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Only, to everyone’s confusion, the officials ruled that Hurts’s forward progress had been stopped before the fumble—thereby ending the play and nullifying the fumble.

He has just two interceptions in seven games, and his team has yet to lose a fumble.

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One practitioner wraps hot, damp towels around my feet while the other is at my head, fumbling a bit with my loc’d hair before getting it in the right position for the work.

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They held their standards - the fielding fumbles did not creep in, they worked as a unit and fought until the last ball.

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Lake, who also forced a fumble, and lineman Kobie Turner batted down passes in the backfield.

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