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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Marcus Johnson Jr. made a career-high nine 3-pointers and scored 29 points to lead Arkansas-Little Rock over Central Arkansas 70-59 on Saturday.Johnson was 9 of 11 from 3-point range. Kemy Osse scored 12 points and Lis Shoshi added 10 points and 14 rebounds for UALR (8-2), which has won five straight since its one-point loss against Pepperdine on Nov. 22.The Trojans made 56 percent of its 3-pointers (15 of 27).Jordan Howard made four 3-pointers and scored 21 points to lead Central Arkansas (1-7). Derreck Brooks had 14 points and Mathieu Kamba finished with 11.Brooks made a jump shot to give the Bears their last lead, 47-46, with about 13 minutes left. The Trojans used an 18-10 spurt and lead 64-57 with 3:21 to go. Johnson made two 3-pointers during the stretch and the Bears didnt get closer. Dexter Williams Super Bowl Jersey .Y. -- Marcell Dareus and the Buffalo Bills defence made life miserable for Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco. Elgton Jenkins Super Bowl Jersey . It was the kind of score that might make everyone else wonder which course he was playing. Except that Graeme McDowell saw the whole thing. Crouched behind the 10th green at Sheshan International, McDowell looked over at the powerful American and said, "Ive probably seen 18 of the best drives Ive seen all year in the last two days. http://www.officialgreenbaypackerspro.com/Dean-lowry-packers-jersey/ . The FA rejected Wilsheres appeal that the length of his punishment was "clearly excessive" and said Thursday his suspension begins with immediate effect. He will miss league matches against Chelsea on Monday and West Ham on Dec. Marquez Valdes-Scantling Super Bowl Jersey . The native of Mont-Tremblant, Que., captured a World Cup downhill event Saturday, his second this year and fifth career victory on the circuit. Mason Crosby Super Bowl Jersey . -- Former San Diego Chargers safety Paul Oliver was found dead at his Atlanta-area home Tuesday night, and a medical examiner said Wednesday that the ex-player committed suicide. MANCHESTER, England -- Theres a new craze sweeping through the Premier League -- and it spells bad news for the traditional center forward.In the last three rounds, as many as seven teams have started matches with a winger or attacking midfielder playing as a converted striker.Take last weekend, for example. Roberto Firmino, an attacking midfielder, started up front for Liverpool as he has for most of the season and scored in a 4-2 win at Crystal Palace.Winger Alexis Sanchez led the line again for Arsenal and scored twice in a 4-1 win at Sunderland.Eden Hazard, usually a left winger, was a goal-scorer and star player for Chelsea after starting the 2-0 win at Southampton in such an attacking position that he was often playing further forward than striker Diego Costa.Right wingers Nathan Redmond and Michail Antonio were central strikers for Southampton and West Ham, respectively.Meanwhile, for two of Tottenhams last four games, South Korea attacking midfielder Son Heung-min has started as the main striker. And Swanseas American coach, Bob Bradley, played midfield playmaker Gylfi Sigurdsson as a lone striker against Arsenal for his first game in charge.Established international strikers like Daniel Sturridge, Divock Origi, Olivier Giroud, Vincent Janssen, Shane Long, Michy Batshuayi and Fernando Llorente have often had to be content with a role as substitute at the expense of wingers or midfielders. Some of them havent even come on.Even the player widely regarded as the best striker in England has been affected. Sergio Aguero was on the bench for Manchester Citys Champions League game at Barcelona, with coach Pep Guardiola preferring playmaker Kevin De Bruyne up front so he could drop back to help his midfield.English soccer is late to the party when it comes to the converted forward or false nine, which was popularized by the successful Barcelona and Spain teams of the past decade and also in the European game by current world champion Germany on occasion.At the turn of the century, it would be rare to see a Premier League team that didnt start with two strikers. A decade later, playing with one target-man has become the vogue. Now, some teams dont even have one, or sometimes play strikers out on the wing instead.Why the change?Its been coming for a while, according to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who spoke last year about the lack of out-and-out strikers in Europe after a fruitless search in that years transfer window.What we produuce now are good technical players because there are nice pitches out there, Wenger said.dddddddddddd Before, you played in the park where you had to kick the ball up front and you had to fight. A boy of 12 who played against a boy of 16 had to be shrewd and push to get the ball.All those kind of things have gone.Then theres a growing preference for a high-energy pressing game, which relies on a more mobile forward line. Hence why Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp chooses Firmino over Sturridge and Origi, why Son has sometimes been preferred to Janssen as the lead forward for Tottenham in injured Harry Kanes absence, and why Sanchez looks like being the preferred choice to Giroud at Arsenal this season.The likes of Sanchez, Redmond and Antonio -- three quick, hard-working wingers -- can stretch play by making runs behind defense, allowing their teams many attacking midfielders (Mesut Ozil, Theo Walcott, Dusan Tadic, Dimitri Payet) more space to exploit.As for Hazard, relieving him of defensive duties is one of the key reasons Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has turned the Belgium winger into more of an out-and-out forward. Hazards attacking flair was stymied last season by then-coach Jose Mourinho, who made him work too hard defensively.You have a similar type now in England who looks happy to have moved from wide to center, said Wenger, who converted Thierry Henry from a winger to one of the best strikers of his generation. Most of the time, you develop a good technique on the flanks as a winger because you are against the line and you have to dribble. And when you are inside, you have a bit more room.Slowly infused into the Premier League, the false nine isnt so popular among the top teams in Europes top leagues at the moment.Strikers and speedy forwards are still the priority in Spain, with Barcelona (Luis Suarez), Real Madrid (Karim Benzema) and Atletico Madrid (Kevin Gameiro) having genuine strikers.No major team in Germany plays without a classic striker -- except for the German national team itself, and thats only the case when strikers are injured -- and the phenomenon hasnt really spread to Italy or France yet.---Associated Press writer Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, and AP Sports Writers Jerome Pugmire in Paris, Nesha Starcevic in Frankfurt, Germany, and Andrew Dampf in Rome contributed to this report. ' ' '