Kansas City overcomes Rashee Rice injury in win

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The Kansas City Chiefs are looking for their first 4-0 start since the 2020 season.The Chiefs are taking on the Los Angeles Chargers in their first divisional game of the young season.The Chargers enter the game with a record of 2-1.Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has been cleared to play, but the team will be without two key offensive linemen.Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt could see his first action in a Chiefs jersey since the 2018 season.CHIEFS-CHARGERS LIVE UPDATES2:00, fourth quarter: On 3rd-and-6, Mahomes finds Worthy for a first down, all but ending the game. 5:00, fourth quarter: The Chiefs have their first lead of the game. Samaje Perine capped off a five-play, 60-yard touchdown drive with a two-yard score. Kansas City leads 17-10 late.9:24, fourth quarter: After the Chargers turned the ball over on downs, the Chiefs’ drive stalled after an 8-play, 34-yard effort. The Chiefs were able to flip field position, and Los Angeles takes over on their own 15.13:32, fourth quarter: The Chiefs’ defense comes up big on another 4th-and-1. They stopped the Chargers, turning them over on downs and ending a 14-play, 67-yard drive. The game remains tied at 10-10THIRD QUARTER: Not much scoring in the third quarter of the game. A 10-play, 37-yard drive by the Chiefs led toa field goal by Butker. The game is tied entering the fourth quarter. HALFTIME: Chiefs head coach Andy Reid told CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson that Rice’s injury is “not good.” SECOND QUARTER HALFTIME: Harrison Butker missed a 65-yard field goal attempt at the end of the first half. 4:06, second quarter: In one play, the Chiefs are back in the game. Mahomes connects with rookie Xavier Worthy for a 54-yard touchdown, cutting the deficit to 10-7. 5:41, second quarter: For the third time in the first half, the Chargers defense sacks Patrick Mahomes.8:15, second quarter: It’s been a big first half for Travis Kelce. Kelce has 51 yards and set the franchise record for most receptions in franchise history. FIRST QUARTER3:00, first quarter: The Chargers took advantage of Mahomes’ interception and extended their lead to 10-0.However, the biggest story of the game is the health of Chiefs wideout Rashee Rice.Rice left the game with a knee injury and is questionable to return.6:06, first quarter: The Chargers intercept quarterback Patrick Mahomes and fumbles the ball, but it’s ruled out of bounds. The Chargers retain possession.6:16, first quarter: The Chargers take full advantage of the turnover, scoring a touchdown on a 10-play drive that covered 74 yards and took 6:36 off the clock. Justin Herbert completed a 7-yard pass to Ladd McConkey for the touchdown.12:52, first quarter: After a promising drive that included a 38-yard reception by Travis Kelce, running back Carson Steele fumbled the ball, and the Chargers recovered. It’s the second time this season Steele has lost a fumble.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

The Kansas City Chiefs are looking for their first 4-0 start since the 2020 season.

The Chiefs are taking on the Los Angeles Chargers in their first divisional game of the young season.

The Chargers enter the game with a record of 2-1.

Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has been cleared to play, but the team will be without two key offensive linemen.

Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt could see his first action in a Chiefs jersey since the 2018 season.

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2:00, fourth quarter: On 3rd-and-6, Mahomes finds Worthy for a first down, all but ending the game.

5:00, fourth quarter: The Chiefs have their first lead of the game. Samaje Perine capped off a five-play, 60-yard touchdown drive with a two-yard score. Kansas City leads 17-10 late.

9:24, fourth quarter: After the Chargers turned the ball over on downs, the Chiefs’ drive stalled after an 8-play, 34-yard effort. The Chiefs were able to flip field position, and Los Angeles takes over on their own 15.

13:32, fourth quarter: The Chiefs’ defense comes up big on another 4th-and-1. They stopped the Chargers, turning them over on downs and ending a 14-play, 67-yard drive. The game remains tied at 10-10

THIRD QUARTER:

Not much scoring in the third quarter of the game. A 10-play, 37-yard drive by the Chiefs led toa field goal by Butker. The game is tied entering the fourth quarter.

HALFTIME: Chiefs head coach Andy Reid told CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson that Rice’s injury is “not good.”

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SECOND QUARTER

HALFTIME: Harrison Butker missed a 65-yard field goal attempt at the end of the first half.

4:06, second quarter: In one play, the Chiefs are back in the game. Mahomes connects with rookie Xavier Worthy for a 54-yard touchdown, cutting the deficit to 10-7.

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5:41, second quarter: For the third time in the first half, the Chargers defense sacks Patrick Mahomes.

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8:15, second quarter: It’s been a big first half for Travis Kelce. Kelce has 51 yards and set the franchise record for most receptions in franchise history.

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FIRST QUARTER

3:00, first quarter: The Chargers took advantage of Mahomes’ interception and extended their lead to 10-0.

However, the biggest story of the game is the health of Chiefs wideout Rashee Rice.

Rice left the game with a knee injury and is questionable to return.

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6:06, first quarter: The Chargers intercept quarterback Patrick Mahomes and fumbles the ball, but it’s ruled out of bounds. The Chargers retain possession.

6:16, first quarter: The Chargers take full advantage of the turnover, scoring a touchdown on a 10-play drive that covered 74 yards and took 6:36 off the clock. Justin Herbert completed a 7-yard pass to Ladd McConkey for the touchdown.

12:52, first quarter: After a promising drive that included a 38-yard reception by Travis Kelce, running back Carson Steele fumbled the ball, and the Chargers recovered. It’s the second time this season Steele has lost a fumble.




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Rashee Rice likely will play the entire 2024 season, despite felony charges

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During last night’s pregame show, I provided an update on the Rashee Rice situation. We addressed it in further detail this morning, during PFT Live.

The NFL makes paid leave available for players who face felony charges. Rice faces felony charges — eight of them — from a Dallas street-racing incident in March 2024.

So why has he not been placed on paid leave?

The most obvious explanation is that the league typically uses paid leave (a/k/a the Commissioner Exempt list) in cases involving domestic violence. Rice’s case did not. Although things could have turned out much worse, it involved behavior that should be deterred. Rice (and those in the other cars involved in the crash) got lucky this time. Next time, the luck could break a different way.

Still, the league has said it doesn’t anticipate placing Rice on paid leave, absent a “material change” in the case. One such change could come from a guilty plea, to one or more felony charges. At that pont, the league could put him on paid leave pending the official internal Personal Conduct Policy review and punishment.

A guilty plea during the 2024 season is unlikely, however. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, there’s no trial date. It will happen, as the earliest, in December 2024. Thus, there’s no urgency to reach a plea deal until the lawyers are staring at a trial date.

Of course, if the prosecutors choose to try to stick it to Rice, they could offer him a deal now — with a short fuse for accepting it and a threat/promise that, if he rejects it, the case will go to trial on all charges. That would force Rice to choose between legal outcome and career outcome.

For now, the thinking is that Rice (who had 103 receiving yards last night) could have a huge second season. If the case is resolved after the 2024 campaign and if he serves a suspension to start the season, he will already be established as a great player before the suspension starts.

It’s hard to imagine Rice not being suspended, eventually. But it’s currently unlikely that he’ll miss time in 2024 due to the off-field issue.




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Arsenal conceded an equalising goal against Brighton less than 10 minutes after Declan Rice was sent off for a second bookable offence. Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images)

"I was amazed," Arteta said postmatch. "Amazed, amazed, amazed because of how inconsistent decisions can be.

"In the first half, there are two incidents and nothing happens. Then, in a non-critical area, the ball hits Declan [on the back of his leg], he turns around, he doesn't see the player coming and he touches the ball.

"By law, he can make that call, but then by law he needs to make the next call, which is red card so we play 10 versus 10. This is what amazed me. At this level it's amazing. [Declan] obviously had a reaction that his back was to the ball, that they're not in the middle of the park, trying to counter or anything.

"Anyway, I repeat myself; by law if you want to do it you have to do it, but you have to do it in the first half and play 10 against 10. That's it. Very simple."

Rice red card sets Arsenal back despite busy transfer window

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The fretting over Arsenal’s squad depth was supposed to end when the Premier League’s summer transfer window closed on Friday.

Raheem Sterling‘s last-gasp arrival on loan from Chelsea had many Gunners supporters pitching up at Emirates Stadium on Saturday enthused by the options manager Mikel Arteta has at his disposal. Yet they left the ground after Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion concerned about a midfield area that suddenly looks light ahead of the biggest week of the season by some distance.

First, there is an international break in which to draw breath and regain some of the composure that Arsenal temporarily lost here following Declan Rice‘s 50th-minute red card. But then comes a seven-day period in which they travel to Tottenham Hotspur for the north London derby, Italy for a Champions League opener against last season’s Europa League winners Atalanta and then to Premier League champions Manchester City.

Right now, the indications are that new €32.5 million signing Mikel Merino will miss all three matches after suffering a fractured shoulder in his first training session. Rice is now suspended against Spurs after a controversial dismissal, the first of his 245-game league career.

After a strong tackle on Joël Veltman just before half-time, the pair tangled again shortly after the restart. As Veltman went to kick the ball — a moving ball — to restart play following a free kick in his favour, Rice nudged it away and Veltman, who had already started swinging his right leg, made contact with Rice instead of the ball.

The Premier League later clarified Rice had “delayed the restart,” something he had technically done but in a manner not consistently punished; Brighton’s João Pedro booted the ball away after it ran out in the first half with no sanction from referee Chris Kavanagh. Arteta also cited another first-half moment and claimed Veltman should have in fact been sent off for kicking Rice.

“I was amazed,” Arteta said postmatch. “Amazed, amazed, amazed because of how inconsistent decisions can be.

“In the first half, there are two incidents and nothing happens. Then, in a non-critical area, the ball hits Declan [on the back of his leg], he turns around, he doesn’t see the player coming and he touches the ball.

“By law, he can make that call, but then by law he needs to make the next call, which is red card so we play 10 versus 10. This is what amazed me. At this level it’s amazing. [Declan] obviously had a reaction that his back was to the ball, that they’re not in the middle of the park, trying to counter or anything.

“Anyway, I repeat myself; by law if you want to do it you have to do it, but you have to do it in the first half and play 10 against 10. That’s it. Very simple.”

Brighton took advantage within eight minutes. João Pedro turned home the rebound after David Raya saved Yankuba Minteh‘s shot, cancelling out Kai Havertz‘s well-taken 38th-minute opener, lofted over Brighton goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen.

Fuelled by a sense of injustice, Arsenal reorganised and after a short spell in which they seemed flummoxed by how to reorganise with 10 men, Havertz and Bukayo Saka had glorious chances to score, but both were denied by Verbruggen. Brighton inevitably controlled possession and went closest through substitute Yasin Ayari in between those Havertz and Saka chances but had to settle for a point.

“We reacted to what we had to do playing at home with 10 men,” Arteta said. “We didn’t want to be so deep defending like this, but we read the game and we played the game that we had to play and we should have got rewarded.”

There was at least some good news afterwards in that defender Jurriën Timber did not suffer a serious injury and was instead substituted late on with cramp. Timber has been cited as a possible option in midfield given his physicality and quality on the ball. It will likely be something Arteta considers for the challenges ahead, although Jorginho, Thomas Partey and Martin Ødegaard are the most obvious fits to start against Spurs as things stand.

The international break will shape their approach and also give Sterling a chance to sharpen his game ahead of the trip across the capital. Not selected for England by interim coach Lee Carsley, Sterling will instead work at Arsenal’s London Colney base and reacquaint himself with Arteta, with whom he developed a strong relationship during three years working together at Manchester City.

“We have to see him, speak to him [about] what he’s been doing and how he’s feeling about it and try to find quick wins to get him up to speed as quickly as possible and for him to understand what we are looking for from him in the dynamics of the team,” Arteta said of Sterling. “We will use that time to do that and get him involved as soon as possible.”

And what of coping without Rice or Merino? “This is what happens,” Arteta replied. “We have to adapt to that context. That’s why we have other players that can fulfill that [role] and [I can] give that opportunity to somebody else.”

Perhaps those squad concerns never truly go away.


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