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MINNEAPOLIS -- Hitting coach Tom Brunansky and first base coach Butch Davis will not be back with the Minnesota Twins next season.The team announced Tuesday that Brunansky and Davis would not be offered new contracts. Pitching coach Neil Allen, third base coach Gene Glynn, bullpen coach Eddie Guardado, assistant hitting coach Rudy Hernandez and bench coach Joe Vavra will return in 2017 under third-year manager Paul Molitor.Minnesota was a major league-worst 59-103 last season, the franchises most losses since the original Washington Senators went 50-104 in 1949.Brunansky, a regular on the 1987 World Series champion Twins, returned to the organization in 2010 as a minor league hitting instructor. He became batting coach for the Twins in 2013.Young hitters had mixed results during Brunanskys four years, but the Twins were at least in the middle of the pack in the majors in runs scored the last two seasons and ranked seventh in 2014.Davis spent two years in his role with the Twins.The entire staff was in limbo for the last month, until new chief baseball officer Derek Falvey was clear of his prior duty with Clevelands front office and able to officially begin with the Twins this week. Allen, Glynn, Guardado and Hernandez were hired on the major league staff with Molitor before the 2015 season. Vavra has been in Minnesotas dugout since 2006, when he started as hitting coach.Allen served a six-week suspension this summer after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Twins pitchers finished next-to-last in the majors with a 5.08 ERA.Deshaun Watson Youth Jersey . 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Durant finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds, Jackson matched his career high with 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting and Lamb scored 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting, lifting the Thunder to a 94-88 win over San Antonio and snapping the Spurs 11-game winning streak.FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Boston College flew all the way to Ireland in its opener only to lose to Georgia Tech thanks in part to a pair of missed field goals.Now the Eagles have their shortest road trip of the season, driving down to the home of the New England Patriots to play Massachusetts. The matchup gives the Eagles a chance to record the FBS victory they have struggled to come by; last years team won only one game against an FBS opponent, beating Northern Illinois, and went winless in the Atlantic Coast Conference.The ACC losing streak was stretched to nine games with the Week 1 loss to Georgia Tech. BC led 14-10 in the fourth quarter -- it could have been more, if not for missed field goals of 43 and 35 yards -- but the Eagles gave up a 22-yard gain on fourth-and-19, and then a 4-yard, go-ahead touchdown run with 35 seconds left.BC has won eight straight vs. UMass, the last meeting coming in 2014.Here are some things to look for in the Battle of the Bay State:THE MORE THINGS CHANGESo far, Boston College has looked a lot like last years team: Good defense, strong running game, bad special teams.The Eagles led the FBS in total defense in 2015, allowing just 254.3 yards per game. They gave up 238 yards to Georgia Tech last week.RUNNING GAMEJon Hilliman, who was injured in Week 4 last year, posted his fifth career 100-yard rushing game against Georgia Tech, collecting 102 yards on 17 carries, including 73-yard touchdown. In all, the Eagles gained 176 yards on the ground from seven different backs, including 27 yards on nine carries from quarterback Patrick Towles.Weve got a lot of confidence in the stable of backs, coach SSteve Addazio said.ddddddddddddWhat makes Jon unique is hes a big back whos got speed. And thats when youre dangerous. Hes talented. We missed him last year. You felt it right away in Game 1.QB NO. 1The one place BC can improve is at quarterback. Last year, Darius Wade was lost in the third game of the season to a broken left ankle, Jeff Smith was sidelined with a concussion, Troy Flutie was yanked after a slow start and soon BC was relying on fourth-string walk-on John Fadule.Towles is a graduate transfer who won the job in training camp. He completed 11 of 17 passes for 144 yards, with one interception. If he can stay healthy, the Eagles might be able to avoid a repeat of last year, when they lost ACC games 14-0, 9-7 and 3-0.KICKING THEMSELVESThe most troubling sight for the Eagles was watching Colton Lichtenberg miss two short field goals: a 43-yarder that was blocked, and a 35-yarder that was shanked. The Eagles had similar trouble last year, when he was 3 of 6 and the team was 6 for 11.If you get in the red zone, youve got to be able to get points, Addazio said. You cant miss two field goals, one from the 18 and one from the 26. Those are six valid points.LOOKING FOR A HOMEUMass went FBS in 2012 and played in the Mid-American Conference for four seasons. But the Minutemen left the league and went independent this year rather than join for all sports, which would have required ending a long affiliation with the Atlantic 10 in basketball.In four-plus seasons as an FBS program, UMass is 8-41. ' ' '