SPORTS
6A — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Backup leads 49ers over Giants
By Tom Canavan
AP Sports Writer
EAST RUTHERFORD,
N.J. — The way the San
Francisco 49ers played,
missing quarterback Jimmy
Garoppolo and a slew of start-
ers wasn’t an issue against
the woeful and winless New
York Giants.
Backup Nick Mullens
threw for 343 yards and a
touchdown and the Niners
controlled the ball on offense,
took it away on defense and
had another easy day on the
East Coast in a 36-9 win at
MetLife Stadium Sunday.
“I’m real happy with
this week,” said coach Kyle
Shanahan, who wore a mask
this week after being fi ned
$100,000 for failing to do so
last week in a game that saw
his team lose six starters to
injuries on a new fi eld his
players criticized.
“We pulled together
throughout the week,” Shana-
han said of the concern about
the fi eld. “I just got real good
energy and vibe from the
guys from Wednesday when
we started practicing all the
way to last night at the hotel
meeting. And then today. I
Mike Stobe / Getty Images-TNS
Kendrick Bourne of the San Francisco 49ers runs with
the ball making a catch against James Bradberry of the
New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.
thought they played very
hard all four quarters, I was
very proud of our team.”
San Francisco played a
near fl awless game as Mul-
lens hit 25 for 36 passes,
including a 19-yard TD pass
to running back Jeff Wilson.
It outgained New York 420-
231, held the ball for 39:44
and forced three turnovers
without giving the ball up.
The Giants did not run a play
in the red zone.
“Nick was great, very
poised,” Shanahan said. “We
went on a lot of long drives
today. They’re better than not
scoring, but long drives can
get a little bit exhausting. Es-
pecially for me. I don’t want to
have to call that many plays.”
Wilson, Jerick McKinnon
and Brandon Aiyuk also
scored on runs for the Niners
(2-1), who stayed in West
Virginia to prep for the game.
Robbie Gould added three
fi eld goals for San Francisco,
which last week beat the Jets
31-13 here and denied Giants
coach Joe Judge a chance for
his fi rst win this week.
The Niners had Garoppolo
(ankle), defensive linemen
Nick Bosa and Solomon
Thomas (knees) and running
backs Raheem Mostert and
Tevin Coleman hurt against
the Jets. They complained
about the new turf after the
game, saying it was “sticky”
and led to injuries.
The NFL had the fi eld
re-examined and it met all
standards.
San Francisco scored on
seven of its fi rst eight pos-
sessions. It would have been
all eight but a snap-hold
problem led to Gould missing
a 55-yarder. He connected
from 52, 32 and 26 yards.
The Niners’ ninth possession
ended the game.
New York, which came into
the game as the NFL’s lowest-
scoring offense, got three fi eld
goals from Graham Gano, the
second of which tied the game
at 6-all midway through the
second quarter. Quarterback
Daniel Jones turned the ball
over twice.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Bulldogs shock
top-ranked LSU
By Brett Martel
AP Sports Writer
BATON ROUGE, La. — New Mississippi State
coach Mike Leach put his “Air Raid” offense in the
hands of a transfer quarterback who showed up over
the summer and the results were like nothing defend-
ing national champion LSU or the Southeastern
Conference has ever seen.
K.J. Costello passed for an SEC record 623 yards
and fi ve touchdowns and the Bulldogs knocked off
sixth-ranked LSU 44-34 on Saturday.
“I don’t know if any individual could visualize
this taking place,” said Costello, who was Stanford’s
starter in 2017 and 2018 before head and hand inju-
ries sidelined him last season. “I wasn’t visualizing
sitting here breaking records. ... I’m excited about the
potential that this offense has because, believe it or
not, we did leave a lot on the fi eld today.”
Costello’s passing yardage in his fi rst game since
moving from Silicon Valley to Starkville, Missis-
sippi, eclipsed the 544 yards Georgia’s Eric Zeier
had against Southern Mississippi in 1993 to set the
conference record.
And Costello needed most of it to make up for his
two interceptions and two lost fumbles, which helped
LSU rally to tie the game at 34 before he engineered
two late scoring drives.
LSU became the fi rst defending national champion
to lose its opening game since Michigan in 1998 lost
at Notre Dame.
Heat vs. Lakers: NBA Finals features improbable match up
son — two franchises that missed
the playoffs the previous season will
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. —
meet in the NBA Finals. Game 1 of
LeBron James vs. the Heat.
Heat-Lakers is Wednesday night at
Pat Riley vs. the Lakers.
Walt Disney World.
Get ready for the NBA Finals —
“We know why I came here,” said
a title series like none other, to end Lakers All-Star forward Anthony
a season like none other.
Davis, whose fi rst fi nals trip comes
The matchup is set, with the Mi- in his fi rst L.A. season. “We want
ami Heat and the Los Angeles Lak- to win a championship. We’re four
ers emerging as the last two teams wins away, a step closer to our goal.”
standing in the chase to be crowned
James is bidding for a fourth
champions of the most tumultuous NBA championship, as well as a
season in NBA history. The Heat
title with a third different franchise
won the Eastern Conference title
— and he’s about to become the
Sunday night, fi nishing off Boston fi rst player to win a Finals MVP
a day after the Lakers won the
award with one team and then face
Western Conference crown.
that same team in a future cham-
So, for the fi rst time — well, ex-
pionship series. His fi rst two titles
cluding the league’s inaugural sea- were with Miami in 2012 and 2013,
By Tim Reynolds
AP Basketball Writer
the highlights of a four-year stint
with the Heat that ended in 2014.
That, not coincidentally, was the
last time the Heat had reached
this stage. James left to return to
Cleveland earlier than the Heat
fi gured he would, Chris Bosh began
his fi ght with blood clots — a condi-
tion that ended his career — not too
long afterward and Miami descend-
ed from magnifi cent to mediocre in
a hurry.
No more. With a young core led
by Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro,
the veteran savvy of Goran Dragic
and the addition a year ago of
Jimmy Butler the Heat got back to
title contention quicker than prob-
ably anyone envisioned, themselves
included.
Then again, Riley — who won
four championships in a seven-
year span as coach of the “Show-
time” Lakers — isn’t known for
patience.
He thinks big. That’s why he
and the Heat landed James and
Bosh to play with Dwyane Wade in
2010. That’s why they got Butler in
2019, even when the team had no
free-agent money to spend. That’s
why they swung a deal to add
Andre Iguodala, Jae Crowder and
Solomon Hill in February, trading
them for Justise Winslow, James
Johnson and Dion Waiters; Wait-
ers, oddly enough, ended up with
the Lakers and will now face the
Heat in this title series.
“To fi t in here, you’ve just got to
care about winning,” Butler said
earlier in this playoff run. “That’s
the No. 1 thing. Trying to win
a championship. And we’ve got
a group of guys that want that,
night-in, night-out, every single
day. There’s only one goal in our
mind, and that’s to win it.”
The Lakers have that same goal,
of course.
Their motto in these playoffs has
been “Leave A Legacy,” a nod to the
great Kobe Bryant — the Lakers
legend who died, along with his
daughter Gianna and seven others,
in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26.
The last Lakers’ championship was
in 2010, when Bryant got his fi fth
and last title. James has been in
the fi nals every year but once since.
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