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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jaguars tight end Julius Thomas is among the three starters who will miss Sundays game against the Buffalo Bills because of injury.Thomas, who has 30 catches for 281 yards and four touchdowns, suffered a back injury in last Sundays loss to Detroit and did not practice all week. Defensive end Jared Odrick (shoulder) and linebacker Dan Skuta (back) also did not practice and will not play. This will be the second consecutive game Skuta has missed.Running back T.J. Yeldon is questionable with a right ankle injury, but coach Gus Bradley said he expects Yeldon to play.Yeldon was hurt in the first half against Detroit and did not practice all week. He is second on the team in rushing with 301 yards and one touchdown and also is the teams fourth-leading receiver (34 catches, 217 yards, one TD).Aaron Colvin (concussion), the teams top nickel back, and starting nose tackle Abry Jones (ankle) are questionable, along with reserve receiver Arrelious Benn (concussion). Reserve defensive end Chris Smith (eye) is out. Adidas NMD R1 Wholesale . JOHNS, N. Cheap NMD Online . -- An ugly goal by Nick Bonino helped the Anaheim Ducks overcome the defensive-minded Phoenix Coyotes on a night when their ragged power play continued to struggle. http://www.cheapnmdonline.com/ . During the athletes parade, the 23-strong Ukrainian team was represented by a lone flagbearer in an apparent protest at the presence of Russian troops in Ukraines Crimean peninsula. Adidas NMD R1 China . The Americans, skipped by John Shuster, seized the advantage in the eighth end by scoring five points for a 7-3 lead. The Czechs pulled two back in the ninth, but Shusters team of third Jeff Isaacson, second Jared Zezel and lead John Landsteiner ended with another point to secure the last Olympic berth on offer. Adidas NMD Black And White . The Montreal Canadiens announced on Friday that the veteran forward will return to the teams line-up on Saturday night when the Habs visit the Nashville Predators. MINNEAPOLIS -- This wasnt the way Hector Santiago wanted to start out with his new team.Acquired by Minnesota from the Los Angeles Angels at the Aug. 1 trade deadline, Santiago lost in his Twins debut last week. His first outing at his new home ballpark didnt go much better.Santiago gave up five runs -- four earned -- in 5 1/3 innings Tuesday night as the Twins were beaten 7-5 by the Houston Astros. The left-hander is 0-2 with Minnesota after going 10-4 in 22 starts for the Angels this season.The last four days weve been kind of working on something different, just trying to be in the zone as much as I can, Santiago said. The big adjustments that we made in those three days, four days between starts, that obviously showed today.In his first outing with the Twins, Santiago needed 99 pitches to get through five innings. He threw 83 pitches before he was lifted Tuesday.Like a lot of other pitchers, Santiago (10-6) had trouble getting Jose Altuve out. Altuve, who sat out Monday for the first time since June 15 last year, went 4 for 4 and scored two runs.Three of those four hits came off Santiago, all singles up the middle.You just try to throw it up there, make a good pitch and hopefully he can hit it at somebody, Santiago said. It just seems that every time he hits the ball, its somewhere where nobody is at.The Twins hit consecutive homers off Astros starter Mike Fiers in the fifth to take a 4-2 lead. Robbie Grossman hit a two-run shot and Brian Dozier followed with his 23rd of the year.It was the 10th time this season Minnesota went back-to-back, the third-most in team history.Miguel Sano also homered off Fiers when he sent the first pitch he saw in the second inning into the seats in left field. It was Sanos 19th of the season.But Santiago ran into trouble in the sixth as Houston scored three times to take a 5-4 lead.Hector, after the two-run homer in the first, settled in pretty nicely, Twins manager Paul Molitor said. He did a nice job of keeping his pitch count down, wwhich has been kind of a battle for him, and we got the home runs to supply our offense, but we certainly missed out on opportunities to execute.ddddddddddddEven though Fiers (8-5) gave up three home runs -- he allowed four total in his previous eight starts -- he benefited from a good night at the plate from his offense. Fiers entered ranked fifth in the American League in run support (6.75 runs per game).Carlos Correa drove in four runs, including a first-inning homer with Altuve on base. That snapped a drought of seven straight games for the Astros without a home run.Ken Giles allowed a run in the ninth but earned his second save.The Twins went 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position.This is all experience up here learning how to hit with runners in scoring position, Grossman said. This is different than the minor leagues. Guys have a better plan at how they attack you.POLANCO STICKING AT SHORTJorge Polanco didnt play a single inning at shortstop during his 75 games with Triple-A Rochester this season, but the 23-year-old seems to be settling in just fine at that position with the Twins.Polanco was again in the lineup at shortstop Tuesday against Houston and had no issues on anything hit his way. Molitor has been impressed with Polancos ability to move around the infield without skipping a beat.Its different here because of the speed, both in terms of how the balls hit and where you play and whos running the bases and all those type of things, Molitor said. I think thats one of the things were trying to gauge where hes at in terms of how he can slow the game down on the defensive side.UP NEXTMinnesota will send Ervin Santana (5-9, 3.62 ERA) to the mound in the third game of the series Wednesday. AL Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel (7-11, 4.56 ERA) starts for Houston. Keuchel pitched a three-hit shutout his last time out against Texas. ' ' '