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The hottest stretch of Alex Norens career has come a few weeks too late.If only two of his three European Tour wins since early July hadnt arrived after the qualification period for the Ryder Cup ended and Darren Clarke had selected his captains picks.I wasnt on their minds, Noren says.Too bad for Clarke. With Noren on the team, the Europeans might not have been humbled at Hazeltine.The 34-year-old Swede is easily playing the best golf of his life -- and, as a consequence, earning more money than he could ever have imagined.Please take a week off and give someone else a chance, English golfer Chris Paisley tweeted Sunday, hours after Noren won the British Masters at The Grove to take his 2016 prize money over 2 million euros ($2.2 million).The hot streak began when Noren won the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart the week before the British Open. He lost in the final of the Paul Lawrie Match Play in early August, won the Omega European Masters in September, and then triumphed at the British Masters at the weekend.Noren woke up Monday at a career-high No. 18 in the rankings and is guaranteed to play in all the majors in 2017, which means a first appearance at Augusta National for the Masters.Ive been trying to get into the top 50 to play in more (big) tournaments, Noren told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his hotel after arriving for the Portugal Masters in Vilamoura. But to get into the top 20, I really couldnt dream about it.Noren appreciates the upturn in fortunes more than most golfers would.In 2014, he played just two events because of tendinitis in both wrists that required surgery. Every time he tried to play, he got extreme inflammation in the wrists and lost most of the movement in them. He was told not to compete or train.That year, he earned less than 5,000 euros ($5,500) in prize money.Maybe it was good for me that I had this injury, Noren said. I could do something else other than golf.There have been more changes in perspective for Noren this year.He and his girlfriend, Jennifer, had their first child -- Iris -- early this year. Suddenly his mood stopped depending on the numbers on a scorecard.Maybe thats the biggest contributor to my form this year, Noren said. Golf was everything to me before ... It put a lot of pressure on me.He has also decided to spend less time at the range. That has meant practicing at a different club -- Ullna Golf Club, near Stockholm -- which Noren says doesnt have a driving range.I play a lot more golf on the course than before and try to achieve scores even when my game doesnt feel so good, he said. Before, if I played nine holes and I didnt feel so good, I went to the driving range. Now I use the course as my driving range, hitting extra balls here, extra balls there.Noren said he might take advantage of his lofty ranking by playing more events on the PGA Tour in future, allowing him to play the best tournaments against the best players on the best courses. But he said he will not turn his back on the European Tour.But in the short term, Noren has the end of the best season of his career to focus on. He is currently ranked fourth in the Race to Dubai and must be one of the favorites a month out from the World Tour Championship finale.I know how tough golf can be. Ive had my really bad runs before, so I dont take it for granted, Noren said.Im just really happy with what Ive done this summer. I have more self-confidence now than before. But I honestly dont feel that other people are looking at me in a different way.Clay Matthews Packers Jersey .C. United of Major League Soccer. United chose the defender in the second round of the 2013 MLS re-entry draft. 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Bryant, who signed a five-year, $34 million contract as a free agent with Cleveland in March, reported symptoms on Monday morning, a team spokesman said.NEW YORK -- New York Liberty players are still wearing warm-ups to support the Black Lives Matter movement -- but their shirts wont be imprinted with hashtags created after recent police shootings.The Liberty first wore black shirts on Sunday with the words #BlackLivesMatter and #Dallas5 on the front and a hashtag with a blank space on the back. But on Wednesday, players wore plain black Adidas shirts before a game against the Atlanta Dream, and they said the decision was due to a compromise made by the players to wear the branded warm-up shirts.Adidas outfits WNBA teams, and the teams typically wear specific branded warm-ups.We didnt want the last time to be the only stance that we make, Liberty guard Tanisha Wright said. Its easy to come out and make a stance one time. People will talk about it that one time and then they will forget about it. We dont want this conversation to be forgotten about.Messages seeking comment from an Adidas representative were not immediately returned.The Libertys shirts were showcased after the Minnesota Lynx donned their own shirts on Saturday. Afterward, four off-duty police officers that were working security at Minnesotas game walked off the job in response. Minnesota did not wear their warm-up shirts to their next game in San Antonio.The Lynx shirts read: Change starts with us. Justice & Accountability, on the front, and the names of the two black men fatally shot by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, on the back. The shirts also showed the Dallas police sshield above the phrase Black Lives Matter.ddddddddddddome Liberty players said they planned to wear their shirts for the rest of the season, and others suggested other signs of support might be in the works.For me personally, we agreed we want to do it for the rest of the season with the black shirts we have on and meeting in the middle with the WNBA having Adidas-represented shirts, Liberty forward Tina Charles said. Because of our time schedules, we arent allowed to be in protests. We arent able to go out to city halls and say how we feel, so I think the shirts represent our voice, and I think the Minnesota Lynx did that very well.The shirts were just one example of social activism on the part of WNBA players in recent weeks.After the fatal shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Breanna Stewart of the Seattle Storm wrote the names of the 49 victims on her Nike pride shoes and auctioned them off after a game, along with a pair of shoes she wore the week prior that had #Enough and Orlando United on them.As a team, the Storm signed 49 #OrlandoUnited shirts and placed them on seats at their Pride night to remember the victims. The shirts were sold to raise money for the OneOrlando Fund.The Phoenix Mercury hosted a blood drive and a silent auction for the cause.Liberty guard Shavonte Zellous has Orlando Strong, Orlando United and LGBT written on her sneakers. ' ' '