Öffentliche News » what we have become famous for.For the riders, th

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Jalen Hurts went to his star receiver after a first half of misfires and missed opportunities with a simple message: Lets settle down.It worked wonders.Hurts threw two third-quarter touchdown passes to Ridley, and Ronnie Harrison scored on a 55-yard fumble return, in No. 1 Alabamas 34-6 victory over Kentucky on Saturday night.The Crimson Tide (5-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) overcame a week full of potential distractions and a slow start to run away from the Wildcats (2-3, 1-2).He actually came to me and said we need to calm down, Ridley said. Hes one of those guys. I think hes like the Jameis Winston guy. Just like hes very cool when somethings going wrong, hes like, `Calm down, calm down and lets just keep going. And I answered him, `Youre right, lets play.The Hurt and Ridley Show took over the second half, hooking up on scoring passes of 10 and 19 yards and plenty in between. Hurts passed for 262 yards, including 173 in the third quarter.Ridley gained 174 yards on 11 catches, both career-highs.Freshman tailback Joshua Jacobs rushed for 100 yards and a touchdown in his first start with Kentucky native Damien Harris playing a limited role after spraining his right ankle last week against Kent State.The performance came two days after star linebacker Tim Williams arrest on a misdemeanor charge of carrying a pistol without a permit. Williams was suspended for the first half and still had three tackles for loss and a sack.Backup quarterback Blake Barnett left the team and withdrew from school this week, too.None of that mattered much in the final three quarters, though Kentucky did hold a 3-0 lead for half the first quarter.Challenged them a little bit at halftime, Tide coach Nick Saban said. I didnt think we sort of imposed our will in the first half how we could have or should have or wanted to, however you want to say it.Kentucky couldnt overcome two first-half fumbles, the first coming in Tide territory.We had a chance to do some things and go up by at least six and we gave up the turnover there early, Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said. That we cant do.Hurts couldnt produce any big plays in the passing game until the opening drive of the third quarter. He rolled toward the right sideline and found Ridley wide open for a 46-yard gain. Two plays later, he did the same thing and again Ridley was open -- this time in the end zone.THE TAKEAWAYKentucky: The Wildcats scored first but couldnt get anything going offensively, getting outgained 488-161. Stanley Boom Williams came in averaging 116 yards a game and finished with 22 yards on nine carries.Alabama: The defense sparked the Tide when Hurts and the passing game werent clicking. Alabama had four sacks. Harris logged only two carries and big-play receiver ArDarius Stewart sat out the second straight game with a knee injury.NON-OFFENSIVE TDS: Rashaan Evans stripped the ball from quarterback Stephen Johnson and Harrison scooped it up and sprinted to the end zone in the second quarter. Alabama leads the nation with five defensive touchdowns and seven non-offensive TDs.JOHNSONS NIGHT: Kentucky quarterback Stephen Johnson was 13 of 22 for 89 yards, lost two fumbles and was sacked four times. Saban said Alabama noticed he was a little loose with the ball.I was just trying to make something happen and I didnt hold the ball like I should, Johnson said.POLL IMPLICATIONSAlabama could lose some ground at the No. 1 spot with No. 5 Clemson and No. 3 Louisville clashing in a much more meaningful game.UP NEXTKentucky hosts Vanderbilt in a matchup of SEC East teams in need of a win.Alabama visits No. 20 Arkansas to begin a three-week stretch against ranked teams.----APs college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org Fake Black Friday Shoes . -- There were so many positives from the Orlando Magics first victory of the season that it was hard for coach Jacque Vaughn to stop praising his players. Black Friday Shoes Sale . Brandon Morrow allowed five runs on six hits over three innings. He struck out two, walked one and hit a batter. Edwin Encarnacion had a two-out, bases loaded two-RBI double in the third inning. https://www.shoesblackfriday.com/ .Y. - Jerome Samson scored once in regulation and again in the shootout as the St. Cheap Black Friday Shoes . -- Bryant McKinnie came out of his stance and lowered his shoulder into a practice squad player, causing a crisp thud to reverberate in the Miami Dolphins practice bubble. Wholesale Black Friday Shoes . "Hes going to have hip surgery on Jan. 7, and hell be expected to rehabilitate for four to six months beyond that," Canucks general manager Mike Gillis said Friday in an interview. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Great Britain have dominated the track cycling for the third Games running with the success put down to hard work, technological innovation and a quadrennial schedule geared towards Olympic success.However, theres a sense of bewilderment, and in some cases suspicion, among the other teams at just how dominant Britain have been on the track after some mixed performances in the intervening years.Our performance at the worlds wasnt too shabby, British Cycling head coach Iain Dyer said in response to some of the queries over Great Britains form. Weve won 12 world titles since London 2012. If that makes us cannon fodder coming into the Olympics then so be it.If you look at some of the times that have been done here, some of the teams simply havent shown up. Thats the bottom line. I dont want to cite specific examples but you can all trawl through the times for World Cups and World Championships. Some of the people here are not even performing at the level of World Championships.Earlier in the week Laurent Gane, the French sprint coach, questioned the British success, saying rhetorically: You have to ask how they do it.His comments were followed by Australias 2012 gold medallist Anna Meares thoughts.The British are just phenomenal when it comes to the Olympic Games, and were all just scratching our heads going, How do they lift so much when in so many events they have not even been in contention in the World Championships? said Meares, who later clarified her comments in a tweet.?Theyve got it together, and to be honest Im not exactly sure what theyve got together.A broad stroke response would be to point to the prioritisation of the Olympics in the four-year cycle where performance at the Games affects UK Sport funding. The Games are put at the head of the queue and with new, innovative equipment saved for the quadrennial bonanza.Former Team GB cyclist Chris Boardman, who won gold at the Barcelona Olympics, told ESPN: The funding for the Team GB team is all about lottery funding. Its all about this one event, the Olympics. It is the biggest prize for track cycling.They put all their eggs in one basket and it gives them a sense of urgency once every four years that they dont have for the World Championships. The World Champs are a big competition, where you try hard, but it isnt life or death in a sporting sense.You have coaches here who are so experienced. The other thing is the Olympics are in the summer while the World Champs are in the winter. Its difficult to peak twice and they seem to have perfected the art of that across the different disciplines.Coupled with this prioritisation are the marginal gains, former British Cycling performance director Sir David Brailsfords credo looking at any small advantages in tweaking equipment, clothing and tactics. Under Brailsford, Boardman headed up the Secret Squirrel Club, a department looking at finding marginal gains across the board, before then stepping away in 2012.Boardmans post is now held by Tony Purnnell, the Cambridge professor who heads up British Cyclings Research and Innovation department.dddddddddddd. Purnell is using some of his Masters students to focus on GB cyclings technology.The Secret Squirrel Club has now been replaced by Room X, the brains trust behind the athletes new skin suits -- complete with raised ribbed strips -- and the athlete-tailored Cervélo T5GB bikes they have ridden to glory here in the velodrome.I think what we have got to bear in mind is over the last 16 years since weve just tried really, really hard to maximise our medal effectiveness in the Olympics, Dyer said. And the staff that weve built and the structure and the culture that weve built have been instrumental to bring us to this position throughout Athens and Beijing and London and now here.I think if you look at the last couple of years as an example, when Shane [Sutton] became technical director he made quite a few tweaks to our structure. So if you compare the staff who were working in London with the staff who were working here, theres a reasonable amount of change thats gone here.If you look at this fresh blood coming in and these changes a lot of the back room staff remain the same, performance analysts the bio mechanists and physiologists.These are PhDs in what they do and they are really, really bright people and they do a super, super job and these guys have remained a constant throughout this process. And its that, thats the heart of our success here. Its not sexy, it probably doesnt sell newspapers Im sorry. But thats the bottom line.Weve got a really, really great team of people doing a fantastic job and who will go to the ends of the earth looking for that final marginal gain. Its all about marginal gains, isnt it? Thats what we have become famous for.For the riders, the technology and the feeling of intensity and excitement around the Games helps take them to their next level, fulfilling potential.A lot of the [British] team are working purely towards the Olympics. The last 12 months coming up to the Games you start getting that feeling and you start getting all that momentum, five time gold medallist Jason Kenny said.And you get the nice new shiny stuff coming out and all of a sudden you see the guys you havent seen for four years come out of the woodwork and push us on that last fraction.I think its just that last nudge over the line that really pushes us and brings it together.And all this alongside their wonderful world-beating athletes. It all adds up to their unparalleled cocktail of success.The low hanging fruit disappeared years ago, Dyer said. There was a lot of talk of people catching up because they just saw the gains that we had started to make was stuff they could copy and emulate. Now the devil is in the detail. The marginal gains have never been more marginal and aggregating that together has never been more important. ' ' '