导出博客文章Less than four months after he beat cancer,?Pitt running back James
Conner?returned to the football field and scored two first-half touchdowns in
Saturdays 28-7 home win over Villanova.Conner led the Panthers out of the tunnel
and onto the field before the game, receiving a raucous ovation. More applause
followed after he carried the ball on Pitts first offensive play, a rush that
lost 1 yard.Conner finished with 17 carries for 53 yards and added 3 catches for
16 yards.Its not my first game, Conner said. I know its a comeback game, but its
felt like a regular-season football camp, really. My battle was already won.
Beating cancer, everything else was a reward.Conner scored on a 3-yard touchdown
run with 7:08 left in the second quarter to give Pitt a 7-0 lead. He stiff-armed
a Villanova defender the whole way and was mobbed by teammates upon reaching the
end zone.He also recorded his first career receiving touchdown on a 9-yard catch
that gave the Panthers a 14-0 lead just before halftime.That first touchdown
couldnt be any better, stiff-arm into the end zone right into the student
section, quarterback Nate Peterman said. It was an emotional moment.Arizona
Cardinals star Larry Fitzgerald, a Pitt alum, applauded Conners efforts in a
tweet during Saturdays game.The 2014 ACC Player of the Year, Conner announced in
December that he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. The redshirt junior
vowed all along to beat the disease and be ready for the Panthers season opener,
and he did just that after going through 12 chemotherapy sessions.Conner earned
multiple All-America honors as a sophomore in 2014, rushing for 1,765 yards and
26 touchdowns. His 2015 season ended in Week 1, when the 6-foot-2, 235-pounder
tore the MCL in his right knee.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Burnley will remain on top of the Sky Bet Championship this weekend after
beating Leeds 1-0 at Turf Moor. The recently-capped Canada internationals early
goal took the Clarets on to 80 points, four ahead of Middlesbrough and five
clear of Brighton, stretching their unbeaten run in the division to 18 games.It
was Livingston-born Arfields eighth of the season and it came in front of
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Evans side were growing into the contest, though, and after Wood smashed another
shot over, he was presented with a second-half chance which really should have
ended in the equaliser.Lurking behind Ben Mee, the striker reached Carayols
cross only to divert it inches past the post with his shoulder.The Clarets
needed to rally and they did with a move down the left. Arfield left the ball to
the leagues leading marksman Gray and he fired into two Leeds defenders. Burnley
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Burnley substitute Ashley Barnes sent wide from close range in stoppage time -
as the Clarets kept their spot at the summit ahead of their final five fixtures.
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