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English crickets groundbreaking first full round of floodlit County Championship fixtures will be staged on June 26 next season, only five days after the summer solstice. Fixtures for the 2017 county season have also been revealed.The experiment forms part of a crammed season in which England also stages the Champions Trophy in June and features an international schedule that runs from Irelands visit on May 5 until an ODI against West Indies at the Ageas Bowl as late as September 29. The Womens World Cup also takes place in England in July.Whether floodlit Championship cricket has any success in widening the fan base remains to be seen, but one thing that can be assured is that it will not bankrupt the counties because of excessive electricity bills. With sunset not until around 9.20pm in late June, the floodlights will probably only be used for the final session.The announcement breaks new ground for the County Championship, which has only featured one previous day-night match - a trial game between Kent and Glamorgan at Canterbury in 2011.The ECB hopes to stimulate new interest in the Championship, although of more relevance perhaps is the opportunity for England players to experience the conditions before Edgbaston hosts the inaugural floodlit Test in the UK, between England and West Indies between August 17-21.With West Indies also getting a trial run under lights ahead of the Edgbaston Test, against Derbyshire from August 11-13, it means that 10 of the 18 first-class counties will stage day-night fixtures with pink balls next summer.Dukes pink balls will be used - the regular make of ball for international cricket in England - even though many of the experiments over the past decade have been with the Kookaburra ball, which is normally held to be less receptive to swing.Tom Harrison, the ECBs chief executive, who confirmed the floodlit experiment last month, said: We were excited to announce a few weeks ago that Edgbaston will be staging an historic day-night Test, and its great that the counties, and the Specsavers County Championship, can also get involved.It was important for us to arrange a full round of fixtures to give our England players the chance to experience the conditions. But just as we wanted to assess the impact of making Test cricket more accessible by changing the hours of play, the counties have really embraced the potential of Championship matches that stretch well into the evening when people have finished school or work.The early indications from Edgbaston are that day-night Test cricket is proving very popular, and hopefully it will be the same for the Championship now the fixtures are confirmed. It will be fascinating to see how it works out.In the latest tweak to the county schedule, seven Championship rounds begin on a Friday in 2017, meaning a significant increase in the amount of weekend Championship cricket. The season begins on April 7 and the final round of matches does not begin until September 25.Essex, last years Division Two champions, begin their first Division One season since 2010 with a home game against Lancashire, while Andrew Gale will have home advantage at Headingley against Hampshire - spared from relegation by Durhams punishment for falling into debt - in his first match as Yorkshires coach.Middlesex, who won their first Championship title since 1993 in such thrilling circumstances by beating Yorkshire at Lords in September, are not in action until the second round of matches, starting on Friday April 14, when they visit Hampshire.The long-running debate over the future of professional T20 cricket in England also takes another twist as the NatWest T20 Blast reverts to a block of fixtures. It will begin on July 7 and dominate the next seven weeks of the county season, with teams contesting 14 group matches in a concentrated period in high summer rather than spread over three months as previously.With emphasis turning entirely to T20 as the schools break up, no Championship matches are scheduled for almost four weeks during that period.The success, or otherwise, of the new format, may provide political ammunition in the long-running debate about whether an eight-team city league would be the saviour for an English professional game with combined debts of ￡150m (although the ECB has roughly half that in reserve) or whether it would shrink the game by forcing some counties into irrelevance and bankruptcy.The top four in each of the North and South groups will again qualify for the Blast quarter-finals, which will be played on four consecutive evenings from August 22-25 ahead of Finals Day at Edgbaston on September 2.The Royal London Cup is brought forward to early season, with all the group matches completed before the Champions Trophy in June. 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Goalie Roberto Luongo, getting the call in place of Game 1 starter Carey Price, was solid when needed in making 23 saves for the shutout.MASON, Mich. -- A former USA Gymnastics doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in his home with a girl under 13, charges that Michigans attorney general said are the tip of the iceberg as authorities investigate roughly 50 complaints.Larry Nassar, who was arrested Monday while running an errand at a Lansing-area tire store, was arraigned by video from jail. He was released after 10 percent of a $1 million bond was paid, more than two months after two gymnasts -- including a member of the 2000 U.S. womens Olympic team -- accused him of sexual abuse during medical treatments.Also on Tuesday, a Detroit attorney said he filed a civil lawsuit against Nassar on behalf of a Los Angeles woman who says she was sexually abused about 20 years ago during treatments when she was a 14-year-old gymnast.Its at least the third civil suit filed against Nassar.The woman filing Tuesdays lawsuit is not the girl in Michigans criminal case.Those alleged assaults against the girl occurred between 1998 and 2005, from the age of 6 until the girl was 12. She was not a gymnast, patient or family member, said Attorney General Bill Schuette.He said Nassar, a former associate professor of osteopathic medicine at Michigan State University who lives in Holt in suburban Lansing, committed predatory, menacing acts and stole this young ladys childhood.This is the tip of the iceberg, Schuette said during a news conference Tuesday.University police chief James Dunlap said his department has received roughly 50 complaints.Were dealing with decades of effort to go back and identify witnesses and to compile those for submission to the attorney generals office, he said.Ingham County 55th District Court Magistrate Mark Blumer ordered Nassar to wear an electronic tether and to surrender his passport. He also was prohibited from being present with anyone under 18, including his children, unless another adult is there.A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 15.Nassar, who could face life imprisonment if he is convicted, has denied wrongdoing.Shannon Smith, one of his lawyers, said his wife -- who was in the courtroom -- and hundreds of people support him 100 percent. We have received countless emails and communications from other doctors, physicians, physical therapists, ex-patients, ex-coworkers supporting him.Assistant state attorney general Angela Povilaitis hadd asked that bond be denied or, in the alternate, that a very high amount be imposed.dddddddddddd.She has come forward bravely to report this and to cooperate and prosecute this case, she said.Nassar was fired in September by Michigan State. In October, a former gymnast who was on the national team from 2006 to 2011 filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles, alleging Nassar repeatedly sexually abused her and renowned husband-and-wife coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi turned a blind eye to molestations.Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, which has been named in two civil lawsuits, said previously that that it cut ties with Nassar after learning of athlete concerns about him in the summer of 2015.USA Gymnastics today learned about the charges against Dr. Larry Nassar through a media report, it said. As we previously have made clear, when USA Gymnastics first learned of athlete concerns regarding Dr. Nassar, those concerns were reported to the FBI and Nassar was dismissed from further involvement with USA Gymnastics.Detroit attorney Brian McKeen said he filed Tuesdays civil lawsuit in Ingham County.His client lived in East Lansing when she sought treatment for lower back pain in late 1996 and early 1997 from Nassar, McKeen said.This doctor used this young girls innocence and naivet? against her, McKeen said. She trusted her doctors authority when he insisted his treatments were standard procedure, but they were no more than sexual assault and abuse of a child.Smith, Nassars lawyer, had not seen the civil lawsuit Tuesday afternoon and declined to comment on it.The attorney general, who is investigating criminally at the request of the campus police, said his department is in the best position to prosecute instead of the local prosecutor because it is believed that potential crimes crossed into multiple jurisdictions in Michigan and possibly across state lines. He said his office is working with the FBI and federal prosecutors in Michigan.We are unable to comment further due to the ongoing FBI investigation and pending litigation, USA Gymnastics said.---Associated Press writer Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.---Follow David Eggert on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DavidEggert00 . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/author/david-eggert ' ' '