Concerns surrounding the salary cap, a global calendar and the theft of Italian fast food will be forgotten momentarily on Friday when Gloucester run out at Kingsholm to kick off the new Aviva Premiership season against Leicester Tigers.It is just over three months since Alex Goodes try put the seal on Saracens second successive championship win, but an influx of talent has ensured the new campaign is keenly anticipated.Leicester could line up in the west country with Rugby World Cup winner, JP Pietersen, on their right wing and are awaiting the arrival of Australia playmaker Matt Toomua.Others preparing to make their Premiership bows this term include Kurtley Beale, Taulupe Faletau, Louis Picamoles and Ben Teo, as clubs this side of the English channel attempt to keep pace with those in the Top 14.But on the domestic front, it is the champions -- bolstered by the headline acquisition of Schalk Burger -- who remain the team to beat.Its hard to look beyond Sarries, Wasps director of rugby Dai Young admitted. What theyve built over the last couple of seasons is phenomenal. Were on a journey and theyre a good blueprint for us to follow.Wasps have taken advantage of the continued softening of rules governing how much a club can spend on their squad to bolster their back line. Beale, Danny Cipriani, Kyle Eastmond and Willie Le Roux -- when he arrives from Japan -- will add spice to a side not exactly lacking try-scoring expertise already.If the Coventry club have reached for the cheque book in a bid to slug it out with Saracens, then it has been another summer of studied recruitment from their opponents this Sunday, Exeter. Last seasons beaten Premiership finalists have added quality rather than quantity, with four acquisitions compared to Wasps 13.Chiefs boss Rob Baxter is not the type to waste money, and this summers arrivals -- Dave Dennis, Ollie Devoto, Greg Holmes and Lachie Turner -- will be expected to buy into the clubs ethos and ensure a side that has improved steadily since winning promotion in 2010, does so again.The important thing for us is not to over focus on the loss to Saracens, Baxter said. If you look at what theyve done over the last few seasons, theyve gotten to some finals or knockout games and lost but theyve built on it and gotten stronger.He added: Weve recruited well, theyre a great group of players but we need to keep the core group of players last year too and drive them through another good year. Hopefully we can achieve the same level of consistency we did last season.Finding the right characters for us is the same challenge it was six or seven years ago. We spend a lot of time on it, personally I think its the most important part of my job. Theres no magic answer to it but we spend a lot of time analysing players on the rugby field because you can pick up their characteristics doing that.Exeters transformation from provincial pretender to continental contender was rubber-stamped last season as they made the Champions Cup quarterfinals as well as the Premiership final. Wasps ended the Chiefs European run in the last eight, but as Baxter plots his clubs path this campaign, he is keen to prove that success can be achieved in a sustainable manner.Rugby shouldnt be a business that is boom or bust. I would say we dont want to create a situation where clubs are going bankrupt left, right and centre because that would be bad for the game and would portray the game in a bad light, he said.However we decide to do these things, if its raising or lowering the salary cap year on year or abolishing it all together, the one fundamental thing that should remain is that we want to be competitive in Europe and that we want all Premiership clubs to be sustainable, competitive and quality businesses.It is not just on the pitch where incoming names and faces are set to excite, with Bath and Harlequins preparing for the new season under the guidance of new directors of rugby.Both clubs are keen to improve on disappointing seasons last time out, and while Quins took the decision to promote John Kingston from within, Bath looked slightly further afield, to New Zealand and Todd Blackadder.And when the former Crusaders coach says it feels like Ive been here six months rather than a few weeks, it is because he has been made to feel at home, not due to the size of the task at hand.What really hooked me to Bath was the vision of the club, he said. Theyve got a great history and legacy, really good training pitches but they really want to build on their culture. I think thats really important because the rugby is a by-product of that. The timing feels really right.Blackadder admits he is looking forward to mixing it with some of Baths more heated rivals and in that sense, he could not have timed his arrival any better.Bristol are back in the big time following seven years in the wilderness, and will be led by Andy Robinson, a former Bath boss himself, who last coached in the Premiership 16 years ago.Both Robinson and his men are now ready to make their mark in the top flight -- starting with a date against Quins at Twickenham on Saturday afternoon.Weve been desperate to get back into the Premiership and now its about putting a stamp there, the former England and Scotland coach said.The key to us is the belief that we can be successful. 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Both players have lower body injuries that will keep them out of the lineup until at least January 31, which is the first game they can be activated from IR. Cheap Jordan Shoes For Sale . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf. ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- C.J. Anderson was bracing for a prolonged recovery as he prepared to undergo surgery to repair the torn meniscus in his right knee late Thursday.Before heading into the operating room in Northern California, the Denver Broncos leading rusher tweeted thanks to his fans for their prayers and said, We will not know til after the procedure if i am done for the season or if I can come back to help my team to (hash)51.Anderson was Denvers offensive star in Super Bowl 50, rushing for 90 yards and a touchdown in the Broncos 24-10 win over Carolina. That helped garner a four-year, $18 million offer from the Dolphins in restricted free agency that the Broncos matched. The front-loaded contract paid him $6 million this year.Anderson is the Broncos leading rusher with 437 yards on 110 carries and four touchdowns, including a season-best 107 yards and a TD on 16 carries Monday night against Houston in his best performance of the season.He did it despite hurting his right knee on his second carry.He is a leader of this team and thats a big role, wide receiver Demaryius Thomas said. We dont know the timetable right now, but he will be missed for this game and the rest of the season if it comes to that. He deserves to be around. He worked hard for the contract. He had had been playing great last season and playing great this season, but well miss him for sure.The Broncos broke out of a prolonged funk by running for 190 yards in their 27-9 win over the Texans. Andersons right knee slightly buckled as he made a cut on the final play of the first quarter, an 11-yard run.He came in and said, `I felt something, running back Kapri Bibbs recounted. But he said, `Im good now. I feel real good. And he went back in the game an obviously was able to rush for 107 yards and carried the team and carried us to a win.Thats what gives coach Gary Kubiak hope that Anderson will be back sometime this season.I think the positive thing is he played in the game and he played through it, Kubiak saaid.dddddddddddd Its obviously something that they need to go and repair, so we have to see to what degree that is. Lets find out.Anderson didnt have a limp after the game and the Broncos left the stadium feeling good about their rejuvenated ground game that included 83 yards on 17 carries from rookie Devontae Booker, who scored his first career touchdown and now will become their starter.Anderson, who wasnt limping after the game, showed up sore Tuesday and the teams medical staff diagnosed a torn meniscus. Anderson flew to California for a second opinion on Wednesday and was prepped for surgery late Thursday after doctors confirmed the initial diagnosis.Bibbs said theres no reason the Broncos (5-2), who play San Diego (3-4) on Sunday, cant still have a powerful 1-2 punch without Anderson.Book is ready to play; Im ready to play, Bibbs said. And I dont think theres going to be any drop-off. I think were going to go in there and were going to handle our business.The Broncos had a first-round grade on Booker but were able to grab him in the fourth round after he slid because of concerns about two knee surgeries to repair a torn meniscus he suffered in his final game at Utah in November.The running back who really turned their heads this year, however, was Bibbs, whose improvement over the offseason led them to jettison fifth-year pro Ronnie Hillman, their leading rusher last season.I dont think theres an area where he hasnt improved, offensive coordinator Rick Dennison said. I think hes improved in his detail, his urgency. Obviously, hes always had very good run skills, thats why hes here. But everything that he does hes gotten better at it and worked extremely hard.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Melendrez Stapleton on Twitter: http://twitter.com/arniestapleton . ' ' '