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“It’s sometimes tough to play at a high level consistently each possession, but I think that Texas loss has taught us that we need to do that,” Kiki Rice said on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times

“To use a football analogy, when Marshawn and his people came to me and said, ‘Can you do anything with this, Beast Mode?’ it was like they gave me the ball on the one-yard line and I had to just walk it in — and Pete Carroll wasn’t the coach, so I could just go right in,” Alonso said, referring to an infamous play at the end of Seattle’s loss to New England in Super Bowl XLIX.

From Los Angeles Times

With Carvajal and Alexander-Arnold injured for large parts of the season, the Uruguayan was forced to play at full-back, despite his preference to play centrally in midfield.

From BBC

We play at the playground for a while, and then we head to Triangle Park—a fenced-in, triangular patch of grass outside the library where Miss Keya is doing a story time with books, songs, and crafts.

From Literature

And although he is committed to play at Vanderbilt, he might skip college ball altogether. MLB.com ranks Contreras as the 47th-best draft prospect, meaning he could be picked within the first two rounds.

From The Wall Street Journal