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Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel gets 5-year contract extensionLAS VEGAS (AP) — The Broncos are 0-4 in Las Vegas, but in a matchup of teams heading in opposite directions, Denver has more at stake than trying to end a series skid. A victory over the Raiders puts the Broncos that much closer to an unexpected playoff berth, playing with a rookie quarterback and just a year after they went 8-9. The Broncos are 6-5 and coming off a 38-6 victory over the Atlanta Falcons , and would be in the playoff field if the season ended entering Week 12. Not bad for a team given a win total of 5 1/2 games at BetMGM Sportsbook. “Everyone understands the significance of where we are at this point in the season,” Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton said. The situation is quite different for the Raiders. They are 2-8, on a six-game losing streak and decimated by injuries. Las Vegas could enter this game without its top two running backs and a reshuffled line on offense, and defensively, the Raiders could have two linemen, three cornerbacks and a safety out of action. “Just been having some bad breaks, but nobody feels sorry for us,” Raiders coach Antonio Pierce said. "Nobody feels sorry for me. You’ve got to roll out there with 11 players, and that’s what we’re going to do come Sunday.” The Raiders are badly in a need of a franchise quarterback and are in a logjam for the top pick in next year's NFL draft. Denver showed with this year's draft how valuable landing such a QB can be to an organization. Bo Nix was selected 12th — one spot ahead of the Raiders — and he is pushing for AP Offensive Rookie of the Year. He was this week's top AFC player and rookie after completing 28 of 33 passes for 307 yards and four touchdowns in the rout of the Falcons. “I think as we’ve gone on, Coach (Sean Payton) and I have found a good rhythm of what we both like, what we can kind of put out there on the field and what we can execute," Nix said. "Then the guys have kind of adapted to it, found our roles within the offense and executed at a high level. It’s just all about slowing the game down and processing things in a manner that you can handle.” Raiders tight end Brock Bowers also could have a say in who wins the season's top offensive rookie award. He is second in the NFL with 70 catches and his 706 yards receiving is 10th among all receivers. His numbers from a historical perspective are even more impressive. Bowers, the 13th pick in this year's draft , is fourth all time among all tight ends in catches through the first 11 weeks and he and Jeremy Shockey in 2002 are the only rookies at that position to have more than one game with at least 10 receptions. “This week's a brand new week,” Bowers said. “I've always got something to prove.” Payton still isn't entirely comfortable splitting carries between running backs Javonte Williams, Jaleel McLaughlin and rookie Audric Estime. Asked how he determines the right balance in his rotation, Payton said, “That's the $6 million question. It’s difficult. We know kind of what we have with those three players. I think it’s always hard to feed three. "I'm used to — and it’s easy — to feed two. So we kind of do that a little bit. I thought Javonte had some really good runs (last week). Certainly the game ends and we’re like, ‘Gosh, we have to get Jaleel more touches.’ So it’s a tough, but a good problem to have.” With injuries to running backs Alexander Mattison (ankle) and Zamir White (quadriceps), 10-year veteran Ameer Abdullah could get the start for the Raiders this weekend. He has just 17 carries for 82 yards and a touchdown this season and started just one game his previous six seasons. “I see myself as a starter,” Abdullah said. “I think every guy in the room does. I consider myself the best back on this team just like every back does. This is my opportunity to go out there and put my best foot forward.” Patrick Surtain II had a pair of interceptions, including one he returned for 100 yards and a touchdown, in the team's first meeting this season and that fueled the Broncos' 34-18 win in Denver . Both of the passes were intended for Bowers, who caught a 57-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter. Surtain isn't expecting the Raiders to avoid him Sunday, however. “You don't want to go into a game thinking they're not gonna throw it your way,” Surtain said, “because it's the pros at the end of the day, everybody's ready, everybody's capable.” AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton in Englewood, Colorado, contributed to this report. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

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Prime Minister Michel Barnier faces the risk of being deposed by a hostile parliament as his government presents a social security financing plan Monday that has the opposition up in arms. Lacking a majority, Barnier used executive powers to force through the legislation without a vote. The move exposes him to a no-confidence vote, likely on Wednesday, with the left wing and the far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen saying they will back a motion bringing down the government. Le Pen "has the power to destroy Barnier and his mission to get France on a sustainable fiscal track," said Kathleen Brooks, research director at traders XTB. The yield on French government debt rose in another sign of investor concern. France must now pay as much to borrow for 10 years as Greece. Paris stocks, which wobbled in afternoon trading, ended the day flat. 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IN a glitzy new-look tournament, a grimy old-school game. This was ramshackle football in tumbledown surroundings, 90 minutes as ugly as the damp-streaked concrete of the Maksimir’s unloved stands. 3 Celtic picked up another point in the Champions League Credit: Kenny Ramsay 3 Bill Leckie reckons Celtic fans should be proud of their players Credit: John Kirkby - The Sun Glasgow But if beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, then none of this will matter to Celtic . Because in the context of their season, this result might turn out like finding a diamond in a dungheap. This was a priceless Champions League point, plotted with patience and managed manfully, the kind of performance that playing away in Europe always used to be about. That it was their second away 0-0 on the bounce speaks volumes for how much they are — finally, finally — maturing at this elite level. read more football stories FINAL FEARS Johnston gives injury update after he emerges as doubt for Rangers cup final MEGA OFFER Get £50 in free bets to spend on football when you stake £10 with Betfred That it takes their unbeaten run in the competition to four, their longest since 1986, is huge credit to manager Brendan Rodgers and his players. The fact that there were plenty who moaned at full-time that they should have been winning? Well, they should take that as a compliment, not a criticism. Remember, they’d lost on all three previous visits here. Remember, they’re haunted by a catalogue of fives and sixes and sevens shipped in Paris and Madrid and Barcelona and back again. Most read in Football 'S****' My dad is Scotland’s greatest ever player but he rinsed my career at my OWN wedding FINAL FEARS Johnston gives injury update after he emerges as doubt for Rangers cup final WORRYING SCENES FA Trophy clash ABANDONED after player rushed away in ambulance MAN BYS Celtic player ratings vs Dinamo Zagreb: How Rodgers' Hoops ranked in Euro stalemate So put this result, off the back of the one against Europa League champs Atalanta in Italy last month, in that perspective and it surely can only be seen as a positive one. Since a battling 1-1 at home to Club Brugge a fortnight ago, they’ve won three league games on the spin to extend their lead at the top of the Premiership to nine points, haven’t lost a goal along the way, and are in good shape for Sunday’s Premier Sports Cup final against Rangers . Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers turns on Lennoxtown Xmas lights As for the biggest trophy of all? Beat the whipping boys of Bern in front of a baying Parkhead on January 22 and they’d surely be into the play-offs with a shot at earning a glamour-dripping, money-spinning last-16 tie. That’s a successful first half of the season in anyone’s language , even if this game in itself was a four-letter-ing bore. Three shots on target all night, one from Celtic , was the lowest tally in any Champions League group stage game this season. Long before the end, you got the feeling Callum McGregor was marshalling a unit quite happy for it all to drift away into nothing-nothingness. Yet maybe even that tedium is a clear sign of their growing maturity at this level. After that 7-1 hammering in Dortmund on matchday two, they were faced with a clear choice — either to put their fingers in their ears and keep on leaving themselves wide open, or sacrifice their natural instincts and get a little bit meaner. Atalanta and now Zzzzzzzz-agreb tell the world for sure which they plumped for. They didn’t try to force the game here, didn’t go out of their way to make things happen. HOW THEY RATED By DEREK MCGREGOR KASPER SCHMEICHEL: Off his line to gather at the feet of Sandro Kulenovic as Dinamo tried to break the deadlock. Tipped over a header from Marko Pjaca late in the game 6 ALISTAIR JOHNSTON: Caught late by Marko Rog in front of the dugouts as the Dinamo star landed a booking. Canada star never fully recovered and was replaced at break 5 CAMERON CARTER-VICKERS: Looked uneasy after his Club Brugge own goal and had problems keeping his footing in first half. Close-range shot deflected well over 6 AUSTON TRUSTY: Good header out of the six-yard box early on then repeated the feat from Dinamo inswinging free-kick. Great block from Pjaca’s shot 6 GREG TAYLOR: Early yellow card for a late challenge in the Dinamo box. Heaved a huge sigh of relief when his miscue on the edge of his own box wasn’t punished 5 CALLUM McGREGOR: Captain’s 100th Euro game for the Hoops. Had the ball pinched off his toe by Lukas Kacavenda as the game started to become stretched after the hour 5 PAULO BERNARDO: In ahead of Arne Engels and flashed early free-kick just off target. Near-post corner also caused chaos. Couldn’t tame ball into box from Daizen Maeda 6 REO HATATE: Great ball from own half freed Kuhn down right. Lost footing as he tried to drill in a shot — which was his final act as Brendan Rodgers shuffled midfield 5 NICOLAS KUHN: Hit the byeline on the halfway mark but delivery was slapped away for a corner. Cut in on to his left foot after break but shot was deflected over top 6 DAIZEN MAEDA: Was booked for late challenge on Maxime Bernauer as tensions began to rise late in first half. Showed trademark energy going both ways but couldn’t find spark 5 KYOGO FURUHASHI: Great energy as he constantly pressed goalkeeper Daniel Zagorac. Didn’t get a real glimpse of goal and rested late on ahead of Sunday’s cup final 5 Anthony Ralston (4) half-time sub for injured Johnston, booked. Luke McCowan (4) tested keeper. Arne Engels (4) got last half-hour. James Forrest (3) lashed shot off target. Adam Idah (3) on as Celts chased late winner. They didn’t try to force the game here, didn’t go out of their way to make things happen. They just played steadily, stayed organised, probed when they went forward and got into shape when Dinamo forced them back the way. On the one occasion when he was properly called into action, Kasper Schmeichel once again proved himself calm in a crisis, flying high and stretching elastically to tip Marko Pjaca’s back-post header over from right under his crossbar. Off the back of the half-a-dozen big stops that had spared his mates from serious complications at home to Hibs on Saturday, the great Dane had set up his fourth clean sheet in ten days. And, as it went, he very nearly inspired them to snatch all three points at the death , too, when three of the subs Rodgers had promised came so close to combining for a brilliant winner. James Forrest picked out a brilliant reverse ball down the left to Arne Engels , who flashed a fabulous ball across the front post , where Adam Idah was only denied by a magnificent sliding challenge from Kevin Theophile-Catherine. Now that would’ve been the perfect climax to a hugely imperfect night. Instead, German ref Felix Zwayer brought it to end soon after, and Rodgers marched on to the turf to congratulate a bunch who seem to have bought 100 per cent into his thinking, both tactical and mental. After that win over Hibs , the performance as shambolic and shoddy as the scoreline was eventually convincing, he spoke about how the ability to “win and win and win” was as much in the mind as it was in the boots . 3 Here, amid the unspeakable pile that is Croatia’s national stadium, that same mindset came into play once again. Once again, Celtic were far short of their fast, flowing, imposing and imperious best. But unlike on so many European away nights of the past, they used their brains to pick their way through a tricky test and come out the other end unscathed. The Maksimir really is unspeakable, too. One whole side lying disused ever since an earthquake hit the city in 2020, fans behind each goal hover a good 30 feet above the action because of massive boundary walls, the main stand a mess of rickety press facilities, a perilous-looking TV gantry and an impossibly-steep batch of seats open to the elements. I’ve never met anyone who likes playing there. Not Dinamo, not the Croatia national team — and certainly not any visitors. Read more on the Scottish Sun SCOT MY FIRST RODEO! Popular music festival coming to three Scots cities for first time CHILL OUT Scots to be gripped by grim -10C freeze as weather map reveals temperature plunge To be honest, it’s not fit to stage football at this level. No, not even football this dull . . . Keep up to date with ALL t h e latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football pageKnights face tall road task vs. Sam Montembeault, CanadiensPutin says Russia attacked Ukraine with a new missile that he claims the West can't stop (World)Three-time All-Star Khris Middleton is expected to make his first appearance of the season for the Milwaukee Bucks when they visit the Boston Celtics on Friday night. Middleton, 33, had surgery on both ankles in the offseason. He practiced Wednesday before a 119-104 loss to Atlanta ended Milwaukee's seven-game winning streak. Milwaukee coach Doc Rivers said the veteran forward is frustrated by missing the season's first 21 games. "Anybody who wants to play, and Khris is one of those (guys), they're frustrated," Rivers said. "That's mentally challenging. You see your team playing, and although we're playing well right now, I imagine when we were really struggling and he wasn't playing, that had to be really hard for him. You want to help your team, and he knows he can." Middleton averaged 15.1 points per game in 55 games last season. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 31 points and 11 rebounds in Wednesday's loss to Atlanta. Damian Lillard added 25 points. "We don't like the feeling of losing," Antetokounmpo said. "We had won seven in a row, so when we came in here the locker room was quiet and that's the feeling that you want to have as a team, that yeah, we gave one away. But now we just gotta go back, watch the film, do our adjustments. We have one of the best teams in the East (the Celtics). We have a big one in two days. Get ready to compete there and hopefully we can win that one." Despite missing two starters, Boston stretched its home winning streak to six by beating Detroit 130-120 on Wednesday. The Celtics played without Jayson Tatum (right knee) and Jrue Holiday (left knee). Before Wednesday's game, Boston coach Joe Mazzulla said that Tatum -- who is listed as questionable for Friday -- would likely miss only one game. Holiday has missed the last two games but is not listed on the injury report for Friday's game. Detroit made a season-high 20 3-pointers on 39 attempts, including four in a row in the fourth quarter to cut a 20-point deficit to eight. "We just have to be better guarding the 3-point line," center Luke Kornet said. "The 3-point line -- that's what allowed them to get back into the game. The last few minutes we did a better job of that. That's what allowed us to get the win." Jaylen Brown had 28 points, six rebounds and nine assists for the reigning NBA champions. "I think he does a good job of trying to read the team ... who needs to get a touch, who we need to get going," said Kristaps Porzingis, who scored a season-high 26 points. "He's good at that. If he needs to take more responsibility and attack more and create more, he does that for us. "We already know what he gives us defensively, his physicality. When he's engaged like this, he's one of the best players in the league in my opinion. What we love about him is that he's going to make the right play and he's going to give the team what the team needs in that moment." Friday's game will be the teams' third meeting this season. The Celtics won 119-108 at home on Oct. 28 and prevailed 113-107 at Milwaukee on Nov. 10. --Field Level Media