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PARIS -- Mario Balotelli may lose count when he adds up the number of people he has to prove wrong this season.Among them, a former Liverpool stalwart who openly mocked the controversial strikers move to French side Nice.It is nearly one year since Balotelli scored a league goal, embarrassing for someone who once talked himself up as a Golden Ball winner.If selected on Sunday, he will look to end his drought in the home match against bitter southern rival Marseille, although Nice coach Lucien Favre is unsure whether he is ready.Things are going very well but well see if he plays, Favre said Friday at a pre-match news conference. Hes very positive, hes listening.Nice is Balotellis smallest club in a stop-start career that saw him grab headlines as a mesmerizing 17-year-old for Inter Milan.Pace, power, poise, skill, heading ability, strength back to goal and composure: Balotelli had absolutely everything.Except temperament.Balotelli is like Russian roulette, said Marseille defender Rod Fanni, who could face him on Sunday. Everythings good if his heads in the right place, everything wrong if his mind is elsewhere.In recent years, Balotellis antics off the field have become his trademark, not his performances.Since his last league goal -- for AC Milan against Udinese on Sept. 22 -- the 26-year-old Italian has netted only twice in the Italian Cup against third-division Alessandri.There have been some highs, however.In one of his best games for Manchester City he looked unstoppable when scoring the first two goals in a 6-1 hammering of Manchester United in October, 2011. On the final day of that season, in arguably the most telling contribution of his club career, his wonderfully composed pass set up Sergio Agueros last-gasp winner against Queens Park Rangers -- clinching the title and depriving United of it.Within two months, Italy reached the final of the 2012 European Championship, with Balotelli scoring both in the 2-1 semifinal win against Germany. That season is arguably when he peaked -- sad considering he was 21.Although he did well for Milan over the next two seasons, with a good return of 26 league goals in 43 games, he plummeted after joining Liverpool as a replacement for Barcelona-bound Luis Suarez in the summer of 2014.Over the past two seasons, he has mustered two league goals -- one in 16 games for Liverpool and a terrible return of 1 in 20 when loaned back to Milan. It seemed normal when former Italy coach Antonio Conte left him out of his Euro 2016 squad.Hardly the stuff of a Golden Ball contender, which was not lost on former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher. He derided Balotellis move to Nice, saying on Twitter that a free transfer was still over the odds.Carraghers sarcasm aside, one fact is hard to ignore: Balotelli is entering what should be his peak years at a mediocre French club.Ending up there, given all the clubs he could have played for ... it must have hurt his pride, Fanni said.Liverpool, Milan and city-rival Inter have won 15 European Cups between them, but Nice won the last of its four league titles in 1959 and its last trophy was the French Cup in 1997. Stars like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Suarez have graced Milans clubs and Liverpool.The biggest name to play for Nice is Frenchman Just Fontaine -- the record scorer for a single edition of the World Cup with 13 goals -- and that was 60 years ago.Whether Balotelli can grab the spotlight in Nice -- for the right reasons -- is a very big question.He has a lot of rebuilding to do, physically but also in terms of the runs he makes, his movement, Favre said. He hasnt played in friendly games and its a long time since he played a match.---This story has been corrected to remove reference to Carragher as teammate in the 2nd and 17th paragraphs. Max Kepler Twins Jersey . -- Josh Sterk scored once and set up two more as the Oshawa Generals edged the visiting Belleville Bulls 3-2 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action. Jake Odorizzi Jersey . 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Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis isnt in favor of changing the NFLs overtime rules, even after his team played the Washington Redskins to a 27-27 draw on Sunday.Sundays tie, which occurred one week after the Cardinals and Seahawks finished in a 6-6 stalemate, sparked conversation about whether the NFL should change its rules so that no game ends in a tie. One proposal has been to change to the NCAA overtime rules, which give each team an untimed possession on the opponents 25-yard line. Play continues with extra periods until one team wins.Lewis said hes not a fan of the NCAA format.I just think its hokey, he told reporters when asked if hed prefer to switch to the college system. We play enough football. Our guys on defense played 94 plays this last game. We dont want to continue to keep playing.The NFL adopted the sudden-death, 15-minute overtime period in 1974, but tweaked the rulees in 2012 to allow each team a possession unless the first team scores a touchdown instead of a field goal.dddddddddddd As a result, tie games are rare, with only five ties since 2012. Since 1974, only 44 games have ended in a tie.I like the rule the way it used to be, when the first team who scored won the game,?Lewis said, referring to the pre-2012 rules. Because Redskins kicker Dustin Hopkins missed a field goal in overtime, Sundays game wouldve ended in a tie prior to 2012 as well.The Bengals are the only team to tie twice since the rule change in 2012. They tied the Panthers 37-37 in 2014 after Bengals kicker Mike Nugent missed a 36-yard field goal on the final play of overtime.This is the Bengals third tie under Lewis; they also tied the Eagles in 2008. ' ' '