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LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska is unbeaten in mid-October and its No. 8 ranking is its highest in five years. Time for the fans and media to start scrutinizing just how good the Cornhuskers are.One narrative is that the Huskers have been just good enough to beat everyone on what thus far has been a light schedule and that their worthiness of a top-10 ranking is questionable. Another narrative is that a team that has dealt with the offseason death of their all-conference punter and myriad injuries is coming out on top after losing so many close games last year.Coach Mike Riley said Monday he tells his players the outside chatter means nothing and that whats happened so far will have little bearing on how the season is remembered.Were at a good point with our record right now. We love that record, Riley said. Whatever ranking that brings us right now is great. All this stuff is just fun for everybody else, and for us its exactly the record we want, and now we have to get better.The Huskers (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) probably need to get a lot better if they hope to survive the meat of their schedule, which begins after Saturdays home game against Purdue (3-3, 1-2).Back-to-back road games against No. 10 Wisconsin and No. 2 Ohio State come next, and theres a visit to defending West Division champion Iowa following home games against Minnesota and Maryland.Inconsistency on offense and poorly performing special teams are Rileys greatest concerns.The 360 total yards in Saturdays 27-22 win at Indiana were a season low and third lowest in Rileys 19 games at Nebraska. Take away Stanley Morgans 72-yard touchdown -- on a play in which two safeties ran into each other -- and Brandon Reillys 45-yard catch on a deflected ball, and the Huskers averaged just 3.5 yards a play.Tommy Armstrong Jr. threw two interceptions, a couple jet sweep plays netted little despite looking promising and an offensive line reeling from injuries took another hit when left tackle Nick Gates hurt his ankle.But as it did in the previous game, against Illinois, the offense put together a decisive drive in the fourth quarter against a worn-down defense. Terrell Newby did most of the work on a 15-play, 60-yard possession that took nearly 8 minutes off the clock and ended with a field goal putting the Huskers up five points with 45 seconds to play. Along the way, Nebraska converted a fourth-and-1 and survived a video review of a Newby fumble, which was ruled to have occurred after his knee touched the ground.The punt team continued to struggle. Caleb Lightbourn had a punt blocked for the second time, this one resulting in a safety, and Mitchell Paige had a 39-yard return to set up an Indiana touchdown.It was a bad day, Riley said. That teams job is to cover and protect, and we didnt do either of them. We have a lot of work to do there.He also lamented a missed opportunity on a 15-yard punt return by DeMornay Pierson-El that Riley said was one block away from going for a touchdown.Nebraskas defense, particularly the much-improved secondary, continues to be the strength of the team.The Huskers intercepted two passes against Indiana, giving them 11 through six games. Last year they picked off 10 passes in 13 games. They also had three sacks on Saturday.Safety Kieron Williams already seems to be heeding Rileys advice about not listening to those who judge the looks of the Huskers wins.Style points? What it looks like? Williams asked. 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After a first half in which he thought "the lid was on the basket," the Toronto Raptors coach watched his squad mount a second half surge to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 98-91.With three mandatory title bouts facing a Monday deadline before purse bids, one bout was agreed to and the other two were auctioned off at WBA headquarters in Panama City, Panama.Representatives for bantamweight world titleholder Raushee Warren (14-1, 4 KOs), of Cincinnati, and secondary titleholder Jamie McDonnell (28-2-1, 13 KOs), of England, made a deal. The details of when and where the fight will take place were not immediately announced, but it likely will take place this fall in the United Kingdom.Warren, 29, a three-time U.S. Olympian, won the 118-pound belt by majority decision in a rematch with Juan Carlos Payano on June 18 in Chicago.McDonnell (28-2-1, 13 KOs), 30, has defended his version of the belt four times, but the WBA, which has for years sanctioned three belts in the same division, said recently that it plans to reduce the number of titles it hands out and has been ordering fights that will eliminate the extra belts in each division.Warren-McDonnell is one of them.Promotional rights for two other fights, interim heavyweight titlist Luis King Kong Ortiz (25-0, 22 KOs) against 39-year-old Alexander Ustinov (33-1, 24 KOs), and secondary junior middleweight titleholder Jack Culcay (22-1, 11 KOs) versus former titleholder Demetrius Andrade (23-0, 16 KOs), were auctioned to the highest bidder.Vlad Hrunov, bidding on behalf of Russian promoter Andrey Ryabinskys World of Boxing, was the only bidder for Ortiz-Ustinov, winning with the minimum allowable bid of $600,000. Ortiz is entitled to 60 percent, meaning he will earn $360,000, and Ustinov is entitled to 40 percent, meaning his purse will be $240,000.Hrunov told ESPN.com that the fight is penciled in to take place on Nov. 19 in Moscow, Las Vegas or Minsk, Belarus, where Russian native Ustinov lives.However, Hrunov said there is a good chance that the fight will land at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and take place on the HBO PPV card headlined by unified light heavyweight titleholder Sergey Kovalev taking on former super middleweight champion Andre Ward in one of the years most anticipated matches.ddddddddddddrtiz-Ustinov had already been agreed to and was ticketed to take place Sept. 17 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on the HBO PPV undercard of Canelo Alvarez-Liam Smith.However, Ortiz, a 37-year-old southpaw, who defected from Cuba and lives in Miami, is in a contract dispute over his purse with his promoter, Golden Boy, and pulled out of the fight, forcing the purse bid.But Golden Boy did not bid, a clear indication that the sides are working on a settlement to go their separate ways.Sauerland Event, which promotes Culcay, won the rights to the bout with Andrade. It offered $425,000, which easily beat the only other offer, which was $201,000 made by Andrade co-promoter Artie Pelullo of Banner Promotions. The minimum bid was $150,000.Culcay is entitled to 75 percent of the winning bid ($318,750) and Andrade ($106,250) will get 25 percent.Culcay, 30, a native of Ecuador who fights out of Germany, was elevated from an interim titlist to full titleholder earlier this year.Andrade, a 28-year-old southpaw from Providence, Rhode Island, who represented the United States at the 2008 Olympics, beat Culcay in the 2007 World Amateur Championship on his way to a gold medal in that tournament, the most prestigious amateur tournament other than the Olympics.Don Majeski, bidding on behalf of Sauerland Event, told ESPN.com the bout would take place either in late October or early November in Germany.We lost the purse bid, but we are looking forward to the fight, Pelullo told ESPN.com. We wanted to make a deal, but it did not work out.Showtime is high on Andrade and televised his 12th-round knockout of Willie Nelson on June 11, his network debut.Pelullo said the network made a commitment to Andrade, but with the fight against Culcay ticketed to take place overseas, it remains to be seen what kind of American TV deal can be worked out. ' ' '