Vinicius Jr. scored a stunning goal to help Real Madrid beat Osasuna 2-0 at the Bernabeu on Wednesday night to move into first place in La Liga ahead of cross-town neighbors Atletico.

Zinedine Zidane started a heavily rotated XI with Karim Benzema, Eden Hazard and Thibaut Courtois all on the bench, and the hosts went close twice inside of 20 minutes with Luka Jovic firing over the crossbar from close range and Toni Kroos just missing a golazo from distance soon after.

Osasuna had their chances, but Real Madrid were the first to score on 35 minutes when Vinicius Jr. picked up a pass from Kross, cut to his right and fired an unstoppable shot past Ruben to give his team a 1-0 lead at the break.

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Jovic made a mess of a clear-cut chance to double Madrid's lead just after the break, somehow flashing his shot over the bar for a second time after Lucas Vazquez had set him up with a one-on-one against Ruben.

The Serbian looked to have made amends just before the hour mark, slotting home from another Vazquez assist, but Jovic, still in search of his first goal since joining Los Blancos, was adjudged to be slightly offside on the play after video review and the goal was waved off.

Rodrygo, the summer arrival from Santos, finally gave Real their second, settling a long ball over the top of the Osasuna defence with a sublime first touch and racing into the penalty area to slot home a far post shot for the 2-0 lead.

The result puts extra significance on Saturday's Madrid derby at the Wanda Metropolitano with first place honours in La Liga on the line.

Nottinghamshire 77 for 1 (Slater 29*, Clarke 1-11) trail Surrey 402 for 6 dec (Borthwick 137, Pope 106) by 325 runs

Nottinghamshire dented Surrey's prospects of rounding off their County Championship campaign with a victory as they saw out a tricky session on the third evening at the Oval.

The home side declared at 402 for 6 and set out to try and capture 20 wickets in the time remaining, but they were largely thwarted by Nottinghamshire, who reached stumps for the loss of Steven Mullaney.

Ben Slater was 29 not out and Ben Compton unbeaten on 16 as they steered the visitors to 77 for 1 before bad light ended play - meaning a draw looks the most likely outcome in this rain-affected climax to the season.

Earlier, Ollie Pope had completed his second hundred since returning from injury, sharing a partnership of 222 with fellow centurion Scott Borthwick as Surrey batted their opponents out of the game.

Having lost virtually four entire sessions to poor weather, the pair looked keen to step up the pace once the umpires finally gave them the green light to resume at 248 for 2 soon after 1pm.

Pope, who returned to the crease on 79, lost no time in advancing towards the eighth ton of his first-class career as he square cut Mullaney and Paul Coughlin for boundaries. The 21-year-old reached three figures from 165 balls with a rather more uncertain shot, an outside edge off Jack Blatherwick that flew through the gully area for four.

But Pope did not last much longer, misjudging a delivery from Jake Ball on his leg stump and lofting it to Compton on the midwicket boundary.

Surrey began to lose wickets at a steady rate, with Ben Foakes heaving across the line at Blatherwick and getting a bottom edge that scattered his stumps.

Mullaney, who put in a lengthy stint from the Vauxhall End, picked up two scalps in the run-up to tea, trapping Will Jacks in front of his stumps with an inswinger.

Borthwick - who had earlier been dropped at second slip by Matt Carter - was the next to go, flashing outside off stump at Mullaney and enabling Tom Moores to claim his third dismissal of the innings.

Rikki Clarke and Jordan Clark joined forces for a concerted assault on the Nottinghamshire bowling either side of the interval, putting together an unbroken partnership of 52 from just 10 overs.

Clarke was 36 not out and belted both Coughlin and Mullaney over long on for sixes, while a square cut for four by Clark off Liam Patterson-White raised the total above 400 and triggered an immediate Surrey declaration.

That left Nottinghamshire to face a scheduled 34 overs, but Morne Morkel's opening spell was surprisingly wayward and he was withdrawn after conceding 24 from four overs - including a long hop that Mullaney hooked for six.

By contrast, Clarke beat the outside edge several times and made the initial breakthrough when Mullaney padded up to a straight ball.

However, Slater looked strong off his pads, hitting five boundaries before the darkening sky halted play with 14 overs still to be bowled.

Gloucestershire 220 for 7 (van Buuren 93, Charlesworth 77*) v Northamptonshire

We might be living through strange times, but surely not so strange that either of these counties will now be denied promotion to the first division. Rain has made a mockery of the myriad equations so let's be done with arithmetic and talk the simple language of cricket: Glamorgan must bat with the precision of Donald Bradman at the speed of Brian Lara, then take wickets at the strike rate of SF Barnes to beat Durham and stop Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire from going up.

The game here at Nevil Road is heading for a draw, probably of the dullest and soggiest variety. That will matter not a jot in the wider context. Nor will Northamptonshire lament a strangely disengaged performance on Wednesday when they took only a single wicket and Gloucestershire claimed the batting point they needed to ensure promotion remains entirely in their own hands. They require a draw plus three more points with either bat or ball. A mere draw will do for Northants.

Concern around noon on Monday when Gloucester collapsed to 67 for 6 had dissipated - drowned is perhaps a better way of putting it - by the time Graeme van Buuren pushed Rob Keogh through extra cover for the boundary that carried Gloucester to the critical 200 mark. His stand of 151 with Ben Charlesworth began pre-lunch on day one and was ten minutes from continuing into the fourth when van Buuren, who scored 93, stabbed outside off stump to Gareth Berg and was caught behind.

The fact that Gloucester lost their first division status as far back as 2005 might explain why so many supporters stayed on with barely a murmur for the four-and-a-half hours between the scheduled start and eventual three o'clock beginning. Such a long and hard-fought return will be something to celebrate despite the absence of prize money for third place. Northamptonshire will receive £57,000 as runners-up to Lancashire.

In other circumstances, they might have grown more restless. It is hard to imagine the crowd at an international match behaving as placidly with the sun shining, the playing field open, nets in place and stumps beside the pitch ready to be inserted. Yet the place was a hive of inactivity through the morning save for the occasional sight of a player or the umpires wandering out, scraping the soles of their boots on problem areas and wincing their way back off.

With the situation even worse at Chester-le-Street, the slippy, sludgy areas around footmarks on the edges of used pitches might have suited both teams. Gloucester, in the weaker position, would have been content not to risk defeat. "Mud, mud, glorious mud," they must have sung, like Flanders and Swann, in the sanctity of their dressing room. Yet once umpires David Millns and Mike Burns did consider play to be possible, it was they who switched on quicker.

Van Buuren played and missed a couple of times against Ben Sanderson in the early exchanges and Charlesworth survived a reasonable appeal for leg-before by Keogh, the most dangerous of the bowlers on a surface offering some turn. Otherwise, the closest that Northants came to breaking the stand as it developed was a run out opportunity when Charlesworth was sent back by his partner, Keogh missing with the throw.

They made a tricky pair: Charlesworth tall, upright and left-handed, van Buuren a short, right-handed croucher. Van Buuren punched anything slightly short, especially through the off side, while Charlesworth's off-drives again flowed like cream from a jug. At 18, he is a prospect who will make crowds purr with his strokes. That in turn may lead to frustration if returns fall short of unreasonable expectations. He needs to be allowed to develop at his own pace.

"Ben is so solid," van Buuren said. "He makes bowlers look slow, he plays them with ease. It is a sexy forward defensive he has. He is an attractive player but he is already a good player too and you have to remember how young he is. I said to somebody yesterday how he reminds me so much of Aiden Markram, the way he loads up, stands still and has that same whirl of the bat. He is class."

Van Buuren is a friend of Markram, a fellow South African, who averages 43.80 from his first 17 Test matches. It is quite a compliment. He also drew a comparison with Chris Dent, blooded young by Gloucester but now their steadiest batsman approaching 9,000 career runs. Sanderson was generous too, praising Charlesworth for his temperament and judgement of what to leave.

Charlesworth has already equalled his career best; tomorrow would be quite a day to set a new one. Equally, while van Buuren was disappointed at missing his own hundred he could reflect on the more important picture. "We just have to rock up for one more day and play good, hard cricket," he said. "Stay grounded, keep humble and hopefully cricket will look after us in the end."

Antonio Brown tweeted Sunday that he would not be playing in the NFL anymore. His agent isn't so sure.

Drew Rosenhaus, speaking on Warren Sapp's "99 Problems" podcast, said, "I believe that Antonio wants to continue his career in the NFL.

"I have had discussions with a few teams that are very interested in him and want to know about his future and what's going on with the NFL," Rosenhaus said on the podcast, posted on Wednesday. "Hopefully, when that is all resolved, Antonio will be able to continue his Hall of Fame career."

Brown, who has been accused of sexual assault and sexual misconduct by two different women, was released by the New England Patriots on Friday, making him an unrestricted free agent, eligible to sign with any team. The NFL is conducting an investigation into the allegations.

"It's a very difficult time for him, not playing," Rosenhaus said of the seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver. "We expected him to be playing against the Jets on Sunday, so it's tough for someone who loves the game not to be playing right now, and the hope is that we'll cooperate with the NFL in its investigation and get him back with a team to continue this tremendous career he's had."

On Saturday, Rosenhaus told ESPN's Adam Schefter about his communication with interested teams, but Sunday's tweet -- in which Brown said he was done with the NFL and expressed frustration at lost money from both the Patriots and Oakland Raiders -- cast more doubt on whether he will continue to play.

Rosenhaus still believes the wide receiver has an NFL future.

"It's my hope, it's Antonio's hope, that he'll be back playing as soon as possible," Rosenhaus said.

Brown announced on social media on Monday that he was reenrolling at Central Michigan, which he attended for three years before leaving for the NFL. Rosenhaus said that did not mean Brown had given up on playing in the league.

"I know there's been a lot of speculation as to whether or not that means he's not going to proceed with the NFL," the agent said, "but taking online college courses to get your degree or your post-graduate degree is something that I would recommend to every client. ... I wouldn't read too much into that."

Brown, 31, has been accused of sexually assaulting his former trainer, Britney Taylor, according to a civil lawsuit she filed on Sept. 10. In addition to that lawsuit, Brown faces an allegation of sexual misconduct by a female artist who was working at his Western Pennsylvania home in 2017.

The NFL said its investigation is "ongoing and will be pursued vigorously and expeditiously," despite Brown's release from the Patriots.

Because Brown is currently a free agent, placing him on the commissioner's list "is not appropriate," the league said Friday. If he signs with another team, the league said, "such placement may become appropriate at any time depending on the status of the investigation."

Brown agreed to a one-year deal with the Patriots worth up to $15 million, with a $9 million signing bonus, on Sept. 7. He played one game before being released. Earlier, the Raiders released Brown before he even played a game with them, ending a tumultuous stint with that team.

OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- When the Baltimore Ravens play the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, the defending AFC North champions will face the team that was hyped all offseason to supplant them.

The Browns, who are off to a disappointing 1-2 start, created national buzz when they made a flurry of offseason moves, including trading for wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Cleveland was the betting favorite to win the division.

All of that talk wore thin on the Ravens, according to safety Earl Thomas.

"The media was talking about OBJ and that tandem and Baker Mayfield, the next savior," Thomas said Wednesday. "Then, to add on to that, Coach [John Harbaugh] talked about it a couple of times in meetings. So guys kind of got tired about it."

What was Harbaugh's message?

"He was just talking about what it looked like on paper," Thomas said. "And guys heard that, and basically, like, 'It sounds good, but we'll see.'"

At this year's NFL owners meetings in March, Harbaugh called the Browns "the most talented team in the division" -- a sentiment he said Wednesday was based on the preseason only.

"To me, that was an offseason question. I think at the time, they did have the most talent in the division," Harbaugh said during a conference call. "It was meant to be a compliment to the Browns organization and everything and the job they have done.

"... Now we are playing the season, and all of that stuff gets determined during the season. It is part of it now, but it is not really a time to rank that. I had not thought about it in those kind of terms. You are just trying to put a game plan together and do the best we can on Sunday."

The Browns have struggled, losing both of their home games. Cleveland is one game back of division-leading Baltimore (2-1). The teams split their two games last season.

"You have to play football at the end of the day," Ravens running back Mark Ingram said. "You can have as many players as you want to on paper, but if guys don't mesh and don't communicate well and play well together, it really doesn't mean anything. We're going to have to play them twice. That's why you line up and play football -- to settle the score."

Many believed this year's Browns team would end the 29-year drought of not winning a division title. The Browns were one of the most active teams this offseason. In addition to trading for Beckham, Cleveland added defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson and defensive end Olivier Vernon.

"That's just what it is -- it's hype," Ravens defensive tackle Brandon Williams said. "You can't really buy into it. You don't really know what a team is until you see them on Sunday. When somebody gets hit in the mouth, what's the plan then?"

BEREA, Ohio -- Baker Mayfield fired back Wednesday at former NFL coach and current ESPN analyst Rex Ryan for calling him "overrated as hell" earlier in the week.

"It's whatever," the Cleveland Browns quarterback said. "In the wise words of [Cleveland coach] Freddie Kitchens, if you don't wear orange and brown, you don't matter, and Rex Ryan doesn't have any colors right now for a reason. So, it's OK."

Ryan slammed Mayfield on ESPN's Get Up on Monday, after the Browns lost to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night to fall to 1-2.

"I don't get it. I'd love to be an offensive coordinator here,'' Ryan said of Cleveland. "If I have Odell Beckham, Jarvis Landry, Nick Chubb and there's Baker Mayfield -- yeah, I know he's overrated as hell. ..."

When pressed to expound, Ryan said, "Look, I bought into the dang hype. I'm like, 'Oh, yeah' -- not to the point where everyone's saying he's going to be the league MVP.

"What's he doing right? Here's a guy right now that's a one-read guy, and then he's going to improvise. He's gotta realize that you are one of the slowest guys on that field when you take off with it. The other thing, the ball's not coming out in rhythm. You're staring down guys, and you're not that accurate down the field."

After coming in second in the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year voting last season, Mayfield is off to a rough start statistically through three weeks. He ranks 30th in completion rate and 32nd in quarterback rating. Only four teams have scored fewer points than the Browns, who are averaging only 16.3 per game.

Ryan was fired from two head-coaching jobs in the last five years, including the New York Jets in 2014 and the Buffalo Bills in 2016. He hasn't coached since.

Before Wednesday's practice, Kitchens came to the defense of his quarterback, calling Ryan's comments "asinine to even say."

"I appreciate his opinion and all that, but he's not in our building, he has no idea what we're doing," Kitchens said.

Beckham also dismissed Ryan's criticism of Mayfield.

"At the end of the day, when we go out there, no offense to Rex because I love him, we don't really care what you said," Beckham said. "'Overrated as hell,' none of that is gonna matter when you go on the field."

Mayfield, however, admitted that blocking out such criticism can be difficult.

"It's something you really have to be conscious of, because you're surrounded in an environment where you hear a lot of things, stuff pops up on your phone or stuff is on TV," Mayfield said. "People talk. You have to make a conscious decision to protect your locker room and take care of your guys and block out the negative stuff. And when they pat you on the back, it's even worse."

Despite their slow start, the Browns could still take the AFC North lead with a victory Sunday at Baltimore. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, who won the Heisman Trophy for Louisville in 2016, the year before Mayfield won it at Oklahoma, had nothing but praise for Mayfield.

"I feel he's a great quarterback," Jackson said. "He went No. 1 in the draft for a reason."

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It was time for the last jump shot of Markelle Fultz's workout on the Orlando Magic practice court Wednesday. He let a 3-pointer fly from the left corner and spun around in celebration even before the ball swished through the net.

After two years of problems, he's feeling good again.

The shoulder injuries that kept him off the court for most of the two seasons since he was picked No. 1 in the 2017 draft are now being managed -- he's hesitant to say healed -- and Fultz is expected to be a full participant in practice when the Magic open training camp next week. It's a significant step forward, though the Magic also know they'll have to proceed with caution.

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"Man, I always have joy every time I step in here, no matter what's going on," Fultz said after his workout. "As I learned quickly, you can't take it for granted. You never know when it's going to get stripped away from you."

His shot is still a work in progress. Some of his jumpers Wednesday were perfect, some rimmed out and a few took an ugly trajectory to the front of the rim. His release doesn't appear to be the same as it was during his college season at Washington, part of the retraining he's done to deal with his shoulder issues.

But he's on the floor. That's major progress.

"We're going to remain patient," Magic president Jeff Weltman said. "We're not going to put expectations or timelines on his development. He hasn't played basketball in a year. He's played 33 games total in his career. So it's going to unfold the way it unfolds."

Fultz has played in 33 regular-season games over his two NBA seasons. His shoulder problems -- first called a scapular muscle imbalance, a fancy way of saying the joints in the shoulder weren't working together properly -- took him out of the lineup for the first time after just four games of his rookie season with Philadelphia. He missed 68 games that season before returning for the final few weeks.

Last season was equally problematic.

Fultz started Philadelphia's first 15 games before things went bad again. He double-clutched a free throw in a game at Miami and was widely mocked on social media afterward. Before long, he was diagnosed with a new problem -- neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome, a condition where blood vessels or nerves around the collarbone and first rib are compressed.

"A lot of people, they would never go play with what I had and knowing they couldn't shoot the ball," Fultz said.

By the time doctors figured out what was really ailing Fultz, he had played his last game for the 76ers. The Magic traded Jonathan Simmons and a package of draft picks to Philadelphia to acquire Fultz in February. He never played for the Magic last season, though the move last week to pick up his $12.3 million option for 2020-21 is a clear sign that Orlando believes in Fultz.

"It was a no-brainer," Weltman said.

Fultz said he's not motivated by silencing doubters. But if that was the case, it wouldn't surprise Mike Jones. He's the coach at DeMatha Catholic High in Hyattsville, Maryland, a perennial national powerhouse -- the school where Fultz played.

Jones also was the coach who didn't pick Fultz for varsity when he was a sophomore.

"His whole career has been proving people wrong," Jones said. "When he didn't make the varsity here, I truly believe that he spent the next two years here making sure I knew that was a mistake. And now, I think he wants people to keep doubting him -- because he's going to show them."

Lorenzo Romar, Fultz's college coach at Washington, feels the same way.

Fultz spent some time with Romar, now the coach at Pepperdine, last season. They didn't talk much about his injury -- "the elephant in the room" is how Romar described the situation. But Romar coached Magic guard Terrence Ross in college, has followed Magic forward Aaron Gordon's career closely and knows the strides that Orlando took last season while getting to the playoffs for the first time since 2012.

Adding Fultz to that mix, Romar said, is only going to make Orlando better.

"I know the pieces they have on that team," Romar said. "When Markelle comes back and gets his rhythm back, he's as good a talented point guard as you will find. He's an athletic wizard. You put him out there with the rest of that group when he gets his rhythm, they could be special."

Fultz doesn't disagree.

He said he dreams of the day he can play 5-on-5 in a real game again. He raves about Magic coach Steve Clifford, raves about what the team's medical staff has done for him -- taking tons of time last season to acquaint themselves with his injury, sending people to Los Angeles to work with him this offseason, then putting together the proper balance of on-court work, rest and rehab in Orlando.

His game is coming back. His confidence is still there.

"I was the No. 1 pick for a reason," Fultz said. "I knew that I work hard and what I can do on the basketball court. That's all that matters."

Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving suffered a left-side facial fracture when he was elbowed in the face at the team's practice facility Tuesday, the team announced Wednesday.

The Nets said Irving is day-to-day with the injury.

Irving was sent to the hospital for evaluation after being injured during a pickup game.

Coach Kenny Atkinson told NetsDaily.com that Irving was "OK."

General manager Sean Marks had praised Irving on Tuesday, saying he had already shown leadership and intensity in the team's summer get-togethers. He said Irving has been "religious" in his participation in workouts at the team's practice facility.

Marks said he could already see camaraderie building between the team's veterans and young players.

Training camp officially opens for the Nets on Saturday. They are taking part in the NBA's preseason China Games, facing the Los Angeles Lakers on Oct. 10 in Shanghai and Oct. 12 in Shenzhen. The Nets open the regular season on Oct. 23 against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

All-Star pitcher Sonny Gray of the Cincinnati Reds had arthroscopic right elbow surgery Wednesday and is expected to recover in time for spring training next year.

Gray underwent the operation to remove loose bodies from his pitching elbow, a condition he dealt with the entire season.

The surgery is not expected to impact the two-time All-Star's offseason schedule, according to the Reds.

Gray, 29, went 11-8 with a 2.87 ERA and 205 strikeouts in 31 starts this season, his first year with the Reds. He entered Wednesday fifth in the National League in ERA and 11th in strikeouts.