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The San Francisco 49ers have exercised the fifth-year option to keep defensive end Arik Armstead under contract through 2019.

The team announced the move Monday to pick up the option worth about $9 million. The deal is guaranteed for injury and will become fully guaranteed next March.

Armstead was taken 17th overall in 2015. He has six sacks and 56 tackles in 30 career games. Armstead played just six games last year before a season-ending broken hand.

San Francisco also waived linebackers Jimmie Gilbert , Boseko Lokombo and Donavin Newsom; and defensive backs Dexter McCoil and Channing Stribling.

The Niners signed seven undrafted free agents: WR Steven Dunbar, TE Ross Dwelley, QB Jack Heneghan, OL Alan Knott , OL Jamar McGloster, DL Niles Scott, and S Terrell Williams.

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Minnesota will play Oklahoma State on Nov. 30 at U.S. Bank Stadium, the site of this season's NCAA Final Four.

The Gophers on Tuesday announced the first basketball game at the gigantic football stadium , which opened in 2016 for the Minnesota Vikings and hosted the Super Bowl less than six months ago.

The U.S. Bank Stadium Basketball Classic will include four contests over two days. St. Thomas meets Wisconsin-River Falls in a Division III game on Nov. 30. Then, on Dec. 1, North Dakota State faces Drake and South Dakota State plays Northern Iowa in a pair of matchups between Summit League and Missouri Valley conference teams.

Minnesota and Oklahoma State will also play in Tulsa, Oklahoma , in 2019. The Cowboys beat the Gophers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 2015.
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