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The Minnesota Vikings learned the hard way earlier this month about the Detroit Lions late-game prowess. The Vikings would prefer to give themselves a little more elbow room in the rematch on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit.The Lions stole a win in Minnesota on Nov. 6 after the Vikings took the lead with 23 seconds remaining in regulation. A 58-yard Matt Prater field goal sent the game into overtime, and Detroit completed the comeback with a 28-yard Matthew Stafford-to-Golden Tate pass play.That 22-16 overtime victory is the reason why the NFC North teams are tied for first place at 6-4. Detroit has staged a fourth-quarter comeback in all of its wins.Every one of their games theyve played have been seven points or less, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. I think theyve done a great job at the end of ballgames, including the one we played. The biggest thing is once you start winning, you develop confidence and thats what theyve done at the end of ballgames.The Lions have also learned how to win in their annual Thankgiving Day game after nearly a decade of futility. They have a three-game winning streak on the holiday following a nine-game losing streak.Its a division game at our place on Thanksgiving, said Stafford, whose team has won five of its last six games. Theres no getting around it. I expect it to be an awesome atmosphere and both teams playing at a high level.Neither team expects many surprises, considering they played each other so recently and have a short week to prepare.From a game-planning standpoint, at least youre familiar, Stafford said. Theyre fresh in your mind from just a couple of weeks ago. It doesnt diminish the challenge the Minnesota Vikings give us. Theyre a really good defense, a really good team, really well coached. Well have our hands full but as far as a preparation standpoint, it doesnt seem too long ago I was looking at film of these guys anyways.Norv Turner resigned as Minnesotas offensive coordinator just before the first meeting and was replaced by tight ends coach Pat Shurmur. Though Shurmur has now had time to settle into the role, Vikings quarterback Sam Bradford said the offense has simply been tweaked.Were still the same team, Bradford said. I dont think its been that drastic. I dont think Detroits going to look at the film and say, Thats a completely different group. Our guys are just a little more familiar with some of the things Pat has put in the past couple weeks.The Vikings offense only generated three second-half points against Arizona on Sunday but Minnesota still snapped a four-game losing streak. The Vikings recorded a defensive touchdown and another on Cordarrelle Pattersons 104-yard kickoff return in the 30-24 victory.They still rank at the bottom of the league in yards per game.Theres a lot of room for improvement, Bradford said of the offense. Weve got to be better in the second half but there were some positives. Just to get a win does a lot for this team and does a lot for this group. Hopefully, its something we can build on going forward.Minnesotas best offensive weapon is wide receiver Stefon Diggs, who has 40 receptions over the last four games. He caught 13 passes for 80 yards against Detroit.Any time you have somebody catching that many balls, thats a pretty good outing, Lions coach Jim Caldwell said. Hes a talented guy. I know one thing, if you let him catch too many, at some point in time, hes going to burn you because hes explosive as well.The Lions also scored defensive and special teams touchdowns in their 26-19 victory over Jacksonville on Sunday. Stafford didnt throw a touchdown pass and the running game generated only 14 yards. The Lions also had two fumbles after losing just one fumble in their previous nine games.The good thing about playing on a Thursday is you get to go out there and quickly redeem yourself, Stafford said.The last time the teams met on Thanksgiving Day was 1995, when the Lions pulled out a wild 44-38 victory. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . Reassurance came from Paul Tesori, his caddie and close friend whose newborn son is in intensive care in a Florida hospital. "Paul sent me a text this morning, just told me he loved me and wanted to go out and fight as hard as I would any other day," Simpson said Sunday after doing just that. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . Robredo, ranked No. 16, bounced back from an upset loss to Leonardo Mayer in the second round of the Royal Guard Open in Chile last week to down Carreno Busta in 1 hour, 25 minutes. 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England 309 for 4 (Roy 162, Root 65) beat Sri Lanka 305 for 5 (Mendis 77, Mathews 67*, Chandimal 63, Gunathilaka 62) by six wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsJason Roy lit up a gloomy evening in South London with a stunning matchwinning 162 - the second highest ODI score ever made by an England batsman - as Sri Lankas best batting performance of the series was handed an inferiority complex by a relentless display of hard, clean hitting, allied to the sort of sharp running between the wickets that their own players couldnt come close to emulating.Chasing a stiff Duckworth-Lewis-adjusted target of 308 in 42 overs, following a two-and-a-half hour break for rain that had robbed Sri Lankas own innings of vital momentum, Roy crashed 13 fours and three sixes in the course of a 118-ball onslaught to put the result beyond any doubt.Roys first hundred came up from 74 balls, his 150 from 109, and though he eventually fell with 27 runs still needed, bowled by a Nuwan Pradeep slower ball with Robin Smiths 23-year England record of 167 not out at his mercy, Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler were on hand to seal victory with a cool 11 balls and six wickets to spare. There was even time, before the fun was concluded, for Farveez Maharoof to revive the Buttler mankading saga from the same series two years ago, as he stopped in his run-up to serve Englands non-striker a pointed warning for backing up too far.The extent of Englands dominance evoked memories of a similar run-chase that Sri Lanka themselves pulled off at Headingley exactly ten years ago this week, and which Sky Sports presciently chose to replay during the long rain delay. The footage revealed a bygone era in which Englands cricketers were a white-ball joke and Upul Tharanga, Sri Lankas puzzlingly used No.8 batsman, was a thrusting No.1 who claimed a share in matchwinning 286-run opening stand.But in spite of that long and tedious hiatus - there had been enough precipitation in and around London to cause the final day of Middlesexs Championship match at Lords to be a complete wash-out - it seemed the rain-gods south of the river were happy in the end to kick back and watch a masterclass from a batsman who had scored 279 runs from 220 balls since Sri Lanka last managed to prise him from the crease, in the tied first match of the series at Trent Bridge.Following the early loss of Moeen Ali, who was promoted to open after Alex Hales suffered a back spasm while fielding, Roy added 149 for the second wicket with Joe Root, whose 65 from from 54 balls was a timely reminder - after a string of single-figure scores - that failing to spend much time at the crease isnt always the same thing as being out of form. Eoin Morgan, by contrast, proved the wisdom of an alternative adage - one pertaining to Sods Law - when, having ground his way to 22 from 27 balls including a trademark lofted six to hint at a restorative innings, he was sawn off by the most stunning catch of the summer so far, a one-handed swallow dive from Danushka Gamuthilaka at backward point to intercept a Suranga Lakmal long-hop.Roy, however, needed no such luck, good or bad. The power and placement of his strokeplay was in evidence from his third delivery, when he latched onto a nugget of width from Lakmal to drill the first of his fours through the covers. This was his second hundred in as many completed matches and his first on his home groundd at the Kia Oval, and that combination of peak form and utter familiarity with his surroundings meant that Sri Lankas attack never had a prayer.dddddddddddd.Striking the ball with high hands that enable him to impart power and speed into even the merest of blocks, and with fast feet that rarely fail to provide him a stable base from which to climb into his strokes, Roy turned the heat on a diet of toiling bowlers whose lengths were consistently too short for a pitch so true. Each of Roys three sixes were emphatic stamps of class - full-blooded golf swings into the stands at long-on - as the series was sealed with a game, at Cardiff on Saturday, to spare.The back of the run-chase was broken by Roys second-wicket stand with Root, whose ability to think on his feet was evident in a subtle change of strategy, particularly against the medium-pace of Angelo Mathews. Having been bowled by a Mathews inducker for 2 in his only previous dismissal of the series, Root resolved to hang back in his crease and play the ball strictly under his eyeline, and reaped the rewards with a typically stealthy knock, packed with cheeky boundaries behind square as he reached his fifty from a brisk but never hurried 37 balls.The ease of Englands victory arguably did a disservice to the combative efforts of Sri Lankas own batsman, particularly Kusal Mendis and Gunathilaka, whose 128-run stand for the second wicket was Sri Lankas highest partnership of the series.Mendis, who has been Sri Lankas most promising young batsman of a tough campaign, top-scored with 77 from 64 balls, his fourth and highest half-century of the tour and his most fluent yet. His application could, and probably should, have been even more handsomely rewarded, however, had it not been for the onset of rain, after one ball of the 19th over, which robbed his innings of all momentum.Five balls after the resumption, his attempt to take on Rashids wiles resulted in an open-faced miscue to a diving Liam Plunkett in the covers, and soon afterwards, Gunathilaka was gone as well. Displaying the skills he picked up at the Big Bash and honed during Englands World T20 campaign, Rashid used his googly to fine effect in the damp weather, and appeared to sucker his prey with the one that went the other way, as Gunathilaka made room for a lofted drive over the covers, but instead chipped a cramped drive to Moeen at wide mid-off.England were a more focused unit in the second half of their bowling effort, although they struggled once again to separate Sri Lankas old guard of Mathews and, in particular, Dinesh Chandimal, who followed his 62 from 77 balls at Bristol with a sparkier innings of 63 from 51.Mathews, passed fit despite his ongoing hamstring issues but never looking fully mobile, had been the silent partner for much of the second half of Sri Lankas innings, but nevertheless finished the innings in style, bringing up his fifty from 47 balls with an arrow-straight drive off a near-perfect Plunkett yorker, then celebrating with two more fours in consecutive balls. His efforts carried his side past the 300-barrier, but any thoughts of psychology coming into play were quickly scotched when Roy got into his stride. He is in a rare vein of form, and England are a team going places on his watch. ' ' '