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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The 20th-ranked LSU Tigers are about to get a better idea of how concerned they should be about their quarterback play.Danny Etling restored a measure of hope to the Death Valley faithful when he relieved season-opening starter Brandon Harris and produced three straight touchdown drives in a victory over Jacksonville State last weekend. Hes bound to get a tougher test on Saturday night when LSU (1-1) opens Southeastern Conference play by hosting Mississippi State (1-1, 1-0).LSU coach Les Miles said his goals this week have included exposing Etling to the things we need to have him do and allow him to show us that he can continue to do what hes done.But with much still unknown about what Etling can do in SEC play, Miles has been careful not to marginalize Harris, who spent all of last season as the starter and took first-team snaps throughout spring practice and preseason camp in August.His talents and abilities need to be prepared to go into the game and play significant snaps, Miles said of Harris. We certainly have visited with him and would think that he understands his role.Etling completed six of his first eight passes for 100 yards, including a 46-yard touchdown strike, but finished 6-of-14 after missing on all six of his second-half passes with two turnovers -- an interception and fumble.Mississippi State, which labored through a stunning, season-opening loss to South Alabama, rebounded with a 27-14 win in their SEC opener against South Carolina last weekend. That victory gave the Bulldogs more confidence in sophomore quarterback, Nick Fitzgerald, who can give defenses fits with his feet.Fitzgeralds 195 yards rushing against the Gamecocks set a school record and brought about comparisons to former Bulldogs star QB Dak Prescott.Hes faster than Dak and a little bit more explosive than Dak with the ball in his hands, Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said. I dont know if hes as physical as Dak was. Its a little different style of running.---Some other things to know about the Mississippi State-LSU matchup on Saturday:JEFFERSONS SURGE: Mississippi State defensive lineman A.J. Jefferson leads the SEC with six tackles for a loss and is tied for the league lead with three sacks through two games. The 6-foot-3, 280-pound senior had a breakout season in 2015 with 13+ tackles for a loss and five sacks, but might dwarf those numbers this fall. Hes a hard worker, Mullen said of Jefferson. Maybe hes not one of the freakier athletes that people have in the league. He kind of got it done through development and hard work.FOURNETTES FATE: LSU star running back Leonard Fournette, who sat out last weekends victory to rest his bruised left ankle, is expected to be in uniform. Fournette gained 138 yards in LSUs season opening loss to Wisconsin, but might have a lessened workload if he plays against MSU. Miles said LSU coaches are aware of Fournettes tender ankle. LSU has that luxury. Fournettes backup, sophomore Derrius Guice, rushed for 155 yards in his first career start last weekend.BEHIND THE LINE: Mississippi States defense has 22 tackles for a loss already this season, which ranks first in the SEC and third nationally. The Bulldogs had 11 TFLs against both South Alabama and South Carolina. Theyve also allowed a mere 60 net yards rushing per game. If you are not careful, Mississippi State will eat your lunch, LSU fullback J.D. Moore said. They are built to stop the run.WHITES RETURN: LSU cornerback TreDavious Whites decision not to turn pro and return for his senior season is already paying big dividends for the Tigers. White has scored a touchdown each on defense (interception return) and special teams (punt return).BOUTTES BACK: LSU starting guard Josh Boutte has returned from a one-game suspension stemming from his flagrant foul late in LSUs loss to Wisconsin. Miles said he hopes Boutte solidifies an offensive line that played well in last weekends win.---AP Sports Writer David Brandt in Starkville, Mississippi, contributed to this report.---AP College Football: collegefootball.ap.org Air Force 1 Hombre España . After a lengthy wait, persistent rain finally forced the postponement of the Nationals game against the Miami Marlins on Saturday night. The teams, and a few thousand fans, waited nearly four hours from the 7:05 scheduled start time before an announcement was made shortly before 11 p. Nike Air Force Baratas . -- Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Fridays morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over . http://www.airforce1baratasespana.es/ . Olli Jokinen, Mark Scheifele, and Bryan Little each had a goal and an assist as Winnipeg won 5-2, handing Calgary its record-setting seventh consecutive loss on home ice. Comprar Air Force 1 Baratas . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf. Air Force One Baratas . Malkin got tangled up with Detroits Luke Glendening early in the third period and his left skate took the brunt of collision with the boards behind Pittsburghs net. NEW YORK -- For years, there has been a lot of hand-wringing over the specter of a post-Williams sisters landscape in American tennis.Venus and Serena Williams, at 36 and 34, are the oldest women in the draw and, presumably, they will graduate from the sport sooner rather than later.Friday at the US Open -- with the sisters both enjoying a day off -- offered a glimpse of what that future might look like. Frankly, it might not be completely awful.In a span of less than 15 minutes, 23-year-old Jack Sock sealed his victory over 2014 US Open champion Marin Cilic in straight sets, and 21-year-old Madison Keys finished off her conquest of Naomi Osaka, overcoming a 5-1 third-set deficit. Both are through to the fourth round and the second week of a major, an increasingly frequent occurrence.Which should calm down all those naysaying critics, at least until the fourth round.Sock, the No. 26 seed, surprised No. 7 Cilic 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.Keys rallied famously, winning 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (3).Serena saw this coming. When asked about up-and-coming U.S. talent, she named Keys straightaway.I think thats very nice of her to say, said Keys, drawing laughter from the assembled reporters. It always feels good to hear Serena say something like that. More than anything, it just makes me want to go out and keep working and trying to get better.Keys has been to the fourth round of all four majors this year. If she can beat Caroline Wozniacki on Sunday, which seems reasonable, it would be her first trip to the quarterfinals this year.It was my goal to be more consistent and to make second weeks, Keys said. Those mornings when I didnt want to wake up at 6:15 to go to practice, those are the moments where I feel like getting through those and going out and having good practices have put me in this position.As much as I hate it, Im probably going to have to keep doing some of those.Sock, too, sounded like a drive-by casualty of blossoming maturity.I think Im putting things together better and better, he said after his win Friday. I definitely feel more confident out there in everything Im doing. Used to be some liabilities people would talk about in my game. I feel like I have cleaned thosse up pretty well.ddddddddddddOverall, I feel my purpose out there. Im executing it well, and I feel like I know what Im going to do on almost every point.Sock is through to the second week of the US Open for the first time, while Keys has done it for the second consecutive year.Ryan Harrison, the 24-year-old from Louisiana, made his contribution to the American cause earlier, qualifying into the main draw and then stunning No. 5 seed Milos Raonic in the second round Wednesday. The third round was less spectacular; veteran Marcos Baghdatis defeated Harrison 6-3, 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-1.After the biggest win of his career, Harrison will see his ranking move up at least 25 spots, into the ATP World Tours top 100.In retrospect, maybe Socks win shouldnt have come as such a shock.While Cilic entered the Open with eight straight match wins (and 14 of 15), the two met in July in a Davis Cup match in Portland, Oregon. Sock was down two sets in that match and somehow turned it around to win. Fridays win gave him six sets in a row over the Croatian.To come back and get three there and get us off to a good start, it only gave me confidence, Sock explained. It was the kick-start of the summer for me. And then playing him today, took a lot of stuff away from that.It was Socks first win over a top-10 player in a Grand Slam (third overall), and it came in a startlingly swift 1 hour, 41 minutes.Next up: No. 9 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, an opponent somewhat less daunting than Cilic. That would put Sock in a place hes never been: the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam singles event.After the win, an animated Sock executed what looked like a dash of swashbuckling sword play.I became good buddies in Rio with one of the fencers, Miles Chamley-Watson, Sock said. He lives here in New York. He was able to come out here today. Kind of on the spot, I thought of turning the racket into -- I think its called a foil? Is that what they call it?Yeah, so if hes in the box on the next one, and Im able to win, you might see a cleaned-up technique and better version of it. ' ' '