http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/sports/manchester-citys-winless-run-hits-3-games.html 2016-10-16 00:02:52 Manchester City’s Winless Run Hits 3 Games Manchester City had two penalty kicks saved and needed a 72nd-minute goal by Nolito to earn a 1-1 draw against visiting Everton on Saturday in England’s Premier League. === Manchester City had two penalty kicks saved and needed a 72nd-minute goal by Nolito to earn a 1-1 draw against visiting Everton on Saturday in England’s Premier League. The result extended City’s winless run to three games. Kevin De Bruyne and the substitute Sergio Agüero were denied by Everton goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg on spot kicks on either side of halftime. Romelu Lukaku put Everton in front in the 64th minute with his sixth goal in his last five league games. City scored the equalizer when Nolito headed in a David Silva cross. City had previously tied at Celtic, 3-3, in the Champions League and lost at Tottenham, 2-0, in the Premier League. The team opened the season with 10 straight wins. Elsewhere in the Premier League, Leicester, the defending champion, slumped to its third big road loss, a 3-0 defeat against Chelsea. Dele Alli scored an 89th-minute goal to rescue a late point for Tottenham in a 1-1 draw with host West Bromwich Albion, and Bournemouth romped to to its biggest league victory, 6-1, over visiting Hull. MESSI SCORES IN RETURN Messi needed just four minutes to score in his return, entering the game as a second-half substitute and completing Barcelona’s 4-0 rout of visiting Deportivo de La Coruña. The convincing win came four days before Guardiola, formerly Barcelona’s coach, was to return with Manchester City for a highly anticipated Champions League clash. BAYERN IS STYMIED Top-ranked Djokovic, who smashed his racket after losing the first set and tore his shirt during the match, was left fuming after the umpire Carlos Bernardes gave him a time violation when he was changing his shirt. “He was the star of the show; that’s what he wanted to be today,” Djokovic, 29, said. J. R. Smith, a free-agent shooting guard, has re-signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to multiple news media reports. The Cavaliers now have all their starting pieces in place to begin defending their N.B.A. title. Smith made a franchise record 204 3-pointers last season and was a major contributor during the Cavaliers’ run to the first championship by a Cleveland team since 1964. Scott Piercy, an American, birdied one of the six holes he had left in the second round to complete a five-under-par 67 in Napa, Calif., and build a three-shot lead in the rain-delayed Safeway Open, the season’s first PGA Tour event.