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Browns' Owusu-Koramoah immobilized, carted off
CLEVELAND -- Browns linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah was ruled out with a neck injury that required him to be immobilized in the third quarter of Sunday's 29-24 win over the Baltimore Ravens.
Owusu-Koramoah suffered the injury after a collision with running back Derrick Henry. He was taken to a local hospital for further evaluation but has movement in all extremities.
Henry's arm made contact with Owusu-Koramoah's neck while Owusu-Koramoah attempted to make a tackle. He was driven back and remained on the ground after the play.
After medical trainers tended to Owusu-Koramoah for several minutes, he was placed on a backboard and carted off the field. Owusu-Koramoah raised his right fist as he left the field.
A fourth-year player out of Notre Dame, Owusu-Koramoah was named to his first Pro Bowl last season. He entered Week 8 leading the Browns with 54 tackles.
Browns cornerback Denzel Ward also was ruled out. Coach Kevin Stefanski said after the game that Ward was diagnosed with a concussion.
This is the sixth documented concussion Ward has suffered since entering the NFL in 2018.
Yorkshire Premier Squash: Doncaster continue to flout rules
Defending champions Doncaster are seemingly in an act of defiance after once again deliberately flouting new rules over professional squad players in the Yorkshire Premier League.
For the third week out of four, Doncaster fell foul of the new rule, brought in at the AGM in May, that stipulates teams cant field more than three full-time pro players in a team.
They played full-time pros Emyr Evans, Will Salter, New Zealander Joel Arscott and David Turner, of Australia, in their latest round.
They recorded what was ostensibly a victory at Queens Sports Club in Halifax, but went down as a 15-6 win for the hosts due to another punitive points deduction. Doncaster are getting points deductions every week they defy the rules.
Meanwhile, Pontefracts all-star line-up fired them to victory over second-placed Hallamshire and opened up a commanding lead after this weeks fourth round.
Pontefracts No.1 Patrick Rooney sped straight from the airport, where hed just returned from the US Open in Philadelphia, and he was joined in Pontes team by Scotlands Commonwealth Games silver medallist Rory Stewart and 21-year-old prodigy Sam Todd, whos back from a two-year absence due to an ankle injury.
Their power-packed team carded a 17-5 victory over Hallamshire who themselves fielded three-time world champion Nick Matthew to open up a 15-point lead at the top going into the half-term break.
The opening salvos were shared as Pontes fifth string and captain Matt Godson took down young Canadian Thierry Moesner in three games, but on the adjacent court Hallamshires Matt Gregory ousted Tom Bamford in three tight games.
While 21-year-old Todd confirmed a return to something approaching peak form by dispatching Adam Turner rapidly, the second-string match went the distance. Former world No.1 Matthew clawed out a two-game lead over Stewart (who now trains at Pontefract under James Willstrop), but the Scot roared back to claim a cracking encounter 11-9 in the deciding fifth.
That wrapped up the five bonus points, but world No.41 Rooney certainly didnt take his foot off the gas, shrugging off the trans-Atlantic jetlag to dismiss New Zealander Temwa Chileshe in three rapid games.
David Turner and Ed Walkers victories at the bottom of the order are expunged, but wins for Welshman Emyr Evans and second string Will Salter remain on record. At No.3, Queens Bader Almaghrebi defeated Doncaster captain Joel Arscott in straight games.
Queens victory means them up to fourth, but above them by three points are Dunnington who defeated Cleethorpes 15-6 thanks to a strong performance by their lower order.
Sam Gibbon, Taminder Gata-Aura and Jamie Brown all won in three, meaning that wins for Cleethorpes No.2 Elliott Morris Devred and Malaysias Sanjay Jeeva at No.1 were only consolations.
Bottom side Abbeydale remain winless after losing 15-8 at home to mid-table Harrogate. The Sheffield side got an early W on the board through Kieran Heaphy, but Declan Christie, youngster Gabriel Cox and veteran Chris Simpson all won to seal the away sides victory. Abbeydale No.1 Rhys Evans reduced the margin of victory by conquering Kiwi Lwamba Chileshe in four at top string.
Ferriby Hall climbed off the bottom on points difference after picking up their first win of the season 17-5 at sixth-placed Woodfield.
It was Ferriby Halls lower order who did the damage with Glyn Saunders and Yusef Forster winning rapidly and Ben Sockett dropping just one game to Alex Cutts at third string. Woodfield registered a victory through firebrand George Parker against Guyanas Sam Ince-Carvalhal but the nights best match was at top string where England international Ben Smith toppled Commonwealth Games mens doubles gold medallist Declan James in four highly entertaining games, the last two of which went to tie-breaks.
Philadelphia Flyers forward Garnet Hathaway was fined $5,000 by the NHL Department of Player Safety on Sunday for elbowing Joel Eriksson Ek of the Minnesota Wild.
The incident occurred early in the second period of the Flyers' 7-5 victory over the visiting Wild on Saturday afternoon. Hathaway was assessed a two-minute minor penalty for roughing.
Hathaway, 32, has collected three assists and 14 penalty minutes in eight games this season.
The rugged Hathaway has recorded 142 points (65 goals, 77 assists) and 636 penalty minutes in 547 career games with the Calgary Flames, Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins and Flyers.
LONDON -- Erik ten Hag has slammed the "process" behind the controversial decision that saw Jarrod Bowen earn West Ham a 2-1 win over Manchester United at the London Stadium on Sunday.
United thought they had done enough to earn a point in east London before Video Assistant Referee (VAR) Michael Oliver recommended an on-field check for a penalty following a collision between Matthijs de Ligt and Danny Ings at the end of normal time.
While the contact between the pair appeared slight, referee David Coote agreed with the VAR's recommendation to award the penalty that Bowen coolly dispatched to deepen United's woes.
"So first of all, in football it is not always the best team winning, and today there was clear and obvious and clear and obvious wasn't how the VAR worked," Ten Hag said.
"How they worked, how they run their process. And before the season they explained the process of the VAR and only when it's clear and obvious then they should interfere. So what they didn't do against Spurs where they should have done it to interfere with the red card of Bruno [Fernandes]. There was a wrong decision and now they make again a wrong decision interfering and both has big impact on the scores of the games."
Asked whether he felt Coote was more influenced in this case by Oliver's standing as a more senior referee, Ten Hag said: "I don't criticise any personnel, but I criticise the process and... The off-field was obviously, the VAR was Michael Oliver but also the on-field -- you have to make a decision in the final moment. And he did I think three minutes to decide and to make this call. But then you have to show big personality to recall this decision."
The defeat sees United slip down to 14th in the table after they were leapfrogged by West Ham. Ten Hag's team have won just three of their first nine Premier League matches this season -- something Ten Hag says is partly down to a lack of good fortune.
"In this moment, definitely the luck is not on my side [but] it's not about me, it's about the team, and it's not on our side," he said.
"And last season was not different, but in the end we turned this around and we are [were] so determined it would be the same case today.
"But we have to turn this around and it will turn around if we keep playing like we are playing now and, in this block -- Brentford, Fenerbahce, today, we played really good football."
United host Leicester City in the Carabao Cup round of 16 on Wednesday before facing Enzo Maresca's in-form Chelsea team at Old Trafford on Nov. 3.
Arsenal, Liverpool share spoils in title-rivals clash
Mohamed Salah's late equaliser earned Liverpool a 2-2 draw with rivals Arsenal in an entertaining Premier League encounter at the Emirates on Sunday, as Gabriel Magalhães limped off to add to the Gunners' injury woes.
Bukayo Saka gave Arsenal the lead in the ninth minute when he ran on to Ben White's ball over the top, cut inside Andy Robertson and fired past Caoimhín Kelleher at his near post for a 50th Premier League goal on his return from injury.
Virgil van Dijk, perhaps fortunate to avoid a card for a petulant kick at Kai Havertz in the opening exchanges, equalised nine minutes later, nodding home a Luis Díaz flick-on from a corner.
Arsenal responded positively and spurned several half-chances, with Saka hitting a shot over the bar and Havertz unable to control Gabriel Martinelli's dangerous ball across the face of goal.
The home fans wanted a penalty just after the half-hour mark when Ibrahima Konaté floored Martinelli with a clumsy challenge, but referee Anthony Taylor deemed he got enough of the ball, with Havertz slicing a volley over the top in the aftermath.
Mikel Merino scored his first Arsenal goal just before half-time, meeting Declan Rice's free-kick with a bullet header that was upheld after a lengthy VAR review for offside.
Liverpool improved after the break and Díaz went close five minutes after the restart following a mazy run along the touchline.
Gabriel limped off early in the second half, replaced by Jakub Kiwior, as Arsenal sustained another injury to a key player.
The hosts had to withstand considerable periods of pressure, though they threatened on the counter as Liverpool left gaps at the back.
Salah levelled the game in the 81st minute with a calm tap-in from Darwin Núñez's selfless cross, bringing the Egyptian winger level with Robbie Fowler on 163 career Premier League goals.
The momentum seemed to be with Liverpool to clinch a comeback victory but Arsenal had the ball in the net at the death through Havertz, though referee Anthony Taylor had already blown for a foul.
The draw puts Liverpool second with 22 points from nine games, one point behind Manchester City, and Arsenal move into third with 18 points.
VAR controversy gives Ten Hag another way to blame anything other than himself
LONDON -- It's becoming increasingly difficult to come to the same conclusions about Manchester United as Erik ten Hag. Asked on Thursday about the 3-0 drubbing they received at home to Tottenham Hotspur, Ten Hag said he chooses to "deny" and "ignore" the defeat because the red card shown to Bruno Fernandes was subsequently rescinded.
If Ten Hag felt that loss should be scrubbed out because of a refereeing error, he's likely to adopt the same defence after this result at the London Stadium. But by the time Matthijs de Ligt made contact with Danny Ings' leg inside the box in the 87th minute, a match that Man United had dominated had turned against them.
Ten Hag has grounds for complaint about a decision that decisively swung proceedings after the VAR, Michael Oliver, advised a controversial spot kick to the home side. It led to West Ham United's stoppage-time winner, Jarrod Bowen stepping up to make the final score 2-1, but his team's familiar failings were there for all to see.
Ten Hag must hate his yearly trip to east London. Ten Hag has never earned even a single point from a Premier League match at this stadium; Cristiano Ronaldo and Jesse Lingard were on the scoresheet last time they won here in 2021. Ten Hag even waved his hand to swat away the pre-match bubbles, such was his aversion to this place.
His problems don't just crop up against West Ham, though. The midweek draw with Fenerbahce in the Europa League stretched Man United's winless run in Europe to a whole calendar year and, apart from a victory over a bottom-placed Southampton aside, his team have forgotten how to win on the road in the Premier League, too.
Here, as has become the norm, Ten Hag decided against taking full responsibility for the defeat.
"In football it is not always the best team winning, and today there was clear and obvious and clear and obvious wasn't how the VAR worked," Ten Hag said. "How they worked, how they run their process. And before the season they explained the process of the VAR and only when it's clear and obvious then they should interfere.
"So what [the VAR] didn't do against Spurs where they should have done it to interfere with the red card of Bruno [Fernandes]. There was a wrong decision and now they make again a wrong decision interfering and both have big impact on the scores of the games."
Ten Hag may have a point, but the plain facts make for tough reading.
Man United did, though, begin brightly as Fernandes twice set up Alejandro Garnacho for chances that you would expect him to score. Fernandes then fluffed his own lines by ballooning a free header over the crossbar, drawing yet more sighs from the home crowd and a few thousand glares toward head coach Julen Lopetegui, himself under intense pressure after a lacklustre start to the season.
Diogo Dalot's inexplicable miss drew a player's most-feared type of crowd reaction: an embarrassed laugh. The Portugal international touched the ball past the onrushing goalkeeper before impatiently skewing his volley wide of the open goal from six yards out.
For a player touted as the young star in United's attack, Garnacho's career output could hardly be described as eye-catching. He has 20 goals and 13 assists in 100 appearances for Man United in all competitions since making his debut in April 2022. His much-maligned teammate, Marcus Rashford, has managed 46 goals and 20 assists in 126 matches in that time.
Fernandes, meanwhile, has had more shots without scoring (25) than any other goalless player in the Premier League this season.
Ten Hag bemoaned Man United's lack of cutting edge against Fenerbahce and his disgust was plain to see as he stood motionless on the touchline. His team should have put the game to bed in the first half in which they registered 1.48xG and held West Ham to an xG of 0.04.
Lopetegui intervened at half-time and his changes had an impact. And they needed to. A triple substitution included the introduction of Crysencio Summerville, with the winger's mazy runs at the United defence creating gaps that turned the tide in West Ham's favour and got the fans on side.
Inevitably, it was Summerville who stole in at the back post to put the home side ahead. Casemiro's equaliser with nine minutes to go always felt like it was papering over the cracks, which Bowen's penalty finally exposed.
At full-time West Ham had improved their xG to 2.98, bettering United's by 0.6, a clear sign of how Lopetegui was the difference-maker, while Ten Hag was unable to have the same influence on his side after the break.
There are now only six sides below Man United in the Premier League table, and only two teams have scored fewer goals than their eight.
"It [the penalty decision] had a big impact on the score and the other impact was that we didn't score and we create so many chances," Ten Hag added. "We played so good football, especially the first half, [it is] exactly how I want to see my team playing -- so dominant in and out of position, very good build up, very good structures, playing between the lines, go around back inside, go behind, create chances.
"I think I collected six, seven, 100% percent chances we should have scored and that is the other thing. And then of course when you don't score, we have to keep calm and keep going and do the same things. That will create you chances and that is a point of improvement. But all over I had not so many criticisms of my team apart from not scoring."
After hosting Chelsea next weekend, Man United then face Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Everton -- three of those six teams with a worse record after nine games. Ten Hag cannot afford for his luck not to change in those matches.
Perhaps this is just United's level now. In the Premier League era, West Ham have been a midtable team -- usually good enough to avoid sinking too low, but only capable of producing intermittent flashes of quality. Sometimes it's enough for an eye-catching victory, sometimes it coughs up 90 minutes of inertia and drift. Remind you of anyone?
Patriots QB Maye leaves game with concussion
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots rookie quarterback Drake Maye was ruled out for the rest of Sunday's game against the New York Jets with a concussion.
The injury appeared to come on a play late in the first quarter in which Maye had scrambled for an 18-yard gain. As Maye slid at the end of the run, Jets linebacker Jamien Sherwood's helmet made contact with Maye's helmet during a tackle attempt.
Maye was slow to get up but stayed in the game for the final four plays of the drive, which extended into the second quarter. After the Patriots punted, Maye headed to the sideline and sat on the bench initially, before he was brought to the medical tent for evaluation. He then walked to the locker room under his own power.
Veteran Jacoby Brissett, who started the first five games of the season for New England, took over for Maye.
"Just like I told the guys at the beginning of the game, it's that 'next man up' mentality no matter what position you play. We need Jacoby to take us to the promised land," head coach Jerod Mayo told CBS at halftime.
The Patriots had initially announced Maye's return as questionable.
Maye used his scrambling ability to score a 17-yard touchdown in the first quarter that gave the Patriots a 7-0 lead.
He rushed three times for 46 yards and was 3-of-6 for 23 yards passing in the game.
Canes up to No. 5; Irish, BYU, Ags enter top 10
Miami edged ahead of Texas and climbed to No. 5 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday for its highest ranking since 2017, while Notre Dame, BYU and Texas A&M all moved into the top 10.
Oregon, Georgia, Penn State and Ohio State remained the top four teams, and Washington State and Colorado entered the Top 25 for the first time this season.
Led by Heisman Trophy candidate Cam Ward, Miami improved to 8-0 with its win over Florida State on Saturday. The Hurricanes have been in the top 10 for eight straight polls but not this high since they spent two weeks at No. 2 in November 2017.
Texas, which had dropped from No. 1 to No. 5 after its home loss to Georgia, slipped another spot to No. 6 following a three-point win at Vanderbilt.
Notre Dame, knocked out of the top 10 after its Week 2 loss to Northern Illinois, moved up four spots and is No. 8 following its 51-14 win over Navy.
No. 9 BYU went on the road and beat UCF to go 8-0 and has its highest ranking since 2020, when the Cougars opened with nine straight wins.
Texas A&M's 38-23 win over LSU was its second of the season against a top-10 opponent, and first-year coach Mike Elko's Aggies were rewarded with a four-rung promotion to No. 10. That's their highest ranking since they were sixth in September 2022.
No. 1 Oregon received 61 of 62 first-place votes -- two more than last week -- after a 38-9 win over Illinois. No. 2 Georgia, which was idle, received the other first-place vote.
Penn State overcame the loss of quarterback Drew Allar to injury just before halftime to win at Wisconsin and remained No. 3 going into this weekend's home game against Ohio State, which stayed No. 4 after scuffling to a 21-17 win at home against nearly four-touchdown-underdog Nebraska.
POLL POINTS
Notre Dame and Texas A&M made the biggest upward moves. LSU's drop from No. 8 to No. 16 was the biggest demotion.
BYU has risen in six consecutive polls since it entered at No. 22 on Sept. 22. Pittsburgh has moved up in four straight since it made its season debut at No. 22 on Oct. 6.
Because of Texas' drop to No. 6, this is the first poll this season that the SEC has had only one representative in the top five. This is the fourth straight week the Big Ten has had three of the top four teams.
Miami is the first ACC team in the top five since Florida State was No. 4 the first week of last December.
WHO'S IN; WHO'S OUT
Washington State (7-1) beat San Diego State for its third straight win and entered at No. 22 to become the first ranked team this season from what remains of the Pac-12. (Oregon State is the only other current member.)
Colorado (6-2) has won five of six after beating Cincinnati and is No. 23, the first ranking for coach Deion Sanders and his Buffaloes since they appeared in three straight polls early last season.
Vanderbilt's first ranking since the 2013 season lasted just one week. The Commodores, who had been No. 25, received the most votes among teams outside the Top 25.
Navy, in the poll two straight weeks, was knocked out after committing six turnovers in its 37-point loss to Notre Dame. Rival Army (7-0) climbed two spots to No. 21.
CONFERENCE CALL
SEC: 8 (Nos. 2, 6, 7, 10, 14, 16, 19, 25)
Big Ten: 5 (Nos. 1, 3, 4, 13, 24)
ACC: 4 (Nos. 5, 11, 18, 20)
Big 12: 4 (Nos. 9, 11, 17, 23)
American: 1 (No. 21)
Independent: 1 (No. 8)
Mountain West: 1 (No. 15)
Pac-12: 1 (No. 22)
RANKED VS. RANKED
No. 4 Ohio State at No. 3 Penn State: This will be the fourth meeting of top-five teams this season. The Buckeyes have won seven straight in the series. Both teams have health issues, none bigger than the knee injury to Penn State's Allar.
No. 18 Pittsburgh at No. 20 SMU: Of the four teams unbeaten in ACC play, these two are the biggest surprises. Pitt was picked 13th in the conference in the preseason media poll and SMU seventh.
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Shohei Ohtani put a major scare into the Los Angeles Dodgers when he injured his left shoulder late in their Game 2 win over the New York Yankees, but he has been cleared to play in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night.
"He's in a great spot. He's playing tomorrow," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told ESPN's Karl Ravech via text.
Ohtani, the Dodgers' designated hitter, suffered a subluxation of his left shoulder during an attempted steal of second base in Saturday's 4-2 win.
Ohtani, who did not sit out any games because of injury this season, was tagged out on the steal attempt at second base to end the seventh inning and was slow to get up, rolling on the ground while grabbing his left arm.
Los Angeles was "encouraged" after the game as initial strength and range-of-motion tests came back positive.
The Dodgers boarded their flight to New York late Saturday night, but Ohtani was set to undergo his examination in Los Angeles and then fly out to New York to meet the team. The Dodgers will play Games 3, 4 and (potentially) 5 at Yankee Stadium on Monday, Tuesday and (if necessary) Wednesday.
The Dodgers lead the Yankees 2-0 in the series.
ESPN's Alden Gonzalez contributed to this report.