LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers right-hander Brusdar Graterol will miss the first half of next season after having surgery to repair the labrum in his right shoulder.

The surgery was performed Thursday by Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the Dodgers announced Friday.

Graterol is expected to return in the second half of the 2025 season.

Graterol pitched in seven games during the regular season and three games in the World Series against the New York Yankees, which the Dodgers won in five games. He allowed three hits over 2 scoreless innings in those World Series appearances.

The 26-year-old was slowed this season by shoulder inflammation and a hamstring injury.

Graterol, a hard-throwing Venezuelan, spent his first season in the majors with Minnesota in 2019, and the Twins traded him to the Dodgers before the 2020 season. For his career, he has a 2.78 ERA and 11 saves in 188 games.

Ever since Raducanu won the 2021 US Open as a teenage qualifier, she has often found herself at the centre of attention.

It has been no different in Malaga this week and, while that can often be uncomfortable in a team environment, the focus was justified with plenty of intrigue about Raducanu's fitness.

Raducanu had not played since 21 September when she retired from her Korea Open quarter-final against Daria Kasatkina after damaging ligaments in her left foot.

A month ago she was still wearing a protective boot. On Thursday she insisted she was ready. But what shape would she really be in?

After a demoralising US Open first-round exit, Raducanu lamented the lack of court time in the run-up and it led to valid questions about her match sharpness in Malaga.

Rustiness in the returning showed in the opening exchanges against 92nd-ranked Niemeier before she quickly began to find rhythm.

Her serving was particularly effective in the first set - especially in the key moments.

Seven aces, including four as she recovered from 0-40 for a 5-3 lead, and winning 80% of her points on first serve did the damage.

Niemeier, 25, has a powerful game which lent itself to success on the Wimbledon grass but, after a strong start against Raducanu, her service game disintegrated and confidence seemed to sap.

After an exchange of breaks early in the second set, Raducanu locked in again mentally to move a double break ahead.

But if the hefty British presence at the Palacio de Deportes thought it was going to be straightforward conclusion from there, they were mistaken.

Getting over the line was where Raducanu's lack of court time told.

Raducanu lost one serve after squandering a match point at 5-2, could not take three more opportunities in the ninth game, but finally sealed victory at the sixth time of asking.

"I haven't played a match in a long time so the sharpness will come. I'm proud of how I regrouped," Raducanu said.

The PWHL on Friday turned to three-time U.S. Olympian and New Jersey Devils director of player development Meghan Duggan to assist in its hockey operations department.

Duggan will serve as a special consultant for the six-team league entering its second season, which opens on Nov. 30. Without defining Duggan's role, her responsibilities are expected to include input on potential rule changes, scheduling and player-personnel matters.

"Meghan is a long-time advocate for women's hockey, a proven leader and an accomplished executive at the top levels of sport," PWHL vice president Jayna Hefford said in a statement. "As we continue to prioritize advancement and innovation in our game, Meghan will draw on her competitiveness, character, and a long list of hockey achievements to help move our league forward."

Among the league's innovations is the "Jail-Break" rule, in which a minor penalty expires if a team scores a short-handed goal. The PWHL also launched a plan last month to expand by as many as two teams for the 2025-26 season.

From Massachusetts, Duggan previously worked with the PWHL as a guest coach, and was hired by the Devils in May 2021 after completing her playing career by winning an Olympic gold medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. She has also been a member of USA Hockey's board of directors and an inaugural member of the NHL's player inclusion committee.

"The opportunity to join the PWHL to continue to impact and help push the women's game forward is one that I am very excited about," Duggan said. "This league and its players have just scratched the surface in terms of what they are capable of and I look forward to advising and assisting in any way that I can."

Rúben Amorim has told Manchester United fans that his team will play "without fear" in his first interview since being appointed the club's new head coach.

The former Sporting CP boss is settling into his job at Old Trafford after arriving in Manchester on Monday and is set to take his first training sessions next week.

His first game will be against Ipswich Town on Nov. 24 and Amorim said supporters will see a brave, attack-minded team right away.

"We know it will take time and we will try to win time with the games," Amorim said. "But we have to start from day one without fear, without thinking that they are not used to playing like this.

"This is not on my mind. They will start on the first day with our idea, no matter what. That's the goal."

Amorim is expected to implement his 3-4-3 system that proved so successful at Sporting -- a departure from the 4-3-3 used by predecessor Erik ten Hag.

Ten Hag was often criticised during his reign for fielding a team without a clear plan.

Amorim, however, has said his version of United will have a strong "identity."

"The most important thing for me is identity," he said. "From day one we will start with our identity. A lot of people now talk about the 3-4-3 and the 4-3-3 and all that stuff. But when I think of Manchester United, it is not a system of formation, it's like the character of the players, the way they see the club.

"The most important thing for me at this moment is to create the principles, the identity and the character that we had in the past. So if I have to say one thing, my main goal, my first goal, is identity."

Amorim and his staff are still waiting for their visa before officially starting work. In the meantime, the Portuguese coach has been learning about the club's history and took a tour of Old Trafford on Thursday.

In an effort to reconnect the players with the club and its history, Amorim said he will encourage the squad to do the same.

"When the players come here, they should make the same tour with the same guy all the time," Amorim said. "I think this is very important to do. It is one thing that you have to feel that this is Manchester United and it's normal. If you are a lot of years without winning, you start losing that.

"So you have to be very clear on the message that you want to put on the players. So I think we need to put all the players doing the same thing, to regain that feeling."

CINCINNATI -- Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins flashed a big smile at his locker before the team took off for Los Angeles.

After three weeks out with a quadriceps injury, Higgins is expected to play Sunday against the Chargers, coach Zac Taylor said after Friday's practice.

And nobody is looking forward to it more than Higgins is.

"I'm very excited [to] get back out there with the guys," Higgins told ESPN in his first interview since suffering the injury. "Just sitting there watching, I hate it, you know what I'm saying? Not being able to contribute to help get a win, it sucks. So I'm very excited to go out there and fight."

Higgins has been a limited participant at practice this week but does not have an injury designation for Sunday's game. During the portion of Friday's practice open to the media, Higgins was in uniform and sported a helmet but did agility and conditioning drills.

"Anything you saw in practice with him doing rehab, doing individual stuff was all stuff we had coordinated all week to make sure that he was in a great spot," Taylor said. "And right now, we're in a great spot."

Also, Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson is expected to play Sunday despite missing practice Friday. Hendrickson, who leads the NFL with 11 sacks this season, will travel separately to Los Angeles on Saturday for personal reasons.

Higgins suffered his injury in practice Oct. 25, two days before the Bengals' loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. The injury continued to linger over the next couple of weeks, he said.

"I was still feeling it," Higgins said. "But it felt amazing this week, and I'm ready to go."

The fifth-year wide receiver has had to battle soft-tissue injuries throughout his career. This season, he suffered a hamstring injury days before Week 1 and missed the first two games. He also missed four games in 2023 because of a hamstring injury.

Higgins indicated that he has made consultations to prevent those injuries from happening in the future.

"I thought I was handling it the right way, and then this stuff keeps happening," Higgins told ESPN. "So I had to go and call people and see what I need to do better or more of. I feel like I'm on the right track right now."

Before he suffered the quadriceps injury, Higgins was lauded by coaches and teammates for performing at the highest level of his career. Higgins, who is playing on the franchise tag, averaged 80.7 yards per game in the three contests preceding the injury and played a key role in back-to-back wins over the New York Giants and Cleveland Browns.

Taylor said that, despite the extended absence, the team feels confident that Higgins can handle a significant workload in a game Cincinnati (4-6) knows it needs to win to bolster its playoff outlook.

Higgins said the toughest part about not playing has been the losses Cincinnati has sustained in his absence. The Bengals dropped two of the three games he missed.

Before the team left for Los Angeles on Friday afternoon, Higgins told ESPN that he hopes the best for him this year is yet to come.

"Hopefully all the injury stuff is behind me, I'm healthy for the rest of the season, and we can go and try to make that run that we think we can do," Higgins said.

In other injury news, Bengals offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. is questionable with a lower leg injury. Linebacker Logan Wilson (quadriceps) and defensive tackle BJ Hill (knee, questionable) are both expected to play against the Chargers.

Paul Pogba will leave Juventus after the Serie A club confirmed the termination of his contract by mutual consent on Friday.

Pogba's contract will officially end on Nov. 30, Juventus said, and he will then become a free agent.

"The club wishes Paul the very best for his professional future," the Turin side added in a statement.

The France international had his doping ban reduced from four years to 18 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in October, meaning he will be able to play football again in March, though it is not yet known where he will continue his career.

"My time at Juventus has come to an end," Pogba said in his own statement. "It has been a privilege to pull on the shirt of the bianconeri and to share so many special moments together.

"I cherish the memories we made. They live on. Even in the most difficult moments over the past year, your support was crucial and I want to thank Juve fans around the world for their compassion. It has been a pleasure to have experienced so many great moments with my teammates over the years and I wish them every success in the future.

"I am looking forward to the next chapter of my career and to stepping out on the pitch with my next club."

Pogba, 31, has not played since Sept. 3, 2023, after he tested positive for DHEA -- a banned substance that raises levels of testosterone -- following Juventus' Serie A game against Udinese in August of that year.

His contract with Juventus was set to run until June 2026 before the two parties agreed to end the deal.

The 31-year old told ESPN after the CAS judgement that he had considered retiring in the immediate aftermath of the initial four-year punishment.

The 2018 World Cup winner added that he would like to prove he still has the talent to perform at the top level and stake his claim for a spot in Didier Deschamps' France team.

In what feels like a passing of the torch, New York Jets left tackle Tyron Smith -- one of the NFL's most decorated linemen -- was ruled out for Sunday with a neck ailment that could land him on injured reserve.

Smith, 33, will be replaced by rookie Olu Fashanu, who was drafted in the first round (11th overall) as Smith's heir apparent. Fashanu will start against the Indianapolis Colts at MetLife Stadium -- his NFL starting debut at left tackle, where he will protect Aaron Rodgers' blindside.

Smith, an eight-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time All Pro with the Dallas Cowboys, hadn't missed a snap until last week, but he left the game with a neck injury. He underwent an MRI exam and still is "gathering information" on his injury, interim coach Jeff Ulbrich said Friday.

Ulbrich said Smith "potentially" could be placed on injured reserve, which would require him to miss at least four games. If that happens, it might not be worth it for Smith to return this season, especially if the Jets (3-7) are eliminated from contention.

The Jets took a chance on Smith, signing him to a one-year, $6 million contract despite his pattern of injuries in recent years. It was an incentive-heavy contract, giving Smith a chance to earn up to $20 million, mainly through playing-time bonuses.

Smith hasn't played up to his previous standard. He has allowed six sacks in 10 games, according to Next Gen Stats. The Jets started mulling the idea of replacing him at some point. Now that he's injured, it could be moot.

Now Fashanu, their future, has the job of keeping the 40-year-old Rodgers upright.

"It's definitely a big responsibility, but I try not to think about it like that," the former Penn State star said. "We're already in a high-pressure environment, so I'm not trying to put any more pressure on myself."

Fashanu started two games at right tackle when Morgan Moses was injured, and he was an emergency, in-game replacement at right guard -- the first time in his life that he played that position. Finally, he gets to start at his natural position.

"There's a sense of familiarity going back to the position I played in college and high school," he said.

In other developments, wide receiver Davante Adams returned to practice after missing two days with an illness. He's expected to face the Colts. Linebacker C.J. Mosley (neck) was ruled out for the third straight game. He will re-evaluated after their bye week, which follows the Indianapolis game.

Anders Carlson will handle the kicking duties after the Jets unexpectedly lost Spencer Shrader on Thursday to the Kansas City Chiefs, who poached him from their practice squad. The Jets had planned to elevate Shrader for the second straight week, but he opted for Kansas City, where he will replace the injured Harrison Butker.

The Jets may have erred by not signed Shrader to their active roster. Now they will have their fourth different kicker in four weeks. Carlson kicked for the Green Bay Packers in 2023 and briefly for the San Francisco 49ers this season.

"There's a lot of stuff that goes into the roster management that I can't get into," Ulbrich said, "but (we have) great confidence in Anders."

At SEC media days in July, Steve Sarkisian inadvertently described a good portion of college football in a single line. "I feel like when you go to Arkansas," the Texas Longhorns coach said, "I almost at times feel like they hate Texas more than they like themselves. That's a real rivalry."

Later that week, Arkansas Razorbacks coach Sam Pittman confirmed Sarkisian's take. "We hadn't played Texas for years," he said, "and when we played them a couple of years back, it was the most excited our fan base has been in a while. So I would say he's probably right."

Houston Nutt can testify. Nutt grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. He idolized legendary Arkansas coach Frank Broyles and watched him battle Darrell Royal and the Longhorns before playing for the Razorbacks himself.

"When Texas came to play Arkansas, it was this huge, huge thing," he told ESPN in 2019. "I remember being taught at the age of 6 outside War Memorial Stadium [in Little Rock] how to do the Hook 'Em Horns Down sign."

Nutt beat the Horns as the Hogs' coach, a 27-6 win in the 2000 Cotton Bowl, Arkansas' first bowl win since 1985. He turned around, and threw the Horns Down to the Arkansas fans.

"It was a sea of red, and they were mostly doing the Hook 'Em Horns Down," Nutt said. "What did I do? I can't help it. I'm right there with 'em."

Conference realignment has broken countless rivalries through the years. There are no Oklahoma-Oklahoma State games on the schedule; Missouri and Kansas haven't played since 2011; Cal has traded playing UCLA for playing NC State; Oregon-Oregon State and Washington-Washington State have been moved from the traditional bottom of the schedule to the top; Pitt and West Virginia play only sporadically, as do Oklahoma and Nebraska. But in the "thank God for small favors" department, this latest round of realignment at least reignited a few rivalries to replace the further ones we lost. Longtime Big 8 and Big 12 rivals Oklahoma and Missouri played this past Saturday for the first time in 13 years (and celebrated the occasion with a particularly wacky finish), and on Nov. 30 not only will we get our first Texas vs. Texas A&M game since 2011 but it also might have enormous College Football Playoff stakes.

While we wait for Aggies-Horns, however, we get a rivalry game that, for quite a while, outshined Texas-A&M and defined Southwest Conference football. On Saturday, Texas and Arkansas will play for just the fourth time in 20 years and will play as conference rivals for the first time in 33. Most rivalries fit into certain parameters -- the dueling heavyweights that split the wins over time, the heavyweight against the aspirant that measures itself by how well it's faring against the big dog, etc. -- but over the course of a few decades, Arkansas-Texas fit into multiple categories. Arkansas was the aggrieved and aspirant underdog for much of the series, but for much of the 1960s, when Royal and Broyles were at the top of their respective games, this was the biggest game in college football. Whichever flavor it takes on at a given time, this game remains spicy.

Texas is 8-1 and listed as a favorite by more than two touchdowns Saturday, while Arkansas is 5-4, having handed Tennessee its only loss of the season but suffered two blowout losses in its past four games. The Razorbacks are volatile underdogs; the Longhorns are SEC title favorites; and, for at least a little while Saturday, Razorback Stadium will be an absolute cauldron. To prepare ourselves, let's look back at 10 of the most noteworthy games in this revived rivalry's history.

No. 3 Texas 20, No. 14 Arkansas 0 (1946)

"Steers Trounce Tough Porkers For 5th Victory" was the headline in the Austin American. At 3-0-1, Arkansas was off to its best start in 13 years, and for the first time these teams met as mutually ranked foes. But Texas, also unbeaten and the winner of three of the past four Southwest Conference (SWC) crowns, handled both the moment and the muggy conditions better. Future pro and college football Hall of Famer Bobby Layne threw a pair of touchdown passes -- one to Hub Bechtol for 50 yards, one to Jim Canady for 47 -- and the Longhorns had scored all their points by halftime. This was a pretty common result: Aside from a mid-1930s run in which Texas lost its way as a program and Arkansas won five of six games between them, UT dominated the early stages of this rivalry, winning 29 of the first 35 battles. It's been a lot closer since then.

This was the high-water mark for the "Steers," by the way, as they would fall via road upset to both Rice and TCU, handing Arkansas only its second SWC title. The Razorbacks would head to Dallas, where they endured a 0-0 tie with LSU in the Cotton Bowl.

No. 3 Texas 13, No. 12 Arkansas 12 (1959)

After falling apart under Edwin Price in the mid-1950s, Texas righted the ship by hiring Royal, a former Oklahoma Sooner, to lead the program in 1957. In 1959 the Longhorns embarked on a run of nine top-10 finishes and two national titles in 14 years. Royal won his first two games against Arkansas by a combined 41-6, but second-year head coach Broyles also had things up and running by 1959. The Razorbacks would enjoy eight top-10 finishes in 11 years from 1959 to 1969; in this tight loss, they served notice as to what was coming.

As with much of 1950s college football, this game was decided by disasters. Both teams lost four fumbles; Arkansas recovered a loose ball to set up its first touchdown, but with Texas trailing 12-7 in the third quarter, another future Hall of Famer, Lance Alworth, muffed a punt, which set up a winning touchdown pass from Bart Shirley to Jack Collins. Between 1959 and 1969, eight of 11 Steers-Porkers games would be decided by five or fewer points.

No. 8 Arkansas 14, No. 1 Texas 13 (1964)

Texas won its first national title under Royal in 1963; the Longhorns shined in big games that season, beating No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 2 Navy by a combined 56-13, but they managed only a 17-13 win over Arkansas in Fayetteville. They advanced their winning streak to 15 games early in 1964, but Broyles was building a title-worthy squad of his own by then.

For the third time in four years, this was a matchup of top-10 teams. The most famous members of the 1964 Razorbacks were future Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and future college and NFL title winner Jimmy Johnson, but future Arkansas coach Ken Hatfield made the difference in this one. His 81-yard punt return gave Arkansas a 7-0 halftime lead, and after Texas tied the score in the fourth quarter, Fred Marshall found Bobby Crockett for a 34-yard touchdown to put Arkansas ahead once more. With about a minute left, Ernie Koy scored on a 1-yard plunge; Royal, entirely uninterested in a tie, elected to go for two points and the win, but a pass attempt came up short. Texas' winning streak was over, and Arkansas would go on to finish 11-0 and score a share of its first national title.

No. 3 Arkansas 27, No. 1 Texas 24 (1965)

By October 1965, Arkansas had extended its winning streak to 16 games, winning its first four games of 1965 by a combined 114-33. But Texas had leapfrogged the Razorbacks to get back to No. 1, thanks in part to a 19-0 win over Oklahoma. That put the chip firmly back on Arkansas' shoulder.

With the extra dose of motivation -- plus, perhaps, some divine intervention: Fayetteville's First Baptist Church famously posted, "Football is only a game, eternal things are spiritual. Nevertheless, beat Texas" that week -- Arkansas raced to an early lead thanks to a pair of Phil Harris fumbles. Martine Bercher recovered the first one in the end zone, then Tommy Trantham took another one 77 yards for a score.

Arkansas went up 20-0 after a Jon Brittenum-to-Bobby Crockett touchdown, but Texas charged back. It was 20-11 by halftime, and David Conway's 34-yard field goal made it 24-20 Longhorns with just five minutes left. Brittenum scored from a yard out with 1:32 remaining, though, and Arkansas had its second of three straight wins in the series.

The Hogs would run their overall winning streak to 22 before falling to LSU 14-7 in the Cotton Bowl.

No. 1 Texas 15, No. 2 Arkansas 14 (1969)

Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Texas usually played Oklahoma and Arkansas back-to-back in early October, but Roone Arledge, the innovative head of ABC Sports, had an idea in the offseason. Texas had finished 1968 as the hottest team in the country, winning its last nine games and averaging 37 points per game with offensive coordinator Emory Bellard's innovative wishbone scheme. Arkansas, meanwhile, finished 10-1 with only a 39-29 loss at Texas. The Longhorns and Razorbacks finished third and sixth, respectively, in the AP poll and headed into 1969, college football's centennial season, as obvious national title contenders.

According to Terry Frei's "Horns, Hogs, and Nixon's Coming," ABC publicist (and future ESPN analyst) Beano Cook pored over the schedules and determined that Arkansas, Texas and Penn State all had good chances of going unbeaten. "My recommendation involved Penn State and Arkansas finishing the regular season with perfect records and then playing for the national title," Cook told Frei. "I said we should move Texas-Arkansas to December 6, because I thought Texas might be undefeated then, too." Arledge told the coaches that former Oklahoma coach and politician Bud Wilkinson could make sure that new President Richard Nixon was likely to attend the game as well. It was going to be a spectacle unlike anything college football had seen.

Sure enough, the Longhorns and Razorbacks both reached December unbeaten (as did Penn State), and Nixon was there in the stands for a game that somehow lived up to all expectations.

With Texas' offense discombobulated early -- the Horns turned the ball over on their first two drives -- Arkansas scored on a short Bill Burnett run and, early in the third quarter, a 29-yard catch by star receiver Chuck Dicus. Texas quarterback James Street scored on the first play of the fourth quarter, then scored on a 2-point conversion as well. (Royal decided before the game that he once again wanted to avoid a tie at all costs.)

With the score 14-8, Arkansas drove the length of the field and was on the verge of putting the game away until Danny Lester picked off a Bill Montgomery pass in the end zone. Then came "Right 53 Veer Pass": On a fourth-and-3 near midfield, Street threw a bomb to Cotton Speyrer for 44 yards.

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Two plays later, Texas went ahead with a short Jim Bertelsen touchdown. Arkansas drove near field goal range in the final seconds, but Tom Campbell picked off Montgomery to ice the game, and Nixon declared Texas the national champion in the locker room after the game. (This rather annoyed Penn State's Joe Paterno, whose team was also unbeaten.)

College football's explosion as a television product can be ascribed to countless things, but ABC's innovative approach to broadcasting, followed by a couple of all-time classics -- this and 1971 Oklahoma-Nebraska, to name two -- in short succession certainly didn't hurt.

No. 1 Texas 42, No. 4 Arkansas 7 (1970)

The sequel often fails to live up to the billing. Almost exactly a year after the 1969 classic, Texas was riding a 29-game winning streak, while 9-1 Arkansas was ranked fourth in the AP poll and looking for revenge on national television. It didn't quite work out.

Texas rushed for 464 yards -- Bertelsen and Steve Worster combined for 315 on their own, with five of the Longhorns' six touchdowns -- and picked off Montgomery three times. After a goal-line stand by the Longhorns' defense prevented Arkansas from tying the score early on, the floodgates opened.

The tide had again turned in the rivalry. Arkansas would finally get some measure of revenge the next year with a win in Little Rock, but after winning four of seven over the Horns between 1960-66, the Hogs won only once between 1966-79.

No. 8 Texas 28, No. 3 Arkansas 21 (1978)

A generation ended when both Royal and Broyles retired after matching 5-5-1 seasons in 1976. They both ended up hiring their younger replacements -- 38-year old Fred Akers at UT, 40-year old Lou Holtz at Arkansas -- as their schools' respective athletic directors.

Both led immediate rebounds. Holtz won 30 games, Akers won 29, and both schools finished in the AP top 12 each year from 1977 to 1979. In 1978, Akers' Longhorns played a unique role, too: spoiler. They welcomed unbeaten Arkansas to Austin and ended the Hogs' 11-game winning streak. Two Randy McEachern touchdown passes in the final minute of the first half turned a tie into a 20-7 Texas lead, and when Arkansas charged back to take the lead, Johnny "Lam" Jones caught McEachern's third TD pass, and Johnnie Johnson picked off one pass and broke up another on a fourth down to seal the win. This was the first of four straight upsets in the series, with the lower-ranked team winning every year from 1978 to 1981. My favorite rivalries are the ones that make no sense.

Arkansas 42, No. 1 Texas 11 (1981)

And now for maybe the most shocking result in the history of the rivalry. Akers' Longhorns entered the 1981 game No. 1 in the country, having just blown out Barry Switzer's Oklahoma 34-14 to move to 4-0. Arkansas, meanwhile, had fallen out of the AP rankings two weeks earlier after a road loss to an awful TCU team that would finish 2-7-2. Surely a blowout was in store, right?

This was indeed a blowout, but not the one anyone expected. Two fumbles and a safety from an airmailed punt snap gave Arkansas a quick 15-0 lead, and the Longhorns never got closer. The Hogs led 25-3 at halftime and 39-3 after three quarters; Texas actually outgained the home team 421-323, but seven turnovers sabotaged all efforts. A turnaround in the series? Not so much. The last two Akers-Holtz battles ended up a combined 64-10 in favor of the team in burnt orange. But this one was an awfully big thumb in the eye, and it would prevent the Horns from winning a national title -- they ended up second in the polls behind Clemson.

Arkansas 14, Texas 13 (1991)

"Ain't no rematch. Best thing of all, ain't gonna be no rematch." That's Arkansas head coach Jack Crowe, celebrating a Hogs win in the final SWC matchup between the two rivals. He had just weathered one of the silliest games in the series to secure permanent (well, permanent-ish) bragging rights. Arkansas led 14-0 at halftime after touchdowns from Ron Dickerson Jr. and Kerwin Price, but a 14-yard Phil Brown touchdown made it 14-7 heading into the fourth quarter, and a 55-yard burst from Brown tied the score. Or at least, it should have: The Longhorns missed the PAT, then missed a 39-yard field goal attempt with 3:45 left.

The teams weren't particularly memorable, even if the game was. Crowe's Razorbacks went 6-6 in their last season in the SWC, while David McWilliams' fifth and final Texas team went 5-6. The teams had weathered ups and downs, splitting the previous six meetings and producing zero top-10 finishes from 1984 to 1991 as the SWC wobbled through controversies and discontent. In 1990, the SEC announced it was adding Arkansas as part of an expansion to 10 teams; the plan had originally included adding not only the Hogs but also Texas and Texas A&M, but the state legislature intervened, and only Arkansas was on its way out the door. So was Crowe: Broyles fired him (and then tried to get away with announcing he'd resigned) after Arkansas began its SEC tenure with a 10-3 loss to The Citadel.

No. 7 Texas 22, Arkansas 20 (2004)

Since 1991, this has basically been a series of pent-up aggression: Whichever rival takes an early lead when they meet just keeps wailing away for a while. Arkansas won two bowl meetings (the 2000 Cotton Bowl and the 2014 Texas Bowl) by a combined 58-13, Texas won a home game in Austin 52-10 in 2008, and Arkansas won a home game in Fayetteville, Steve Sarkisian's second game in charge at Texas, by a score of 40-21 in 2021.

A 2003-04 home-and-home series produced some drama, though. Arkansas upset No. 6 Texas by a 38-28 margin in 2003, using an early 21-0 run to build some space, getting 217 combined rushing yards from Cedric Cobbs and quarterback Matt Jones and scoring every time it needed to down the stretch.

But with a young quarterback by the name of Vince Young taking over for UT in 2004, the Longhorns got some revenge. Texas built a quick 9-0 advantage with a safety from a bombed punt snap and a 49-yard TD from Young to David Thomas. And from there, it was the Cedric Benson show: The star running back produced 201 yards from scrimmage and scored via both ground and air. Texas held a 22-17 lead into the fourth quarter, and after forcing an Arkansas field goal with 9:58 left, the Longhorns' defense forced three consecutive turnovers to ice the win. Arkansas would stumble to a disappointing 5-6 record, while Mack Brown's Longhorns would finish 11-1 before winning the national title a year later.

The most recent Hogs-Horns game might turn out to have been pretty useful. "I don't know what Darrell Royal did to Arkansas back in the day," Sarkisian joked with reporters this week, "but they absolutely hate our guts. And I think we learned that the first time around when we went there."

Texas knows what it's walking into, at least. They know to expect a Horns Down or two, though we'll have to wait and see if Sam Pittman gets in on the act.

Three-time league MVP Nikola Jokic will miss the Denver Nuggets' NBA Cup game at the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night due to personal reasons.

The Nuggets have not played since Sunday, when Jokic delivered his fourth consecutive triple-double with 37 points, 18 rebounds and 15 assists in a 122-120 home win against the Dallas Mavericks.

The Nuggets (7-3) have won five straight games heading into Friday's clash with the Pelicans (3-9), who have lost six in a row.

Jokic, 29, is averaging 29.7 points per game and leads the NBA in rebounding (13.7) and assists (11.7). This will be his first missed game of the season.