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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Riley Ferguson threw for 295 yards and three touchdowns and Doroland Dorceus ran for another score to lift Memphis to a 35-17 victory over Southeast Missouri State in the season opener for both teams on Saturday night.Coach Mike Norvell won his inaugural game with the Tigers. The 34-year-old is the youngest head coach in the FBS, moving to Memphis after spending the past four seasons as Arizona States offensive coordinator.Will Young had a 61-yard touchdown run and finished with 114 yards rushing to lead Southeast Missouri State.Memphis jumped out to a 29-0 lead midway through the second quarter. Jake Elliott made two 40-plus yard field goals to cap back-to-back long drives between the third and fourth quarters for the Tigers.The second-half start was delayed about 10 minutes due to a power outage in the press box and around the Liberty Bowl neighborhood. Jason Buck . -- Hunter Smith scored the winner with just 12 seconds remaining in the third period as the Oshawa Generals edged the host Sarnia Sting 5-4 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action. Don Shy . The Brazilian goalkeeper signed a loan deal with the Major League Soccer club on Friday as he looks to get playing time ahead of this summers World Cup in his home country. https://www.cheapnfljerseyschina.co/shaun-bodiford-jersey-for-sale/ . Down by seven with 90 seconds left in regulation, thats where they looked comfortable. Neil Halleck .S. -- Nikolaj Ehlers registered a hat trick for the third straight game and Jonathan Drouin had a goal and five assists as the Halifax Mooseheads hammered the host Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 10-1 on Tuesday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. Scott Gudmundson . -- Hunter Smith scored the winner with just 12 seconds remaining in the third period as the Oshawa Generals edged the host Sarnia Sting 5-4 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action. This story appears in ESPN The Magazines November 14 Pain Issue. Subscribe today!WHEN IT COMES to his body, Rashad Jennings is a control freak. I can tell you this, he says. If I didnt eat the way I eat, if I didnt train the way I train, if I didnt take care of my body the way I take care of it, I wouldnt be playing. Its a routine designed to help him endure the realities of his day job -- NFL running back -- and the accumulated toll of his eight-year career: one dislocated shoulder, one sprained ankle, two MCL injuries and two concussions. Plus the standard wear and tear of nearly 800 NFL carries.Jennings, 31, wont add to that total against the Packers tonight, thanks to a broken thumb he suffered in September against the Saints; from the sideline, he watches his team lose 23-16 at Lambeau Field. When he broke the thumb, doctors told him hed need six weeks to return, but he plans to play next Sunday against the Ravens -- two weeks ahead of schedule.MONDAY, OCT. 10 The Giants return from Green Bay at 4:45 a.m. The players get the day off, but by 10 a.m. Jennings is working out at the teams facility -- and four hours later he is lying on a massage table in a room off the garage of his three-story town house in Secaucus, New Jersey. Chris Graney, a muscle activation techniques specialist, works the tissue around Jennings thumb, slowly bending the finger back and forth. When Jennings doesnt flinch, its a sign of improvement. Six days until the Ravens. And the pain? Its tolerable, he says.TUESDAY, OCT. 11 Jennings would like to eat a lasagna. A big one with meat and cheese and all that. But there will be no lasagna today. Jennings employs a chef to prepare his meals ahead of time, with deliveries on Sundays and Thursdays. They arrive in black trays chilled to 40 degrees before theyre stacked neatly in the refrigerator, each tray labeled with its contents. Todays lunch is roasted chicken breast, roasted potato wedges and zucchini Proven?al. Dinner: sesame crushed lamb chops, steamed jasmine rice and steamed edamame. No gluten, no casein, no hormones or antibiotics. His cheat-day treat? Sushi. Which is not, by any definition, a cheat.WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 Its 7 p.m., and Jennings is sliding inside a giant duffel bag. This is not unusual. He spends at least 45 minutes a day inside it. In truth, its not a duffel bag. Its a pressurized hyperbaric chamber filled with pure oxygen that can be used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning. The FDA hass not approved its use for sports injuries.dddddddddddd Still, Jennings swears by it.My body feels so much more refreshed, he says. My energy levels skyrocket.In the bag, he naps, watches videos on his phone, even makes big plans. Emerging from one stint, he opens up about his future plans: After football, he wants to be a mayor ... or a marriage counselor. Or both.THURSDAY, OCT. 13 Jennings walks a little slower up the two flights of stairs from the basement to the town houses main level. Today was Mans Day, what the Giants call practice with full pads and extra hitting. It felt like I was just running all day, he says as he puts on a bone stimulator, designed to strengthen the cartilage cells near the fractured bone. As a screen counts down the 20-minute treatment, all Jennings can do is wait.FRIDAY, OCT. 14 At practice, coach Ben McAdoo had told Jennings he was clear to play -- four weeks after his injury. Now massage therapist Kelly Levesque stops by in the evening for a 90-minute session. Jennings lies facedown, toggling through five games of chess on his phone. His thumb feels fine, he says, and he doesnt think it should have sidelined him at all. If it was up to me, he says, I would have never come out of the [Saints] game.SATURDAY, OCT. 15Though he can literally see the Giants MetLife Stadium from his back porch, Jennings drives 15 minutes to the teams hotel the night before home games, common practice in the NFL.As his teammates feast on barbecued wings, chicken fingers and burgers, he opens one of the black trays from his fridge: grilled salmon, pineapple mango salsa, jasmine rice and steamed broccoli.SUNDAY, OCT. 16 Game day. Jennings has been working all week -- all career -- for 1 p.m. on Sundays.He wakes at 8; by 11 hes on the field performing one of the most distinctive pregame routines in the NFL, part dance show, part plyometrics. He shimmies, shakes, high-steps and jiggles his way around the field. Its more ground than he will accumulate all game. His first carry comes in the first quarter: 2 yards. Three minutes later, 2 more. Hell carry nine times for 15 yards and add four catches for 20 in a 27-23 win. (No fumbles -- the thumb holds up.) Such is the life of an NFL player: all that punishment all week for 35 yards.What now? Go get sushi, Jennings says. Monday, do it all over again. ' ' '