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Retired General Martin E. Dempsey, the new chairman of USA Basketball, said Thursday that whether Team USA players ever embrace President-elect Donald Trump is not that important.They are not representing President-elect Trump, Dempsey said on the ESPN/ABC News podcast Capital Games. They are representing the country where we have a system that stood the test of time with three separate and equal branches of government, representing 350 million people.Dempsey is the new chairman of USA Basketball, but he wont have a primary role with the senior mens national team for the next four years.Outgoing chairman Jerry Colangelo will remain as the managing director of the national team for the next four years and thus work most closely with new Team USA coach Gregg Popovich. Colangelo will essentially serve as the teams general manager.Popovich, who coaches the San Antonio Spurs, has been outspoken in his criticism of Trump since the Nov. 8 election.Dempsey said the Team USA coach is the one who has to take a team that is representative of the country by ethnicity and race and has to pull it together, and that Popovich is expressing concern about how easy its going to be to do that in the next four years.But thats something weve been asked to do.Dempsey said the national anthem is appropriate to be played at sporting events.Its absolutely the appropriate place to celebrate our country, Dempsey said, adding there are other venues to express disagreement and that he doesnt disparage others for making those choices.Dempsey said he spoke to the mens and womens national teams at the past two Olympic Games and the World Cup of Basketball about what it means to wear the U.S. uniform in that setting.I tell them this is different since you are representing the United States, Dempsey said. ?Celebrate the freedoms we enjoy that arent available around the world. 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The Vancouver coach and an announced sellout crowd of 18,910 watched in dismay as the Canucks lost 7-4 to the New York Islanders on Monday night by squandering a 3-0 lead in the third period. (STATS) -- Record-setting performances have been a constant this season for the three players who Tuesday were invited to the announcement of the 2016 STATS FCS Walter Payton Award.Sam Houston States Jeremiah Briscoe and Eastern Washington teammates Gage Gubrud and Cooper Kupp hope to claim whats known as the Heisman of the FCS level, an award that is in its 30th anniversary season and will be handed out at the STATS FCS Awards Banquet and Presentation in Frisco, Texas on Jan. 6 -- the eve of the national championship game.A national panel of over 150 sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries voted on the Payton Award, which had 25 finalists from 13 FCS conferences. Briscoe and Gubrud are quarterbacks, while Kupp, last years Payton recipient, is a wide receiver.Briscoe, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound redshirt junior from Houston, has led Sam Houston State to the No. 1 ranking in the STATS FCS Top 25, the Southland Conference title and the No. 5 seed in the FCS playoffs. The Bearkats have the nations top-ranked offense and his 52 touchdown passes are a Southland record and four shy of the FCS single-season record. The Southland player of the year has produced the top four single-game touchdown performances in Sam Houston history, including seven scoring passes against both Stephen F. Austin and Central Arkansas. In addition to leading the FCS in TD passes, he ranked No. 1 in passing yards (4,096), passing yards per game (372.4), passing efficiency (187.0), points responsible for (318) and points responsible for per game (28.9) during the regular season. He threw only seven interceptions.I have a really strong belief in Jeremiahs talent, coach K.C. Keeler said, but maybe I have a stronger belief in his leadership skills.Gubrud and Kupp are the first pair of teammates to share the Big Sky Conferences offensive player of the year award and have helped third-ranked Eastern Washington to a share of the conference title and the No. 2 seed in the playoffs.Gubrud, a 6-2, 195-pound redshirt sophomore from McMinnville, Oregon, opened the season against Washington State with a school-record 551 total offensive yards in his first career start, and later set the Eagles single-game standard for passing yards with 520 against Montana State. He is on pace to set the Big Sky record for total offensive yards per game (his average is a national-best 412.2) and ranked second in the FCS in completions (300), passing yards (4,071), passing yards per game (370.1), touchdown passes (40), points responsible for (266) and points responsible for per game (24.2) during the regular season. He went 222 straight passes without an interception, and led the Eagles with 463 rushing yards, scoring four times.Kupp, a 6-2, 215-pound redshirt senior from Yakima, Washington, is enjoying his fourth straigght monster season.dddddddddddd In the regular season, he had 91 receptions for 1,297 yards and 12 touchdowns, ranking first in receiving yards per game (129.7) and second in receptions, receptions per game (9.1) and receiving yards. He rushed for a touchdown, passed for two and scored on a punt return. The NFL prospect owns 13 FCS, 10 Big Sky and 22 school records, led by the career triumvirate of 402 receptions, 6,061 receiving yards and 68 touchdowns receptions -- each a FCS and Division I record. Hes also caught a pass in 49 straight games, tying the FCS mark. With a repeat of the Payton Award, Kupp would become the second two-time winner with former Appalachian State quarterback Armanti Edwards in 2008 and 09.When you take a look at their seasons, Gage has had an outstanding debut year, and then Coopers body of work is off the charts, coach Beau Baldwin said. Its very deserving in terms of how teams have to prepare going against Gage and Cooper and what they bring to the table offensively. They just happen to be on the same team. With the work each of them has done individually, their accomplishments on paper statistically and the wins theyve helped produce for our team, I think its very deserving they are two of the three finalists. Its quite an honor.The Walter Payton Award voting reflected the regular season and was conducted before the start of the FCS playoffs.The results for fourth through 25th place were as follows:---=4. Chase Edmonds, RB, Fordham: 6-22-32-19-20-2725. Tarik Cohen, RB, North Carolina A&T: 8-16-7-13-14-1336. Eli Jenkins, QB, Jacksonville State: 5-13-6-4-6-1097. Taryn Christion, QB, South Dakota State: 0-4-6-13-14-748. Khalid Abdullah, RB, James Madison: 0-4-7-13-8-719. Devlin Hodges, QB, Samford: 1-2-6-7-12-5710. Jake Wieneke, QB, South Dakota State: 1-4-3-6-7-5511. Karel Hamilton, WR, Samford: 0-3-3-6-13-4612. Bryan Schor, QB, James Madison: 1-1-5-8-4-4413. DeVante Kincade, QB, Grambling State: 2-0-5-4-4-3714. Dallas Goedert, TE, South Dakota State: 1-0-4-5-5-3215. DeAngelo Henderson, RB, Coastal Carolina: 3-1-3-0-1-2916. Lenard Tillery, RB, Southern: 0-2-3-2-1-2217. Kyle Lauletta, QB, Richmond: 0-1-1-2-6-1718. Kamron Lewis, WR, Saint Francis: 0-1-0-4-1-1319.(Tie) Austin Gahafer, QB, Morehead State: 1-0-0-1-2-919.(Tie) KD Humphries, QB, Murray State: 0-0-2-0-3-921. Troy Pelletier, QB, Lehigh: 0-0-0-2-4-822. Julien Davenport, LT, Bucknell: 0-0-1-1-2-723. Justin Watson, WR, Penn: 0-0-1-1-1-624. Tyrell Maxwell, QB, Gardner-Webb: 0-0-0-1-0-225. Dillon Buechel, QB, Duquesne: 0-0-0-0-0-0A first-place vote was worth five points, a second-place vote four points, a third-place vote three points, a fourth-place vote two points and a fifth-place vote one point. ' ' '