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sports Diamars 5 OctOber 2021

Tom Brady beats Patriots in New England return, 19-17

(AP) — Tom Brady joining Brees, Brett Favre multiple mistakes on defense
brought two decades of and Peyton Manning. and spotty special teams play
touchdown passes, victo- — marked by poor punts, a
ries and championships to “In crunch time when we missed early field goal and
New England. needed a field goal, he got us costly penalties.
down the field,” Bucs coach
He returned and reminded Bruce Arians said. “He wasn’t But Tampa was able to come
his former team what they’re going to make any mistakes up with timely plays to stay in
missing. that cost us the game.” the game, including Antoine
Winfield Jr. forcing a fumble
Brady rallied the Tampa Bay New England had a chance by J.J. Taylor that was recov-
Buccaneers to a 19-17 victory to win, but Nick Folk’s 56- ered by Richard Sherman —
over the Patriots on a rainy yard field-goal try hit the playing his first game since
Sunday night, with Ryan left upright with less than a signing a one-year deal last
Succop hitting the winning minute to play. The Patriots week — to thwart a promis-
48-yard field goal late in the are 1-3 for the first time since ing drive early in the third
fourth quarter. 2001. Bill Belichick dropped quarter. Smith in back of the end their second offensive series
to 8-12 since Brady left New zone for to put the Patriots of the night when he com-
Brady was 22 of 43 for 269 England. Down 17-16, Brady and the back in front 14-13. pleted a 28-yard pass to Mike
yards with no touchdowns, Buccaneers took over on Evans to surpass Brees’s mark
but engineered the fourth- “The Bucs won this game,” their own 25 and needed just Tampa marched to the Patri- of 80,358 yards to become the
quarter drive to beat the team Arians said. “Everyone want- seven plays drive to the Patri- ots 8 on their ensuing drive NFL’s career passing leader
he led to six Lombardi tro- ed to make this Brady versus ots 30. After Antonio Brown before being forced to settle in the regular season.
phies. Ronald Jones added Belichick. I don’t think Bill failed to hang onto a pass in for Succop’s third field goal
an 8-yard scoring run for de- took a snap.” the end zone Succop calmly to make it 16-14. The pass helped set up a 29-
fending Super Bowl cham- connected on a 48-yarder yard field goal to put the Bucs
pion Tampa Bay (3-1). Belichick said nothing Brady with 2:02 left. New England took back over in front 3-0.
did surprised them. with 7:58 left in the game
Brady said the Patriots made Leading 7-6, the Patriots and quickly moved down Tampa Bay’s defense dialed
them earn the win on an “We went against Tom Brady punted and Matt Slater ap- the field, getting into the up the pressure on Jones
emotional night for him. every day, every day in prac- peared to recover a fumble red zone on a trick play that on the Patriots’ next drive.
tice defensively,” Belichick by Jaydon Mickens. But an ended with receiver Jakobi Linebacker Devin White got
“It’s not that I would predict said. “So it’s not like we’ve unsportsmanlike conduct Meyers throwing a 30-yard a free run at Jones up the
what would happen,” Brady never seen Tom Brady be- penalty on Slater negated the pass to Nelson Agholor. The middle, forcing him to hurry
said. “There were a few emo- fore.” play. drive stalled there and the a pass that was tipped by Ross
tional moments thinking Patriots nudged back in front Cockrell and intercepted by
about the people that meant Patriots rookie Mac Jones The Bucs took over and fin- 17-16 on Nick Folk’s 27-yard Winfield.
so much in my life. My foot- finished 31 of 40 for 275 ished an eight-play, 52-yard field goal.
ball journey took me some- yards and two touchdowns. drive with an 8-yard scoring The Patriots made the mis-
where else.” run by Ronald Jones. Brady was welcomed with take moot, stopping the Buc-
“I have a long way to go, and cheers during the pregame caneers on third down just
Brady broke Drew Brees’ I just try to put my best foot The Patriots responded on before taking the field to a inside the red zone. The
NFL career passing yardage forward every day, and we all their next possession, using stream of boos on the Bucca- Buccaneers attempted an-
record and became the fourth want to win,” Jones said. six straight completions by neers’ first drive of the night. other field goal, but this time
quarterback with victories Jones to drive to the Bucs Succop was wide right from
against all 32 NFL teams, The Buccaneers were hurt by 1. Jones then found Jonnu Some cheers returned on 36 yards.

Beijing Olympics open in 4 months; human rights talk absent

(AP) - When the Interna- Feb. 4. genocide, vast surveillance, be it,” Xu wrote. 2015 when Beijing was facing
tional Olympic Commit- and crimes against humanity only one competitor.”
tee awarded Beijing the Instead, there are some calls involving at least 1 million Xi Jinping is now the pow-
2008 Summer Olympics, for governments to boycott Uyghurs and other largely erful general secretary of the The 2022 Games were a
it promised the Games the Games with 3,000 ath- Muslim minorities. Chinese Communist Party, long shot and came largely
could improve human letes, sponsors and broadcast- but in 2008 he was in charge by default when several fa-
rights and civil liberties in ers being lobbied by rights Tibet, a flashpoint in the run- of running the Olympics. vored European cities, in-
China. groups representing minori- up to 2008, remains one still. cluding Oslo and Stockholm,
ties across China. Beijing landed the 2008 dropped out for political or
There is no such lofty talk “The big difference between Games after a long pursuit — financial reasons.
this time with Beijing’s 2022 IOC President Thomas Bach the two Beijing Games is that its poor rights record helped
Winter Olympics — the first has repeatedly dodged ques- in 2008 Beijing tried to please end its bid for the 2000 Almaty, Kazakhstan, was Bei-
city to host both the Summer tions about the propriety of the world,” Xu Guoqi, a his- Olympics. jing’s only remaining rival in
and Winter Games — open- holding the Games in China torian at the University of the 2015 IOC vote.
ing in just four months on despite evidence of alleged Hong Kong, said in an email Some IOC members were
to The Associated Press. “In outspoken at the time about Beijing organizers on Mon-
2022, it does not really care awarding the Olympics to day announced a series of test
about what the rest of the China because it would give events kicking off this week.
world thinks about it.” tacit approval to the country’s The first is a speedskating
conduct. event — the China Open —
An expert on Chinese sports staring on Friday. The tests
and the Olympics, Xu said “Although Xi was in charge of are to be held under the same
Beijing in 2008 attempted to 2008 Olympic Games, these rigid guidelines published
placate “world opinion.” Winter Games are truly Xi’s last week for the Olympics
Games,” Xu wrote. “The themselves. Athletes and ev-
“Now it tries its best to tell Western countries literally eryone else are subject to
the world its intentions. If decided to let Xi have his strict controls that have the
the world does not listen, so Games with no resistance in full support of the IOC.