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SALT LAKE CITY -- Even as the Memphis Grizzlies transition under first-year coach David Fizdale, the old guard of Marc Gasol, Mike Conley and Zach Randolph is still leading the way.Gasol scored a season-high 22 points and the Grizzlies beat the Utah Jazz 102-96 on Monday night.I feel like this is the best four quarters weve put together, Fizdale said. Guys, they want to win. They really want this and weve worked really hard over the past couple days to clean things up.The Grizzlies used a 9-2 run sparked by Mike Conleys step-back 3-pointer and a three-point play by Gasol to take a 94-88 lead with 1:25 remaining. Memphis led by as many as 13, but the Jazz kept answering with big plays from Joe Ingles and Trey Lyles.I always try to lead my team, Gasol said. Im trying be more vocal with the guys and keep us stable.By my play, I always try to find the right play, the right open guy.Conley had 18 points and seven assists, and Randolph added 18 points and 10 rebounds off the bench.Ingles scored a career-high 20 points and Lyles chipped in 18.The Grizzlies led 56-48 at halftime behind a 56.8 shooting percentage, their best in any half this season. They also contained Utahs best players -- Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert -- to 13 combined points on 4-of-12 shooting in the first 24 minutes.(The defense) was porous in the first quarter, to say the least, Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. That was the nuts and bolts of the game -- there were times we got a stop and couldnt secure the ball. ... I didnt think we were as physical as we needed to be to close possessions.TIP INSGrizzlies: Gasol has extended his range. After making 12 3-pointers over his first eight seasons combined, he made two Monday to bring his season total to 12. ... Vince Carter scored 20 points off the bench. ... Memphis outrebounded the Jazz 44-29.Jazz: Rodney Hood (illness) and George Hill (thumb) did not play. It was Hills fifth consecutive game out. ... Boris Diaw returned from a right leg contusion after missing eight games. ... Favors left the game in the fourth quarter with left knee soreness and did not return.HOME SWEET HOMEThe Jazz returned home after a five-game road trip on which they went 4-1. Snyder was asked if he was sure he wanted to return to Salt Lake City?You always want to be at home, Snyder said. The whole thing about any game, and particularly a longer road trip, is hopefully you can get better. In our case, that means getting healthy. Try to learn how to win when youre not at full strength, which has unfortunately been a theme for us so far this year.I think guys support each other and sometimes thats the most important thing for guys that are thrust into roles that arent as permanent and theyre able to get confidence and confidence is a big thing. Coach can try to give it to you. You can find it on your own and teammates can help you locate it. I think thats one of the things weve got going.CULTURE CHANGEThe Grizzlies made a coaching change after last season despite making the playoffs for six consecutive seasons. Fizdale said they have to be patient while adapting to a new culture and new roles. However, the days of Grit and Grind from coach Dave Joergers era arent all the way over.I dont want to subtract from any of that, Fizdale said. I still want it to be gritty. I just dont want our offense to be in a grind. I want to be able to get the ball up the court and score more points. Our field goal attempts are where they need to be, we just arent shooting the ball great. ... A lot of that is chemistry and sometimes the shots just dont fall.QUOTABLEWe rely on our older guys for leadership, Conley said. We have guys that have played 15-plus years in the league and have done everything. We use that to our advantage but we dont want to use them too much. ... So hopefully we can get more out of young guys and let the old guys rest a bit as we go along.UP NEXTGrizzlies: Memphis travels to face the Clippers on Wednesday night in the third game of a four-game trip. The Clippers began Monday with the best record in the Western Conference at 9-1.Jazz: Utah hosts the Bulls on Thursday night, facing Dwyane Wade in Chicago for the first time.Patrick Robinson Jersey . Houston won 3-0 to advance to face New York in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Last in the game, Di Vaio and Romero got into a shoving match with several Houston players. 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"It was nerve-wracking, but we pulled through," said Collaros, who threw four touchdown passes to lead the Toronto Argonauts (8-4) to a 33-27 win over the Calgary Stampeders (9-3) in front of 28,781 fans at McMahon Stadium.NFL UK managing director Alistair Kirkwood believes the league will be closing a circle by taking American football to Twickenham on Sunday.The home of English rugby will host the Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants this weekend in the 16th NFL game to be played in London since 2007 - but the first to be played away from Wembley. Its really nice for our sport - born from rugby - to go back to its spiritual home, Kirkwood told Press Association Sport. It feels like were closing a circle.Sundays game will be the first non-rugby sporting event ever staged at Twickenham, an opportunity and a challenge for the stadiums managers.World famous amongst rugby fans, the Cabbage Patch will get a brand new audience when millions of NFL fans tune in to watch. This is an opportunity to put the stadium on a bigger map, Stephen Brown, the RFUs chief officer business operations, told Press Association Sport.Were very careful about the events we hold here. Theres a special nature to the sport we play. This is a first to hold another sport here but there is a good opportunity to have a sport which is similar to our own but is also something a bit different.We want to have big, high-quality events here and this is absolutely that, with a global impact.The game is also being seen as an opportunity to sell that new audience on rugby.We have an investment in US rugby and were helping them grow as a sport in the US market, Brown said.These are two sports with lots of big athletes kicking and carrying a ball so theyre not dissimilar and there are a lot of people who could be playing our sport within that market.This is an opportunity to engage with the US market and that ties in with our strategy.Getting this 107-year-old stadium ready for its NFL debut has been a significant task. From converting a bar area into a locker room big enough for a 53-man team to creating new disabled fan areas higher in the stands - the usual pitch-side ones would have zero visibility - rugbys Headquarters has undergone a minor facelift.Sundaay is the first of at least three NFL games that will be played at Twickenham in the next three years - a number which could rise to five - and the investment is seen as a long-term deal.dddddddddddd.For fans who have been enjoying NFL games in London for a decade now, Sundays shift in venue offers something fresh.Twickenham is a very different venue to Wembley - a more compact stadium with less space around it - but the NFL is still keen to put on the full game-day experience, even if it will be different to what fans have come to know.It adds a few more wrinkles, but its really exciting, Kirkwood said of the challenges of moving somewhere new after a decade of honing the Wembley routine.Its kind of like starting again. At Wembley weve got a tradition and experience, but now we have a new challenge and we cant just do the same thing.Moving some games to Twickenham is part of the NFLs ongoing process of exploring all options in London, allowing it to increase the number of games played here in the short term and consider all the possibilities for a potential franchise in the long term. With Tottenhams new stadium due to enter the picture in 2018 as well, those options are increasing.We have had a great relationship with Wembley and continue to do so, Kirkwood said. Were really looking at this through the lens of having a stated ambition to play multiple games here every year. We need to have options so we can play whenever the schedule allows.With Wembley itself preparing for next weekends match-up between the Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals, NFL UK has found itself helping two different London stadiums prepare to host games at the same time.Its crazy, Kirkwood said. When we started I could never have imagined playing multiple games or two games on back-to-back weekends. I certainly wouldnt have thought wed be playing at the two most iconic stadia in the UK. ' ' '