James Tamou wants to be able to look his North Queensland teammates in the eye when he says goodbye and exits Townsville at the end of the NRL season, but at the moment the representative prop fears that wont be the case.Three successive losses has the Cowboys premiership defence on the brink of collapse.Their top four hopes are very much up in the air and skipper Johnathan Thurston has warned his North Queensland teammates if they dont quickly get their act together they will miss the finals altogether.That would be an unthinkable end to a celebrated Cowboys experience for Tamou, who was a key plank in their breakthrough 2015 title success and will take up a four-year deal with Penrith at seasons end.That would be heartbreaking, no way would I want to leave the Cowboys (without finals), Tamou said.There is that motivation for me personally for sure, and as a team we are just not quite there at the moment.Tamou said the Cowboys hunger to be the first side to claim back-to-back titles since Brisbane in 1992-93 remained.Greeny (coach Paul Green) has really installed (the hunger) into us and the question is there: Is last year enough? and it is not, Tamou saidThat hunger is there and with it being my last year here I want to make the most of it.The Cowboys face the Warriors, Canterbury and Gold Coast over the final three rounds. NSW and Kangaroos prop Tamou said North Queensland needed to be as desperate as other sides had been to them.We are just off the pace at the moment and we need to turn it around, we cant be thinking of finals footy, he said.We just have to do it on the field rather than talking about it.Obviously it is around the corner, finals. But in saying that we need to pull the handbrake and start looking to next week and not the finals.It is a tough run home. These losses should be a real kick up the bum for us. A similar thing happened last year and we turned it around so we can look to that for confidence. Phil Rizzuto Jersey . Pence singled in the winning run with no outs in the ninth inning to give the Giants a 7-6 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday. Adam Ottavino Jersey . Uniteds eighth defeat of a wretched campaign means Liverpool, which currently occupies the fourth and final Champions League place, could go nine points clear of its fierce rival by beating West Bromwich Albion on Sunday. Charlie Adam scored both of Stokes goals at Britannia Stadium either side of Robin van Persies equalizer, with a miserable day for seventh-place United capped by first-half injuries to centre halves Jonny Evans and Phil Jones that forced them off. http://www.customyankeesjersey.com/custom-johnny-damon-jersey-large-454i.html . -- Ryan Getzlaf grabbed the three pucks wrapped in tape and held them up to his chest in the Anaheim Ducks dressing room for a celebration nine seasons in the making. Jackie Robinson Jersey . The showiest items on Calgarys lot were forwards Mike Cammalleri and Lee Stempniak. Both will be unrestricted free agents this summer. Randy Johnson Jersey . After dropping their final six games of December, the Wild opened the new calendar year with four consecutive wins. Following a loss to Colorado on Saturday, Minnesota rebounded the following night to blank Nashville 4-0, but then had the tables turned on them Tuesday. INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee has endorsed seven proposals to improve an athletes college experience.One measure calls for allowing educational exceptions to the five-year eligibility rule. The committee believes it would provide players with more opportunities to study abroad and work at internships.Another asks schools to offer life skills programs on topics such as social media, financial literacy, resume development and careers in sports among others.The committee alsso is asking athletes and administrators to work together on a definition of required athletically-related activities, to provide more information to recruits about time-demand expectations and sport-specific reviews of in-season and offseason schedules and all countable athletically-related activities.ddddddddddddThe committees recommendations will be sent to the Division I Council. ' ' '