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INDIANAPOLIS -- The Detroit Lions have already matched their first-half win total from last season.Theyve won seven of nine dating back to last year, apparently found a ground game and an up-tempo offense, and even managed to rally when it looked like hope was lost Sunday afternoon.The usually hard-luck Lions fought back from a missed extra point, and rather than allowing Andrew Luck to steal another win in the final minute, Detroit quarterback Matthew Stafford rallied his team. He led the Lions downfield for Matt Prater to redeem himself with a 43-yard field goal that gave Detroit a wild 39-35 victory at Indianapolis.Something was different about this one, tight end Eric Ebron said after catching one TD pass Sunday. I just felt too confident. I just knew if we got the ball inside the 50, we know our kicker. We just had to get the ball inside the 50.It didnt take Stafford long to work his opening-day magic and give the Lions -- a team that hasnt won an NFL championship since 1957 -- some real hope.Stafford was brilliant Sunday, going 31 of 39 for 340 yards with three touchdowns and one interception. He even outplayed Luck on the Colts home turf. Luck finished 31 of 47 with 385 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, no fumbles, and almost another incredible comeback in his first regular-season start since early November.Detroit hadnt beaten the Colts since 1997 and hadnt won in Indianapolis in 25 years.Four years ago, Luck added his own chapter to the Lions heartbreak when he broke their hearts as his last-play TD pass helped the Colts rally from a 12-point deficit in the final seven minutes.So when Prater missed an extra point and Luck answered with a 6-yard TD pass to Jack Doyle with 37 seconds to go to give Indy a 35-34 lead, some thought it was going to happen again.Not these Lions.I was thinking they gave us too much time, running back Ameer Abdullah said after rushing for 63 yards and catching an 11-yard touchdown pass. That is one of our strong suits. We were a good two-minute team last year. That was very doable, very doable.Stafford, with two timeouts left, found receivers who turned short passes into big gains against Indys injury-depleted secondary, and Prater won it with 8 seconds to go.Some other things key elements from Sunday:LUCK IS BACK: Dont just look at his stat line. Luck had no turnovers, a 119.5 rating and while he did take some hits, he also found a way to avoid more hits. Thats a far cry from how he played last season, when he was 2-7 as a starter and missed seven games with injuries. And it gives the Colts hope that hell be back to his Pro Bowl form in 2016.I think our quarterback obviously was exceptional -- he played one hell of a football game, coach Chuck Pagano said.RUNNING HARD: A year ago, the Lions averaged a league-low 83.4 yards rushing per game and scored only seven rushing touchdowns. On Sunday, they had topped that mark by halftime and finished the day with a solid 116-yard game and topped it off with scores from Theo Riddick and Dwayne Washington. A running game to balance Staffords passing would do wonders for Detroit.INJURIES HURT: The Colts went into the game already down three key players in the secondary. Three more got hurt Sunday. So when Stafford came out for the final series, he had a huge advantage.After the game, Pagano acknowledged the defense ran out of steam before they could finish off the game.LIONS OPTIONS: Even without retired receiver Calvin Johnson, the Lions have plenty of options for Stafford to work with. Four players -- Golden Tate, Riddick, Abdullah and Ebron -- had five or more catches and three of them caught TD passes. And in addition to Abdullah, Riddick added seven carries for 45 yards a score on the ground. 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The players spoke Jan. 13 during a Major League Baseball Players Association conference call after Rodriguez sued the union and Major League Baseball to overturn an arbitrators decision suspending him for the 2014 season and post-season.After a brief upsurge with four straight wins, the Blue Jays stumbled again in New York over the weekend, dropping two games and scoring only two runs total before the series finale was rained out. This time a year ago, the Blue Jays were 24-19 and a respectable third place in the AL East. The collapse began when they lost three starting pitchers, Kyle Drabek, Drew Hutchison and Brandon Morrow to injuries in a span of five days in early June. Throw in the struggles of Ricky Romero and the Blue Jays knew early enough that they had no chance at making the postseason. At the All-Star break, their pitching was ranked 26th in the Majors with a 4.45 ERA, four complete games and six shutouts to go with 16 saves. That was after 86 games. Right now, they have played 43 games and only Houston has a worse ERA at 5.49 to the Blue Jays 4.81. On top of that the Blue Jays are giving up nearly a run per game more than the team holding down the second Wild Card spot, Detroit which clocks in with a 3.83 earned run average. Surprisingly the offensive drop-off this season has been even greater. At the All-Star break last season, the Jays had scored 430 runs, third most in the A.L. behind Texas (443) and Boston (432). They had 127 homers and were hitting .254 through 86 games. Now unless they really take off over the next 43 games, they wont come close to those numbers. At this point John Gibbons crew has scored 177 runs, has hit 54 homers and is batting .243. I know the injury bug has bitten again, but on paper at the very least, even without Jose Reyes, this years line-up should be acheiving more than last years, dont you think? Red Hot Red Sox After cooling off dramatically and dropping 10 out of 14, Boston is suddenly hot again, reeling off five straight wins to take over the first Wild Card position and pulling to within a half game of the division-leading Yankees. Even more daunting to the Blue Jays or anyone else chasing them, the Bosox are tied with St.dddddddddddd Louis for the best road record in the Majors at 14-7. The Blue Jays on the other hand are 8-14 away from Rogers Centre. Interesting little historical gem about the Red Sox. Originally they were not supposed to exist in Boston. American League founder Ban Johnson wanted to foster some sort of cordial working relationship with the established National League, and wanted to avoid markets which already had existing franchises in the "Senior Circuit". Since Boston already had the Beaneaters (later the Braves), Johnson was going to place a team in Buffalo. However, when the National League adopted a more confrontational approach towards the American League, all bets were off from Johnsons standpoint, and he put a team in Boston. They didnt officially become the Red Sox until 1907. That was the year the Beaneaters removed the last vertiges of the colour red from their uniforms. Once that happened, Bostons American League squad grabbed the colour red as their own and the Red Sox were born. Undefeated Moore Tampa Bay may have lost David Price to the disabled list, but lefty Matt Moore is more than taking up the slack as the staff ace. Sunday he ran his record to 8-0, pitching seven strong innings in a 3-1 victory over Baltimore. It was Moores ninth straight win overall setting an all-time Rays record. The 23-year-old southpaw also became the first left-hander to start a season at 8-0 since a 22-year-old lefty by the name of Babe Ruth turned the trick in 1917 at age 22. The debates rages as to whether Bosox slugger David Ortiz will ever get into the Hall of Fame. Either way you cant take this one away from him. Ortiz had his 38th multi-homer game over the weekend, setting a Boston record in that category. He pulled one ahead of the late great Ted Williams, who had 37. ' ' '