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Diaranson 21 october 2020

Mickelson, Barkley to face Manning, Curry in golf match

ry and Peyton Manning in — which will be a modified
an exhibition golf match alternate-shot match-play
next month highlighting format — with Bleacher
diversity, equality and in- Report providing additional
clusion. coverage. Stone Canyon Golf
Club is owned by Mickelson
“The Match: Champions for Golf Properties.
Change” will take place Nov.
27 at Stone Canyon Golf “I’m excited to return for the
Club in Oro Valley, Arizona. third edition of Capital One’s
The event announced Mon- The Match and get out on the
day will benefit historically course with these three leg-
Black colleges and universi- endary athletes,” Mickelson
ties, with additional initia- said in a statement. “While
tives spotlighting diversity. we may need a handicap for
This is the third event as part Chuck, I’m looking forward
of The Match franchise but to playing with Peyton and
the first not featuring Ti- Stephen and to help raise
ger Woods. Mickelson beat money for another important
Woods in a playoff in the first cause.
event in 2018 in Las Vegas
while the team of Manning It’s also going to give fans
and Woods defeated Mick- and viewers an up-close look
elson and Tom Brady earlier at Stone Canyon Golf Club,
this year in South Florida. a place that I’m extremely
proud of and excited to show
(AP)- Phil Mickelson will team up with Charles Bar- kley to face Stephen Cur- TNT will televise the event how special it is.”

Morris uses communication skills to spark Falcons to victory

(AP) — Heading into his Morris gathered his defen- the second level. kings on four consecutive
first game as interim head sive leaders together: Deion What’s working plays.
coach, Raheem Morris Jones, Keanu Neal, Grady Julio Jones got healthy at just Stock up
sought to make the under- Jarrett and Ricardo Allen — the right time. Dealing with Ryan had gone more than 30 Injured
achieving Atlanta Falcons to tell them the unit had to a hamstring injury that side- consecutive series without No significant injuries were
uncomfortable last week. start running to the ball more lined him for all but one half throwing a touchdown pass, reported during the game.
actively and hitting with of the previous three games, but he snapped that streak Defensive end Takk McKin-
The ploy, seeking to convince more authority. Jones showed no ill effects on Atlanta’s first possession ley was sidelined for the third
players that nobody’s job is while catching eight passes when he and Jones connect- time in four games and played
safe, had its intended effect. “That’s major,” Deion Jones for 137 yards and two TDs. ed on a 20-yard score. Ryan just five snaps last week. De-
The Falcons won 40-23 at said. “We’ve been there be- Younghoe Koo hit field goals also found Calvin Ridley for fensive tackle Marlon David-
Minnesota as the team ex- fore and to finally capitalize from 50, 21, 47 and 43 yards. an 8-yard TD and hooked son and defensive end John
celled in all three phases. on it is awesome. It goes to The defense held Minnesota up with Jones on a 40-yard Cominsky are on the reserve/
“It helped me to realize that show how tough we are that to 3 of 10 on third down. The catch-and-run score that COVID-19 list.
now they know what being we were able to do it.” return units accounted for 83 converted a fourth down and
uncomfortable is like,” Mor- yards. put the game out of reach. Key number
ris said. “It’s time to be com- Morris told Ryan, Julio Jones He finished with a season- 40:07 — the Falcons’ time of
fortable being uncomfort- and the leaders on offense What needs help best 136.6 passer rating, 371 possession, which allowed
able. It’s time to turn it up that they must keep each oth- The running game still gets yards and a fourth TD pass to the defense to stay fresh.
every single week.” er in check. stuffed on too many plays. At- tight end Hayden Hurst.
“I think he challenged us to lanta accounted for 99 yards Next steps
Deion Jones intercepted hold everyone accountable as rushing, but averaged just 2.7 Stock down Keep up the momentum
Kirk Cousins’ pass over the best we can and then made yards per carry. The offensive Hill’s poor ball security with another strong week of
middle on the first play from it real clear for us what our line couldn’t consistently caused a fumble that spurred practice in preparation for
scrimmage. It was the first of responsibility as an offense penetrate the Vikings’ front Minnesota to drive 74 yards Sunday’s home game against
three picks in the first half, is was to go score and get it seven to free Todd Gurley, down to the 2, whereupon Detroit.
and the offense seized the in the end zone,” Ryan said. Hill and Ito Smith to get to the defense stuffed the Vi-
momentum on Matt Ryan’s “We were better with that to-
20-yard touchdown pass to day. We need to be better with
Julio Jones. that as we move forward.”

The Falcons turned the take- One week into Morris’ ten-
aways into 17 points, and the ure and the Falcons are 1-0.
defense chipped in a goal- It wasn’t easy after the team
line stand that followed the facility was shut down last
team’s only big mistake, a Thursday because of the
fumble that Brian Hill lost coronavirus. The Falcons re-
near the end of the first quar- turned to work the next day,
ter. and Ryan said it was the best
Friday practice they’d had this
Atlanta (1-5) got off to a good season. “It’s awesome when
start in Morris’ debut be- we asked those guys to stand
cause it played complemen- up and they did it,” Morris
tary football but also because said. “Today I gave those guys
Morris used his communi- the keys, they took it and ran
cation skills to press home with it. We were able to get a
some urgency last week. good win.”