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Robin Uthappa fired the third-fastest fifty in the 2016 IPL as Kolkata Knight Riders thrashed Kings XI Punjab by six wickets in Mohali. Uthappa (53 off 28 balls) smashed nine fours on his way to a 24-ball fifty as the Knight Riders reached their 139-run target with 17 balls to spare.Shaun Marsh earlier hit an unbeaten 56 from 41 balls for Kings XI but was one of only three players to notch double-figures as they struggled to 138-8 when put into bat by Kolkata, Sunil Narine impressive in taking 2-22. Mark Ramprakash tells Matt Floyd and Marcus North about his time in India watching the coaching techniques used by Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata made comfortable work of the run-chase to win their third in four, with Kings XI consigned to the reverse, having lost three of their first four games.Murali Vijay and Manan Vohra - both so impressive in scoring fifties in Kings XIs first win over Pune on Sunday - opened up, but the latter lasted only 12 balls before falling to Morne Morkel (2-27) in the fourth over.Vijay and Marsh safely negotiated the rest of the six-over powerplay and looked to be going along nicely until Piyush Chawla (1-18) bowled Vijay for 26 with a brilliant googly. Fellow legspinner Narine inflicted further damage, picking up Wriddhiman Saha caught behind, and Glenn Maxwell switch-hitting straight to cover.In between those blows, Yusuf Pathan struck with his first ball of the tournament to remove Kings XI captain David Miller - the skipper tallying his third single-figure score for the tournament.Three more wickets fell in the final few overs, including Pradeep Sahu to a poor run out, but Marsh at least reached his half century with six in the final over, one of two off Andre Russells final - and solitary - over, as Kyle Abbott also lofted him over the ropes to add some gloss to the score.Uthappa and captain Gautam Gambhir put on 82 for the first wicket for Kolkata, the writing on the wall from ball one almost as Uthappa tucked it away off his pads for four. Robin Uthappa celebrates his half century in Kolkatas comfortable win over Kings XI The opening pair blasted 65 runs from the powerplay, although they benefitted from a couple of slices of luck in the fifth over, with Miller missing an opportunity to run out Gambhir at mid-on, and a thick outside edge from Uthappa off Sandeep Sharma just evading Saha behind the stumps.Both eventually fell to legspinner Pardeep Sahu (2-18) - Uthappa out lbw in the ninth over, while Gambhir departed for a run-a-ball 34 in the 11th to a terrific diving catch from Maxwell at midwicket.A slightly complacent Kolkata also lost Manish Pandey (12) and Shakib Al Hasan (11) to Axar Patel (2-19) before eventually earning a comfortable win.Watch continued coverage of the IPL on Sky Sports, with the next live action seeing Mumbai Indians face Royal Challengers Bangalore from 3pm on Sky Sports 2 on Wednesday. Custom Ed Oliver Jersey . 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Wholesale Custom Bills Shirts . -- Canadian Andrew Wiggins got the ball on the wing, made a nifty spin move and then let go with a soft floater from about 10 feet that swished through the net in Allen Fieldhouse. In another step toward redefining the amateur status of college athletes, Northwestern has agreed to drop social media restrictions placed on football players after a complaint about the team handbook was filed with the National Labor Relations Board.ESPN first reported Tuesday the complaint was withdrawn in September after Northwestern agreed to modify its rules. The NLRBs advisory memo states the scholarship football players are assumed to be statutory employees and that certain team rules were unlawful. That could affect players at the other 16 private schools that compete in FBS.A group of former Northwestern players, led by an advocacy group for college athletes, failed last year in its attempt to gain the right to unionize the team from the NLRB, although the door was left open for other changes when the board said the players should be treated as employees. The board has no jurisdiction over public institutions, which include the vast majority of colleges and universities in Division I.A complaint to the NLRB from a California lawyer with no connection to Northwestern was filed in August 2015, challenging the teams rules prohibiting activities such as speaking to the media without athletic department permission and posting information on Twitter and other social media without limits or monitoring by coaches. The school also agreed to change its grievance policy, which said players must go to the university, conference or NCAA with complaints.The school does not have similar policies for the rest of the student body.Northwestern considers its students who participate in NCAA Division I sports, including those who receive athletic scholarships, to be students, first and foremost, Northwestern Vice President for University Relations Al Cubbage said in a statement.As noted in the NLRB General Counsels Advice Memorandum dated September 22, 2016, although Northwestern disputes the General Counsels assumption that Northwesterns scholarship football players are employees, the rules off the former Football Handbook that were the subject of this charge have been modified.ddddddddddddRobert Boland, an antitrust attorney, said the initial 2014 ruling by an NLRB regional administrator in Chicago that scholarship players at private colleges and universities are employees creates opportunities to push for more benefits and rights for student-athletes -- possibly even payments.With this one body they are employees statutorily, said Boland, who is director of the masters of sports administration program at Ohio University. You could conceivably widen the niche and say if they are employees they would have the right to have contracts. They would have the right to have certain things that we can guarantee under the labor law for employees.Earlier this month, the Supreme Court said it would not hear the NCAAs appeal of an antitrust ruling against it in the so-called OBannon case. The lower courts ruled that NCAA rules violated antitrust laws, but also shot down a plan to pay college athletes for the use of their names, images and likenesses.The ruling left the NCAA open to further legal challenges and several are working their way through the courts.Boland said because the NLRBs decision affects only private schools its influence in the larger debate over how college athletes should be compensated is limited.It is nothing more than a piece to a large puzzle about the redefinition of the model of college athletics moving from some version of amateurism to some version of greater athlete autonomy and it doesnt say anything about money it just says more autonomy, Boland said.---This story has been corrected to show the NLRB did not make a ruling on the complaint but rather sent an advisory memo and the case was withdrawn after Northwestern agreed to modify its rules. Also, the case does not directly affect the other private schools in FBS but could. ' ' '