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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Los Angeles Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins suffered a knee injury during the second quarter of Monday night's game against his former team, the Baltimore Ravens, and did not return. Dobbins had 40 yards on six carries before being injured. The Ravens drafted Dobbins in the second round in 2020 but he missed most of two seasons with injuries. He signed a one-year deal with the Chargers during the offseason. Dobbins entered the game third in the AFC in rushing with 726 yards and was averaging 4.8 yards per carry. He has been considered among the candidates for Comeback Player of the Year after suffering a torn Achilles tendon in last season's opener.
Trump Picks Businessman Warren Stephens to Be Britain AmbassadorUndefeated Oregon and No. 23 Texas A&M will collide Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas in the second game of the new Players Era Festival. Both teams are in the "Power" group of the eight-team event. All eight teams are receiving $1 million for their name, image and likeness (NIL) collectives, but placing fourth or higher in the tourney in order will net them anywhere from $1.1 million to $1.5 million. The Aggies (4-1) opened the season with a three-point loss at UCF, but since then have won four straight, all in convincing fashion. Texas A&M upset then-No. 21 Ohio State 78-64 on Nov. 15 at home in College Station, Texas. Then the Aggies crushed Southern 71-54 last Wednesday, when Wade Taylor IV led the way with 17 points and six assists. All of Texas A&M's wins have been by double digits. The Aggies and Ducks (5-0) have split the two previous meetings against each other. Until March 2022 in an NIT second-round game, they had not met since the 1970-71 season. Texas A&M tied the overall series with a 75-60 win at home in 2022. The only player on the Ducks' current roster who played in that game was 7-foot senior Nate Bittle, who has been one of Oregon's best players so far this season. Bittle's 16.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game lead the Ducks so far this season, and the big man also averages two blocked shots per game. Texas A&M guard Zhuric Phelps, a transfer from SMU, leads the Aggies in scoring at 16 points per game. Taylor adds 14 points per game. The Aggies could be the best defensive team the Ducks will have seen this season. A&M is allowing teams to shoot only 36.6 percent in games. Head coach Buzz Williams and his staff are hoping the team gets better at taking charges on defense, as the Aggies have just one so far this season. "I guess the thing that you work on most is verticality around the rim," Texas A&M assistant coach Steve Roccaforte told KBTX television. "‘Hey, once you get there, if you try and take a charge, it's going to be a block. Just jump as high as you can, stay vertical, try to go chest-to-chest. Make it a hard shot.'" Oregon is coming off a 78-75 win at Oregon State, the Ducks' first road game of the season. The Ducks trailed by 10 points at halftime but, as they have in several games this season, they found a rhythm on offense in the second half and came up with a comeback win. Bittle's 23 points and 14 rebounds led the way. Jackson Shelstad had 15 points and Jadrian Tracey and Keeshawn Barthelemy both added 10. "We started rebounding the ball a little better. Nate really got it going inside and our guys got him the ball," Oregon head coach Dana Altman told the school's athletics website. "He had a heck of a game." --Field Level MediaThe New England Patriots entered Sunday’s matchup with the Miami Dolphins feeling like they were a team ready to turn a corner after a season’s worth of struggles. A 34-15 loss in Miami revealed just how much more work is left to do before they can make that pronouncement. Rookie quarterback Drake Maye struggled to make sense of things afterward but did make his own proclamation to his teammates. “I told some guys, just remember this feeling of really getting our butts whooped today, and it’s only up from here,” Maye said. There was plenty of bad football for the Patriots (3-9) to dwell on after losing for the third time in four games. It starts with self-inflicted mistakes, most notably committing 10 penalties for 75 yards, that left the team playing catch-up throughout the game. Maye completed 22 of 37 passes for 221 yards with 26 yards rushing but had a costly strip sack in the third quarter that led to a Miami score. It was his seventh turnover in three games. There also are big issues to work out for a Patriots defense that allowed Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to complete 29 of 40 passes for 317 yards and four touchdowns. New England coach Jerod Mayo said his team entered this week prepared for some tough film sessions with only Sunday’s matchup against Indianapolis left before its bye week. “Those are those hard meetings where you have to address the elephant in the room, but it’s no secret,” he said. “The good thing about the sport, it’s all recorded. You can go back and forth on it, but the film doesn’t lie.” What’s working It seems insignificant right now, but it was encouraging to see Maye end the game on some positive notes after Miami took a 31-0 lead. On the Patriots’ next possession, Maye connected on deep passes to Demario Douglas and Hunter Henry before capping the drive with a 38-yard TD pass to Austin Hooper. What needs help Offensive line. This week brought regression for a group that had found some consistency after starting Ben Brown (center), Vederian Lowe (left tackle), Michael Jordan (left guard), Mike Onwenu (right guard) and Demontrey Jacobs (right tackle) in consecutive games. It evaporated against a Dolphins defense that sacked Maye four times. For the day, New England’s O-line was whistled for seven of the team’s 10 penalties. Stock up DE Christian Barmore. In his second game of the season, he notched his first sack, dropping Tagovailoa for a 2-yard loss in the third quarter. It’s a big milestone for Barmore, who was diagnosed with blood clots shortly after the start of training camp. Stock down Lowe. He was whistled for four penalties in the first half on Sunday: three false starts and a hold. He also allowed Zach Sieler to beat him for a strip-sack on Maye late in the third quarter that set up the Dolphins’ final touchdown of the day. Injuries The Patriots didn’t announce any injuries on Sunday. However, Lowe did seem to be bothered by a shoulder injury that limited his practice availability leading up to the game. Key number 7 — The number of Dolphins' offensive plays that went for 15 or more yards against the Patriots. Next steps The Patriots host the Colts on Sunday. AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL
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An independent candidate has rocketed from nowhere to win the first round of Romania’s presidential election. Support for Călin Georgescu did not even register in the polls ahead of Sunday’s vote. And yet the provisional results suggest the UN official turned populist politician is heading to the run-off second round. Călin Georgescu doesn’t even have a political party. Ahead of the election result, Romanian media had mainly been focused on another far-right, pro-Trump candidate. Georgescu was largely under the radar. And his ideology is equally opaque. In one of his books, published in 2022, entitled “The Great Renaissance – Trust, Freedom, Sovereignty”, he talks about “Christianity applied in the real economy”. In an interview last year, he said climate change was invented “to impose a fear on the people”. Asked about the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and global warming, he agreed with the interviewer that they are all conspiracies designed to “control the people”. Georgescu has also previously criticised Nato. He reportedly called a Nato missile programme in Romania a “shame of diplomacy”. So how did he manage to win the election? About a month ago, students alerted a popular Romanian news site, G4Media, to something strange happening on TikTok. Thousands of people were suddenly liking and tagging videos for a little-known candidate, Călin Georgescu, local journalist, Cristian Andrei Leonte, told Radio France International. Many of the accounts were from real people, others appeared to be bots, according to Leonte. His surprise win has given rise to questions over possible Russian interference. In neighbouring Moldova, the incumbent pro-EU president, Maia Sandu, said her re-election last month was hampered by “massive interference” from Russia, something that Moscow denied. Asked about the Romanian election result this morning, a spokesperson for the Kremlin said they “cannot say that we are that familiar with the world view of this candidate”. After a career working for United Nations agencies, Georgescu joined the far-right Alliance for Uniting Romanians party, but eventually left, standing as an independent in the presidential elections. His success comes off the back of a wave of support for far-right parties across Europe including national elections in the Netherlands and Austria and regional elections in Germany. In France, Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally party is now the main de facto opposition. She is expected to stand again in the French presidential election in 2027. Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, was once a lone voice as the sole populist leader in the European Union. Now there is Giorgia Meloni in Italy and Robert Fico in Slovakia. It is not yet clear whether Georgescu would fit a similar mold. Romanians will head back to the polls for the run-off vote next month. It is expected that mainstream parties will gather around the centre-right’s candidate, Elena Lasconi, to try and keep Georgescu out of power.None