Jose Ramirez belted a two-run homer and Shane Bieber pitched into the eighth inning as the Cleveland Guardians opened the best-of-three American League wild-card series against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays with a 2-1 victory on Friday.

But the style isn’t just on the surface. It’s also the deeper point of the game. In order to progress through this bloodthirsty tournament, it’s not enough to simply knock off the bad guys — you have to knock them off with panache. 

The NFL and the NFL Players Association have since said in a joint statement that modifications to the concussion protocol are needed to enhance player safety. (Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Ken Ferris)

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Bruce, 61, told the fan to act like a ‘grown man’ after he was ‘shouting and bawling’, while the fan claimed Bruce’s son, Alex, who is first team assistant coach, raised his middle finger at him from the team bus.

‘The ultimate goal was not to build the City Football Academy – it was to make that vision for youth development a reality. The cornerstone of the future is a vision for youth development and sustainability.’

‘We’ll make an assessment from [the CCTV] but, obviously, we’re on the back foot from the beginning because we didn’t have the initial complaint at the time it occurred, which would have been my preference,’ he said. 

Oct 7 (Reuters) – Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is still going through the National Football League’s concussion protocol and is seeing outside specialists, head coach Mike McDaniel said on Friday.

He was cleared to return to the Buffalo game after being evaluated for a concussion by an unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant but his treatment has since put the NFL’s concussion protocol under scrutiny.

There are talks about it three dozen to collect in total, and all of them are actually playable. We have riffs on old classics like Pac-Man and Mr Driller and Missile Command. Just walk up to them, as the launderette-arcade’s proprietor-turned-patron, and start gaming.

The quartet – Gavin Bazunu, Sam Edozie, Romeo Lavia and Juan Larios – did not have a single top flight appearance between them but the quality emanating from Jason Wilcox’s youth set-up at City is such that they are increasingly being recognised as the gold standard. 

There’s always another wash to put on. It creates an undeniably weird loop — between arcade sessions and launderette maintenance — but isn’t that what life is like, anyway? Sometimes neon. Sometimes full of dirty socks.

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Certainly the idea of having up to seven academy graduates on a pitch during a Premier League game seemed far-fetched at best. Yet on Saturday, Southampton arrive at the Etihad Stadium having spent more than £40million on four of City’s kids in one summer.

‘We had an all-staff meeting on Monday where I highlighted three big organisations – in mobile phones, video rentals and photography – that soon got knocked off their perch by taking their eye off the ball and stopped focusing on what is important.

So it is with Rollerdrome, the name of a new video game but also of the violent future-sport it proposes.You, as the rookie Kara Hassan, have to roller-skate around a series of undulating arenas, all while dispensing bullets into various hired goons and dodging any rockets that come your way.

Cole Palmer has followed Foden’s lead and is now fully integrated into Guardiola’s squad. At least one Premier League club asked to take the tricky forward on loan this term but were met with a firm no. 

And clearly worth paying for – Southampton also saw a £15m bid for striker Liam Delap rejected. Almost a third of a record-breaking transfer window, totalling revenues of around £170m, came from selling academy products.