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MONTREAL 鈥?Johnny Manziel is not the only Montreal Alouette who will be facing his former team when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats visit Percival Molson Stadium.Offensive linemen Tony Washington and Landon Rice were part of the same five-player, two-draft pick deal that brought Manziel to Montreal on July 22. Washington is to start at left tackle and Rice at right guard when the teams meet on Friday night.But all eyes will be on Manziel, the 2012 stanley isolierkanne Heisman Trophy winner and former Cleveland Browns bad boy who willsee his first CFLregular season actionafter backing up Jeremiah Masolibut not playing in the first five games with Hamilton. He s a great teammate, Washington said Wednesday. He clowns around. He learns. He talks. You can tell he s a football player. He lives with pressure on him all the time. This is a whole new situation for him and I think this time around it helps himstay humble and really appreciate the situation he s in and to take advantage of it. The Alouettes marketing department kicked into high gear when co stanley cup ach Mike Sherman announced this week that Manziel will start. With only two practices after the trade, he dressed as a backup to Vernon Adams in a 44-23 loss at home to Edmonton before only 16,654 spectator stanley bicchiere s last week.Fans were chanting Manziel s name, but Sherman felt there was a risk of injury in sending an unprepared player onto the field. And Adams was playing well despite the score.NowManziel will have had a full week of preparation to take the field and a Phkr Frazier, Davidson, Abreu hit solo homers to lift White Sox over Blue Jays 5-2
BOSTON AP 鈥?Hoping to avoid a 28th straight loss that would match the longest losing streak in NBA history, the Detroit Pistons forced overtime against the league-best Celtics on Thursday night before Boston recovered to win 128-122. Despite making it to overtime for the first time in the skid, Detroit matched the Trust the Process Philadelphia 76ers with 28 consecutive losses. The Pistons need a victory at home against Toronto on Saturday nigh stanley thermosflasche t to avoid breaking the record. Detroit opened a season-high 21-point lead in the first half only to trail 106-100 in the final two minutes of regulation. Jaden Ivey scored six straight points to erase the deficit, then Bojan Bogdanovic made a putback with 4.6 seconds left to send it to OT. But Derrick White scored 10 of his 23 points in the extra period and Kristaps Porzingis had six in the overtime 鈥?dunking after a full-court pass from Jayson Tatum and then sinking a pair of free throws to make it 125-117. Porzingis had 35 points 鈥?11 in the fourth quarter, and eight of those during a 10-0 run that turned a four-point deficit lead into a 10 stanley termohrnek 6-100 lea stanley thermo d. Tatum had 31 points 10 assists for Boston, which won its fourth straight and its ninth in the last 10 games. Cade Cunningham led Detroit with 31 points and nine assists. , Ivey had 22 points and 10 rebounds and Jalen Duren had 15 points and 14 rebounds. The Pistons set the NBA record for most consecutive |
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