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SPORTS Saturday 19 September 2020

Slovenia's Primoz Roglic, wearing the yellow jersey of the overall
leader, and Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young
rider's white jersey, talk at the start of the stage 19 of the Tour de
France cycling race over 166 kilometers (103 miles), with start
in Bourg-en-Bresse and finish in Champagnole, Friday, Sept. 18,
2020.
Associated Press

Slovenia on edge as Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow throws a pass during the first half of the team's NFL

football game against the Cleveland Browns, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Cleveland.
2 homegrown riders Associated Press

fight for Tour win Burrow throws 3 TDs in second

start but Bengals lose again

By ALI ZERDIN wearing yellow jerseys,
Associated Press and wishing coronavirus-
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) enforced travel restrictions By TOM WITHERS man Trophy winner and Following the game, Bur-
— Tiny Slovenia is on edge. weren't preventing them CLEVELAND (AP) — Joe top overall pick, who was row said he appreciated
Two of its own, Primoz Ro- from being in Paris for the Burrow's white uniform was impressed by what he saw the words, but would have
glic and Tadej Pogacar, finish on Sunday. streaked with grass stains. from Cincinnati's rookie. preferred a win.
go into the last two stages Roglic's hometown of Za- His right arm was intact but "The hype is real with Joe," "I mean it's nice to have
of the Tour de France 1-2 in gorje ob Savi has prepared understandably a little sore. said Mayfield, who threw those guys have my back
the general classification. billboards reading "Primoz His second NFL start was two TD passes and helped but we're 0-2," he said.
Neither has won the Tour Roglic our pride" to go up quite a workout — but not the Browns bounce back "That's all that matters."
before. If one of them does when he wins. a win. from a dreadful opener. Boyd, who led the Bengals
this weekend, they will also The mayor, Matjaz Svagan, Burrow threw three touch- "Obviously, that team loves with seven receptions for
be the first champion from says he's anxious about the down passes and Cincin- him. They follow him and 72 yards, agreed with Bur-
Slovenia. decisive time trial on Satur- nati's rookie quarterback he leads them." row. The losing is taking its
The nation of just two mil- day. showed incredible compo- Burrow's 61 attempts were toll on the Bengals, who are
lion people, known more "It's tense. When I'm asked sure and poise in keeping the second-most in history 2-16 since the start of last
for its alpine skiers, ski jump- if Primoz will win, I tell them the Bengals around until for a rookie, bettered only season.
ers and basketball players he's already our winner," the end of a 35-30 loss to by the 63 passes Carolina's "We're 0-2 right now and
than cyclists, is expected Svagan said. the Cleveland Browns on Chris Weinke threw in 2001. we're very sick of this feel-
to come to a standstill on The mayor said yellow flags Thursday night. It wasn't necessarily the ing," he said. "It's devastat-
Saturday as it watches can be seen all over the re- The No. 1 overall pick in this game plan Bengals coach ing. We hate it. But at the
the 20th and penultimate gion, and face masks with year's draft completed 37 Zac Taylor had in mind, but end of the day, ti's not an
stage that will likely decide Roglic's image are also of 61 passes for 316 yards, Burrow kept making plays easy job to do."
the Tour winner. popular. and made a few dazzling and Cincinnati rode the Burrow took a few hard hits,
After Stage 19 on Friday, But Roglic's partner, Lora plays that lit up social me- 23-year-old, who threw a including one from defen-
Roglic was still in the yellow Klinc, is feeling the stress of dia and had many of the 9-yard TD pass to Tyler Boyd sive tackle Sheldon Rich-
jersey and leading Poga- being so close to a dream 6,000 Browns fans inside with 43 seconds left to pull ardson, who dismissively
car by 57 seconds. finish. FirstEngergy Stadium feel- the Bengals within 5. threw the young QB down
The Tour has gripped Slo- "I could hardly wait for this ing nervous. "We felt like we had a lot in the first half.
venes since Roglic won last week of the Tour. And But Burrow, who led LSU to of success in the passing There was another embar-
Stage 4, then became the now we are here. We are a national championship game," Taylor said. "This is rassing moment when Bur-
first Slovene to wear the close to the end, but it's not last year after transferring the same thing that kind row had to scramble back
yellow jersey after Stage 9. finished yet," Klinc said. "It's from Ohio State, wasn't of happens to us, we get and recover a snap that
He hasn't take it off since stressful. Someone must re- interested in any outside down and we have to whizzed past him as he was
then, and is poised to win mind me to be happy. It's praise. throw the ball and we're trying to call a timeout.
a second straight Grand hard to believe what's go- "Losing isn't very fun," he having success doing it. We But even that didn't rattle
Tour after taking the Span- ing on. said. "This might be the only have a lot of faith in Joe." Burrow, who kept coming
ish Vuelta last year. But "If I knew who will win, I time I've lost two games in As Burrow was making back.
Pogacar has been on his would be the calmest per- a row. It doesn't feel very plays, NBA superstar and "Joe Burrow is really a
countryman's rear wheel son in the world. One mil- good. ... Losing is unac- fellow Ohioan LeBron good football player," said
for a week, and is a serious lion factors can influence ceptable to me." James praised the QB on Browns coach Kevin Ste-
threat. the race. Burrow went toe to toe with Twitter by saying, " "Burrow fanski, who got his first NFL
Their race within the race But it's natural, I expect Pri- Browns quarterback Baker is SPECIAL! He has the "IT" win but will face Burrow in
has thousands of Slovenes moz to win."q Mayfield, a fellow Heis- for sure." the years ahead. q