Peyton Manning threw for 206 yards and two touchdowns over the first 2 1/2 quarters Saturday, but it wasn't enough to prevent a 37-24 preseason loss to Denver.
Mike Anderson scored a 93-yard touchdown as part of his 159-yard, two-score night for Denver, one year to the day since he was lost for the 2004 season with a groin injury suffered in a preseason game against Houston.
Plummer went 10-for-16 for 150 yards and one score in his two-plus quarters, his second straight solid preseason performance.
The Colts' starting offense, on the other hand, had been anemic through three preseason losses, but against the Broncos, Manning and company appeared in postseason form.
Cowboys 21, Texans 9
At Irving, Texas, Roy Williams unloaded several crushing blows and Terence Newman provided an interception in the end zone and plenty of tight coverage, helping the Cowboys in the annual preseason game between the Lone Star State squads.
Dallas used quarterback Drew Bledsoe and most of the first-team offense until midway through the third quarter, while Houston (1-2) pulled quarterback David Carr and his unit after halftime.
Seahawks 23, Chiefs 17
At Kansas City, Missouri, Darrell Jackson needed only one game to remind everyone who set the Seattle record with 87 receptions last year. Getting his first extended time of the preseason, Jackson caught seven passes for 99 yards and one touchdown.
Dolphins 17, Bucs 14
At Miami, Ricky Williams rushed for 59 yards, all in the opening half, and scored the first touchdown of the exhibition season for Miami's first-team offense.
Cadillac Williams and Ronnie Brown, first-round picks who shared time in the backfield last season for unbeaten Auburn, each found room to run in limited duty. Williams gained 28 yards in five carries for Tampa Bay, while Brown rushed for 20 yards in six attempts, but lost a fumble in his first preseason game with Miami.
The Dolphins (1-3) won for the first time under new coach Nick Saban.
Ricky Williams was greeted with a mix of cheers and boos following his abrupt retirement a year ago started the franchise toward its worst season since the 1960s.
But it was all applause from the small crowd when he scored on a 4-yard run to cap the opening series, an eight-play, 77-yard drive. Although the game was a sellout, the stands were less than half full two nights after Hurricane Katrina hit South Florida.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen go into today’s match at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim stung from their first league defeat in 16 months. Leverkusen were beaten 3-2 at home by RB Leipzig before the international break, the first loss since May last year for the reigning league and cup champions. While any defeat, particularly against a likely title rival, would have disappointed coach Xabi Alonso, the way in which it happened would be most concerning. Just as they did in the Supercup against VfB Stuttgart and in the league opener to Borussia Moenchengladbach, Leverkusen scored first, but were pegged back. However, while Leverkusen rallied late to
If all goes well when the biggest marathon field ever gathered in Australia races 42km through the streets of Sydney on Sunday, World Marathon Majors (WMM) will soon add a seventh race to the elite series. The Sydney Marathon is to become the first race since Tokyo in 2013 to join long-established majors in New York, London, Boston, Berlin and Chicago if it passes the WMM assessment criteria for the second straight year. “We’re really excited for Sunday to arrive,” race director Wayne Larden told a news conference in Sydney yesterday. “We’re prepared, we’re ready. All of our plans look good on
The lights dimmed and the crowd hushed as Karoline Kristensen entered for her performance. However, this was no ordinary Dutch theater: The temperature was 80°C and the audience naked apart from a towel. Dressed in a swimsuit and to the tune of emotional music, the 21-year-old Kristensen started her routine, performed inside a large sauna, with a bed of hot rocks in the middle. For a week this month, a group of wellness practitioners, called “sauna masters,” are gathering at a picturesque health resort in the Netherlands to compete in this year’s Aufguss world sauna championships. The practice takes its name from a
When details from a scientific experiment that could have helped clear Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva landed at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the leader of the organization’s reaction was unequivocal: “We have to stop that urgently,” he wrote. No mention of the test ever became public and Valieva’s defense at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) went on without it. What effect the information could have had on Valieva’s case is unclear, but without it, the skater, then 15 years old, was eventually disqualified from the 2022 Winter Olympics after testing positive for a banned heart medication that would later