LANDOVER, Md. – Jayden Daniels had a few quite simple ideas going by means of his head with the Washington Commanders needing to make a long-distance throw to beat the Chicago Bears.

“Purchase a while and don’t throw the ball out of bounds,” Daniels stated.

Daniels scrambled around for nearly 13 seconds and heaved the ball from the Washington 35-yard line with no time on the clock. The go tipped off the arms of Zach Ertz in need of the aim line and into the ready arms of Noah Brown, who was standing alone ultimately zone, for a 52-yard Hail Mary touchdown that gave the Commanders an inconceivable 18-15 victory on Sunday and despatched gamers, coaches and followers right into a frenzy.

The rookie quarterback by no means even noticed Brown make the catch.

“I simply heard folks screaming and our sideline dashing the sector. That’s how I knew,” stated Daniels, whose standing was unsure till hours earlier than kickoff due to a rib damage. “That’s form of like a once-in-a-lifetime expertise. Not too many individuals get to expertise stuff like that.”

Daniels’ heroics got here after the Commanders (6-2) fell behind with 25 seconds left on a TD run by Roschon Johnson after a pass-interference penalty put the ball on the 1-yard line. There have been simply 19 seconds left after a kickoff return to the 24.

Three completions later, Daniels added his greatest spotlight but to a season that has made him the favourite to be AP Offensive Rookie of the 12 months and one of many NFL’s most electrical gamers.

“We’re blessed to have ‘5’ main this crew: The issues he can do is particular,” Brown stated. “I wouldn’t wish to play with some other quarterback.”

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Offensive lineman Sam Cosmi stated it was “like a film.”

“Entrance-row seats to one thing wonderful,” Cosmi stated. “That was simply loopy. It will at all times stick in my head eternally. What a second.”

Within the NFL’s sixth matchup of rookie quarterbacks taken with the highest two picks within the draft, Daniels threw for 326 yards and ran for 52. Caleb Williams, taken first by the Bears (4-3), accomplished 4 of his first 16 passes and completed 10 of 24 for 131 yards.

Chicago, which had its successful streak snapped at three, had simply 172 yards of offense earlier than the fourth quarter began and didn’t get on the board till D’Andre Swift’s 56-yard TD run late within the third.

“That’s simply us capturing ourselves within the foot and that comes from particulars and focus within the sport, all through the week,” stated Williams, a Washington-area native who was enjoying again residence for the primary time as a professional. “That comes from myself. I’m included in that for certain. Undoubtedly missed a couple of passes that I don’t miss usually so, powerful, however very encouraging as a result of we stayed in it.”

Daniels was not himself at occasions and regarded a bit off due to the rib damage, which knocked him out of final week’s win over Carolina and stored him from working towards Wednesday and Thursday. He took a number of hits after letting go of the ball however was at his greatest when it mattered.

“We knew he had it in him,” operating again Brian Robinson Jr. stated. “He simply confirmed us in the present day what he’s able to and the way powerful he’s.”

Scoring Seibert

Austin Seibert kicked 4 area targets for the Commanders for his or her solely factors till the Hail Mary.

Signing Seibert after a kicking debacle within the season opener has turned out to be large for Washington. Even with one fewer sport, he handed Mark Moseley throughout his All-Professional season in 1982 for essentially the most area targets made and most factors scored by means of Week 8 in franchise historical past.

Accidents

Bears: After dropping left deal with Braxton Jones within the first half with a knee damage, guards Teven Jenkins (knee) and Invoice Murray (chest) have been knocked out within the fourth.

Celebs

The 44-year-old supermodel is anticipating along with her boyfriend, Joaquim Valente, in line with reviews.

Gisele Bündchen is reportedly pregnant along with her third baby, her first since her cut up with ex-husband Tom Brady, Individuals journal reported in an unique on Monday.

The 44-year-old supermodel is anticipating along with her boyfriend, Joaquim Valente, 35, a Jiu-Jitsu teacher she has been courting since June 2023, in line with the journal, which cited an unnamed “supply near Bündchen.”

TMZ additionally reported the information, citing “sources near the mannequin.”

Bündchen shares a 14-year-old son, Benjamin, and an 11-year-old daughter, Vivian, with Brady. Brady additionally has a 17-year-old son, Jack, along with his ex-girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan.

Brady and Bündchen finalized their divorce in October 2022. 

Bündchen started taking Jiu-Jitsu classes with Valente in December 2021, and Glamour reported that the pair started courting in June 2023 after beginning as “nice mates.”

In an interview with the New York Instances earlier this 12 months, Bündchen described her new relationship as “very totally different.” 

“That is the primary time I’m seeing somebody that was a buddy of mine first,” she mentioned. “It’s very totally different. It’s very sincere, and it’s very clear.”

Denver Nuggets 127, Toronto Raptors 125 (OT)

Scottie Barnes is only a mismatch killer.

The Raptors hold discovering methods to place Barnes in mismatches and towards a Nuggets workforce as shallow as this one appears to be, Denver had no solutions. He repeatedly backed down smaller defenders, attending to his post-up shimmy for turnaround floaters, scoring 16 of his factors 21 factors Monday night time within the paint.

It was a Barnes kick-out cross out of a pick-and-roll with Jakob Poeltl to Gradey Dick that caught Toronto to a nine-point lead halfway by the fourth. He adopted it up moments later with a full-court alley-oop he threw with pin-point accuracy to Ochai Agbaji after which capped off his stellar fourth-quarter run with a LeBron James-esque transition block on Christian Braun.

A Barnes three-pointer over Braun with two minutes to go gave Toronto the 10-point lead, however Denver would not go away. The Nuggets managed to erase all of it within the last minutes, making the most of a layup from Jamal Murray to power time beyond regulation.

“He’s an enormous tall man who can deal with the ball, who’s for searching for mismatches, who can put the ball downhill, who’s discovering open teammates, who can post-up, he can play within the mid-range, he can ISO,” Nikola Jokic mentioned of Barnes. “He’s a extremely good participant.”

When Denver despatched assist at Barnes, the All-Star ahead confirmed off his playmaking prowess. He threw a mind-boggling no-look bounce cross to Ochai Agbaji reducing in from the nook for a formidable slam within the third quarter that put the Raptors up 11 after Denver had trimmed Toronto’s result in simply 5 minutes earlier. It was the second of two no-look passes Barnes threw after connecting with Mogbo on a no-look feed in transition within the second.

Barnes recorded a career-high 5 steals Monday together with a fourth-quarter steal off Aaron Gordon, taking the ball the opposite means in transition earlier than being fouled by Russell Westbrook in what was deemed to have been a flagrant. The second sparked a short skirmish that resulted in a double technical as Barnes and Gordon needed to be separated after some pushing and shoving.

“Scottie defended himself as he ought to,” RJ Barrett mentioned. “I used to be proper there with my one good shoulder. However yeah, we do not again down from anyone. So it is good to see that.”

A stellar night time from Barnes was solely marred by an harm he sustained within the last minute when Jokic inadvertently hit Barnes in the suitable eye with an elbow attempting to seize a defensive rebound. Barnes stayed down throughout the ensuing possession and needed to be taken to the locker room.

RJ Barrett hasn’t missed a beat.

The Canadian ahead returned from an AC joint harm to make his season debut Monday night time and seemed each bit nearly as good as he did late final season in Toronto. He got here out of the gate in assault mode, scoring 9 of Toronto’s first 13 factors and forcing Denver to burn a timeout simply 4 minutes into the sport.

Barrett nonetheless isn’t fairly at one hundred pc. Each time he checked out, he went to the bench and was instantly greeted with a shoulder brace and he continues to work his means again. However on the courtroom, there have been no indicators of any situation for the 6-foot-7 ahead.

When he’s driving downhill, he’s robust to cease. He received Toronto’s offense going early and caught the Raptors to a 13-point lead within the third quarter after corralling an offensive rebound and nailing a turnaround three-pointer.

Down two, Barrett had an opportunity to win the sport for Toronto in time beyond regulation, racing up the courtroom within the last seconds earlier than taking a lightly-contested three-pointer that will have given the Raptors the lead. The shot would not fall and Denver snared the rebound to flee with victory.

“I am snug taking that shot. I am pleased with the shot it took. That is simply who I’m,” mentioned Barrett who completed the night time with 20 factors in almost 29 minutes. “That is who I’ve all the time been. I will take the shot once more. That is simply, I do not know. That is simply who RJ Barrett is.”

This 2024 draft class is to this point shaping as much as be a fairly good one.

It’s a small pattern measurement, after all, however Jamal Shead and Jonathan Mogbo are wanting like NBA contributors and possibly much more than that. That’s earlier than Toronto even will get a have a look at first-round choose Ja’Kobe Walter who’s heading to the G League to proceed his rehabbing course of forward of his NBA debut.

Shead is simply relentless on either side of the ball. He’s robust combating by screens and has no drawback getting up within the face of opposing level guards and pressuring the ball in full courtroom. He and Mogbo efficiently killed 13 seconds off the shot clock by simply being energetic defensively, selecting up within the full courtroom and leaping into passing lanes.

“One factor that I do like about our rookies in our workforce, they are not afraid,” Raptors coach Darko Rajaković mentioned. “They don’t seem to be afraid of the second. They don’t seem to be afraid to step on the courtroom and play laborious. And if you play laborious and when you’ve got your coronary heart in the suitable place to play for a workforce, good issues occur.”

That’s how Shead and Mogbo have performed to this point.

Shead drew an offensive foul within the first half taking a nasty shoulder from Aaron Gordon and repeatedly placing his head down, attending to the ring for eight factors Monday.

“That is his finest weapon that he has. He will be disruptive defensively, he’s going to do a superb job guarding all of the elite gamers on this league,” Rajaković mentioned. “There are not any straightforward nights and off nights, and he is studying what it takes to do this each single night time. I used to be very, more than happy with the hassle that he was giving on the market.” 

Mogbo has clearly jumped forward of Bruno Fernando within the rotation pecking order and was turned to as Toronto’s backup heart, even towards Jokic in a pinch. His reducing has confirmed to be beneficial in restricted minutes to this point and his versatility is a trait the Raptors are going to lean into much more down the street.

The Raptors will hit the street and head to Charlotte for a one-game street journey towards the Hornets on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET.

(AP) – The excellent news: You’re going to get an excellent further hour of sleep. The unhealthy: It’ll be darkish as a pocket by late afternoon for the following few months within the U.S.

Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. native time subsequent Sunday, Nov. 3, which implies you must set your clock again an hour earlier than you go to mattress. Commonplace time will final till March 9 once we will once more “spring ahead” with the return of daylight saving time.

That spring time change could be more durable in your physique. Darker mornings and lighter evenings can knock your inside to physique clock out of whack, making it tougher to go to sleep on time for weeks or longer. Research have even discovered an uptick in coronary heart assaults and strokes proper after the March time change.

“Fall again” needs to be simpler. But it surely nonetheless might take some time to regulate your sleep habits, to not point out the downsides of leaving work in the dead of night or making an attempt to train whereas there’s nonetheless sufficient gentle. Some individuals with seasonal affective dysfunction, a sort of despair normally linked to the shorter days and fewer daylight of fall and winter, might battle, too.

Some well being teams, together with the American Medical Affiliation and American Academy of Sleep Medication, have mentioned it’s time to dispose of time switches and that sticking with customary time aligns higher with the solar — and human biology.

Most international locations don’t observe daylight saving time. For people who do — largely in Europe and North America — the date that clocks are modified varies.

Two states — Arizona and Hawaii — don’t change and keep on customary time.

Right here’s what to know in regards to the twice-yearly ritual.

How the physique reacts to gentle

The mind has a grasp clock that’s set by publicity to daylight and darkness. This circadian rhythm is a roughly 24-hour cycle that determines once we turn out to be sleepy and once we’re extra alert. The patterns change with age, one motive that early-to-rise children evolve into hard-to-wake teenagers.

Morning gentle resets the rhythm. By night, ranges of a hormone referred to as melatonin start to surge, triggering drowsiness. An excessive amount of gentle within the night — that further hour from daylight saving time — delays that surge and the cycle will get out of sync.

And that circadian clock impacts greater than sleep, additionally influencing issues like coronary heart price, blood strain, stress hormones and metabolism.

How do time modifications have an effect on sleep?

Even an hour change on the clock can throw off sleep schedules — as a result of though the clocks change, work and college begin occasions keep the identical.

That’s an issue as a result of so many individuals are already sleep disadvantaged. About 1 in 3 U.S. adults sleep lower than the beneficial seven-plus hours nightly, and greater than half of U.S. teenagers don’t get the beneficial eight-plus hours on weeknights.

Sleep deprivation is linked to coronary heart illness, cognitive decline, weight problems and quite a few different issues.

How one can put together for the time change

Some individuals attempt to put together for a time change jolt by altering their mattress occasions little by little within the days earlier than the change. There are methods to ease the adjustment, together with getting extra sunshine to assist reset your circadian rhythm for healthful sleep.

Will the U.S. ever eliminate the time change?

Lawmakers often suggest eliminating the time change altogether. Essentially the most outstanding current try, a now-stalled bipartisan invoice named the Sunshine Safety Act, proposes making daylight saving time everlasting. Well being consultants say the lawmakers have it backward — customary time needs to be made everlasting.

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TORONTO – Jakob Poeltl made a defensive rebound with 9.1 seconds left in additional time and made an outlet cross to a streaking RJ Barrett. The Toronto Raptors swingman sprinted down court docket, pulled up on the three-point line, and shot.

Rim. Out.

Offensive rebounds by Ochai Agbaji and Poeltl got here up quick and the Denver Nuggets 127-125 comeback victory over Toronto was full.

If Barrett had made the three it will have been the proper finish to his first recreation in three weeks after lacking many of the pre-season and the primary three video games of the common season with a sprained shoulder. The 24-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., mentioned he heard footsteps as he crossed half-court and didn’t need to have a layup blocked.

“I’m comfy taking that shot. I’m proud of the shot I took,” mentioned Barrett. “That’s simply who I’m. It’s who I’ve at all times been.

“I’ll take the shot once more. That’s simply who RJ Barrett is.”

Barrett’s miss deflated the 19,082 followers at Scotiabank Area, who had been on their ft for the ultimate seven minutes of the sport.

Nuggets guard Jamal Murray of Kitchener, Ont., drove to the web for a layup with 0.1 seconds left within the fourth to tie the sport at 114-114 after the Raptors led by as many as 15 factors. It punctuated a 13-3 run that received Denver again into the sport.

“I informed guys that I don’t consider in ethical victories. I consider in successful,” mentioned Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic. “I assumed we competed for the massive a part of the sport.

“Many of the recreation we competed the precise means, and we gave all of it we had tonight.”

Rajakovic mentioned that it’s the coach’s accountability to name a timeout and forestall a low share shot like Barrett’s three-point try from taking place. He mentioned he’d quite cease the play and get a structured reset.

When requested if he would have appreciated Rajakovic calling a timeout, Barrett adamantly shook his head no.

“I don’t know what participant would inform you that,” he mentioned. “All people would quite have an open court docket than, enjoying five-on-five, set defence.”

Barrett completed with 20 factors, 5 rebounds and three assists within the spirited additional time loss. Rajakovic was impressed with Barrett’s efficiency.

“You simply by no means know the way the participant goes to look on the court docket,” mentioned Rajakovic. “I really feel that he competed actually onerous. He received a bit of bit winded there in direction of the tip of the sport.

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“We tried to maintain his minutes restricted tonight as nicely, however I assumed that for an enormous a part of the sport, he appeared good.”

Barrett’s return was welcomed by a Raptors crew that’s been stricken with a raft of accidents to start out the season.

Level guard Immanuel Quickley (proper pelvic contusion), Kelly Olynyk (again) of Kamloops, B.C., Bruce Brown (arthroscopic knee surgical procedure), and Ja’Kobe Walter (sprained shoulder) are all on Toronto’s inactive checklist.

All-star Scottie Barnes could also be becoming a member of them after he caught an elbow to his proper eye with 24 seconds left within the fourth quarter. He needed to be helped to the bench after the harm and didn’t return to the court docket.

Barnes was seen leaving Toronto’s locker room after the sport with a bag of ice on his eye.

It was the tip of a bodily night time for Barnes. He was additionally the recipient of a flagrant foul by Nuggets level guard Russell Westbrook early within the fourth quarter. Westbrook and Barnes began jawing at one another after the play with their teammates, coaches, and officers having to separate them.

“Simply speaking forwards and backwards, warmth of the second,” mentioned Barrett, who was on the court docket on the time. “Scottie defended himself, as he ought to.

“I used to be proper there with my one good shoulder getting within the combine.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Oct. 28, 2024.

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Donald Trump placed on a rally in New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday to kick off the ultimate full week of campaigning for president, full with movie star friends and a brand new financial proposal. However repeated insults and at occasions racist and misogynistic remarks from visitor audio system threatened to seize essentially the most consideration.

The ultimate weeks of a marketing campaign are sometimes when candidates put forth a unifying message to collect as many citizens as doable. Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally was as an alternative marked by swear phrases, racist jokes about Latinos and misogynistic remarks.

The main target might assist Trump seize headlines and mobilize some present supporters, although it is unlikely to herald new voters who’re already turned off by among the Republican presidential candidate’s rhetoric.

The primary speaker on the former president’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally, roast comic and podcast host Tony Hinchcliffe, set the tone with a disparaging joke about welcoming Latinos into the U.S. “with open arms” whereas making a shooing movement.

He additionally disparaged Latinos with a crass joke about making infants and unlawful immigration, quipped that Puerto Rico is “a floating island of rubbish,” and joked that Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce “could be the following O.J. Simpson,” referring to the soccer star who was accused and later acquitted of murdering his ex-wife.

Kelce is in a relationship with pop singer Taylor Swift, who earlier this yr mentioned she would vote for Vice President Harris.

Trump has made anti-immigrant rhetoric a centerpiece of his marketing campaign. As president, he additionally talked about ending the automated proper to citizenship for infants born within the U.S. to noncitizens — although many students agree altering the regulation might require a constitutional modification.

The Trump marketing campaign is at the moment combating to get votes from girls and Latinos. Polls recommend the gender hole on this yr’s election may very well be the most important on report. The Harris marketing campaign, in distinction, has been highlighting tales of ladies whose lives have been threatened by strict abortion bans.

The Harris marketing campaign instantly seized on Hinchcliffe’s remarks about Puerto Rico. In a tweet posted after his introduction, Hinchcliffe wrote in response, “These folks don’t have any humorousness.” He additionally added, “I like Puerto Rico and trip there. I made enjoyable of everybody… watch the entire set.”

The Trump marketing campaign additionally distanced itself from Hinchliffe’s remarks.

“This joke doesn’t replicate the views of President Trump or the marketing campaign,” Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser to the Trump marketing campaign, mentioned in a press release.

Defining who’s an American

The rally marshaled high-profile Trump supporters together with Terry Bollea — higher often called the skilled wrestler Hulk Hogan — tv character Dr. Phil McGraw and singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood.

However different Trump allies appealed to an “us versus them” mentality. Radio host Sid Rosenberg insulted former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in addition to the Democratic Social gathering as a complete.

“The entire social gathering — a bunch of degenerates,” he added. “Jew-haters and lowlifes, each certainly one of them.”

A number of audio system additionally insulted Harris, with non-public fairness fund supervisor Grant Cardone calling her a “pretend.” “Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our nation,” he mentioned.

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson later made enjoyable of Harris’ mixed-race heritage.

“It’s gonna be fairly laborious [for Democrats] to take a look at us and say, ‘ what? Kamala Harris, she received 85 million votes as a result of she’s simply so spectacular. As the primary Samoan-Malaysian low-IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president. It was only a groundswell of common assist.’”

Carlson went past insults, nodding to the racist “nice substitute idea” he has espoused previously.

“Individuals know in a rustic that has been taken over by a management class that truly despises them and their values and their historical past and their tradition and their customs, actually hates them to the purpose that it is attempting to switch them,” he mentioned. “They know somebody who really has affection for them and that is Donald Trump. And it’s requited.”

That sentiment was echoed later, when former Trump White Home aide Stephen Miller instructed the gang: “America is for Individuals and Individuals solely.”

Tax credit and ‘enemy from inside’

After a greater than four-hour pre-program of audio system, Melania Trump made a uncommon marketing campaign path look, introducing her husband.

In his speech, Trump began by laying out his financial message, emphasizing the inflation that hit the nation beneath the Biden administration, and saying he would repair it.

He additionally introduced a brand new coverage, saying he would implement a tax credit score for folks caring for members of the family at house.

Harris earlier this month introduced her personal plan to broaden Medicare to cowl that form of caregiving.

Trump additionally devoted a big part of his speech, as he usually does, to the subject of undocumented immigrants.

“As soon as I take workplace, the migrant invasion of our nation ends and the restoration of our nation begins,” he instructed the gang.

Trump additionally took the time to deal with a latest interview with Fox Information, during which he had characterised “radical left lunatics” as “the enemy from inside” and proposed utilizing the navy in opposition to them.

He stood behind these feedback at Sunday evening’s rally.

“They’re good they usually’re vicious, and we’ve got to defeat them,” he mentioned. “And once I say, ‘the enemy from inside,’ the opposite facet goes loopy. Turns into a sound — ‘oh, how can he say’ — no, they’ve carried out very unhealthy issues to this nation. They’re certainly the enemy from inside.”

Nevertheless, Trump nonetheless tried to make his speech right into a message of unity.

“The Republican Social gathering has actually develop into the social gathering of inclusion, and there’s one thing good about that,” he mentioned close to the tip of his remarks.

NPR’s Stephen Fowler contributed to this report.

A brand new era of stars lined up as contenders for the Ballon d’Or after two names dominated world soccer’s most prestigious award for properly over a decade.

With out Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo within the operating, this yr’s males’s award went to Spanish midfielders Rodri at a night ceremony in Paris. Spanish midfielder Aitana Bonmatí received the ladies’s award.

Messi (8) and Ronaldo (5) received the lads’s award a mixed 13 occasions over a 16-year interval. They weren’t nominated this yr.

The one different winners since 2008, when Ronaldo received his first Ballon d’Or, had been Luka Modric in 2018 and Karim Benzema in 2022.

Manchester Metropolis midfielder Rodri received the award for a primary time after serving to the English membership win the Premier League. The 28-year-old keyed Spain’s European Championship victory.

Different contenders included Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland, Jude Bellingham and Lamine Yamal.

Actual Madrid winger Vinicius Junior gave the impression to be amongst favorites after Messi received the award for a file eighth time final yr. Vinicius Junior helped Madrid to its fifteenth European Cup final season, however didn’t attend the ceremony.

4 Staff USA members had been a part of the shortlist for the ladies’s Ballon d’Or: Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith, Mallory Swanson, Lindsey Horan and Alyssa Naeher.

A USWNT participant hasn’t received the award since Megan Rapinoe in 2019. Diamond Bar’s Alex Morgan completed third that yr.

Olympic star Marie-Antoinette Katoto (France/PSG), 2023 winner Bonmati (Spain/Barcelona) and Olympic silver medalist Gabi Portilho of Brazil, had been among the many favorites. The 26-year-old Bonmatí helped Barcelona win the Spanish league, the Spanish cup and the Champions League.

The Ballon d’Or was created by France Soccer journal and has been awarded since 1956. It’s voted for by journalists from the highest 100 international locations within the FIFA rankings.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — — Ladd McConkey was a downfield menace whereas serving to lead the College of Georgia to a pair of School Soccer Playoff championships.

After getting used totally on routes in the midst of the sphere and third downs throughout his first seven NFL video games, McConkey confirmed Sunday how a lot of an all-around receiver he might be for the Los Angeles Chargers.

McConkey had two landing catches, together with a 60-yard rating within the third quarter, and have become the primary Chargers rookie receiver in 11 years to have a 100-yard receiving recreation as Los Angeles defeated the reeling New Orleans Saints 26-8.

“That’s fairly cool, so hopefully I get one other,” mentioned McConkey, who had six receptions for 111 yards. “Any time you get ultimately zone, it’s an enormous deal, so simply glad I used to be in a position to contribute for the blokes right now.”

McConkey has emerged as one in every of Justin Herbert’s favourite targets in a Chargers passing assault nonetheless discovering its means with out a reliable veteran receiver after the offseason departures of Keenan Allen and Mike Williams.

“He’s a whole receiver. To have that quick recreation and people intermediate routes that he’s been so good at, and now you open up a few of these go balls that you have to respect,” mentioned Herbert about McConkey. “And for him to have the ability to line up anyplace — inside, outdoors. , we have now a real ballplayer on our fingers.”

Herbert had 328 whole yards (279 passing, 48 dashing) and two TD passes to assist the Chargers (4-3) bounce again from a last-second loss final Monday night time at Arizona.

The Saints (2-6) have misplaced six straight for the primary time since 2005, which can ramp up the stress on coach Dennis Allen, who has an 18-24 file in his third season.

“I feel all of us perceive that it’s a results-oriented enterprise, and we have to play higher soccer,” Allen mentioned.

Alvin Kamara, who signed a two-year, $24.5 million contract extension earlier this week, had 122 whole yards. Chris Olave had eight receptions for 107 yards.

Jake Haener changed an ineffective Spencer Rattler within the third quarter and accomplished 9 of 17 passes for 122 yards.

Rattler — making his third straight begin with Derek Carr sidelined with an indirect harm — was 12 of 24 for 156 yards. The Saints did not attain the purple zone and managed solely a area purpose within the 9 drives he directed.

Carr returned to observe this week and might be again within the lineup subsequent week.

“Clearly we didn’t get any wins, in order that’s very unlucky,” Rattler mentioned. “We wish to win. Our purpose is to come back in right here and win, get some momentum going.”

The Saints received on the board within the first quarter with their first security since 2020 when Chargers punter JK Scott was unable to catch an errant snap and the ball rolled out of the again of the top zone. The opposite factors got here on a pair of area objectives by Blake Grupe.

McConkey, chosen within the second spherical of the draft, completed with six receptions for 111 yards to turn into the primary Chargers rookie to achieve the century mark since Allen had 5 such video games in 2013. He is the fourth because the 1970 merger with 100 yards receiving and two touchdowns.

McConkey’s third-quarter rating was the Chargers’ first second-half TD because the fourth quarter in Week 1 towards Las Vegas.

McConkey caught the move from Herbert close to the correct sideline on the Saints 35, reversed area and averted a diving sort out try by Saints cornerback Alontae Taylor on the 14 earlier than entering into the top zone and lengthening the Chargers result in 16-5.

“He discovered it, tracked it, made an unbelievable catch after which a SportsCenter spotlight the place he went to attain the landing and put the ball ultimately zone,” coach Jim Harbaugh mentioned. “I imply, it is what we would have liked.”

The Chargers added one other TD with 3:22 remaining within the fourth quarter when Herbert scrambled out of the pocket on third-and-7 on the Saints 9 and located McConkey within the again left nook of the top zone.

“I feel he was again there scrambling a bit bit after which rolling. Simply gave me an opportunity,” McConkey mentioned.

Momentum changer

The Chargers could not generate something on their first three possessions. On the opening play of their fourth drive, Harbaugh discovered a gap round proper finish and scrambled 38 yards earlier than being pushed out of bounds on the Saints 46 for the longest run of his five-year NFL profession.

The drive would outcome within the first of two area objectives by Cameron Dicker to place the Chargers on high.

“We didn’t do a lot earlier than that, however I assumed the blokes did a fantastic job of sticking it, staying affected person, ready for his or her alternatives and made one thing occur,” mentioned Herbert, who bounced again after a gradual begin to full 20 of 32 passes.

Los Angeles prolonged its result in 9-3 with 1:37 remaining within the first half on JK Dobbins’ 1-yard run off proper finish to finish a 15-play, 90-yard drive that went eight minutes. Dicker was huge left on his extra-point try, although.

Uncommon double

Chargers fullback and defensive sort out Scott Matlock turned the primary NFL participant since 2019 with a reception and sack in the identical recreation.

Matlock, in his second 12 months with the Chargers, sacked Rattler early within the third quarter and had a 9-yard catch within the fourth quarter.

Accidents

Saints: WR Bub Means injured a hand within the first quarter and had an ankle harm on the finish of the sport. … RB Kendre Miller and CB Marshon Lattimore suffered hamstring accidents within the second half and didn’t return. For Lattimore, it was the identical hamstring that saved him out of final week’s recreation towards Denver. … CB Rico Payton left with a again harm within the fourth quarter. … TE Juwan Johnson was evaluated for a concussion.

Chargers: CB Kristian Fulton aggravated a hamstring harm throughout the third quarter.

Up subsequent

Saints: At Carolina subsequent Sunday.

Chargers: At Cleveland subsequent Sunday.

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Manchester Metropolis midfielder Rodri has been awarded the Ballon d’Or after a stellar season that noticed him decide up silverware with each membership and nation.

Rodri was handed the award at a ceremony in Paris on Monday, organised by the French journal France Soccer in collaboration with UEFA.

“A really big day, for me, my household and my nation,” Rodri stated.

“I perceive that as a result of I’ve no social media, folks do not know me a lot. I’m only a regular man. I benefit from the sport, I take pleasure in my occupation. And I attempt to be particular person. I’m a really calm particular person.”

The 28-year-old received his fourth straight Premier League with Metropolis in Could as Pep Guardiola’s aspect held off Arsenal’s problem, successful their final 9 video games to clinch the title. He’s the primary participant from England’s prime tier to be topped since Cristiano Ronaldo received in 2008 throughout his first stint with Manchester United.

Rodri’s stiffest competitors for the Ballon d’Or got here from Madrid’s Vinícius Júnior, who refused to journey to Paris for the ceremony after discovering that he wouldn’t take dwelling the trophy. Jude Bellingham completed third within the voting.

Vinícius, 24, had been a number one contender to win the 2024 males’s prize after main Madrid to a LaLiga and Champions League double final season, however sources instructed ESPN earlier on Monday that neither he nor his fellow Madrid nominees — eight in whole throughout the assorted awards — would attend the occasion.

Madrid had been honoured earlier within the ceremony as the boys’s crew of the 12 months, and Carlo Ancelotti acquired the coach of the 12 months award, although no representatives of the final Champions League winners have been current to simply accept it.

“I will do it 10x if wanted. They aren’t prepared,” Vini Jr. posted in Portuguese on X.

Madrid midfielder Eduardo Camavinga made it clear what he considered the vote, calling it “soccer politics.”

“FOOTBALL POLITICS X. My brother, you’re the finest participant on the earth and no award can say in any other case. Love you my bro,” the France worldwide wrote on X together with a photograph of him and Vinicius celebrating collectively.

The awards are based mostly on voting by a panel of journalists from the highest 100 FIFA-ranked international locations.

Rodri was a part of the Spain crew that received Euro 2024, beginning each sport besides the third group stage match in opposition to Albania, and claimed the participant of the match prize.

He went a world-record 74 video games unbeaten for membership and nation from March 2023 to Could 2024, avoiding defeat (aside from through penalties) till Metropolis’s loss to Manchester United within the FA Cup closing.

Rodri turns into the second males’s participant born in Spain to win the game’s most prestigious particular person prize, and the primary since former Barcelona star Luis Suárez claimed it in 1960.

Actual Madrid’s legendary striker Alfredo di Stefano received the award twice, in 1957 and 1959, although he was born in Argentina. The previous 4 Ballons d’Or Féminin have been received by Spanish girls (Alexia Putellas in 2021 and 2022 and Aitana Bonmatí in 2023 and 2024).

“At this time isn’t a victory for me, it’s for Spanish soccer, for therefore many gamers who haven’t received it and have deserved it, like [Andres] Iniesta, Xavi [Hernandez], Iker [Casillas], Sergio Busquets, so many others. It’s for Spanish soccer and for the determine of the midfielder,” Rodri stated on stage on the ceremony.

“At this time many buddies have written to me and have instructed me that soccer has received, for giving visibility to so many midfielders who’ve a job within the shadows and at the moment it’s coming to gentle.”

Rodri is more likely to miss the remainder of the 2024-25 marketing campaign after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament harm throughout Metropolis’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal on Sept. 22. He collected the prize on crutches on Monday.

That knee harm got here simply days after he stated at a information convention that gamers might go on strike in response to the ever-growing variety of video games within the soccer calendar.

“I’m simply making an attempt to deal with myself. Relaxation, benefit from the free time with my household and are available again stronger,” Rodri stated when requested about his restoration.

Earlier in Paris, Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal received the Kopa Trophy for finest under-21 participant over the earlier season, whereas Aitana Bonmatí claimed her second consecutive Ballon d’Or Féminin.

Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappé shared the Gerd Müller trophy for many objectives within the season, whereas Aston Villa and Argentina stopper Emiliano Martínez retained the prize for finest goalkeeper on the earth following his nation’s Copa América title.

Info from The Related Press and Reuters was used on this report.