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INDIANAPOLIS -- Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin guessed wrong.He expected Andrew Luck to overcome a head injury and suit up for Thursday nights primetime game.Instead, the Indianapolis Colts ruled out their star quarterback Wednesday after he missed practice for the third straight day.The likely replacement will be the rarely used Scott Tolzien, whom Tomlin doesnt have much tape on because Tolzien hasnt played since the preseason.But Tomlin didnt win two Super Bowls without successfully devising contingency plans -- and hell have to rely on that experience to win at Indy.I just think its prudent for us to prepare for Andrew and then react to whatever may transpire thats different than that, as opposed to the other way around, Tomlin told Indianapolis reporters during a conference call before Wednesdays injury report was released.Indy (5-5), of course, did a good job keeping Lucks status shrouded because thats how NFL teams operate.And Pagano didnt drop any hints about his backup plan, either, when he told reporters Tuesday simply that the Colts had options.The most likely scenario, of course, is that Pagano sticks with Tolzien.Otherwise, Pagano could go with Stephen Morris, a practice squad player who was promoted to the active roster Wednesday, some combination of both or use running back Frank Gore in the wildcat formation as the Colts have done sporadically the past two games.None of those options, of course, would be as promising as having Luck.Theres no choice now, and Pagano cant afford to fret with a critical game looming between two playoff contenders.Its just football. Its life in the National Football League, he said. Theyre not cancelling the game and so well put our best foot forward.Complicating matters is that Pittsburgh (5-5) has posed major problems for the Colts.Theyve won the past three in the series, the past two by a combined score of 96-44.Losing Luck, who entered the concussion protocol Sunday night after complaining of concussion-like symptoms following a victory over Tennessee, wont help.But with only four days between Sunday nights diagnosis and this weeks game there wasnt enough time to get him cleared by doctors and the Colts finally made the decision to hold him out.You can rub dirt on a lot of things, but you cant rub dirt on the brain so you have to be smart with that, said Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.Here are some other things to watch Thursday:BLING BLINGFour days after honoring the Colts 2006 Super Bowl team, they will have another halftime celebration when former coach Tony Dungy and former receiver Marvin Harrison receive their Hall of Fame rings. Both were inducted in August, were part of the title team and could not attend Sundays ceremony.BROWN & HILTONAntonio Brown and T.Y. Hilton grew up together as youth league teammates and are still friendly even when theyre on opposing sidelines.This week, theyll be chasing the same goals. Brown needs 93 yards to join Hines Ward as the second Steelers receiver in history to record four straight 1,000-yard seasons.Hilton needs 112 yards for his fourth straight 1,000-yard season, something only two other Colts receivers (Harrison and Reggie Wayne) have done.LEARNING ON THE JOB: The Steelers have three rookies starting on defense: safety Sean Davis, cornerback Artie Burns and nose tackle Javon Hargrave.Theyre growing up quickly. Burns has two interceptions in Pittsburghs past three games, Davis has rapidly gone from lost backup to first string and Hargrave recovered a fumble for a TD in Cleveland.The Steelers will need their fresh legs over the final six games to make the playoffs for a third straight season, something theyve never done under Mike Tomlin.I just hope they keep coming along the way they have, defensive coordinator Keith Butler said.SOMETHING HAS TO GIVEWhile Pittsburgh has lost four straight Thanksgiving Day games since 1983, the Colts have won the only two such games theyve been involved in since the move to Indy.The Colts also have won 10 straight Thursday night games since 2007. But they havent beaten Pittsburgh since 2008.LEAN ON LEVEON: Oh the benefits of being 24. Steelers running back LeVeon Bell is feeling good just a few days removed from a heavy workload against the Browns.Bell touched the ball 32 times while piling up 201 total yards and Pittsburghs only offensive TD in Cleveland. 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A month shy of his 52nd birthday, Philadelphias Hopkins was attempting to return from a 25-month layoff following his unification loss to Sergey Kovalev by taking on young, hungry Smith, who had upset contender Andrzej Fonfara by first-round knockout in June. Hopkins, wanting to go out on his own terms, promised win, lose or draw this would be his final fight. So he did get to go out with his carefully planned finale, but the end was anything but what he had hoped for.Instead of beating Smith, the 27-year-old underdog from New Yorks Long Island, Hopkins found himself in a dog fight with a busier, more aggressive opponent who was not even born when Hopkins turned pro. After seven close rounds, Smith was up 69-64 and 67-66 on two scorecards and Hopkins was up 67-66 on the third card when Smith landed a six-punch flurry that sent Hopkins out of the ring and crashing to The Forum floor in the eighth round. Having bonked his head and hurt his ankle, Hopkins was unable to beat the 20-count from referee Jack Reiss, and the fight -- and his career was over -- at 53 seconds in the eighth. It was a huge win for Smith and sent The Executioner into retirement with the first stoppage loss of his glorious career.Joeseph Diaz Jr. W10 Horacio GarciaFeatherweightScores: 100-90 on all three cardsRecords: Diaz Jr. (23-0, 13 KOs); Garcia (30-2-1, 22 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Diaz, a 23-year-old southpaw from South El Monte, California, is moving along nicely as a pro following his participation in the 2012 Olympics. He had no issues against Garcia, 26, of Mexico, in the shutout decision win. Garcia was game and made for an action-packed fight, but Diaz was better in every aspect. He was faster, displayed superior skills and landed way more punches (266 to 116, per CompuBox) than Garcia. Diaz, who went 4-0 this year, is probably on his way to a world-title shot. His biggest weakness is simply that he is not much of a puncher. Besides that, he has everything it takes to win a title.Oleksandr Usyk TKO9 Thabiso Mchunu -- Fight recapRetains a cruiserweight titleRecords: Usyk (11-0, 10 KOs); Mchunu (17-3, 11 KOs)Rafaels remarks: After a slow start that had the crowd booing, Usyk, making his first title defense and his United States debut, began to warm up and get into the groove against fellow southpaw Mchunu, 28, of South Africa, in a one-sided victory. With his promoter Vitali Klitschko at ringside, Usyk, 29, who was the 2012 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist for Ukraine, scored three knockdowns, including one with a left uppercut in the sixth round and then two more in the ninth round with left hands, the second of which promoted referee Lou Moret to stop the bout at 1 minute, 53 seconds. Usyk may have underwhelmed compared to expectations, but it was a solid win that probably paved the way for his next defense, which will take place March 18 in New York on the HBO PPV undercard of the Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs fight.Saturday at Saint-Denis, FranceHassan NDam KO1 Alfonso BlancoWins an interim middleweight titleRecords: NDam (35-2, 21 KOs); Blanco (12-1, 5 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Massive knockout of the year alert! This one was absolutely sick! Blanco, 30, of Venezuela, may have been the most obscure titleholder in boxing. Fourteen months ago, he outpointed Ukraines Sergey Khomitsky to win a vacant interim belt. Then he made his first defense against former world titleholder NDam, 32, a Cameroon native based in France, and it was over in 21 seconds. NDam, one of the few pros to fight in the 2016 Olympics (where he stunningly lost his opening bout), absolutely annihilated Blanco. He blinded him with a left jab and then followed with a flush-as-could-be right hand bang on the point of the chin. Blanco never knew what hit him. He was out cold upon impact of the punch, and fell face first without breaking his fall. When he hit the mat his body was literally twitching and referee Gustavo Padilla immediately stopped the fight without a count.Lightweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (25-1, 17 KOs), 34, a former unified featherweight titlist, was scheduled to end one year of inactivity against former junior lightweight titlist Malcolm Klassen (33-6-2, 17 KOs), 35, of South Africa, on the undercard. However, the Miami-based Cuban defector Gamboa was 2.2 pounds overweight and the fight was canceled.Saturday at Ekaterinburg, RussiaAlexander Povetkin KO6 Johann DuhaupasHeavyweightRecords: Povetkin (31-1, 23 KOs); Duhaupas (34-4, 21 KOs)Rafaels remarks: That this fight took place is a grotesque example that sometimes anything goes in boxing. The Russian regulators should be ashamed, but they have no shame, so they allowed a juiced-up Povetkin, 37, of Russia, to face Duhaupas, 35, of France, and he brutally knocked him unconscious. Povetkin was allowed to fight despite having failed his second Voluntary Antti-Doping Association drug test in seven months, this time testing positive for the banned muscle building substance ostarine days before the fight.dddddddddddd Povetkin was supposed to face former world titleholder Bermane Stiverne (25-2-1, 21 KOs) for the vacant WBC interim title, made available because of titleholder Deontay Wilders hand and biceps injury. However, about 20 hours before the fight, Povetkins dirty test result was revealed and the WBC rightfully pulled its sanction, which in turn led to Stiverne electing not to fight because the belt -- the reason he took the fight -- was not on the line.So instead Povetkin faced Duhaupas, a 2015 Wilder knockout victim, without a title at stake. Povetkin dominated the out of shape Duhaupas before severely knocking him out with a left hand to the chin. Duhaupas went down hard, slammed his head off the canvas and referee Hector Afu immediately stopped it at 2 minutes, 59 seconds. Everything about this stinks.Saturday at Tuxtla Gutierrez, MexicoRamon Alvarez TKO4 Matthew StrodeJunior middleweightRecords: Alvarez (24-5-2, 16 KOs); Strode (24-4, 9 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Alvarez, 30, of Mexico, the older brother of junior middleweight titleholder Canelo Alvarez, had an easy time taking care of Strode, 34, of Greensboro, North Carolina, who lost his second fight in a row. Alvarez was in full control of the bout in the fourth round when he landed an overhand right that sent Strode staggering backward. Alvarez continued to fire away, unleashing around 15 unanswered punches until referee Mario Mena stepped in to wave off the fight at 1 minute, 41 seconds. Strode complained about the stoppage, but Mena had no choice with all of the shots Strode was taking.Also on the card, up-and-coming southpaw bantamweight Luis Pantera Nery (22-0, 16 KOs), 21, of Mexico, survived a knockdown in the opening round but otherwise dominated the fight against the Philippines Raymond Tabugon, 25, before pinning him along the ropes and teeing off on him until referee Celestino Castro stepped in at 2 minutes, 42 seconds. While Tabugon lost his third fight in a row and fourth of his last five, Nery moved closer to a possible shot against bantamweight world titleholder Shinsuke Yamanaka of Japan.Friday at Indio, Calif.Sullivan Barrera TKO7 Vyacheslov Shabranskyy -- Fight recapLight heavyweightRecords: Barrera (18-1, 13 KOs); Shabranskyy (17-1, 14 KOs)Rafaels remarks: The HBO Latino-televised main event was an exciting action fight that Barrera won impressively, to bounce back from his first defeat, a one-sided decision to Andre Ward, who went on to win three light heavyweight world title belts from Sergey Kovalev, in March. Although Shabranskyy, 29, a Ukraine native living in Los Angeles, dropped Barrera with a right hand in the second round, he was not badly hurt. But, in his first fight with new trainer Derik Santos, Barrera, 34, a Miami-based Cuban defector who was a star amateur, scored three knockdowns. He floored Shabranskyy in the first, fifth and seventh rounds before referee Ray Corona waved off the fight without a count at 2 minutes, 5 seconds of the seventh round.Rashidi Ellis KO1 Eddie GomezWelterweightRecords: Ellis (17-0, 12 KOs); Gomez (19-2, 11 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Ellis, 23, of Boston, had what amounted to his coming-out party with this extremely impressive and explosive victory against Gomez, 24, of Bronx, New York, who barely knew what hit him. Saying he was motivated by the birth of his first child, a son, two weeks ago, Ellis destroyed Gomez in what was supposed to be an even match. He caught Gomez with a powerful right hand on the chin that dropped his opponent, and then landed another crushing right hand moments later, forcing referee Eddie Hernandez to wave off the fight without a count at 1 minute, 19 seconds.Ronny Rios TKO6 Roy Pitbull TapiaFeatherweightRecords: Rios (27-1, 12 KOs); Tapia (12-2-2, 6 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Fighting in front of a hometown crowd, Santa Ana, California contender Rios, 26, looked very sharp against Tapia, 25, of East Los Angeles. Rios maintained a relentless body attack against Tapia throughout the bout, and Tapia could not take the heat, ultimately quitting on his stool after the sixth round as Rios won his fourth fight in a row since an upset fifth-round knockout loss to Robinson Castellanos in October 2014.Friday at Trois-Rivieres, QuebecJean Pascal TKO3 Ricardo Marcelo RamalloCruiserweightRecords: Pascal (31-4-1, 18 KOs); Ramallo (21-11-1, 15 KOs)Rafaels remarks: In January, former light heavyweight world champion Pascal, 34, of Montreal, took a shellacking in a seventh-round knockout loss to then-unified light heavyweight titleholder Sergey Kovalev in their rematch. Making his low-key return, Pascal easily took apart Ramallo, 33, of Argentina, who lost his second fight in a row. Pascal, in his first fight with new trainer Stephane Larouche -- his third trainer in as many bouts -- dropped Ramallo three times, with a right hand to the body in the second round, with a right hand to the head in the third round and again with a right to the head in the third, prompting referee Alain Villeneuve to call it off at 1 minute, 45 seconds. Pascal fought a bit over the light heavyweight limit at 181 pounds. ' ' '