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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Illinois coach Lovie Smith says freshman receiver Dominic Thieman will have surgery Tuesday and miss the rest of the season after being knocked out of Saturdays loss to Minnesota.Smith did not provide details Monday but Thieman said on Twitter that he broke an ankle.Smith said receiver Malik Turner is back with the team but the coach had no other details about Turners injury. Turner left the field Saturday on a stretcher after a hit and was briefly taken to a hospital.Turner leads Illinois with 35 catches for 523 yards and four touchdowns. Thieman has six catches for 32 yards.Smith also said he does not know if starting quarterback Wes Lunt will play against Michigan State. Lunt is out after hurting his back Oct. 8 against Purdue. Scarpe Asics Italia . Nathan MacKinnon, Jamie McGinn and Jan Hejda also scored for the Avalanche, who won despite being outshot 38-23. MacKinnons goal, also on the power play, came with just over a minute remaining. Scarpe Asics Uomo Offerte . Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC failed to make the postseason while Montreal Impact fell at the first hurdle losing heavily to Houston Dynamo in the Eastern Conference Knockout Round. http://www.asicsscontate.it/ . -- Tony Stewart is 20 pounds lighter and has a titanium rod in his surgically repaired right leg. Scarpe Asics Uomo Scontate . It was the kind of score that might make everyone else wonder which course he was playing. Except that Graeme McDowell saw the whole thing. Crouched behind the 10th green at Sheshan International, McDowell looked over at the powerful American and said, "Ive probably seen 18 of the best drives Ive seen all year in the last two days. Scarpe Asics Saldi .25 million option on reliever Jose Veras. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Katie Ledecky came into the Rio Olympics facing enormous expectations.Some athletes mightve buckled under the pressure.She seemed to thrive on it.The 19-year-old from suburban Washington capped off one of the greatest performances in Olympic history with her fourth gold medal and second world record, shattering her own mark in the 800-meter freestyle Friday night.I just wanted to lay it all out there, Ledecky said.She certainly did that.And more.Ledecky and Debbie Meyers are now the only female swimmers to sweep the three longest freestyle races. Meyers took the 200, 400 and 800 at Mexico City in 1968.She also followed fellow swimmers Amy Van Dyken and Missy Franklin as the only American women to win as many as four golds in a single Olympics. Along with her individual golds, Ledecky also topped the podium with the 4x200 relay.I hit all my goals right on the nose this week, Ledecky said. Im just proud to be part of that history.Four years ago, she seemingly came out nowhere to capture gold as a 15-year-old at the London Games. Then, after her coach moved to the West Coast, Ledecky hooked up with Bruce Gemmell and never missed a beat.She called it a testament to the vision that Bruce and I had three years ago when we set these goals, and we werent going to stop until we met them.As was the case in the 400 free,, where she also broke her own world record, Ledecky was merely racing the clock as she powered away from the field to touch in 8 minutes, 4.dddddddddddd.79 seconds, eclipsing the mark of 8:06.68 that she set at a grand prix meet in Texas back in January.The goal was 8:05 or better, she said.Naturally, she was better.Then, Ledecky played the waiting game, hanging on the rope for a while to let the rest of the field finish.Jazz Karlin finally touched in 8:16.17 to claim the silver, just ahead of Hungarys Boglarka Kapas grabbing the bronze in 8:16.37.Some 23 seconds after Ledecky touched the wall, the last of the eight finalists chugged to the end of the grueling race.Ledecky was barely breathing hard.On the medal stand, though, the emotions swept over her.She broke down in tears, relishing her accomplishments and surely thinking about all the work she put in to make it there.The Olympics are the pinnacle of our sport and I have to wait another four years to have that moment and I just wanted to enjoy it, Ledecky said. The memories mean more than the medals to me.---Follow Paul Newberry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/paul-newberry . ' ' '