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Confirmed: Devyne Rensch sidelined for 20 days

Bad news for Gian Piero Gasperini’s Roma, who will be without Devyne Rensch for the next three weeks. The Dutch full-back, forced off after just a few minutes of the Champions League match against M...

Yahoo Sports · Nov 5
Tramell Jones Jr. to start at QB for Gators against Oklahoma

GAINESVILLE — Tramell Jones Jr. will start at quarterback for the Gators, a source confirmed, after the sophomore took over after the third series and finished Florida’s loss to Georgia last weekend in Atlanta. Jones replaced Aaron Philo, who got the nod after he returned from a one-game absence with a shoulder injury suffered during an Oct. 10 home loss to South Carolina. Jones stepped in and ...

Yahoo Sports · Nov 5
Cristiano Ronaldo merely the latest example of a great player who couldn’t let go | Jonathan Wilson

There is no doubt his international career was an incredible one, but it would have been greater still if he had not lingered on the stage so long Nothing, perhaps, is quite so difficult for an elite sportsman as timing their exit. It’s not easy for any person in any job to weigh the hope of having more to give with the desire not to linger beyond their usefulness, but it’s perhaps particularly hard for top athletes because unrealistic self-confidence is so essential to their success. It takes an almost unhealthy level of self-belief for anybody to make the sacrifices to get to the top, to dedicate themselves to such a precarious vocation, to overcome all the setbacks and injuries and failures. How can someone whose whole life has been spent assuring themselves there are no odds they cannot overcome accept that that is it, that the time has come to say goodbye? The news that Cristiano Ronaldo has retired from international football brings with it, inevitably, a sadness. Sadness that we will no longer see him skipping past a defender, or burying a neck-thrusting header, and sadness in that the end of the career of any great is a reminder of mortality; all things in time must pass. But there is also a sadness that he timed his departure so badly. For at least three tournaments, there has been a sense of Ronaldo holding Portugal back. Continue reading...

The Guardian · Nov 5
Young, Bolding help Eagles reach first playoffs in six years

Nov. 5—CADDO — Cousins Bryce Young and Chantler Bolding have been competing since they were kids. Playing ball in the front yard, they always tried to outdo each other. But now at East Lawrence, they've traded the yard for the field. "He's my big cousin," Bolding said. "I'm trying to do everything better than him. It's just our competitiveness." Last Thursday, the pair competed in a 43-31 win ...

Yahoo Sports · Nov 5
A tale of two halves: Confident Austin offense ready for Clay Chalkville challenge

Nov. 5—Sometimes it's not about how you start, but how you finish. That's a motto that can be applied to plenty of different aspects of life, and football is no different. Austin quarterback Donovan Jarman can attest to that. Back in the second-largest classification for the first time since 2017, Austin came into the season with high expectations. However, through the first half of the year ...

Yahoo Sports · Nov 5
Fired Good Good Golf executive files defamation lawsuit in aftermath of ad scandal

For a week in late August, Good Good Golf puzzled the world by releasing—and panic-deleting—an ad spot for its co-branded Callaway driver. In the commercial, created in the image of the horror film Obsession, Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark charges and tackles a woman, who lies frightened on the green while he stands over her…

Yahoo Sports · Nov 5