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sports Monday 16 noveMber 2020
Giants beat Eagles 27-17, tighten NFC East race

By ROB MAADDI ent took it in from there for
AP Pro Football Writer his first TD since Oct. 11,
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) 2018. Eagles coach Doug
— Joe Judge isn't looking Pederson chose to go for 2
at the standings yet even and Wentz was sacked.
though his New York Giants After Jones had a 14-yard
are inching closer to the TD run negated by Andrew
top. Thomas' holding penalty,
Daniel Jones threw for 244 Graham Gano kicked a 35-
yards and ran for a touch- yard field goal to extend
down, Wayne Gallman Jr. the lead to 24-17. Gano's
had two TD runs and the Gi- 44-yarder made it 27-17.
ants beat the Philadelphia Jones had lost 16 straight
Eagles 27-17 on Sunday, starts to teams other than
making their case to win Washington.
the dreadful NFC East. "I think people are just sick
The Giants improved to of losing any game," Judge
3-7 under first-year coach said. "Whoever we play on
Judge with their second a given Sunday, we want
straight win, snapping an to win that game. They all
eight-game losing streak hurt the same if you don't
against Philly. come out with the result
The Eagles (3-5-1) still lead New York Giants' Sterling Shepard (87) catches a pass in front of Philadelphia Eagles' Avonte Mad- you want. It's a division
the NFL's worst division. Dal- dox (29) during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, in East Rutherford, game so obviously it's im-
las and Washington are N.J. portant to go out there and
each 2-7. Associated Press win for a lot of reasons. We
"I'll tell everyone right now, of Philadelphia's offense tire game. It was similar to toed down the left sideline. wanted to make sure that
it's irrelevant," Judge said were out of sync following Jones' 80-yard run against Miles Sanders ran in for the we couldn't come out to-
about the standings. "The a bye. They were 0 for 9 on Philadelphia in a 22-21 loss 2-point conversion to cut day and leave any meat
only thing that matters is third downs. Boston Scott on Oct. 22 except he didn't the deficit to 14-11. on the bone. We had to
if we keep improving as had a 56-yard TD run early stumble at the 8 this time. But the Giants quickly an- make sure we finished as a
a team and go 1-0 every in the third quarter but the Jones finished with 64 yards swered with Gallman's team to get the results we
week. The overall stand- Eagles couldn't get closer. rushing and the Giants had 1-yard TD run. Jones hit con- wanted."
ings, we're not going to "We made it tougher on 151 on the ground. secutive passes of 27 yards When Gallman leaped in
look at those, we're not go- ourselves, left some plays "We were confident in what to Sterling Shepard and 38 from the 2 on fourth-and-1,
ing to focus on those. We're out there, didn't execute, 0 we were doing all day," yards to Golden Tate to set the Eagles were down 14-3
going to have an emphasis for 9 on third downs is frus- Jones said. "Offensively, we up the score. just seconds into the sec-
on organization. We have trating," Wentz said. felt like we were executing Philadelphia came right ond quarter.
to keep improving as a Jones ran untouched 34 and it was up to us to keep back. Wentz completed "We gave them 14 early
team to give ourselves a yards for a score to cap drives going." a pair of 16-yard passes to and we can't do that,"
chance to be the program a well-executed 85-yard The Eagles were down 14-3 Jalen Reagor and Greg Eagles defensive end Bran-
we want to be." drive to start the game at halftime before Scott Ward. Sanders ran 14 yards don Graham said. "We
Carson Wentz and the rest and the Giants led the en- broke a long run and tip- to the 5 and Corey Clem- have to strike first."q

Thiem beats Tsitsipas in 3 sets in ATP Finals opener

LONDON (AP) — Dominic for the world's top eight ty tight I must say in that
Thiem made sure this year's players. But he let the first- game," Thiem said about
ATP Finals didn't begin the set tiebreaker slip away this his hold for 4-1. "I think that
same way last year's end- time, after leading 4-1 and was the last key moment
ed. 5-3. Facing set point, the where the match went fi-
Thiem outlasted Stefanos Greek failed to put away nally in my direction."
Tsitsipas in a rematch of a fairly simple overhead at This is the 12th and last
the 2019 final, beating the the net before sending a year that the ATP Finals is
defending champion 7-6 lob long to hand Thiem the played at the 02 Arena
(5), 4-6, 6-3 Sunday in the lead. before moving to Turin, It-
opening singles match of Tsitsipas broke for a 2-1 aly, next year. Because of
the tournament inside a lead in the second set with the coronavirus pandemic
largely empty O2 Arena. a forehand passing shot there are no fans inside the
The U.S. Open champion before leveling the match. 20,000-capacity venue this
broke Tsitsipas for a 2-0 lead He had a chance to break time — meaning the nor-
in the third set with a drop back at 3-1 in the third but mally raucous atmosphere
shot at the net and con- netted a backhand, let- has been replaced by an Austria's Dominic Thiem returns a shot to Greece's Stefanos Tsit-
sipas, during their London 2020 group singles match on day one
verted his second match ting out a scream of frus- eerie silence interrupted of the ATP Finals tennis championship at the O2 Arena, London,
point when Tsitsipas sent a tration after the miss. Thiem only by muted applause Sunday Nov. 15, 2020.
forehand wide. eventually held serve after from the players' boxes be- Associated Press
Tsitsipas beat Thiem in a a game that went to six tween points.
third-set tiebreaker in last deuces, and was never There are also no line judg- means players can no lon- cally. However, they can
year's final to clinch the troubled the rest of the es, as the tournament is us- ger challenge whether a request a video review for
biggest title of his career at way. ing electronic line calling ball was in or out as those other disputed situations,
the season-ending event "That was crazy, I was pret- for the first time. The system calls get made automati- such as double bounces. q