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  Deshaun Watson's 4 TDs lift Texans to 41-25 win over Lions SPORTS | 26.11.2020 | 9:15 PM Associated Press 0 Deshaun Watson Will Fuller Matthew Stafford DETROIT (AP) — Deshaun Watson had a pair of go-ahead touchdown passes in the first half and threw for two more scores in the fourth quarter to help the  Houston Texans  pull away and beat the Detroit Lions 41-25 Thursday. Texans star defensive end J.J. Watt  had an early pick-6  and Will Fuller had six receptions for 171 yards and two touchdowns for the Texans (4-7), who have won two straight for the first time this season and three of their past four games with interim coach Romeo Crennel. Detroit (4-7) might end the season with interim leaders after losing consecutive games for the third time this season, dropping coach Matt Patricia's record to 13-29-1 and general manager Bob Quinn's mark to 12 games under .500 over five seasons. The Lions retained  Patricia  and Quinn for this season and ownership...

  Thousands bid farewell to Maradona in Argentina amid clashes SPORTS | 26.11.2020 | 8:25 PM Associated Press 2423 Diego Maradona Pelé Carlos Tevez BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Tens of thousands of fans, many weeping, filed past the coffin of Diego Maradona, Argentina's most iconic soccer star on Thursday in ceremonies that mixed head-of-state-like honors with the chaos of a rowdy stadium. Fans singing soccer anthems, some draped in the national flag, formed a line more than 20 blocks long stretching from the Plaza de Mayo where Argentines gathered to celebrate the Maradona-led triumph in the 1986 World Cup. But with the time for viewing the coffin at the nation's presidential palace drawing short, police moved to cut off the back end of the crowd, enraging fans who hurled rocks and other objects at police, who responded with rubber bullets. While the scenario was that of a state funeral, a casket laid out in the presidential palace, the atmosphere often was that of a soccer stadium — c...