Burrow out for rest of season with torn ligament in throwing wrist
>> Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will be out the rest of the season due to a torn ligament in his right wrist, the team announced Friday.
Burrow and coach Zac Taylor said the injury would likely require surgery. Burrow left the game during the second quarter of a 3420 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night after he threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Joe Mixon that gave the Bengals a short-lived 10-7 lead. Burrow doubled over in pain and held his wrist after the pass.
He said Friday the injury likely happened on the play before, when he landed on his wrist on a hit by Jadeveon Clowney after throwing a 9-yard pass to Mixon. Burrow added he didn't know he landed on his wrist until he saw a video of the play.
“I felt a pop in the middle of the throw. I tried to give it a go but couldn't get it done and got the news today. I had a feeling before we got the official news (what the result would be),” said Burrow, who was 11 of 17 for 101 yards and a touchdown when he left the game.
Burrow's insistence that his injury happened on that hit came after the NFL said it would investigate why he was left off the team's pregame injury report, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the review was not being publicly discussed.
College football
MOORE STILL IN CHARGE AT MICHIGAN >> Sherrone Moore's tears streamed down his cheeks and expletives left his lips, passionately supporting suspended coach Jim Harbaugh, in an on-field postgame interview after No. 2 Michigan won its latest game to stay unbeaten.
That was the first time many people probably set eyes on Moore, or perhaps even heard of him as they tuned in to see college football's soap opera unfold.
Moore is expected to stay in the spotlight.
Harbaugh's three-game suspension, which he and the school have accepted after putting up a fight for nearly a week, puts Moore in charge the next two times the Wolverines play
amid a sign-stealing scandal that has captivated attention for a month.
Golf
MCILROY STALLS >> Jon Rahm, Viktor Hovland and Tommy Fleetwood were in a group of marquee players moving into contention at the season-ending World Tour Championship.
Rory McIlroy wasn't among them.
While the No. 2-ranked McIlroy was, in his words, “stuck in neutral” on his way to shooting an evenpar 72 in the second round, Rahm, Hovland and Fleetwood all had 66s on the Earth Course to be in a good position heading into the weekend.
Nicolai Hojgaard, a 22-year-old Dane boosted by his recent Ryder Cup experience, had a back nine of 30 containing four birdies and an eagle to shoot 66 and lead on 11-under par, two shots clear of a fiveman group including Hovland and Fleetwood.
ABERG POWERS TO 64 >> Ludvig Aberg had a pair of twoputt birdies, one of them on a par 4, and kept bogeys off his card for the second straight day for a 6-under 64 to take a one-shot lead into the weekend at the RSM Classic.
In the final tournament of the longest PGA Tour season, Aberg will try to end his short year with victories on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. He already won the European Masters in Switzerland, a performance that secured his spot on Europe's winning Ryder Cup team.
Not bad for a 24-year-old Swede who only turned pro in June. Not surprising, either.
LEE SHARES LEAD >> Alison Lee birdied four of her last five holes to extend a hot streak that stretches from Saudi Arabia to South Korea to Florida. Her 8-under 64 gave her a share of the lead with Nasa Hataoka in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship.
Hataoka atoned for missing a short par putt by closing with a pair of birdies, finishing with a 25-footer on the last hole for a 67 in a wide-open chase for the $2 million prize.
Lee had five birdies in seven holes at the start, and then had a strong finishing kick that included a wedge to a foot on the 15th and a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th.