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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A new pollution problem has surfaced in Guanabara Bay, the venue for sailing in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.Sailors complained Monday about an oil slick that turned white boats brown with crews in town practicing for the Olympics, which open in a month.Weve never seen anything like this. It was all over the place, said Finnish sailor Camilla Cedercreutz. There was no way you could avoid it.Its yet another in a long list of problems confronting South Americas first games: the Zika virus, rising crime and violence, budget cuts, and slow ticket sales.The games will also open with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff facing an impeachment trial, and Brazil mired in its deepest recession in decades.Cedercreutz said the slick filled part of the bay on Sunday, staining her boat from bow to stern.This is only our second time in Rio, said Cedercreutz, who has qualified in the 49erFX class. Weve heard it was really bad, You get mad because it shouldnt be like this anywhere. It shouldnt be this dirty. But theres nothing we can do about it.Cedercreutzs sailing partner Noora Ruskola said other sailors told her: Your boat looks like a toilet.Guanabara Bay is severely polluted, filled with bacteria and viruses. However, sailors have less frequently complained about industrial pollution in the giant bay.Spanish sailor Jordi Xammar, who will compete in the 470 class, said he saw the slick and tried to avoid it.The boats were completely brown, he said. But the worst thing was we saw a lot of dead fish.Xammar said this is his fourth time in Rio, and hes seen the water improve a bit. It was yellow-green last year.Rio organizing committee officials say the venue is safe, although independent studies by The Associated Press show high level of pathogens in waters that Rio is using for sailing, rowing, canoeing and open-water swimming.World Sailing, the governing body of the sport, said Monday it was not in a position to comment.---Stephen Wade on Twitter: http://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/stephen-wade Air Max 720 Outlet . -- 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. Custom Air Max 97 Plus . PAUL, Minn. http://www.wholesalenikeshoesclearance.com/cheap-vapormax-shoes.html . They were putting most of their energy into a record-setting offensive display. Wholesale Air Max 720 . -- In one brief spurt, Brazil turned a close game into a rout and proved again it will be a strong World Cup favourite. 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Basketball has been so good to me, and I cant wait to once again share my love and passion for the game with the fans and my ESPN colleagues.Johnson worked for ESPN as a studio analyst from 2008-13 and said getting to work again with Wilbon was one of the reasons for his return, along with the chance to work the limited nine-game Saturday schedule. He was previously doing 60 or more nights, which was too much with his other businesses, he said.If it had been a full schedule like I did before, 60-something games, it never would have worked out, Johnson said. I wouldnt have come back.This is the second season of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC, which had one of the most memorable regular-season games of last season, when tthe?Golden State Warriors stormed back to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder?after MVP?Stephen Curry?hit a long 3-pointer in overtime.ddddddddddddNow Johnson thinks the Thunders Westbrook is on track to unseat Curry. The reigning Western Conference player of the week entered play on Monday with five straight triple-doubles -- the most since?Michael Jordan?had seven in a row in 1989 -- and Westbrook was averaging 31.0 points, 11.3 assists and 10.8 rebounds for the season.You think about it, and not just getting triple-doubles, but he gets high triple-doubles with his scoring, rebounds and assists, said Johnson, who is second in NBA history with 138 triple-doubles.So what hes doing and the rate hes doing it at, as well, its just truly amazing; and if anybody could average a triple-double for a season, I think he could definitely pull it off. So its got the whole league and all basketball fans around the country paying notice to him.The NBA Countdown pregame show will run for 30 minutes beginning at 8 p.m. ET. The Saturday night schedule begins with the?San Antonio Spurs visiting the Cleveland Cavaliers, then has the LA Clippers?visiting the Warriors on Jan. 28, putting the Wests top three teams in action in the first two weeks.Its an exciting season and I wanted to be a part of it, Johnson said.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '