leave of absence from the team as his wife battles a rare form of throat cancer.The Senators announced the news on Twitter and said Anderson isnt expected to be availa

OTTAWA, Ontario -- Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson has taken a leave of absence from the team as his wife battles a rare form of throat cancer.The Senators announced the news on Twitter and said Anderson isnt expected to be available for Ottawas game Thursday against visiting Philadelphia.Nicholle Anderson has been diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a cancer that starts in the upper part of the throat behind the nose and near the base of skull.She is undergoing treatment at the Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center in New York.Mike Condon and the recently recalled Andrew Hammond will take on the goaltending duties in Andersons absence. Anderson is 12-5-1 with a 2.20 goals-against average this season. Dzanan Musa Jersey . - NASCAR announced a 33-race schedule for the 2014 Nationwide Series with virtually no changes from this years slate. Cheap Nets Jerseys . Galatasaray said in a statement on its website Monday that Mancini signed a three-year contract and will be paid 3.5 million euros for the upcoming season, with his salary upped to 4. http://www.cheapnetsjerseys.com/ .Y. - Nelson Mandela will be honoured by the New York Yankees with a plaque in Monument Park. Cheap Nets Jerseys China . Clarke was injured while practicing on the Doha Golf Club range after the pro-am on Tuesday. The Northern Irishman arrived at the course on Wednesday hoping to start, but after hitting a few balls on the practice putting green Clarke advised officials he was not fit to play. Cheap Brooklyn Nets Jerseys . The Croatian served 21 aces and hit 42 winners against Sijsling, who double-faulted to give Cilic a 4-3 lead in the deciding set. "All the players, they know me and they were really happy to see me and they were really happy that this is over for me," Cilic said. RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Paralympic Games already has its first political protest, right at the beginning with the opening ceremony.A Belarusian sports ministry employee who marched in with a Russian flag on Wednesday has been booted out of the games.The International Paralympic Committee banned Russia from the games because of the countrys part in a state-sponsored doping system, and identified the flag-carrier as Andrei Fomachkin. The IPC said he was waving the Russian flag and marching as a guest of the Belarusian Paralympic committee.The fact he was a guest of the president rather than an athlete or coach makes it easier for us to take this action, IPC spokesman Craig Spence said.Spence added the Belarusian delegation was being warned about staging political protests.As with the Olympics, Paralympic officials do not allow political protests in the games.If they continue to break the rules, we will look at some other form of action, Spence said.Natalya Eismont, a spokeswoman for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, said it was not a spontaneous gesture, and hinted there might be more to come.`It was the Belarusian ddelegations idea to take the Russian flag to the opening ceremony, Eismont said.dddddddddddd I would like to stress that this is the stance of our government, of the president and the president of our Paralympic committee. We stand with Russian Paralympians.The Belarusian foreign ministry said it was aware that there could be consequences for the stunt.If we have to bear responsibility for this, we will, Belarusian foreign ministry spokesman Dmitry Mironchik said.Spence said the Belarus team was searched before entering the stadium.We check all teams before they go out into the stadium, at every single games, he said. That flag was pretty well hidden on the person last night because all of the Belarus team was searched before they went out, and the flag was somewhere on the person we didnt notice.---AP reporter Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed to this report---Stephen Wade on Twitter: http://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP .His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/stephen-wade ' ' '