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SAN DIEGO (5-7) at CAROLINA (4-8)Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, FoxOPENING LINE -- Panthers by 1 1/2RECORD VS. SPREAD -- San Diego 7-5, Carolina 3-8-1SERIES RECORD -Panthers lead 4-1LAST MEETING -Panthers beat Chargers 31-10, Dec. 16, 2012LAST WEEK -- Chargers lost to Buccaneers 28-21; Panthers lost to Seahawks 40-7AP PRO32 RANKING -- Chargers No. 22, Panthers No. 26CHARGERS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (10), RUSH (21), PASS (6).CHARGERS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (19), RUSH (3), PASS (27).PANTHERS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (18), RUSH (13), PASS (20).PANTHERS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (t-23), RUSH (8), PASS (30).STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES -- Chargers coach Mike McCoy spent eight seasons as assistant coach in Carolina. ... QB Phillip Rivers attended North Carolina State. ... Rivers had four TD passes and zero interceptions in previous two meetings with Panthers. ... Rivers is tied for fourth in league with 25 TD passes. ... RB Melvin Gordon had 138 yards from scrimmage yards last week vs. Tampa Bay. ... WR Tyrell Williams has caught TD pass in four straight games. ... WR Dontrelle Inman is averaging 84 yards receiving and has two TD catches in last two games. ... TE Antonio Gates has 109 career TD catches, second most by a tight end in NFL history to Tony Gonzalez. ... TE Hunter Henry is tied for third among rookies with five TD catches. ... CB Casey Hayward has four interceptions in past five games and leads NFL with seven INTs. ... Rookie DE Joey Bosa has 5 + sacks and nine tackles for loss in past eight games. ... Panthers have lost five games by three points or less. ... Panthers are 3-3 at home after going 10-0 (including playoffs) last season. ... QB Cam Newton has only 14 TD passes in 11 games after throwing 35 TD passes last season. ... Newton passed for 231 yards and two TDs in only meeting with San Diego in 2012. ... Panthers starting fourth-string C Tyler Larsen due to injuries. ... RB Jonathan Stewart has seven TDs rushing in last seven games, but faces leagues third-best run defense. ... FB Mike Tolbert had two TDs rushing in last meeting with his former team. .. WR Ted Ginn Jr has TD catch in three straight games. ... WR Kelvin Benjamin has five TD catches in seven career games vs. AFC. ... Since 2013, Greg Olsen leads all NFL tight ends in receptions (295) and yards receiving (3,748). ... Panthers have allowed 22 TDs passing. ... DE Kony Ealy has sack in three of last four games. ... 2013 NFL Defensive Player of Year LB Luke Kuechly has missed last two games with concussion. ... LB Thomas Davis has two interceptions in past three games vs. AFC foes. Since 2013, Davis is only NFL linebacker with 400-plus tackles, 14-plus sacks and at least nine interceptions. ... CB Daryl Worley leads all rookie cornerbacks with 66 tackles. 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The victory improved the Czech pairs impressive cup doubles record to 14-1. Chicago White Sox Store . Having already announced that the race will start May 9 with three stages in Northern Ireland and Ireland and finish in Trieste on June 1, the rest of the route was unveiled Monday. Warwickshire 137 for 2 (Trott 82*) beat Surrey 136 (Burns 40) by eight wicketsScorecardMuch emphasis had been placed at Lords during the week of the gathering crisis that besets English professional cricket on the fact that Alastair Cook is now supposedly less recognisable than the biggest names in WWE wrestling. So for the benefit of any new readers who may have accidentally alighted on this page perhaps it should be observed from the start that the Royal London final was such a mismatch that Big Show versus Mayweather felt close by comparison.In a week when English professional cricket was beset by division over its future, the game sorely needed a Royal London Cup final to reassure it that, however impassioned the debate, it was still capable of providing high-class entertainment. Instead, Warwickshire waltzed the Lords final by eight wickets with a whopping 19.4 overs to spare, much to the disappointment no doubt of one of the biggest crowds for the 50-over final for years.Jonathan Trott has rarely regarded himself as one of crickets Big Shows. His approach is far too conservative for that, his character far too reserved. But after Warwickshire had dismissed Surrey for 136 - almost ten overs unused as they lost their last eight wickets for 37 in 15.2 overs - Trott compiled an unbeaten 82 in a phlegmatic manner to put batting conditions into perspective. He averaged 72 to get Warwickshire into the final and was their mainstay once more.In the Lords committee rooms, with the ECB chairman Colin Graves robust enough to have donned wrestlers garb, metaphorically at least, they have been obsessing - as they must - about the future of T20. But out on the field, in the 50-over final, Trott was playing in a composed, old-fashioned manner that suggested that nothing had changed, that the game was the same as it ever was, that a methodical approach and sound selection could still win trophies. There had been only three lower scores in a Lords final. He could have blocked his way to victory.Surrey managed only two wickets. Sam Hain, unnecessarily, reverse swept Zafar Ansari to Sam Curran at what was then short fine leg - Trott had played the shot more delicately earlier in the over - and Ian Bell gloved a bouncer from Stuart Meaker to the wicketkeeper. Life is not about to become easy for Bell, not while relegation from the Championship remains a possibility as ther last week of the season looms. But Trott proceeded with equanimity, a cover drive off Sam Curran settling the match. Curran looked morose, although it is best not to feel too sorry for an 18-year-old with two Lords runners-up medals to his name. Trott, idiosyncratically, scratched his guard with the match won, maybe an indication that he plans to be back again next year.Surrey were also outdone by Gloucestershire in the final a year ago, but this time they suffered a more overwhelming defeat on a used Lords pitch that encouraged Warwickshires seam bowlers and also turned progressively for Jeetan Patel. It was not a pristine surface - it is mid-September at Lords after all and traffic has been heavy - but Surrey should have managed top-side of 220 to make it a contest.The story of the September one-day final has long been one of griim, grey skies and naggy surfaces.dddddddddddd It was surprising for some therefore that Surreys captain, Gareth Batty, chose to bat after winning the toss. Battys hope was that a used pitch would continue to deteriorate but, with only 136 to defend, Surrey never found the purchase that Warwickshires bowlers had earlier in the day. It was Oliver Hannon-Dalby, in particular, who made it seam and Patel again who proclaimed himself the best spin bowler in the county game. Better, on this day certainly than the respectable Surrey duo who are heading with India to Bangladesh.Surreys batting disarray was a world away from the early overs, in which Jason Roy and Steven Davies gave Surrey a confident start. Davies, who is on his way to Somerset, must have yearned for a trophy-winning farewell as he drove crisply through the covers. Roy abounded with promise as he worked the leg side gaps. Rikki Clarke, who bowled only three new-ball overs, was left with figures of 3-0-24-0 which were out of sync with what followed.It took a quite wonderful catch by Laurie Evans to silence Roy. When Roy rose to his full height - relatively speaking - to pull Chris Wright through midwicket, he did so with a flourish which proclaimed Im The Man, only for Evans to intercept with a diving, one-handed catch to his right. Davies careless demise against the offbreaks of Ateeq Javid was a quieter affair as Tim Ambrose stole a neat leg-side stumping. At 99 for 2, though, Battys decision was sound enough.Kumar Sangakkara is the pivotal figure in a Surrey middle-order that seems more suited to the rhythms of Championship cricket. That Sangakkara was so cagey, as was his fellow left-hander, Rory Burns, soon told that a run spree was out of the question. Hannon-Dalby then indicated that the situation was a whole lot worse than that.Hannon-Dalby is an unprepossessing figure, a spindly, square-on seamer, with a front-arm that has a bit part role, entering his action without acclaim. But he persistently belies his unthreatening appearance in limited-overs cricket. When he had Sangakkara caught at the wicket, it was in an excellent over when he had passed the edge of Burns bat more than once. A nip-backer accounted for Ben Foakes for a duck in his next over and when Ansari also fell without scoring, this time against Patel as a suspicious leading edge was well caught by the diving Evans at short extra, Surrey had lost 3 for 3 in 17 balls.Burns buckled down but the wickets kept falling. Sam Curran tried to hit a long hop from Javed from Lords to The Oval and was bowled as a consequence, Hannon-Dalby ran out his brother, Tom, from short third man after he sought an unlikely single and was sent back, and Burns, running out of partners, came down the pitch to Patel, missed one that turned and was bowled.Chris Woakes, a bowler of England stature these days, ensured no monkey business from the tail, demolishing the stumps of Batty and Jade Dernbach in successive overs to leave Warwickshire in a strong position at the interval. All that was left was for Trott to strap on the pads and do what he does best. ' ' '