co-workers involved. Garmin will have grievance counselors on-site and available for its associates today and tomorrow."


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Reactions
The families of victims initially have blamed the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, for the incident. When asked by reporters whether "rhetoric that the President or—that generally has been out here recently could have contributed in any way", White House press secretary Sean Spicer stated, "I mean, obviously, any loss of life is tragic, but I'm not going to get into, like, that kind of—to suggest that there’s any correlation I think is a bit absurd. So I’m not going to go any further than that.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Reactions
The incident was condemned by several American lawmakers and civil rights groups. US Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas posted a statement on Facebook about the shooting, expressing concern for the safety of other immigrants. Later President Trump, who condemned the attack at the beginning of his address to a joint session of Congress said that "Recent threats ( ... ), as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms".


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Reactions
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a proclamation to honor the three victims of the shooting and declared March 16 as Indian American Appreciation day.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Reactions
Members of India House Houston later raised $100,000 to honor the white American who came to the aid of the victims. He was also honored by the Asian Culture Association for heroism.


2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, Reactions
The victim Kuchibhotla's widow, Sunayana Dumala, faced deportation since her visa was tied to that of her husband's H-1B temporary highly skilled worker visa status. In January 2018, she received an H-1B temporary visa of her own.


2017 Old Dominion Monarchs football team
The 2017 Old Dominion Monarchs football team represented Old Dominion University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Monarchs played their home games at the Foreman Field in Norfolk, Virginia as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by ninth-year head coach Bobby Wilder. The Monarchs finished the season 5–7, 3–5 in C-USA play to finish in sixth place.


2017 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Previous season
The Monarchs finished the 2016 season 10–3, 7–1 in C-USA play to earn a share of the East Division title. Due to their loss to Western Kentucky, they did not qualify for the C-USA Championship game. They were invited to the Bahamas Bowl, their first ever bowl appearance, where they defeated Eastern Michigan for their first ever bowl victory.


2017 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Schedule and results
Old Dominion announced its 2017 football schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consists six home and away games in the regular season. The Monarchs hosted two of the four non-conference opponents, Albany from the Colonial Athletic Association and North Carolina from the Atlantic Coast Conference and travel to Massachusetts who is independent from a conference and Virginia Tech also from the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team
The 2017 Ole Miss Rebels Baseball team represented the University of Mississippi in the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Rebels played their home games in Swayze Field.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team, Previous season
The Rebels finished the 2016 season 43-19 overall and 18-12 in the conference. The Rebels advanced to the semifinals of the SEC Tournament before suffering elimination at the hands of eventual champion Texas A&M in the semifinals. The Rebels earned regional hosting status in the 2016 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, but two straight losses to Utah and Tulane brought the season to an end.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team, Previous season, 2016 MLB Draft Selections
The Rebels had six players selected in the 2016 MLB draft. The Rebels also had four signees drafted out of high school.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team, Previous season, 2016 MLB Draft Selections
†Grae Kessinger, Cooper Johnson, Will Ethridge, and Ryan Rolison were drafted out of high school, but decided to attend Ole Miss.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team, Preseason, SEC Media poll
In the 2017 SEC media poll, released February 10, 2017, the Rebels were predicted to finish third place in the Western Division.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the Coaches Poll.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rebels played their home games at Vaught–Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi and competed in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by then-interim head coach Matt Luke. They finished the season 6–6, 3–5 in SEC play to finish in sixth place in the Western Division.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team
On February 22, 2017, the University of Mississippi self-imposed a one-year ban from post-season play on the Ole Miss football team for the 2017 season, due to alleged NCAA violations. On July 20, 2017, head coach Hugh Freeze resigned in the wake of allegations about repeated calls to a female escort service from his school-issued cell phone. He was given the ultimatum, either resign or be fired.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Coaching staff changes
After the conclusion of the 2016 season, adjustments throughout the coaching staff were made. After defensive coordinator Dave Wommack announced his retirement from coaching, offensive coordinator Dan Werner was fired. The team would hire Wesley McGriff to replace Wommack as the defensive coordinator, Jacob Peeler to replace Grant Heard as the wide receivers coach, Tray Scott to replace Chris Kiffin as the defensive line coach, and Wesley McGriff (who took over as the defensive coordinator) to also coach the safeties, replacing safeties coach Corey Batoon. Also, assistant athletics director Barney Farrar was relieved of his duties.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team, NCAA investigation
Following a lengthy investigation, the NCAA issued a Notice of Allegations against the Ole Miss football program in January 2016. The university announced that it had received an amended Notice of Allegations on February 22, 2017.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team, NCAA investigation
In total, the NCAA brought 21 distinct charges against the football program, individual coaches and athletic department officials, and boosters. These include fifteen Level I violations (the most serious).


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team, NCAA investigation
Four of the eleven Level I violations occurred or involved coaches employed prior to Coach Hugh Freeze's tenure. The Level I offenses include:


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team, NCAA investigation
Ole Miss announced several self-imposed penalties in May 2017, including a post-season ban in 2017, three years of probation, a reduction of 11 scholarships, and a variety of recruiting restrictions.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team, NCAA investigation
The NCAA Committee on Infractions hearing concluded on September 12, 2017.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Schedule
Ole Miss announced its 2017 football schedule on September 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consists of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Rebels will host SEC foes Arkansas, LSU, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt, and will travel to Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, and Mississippi State.


2017 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Schedule
The Rebels will host three of the four non-conference opponents, Louisiana–Lafayette (ULL) and South Alabama which are both in the Sun Belt Conference and Tennessee-Martin (UT Martin) from the Ohio Valley Conference and will travel to Berkeley to play their first ever Pac-12 Conference opponent, theCalifornia Golden Bears.


2017 Omaha Beef season
The 2017 Omaha Beef season was the team's eighteenth and third as a member of Champions Indoor Football (CIF). One of 14 teams in the CIF for the 2017 season, they played in the 7-team North Conference.


2017 Omaha Beef season
The Beef played their home games at the Ralston Arena in Ralston, Nebraska, under the direction of head coach Cory Ross.


2017 Omaha Beef season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 2, 201724 Active, 8 Inactive


2017 Omaha mayoral election
The 2017 Omaha mayoral election was held on May 9, 2017. Incumbent Mayor Jean Stothert won re-election to a second term in office.


2017 Omaha mayoral election
The position of mayor in Omaha is officially a non-partisan position. A blanket primary was held on April 4, 2017. The top two finishers in the primary, Jean Stothert and Heath Mello, moved on to the general election.


2017 Omaha mayoral election
Alongside the mayor, the Omaha City Council was up for re-election. It is also officially non-partisan. However, it remained controlled by a Democratic majority, as only district 7 has a general election between a Democrat and a Republican. Districts 1, 2, 3, 4 remained Democratic whereas districts 5 and 6 remained Republican. The incumbent Republican in district 7 was re-elected as well.


2017 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
The 2017 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 25 February 2017. It was the 72nd edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and was the fourth event of the 2017 UCI World Tour. It was the first time that the race was included in the UCI World Tour calendar.


2017 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
The race was won, from a three-up sprint finish, by Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team), ahead of the reigning world champion Peter Sagan – riding for Bora–Hansgrohe – and Cannondale–Drapac's Sep Vanmarcke completed the podium, after the three riders broke away from the field in the final quarter of the race.


2017 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Teams
As a new event to the UCI World Tour, all UCI WorldTeams were invited to the race, but not obligated to compete in the race. As such, fifteen of the eighteen WorldTeams – all except Team Dimension Data, Movistar Team and UAE Team Emirates – competed in the race. Ten UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.


2017 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Route
After a forced relocation from Sint-Pietersplein to the Citadel Park – the site adjacent to the Kuipke velodrome – for the 2016 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the Citadel Park again hosted the start of the race. The finish was once again held on the Emile Claus thoroughfare, close to the starting place.


2017 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Route
At 198.3 kilometres (123.2 miles) and with thirteen climbs in the hill zone, the course was challenging and arduous. Additionally, there were several flat stretches of cobbles. After a year's hiatus due to roadworks, the Molenberg returned to the race for its 2017 edition; the Eikenberg was also partially paved for the 2017 race.


2017 Ontario Mine Rescue Provincial Competition
The 2017 Ontario Mine Rescue Provincial Competition was held June 6-9 at Compass Minerals Goderich Mine, in Goderich, Ontario.


2017 Ontario Mine Rescue Provincial Competition, List of competing teams, Kirkland Lake District
Kirkland Lake Gold North Complex (Holt McDermott & Taylor Mines)


2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held January 30 to February 5 at the Cobourg Community Centre in Cobourg, Ontario. The winning Rachel Homan rink represented Ontario at the 2017 Scotties Tournament of Hearts on home ice in St. Catharines, Ontario. Homan went on to win her third Scotties Tournament of Hearts, defeating Manitoba's Michelle Englot in the final.


2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 Ontario Tankard, southern Ontario's men's provincial championship which was held at the same time. The events are usually held separately. The opening ceremonies were scheduled for January 30.


2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The Rachel Homan rink, who were ranked #1 on the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit ranking won the event, after having been upset in the 2016 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts by club-mates Jenn Hanna and her rink. Hanna did not curl competitively in the 2016-17 season.


2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification Process
Qualifying for the provincial Scotties changed again for 2017. Eight teams will qualify from two regional qualifiers (two each) and a challenge round. The top two southern Ontario teams in the CTRS standings (as of December 4) also qualified.


2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Teams
The event was headlined by the two-time national champion Rachel Homan rink who entered the event in first place on the World Curling Tour. Other top teams in the event included the 2016 WFG Masters and 2014 provincial champion Allison Flaxey rink, and five-time provincial champion Sherry Middaugh.


2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification
East and west regional qualifiers ran from December 16-December 19, 2016. Two teams from each region qualified.


2017 Ontario Tankard
The 2017 Recharge With Milk Men's Tankard, better known as the Ontario Tankard was the 2017 edition of the Ontario men's provincial curling championship to determine who will represent the province of Ontario at the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier, the national curling championship of Canada. In 2017, the Tankard was contesteded in conjunction with the 2017 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, at the Cobourg Community Centre in Cobourg, Ontario, January 29-February 5, 2017.


2017 Ontario Tankard
Ten teams played a round robin competition, followed by a page playoff to determine the tournament champion.


2017 Ontario Tankard
A 54 year old Glenn Howard led his team to win his 17th career provincial championship, qualifying himself for a record 17th Brier.


2017 Ontario Tankard, Qualification Process
Qualifying for the men's Tankard has changed for 2017. Ten teams will qualify from two provincial qualifiers (three each) and a challenge round. The top two southern Ontario teams in the CTRS standings (as of December 4) will also qualify. The provincial qualifiers are preceded by four regional qualifiers in which at least three teams qualify for the provincial qualifiers, plus the teams ranked 3-10 on the CTRS standings


2017 Open 13
The 2017 Open 13 was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 24th edition of the Open 13, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2017 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Palais des Sports in Marseille, France, from 20 February through 26 February 2017.


2017 Open 13 – Doubles
Mate Pavić and Michael Venus were the defending champions, but Venus chose to compete in Delray Beach instead. Pavić played alongside Alexander Peya, but lost in the quarterfinals to Robin Haase and Dominic Inglot.


2017 Open 13 – Doubles
Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut won the title, defeating Haase and Inglot in the final, 6–4, 6–7(9–11), [10–5].


2017 Open 13 – Singles
Nick Kyrgios was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.


2017 Open 13 – Singles
Tsonga went on to win the title, defeating Lucas Pouille in the final, 6–4, 6–4.


2017 Open 13 – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2017 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne
The 2017 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Quimper, France between 30 January and 5 February 2017.


2017 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2017 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne – Doubles
Tristan Lamasine and Albano Olivetti were the defending champions but only Olivetti chose to defend his title, partnering Kevin Krawietz. Olivetti lost in the first round to Ken and Neal Skupski.


2017 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne – Doubles
Mikhail Elgin and Igor Zelenay won the title after defeating Skupski and Skupski 2–6, 7–5, [10–5] in the final.


2017 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne – Singles
Andrey Rublev was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Peter Gojowczyk.


2017 Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne – Singles
Adrian Mannarino won the title after defeating Gojowczyk 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2017 Open Bogotá
The 2017 Open Bogotá was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bogotá, Colombia between 5 and 10 September 2017.


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


2017 Open Bogotá – Doubles
Marcelo Arévalo and Sergio Galdós were the defending champions but chose to defend their title with different partners. Arévalo partnered Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela and successfully defended his title. Galdós partnered Roberto Maytín but lost in the first round to Arévalo and Reyes-Varela.


2017 Open Bogotá – Doubles
Arévalo and Reyes-Varela won the title after defeating Nikola Mektić and Franko Škugor 6–3, 3–6, [10–6] in the final.


2017 Open Bogotá – Singles
Facundo Bagnis was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Open Bogotá – Singles
Marcelo Arévalo won the title after defeating Daniel Elahi Galán 7–5, 6–4 in the final.


2017 Open Castilla y León
The 2017 Open Castilla y León was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 32nd edition, for men, and 3rd edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in El Espinar, Segovia, Spain, between 31 July – 6 August 2017.


2017 Open Castilla y León, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open Castilla y León, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2017 Open Castilla y León – Men's Doubles
Purav Raja and Divij Sharan were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Open Castilla y León – Men's Doubles
Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras and Sergiy Stakhovsky won the title after defeating Roberto Ortega Olmedo and David Vega Hernández 4–6, 6–3, [10–7] in the final.


2017 Open Castilla y León – Men's Singles
Luca Vanni was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Gerard Granollers.


2017 Open Castilla y León – Men's Singles
Jaume Munar won the title after defeating Alex De Minaur 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2017 Open Championship
The 2017 Open Championship was a major golf championship and the 146th Open Championship, held 20–23 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. It was the tenth Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, which held its first in 1954.


2017 Open Championship
Jordan Spieth shot four rounds in the sixties for 268 (–12), three strokes ahead of runner-up Matt Kuchar, for his third major title, and the second in which he led wire-to-wire (2015 Masters). In the third round, Branden Grace scored 62 to set a new major championship record.


2017 Open Championship
This was the first year that the prize money was paid in U.S. dollars, rather than British pounds.


2017 Open Championship, Media
This was the second Open Championship televised domestically by Sky Sports. In the United States, it is the second Open Championship to be televised by NBC (Golf Channel's parent network).


2017 Open Championship, Venue
This was the tenth Open Championship at Royal Birkdale; the ninth in 2008 saw Pádraig Harrington successfully defend his 2007 title from Carnoustie.


2017 Open Championship, Field
Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.


2017 Open Championship, Field
Stewart Cink (2), Darren Clarke (2), John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2), Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington (2), Zach Johnson (2,17), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Sandy Lyle, Rory McIlroy (2,3,4,5,10,12,17), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,12,17), Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,4,5), Henrik Stenson (2,3,4,5,17)


2017 Open Championship, Field
Sergio García (4,5,9,17), Bill Haas (4), Tyrrell Hatton (4,5), J. B. Holmes (4,12,17), Dustin Johnson (4,8,12,17), Andrew Johnston (5), Søren Kjeldsen (5), Steve Stricker


2017 Open Championship, Field
Daniel Berger (12), Wesley Bryan, Rafa Cabrera-Bello (5,17), Paul Casey (12), Kevin Chappell (12), Jason Day (10,11,12), Ross Fisher (5), Matthew Fitzpatrick (5,17), Tommy Fleetwood, Rickie Fowler (11,17), Branden Grace (5), Emiliano Grillo (12), Adam Hadwin, Billy Horschel, Kim Si-woo (11,12), Kevin Kisner (12), Russell Knox (12), Brooks Koepka (8,17), Matt Kuchar (12,17), Marc Leishman, Hideki Matsuyama (12,21), William McGirt (12), Francesco Molinari (5), Ryan Moore (12,17), Alex Norén (5,6), Pat Perez, Thomas Pieters (5,17), Jon Rahm, Patrick Reed (12,17), Justin Rose (8,14,17), Charl Schwartzel (5,12), Adam Scott (9,12), Jordan Spieth (8,9,12,17), Hideto Tanihara (22), Justin Thomas (12), Jimmy Walker (10,12,17), Bubba Watson (9,12), Bernd Wiesberger (5), Danny Willett (5,9,17), Gary Woodland (12)


2017 Open Championship, Field
Richard Bland, Scott Hend (18), David Horsey, Thongchai Jaidee, Martin Kaymer (8,17), Li Haotong, Shane Lowry, Joost Luiten, Thorbjørn Olesen, Andy Sullivan (17), Wang Jeung-hun, Lee Westwood (17), Chris Wood (6,17)


2017 Open Championship, Field
Dylan Frittelli, Pablo Larrazábal, Alexander Lévy, David Lipsky, Fabrizio Zanotti


2017 Open Championship, Field
Curtis Luck forfeited his exemption after turning professional in April 2017.


2017 Open Championship, Field
The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) consists of 10 events from the six major tours. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finish in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions go to players ranked highest according to that week's OWGR.


2017 Open Championship, Field
The Final Qualifying events were played on 4 July at five courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England. Three qualifying places were available at each location.


2017 Open Championship, Field
To make up the full field of 156, additional places are allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places are made available by the Championship Committee.


2017 Open Championship, Round summaries, First round
Three Americans – Brooks Koepka, Matt Kuchar, and Jordan Spieth – shared the lead after the first round on five under par, a shot clear of England's Paul Casey and Charl Schwartzel, with Ian Poulter a further shot back. Reigning champion Henrik Stenson was one under after a 69. Rory McIlroy was five over par after six holes but recovered to finish with a one-over-par 71.


2017 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round
In difficult conditions, Jordan Spieth followed his first round 65 with a 69 to lead by two strokes from Matt Kuchar. Only eight players scored under par for their second rounds, Zach Johnson's 66 being the best round of the day. Alfie Plant was the only amateur to make the cut. He eagled the par-five 15th on his way to a 73 and a 36-hole total of 144.


2017 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round
Amateurs: Plant (+4), Syme (+9), Cianchetti (+11), Ellis (+12), McNealy (+12)


2017 Open Championship, Round summaries, Third round
Jordan Spieth shot a 65 to take a three-stroke lead over Matt Kuchar, who shot a 66. On an easier day of scoring, Branden Grace scored 62, breaking the long-standing men's major championship record of 63. There were also low rounds from Dustin Johnson, with a 64, and Henrik Stenson, with a 65, both getting into a tie for 7th place.


2017 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round
Beginning the round with a three-shot lead, Jordan Spieth bogeyed three of his first four holes to fall into a tie with Matt Kuchar. A birdie at the 5th combined with a bogey by Kuchar at the 6th allowed Spieth to re-open a two-stroke advantage, but a bogey-birdie swing at the 9th evened the score heading to the back-nine. The score remained level until the 13th, when Spieth hit his tee shot well to the right of the fairway.


2017 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round
Forced to take an unplayable lie and drop from the practice area, he managed to get up-and-down to save bogey while Kuchar took the lead by making par. At the par-3 14th, however, Spieth nearly holed his tee shot and converted the birdie attempt to tie Kuchar. Then at the par-5 15th, Spieth made a 48-foot (15 m) eagle putt to take the lead once again. With birdies on the next two holes Spieth played 14–17 in five-under to take a two-stroke lead heading to the last.


2017 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round
When Kuchar found a greenside bunker and made bogey, Spieth was able to tap in for par and win the championship by three strokes. Li Haotong birdied his last four holes for 63 (−7) and jump into third place at 274 (−6), the best finish for an Asian player at the Open Championship since Lu Liang-Huan in 1971, also at Royal Birkdale. With the victory, Spieth joined Jack Nicklaus as the only golfers to win three legs of the career Grand Slam before the age of 24.


2017 Open Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Final leaderboard
Note: Top 10 and ties qualify for the 2018 Open Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2018 Masters Tournament


2017 Open Città della Disfida
The 2017 Open Città della Disfida is a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It is the 18th edition of the tournament to be part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Barletta, Italy between 10 and 16 April 2017.


2017 Open Città della Disfida, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open Città della Disfida, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:


2017 Open Città della Disfida, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2017 Open Città della Disfida – Doubles
Johan Brunström and Andreas Siljeström were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Marin and Tomislav Draganja.


2017 Open Città della Disfida – Doubles
Marco Cecchinato and Matteo Donati won the title after defeating Draganja and Draganja 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2017 Open Città della Disfida – Singles
Elias Ymer was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Lukáš Rosol.


2017 Open Città della Disfida – Singles
Aljaž Bedene won the title after defeating Gastão Elias 7–6(7–4), 6–3 in the final.


2017 Open Féminin de Marseille
The 2017 Open Féminin de Marseille was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the twentieth edition of the tournament and part of the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money. It took place in Marseille, France, from 5–11 June 2017.


2017 Open Féminin de Marseille, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open Féminin de Marseille, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw by a protected ranking:


2017 Open Féminin de Marseille – Doubles
Hsieh Su-wei and Nicole Melichar were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.


2017 Open Féminin de Marseille – Doubles
Natela Dzalamidze and Veronika Kudermetova won the title, defeating Dalma Gálfi and Dalila Jakupović in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–4.


2017 Open Féminin de Marseille – Singles
Danka Kovinić was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Tessah Andrianjafitrimo.


2017 Open Féminin de Marseille – Singles
Jasmine Paolini won the title, defeating Tatjana Maria in the final, 6–4, 2–6, 6–1.


2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle
The 2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle will be a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It will be the fourteenth edition of the tournament which will be part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It will take place in Saint-Brieuc, France between 28 March and 2 April 2017.


2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle – Doubles
Rameez Junaid and Andreas Siljeström were the defending champions but only Junaid chose to defend his title, partnering Tim Pütz, but withdrew before the tournament began.


2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle – Doubles
Andre Begemann and Frederik Nielsen won the title after defeating David O'Hare and Joe Salisbury 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle – Singles
Alexandre Sidorenko was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Open Harmonie mutuelle – Singles
Egor Gerasimov won the title after defeating Tobias Kamke 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–5) in the final.


2017 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon
The 2017 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lyon, France between 12 and 18 June 2017.


2017 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon – Doubles
Grégoire Barrère and Tristan Lamasine were the defending champions but only Lamasine chose to defend his title, partnering Hugo Nys. Lamasine lost in the quarterfinals to Gero Kretschmer and Alexander Satschko.


2017 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon – Doubles
Sander Gillé and Joran Vliegen won the title after defeating Kretschmer and Satschko 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–2), [14–12] in the final.


2017 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon – Singles
Steve Darcis was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Open Sopra Steria de Lyon – Singles
Félix Auger-Aliassime won the title after defeating Mathias Bourgue 6–4, 6–1 in the final.


2017 Open Sud de France
The 2017 Open Sud de France was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 30th edition of the Open Sud de France, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2017 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Arena Montpellier in Montpellier, France, from February 6 to February 12, 2017.


2017 Open Sud de France, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open Sud de France, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:


2017 Open Sud de France – Doubles
Mate Pavić and Michael Venus were the defending champions, but Pavić chose to compete in Sofia instead. Venus played alongside Robert Lindstedt, but lost in the quarterfinals to Alexander and Mischa Zverev.


2017 Open Sud de France – Doubles
The Zverev brothers went on to win the title, defeating Fabrice Martin and Daniel Nestor in the final, 6–4, 6–7(3–7), [10–7].


2017 Open Sud de France – Singles
Richard Gasquet was the two-time defending champion, but lost to Alexander Zverev in the final, 6–7(4–7), 3–6.


2017 Open Sud de France – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2017 Open d'Orléans
The 2017 Open d'Orléans was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the thirteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Orléans, France between 25 September and 1 October 2017.


2017 Open d'Orléans, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open d'Orléans, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2017 Open d'Orléans, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:


2017 Open d'Orléans – Doubles
Nikola Mektić and Franko Škugor were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Open d'Orléans – Doubles
Guillermo Durán and Andrés Molteni won the title after defeating Jonathan Eysseric and Tristan Lamasine 6–3, 6–7(4–7), [13–11] in the final.


2017 Open d'Orléans – Singles
Pierre-Hugues Herbert was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Illya Marchenko.


2017 Open d'Orléans – Singles
Norbert Gombos won the title after defeating Julien Benneteau 6–3, 5–7, 6–2 in the final.


2017 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes
The 2017 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the twentieth edition of the tournament and part of the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money. It took place in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, from 8–14 May 2017.


2017 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw by a protected ranking:


2017 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes – Doubles
Andreea Mitu and Demi Schuurs were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.


2017 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes – Doubles
Chang Kai-chen and Hsieh Su-wei won the title, defeating top seeds Raluca Olaru and Renata Voráčová in the final, 7–5, 6–1.


2017 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes – Singles
Magda Linette was the defending champion, but she chose to participate at the 2017 Mutua Madrid Open instead.


2017 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes – Singles
Beatriz Haddad Maia won the title, defeating Jil Teichmann in the final, 6–3, 6–3.


2017 Open de Limoges
The 2017 Open de Limoges was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and part of the 2017 WTA 125K series, offering a total of $115,000 in prize money. It took place in Limoges, France, on 6–12 November 2017.


2017 Open de Limoges, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2017 Open de Limoges, Doubles entrants, Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:


2017 Open de Limoges – Doubles
Elise Mertens and Mandy Minella were the defending champions, but neither player chose to participate.


2017 Open de Limoges – Doubles
Valeria Savinykh and Maryna Zanevska won the title, defeating Chloé Paquet and Pauline Parmentier in the final 6–0, 6–2.


2017 Open de Limoges – Singles
Ekaterina Alexandrova was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Antonia Lottner.


2017 Open de Limoges – Singles
Monica Niculescu won the title, defeating Lottner in the final 6–4, 6–2.


2017 Open de Rennes
The 2017 Open de Rennes was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament and part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rennes, France between 24 and 29 January 2017.


2017 Open de Rennes, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open de Rennes, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2017 Open de Rennes – Doubles
Andrea Arnaboldi and Antonio Šančić were the defending champions but only Šančić chose to defend his title, partnering Marin Draganja. Šančić lost in the first round to Julian Knowle and Jonathan Marray.


2017 Open de Rennes – Doubles
Evgeny Donskoy and Mikhail Elgin won the title after defeating Knowle and Marray 6–4, 3–6, [11–9] in the final.


2017 Open de Rennes – Singles
Malek Jaziri was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Open de Rennes – Singles
Uladzimir Ignatik won the title after defeating Andrey Rublev 6–7(6–8), 6–3, 7–6(7–5) in the final.


2017 Open du Pays d'Aix
The 2017 Open du Pays d'Aix was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Aix-en-Provence, France between 8 and 14 May 2017.


2017 Open du Pays d'Aix, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Open du Pays d'Aix, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2017 Open du Pays d'Aix, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a special exempt:


2017 Open du Pays d'Aix – Doubles
Oliver Marach and Philipp Oswald were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Open du Pays d'Aix – Doubles
Wesley Koolhof and Matwé Middelkoop won the title after defeating Andre Begemann and Jérémy Chardy 2–6, 6–4, [16–14] in the final.


2017 Open du Pays d'Aix – Singles
Thiago Monteiro was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Open du Pays d'Aix – Singles
Frances Tiafoe won the title after defeating Jérémy Chardy 6–3, 4–6, 7–6(7–5) in the final.


2017 Orange Bowl
The 2017 Orange Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 2017 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The contest was televised on ESPN with a radio broadcast on ESPN Radio, kickoff was at 8:00 PM (EST). It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concluded the 2017 FBS football season. The 84th Orange Bowl, the game was sponsored by the Capital One financial services organization, and was officially known as the Capital One Orange Bowl.


2017 Orange Bowl
The 2017 Orange Bowl featured the Wisconsin Badgers (12–1), champions of the Big Ten Conference West Division, and the Miami Hurricanes (10–2), champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division. Wisconsin beat Miami by a score of 34–24.


2017 Orange Bowl, Teams
The teams playing in the Orange Bowl game were the Miami Hurricanes and the Wisconsin Badgers. Prior to kickoff, the all-time series between the two teams was tied at 2 games apiece; the most recent meeting being at the 2009 Champs Sports Bowl, where the Badgers defeated the Hurricanes by a score of 20–14.


2017 Orange County Breakers season
The 2017 Orange County Breakers season will be the 15th season of the franchise in World TeamTennis (WTT) and its 13th season in Orange County, California, the second after returning from playing two seasons in Greater Austin, Texas as the Austin Aces.


2017 Orange County Breakers season, Season recap, New home venue
On January 31, 2017, the Breakers announced that the team would move its home matches to the Palisades Tennis Club in Newport Beach starting with the 2017 season. Breakers general manager Allen Hardison said, "We are very excited to once again team up with Palisades and bring the Breakers back to their first-ever home." The Breakers played their home matches at the Palisades Tennis Club from their inaugural season in 2003 through 2006. Club owner Ken Stuart said, "Our club has a great history with the Breakers and is no stranger to hosting large-scale professional tennis events.


2017 Orange County Breakers season, Season recap, New home venue
Palisades will offer Breakers fans one of the best settings to watch a Mylan WTT match, and we are certainly looking forward to having our club members and the Orange County tennis community here this summer." The Breakers will construct a new stadium with a seating capacity of 1,250 on top of the club's existing stadium court.


2017 Orange County Breakers season, Season recap, New ownership
On February 8, 2017, the Breakers announced that the franchise had been purchased by Laguna Beach businessman Eric Davidson. Davidson, the first local owner in the team's history, said "When I was first approached with this, I saw it as a great way to give back to a tennis community that has meant so much to me. My dad Gary was involved with World TeamTennis during its inception in 1973, so coming full circle now and owning the Breakers is really pretty neat.


2017 Orange County Breakers season, Season recap, New ownership
I look forward to putting a championship-caliber product on the court and providing our fans with a first-class environment to watch professional tennis." WTT CEO/Commissioner Ilana Kloss said, "From a league perspective, it is very important to have strong local ownership with someone who has a passion for tennis and the community. We couldn't be more pleased, as we have found all of that with Eric."


2017 Orange County Breakers season, Season recap, Drafts
As the 2016 WTT runner-up, the Breakers had the next-to-last (fifth) selection in each round of WTT's drafts. The Breakers did not make any selections in the Marquee Player Draft.


2017 Orange County SC season
The 2017 Orange County SC season is the club's seventh season of existence, their third in the United Soccer League, and their first in the second tier of American soccer. This is the club's first year being branded as Orange County SC after previously being known as Orange County Blues FC from 2014 through 2017 and the LA Blues from 2011 to 2014.


2017 Orange County SC season, Background
Playing the first season as Orange County SC, the team finished with a record of 11-11-10, 6-6-4 at home. The team played their first four games away due to the ongoing construction of their temporary stadium at Orange County Great Park, while Championship Soccer Stadium was under construction. The first home game was week 7, May 6, 2017 against LA Galaxy II, resulting in a 4-0 Orange County victory. Due to insufficient lighting in the temporary field games started at 5:00 pm PST.


2017 Orange County SC season, Background
The first game played in the new Championship Soccer Stadium was August 5, 2017 against Tulsa Roughnecks ending in a scoreless draw.


2017 Orange County SC season, Background
The team finished the season in 10th place in the Western Conference and did not qualify for playoffs, three points behind Sacramento Republic FC in 8th place.


2017 Orange County SC season, Background
OCSC played three away games for the US Open Cup, defeating FC Golden State Force (5-2) and LA Wolves FC (1-0), before losing to LA Galaxy (1-3) at Dignity Health Sports stadium.


2017 Orange County SC season, Background
At the conclusion of the season, Head Coach Logan Pause was released, announced Nov 27.


2017 Oregon Ducks football team
The 2017 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Willie Taggart, until he departed at the end of the regular season to accept the head coaching position at Florida State. Co -Offensive Coordinator Mario Cristobal was promoted to interim head coach before being officially hired as head coach on December 8, 2017. Oregon played their home games at Autzen Stadium for the 51st straight year. They competed as a member of the Pac-12 Conference in the North Division. They finished the season 7–6, 4–5 in Pac-12 play to finish in fourth place in the North Division. They were invited to the Las Vegas Bowl where they lost to Boise State.


2017 Oregon Ducks football team, Previous season
They finished the season 4–8, 2–7 in Pac-12 play to finish in last place in the North Division. On November 29, Coach Mark Helfrich was fired. He finished at Oregon with a four-year record of 37–16.


2017 Oregon State Beavers baseball team
The 2017 Oregon State Beavers baseball team represents Oregon State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Beavers play their home games at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field and are members of the Pac-12 Conference. The team was coached by Pat Casey in his 23rd season at Oregon State. The Beavers finished the regular season with the best record in the history of the program at 49-4, and set the Pac-12 record for conference victories in a season with 27. They were awarded the #1 overall national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament for the second time in team history (2014).


2017 Oregon State Beavers baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2017 Oregon State Beavers football team
The 2017 Oregon State Beavers Football Team represented Oregon State University during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team played their home games on campus at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon as a member of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference.


2017 Oregon State Beavers football team
The Beavers entered the season with Gary Andersen as coach in his third year. After his squad opened with losses in five of their first six games, with their only win against Portland State, Andersen agreed to resign as coach. The team promoted second year cornerbacks coach, Cory Hall, to interim head coach.


2017 Oregon State Beavers football team
They finished the season 1–11, 0–9 in Pac-12 play to finish in last place in the North Division.


2017 Oregon State Beavers football team, Previous season
The Beavers finished the 2016 season 4–8, 3–6 in Pac-12 play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the North Division.


2017 Oregon State Beavers football team, Preseason
In the Pac-12 preseason media poll, the Beavers were picked to finish in fifth place in the North Division.


2017 Oregon wildfires
The 2017 Oregon wildfires were a series of wildfires that burned over the course of 2017.


2017 Oregon wildfires
The 2017 fire season in the state of Oregon was a particularly notable one. There has been a trend for the last three decades that shows an increase in the overall number of wildfires as well as the fire season length in the state of Oregon. In 2017 Oregon experienced a total of 1,069 reported wildfires: with 779 human ignited and 290 ignited by lightning strikes. These fires burned a total area of 451,863 acres. The catalyst for these fires was the abnormal weather patterns that persisted throughout 2017.


2017 Oregon wildfires
Fire season typically begins in Oregon in May. Fires burning through September 2017 led to the month being dubbed "Smoketember" in Oregon, with air quality in western Oregon listed  from "Unhealthy" to "Hazardous" in early weeks. NASA published images of the Oregon, shown the typically green state to be highly obscured by smoke, as seen from space. 2017 was unusual for the large number of fires occurring west of the Cascade Range in dense Douglas-fir forest in contrast to the frequent-fire pine ecosystems to the east.


2017 Oregon wildfires
Large fires include the Chetco Bar Fire in Curry County, Oregon, and the Eagle Creek Fire in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, which was started by illegal fireworks use. Fires in the Columbia River Gorge shut down Interstate 84, the state's major east–west freeway, for several days in early September.


2017 Oregon wildfires, 2017 climate in Oregon
The 2016/2017 winter in Oregon was the second wettest winter in the past 75 years. Between the dates of October 1, 2016, and April 26, 2017, Portland International Airport received 45.5 inches (116 centimeters) of rain. The month of February 2017 was the wettest February on record in Oregon with 10.36 inches (26 centimeters) of rain. During the month of August, the weather station at Portland International Airport recorded a monthly average temperature of 73.6 degrees Fahrenheit (23.1 C) with the daily average temperature hitting 87 degrees Fahrenheit (30.5 C). The average temperature during the month of August 2017 was five degrees higher than the average August temperature recorded since 1941. It stands to be the second hottest August on record.


2017 Oregon wildfires, 2017 climate in Oregon
The extreme winter and summer weather that occurred in 2017 was met by some dangerous weather patterns in the late summer months. Early August through September in Southern Oregon saw several waves of thunderstorms. These storm systems brought rainfall which helped slow the growth of existing wildfires. However, the storms also brought lighting which resulted in the ignition of new fires. These storms travel on fast moving paths. After one these storms moves over an area, it quickly returns to a hot dry state. This allows for the newly ignited fires to spread quickly and develop into full wildfires.


2017 Oregon wildfires, Significance of the 2017 fire season
The future climate in the Pacific Northwest is expected to be significantly different. Projections show that annual temperatures will rise faster than the global norm. Although temperatures will be higher, winters are expected to experience more rainfall. These seasonal extremes are exactly the type of trends that were experienced in 2017. Climatic patterns such as these provide ample rainfall throughout the spring which allows for high rates of plant growth. The high temperatures in the summer then quickly dries up the new growth. This leads to large spread availability of dry grasses and small diameter fuels. The combination of these climate driven phenomenon are what led to the extreme fire season in Oregon in 2017.


2017 Oregon wildfires, Cheatgrass
Another problem plaguing Oregon in 2017 was invasive cheatgrass. This grass has its origins in Eurasia and has become a huge problem in Oregon. In burned areas this grass quickly replaces native vegetation such as sagebrush. Cheatgrass is especially dangerous in regards to wildfires because it is highly dependent on water and typically dries out a month before native Oregon grasses. The high rainfall in 2017 allowed cheatgrass to spread abundantly throughout eastern Oregon. In areas that have cheatgrass, fire seasons have essentially been lengthened by a month due to the sooner availability of fuel. Due to its ability to both cause fires and repopulate burned areas cheatgrass is in a positive feedback loop of continual dispersal.


2017 Oregon wildfires, Human-ignited fires
Oregon’s population has been in a steady state of growth for the last three decades. With higher populations comes higher risk of human ignited forest fires. 2017 saw the devastating effects of human influenced fires. The Eagle Creek Fire burned 48,831 acres of land. This fire was ignited by a smoke bomb carelessly thrown by a 15-year-old boy. Something as simple as the exhaust pipe of a car or a cigarette out of a car window can start a devastating fire.


2017 Oregon wildfires, Wildfires
Table contains 2017 wildfires in Oregon that burned over 1,000 acres


2017 Oregon wildfires, Fires on ODF land
The majority of the burned area within Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) held land occurred within the SOA fire region which includes the districts: Southwest, Coos, Douglas, South Cascade, and Western Lane. The SOA fire region experienced 38,384.33 acres of burned land. The EOA fire region had the second highest amount of burned area and includes the fire districts of: Central Oregon, Northeast Oregon, Klamath- Lake, and Walker Range. This fire region experienced a total of 4,992.6 acres of burned land. The NOA saw the least amount of area burned but still had 151 individual fires ignited within the region. The NOA fire region includes the fire districts of: Tillamook, Astoria, Forest Grove, West Oregon, and North Cascade. The fires in this region accounted for a total of 2168.88 acres of burned land. In 2017 the Oregon Department of Forestry had 45,681.5 acres of land burned in their forests.


2017 Orica–Scott (men's team) season
The 2017 season for the Orica–Scott cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2017 Orienteering World Cup
The 2017 Orienteering World Cup was the 23rd edition of the Orienteering World Cup. The 2017 Orienteering World Cup consisted of 10 individual events, four relays and three sprint relay events. The events were located in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Switzerland. The 2017 World Orienteering Championships in Tartu, Estonia are included in the World Cup.


2017 Orienteering World Cup
Matthias Kyburz of Switzerland won his second consecutive overall title in the men's World Cup, his fourth title in total. Tove Alexandersson of Sweden won her fourth consecutive overall title in the women's World Cup.


2017 Orienteering World Cup, Points distribution
The 40 best runners in each event are awarded points. The winner is awarded 100 points. In WC events 1 to 8, the seven best results counts in the overall classification. In the finals (WC 9 and WC 10), both results counts.


2017 Orienteering World Cup, Overall standings
This section shows the final standings after all 10 individual events.


2017 Orienteering World Cup, Overall standings, Relay
The table shows the final standings after all 7 relay events. The six best results counts in the overall standings, which means that each team's worst results (in brackets) does not count.


2017 Origins Award winners
The following are the winners of the 44th annual (2017) Origins Award, presented at Origins 2018:


2017 Orkney Islands Council election
The 2017 Orkney Council election took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of Orkney Islands Council. The election used the six wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 21 Councillors being elected.


2017 Orkney Islands Council election
The Scottish Greens contested 2 wards in Orkney for the first time. Another group; the Orkney Manifesto Group, ran as a registered party for the first time. The OMG advocates the politicisation of the Orkney Islands Council, however is unaffiliated to any national party. The group has a Liberal-Left political outlook.


2017 Orkney Islands Council election, Election result
*The OMG councillors had been previously elected as Independents. 2017 was the first election they stood under the OMG slate.


2017 Orlando City B season
The 2017 Orlando City B season was the club's second year of existence, and their second season in the Eastern Conference of the competition then known as the United Soccer League and now as the USL Championship, the second tier of the United States soccer pyramid. It was their first and ultimately only year playing in the new Orlando City Stadium in Downtown Orlando.


2017 Orlando City B season
This was OCB's final season in the second tier of American soccer as at the end of the year OCB's MLS parent club, Orlando City SC, announced that their USL affiliate would not participate in the 2018 USL season. The team would later announce their intention to become a founding member of the new third-tier USL League One in 2019.


2017 Orlando City B season, Roster
On October 18, 2017, OCB declined the options of defenders Zach Ellis-Hayden, Zach Carroll and Timbó; midfielders Jordan Schweitzer, Danny Deakin and Austin Martz; and forward Michael Cox. Additionally, the contracts of goalkeeper Jake Fenlason, defender Scott Thomsen and midfielders Paul Clowes and Lewis Neal expired.


2017 Orlando City SC season
The 2017 Orlando City SC season was the club's seventh season of existence in Orlando, and third season in Major League Soccer, the top-flight league in the United States soccer league system. The team opened the season with a 1–0 win over New York City FC, at the newly-completed Orlando City Stadium.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Background
On December 29, 2016, club President Phil Rawlins announced his reduced role in the organization, acting as a liaison for the clubs and their brand in league matters (such as the MLS Expansion Committee), and consulting on the board of directors. The day-to-day operational duties were handed over to CEO Alex Leitão. In recognition for his nine years of service, owner Flavio Augusto da Silva announced that Phil's position would become permanent, bestowing the title of life-president. One of his first actions, on January 4, 2017, was to dedicate the 49 rainbow-colored seats in Section 12 of the new stadium to permanently honor the victims and families of those affected by the Pulse tragedy on June 12, 2016.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, Friendlies
The Lions finish the preseason 2–2–2. Their first official match at the new stadium is a 3–1 friendly win against USL side St. Louis FC.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, Major League Soccer
The MLS schedule was released on January 12. Orlando City played its first regular season match in their new stadium on March 5, against their expansion rivals NYCFC. New expansion teams for this year are Minnesota United, led by former coach Adrian Heath, and Atlanta United. The squad goes into the season riding a 2-game winning streak, besting the Union at Philadelphia, and D.C. United at Camping World Stadium last October.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, Major League Soccer
The team announced two sellouts on February 21: the Home Opener vs. NYCFC on March 5, and the L.A. Galaxy on April 15.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, Major League Soccer
Officials with the Atlanta Stadium group announced on April 18 that the retractable roof will not be completed in time for their planned opening match between Atlanta United and Orlando City SC on July 30, forcing moving the game to Bobby Dodd Stadium on July 29. The Lions visited Mercedes-Benz Stadium on September 16, playing to a 3–3 draw, in front 70,425 fans. The game set an MLS attendance record, and registered as 4th-largest crowd in the world this season.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
Orlando City entered the tournament in the fourth round against Miami FC, who had beaten the Tampa Bay Rowdies 2–0 on May 31, 2017.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
Host team listed firstBold = winner* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score


2017 Orlando City SC season, Player statistics, Appearances
Starting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances after the + symbol where applicable.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Player movement
Per Major League Soccer and club policies, terms of the deals do not get disclosed.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Player movement, MLS SuperDraft picks
Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. The 2017 draft was held on January 13, 2017. Orlando had one selection.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Player movement, Loans Out
Because of the inclusion of Orlando City B to the new stadium for home games, player movement between the two squads became possible for both teams. Some members who had MLS contracts had the "Right of Recall" option, applicable at any time to the first-team roster.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Notable Events
Orlando Health was the jersey sponsor for the seventh consecutive season. New primary home kits were unveiled at the Fan Forum on Friday, February 17.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Notable Events
On April 22, it was announced that Orlando City, alongside 3 other MLS clubs, would wear a special kit in commemoration of the Earth Day. The kit, made entirely with recycled plastic from the Maldives at the Indian Ocean, was made by Adidas in conjunction with the Parley for the Oceans foundation, in order to address marine plastic pollution in the world. Orlando used this kit in an away game against New York City FC on April 23.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Notable Events
On May 8, the USSF announced that Orlando City Stadium would join other MLS clubs in hosting FIFA World Cup Qualifiers for the 2018 tournament. The venue hosted the October 8 home match between the United States against Panama. It was the first national team fixture in Orlando since a friendly against Sweden in 1998.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Notable Events
The fourth round draw of the 2017 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, announced on May 18, had the Lions hosting the winner of Miami FC and the Tampa Bay Rowdies at Orlando City Stadium the second week of June (see above).


2017 Orlando City SC season, Notable Events
Starting Goalkeeper Joe Bendik posted back-to-back years of 100+ saves before the team's largest win of the season, a 6–1 victory over the New England Revolution on September 27 at Orlando City Stadium.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Notable Events
With the New York Red Bulls win on October 7, the Lions were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs for the 3rd straight year.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Notable Events
Captain and first Designated Player Kaká declined a one-year extension on his contract in October 2017. He played his final match, assisting on Dom Dwyer's goal, and was subbed off in the 65th minute of a friendly fundraiser against the Puerto Rico national team on November 4.


2017 Orlando City SC season, Notable Events
On November 7, Orlando City Stadium was among 5 venues announced to host matches for the 2018 Florida Cup. It hosted the tournament's opening games on January 10–11, 2018.


2017 Orlando Pride season
The 2017 season is Orlando Pride's second season. The team competes in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States.


2017 Orlando Pride season, Transactions, 2017 NWSL College Draft
Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. The 2017 college draft was held on January 12, 2017. Orlando had two selections.


2017 Orlando Pride season, NWSL Playoffs
The top four teams from the regular season will compete for the NWSL Championship. Final seeding to be determined by 10:30 pm EST Saturday, Sept. 30th.


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
The NWSLsoccer.com website and the Go90 app have the exclusive rights to streaming all games live on each of their platforms. In addition, the league has partnered with the Lifetime Network to air a "Game of the Week" on Saturdays for the 24-week Regular Season. The Pride were selected for 7 matches on the slate. The dates are:


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
Sat., Apr. 15 / 3 p.m. kickoff / Portland Thorns FC vs. Orlando Pride


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
Sat., Apr. 22 / 4 p.m. kickoff / Orlando Pride vs. Washington Spirit


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
Sat., June 24 / 3:30 p.m. kickoff** / Orlando Pride vs. Houston Dash


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
Sat., July 22 / 3:30 p.m. kickoff** / Chicago Red Stars vs. Orlando Pride


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
Sat., Aug. 12 / 7:30 p.m. kickoff** / Orlando Pride vs. Sky Blue FC


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
Sat., Sept. 2 / 3:30 p.m. kickoff**/ Orlando Pride vs. Boston Breakers


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
Sat., Sept. 9 / 3:30 p.m. kickoff** / Orlando Pride vs. Seattle Reign FC


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
The NWSL announced on August 17 that the Game of the Week on Lifetime for Saturday, Sept. 23 at 3:30 p.m. ET featured the Orlando Pride vs. Portland Thorns FC at Orlando City Stadium. Lifetime also aired their away match at FC Kansas City on August 26th.


2017 Orlando Pride season, Media
** New schedule adjustments issued on June 12th by the NWSL and Lifetime Network airtimes revised for player safety due to extreme temperatures and allowance for hydration breaks.


2017 Orlando Pride season, Honors and awards, Other awards
Orlando Pride forward Marta and defender Ali Krieger have been named to the 2017 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) Best XI, announced on October 12th.


2017 Orly Airport attack
The March 2017 Île-de-France attacks were a pair of terrorist attacks by the same individual in Garges-lès-Gonesse, an outer suburb of Paris, and at Orly International Airport near Paris on 18 March 2017. The attacker, a 39-year-old man identified as Ziyed Ben Belgacem, was shot dead after attempting to seize a weapon from a soldier patrolling the airport under Opération Sentinelle.


2017 Orly Airport attack
At Orly Airport, the attacker shouted that he wanted to kill and die in the name of Allah. the attack is officially regarded as an act of terrorism.


2017 Orly Airport attack, Timeline of attacks, Initial attacks
The first attack took place at 06:55 local time in the suburb of Garges-lès-Gonesse when the attacker was stopped by police during a routine traffic stop. He used a pellet gun to shoot and lightly injure a female police officer before driving away. He abandoned his vehicle in Vitry-sur-Seine shortly afterwards, where he threatened the patrons of a bar and, saying "in the name of Allah," stole another car at gunpoint from a mother driving her daughter.


2017 Orly Airport attack, Timeline of attacks, Airport attack
At about 08:30, he went to the departures level of the south terminal of Orly Airport and assaulted a member of a three-person patrol of air force soldiers. According to a description by François Molins of the Prosecutor's Office in Paris, "With a pistol in his right hand and a bag over his shoulder, he grabbed (the soldier) with his left arm, made her move backward by three to four meters (yards), positioning her as a shield, and pointed his revolver at her forehead," shouting "Put down your weapons! Put your hands on your head!