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NFL: 49ers bury the Rams in Melbourne
San Francisco opened the season with a 27-7 rout of the Rams at the MCG, in front of 100,021 people. Brock Purdy threw three touchdown passes. Los Angeles never got going.
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NFL: Harbaugh opens his Giants tenure against Dallas
Nine in a row, and then one night in January Dallas had beaten the Giants nine consecutive times before Week 18 last season. New York finally got one back, 34-17, and that was only their second win in the series since 2016. Zoom out over the last 18 meetings and the Cowboys are still 16-2.…
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NCAA: Clemson look to bury the 51-10 wreckage from Baton Rouge
Eight first downs. That is the number that lingers Clemson picked up eight first downs in Baton Rouge last Saturday. LSU had 38. The yardage read 145 to 644. A 51-10 loss to the No. 11 team in the country, and the worst night Dabo Swinney has had since he took the job. Clemson had…
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NFL: Josh Jacobs pleads no contest as Green Bay case closes
A November date that never happened The hearing was on the books for November. Jacobs asked for it sooner, and a Green Bay judge obliged. So on Thursday, in a Wisconsin courtroom, the Packers running back entered a no contest plea on two counts: battery and criminal damage to property. No contest is the middle…
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NFL: Malik Willis gets his first season as a starter
Four years in the league, 155 pass attempts, and now a Week 1 job. Malik Willis takes Miami to Las Vegas on Sunday with almost nobody expecting much.
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NFL: Harbaugh opens his Giants era against Dallas
John Harbaugh takes charge of the Giants on Sunday night against the team he beat four times out of five in Baltimore. Dallas has won 16 of the last 18 meetings.
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Tennis: Australian Open keeps five sets for men’s Slams
Three days after its own chief executive floated shorter matches, the Australian Open used its social channels to shut the debate down. Best-of-five stays.
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MLB: Cam Smith sinks the Phillies in the ninth
Jhoan Duran left one splitter over the plate. Cam Smith sent it 421 feet and Houston walked out of Philadelphia with the series.
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Ligue 1: Nakamura has settled at Lyon fast, and Saturday is in play
1.6 million followers and a Lyon shirt Abiko, in Chiba prefecture. That is where the player comes from, the one Japanese media have been writing about every single day for a week. Keito Nakamura was announced by OL on September 3. Four-year deal. One million euros up front, up to 19 million in add-ons, and…
