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NORMAL, Ill. -- Jake Kolbe threw three touchdown passes, James Robinson ran for 122 yards and a score and Illinois State held on to beat Southern Illinois 31-28 on Saturday night.Sean Slattery kicked a career-long-tying 50-yard field goal with 12:45 to play.Kolbe hit Christian Gibbs for a 51-yard score and connected with Anthony Warrum for a 38-yard TD in the third quarter and Illinois State (3-4, 1/3 Missouri Valley) took a 28-21 lead into the fourth.Slatterys kick made it a 10-point game and each team had three three-and-outs before Southern Illinois (2-4, 0-3) used a nine-play, 80-yard touchdown drive -- capped by Josh Straughans 35-yard pass to Darrell James -- to make it 31-28 with 1:19 left.Illinois State recovered an onside kick and bled the final 77 seconds off the clock.Straughan completed 28 of 46 passes for 244 yards with two touchdowns and one interception for the Salukis. . The All-Pro lineman got the leg bent under him while trying to make a tackle during the first half of a 22-20 overtime loss at Miami on Thursday night. The medical staff initially thought hed torn the ligament, and the test a day later in Cincinnati confirmed it. . I cant pinpoint a date, but I do remember a player from my youth. Brian Downing was with the Chicago White Sox at a time when I listened to every game I possibly could on the radio. That particular season the late great Harry Caray was calling the White Sox games. .ca! Hi Kerry, Heres an interesting one. I know its common knowledge that all players are responsible for their sticks. We witnessed that when Zack Kassian hit Edmontons Sam Gagner in the face after a missed check. . 9. Price, heading to the 2014 Olympics for Canada, was named the First Star after posting wins in three starts with a 1.00 goals-against average and a .971 save percentage. . Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek defeated Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (4) on the indoor hard-court at Belgrade Arena. The victory improved the Czech pairs impressive cup doubles record to 14-1. Rangpur Riders 126 for 1 (Shahzad 51*, Mithun 45*) beat Comilla Victorians 122 for 5 (Samuels 52, Rubel 2-27) by nine wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsRangpur Riders continued their fine run in this years BPL, crushing Comilla Victorians by nine wickets. While Rangpur rejoiced and took their points tally to eight after five games, defending champions Comilla lurched to their fifth successive defeat.Mohammad Shahzad and Mohammad Mithun added 97 runs for the unbroken second-wicket partnership as Rangpur finished the 123-run chase with three overs to spare. Batting first, Comilla stuggled to 122 for 5, the tournaments lowest score by any team that has lost five wickets while batting first in their quota of 20 overs.They got off to yet another poor start when Imrul Kayes was given leg-before after he attempted to kick away a Sohag Gazi delivery that was going past his charge. The other opener, Liton Das, was run out after a mix-up following a misfield at mid-off.Ahmed Shehzad and Marlon Samuels stood out in the scorecard, with scores of 52 each, but they struggled for most of their 64-run third-wicket stand. In the ninth over, Shehzad broke a boundary duck that lasted 35 deliveries and struck two more fours, and a six over midwicket, to get to his half-century before Shahid Afridi held on to a skier in the 17th over.Samuels struck only one bounndary during the third-wicket partnership, but later struck two more fours and two sixes.dddddddddddd. Rubel, in the middle of a good last over, removed Samuels and Tanvir off the last two balls.Rangpurs batsmen did not have any problems as their opposition in the chase, despite the early loss of Soumya Sarkar. He struck two fours and a six, all sweetly-timed before getting caught at midwicket in the fourth over, having made 22 off 15 balls.Shahzad and Mithun calmed things down and picked singles regularly but also found fours and sixes to entertain a packed stadium. Shahzad was uncharacteristically quiet as he struck only two fours in the Powerplay. Samuels dropped a sitter at third-man off his upper cut in the eighth over, when Shahzad was on 14, after which the batsman quickly lifted his strike rate with sixes off Rashid Khan and Mohammad Saifuddin, the last of which sealed the win and gave him a second fifty in the competition.Mithun was an able ally, batting at a higher tempo for most of their partnership. He got off the mark with a six over long-on off Mashrafe Mortaza in the sixth over before hitting sixes off Nabil Samad and Rashid. He was unbeaten on 45 off 39 balls while Shahzad was not out on 51 off 49 balls. ' ' 'performed." ' ' '
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