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Whitener Banks $5,000 North Florida Loot

Published in Racing
Sunday, 02 February 2020 17:26

LAKE CITY, Fla. – Mark Whitener raced to victory in Sunday’s DIRTcar-sanctioned super late model feature at North Florida Speedway.

Whitener started on the front row alongside the legendary Billy Moyer, with Moyer taking the lead early on. However, Moyer went into the spin cycle on the fifth circuit, gifting the race lead to Whitener.

Whitener would lead the remainder of the 25-lap distance, easily outpacing runner-up Allen Weisser to earn the $5,000 victory. Kyle Strickler was third ahead of Dan Stone and Moyer. Only 10 cars signed in for the race.

Nick Hoffman won the companion open-wheel modified main event.

The finish:

Mark Whitener, Allen Weisser, Kyle Strickler, Dan Stone, Billy Moyer, Jason Fitzgerald, Drake Troutman, Allen Cribbs, Mike Hammerle, Homer Leonard.

Ownbey Masters Boyd’s Iron-Man Clash

Published in Racing
Sunday, 02 February 2020 17:37

RINGGOLD, Ga. – John Ownbey led every lap en route to victory in Sunday’s Schaeffer’s Oil Iron-Man Championship Late Model Series Cabin Fever Shakedown at Boyd’s Speedway.

Ownbey started on the front row and took the lead on the opening lap. He survived multiple late-race cautions during the 40-lap feature, including the final caution on lap 37, to earn $5,000.

Jordan Rodabaugh was second at the checkered flag, followed by Jadon Frame, Jason Hiett and Casey Turman.

Ricky Arms earned $1,200 for winning the companion Brucebilt Performance Iron-Man Open Wheel Modified Series feature.

Other winners Sunday included Jake Green (sportsman), Billy Baker (front-wheel drive) and Nathan Davis (KSMA mini stocks).

The finish:

John Ownbey, Jordan Rodabaugh, Jadon Frame, Jason Hiett, Casey Turman, Justin Litchford, Joe Denby, Justin Shipley, Jason Dill, Lawson Hill, Robby Mason, Dan Tipton, Hayden Ownbey, Will Roland, David Brannon, Riley Hickman, Joey Standridge.

Jason Noll Tops Winter Challenge Finale

Published in Racing
Sunday, 02 February 2020 17:44

PEORIA, Ariz. – Jason Noll had one chance to grab the lead in the 25-lap IMCA modified main event at Canyon Speedway Park on Sunday afternoon, and he didn’t waste that opportunity.

Justen Yeager led the first 16 laps, but allowed space between himself and the turn two berm, a hole which Noll happily filled. Noll completed his winning pass exiting the turn.

Once in front, Noll led the final nine trips around the dry, slick quarter-mile for the $1,250 win over Yeager and Zachary Madrid.

The IMCA Northern sport mod series finale featured a bottom feeder track also and Mike Wells held off Andy Clower through multiple restarts for the $1,000 win.

IMCA hobby stock racing was a Brad King and Jason Duggins duel every race during the Winter Challenge and Duggins evened the score at two wins each on Sunday.

King led nearly the entire distance, but a last chance outside line effort coming to the checkers by Duggins saw him earn the victory in a photo finish.

It appeared King was first across the line, but the transponder crossing the loop is the determining factor, and Duggins’ device reached the loop first. Tech determined both cars had transponders mounted in the proper location.

The other IMCA division was stock cars and the class ran their 20-lap main last. The series finale gave them what seemed to be a difficult surface to race on with the potential of any side by side racing next to nothing.

However, the stock cars are called the class too tough to tame for a reason.  An incredible last couple of laps saw four cars racing as a group, trading plenty of paint as they raced in a formation-like pack.

Chanse Hollatz led seven laps before trading the lead with Cody Center several times while other drivers, including George Fronsman, closed on the duo of potential winners.

A late yellow set up the thrilling laps with everyone in the quartet doing their share of pushing and shoving until Fronsman won the race to the transponder loop as the checkers waved for the $1,000 win. The 20th and final main event of the Winter Challenge was a thrilling race from beginning to end.

R.J. Johnson swept the weekend in winged micro sprints, leading all the way Saturday and driving under teammate Josh Castro on Sunday. His lap-12 pass occurred on the backstretch low line.

Castro flipped wildly four laps later and climbed out with some soreness. Castro won the night before at Central Arizona Speedway.

Thomas finishes T-3 at WMPO despite not having 'best stuff'

Published in Golf
Sunday, 02 February 2020 12:00

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – A calling card of great players is the ability to contend without their best stuff. Such was the case for Justin Thomas this week at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, where a performance that didn’t meet his standards still yielded a six-figure payday.

Thomas was eight shots off the lead and seemingly out of the mix when he began his final round at TPC Scottsdale, but a strong start combined with some early wobbles from the leaders briefly vaulted him into contention for his third win of the young season. He ultimately signed for a 6-under 65 and finished in a tie for third at 14 under, three shots out of a playoff between Webb Simpson and Tony Finau.

Thomas can sometimes be his own harshest critic, and even a top-5 result wasn’t enough to masquerade issues he saw in his own game.

“To be perfectly honest, I don’t feel like I played very well this week,” Thomas said. “I got it around really well and I managed my game tremendously. And sometimes weeks like this can give me more confidence than winning, as crazy as it is.”

Thomas has now finished T-5 or better five times in nine starts dating back to his win at the BMW Championship in August. He admitted that his focus shifted from simply shooting a low score to actually contending for a win on the 14th hole, when he realized the leaders had stalled at 15 under and he was already at 11 under with a few birdie holes still remaining.

“I was like, if I can make this (birdie putt) and eagle either 15 or 17 and birdie 16 and 18, we can post 16 or 17 (under) and they’ve got to at least look at it. That’s all I wanted,” he said. “But overall, I can’t be too disappointed with the last six holes.”

Thomas has now finished T-3 at this event each of the last two years, and while he’s seemingly in line to one day lift the trophy, he is for the moment content with making a final-round move up the leaderboard with his B game.

“I mean, obviously I would have rather won,” Thomas said. “But to not have my best stuff, really drive it very, very average, iron game not very sharp, and not really have a hot putter once this week and still to hopefully be able to squeak a top-5 (finish) is pretty good.”

Man United's Solskjaer: Martial poor form due to fatigue

Published in Soccer
Sunday, 02 February 2020 15:58

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has defended Anthony Martial and said the forward's form is suffering because of tiredness.

Martial has not scored a Premier League goal since the 4-0 win over Norwich on Jan. 11 and was on the end of criticism for his performance in the goalless draw with Wolves on Saturday.

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However, Solskjaer has said he is "delighted" with the 24-year-old while putting the dip in form down to playing too many games.

"He's giving us everything," Solskjaer said. "He's been asked now to play -- I think he's started the last seven games -- in this month, and he's running probably 20% more than what he did when I came here.

"As a striker, if you don't just get there that split second, that's a big, massive difference, and I've praised him, I've sat down with him and I'm delighted with him, and I know that he's tired, but he's never ever -- how do you say it? -- dodged a training session.

"He's training, he's available for every game, [I'm] delighted with the boy."

Solskjaer is hoping the winter break and a warm weather training camp in Spain will help revitalise Martial, who has scored 12 goals in all competitions this season.

Marcus Rashford will not travel with the squad while he continues his recovery from a back injury but Odion Ighalo is set to begin training with his new teammates after his deadline day loan move from Shanghai Shenhua.

"We'll give him [Martial] more support, give him rest when he deserves it, " Solskjaer added.

"If he does have that rest, if he plays a little bit less, because he's been asked to play too much as well, especially now when Marcus is injured."

On Saturday, Solskjaer watched his team fail to score for a third straight Premier League game against Wolves to leave themselves sixth in the table and six points off the top four.

One positive for the Norwegian was debutant Bruno Fernandes, who has been getting help from compatriot Diogo Dalot as he begins settling in at Old Trafford following his move from Sporting Lisbon.

"He has played abroad a lot of years," Dalot said. "He's an experienced player and you knew he could come here and do a great job.

"For me it was not a surprise and I think that he is going to show us a lot more that he did today but it was a fantastic debut for him.

"I had Portuguese coaches and staff when I came and they helped me a lot and when he came I try to do the same because he had a Portuguese guy, a player that he knew. I'm just trying to help him settle in with the whole team."

The dark clouds of decline have gathered and the warnings of a West Indies-style tumble into mediocrity have gone from rumbling in the distance to thundering directly overhead. Lightning has struck South Africa twice as they have, for the second time since readmission, been defeated in three successive Test series by the same sequence of opponents. Sri Lanka, India, and England have rained runs on South Africa while their own batsmen experience droughts and have plucked wickets like flowers while the Proteas wilt. The storm in CSA's offices rages on but even in all this, there is a silver lining.

At 6ft 1in, with a receding hairline and a toothy grin, Rassie van der Dussen is one of only two players (Anrich Nortje is the other) who has not taken the weather with him in the last 12 months. Instead, he has charted his own course into the sunlight and has spent his first full year as an all-format international basking in it.

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He is the only batsman in cricket history to have made scores of 50-plus on debut in all three formats (albeit the history of T20 internationals is a short one) and the only South African to score seven fifties in his first 14 ODI innings. Only six other players have done that worldwide, among them names like Jonathan Trott and Imam-ul-Haq, whose career averages sit among the best of all time.

Van der Dussen doesn't appear on that list yet because it only considers players who have batted in a minimum of 20 innings but if he keeps going at the current rate of 73.77, he will find himself there soon. And there's good reason to believe he will. In what we've seen of him in 50-over cricket, van der Dussen is a well-organised player who has been good against pace (348 runs at 58.00) and spectacular against spin (316 runs at 105.33), though it is worth mentioning that he has not faced slow bowling on the subcontinent yet. He has also filled the role of finisher for South Africa, with five not-out scores and three of them not out half-centuries.

In the recently completed Test series against England, van der Dussen, in his debut rubber, was South Africa's second-highest run-scorer, behind Quinton de Kock, making half-centuries in three of the four Tests, one of which was achingly close to being converted into a maiden hundred. Perhaps more important than the runs, was the price van der Dussen put on his wicket. He faced an average of 81.3 balls per dismissal. Only Pieter Malan faced more (88.3).

While van der Dussen's white-ball performances demonstrate his technical ability, his red-ball innings matched that with the temperament required to succeed in the toughest format. To have shown all that in just over a year of playing international cricket speaks to the grounding van der Dussen came in with, which includes more than a decade in the domestic set-up. But instead of thinking of him as a late-bloomer, we should consider van der Dussen an evergreen, camouflaged by the colours of those in green-and-gold around him, who was given a glimpse of a gap and wanted the full view.

After making his T20 debut in a series against Zimbabwe in 2018, van der Dussen made sure he stayed in the selectors' peripheral vision by finishing as the top-scorer in the inaugural edition of Mzansi Super League. That led to an ODI appearance in January 2019 and 93 on debut, along with two more fifties in the series against Pakistan. By the time South Africa played Sri Lanka in March, van der Dussen would have been fairly sure he was in their World Cup plans. But, he would probably not have been at the tournament if South Africa had accepted AB de Villiers' offer to return. He repaid the faith placed in him by finishing as South Africa's second-highest run-scorer, and the player who left with his reputation most enhanced.

Those performances were what led to van der Dussen hanging around the Test squad in the early stages of the India tour, even though he was not officially part of the group, and to his eventual call-up for the England matches. But who knows if he would have played at SuperSport Park if Temba Bavuma wasn't injured? And who knows if he would have continued playing if he hadn't scored 51 and shared in a match-winning second-innings partnership, when Bavuma recovered in time for the next game?

"He is one of the guys who needs to play for the next three, four years to get South Africa back to where they need to be" Faf du Plessis on van der Dussen

By the time Bavuma returned to form, van der Dussen had clocked two half-centuries and it was Zubayr Hamza, not him, who had to make way. In fact, van der Dussen was promoted to No. 3, away from his preferred position, and there, he showed his best so far. His 98 at the Wanderers was an innings of commitment to an impossible cause, with South Africa chasing 466 to win, and courage against an aggressive opposition attack. At one stage, van der Dussen was hit close to the sternum by a delivery that could have broken a rib - but he got back up and batted on.

"It would have been one of his greatest knocks," captain Faf du Plessis said after the match, musing about what a century would have meant for van der Dussen. Maybe it already was.

With or without the milestone, that innings showed us what du Plessis acknowledged about van der Dussen: he has what it takes and more. "Rassie's composure is what's needed for this level. That's why we backed him," du Plessis said. "He's one of the guys who are in the era of the 30-year-olds who need to play for the next three, four years to get the team back to where they need to be."

Similar praise was heaped on van der Dussen after the World Cup and it all suggests there may be bigger plans for him in the not-too-distant future. Van der Dussen's leadership qualities could put him in the perfect position to take the Test team to West Indies, should du Plessis step down before then, or to become Quinton de Kock's second-in-command in the ODI side, with the 2023 World Cup in mind. None of these roles should be considered too lofty for van der Dussen because he has already shown that he can fill big shoes.

Whatever transpires, van der Dussen now stands as a role-model for his peers across the cricketing spectrum. For aspirant internationals, he is proof that time in the domestic game, however long, is not time wasted. For experienced ones, he is a reminder not to take things for granted. And for everyone, he is the evidence that even in this dark time, as coach Mark Boucher called South Africa's current plight, there is some light.

Marcus Harris has been called into the Cricket Australia side for the remaining one-day matches against England Lions after Will Pucovski was ruled out with concussion.

Pucovski retired hurt in the opening game at Metricon Stadium on Sunday after stumbling and hitting his head while taking a run when his bat got stuck in the turf on the edge of the drop-in wicket.

He was later subbed out of the game under concussion protocol and has now been withdrawn due to the short turnaround to the games on Tuesday and Thursday.

However, Pucovski was in good spirits after the incident, which happened on his 22nd birthday, and was pictured in the dressing with a cake.

It was the latest in series of concussions that he has suffered in his short career, stemming from an initial blow he took when playing football at school which meant he had spent six months away from sport.

Jake Lehmann, who took over the captaincy on Sunday, will lead the side in the remaining two matches. Harris, who lost his Test place after the Ashes, played nine matches in the Big Bash for Melbourne Renegades just making 119 runs at 13.22

Pucovski will hope to be available for the resumption of the Sheffield Shield on February 14 when Victoria take on New South Wales at the SCG.

Australia's Ashes retention in England and a storming home summer have helped the game's community and junior levels regain the participation ground lost by the Newlands scandal, with club registrations set to bounce back to levels last seen in 2017.

Cricket Australia's community wing had been hopeful of a boost from better tidings at the top level of the game, and with the Test side retaining the urn in dramatic circumstances at Old Trafford in mid-September, that wish appears to have been granted.

ESPNcricinfo has learned the governing body's in-season tracking of numbers has clocked higher numbers of registrations for junior and senior club levels, plus the cricket blast entry level format, than the end of season numbers in either of the past two years.

According to CA's annual Australian cricket census, club cricket total registration numbers had risen from 356,681 in 2014 to 392,812 off the back of the 2015 World Cup and that year's Ashes tour in 2016. A steady fall had taken place since then, slipping to 388,242 in 2017, then 375,915 in 2018 and 365,076 for 2019. A return to a level of registrations not seen since 2017 would be a significant rebound for the game as well as a significant marker of its improved esteem in the eyes of the Australian public.

These numbers, which do not include school and indoor cricket competitions, are looked upon closely by CA's head of community cricket, Belinda Clark, as a vital sign of the game's health. In the face of some not undeserved cynicism about any sport's self-reported numbers, Clark has worked assiduously for more accurate and less rubbery numbers to give her department and CA more broadly a better idea of exactly where they stand.

"Not dissimilar to most places, we're constantly looking at how you understand what's happening and what are the measures of success," Clark told ESPNcricinfo earlier this summer. "We're constantly working on improving that, but I think the key thing I've reflected on, having come back into this role, is the importance of understanding what level of information is giving you what detail. So how many competitions do we have is really important, how many teams do we have in those competitions is really important and then how many individuals are playing the game, that's also really important.

"A lot of our focus has been on understanding what are the drivers of people coming back, what are the drivers of people having a great experience, particularly young kids, and it all relates back to fun not surprisingly. The numbers are absolutely important as an understanding of what's happening, but what's probably more important is how we support the people who are providing the experience on the ground."

With the summer to be rounded out by the women's T20 World Cup on home soil, concluding with the final to be played at the MCG on March 8, international women's day, there will be hope that women's participation numbers - which held steady following the Newlands scandal in contrast to a marked drop-off in male participation - can jump again.

An improvement in club registration numbers can also be partly attributed to extra investment made in the number of "boots on the ground" in terms of community cricket staff at CA and state association levels following the singing of the A$1.18 billion broadcast rights deal which opened up a greater level of funding for the area. Those extra staff have, in turn, aided the game's vast contingent of volunteers at club and junior levels to more effectively tap into the game's followers to turn them into club participants.

At the same time, Clark and CA have looked closely at trying to improve the efficiency of club administration and registration through better use of technology. Clark has stated more than once that one of her goals is to make it possible to run the administration of a local club through the use of a phone app alone, as opposed to the often exhausting and repetitive processes of data entry, budgeting and phone calls that are the lot of many a grassroots president, secretary, captain or coach with around 20 clubs currently involved in a pilot scheme.

"It's probably the reason I'm drawn to doing this work, because it's got scale, you've got more than 4000 clubs, you've got a lot of people you're trying to serve and a lot of opportunity in terms of getting people connected to their local clubs," Clark said. "So in terms of impact on society, to me this is actually the stuff we need to get right, and that's what drew me back into it. Are we going to experience problems when you're dealing with that number of people? Absolutely. How we deal with them and making sure we're listening the whole time is really what's important.

"There will never be enough money in sport, so we need to find ways of being more efficient, which is where we come back to the technology and helping people become more efficient with how they run clubs, and keeping it at an affordable sport for people who want to play."

Bangladesh coach Russell Domingo has asked his batsmen to deliver a big performance against Pakistan in the Rawalpindi Test, which begins on Friday.

During Domingo's tenure so far, Bangladesh have lost all three of their Test matches, and with Shakib Al Hasan's ban in place for most of the year, there is a lot of concern over how the team will cope in a Test-heavy 2020. Domingo believes Rawalpindi may be a good place to start showing positive results.

Some of the batsmen have shown good form recently in the domestic first-class competition, while the Test specialists have worked extensively with batting coach Neil McKenzie when the T20I side was in Pakistan last month.

Domingo hopes Bangladesh will show an overall improvement as a Test team since their crushing series defeat in India in November, and that they can put Pakistan under pressure and expose their vulnerabilities.

"The wickets that they are playing here [in Bangladesh] don't have much pace and bounce, but I am sure Rawalpindi might have some pace and bounce," Domingo said. "It is going to be a big challenge for the boys. The Test players have been working on some technical things with Neil McKenzie. Of course, some of the boys know that they have to put in some big performances on the back of a poor Test series against India. We have to show a bit more commitment with the bat, and find ways to manufacture scores even when the conditions are not good.

"We know that we haven't played well in Tests, but if you are going to Pakistan thinking that we can't win, might as well stay here. I am confident that if we do things well and improve considerably from our tour to India, we can push Pakistan. It is going to be tough; they are a quality side. But we know they can also have a bad day. We need to have a great day when they have a bad day. If that happens, we give ourselves a chance."

Among those on whom Domingo will pin his hopes will be Tamim Iqbal, who has just made a maiden triple-hundred in first-class cricket, as well as Mahmudullah and Mominul Haque, who also scored first-class hundreds shortly before departing for Rawalpindi. But inconsistency has dogged less experienced players such as Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar and Mohammad Mithun, who have been given an extended run in Tests since 2018. Domingo stood by his batsmen, saying he believed in consistent selection.

"When you say Mithun is not in good form, he is currently 60-odd not out. He has come off playing one T20I in Pakistan. I think he had a decent BPL. I wouldn't say he is in bad form. Soumya seems to be playing well. I want to make sure we have continuity in selection. Mithun was in our last Test series in India, under tough conditions.

"It is hard to leave a guy out after one or two Tests. I have always said that selection needs to be consistent, and we give guys an opportunity to play a number of Tests before you make decisions on their careers. A lot of the guys on this tour were with us in India. We are giving them opportunities to improve their game."

Domingo said the big runs his batsmen have made in domestic cricket will be the best preparation they can have, given Bangladesh only have one practice session at the venue of their Test match.

"There's no doubt that runs in the middle is worth more than just practicing in the nets," he said. "So the players who got runs will gain confidence. Tamim's three-hundred is a fantastic effort and it is something that should be treasured, as it doesn't happen often.

"Mominul and [Mahmudullah] Riyad got hundreds and Mithun got a 60. Guys have got five wickets. They have shown why they are in the Test team. It is always important for Test players to put in big performances in domestic cricket."

Domingo said Bangladesh are likely to give Najmul Hossain Shanto the No 3 spot, with Mominul batting below him to compensate for Mushfiqur Rahim's absence.

"At the moment Mominul is earmarked to bat at No 4. I will probably get Shanto to bat at No 3, and Saif Hassan to open the batting with Tamim Iqbal. Mithun and Riyad at No 5 and 6, and Liton [Das] probably at No 7."

Domingo, however, added that over the next three Tests, Bangladesh would be forced to change their batting line-up at least for one position, when Mushfiqur - who is available for the one-off Test against Zimbabwe later this month, but not for the Pakistan Tests next week or in April - returns.

"I am under the impression that this is the squad for this one Test match. We will re-evaluate once we get back," Domingo said. "You have to remember that Mushfiq got runs in the last Test, but we also need to consider the fact that it is hard to pick a batting line-up, change it for one Test, and then change it again for the third Test. I want to give guys a run, but we also need to consider that Mushfiq was our best player in India."

This headache is for later, but right now, Domingo wants his Test side to train its focus on the job at hand, and not pay too much attention to the big names, such as the legspinner Yasir Shah.

"We have a few left-handers which will help us [take on Yasir]." Domingo said. "He is not at the top of his game recently. Pakistan always produce great fast bowlers and legspinners, but we have to be positive and confident to negotiate them. Yasir Shah is a fantastic bowler but it is just a cricket ball. As Ottis [Gibson, Bangladesh's fast-bowling coach] says, 'play the game, not the name.'"

Brady's cryptic tweet a teaser for Super Bowl ad

Published in Breaking News
Sunday, 02 February 2020 18:13

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tom Brady's tweet on Thursday night that set social media on fire and sparked questions about his football future turned out to be a preview for a Super Bowl commercial.

"They say all good things must come to an end, so to my teammates, my family, and my fans, you deserve to hear this from me," Brady said in the advertisement as dramatic music played, teasing the possibility of a big football announcement before shifting course and touting Hulu, a subscription streaming service.

Brady concluded the ad by saying: "So it's time to say goodbye to TV as you know it. But me? I'm not going anywhere."

That was possibly a reference to Brady's plans to play a 21st NFL season in 2020. The 42-year-old Brady, who has spent his entire career with the New England Patriots, is scheduled to become a free agent for the first time in his career on March 18.

On Sunday, Brady attended Super Bowl LIV as part of the league's 100-year pregame celebration and shared a picture on Twitter that included head coach Bill Belichick and former Patriots Rob Gronkowski, Randy Moss and Adam Vinatieri.

As for the advertisement, which aired near the end of the first quarter, Hulu spent roughly $7.5 million on the 30-second spot, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal.

"It was pretty fun," Brady said of the commercial during his pregame interview on Westwood One radio. "I'm glad everyone enjoyed it. My daughter loved it. She says to me, 'Daddy, we're not going anywhere.' I thought it was so cute. She gave me a big hug."

The ad was filmed in four hours in December at Gillette Stadium, and Hulu shot two endings, according to the WSJ, with the second ending having Brady saying: "See you next season."

In his Westwood One interview, Brady said any decision about where he plays in 2020 isn't likely to come for a while. Of the Patriots, he said, "What a great two decades it's been. I think they know how I feel about them, and I know how they feel about me. We've always had a great relationship. We always will.

"There's not much more to say other than that. There's a lot, again, that everyone needs to take some time to evaluate where they're at and the decisions they need to make moving forward. The Patriots will do that. Every team will do that. The players who have the opportunity to be free agents will do that. And then when the time is right, I guess in six weeks from now, everyone will be able to make their decisions."

Brady added that he has had conversations with the Patriots, which he described as normal.

Brady said he was throwing the football recently, and while he enjoyed attending the Super Bowl to meet with some of his boyhood idols, "for the most part, I look forward to the season ending and moving on to the offseason and trying to get back to work to improve the things I can do next year.

"I don't certainly want to take away from anything that is happening today," he said, in reference to the Super Bowl. "There's a lot of speculation, a lot of people who don't have any information. I haven't put too much thought into those things, other than understanding the situation I'm in, which I knew I was going to be in at the beginning of the year -- and just taking these things day by day.

"Again, the reality for me is the season didn't end that long ago. There's still time to decompress a bit, and that will happen, and continue to happen, after the season. I'll take those days as I need them, and deal with the different emotions. And, ultimately, when the time comes to decide what's next, that's what I'll do."

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