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Free Press sports writers make their predictions for the Detroit Lions game at the Chicago Bears on Sunday (1 p.m., Fox).

This year’s virtual winter meetings start this week. The Detroit Tigers have plenty of work to do in hopes of improving the team.

Romain Grosjean has been ruled out of the Formula 1 season finale in Abu Dhabi after electing to travel home for treatment on the burns to his hands.

Saben Lee became a great scorer at Vanderbilt. His former coaches, Bryce Drew and Jerry Stackhouse, are excited to see him with Detroit Pistons.

Pep Guardiola’s side claimed a 2-0 win over Fulham on Saturday.

Just before the start of the season, multiple teams were trying to acquire defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, and when the Titans signed him, it was viewed as a very big move. It hasn’t worked out that way. Clowney has had a disappointing season and is now done for the year after knee surgery, Ian Rapoport [more]

Englishman Alliss, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame for his services to the sport in 2012, died peacefully at his home on Saturday, the Tour added in a statement https://www.europeantour.com/european-tour/news/articles/detail/peter-alliss-1931-2020. “We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Peter Alliss, truly one of golf’s greats,” European Tour CEO Keith Pelley said.

Peter Alliss, who became the eccentric “Voice of Golf” on British television after a playing career in which he competed in eight Ryder Cups and was Europe’s best golfer for two seasons, has died. “Peter’s death was unexpected but peaceful,” the family said in a statement through the BBC, where he worked. Alliss won 23 tournaments worldwide in a professional career that ended in 1974 and was the Vardon Trophy winner — for the leading player on the British PGA, the forerunner to the European Tour — in 1964 and ’66.

White was responding to a question about Cuban middleweight Yoel Romero, who was recently dropped by the organisation despite fighting for the title as recently as last March. The UFC currently lists 724 active fighters on its website (www.ufc.com), comprising 117 women and 607 men. “We’re gonna go through some serious cuts here at the end of the year, probably going to have 60 cuts here before the end of the year … our roster is very inflated right now,” White told reporters.