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The Minnesota Lynx have one of the best offenses in the WNBA, but their success starts on defense.Minnesota (15-3) has the second-best scoring defense in the league and also holds opponents to the second-lowest shooting percentage. After limiting Chicago to 39.1 percent shooting in a victory Tuesday, the Lynx take aim Thursday night at the Eastern Conference cellar-dwelling Connecticut Sun (4-13).We just told our team that we are 78-1 when we hold our opponents below 40 percent, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said in Tuesdays postgame press conference. That is how we win. That will always be the case with this group. That is where it starts and ends.Minnesota, which got off to a WNBA-record 13-0 start, lost three in a row before winning its past two games.The Lynx allowed an average of 92 points during their losing streak and failed to hold any of those three foes under 40 percent shooting. For the season, they allow 75.2 points and 41.6 percent shooting.Minnesota and Connecticut are meeting for the first time this season.The Sun are coming off their most impressive win of the season, an 86-83 triumph at Dallas on Saturday. Their other victories have come against San Antonio (twice) and Seattle, teams out of the playoff picture if the season ended today.Connecticut is ninth in scoring at 80.3 points per game. Guard Alex Bentley averages a team-best 14.4 points per contest. Forward Alyssa Thomas averages 10.6 and guard Jasmine Thomas is at 10.2.The Lynx, who average 83.3 points, are led by forward Maya Moore at 19.3 points and 4.3 assists per game. She scored 33 in the 87-82 win over Chicago, and her second-half defense on Sky star Elena Delle Donne was key. Delle Donne, the reigning league MVP, scored 38, but had just 13 after halftime when Moore got the defensive assignment.When Maya had a chance to guard her, it really got Maya going, Reeve said.Minnesota has balance behind Moore. Center Sylvia Fowles averages 13.8 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, shooting 58.7 percent. Guard Seimone Augustus averages 10.2 points. Guard Lindsay Whalen averages 8.6 points, 3.5 assists and shoots 37.5 percent from 3-point range. Air Force 1 Sale Nz . Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers. Air Force 1 Ultra Flyknit 2.0 . 31, the CFL club announced Monday. The team also has yet to decide on the future of Doug Berry, who began the season as a consultant to the head coach but took over the offensive co-ordinators duties in July. http://www.airforce1salenz.com/air-force-1-just-do-it-nz.html . Cote was eligible to become a free agent Feb. 15. 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WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump moved closer to nominating Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of State on Saturday, a decision that would bring a business leader with close ties to Russia into the Cabinet.Trump has privately signaled that he plans to tap Tillerson for the powerful Cabinet post, but had not formally offered him the job as of Saturday evening, according to people who have spoken with Trump and his transition team. Some advisers worry that Tillersons Russia connections would lead to a contentious Senate confirmation hearing and keep alive questions about Trumps own relationship with Moscow.Trump and Tillerson met privately in New York on Saturday, their second meeting in a week. The president-elects transition team said an announcement was not expected over the weekend.Tillerson rose to prominence through Exxons Russian energy business and was awarded Russias Order of Friendship. He has argued against sanctions the U.S. and European allies imposed on Russia after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.In an interview airing Sunday, Trump praised Tillerson as much more than a businessman.Hes a world-class player, Trump said on Fox News Sunday. To me, a great advantage is he knows many of the players and he knows them well. He does massive deals in Russia, he does massive deals, not for himself, for the company.Trumps own relationship with Russia was an issue through much of the campaign. The CIA has concluded with high confidence that Russia sought to influence the U.S. election on behalf of the Republican, an assessment Trump has rejected.The president-elects deliberations over his pick to lead the State Department -- particularly his consideration of Mitt Romney for the post -- have exposed anew the deep rivalries within Trumps team. Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway warned publicly that Trump supporters would feel betrayed if he were to choose a fierce rival for the post, especially given that some loyal allies -- most notably former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani -- also wanted the job.Giuliani officially took himself out of consideration for the Cabinet on Friday, though his standing had already been diminished. In addition to Romney, Trump has also been considering Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker and John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Trumps team has discussed bringing Bolton on as a No. 2 to Tillerson.The people who have spoken to Trump and the transition team about the State Department decision insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the internal deliberations publicly.Internal divisions were also complicating efforts to set up Trumps senior White House staff. Longtime aides are fearful of being left out of the mix as incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus builds out the West Wing team. Trump had given Priebus wide authority in the decision-making over White House jobs.But four people innvolved in the transition said Trump was irritated after learning of his loyalists frustrations with Priebus in recent press reports.dddddddddddd Trump made his displeasure clear to Priebus, who has begun outreach to some of the people who worked on Trumps campaign from the start.Two of those sources said Trumps irritation contributed to a decision to hold off on announcing his pick to succeed Priebus at the Republican National Committee. Priebus, who is fiercely protective of the RNC, is said to back Michigan GOP chair Ronna Romney McDaniel for the job. She appeared at Trumps rally in Michigan Friday night, but no announcement was made.McDaniel, who is Mitt Romneys niece, is still likely to get the RNC job, a Trump transition official said.Priebus was among a handful of Trump advisers who traveled with him to Maryland Saturday for the annual Army-Navy football game. The president-elect was cheered by the crowd as he joined decorated officers in private boxes at the stadium and he pumped his fist in the air a couple of times.The president-elect flew to Maryland from New York, where hed met privately with Tillerson. Trump is said to be intrigued by the prospect of putting an international businessman at the State Department. Hes already selected others with predominantly private sector experience to his Cabinet, including billionaire investor Wilbur Ross for Commerce.The 64-year-old Tillerson is a Texas native who joined Exxon straight out of college in 1975 and never left. Exxon also has operations in Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, and many other countries. Africa and Asia were its leading sources of oil production in 2015, ahead of the U.S. The company says it has a diverse portfolio of oil and gas projects around the world to mitigate risks, including political ones.Tillerson has held posts in the companys operations in both Yemen and Russia. Success in the latter post required aligning the companys interests with that of the Russian government.Early in the companys efforts to gain access to Russian market, Tillerson cut a deal with state-owned Rosneft. The neglected post-Soviet company didnt have a tremendous amount to offer, but Exxon partnered with it to be on the same side of the table, Tillerson said, according to Private Empire, an investigative history of Exxon by reporter Steve Coll.Tillerson, who became CEO on Jan. 1, 2006, is expected to retire in 2017. Tillersons heir apparent, Darren Woods, was put in place a year ago, so there would be virtually no additional disruption to Exxons succession plans if Tillerson were to become secretary of state.---Associated Press writers Ken Thomas and Dave Koenig contributed to this report.---On Twitter, follow Julie Pace at http://twitter.com/jpaceDC and Julie Bykowicz at http://twitter.com/bykowicz ' ' '