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CALGARY - After saying Bo Levi Mitchell looked ready to quarterback the Calgary Stampeders again, coach John Hufnagel gave Drew Tate the nod to start Friday in Regina against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.Theres two reasons. One is that Drew has had an excellent week of practice, Hufnagel told reporters Wednesday. The other reason I will tell you when Im done with my coaching career.Calgary went 1-1 with Tate as the starter while Mitchell healed a sprained ankle and stretched ligament in his left leg.After watching Mitchell practise Tuesday in wet conditions at McMahon Stadium, Hufnagel said it looks good that hell be playing the game, although the coach added he would wait another day before declaring his Friday starter.Calgary (11-2) can secure a playoff berth with a win over the Roughriders (9-4). A loss by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (6-7) to Ottawa in Fridays earlier game, however, would also ensure a playoff spot for the Stampeders.Tate, 29, will get his third straight start this season. Meanwhile, the Roughriders announced Wednesday rookie Seth Doege will get the start Friday. The defending Grey Cup champions are also shuffling quarterbacks in the absence of injured veteran Darian Durant.Doege split duties with Tino Sunseri in a 24-0 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos last week. Doege got on the field in the third quarter and was 5-for-11 in pass attempts for 61 yards. He threw one interception.When Mitchell was injured in the fourth quarter Sept. 13, against Toronto, Tate completed a 40-33 comeback win going 6-for-6 in passing with a pair of touchdown throws and a two-point convert pass.He completed 51 per cent of his passes for a combined 314 yards in his next two games. Tate rushed for a pair of touchdowns in a 31-15 loss to Montreal in Week 13.Mitchell dressed as Calgarys third-stringer but didnt play in Saturdays 14-7 win over the B.C. Lions. Tate didnt throw a touchdown pass in the two games and was intercepted once.We have all the confidence in the world with Drew, Hufnagel said. I do, the coaches do, his teammates do and he has a lot of confidence in himself.Mitchell will dress for Fridays game, Hufnagel added. Luke Kunin Jersey . Berdych and Stepanek played all five matches when the Czechs beat Spain 3-2 in the final last November in Prague to win the countrys first title as an independent nation. Jonas Brodin Jersey .J. Ellis have avoided arbitration, agreeing to a one-year contract. http://www.authenticwildpro.com/Jt-brown-wild-jersey/ . Bjoergen pulled away from Swedens Charlotte Kalla on the final straight to win in 38 minutes, 33.6 seconds and defend her title from the 2010 Vancouver Games. Kalla was 1.8 seconds back. 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You cant cover them all.With Goran Dragic, Eric Bledsoe and Isaiah Thomas on the floor together in the final minutes, the Suns had more than enough options to keep their winning streak rolling.Dragic scored 24 points, Bledsoe had 20 of his 22 after halftime, and Phoenix beat the Los Angeles Lakers 116-107 on Sunday night for its sixth consecutive victory.Thomas added 15 points for the balanced Suns, who weathered an impressive Los Angeles surge in the final minutes of their seventh win in eight meetings with the Lakers, who lost their third straight despite Bryants return.Phoenixs 13-point lead dwindled to one, but the Suns finished on a 10-2 run.Everybody makes runs in the NBA, Bledsoe said. We just kept our composure, hit some shots and made our free throws.The Suns lost six straight before their winning streak, but coach Jeff Hornaceks rotation has been working particularly well.We just had to push the pace and keep up on Kobe, said Markieff Morris, who had 12 points and seven rebounds. We can score with anybody in this league, but we win when we play some defence.Bryant had 10 points, eight rebounds and seven assists in 32 minutes during his first game back from a three-game absence to rest his aching 36-year-old body.My legs felt a lot better, said Bryant, whose 10 shots were less than half his season average. Just working myself back into form, but I felt fine.Nick Young hit four 3-pointers and scored 21 points while taking up Kobes scoring slack again for the Lakers. Jeremy Lin added 19 points.Phoenix used its fast-break offence to grab control with a 14-3 run early in the third quarter, and then increased its lead to 13 early in the fourth. Young led a rally that incluuded back-to-back 3s by Wesley Johnson to keep it close, and Youngs free throws made it 106-105 with two minutes to play.ddddddddddddBut P.J. Tucker made a gritty driving layup and Morris banked in a long hook shot on consecutive possessions, and the Lakers couldnt respond.We couldnt get a stop, and when we got a stop, they got an offensive rebound, Lakers coach Byron Scott said. I think thats the most disheartening thing. We were right there again. Played hard, but the last couple of minutes is where we seem to lose it.TIP-INSSuns: Phoenix is on its first five-game road winning streak since February 2011. ... Thomas had a lengthy halftime conversation with boxing king Floyd Mayweather Jr. at centre court. Mayweather is a regular at Lakers and Clippers games. ... The Suns also beat the Lakers at Staples Center on Nov. 4.Lakers: Los Angeles went 12 for 20 on 3-pointers. ... Before the game, Los Angeles claimed centre Tarik Black off waivers from Houston and waived injured guard Xavier Henry. Black is expected to be in town Monday for a physical. ... Youngs girlfriend, rapper Iggy Azalea, was shown on the Staples Center scoreboard chair-dancing to her own No. 1 hit song, Fancy, during a timeout in the second half.ROUGH ROADThe Lakers remained winless since their surprising victory over Golden State last Tuesday. Los Angeles played four games in the past six days with roughly 4,400 miles of travel in between, and it has a one-game road trip to Denver to cap off 2014.A MINUTE DIFFERENCEBryants 32 minutes were four fewer than his team-leading average, and Scott hopes to keep him at that limit in most games. Well just be smart about it, just keep the minutes down, Bryant said. Three or four (fewer) minutes makes a big difference, especially the type of minutes that I play. Those four minutes can be like 12.UP NEXTSuns: Visit New Orleans on Tuesday.Lakers: Visit Denver on Tuesday. ' ' '