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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Marc Gasols surgically repaired right foot is healthy, and the Memphis Grizzlies center insists hes back -- perhaps better than ever.Point guard Mike Conley is healthy too, his aching Achilles a distant memory. Jarell Martins own left foot is as healthy as its been in a long time.Chandler Parsons, the Grizzlies big free agent signee this summer , is the only person still recovering from his own knee surgery as the Grizzlies held media day Monday. Its a welcome change for a franchise that set a dubious NBA mark last season playing 28 different players due to injuries that ravaged the roster, giving new coach David Fizdale a healthy roster for the start of training camp Tuesday.The Grizzlies still reached the playoffs only to be swept by the San Antonio Spurs.Last year, man it was tough with all the injuries, especially the playoffs not having a full-strength team, so it was very tough, forward Zach Randolph said Monday. Now we all healthy, and now we looking at the big picture and thats getting a championship and getting a ring.Losing Gasol was the biggest hit. Memphis was fifth in the Western Conference on Feb. 8 when Gasol last played and slipped to the No. 7 seed as the injuries mounted. He had surgery to repair a non-displaced fracture in the navicular bone of his right foot Feb. 20, starting a long rehabilitation process to return him to the court.Recovery kept Gasol from playing for Spain during the Olympics, though the center wanted to play. He followed all the doctors orders and stuck with his rehabilitation. Gasol said hes never felt any discomfort in his foot, which makes him confident the repair worked. Hes now ready to help lead the Grizzlies back to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2013 and even further to a place Memphis has never been: the NBA Finals.Im confident that I have the capability of not just being the same player, but better, Gasol said. Better player, more productive, more consistent. Hopefully a better rebounder. ... Its going to be a challenge for me, but Im up for it. Im up for any challenge. I love challenges, and this years going to be another one.Guard Tony Allen said Gasol looks like hes added to his game, noting the man nicknamed Big Spain knocked down six straight 3s in a pickup game recently.Being healthy isnt the only difference for Memphis from the end of last season. The Grizzlies start training camp Tuesday with a new coach in Fizdale , a long-time Miami Heat assistant who Memphis hired in late May after firing Dave Joerger who was then hired by Sacramento.The Grizzlies also announced Monday they hired a new medical director in Allen Gruver, promoted Jim Scholler to head athletic trainer and added Eric Oetter as director of performance. Conley said the Grizzlies have bolstered the staff to help players, even adding massage therapists to help with recovery.Fizdale also suggested to the Grizzlies that they show up a couple weeks early and play together to start building chemistry and conditioning. Fizdale said he couldnt make them do it, and he liked how they listened. Managing Gasols minutes will be a big focus for Fizdale who plans to pull him early from some practices and keep him out of some games through the season.Im definitely going to preserve him, Fizdale said. I dont want to kill him throughout the year and dont have him for the playoffs so itll be very mindful of how I attack him coming back from an injury.---Follow Teresa M. Walker at www.twitter.com/teresamwalkerNike Air Max 90 Outlet . Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999. Cheap Nike Air Max 90 . 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Washington State could play for the Pac-12 title with two more wins.Both of those teams at one point this season were 9,999-1 to win it all. Theyre both now 50-1 to win the championship, tied for the ninth-best odds.NFL: Lions win by not playingAfter a 1-3 start, the Detroit Lions have won four of their past five games. A 5-4 record might not seem impressive, but its starting to look better and better in the NFC North.In Week 10, the Minnesota Vikings lost their fourth straight game and the Green Bay Packers lost their third straight.ddddddddddddThe Lions were off last week but still moved into a tie atop the division.After Week 4, when the Lions sat at 1-3, they were 35-1 to win the division, while the Packers were 5-7 and the Vikings 11-10. Even after the Lions win last week, they were still only the third favorites in the division. But after the Vikings and Packers lost in Week 10, they both dropped to 7-4, while the Lions are now narrowly the division favorites at 8-5.Detroit is now 40-1 to win the Super Bowl after being 100-1 just two weeks ago. By comparison, the defending NFC Champion Carolina Panthers are at 60-1.Soccer: No Leicester City this year?You might remember last season when Leicester City, which opened at 2,500-1 at Westgate and as low as 5,000-1 in some books, pulled off a Cinderella story to win the English Premier League title.Early-season flyers on Crystal Palace (opened at 500-1) and Middlesbrough (opened at 1,000-1) might have looked like sound investments, as both were at 100-1 at this point last week.However, recent results have turned both to long shots once again, as they sit back at 1,000-1 and closer to the bottom half of the table.The big mover has been Liverpool, which opened at 8-1, dropped as low as 12-1, but now is the second-favorite at 5-2, behind only Manchester City (2-1). 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