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NFL Week 12 grades: Eagles earn an ‘A-‘ for Sunday night win; Tom Brady’s Buccaneers get a ‘D’ for OT loss
After giving us three crazy games on Thanksgiving, the NFL might have topped itself on Sunday with several wild games that went down to the wire. In Cleveland, Tom Brady suffered a loss for the first time in his career in a game where his team was leading by seven or more points in the final two minutes of regulation. Before Sunday, Brady had been 218-0 in those situations, but that streak is now over after Brady watched his team blow a 17-10 lead in a 23-17 overtime loss to the Browns. In Jacksonville, the Jaguars pulled off the most surprising comeback of the day and that’s because the Jaguars…
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C.O. sports plans changing ‘day to day,’ based on air quality; Friday night football up in the air
(Update: Adding video, comments from Bend-La Pine athletic director, MBSEF) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The air quality in Central Oregon this week, hurt by smoke from the Cedar Creek Fire, has not been favorable for outdoor sports. Dave Williams, athletic director at Caldera high school and Bend-La Pine Schools overall, admits its been a tough daily adjustment. “It’s really day to day,” Williams said Wednesday. “We’ve developed indoor practice schedules for all of our teams, which gets really tight in our indoor spaces.” Williams said that on Monday, all sports had to practice inside. He’s preparing for any changes to Caldera’s Friday football game against Madras. “We have contingency plans…
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Drinkwitz: Thursday night kickoff ‘an awesome thing’ for Mizzou | Mizzou Sports News
MARYLAND HEIGHTS — Eli Drinkwitz doesn’t like his Missouri football team opening the season on a Thursday night. The Tigers open Drinkwitz’s third season Sept. 1 against Louisiana Tech in a 7 p.m. kickoff on ESPNU. “Love it. Love it. Love it from all the different perspectives,” Drinkwitz said Tuesday night at the St. Louis Music Park, where he joined MU basketball coaches Robin Pingeton and Dennis Gates and athletics director Desiree Reed Francois and a fleet of athletics department officials on their “Come Home Tour” stop through the Gateway City. “First, just appreciate the administration for, one, changing out the Middle Tennessee game to give us that seventh opportunity…
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Mizzou football opener moved to Thursday night kickoff | Mizzou Sports News
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Missouri football team’s season-opening game is on the move: The Tigers will host Louisiana Tech on Thursday, Sept. 1 instead of the original Saturday kickoff scheduled for Sept. 3. The game will kick off at 7 p.m. on ESPNU, the SEC announced Friday. “Opening up 2022 in front of a prime-time national television audience on ESPNU is a tremendous way to kick off the football season,” Mizzou athletics director Desireé Reed-Francois said. “Fans can visit Columbia on Thursday night and join us in creating yet another memorable experience for our student-athletes before enjoying the extended Labor Day weekend. We want to give our Tigers every chance…
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Nevada-San Francisco game Thursday night to air on Nevada Sports Net
The Nevada basketball team’s road game at San Francisco on Thursday night will air on Nevada Sports Net. The Wolf Pack plays at War Memorial Gym at the Sobrato Center in its fourth game of the season. NSN will pick up the Stadium broadcast, with a 7:30 p.m. tipoff scheduled. This is a rematch of last year’s game between the teams, an 85-60 USF win at Lawlor Events Center. The foes were scheduled to play at USF in 2020-21 but the game was canceled due to local COVID-19 ordinances and moved to this season. Nevada (1-1) plays at Santa Clara on Tuesday and will stay in the Bay Area for…
