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ATLANTA -- Matt Ryan threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Mohamed Sanu with 31 seconds remaining, rallying the Atlanta Falcons to a 33-32 victory over Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.The Falcons (5-3) snapped a two-game losing streak, driving 75 yards for the winning score after Rodgers put the Packers (4-3) ahead with his fourth TD pass of the game.With Julio Jones shut down in the second half, Ryan turned to Sanu to bail out Atlanta. He caught five passes for 50 yards on the final possession, the last of them a touchdown pass in the back of the end zone after he got matched against linebacker Jake Ryan.The Green Bay player didnt have a chance. Sanu raced past him and hauled in the pass right in front of the goalposts, the ball easily clearing Ryans outstretched hands.It was just finishing, Sanu said. We didnt finish the last two weeks.Sanu had nine catches for 84 yards, both season highs in his first year with the Falcons. Atlanta needed every one of them, since Jones was held to three catches for 29 yards and targeted only once in the second half -- a dropped pass on the final possession.But Jones helped Sanu get open on the winning play, drawing two defenders when they lined up on the same side of the field.Ryan was 28 of 35 for 288 yards and three touchdowns.Rodgers threw for 246 yards, teaming up with a bunch of unknown receivers as the banged-up Packers played without six starters. Linebacker Clay Matthews and receiver Randall Cobb were among those who couldnt go because of hamstring injuries.Three Green Bay receivers -- Geronimo Allison, Trevor Davis and Jeff Janis -- hauled in their first career touchdowns. Allison, in fact, had just been promoted from the practice squad and never caught a pass in an NFL game. Ditto for Davis, a rookie who had mainly been used as a returner.The Packers took a 32-26 lead after the Falcons were caught with too many men on the field, giving Green Bay a first down rather than having to go for a fourth-and-1. Rodgers went to Janis for a 7-yard touchdown with 3:58 remaining, followed by a 2-point conversion.It wasnt enough. Sanus touchdown tied the game, and Matt Bryant booted through the winning extra point. Bryant had already become the Falcons career leading scorer, passing Morten Andersen, with a PAT after Atlantas first TD.RODGERS RUNSRodgers was also Green Bays leading rusher with a career-high 60 yards on six carries. He broke his previous best of 57 yards in 2012, and posted the highest rushing total by a Packers quarterback since Don Majkowskis 88-yard effort in 1990.INJURY REPORTThe Falcons lost tight end Jacob Tamme to a right shoulder injury on the opening possession.Tamme took a hit at the end of a 13-yard reception, knocking the ball loose though the officials ruled his knee was already down. He went off the field holding his right arm and never returned.UP NEXTPackers: Return home next Sunday to face the Indianapolis Colts (3-5), in what will be the only game played in Green Bay during the month of November. They will play their next three games on the road.Falcons: Have only three days to prepare for a Thursday night game at Tampa Bay (3-4), which is coming off a 30-24 overtime loss to Oakland. This will be the second meeting between the NFC South rivals; the Buccaneers opened the season with a 31-24 victory in Atlanta.---Follow Paul Newberry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . 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With the short-handed Warriors needing help from someone -- anyone -- to stop a three-game skid, ONeal returned from right knee and groin injuries that had sidelined him for four games and put up season highs with 18 points and eight rebounds. It was just enough to help lift Golden State to a 102-101 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. Mark Andrews Youth Jersey . In taking its goal tally to 99 in all competitions already this season, City delivered another demonstration of its lethal firepower at Etihad Stadium to set up a fourth-round match at home to another second-tier team -- Watford. Mark Andrews Ravens Jersey . -- Playing time has been limited for Maxim Tissot this season, so the Montreal Impact defender made the most of his first scoring opportunity on Saturday.EUGENE, Ore. -- The headlines say youth is being served on the U.S. Olympic track and field team.The numbers say thats nothing new.With the second half of Olympic track trials set to start Thursday, 35 of the 50 athletes (75 percent) who have already guaranteed themselves trips to Rio de Janeiro will be going to their first Olympics. That sort of turnover is pretty much the norm. Data supplied by USA Track and Field shows an average of 53 percent turnover from year to year on the most recent world championship and Olympic teams, which essentially award the same number of spots through the same qualifying process. When the gap is two years, the turnover rate is 60 percent.This years group of newcomers includes 18-year-old high jumper Vashti Cunningham, the world indoor champion, who will be the youngest U.S. track and field athlete to qualify for the Olympics since Carol Lewis in 1980. The team also includes high jumper Chaunte Lowe and sprinter Allyson Felix, both of whom are in their 30s and going for the fourth time.You look at the system we have and the depth of talent we have, and one thing thats fairly consistent is that well have an amazing team and amazing athletes, USATF CEO Max Siegel said. Its just a matter of who the stars are going to be. Its also the challenge of how we select them.The U.S. won 29 medals at the London Olympics four years ago. That number dwindled to 18 at last years world championships, raising alarm among some in track circles.Over the years, the USATF has settled on a system in which the top three finishers in each event make it, assuming they have met an Olympic qualifying standard. There are no exceptions for injuries or past performances the way there are in many countries, including Jamaica, where Usain Bolt will almost certainly be on the team despite pulling out of Jamaicas qualifier with a hamstring injury.It may be the fairest system, but, as decathlete Ashton Eaton said, if the goal is to send the best team, Im not sure the trials method is the best method.For instance, a tangle of feet in the stretch of the womens 800-meter final knocked out Brenda Martinez and Alysia Montano, either of whom wouldve contended for medals. Making it instead were three first-timers: Kate Grace, Ajee Wilson and Chrishuna Williams.Surreal, said Grace, who was ranked seventh nationally ccoming into trials but had a gold medal around her neck Monday night.dddddddddddd. Ive never podiumed at a national event, and now Im going to the Olympics. I knew I could run at this level even though Id never done it before.A few strange twists aside, most of these newcomers have been setting themselves up for success for years leading up to the Olympics. A look at some U.S. first-timers with the best chances of bringing home hardware from Rio:SAM KENDRICKS: The 23-year-old pole vaulter actually flew to Eugene in 2012, expecting to compete at the Olympic trials then. By the time he landed, he learned that hed been scratched from the field by a few late entrants who ranked higher than he did. He watched from the stands, and said that was the prime motivator to reach this point: Hes currently ranked second in the world.TORI BOWIE: The 25-year-old said her grandmother essentially rescued her as an infant by taking her in from a foster home. Bowies favorite sport was basketball, but her grandmother pushed her into track, a move that has paid off. She won the 100-meter bronze medal at world championships last year and should contend in Rio. Also in the sprint mix: English Gardner.JOE KOVACS: The 27-year-old is the defending world champion in shot put. He finished fourth at Olympic trials in 2012. Growing up, Kovacs was a football player who just used track and field to stay in shape. But then he started taking it more seriously. Kovacs shot put coach as a kid: his mother, Joanna.TRAYVON BROMELL: World-indoor champion at 60 meters and tied for bronze at 100 meters in Beijing. At 5-foot-9, will be looking up -- way up -- at the 6-foot-5 Bolt in the starting block. Bromells U.S. teammate, Justin Gatlin, is considered the biggest threat to the Jamaican, but the 20-year-old from Baylor ran 9.84 seconds in the trials, second best in the world this year, on a sore Achilles.EMILY INFELD: She may have only the 32nd-best time at 10,000 meters this year, but you can never count her out. She made headlines last year at world championships by running hard to the line to edge out teammate Molly Huddle for the bronze medal, after Huddle raised her hands to celebrate a step before the finish line.[url=http://ws

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