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CINCINNATI -- Its one thing to start the season on the road. The Bengals have the daunting challenge of leaving home for the second week, too, which is usually too much travel for an NFL team.Cincinnati has never won back-to-back road games to open a season, and its in good company on that one.Over the past two seasons, nine teams opened with back-to-back road games. None of them went 2-0. The previous team to open with two road wins was Miami in 2013, when the Dolphins won at Cleveland and at Indianapolis.The Bengals are accustomed to opening on the road -- itll be their seventh straight season with an away game when they play at the Jets on Sunday -- but theyve got a tall order.Theyve never won at the Meadowlands. The following week, they play at Pittsburgh, renewing their raw AFC North rivalry.Theyd like to think that theyve gotten the hang of winning the first game on the road, beating Oakland and Baltimore each of the past two years. This will be something else, however.Its crazy, defensive end Carlos Dunlap said. We were talking about that the other day. Weve had great results with that. We just have to continue to start this trek off right. Go out there and make those plays and shut (Jets fans) up quick and early. Send them to the concession stands. Go get a drink because the team is struggling. Something like that.The Bengals have kept the core of their team together for the past few years, even though it has lost in the first round of the playoffs for an NFL-record five straight seasons.Beginning a season with the roster virtually intact lends an advantage over teams that are working in new players.Plus, having experienced so many road openers makes it feel more like a routine.No question it does, coach Marvin Lewis said. Were not going to be a deer in the headlights. I can remember back in the day, going to Baltimore and telling the rookies: `Make sure you have a good seat to watch Ray Lewis dance. We go through that. Its good stuff. That why when it happens, theyre at ease with it. They expect it.Winning that first game also carries over some of the confidence from the last playoff season.Absolutely, Andy Dalton said. Its big. You want to start fast. You want to get ahead as much as you can.Winning these first two will be a huge challenge. The Bengals have never done well in New York. Theyre 0-3 against the Giants and 2-12 against the Jets, dropping their past nine. Cincinnatis last win over the Jets in New York was a 31-30 victory at Shea Stadium in 1981, the first season that the Bengals reached the Super Bowl.Its the fourth time in franchise history that theyve opened with a pair of road games. They started 0-2 in both 1979 and 1996. In 2011, they won at Cleveland in Daltons rookie debut and lost at Denver a week later.It is never an easy assignment to go on the road, let alone a home opener with all the pageantry and everything that goes on in the stadiums during home openers, Lewis said. I guess we get to do it two weeks in a row.Game notesThe Jets have won five consecutive home openers, the longest active streak in the AFC. ... The Bengals beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh last season, then lost to them twice at Paul Brown Stadium, including the 18-16 playoff defeat.---Online: AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP-NFLShoes NZ Online . Breaking three of his own world records on his way to winning in Paris, Chan silenced the critics and left the audiences standing in appreciation and awe. 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A traumatic 12 months for the Englishman was ending on a high.Southgate was about to complete a final round of 2-under 69 that saw him finish tied for 12th at the British Open, a year to the week that he underwent surgery after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. At that point, he thought his golfing career was over.Words cannot describe how that felt walking down that last hole, the 27-year-old Southgate said. Sixty-nine is a hell of a score for me on a day which meant so much.Within weeks of the operation, Southgate was back playing -- against his doctors advice -- and initially using his girlfriends lighter clubs. He got through tour school to keep his place on the European Tour, had a fourth-place finish at the Irish Open in May for the biggest pay check of his career, and then qualified for the Open last month.Now, with a 1-under 283 total, he has shot lower than the likes of top-ranked Jason Day and Jordan Spieth at Royal Troon. It nearly eaarned him an exemption into next years British Open at Birkdale.dddddddddddd Southgate missed out by one stroke.Its been a roller-coaster year for me, said Southgate, who was told recently that doctors were happy with his recovery and that he doesnt have to go to see them as regularly.I always had the belief inside Id get over the health issues and be back in an Open Championship, but to do it within the year and to have my family here ... it is a big achievement for me. If you had asked me last year, Id have said it was possible for me to qualify. But to finish up there comfortably in the top 20, no one would have had a one-pound bet on that.This week, Southgate has been wearing a wristband with the words Hatties Heroes on it. His 3-year-old niece, Hattie, was diagnosed with leukemia in 2014 and is coming to the end of her chemotherapy.Southgate left Troon with a message: For any youngsters out there who want to do it, just go for it and stick with your dreams. ' ' '