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LOS ANGELES -- Injuries remain sore points for the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Lakers. Cheap Yeezys Real . Both will attempt to overcome them when they meet Monday night at Staples CenterPoint guard Jose Calderon (right hamstring strain) was the latest Laker to come up lame. Calderon, who hurt himself in Saturdays loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, wont play against the Jazz. Calderon was starting for the injured DAngelo Russell (sore right knee). Russell isnt expected back for at least another week.In addition, the Lakers again will be without Nick Young (strained left calf), who is possibly on the shelf for another one to three weeks.Lakers forward Larry Nance (right knee contusion), who missed Saturdays loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, is listed as questionable for Mondays contest. Nance sat out Saturday after being injured late in Fridays rout by the Toronto Raptors.Still, the Lakers (10-12) continue to carry a positive vibe with their surprising start.Having the injuries we had, it wouldve been easy to just give in (Saturday), said Lakers coach Luke Walton said after the loss to the Grizzlies, according to the Los Angeles Times. Our guys really competed and played hard. Down the stretch they got to a couple loose balls that turned into big plays. We had our chances. On the road in the NBA, thats really all you can ask for is to have a chance to win the game.Despite some key contributors ailing, the Jazz (12-9) have won five of their last six games. Their latest triumph was a 105-98 decision over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday. Utah almost blew a 23-point lead in the fourth quarter before securing the victory. Gordon Hayward scored 21 of his 32 points in the third quarter to pace the Jazz. It was the third straight game the 6-8 forward has topped 30 points.I found some energy after halftime, said Hayward, who leads the team in scoring at 22.8 points per game, according to DeseretNews. com. I think we really started to guard. I was able to get some easy shots, some open looks and then the basket gets a little wider when you knock down a couple in a row.Utah prevailed without point guard George Hill (toe) and forward Derrick Favors. Hill wont play against the Lakers, missing his third game in a row, but could return Tuesday night when the Jazz plays the Phoenix Suns.Hills production has been missed. He is scoring 20 points per game, second to Hayward. He also is shooting 53.4 percent from the floor and 45.6 percent from 3-point range.Favors has been troubled with a knee problem for much of the season. He missed the previous nine games and is expected to return against the Lakers.Forward Alec Burks also has been unavailable for Utah. Burks underwent arthroscopic ankle surgery in November and is out indefinitely.The absences havent hurt the production of center Rudy Gobert. Gobert is averaging 10.6 points and 11 rebounds per game (seventh in the NBA). Gobert is the league leader in field-goal percentage at 64.2. He is third in blocks with an average of 2.52.Utah won the initial encounter 96-89 on Oct. 27 at Salt Lake City. Wholesale Yeezy Boost . Ronaldo produced a spectacular individual performance on Tuesday, scoring all three goals and guiding Portugal into the next years World Cup in Brazil with a 3-2 victory in Sweden. The Real Madrid forward has scored 66 goals in 2013, but the last three may be the boost he needs to upstage Messi after FIFA unexpectedly extended the voting period for the Ballon dOr to Nov. Authentic Yeezy Outlet . Booth picked up 65 caps after making her national team debut in 2002 at the age of 17. She most recently played for Sky Blue FC of the National Womens Soccer League. "It just felt like it was my time to move on," she said in a phone interview from her hometown of Burlington, Ont. http://www.wholesaleyeezy.com/ . -- Ty Montgomery had 290 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns, and fifth-ranked Stanford held on to beat No. Here are some things to watch in the Big 12 Conference in Week 8:GAME OF THE WEEKTCU (4-2, 2-1 Big 12) at No. 12 West Virginia (5-0, 2-0). This will be the third meeting in Morgantown for the teams that came into the Big 12 together in 2012. TCU won each of the previous two games there by one point -- in overtime four years ago and on a game-ending field goal in 2014, while WVU won in overtime in Fort Worth between those games. The Mountaineers have won 10 of their last 11 games since a 30-point loss at TCU last October. West Virginia quarterback Skyler Howard (eighth nationally with 357 total yards per game) is a Fort Worth native.BEST MATCHUPOklahoma QB Baker Mayfield vs. Texas Tech. Mayfield plays in Lubbock for the first time since he was a Red Raider in 2013, the season he became the first true freshman walk-on quarterback to start a season opener for an FBS team. Mayfield transferred to Oklahoma after that season, and was redshirting when the No. 16 Sooners last played in Lubbock in 2014. In last years 63-27 win in Norman, Mayfield threw for 212 yards and two touchdowns. Texas Tech junior QB Patrick Mahomes is the national leader with 2,579 yards passing, and is fifth with 21 TDs.INSIDE THE NUMBERSKansas State is 8-4 against Texas since the inception of the Big 12, including wins the last four meetings in Manhattan, where the teams play Saturday. ... Texas had a season-high eight sacks and didnt allow a touchdown in last weeks 27-6 win over Iowa State. Wholesale Yeezy Shoes. . The six points were the fewest scored by a Big 12 team in conference play this season. ... No. 9 Baylor has its second open date in three weeks. The a href(equals)https://apnews.com/c9ec1dcd860c41d4b37be158f9b802d9/Big-12s-playoff-hopes-rest-with-Baylor,-West-VirginiaBears are the only FBS team to be 6-0/a for the fourth consecutive season. ... Iowa State WR Allen Lazard has a reception in 30 consecutive games, a school record. ... K-State has scored on its last 53 trips into the red zone, the longest active FBS streak.LONG SHOTKansas is a nearly four-touchdown underdog at home against Oklahoma State. The Cowboys have won six straight in the series, winning those games by an average margin of 29 points -- even though their last two trips to Lawrence were wins of 27-20 and 20-14. The Jayhawks are coming off a 49-7 loss at Baylor, which came a week after Kansas missed three field goals in the fourth quarter of a 24-23 home loss to TCU.IMPACT PERFORMEROklahoma senior Dede Westbrook has eight touchdown catches in the last three games, a stretch when he has 26 catches for 574 yards. Six of those touchdowns are 40 yards or longer, including an 88-yarder last week against Kansas State.---Compiled by AP Sports Writer Stephen Hawkins in Fort Worth, Texas.---AP College Football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '
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