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The New Orleans Saints have cut ties with another expensive free-agent miss, releasing running back C.J. Spiller on Monday.Spiller, 29, signed a four-year, $16 million deal with the Saints in 2015. They wound up paying him $9 million for a total of 13 games played.He told ESPNs Josina Anderson of his release that he didnt see it coming.Its the first week, but I guess thats why you have to expect the unexpected. But you know what, I leave on good terms, he said.This organization really believed in me during free agency. They gave me another opportunity when my contract was up in Buffalo. I have nothing but good relationships that I have built here. Its a first-class organization that gives the players everything they need to be successful. So, I definitely dont have any hard feelings.He said he now will wait for the next right opportunity.Spiller was inactive in Week 1, with Saints head coach Sean Payton explaining that it was a game-plan decision to go with veteran runner-receiver Travaris Cadet ahead of him. A league source confirmed that it wasnt health-related.Payton explained that the Saints waited before releasing Spiller because they looked into a potential trade. They ultimately needed the roster spot after an injury to cornerback Delvin Breaux.Payton called Spiller a phenomenal, phenomenal person and teammate. He said the main issue was Spillers inability to fully return to peak form after his 2015 knee injury.I think hes gonna have another opportunity sooner than later with another club. And the window, I know, in this building is not permanently closed, Payton said. Obviously last season was frustrating because he dealt with the knee injury in training camp. And I think hes ahead of where he was a year ago and has gotten better than where he was a year ago. And yet, it just became a challenge for us when we were looking at (game-day) actives and roles. And that was really it.Spillers run in New Orleans was extremely disappointing. He had just 112 rushing yards, 239 receiving yards and two touchdowns last year while struggling to overcome a minor knee surgery he underwent during training camp. Eventually, the Saints shelved him for the final two weeks and replaced him with Cadet.Things seemed to be going better this year, with Payton saying Spiller showed progress and some juice during training camp and the preseason. The Saints seemed committed to him after allowing his base salary of $1.7 million to become fully guaranteed in March.However, it seemed likely that the Saints wouldnt keep six running backs all year -- and Cadet seems to be their change-of-pace back of choice.Cadet had three catches for 14 yards and a touchdown on seven targets Sunday and added one carry for 1 yard.The Saints now have more than $40 million in dead money counting against their salary cap -- by far the most in the NFL (the Cleveland Browns are second at $28.1 million, according to ESPN Stats & Information). That number includes their other big free-agent signing from 2015, cornerback Brandon Browner, among several others.Spiller will count $4.5 million against this years cap, then another $2.5 million next year.Spiller was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 2010 draft at No. 9 overall and made the Pro Bowl with a breakout year in 2012 (1,244 rushing yards, 459 receiving yards). 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It is a cliché dragged out by fans and pundits regularly when discussions take place around which teams are better than others. NEW YORK -- Garbine Muguruza cant imagine taking off much more than two weeks, let alone nearly two years.So much has happened to the young Spaniard in the last few months since she beat Serena Williams to win her first major title at the French Open. Yet now that shes followed that up by losing in the second round at consecutive Grand Slams, Muguruza insisted she doesnt need to recharge or reset.Just keep playing, she said, and keep having chances to win matches and tournaments.Muguruza had just lost in straight sets at the U.S. Open on Wednesday to 48th-ranked Anastasija Sevastova, who returned to tennis last season after an almost two-year retirement. Sevastova, 26, stepped away in May 2013 because of a series of injuries and said she enjoyed the opportunities that came with the hiatus.She came back, she said in an on-court interview, for moments like this, playing on the biggest stage. Sevastova did just that when she beat a major champion to open the night session in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the sports largest venue.Its amazing -- on Ashe, in night match, she added. Whats going to be bigger?Muguruza, 22, dazzled on the biggest of stages when she won at Roland Garros. Then in her next major, she fell to 124th-ranked Jana Cepelova in the second round at Wimbledon.Next came Wednesdays 7-5, 6-4 loss. As she has before, the third-seeded Muguruza maintained that the defeat had nothing to do with the lingering effects of that breakthrough championship.I dont think about the French Open any second. Its past, she said. Everybodys looking forward to the next one, the next tournament.Muguruza has never been past tthe second round at Flushing Meadows.dddddddddddd. As for Wednesdays loss, she mostly attributed it to Sevastovas shot-making: Everything she was doing was kind of working.At least until the Latvian was trying to serve for the match leading 5-1 in the second set. After Sevastova failed to convert two match points, Muguruza got one break back, then the other.Sevastova, who reached the round of 16 at the 2011 Australian Open, acknowledged she was shaking at the end.I had to solve my head, myself, all the thoughts of what could be, what could not, she said.She reminded herself that she still led the set at 5-4, then went out and broke Muguruzas serve to clinch the victory.Before the match, Sevastova and her boyfriend reminisced about when she came to Flushing Meadows last year after she returned to tennis that January. She was pumped simply to be playing in qualifying.She wound up losing her first match then. A year later, Sevastova was in the second round of the main draw playing a night match on Ashe. She had been 0-2 against top-five opponents and is in the third round at the U.S. Open for the first time.Life can be funny sometimes, she said.Her mother, an English teacher back in Latvia, is with her in New York, the first time shes ever traveled to a Grand Slam. Shes supposed to go home Thursday, though now Mom wants to stay.Sevastovas best friend is in town, too.Well maybe go somewhere, Sevastova said of what celebration might be in the works. They will drink -- I will watch. ' ' '