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Rays Are 1 Win Away: 3 Takeaways From ALCS Game 5

The Rays have taken control of the ALCS after winning two out of three games on the road at Progressive Field.

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Why Officiating Expert Disagrees With Penalty That Set Cardinals Up For Game-Winner vs. Rams

FOX Sports Rules Analyst Mike Pereira weighed in on the Rams' personal foul that set up the Cardinals for a game-winning field goal.

NFL today: How to watch Cowboys v Packers, TV channels & live stream Sunday 18 October

How will the Dallas and Green Bay fare today? Here is what to know, including kick-off time, TV channels and live stream optionsThe Cowboys are trying to get off a treadmill on Sunday, having sequenced a loss, a win, a loss,a win, and then another loss through their first five games. Dallas’s magnetic attraction to staying within a game of .500 has so far not crushed them in the NFC East, where no team has more than three wins and the presumptive-favorite Eagles are floundering in the early season. It may well not take more than nine wins to claim the East this year, but the Cowboys have to start stacking them at some point.Their task Sunday in Green Bay will be a tough one. The Packers have had substantial injury problems but looked rejuvenated in putting a 31-7 beating on the Bears last week. While Chicago playing backup QBs Tyson Bagent and Case Keenum might explain their low point total, the Green Bay offense looked like a revelation. Now the Pack get to face a Dallas defense that lost to a rookie QB 10 days ago and has yet to keep an opponent under 20 points. Can the Cowboys show some mettle on the road? Continue reading...

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Elite-level incompetence is Manchester United’s problem – not Michael Carrick | Barney Ronay

Getting rid of head coach is not going to solve the problems that led to his appointment. Perhaps it’s worth, for once, doing something differentAt the final whistle at Elland Road the TV cameras cut to a lingering shot of the Manchester United chief executive, Omar Berrada, looking down pensively from the stands, deciding, it is to be hoped, on a little clemency, a re-sheathing of the managerial shotgun.Here we have the man who hired the man. The man who fires the man. The man who also hired or rehired the previous two men he had to fire. Berrada was poached from Manchester City on the basis of his ability to grow commercial revenue (yes, OK, stop laughing), and appears, like everyone else with any actual reach around here, to exist in a strangely consequence-free bubble. Continue reading...

Another unremarkable win shows Arsenal’s strength is in depth rather than creativity | Jonathan Wilson

Champions so risk-averse Forest were lured into thinking they had a chance, until bench was used to see them offPass. Pass. Pass. Pass. Sideways. Square. Backwards. Pass. Pass. Recycle. Pass. It wasn’t much of a spectacle. But in the end, for the second week running, thanks in no small part of their bench, Arsenal won. Fireworks in the autumn are for Bonfire Night; titles require relentless accumulation. Since the international break, Arsenal have won three games out of three despite not being in the lead at half-time in any of them.Hammered at Brighton and having endured a drab first hour at home to Leeds last week, there has been a rare sense, for the first time really since Manchester City dropped points at Everton at the beginning of May, of Arsenal not being quite at their best, needing to reassert their quality. This was not a performance that would terrify any opponent, but it did highlight Arsenal’s consistency and it did demonstrate just how deep their squad now runs. Continue reading...