The Rams look to open the 2018 season at 2-0 with a good showing today (1 p.m.) at the Coliseum, where they haven’t always been at their best. The Arizona Cardinals will try to stop them.

Rich Hammond and Jim Alexander will be reporting from the scene. Keep it here for live news updates, analysis and stats during and after the game.

Updates: In-game boxscore | Statistical breakdown | Who has the edge?

Start time: 1:05 p.m. PT

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Cardinals 2/12 on third down this season. 1/4 today. 0 for last 3.Todd Gurley scored his 30th rush TD of his career, most since he entered the #NFL in 2015, breaking a tie with Devonta FreemanTodd Gurley, who had 5 touches in the first half last week, is up to 10 touches today. 3rd and 1 near midfield coming up.JoJo Natson. Pretty, pret-ty good.Looked like confusion on blitz pickup. D. Johnson couldn’t get to Ebukam.@samysosa_3 brings down Bradford to force the punt!

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Feed Gurley!

@TG3II punches in his first touchdown at the #RamsHouse in 2018! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPly6hVAAAYZR_.jpgJJ Nelson in for one play, now out.Johnny Hekker with the touchback on the kickoff. Of course.Suh once attempted a field goal also. Just saying. twitter.com/NdamukongSuh/s…Johnny Hekker with the touchback on the kickoff. Of course.Suh once attempted a field goal also. Just saying.Already Cardinals have had to call Timeout to avoid delay of game on offense. Then failed to get 11th man on field on D.Gurley with 11-yard TD run.(I was hoping for a Johnny Hekker drop-kick.)Gurley with -yard TD run for Rams and with no Zuerlien (groin), Gurley runs in the two-point conversion. Rams lead the Cardinals 8-0. Punter Johnny Hekker handling kickoff dutiesThe 2-point conversion is GOOD!

#LARams up 8-0. #AZvsLA (I was hoping for a Johnny Hekker drop-kick.)With K Greg Zuerlein hurt, Rams go for 2, and the Cards are caught trying to get an 11th man on the field. At the 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…That’s inexcusable. They knew Zeurlein was hurt and Rams would have to go for 2.Wow, Cardinals aren’t ready for the conversion. man runs on the field late.With their K hurt, Rams are going for 2.Todd Gurley TD and the Rams are going for two because they don’t have a kicker..@TG3II FOR SIX!

Chandler Jones reminds on the sideline, still resting apparently. Along with other DL starters.With Greg Zuerlein not available, Johnny Hekker is taking placekicks into the net, just in case. #Rams End of 1. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPj1hoU8AEym1p.jpgRams shut out in the first quarter. It happened only three times last season, all three at home. (Washington, Seattle, playoff loss to Atlanta). Rams had scored 1Q points in 11 consecutive regular-season games. But they’re driving now.#AZvsLA https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPjSUZUcAAMH9o.jpgCardinals getting zero pressure on Goff. Pat P blitzed and didn’t get there. C. Jones getting a breather.Natson with a solid return but there are approximately 20 flags on the field. Block in back.Injury Update: Greg Zuerlein is questionable to return with a groin injury.Rams announced kicker Greg Zuerlien has a groin injury and his return is questionable.Rams K Zuerlein (groin) questionable to returnCards’ Bradford upset they had to call timeout there. Seemed to be venting at RT John Wetzel, though I could be wrong.The sack by @Benny_b0y10 gets you a FREE Jumbo Jack with purchase of a large drink at participating Phoenix @JackBox Monday. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPh0ehU0AADCkU.jpgRams kicker Greg Zuerlein doesn’t appear to be on the sideline. No explanation yet.Benson brings down Goff!

No running room at all for Gurley. Arizona looks like it’s trying to load up one side and the Rams keep running there.I like the design of that 3rd down play. RSJ vs. a safety. Good play by Johnson to break up.Cardinals get their first first down, equaling last week’s totalThe Coliseum on Rams home game days may be the one place where you root for the PA announcer to come down with a sudden case of laryngitis. #NoScreamers Some new personnel groups for D. Hodges at ILB in base. CB Benwikere in dime.Cards CB Jamar Taylor with the defensive holding penalty. He had three of those last week.Nkemdiche pancaked on that six yard run by GurleyHodges starts. Bucannon doesn’t.It’s time to Rock the #RamsHouse

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Let’s get it. #BeRedSeeRed https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPa-0iUcAAactX.jpg.@brandincooks takes the field for the first time at the #RamsHouse !

Rams lose toss, will receive after Cardinals defer.Scary thoughts for Browns fans: Gonzalez misses two PATs. And Amos Jones might get to pick their new kicker.I will never understand attending a game between two teams and wearing the gear of another, non-involved team from the same league. Why? OUR FIELD, OUR SHOW!

Let’s Rock the #RamsHouse !

1. 2. 3. Cards! #BeRedSeeRed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPUeZ1VsAA_DEV.jpgLooks like Dominique Easley gets the start again for the Rams at OLB, but I’d expect heavy rotation again.#LARams Pregame LIVE with Myles Simmons and D’Marco Farr. Watch #AZvsLA at 1:05 pm on FOX. pscp.tv/w/bm6jPTIxODc1…Washington, which had 182 yds rushing vs. Cardinals last week, has 38 vs. Colts late in third.Key info for #AZvsLA

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@espnlosangeles / @931JackFM / @ESPNDeportesLA https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPOvG7VsAEY7mO.jpgStan Kroenke went with a dark suit today, rather than his lucky tan. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.Here’s the link for live updates during the Cardinals game. Live updates are much better than any other kind.
azcentral.com/story/sports/n…Here’s the link for live updates during the Cardinals game. Live updates are much better than any other kind.
azcentral.com/story/sports/n…Barron Inactive for Week 2 vs. Arizona

Read » gora.ms/KOhQJY https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPJBVBUYAEVCXy.jpgWetzel gets the start at RT for Smith.

Our starting lineup for #AZvsLAR presented by @BrooklynBedding .

Ramik Wilson starts for Mark Barron active. Rams go with three running backs today, with Justin Davis in. @Alden_Gonzalez What a blessing to be in game Time to take advantage of ittwitter.com/ramsnfl/status…Rams’ inactives: Brandon Allen, Mark Barron, John Kelly, Trevon Young, Sebastian Joseph-Day, Mike Thomas, Tanzel SmartApparently there was a soccer game last weekend.Arizona Cardinals’ inactives today include DE Markus Golden and TE Jermaine Gresham. WR Trent Sherfield also not playing today.Cardinals inactives: Golden, Gresham, Smith, Pierre, Glennon, Sherfield, Cunningham.Arizona Cardinals vs. Los Angeles Rams: Live updates from Week 2 of NFL season azc.cc/2MxqW6A via @azcentral Coliseum turf looks surprisingly patchy, given that nobody has played here in 15 days. I wouldn’t have guessed that it’s tough to maintain grass in Southern California in September..@Rodger_Saffold getting ready for game No. !

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The view from the press box at LA Coliseum https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPCsfzVsAA2YBl.jpg

There was always something else to do first, says singer Michael Ketterer of why he sidelined his dreams of music as his family grew to include six children. Then the idea he could teach his kids the power of pursuing one’s passion set him in motion.

The ticking clock of Brian King Joseph’s body launched the young electric violinist on the same path. As King’s debilitating nerve disease progresses, he says his ability to play music might one day end. It was now or possibly never.

Samuel J. Comroe says he was bullied as a boy for his Tourette’s Syndrome, but turned that to his advantage as a comic who talks about his twitchy life on stage. But comedy is a tough road and with an infant daughter at home he took a shot at a huge prize.

Ketterer, Joseph and Comroe went all in this year to try to win the $1 million prize on the reality talent series “America’s Got Talent.” Now they’re hours from the two-night finale on NBC on Tuesday and Wednesday so we rang ’em up to find out a little bit more about their journeys so far.

Michael Ketterer

Ketterer, 41, grew up singing in the churches of eastern Tennessee, where his father was a music minister. He started thinking about a professional music career as a young man, and pursued it in the worship genre because it was what he knew best, while also working as a nurse to support wife Ivey, their first child, Sophia, and eventually five foster sons the family adopted.

“With us, we’ve taken in all these extra little mouths to feed, and it’s a lot of work just to make the day to day go by,” says Ketterer, who works as a pediatric mental health nurse at Children’s Hospital of Orange County and as a worship leader at Influence Church in Anaheim.

“When ‘America’s Got Talent’ came around it was the last thing that was on my radar,” he says. “My wife basically gave me a kick in the butt and said, ‘You’ve got to get out there, you need to do this.’”

The show had always appealed to him as a viewer because the talent on display is usually paired with interesting or inspirational back stories for the contestants. As he told the judges during his audition, he’d fallen into the trap of thinking that “when you’re surviving you can’t dream,” and he wanted to change that narrative for his kids.

“I always want to teach my kids that the greatest thing they can do is show up and give their all, and go after the things they dream,” Ketterer says.

When he walked on stage to sing the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody” he looked scared. But when he started to sing, his emotional delivery and voice quickly impressed, prompting judge Simon Cowell to hit the golden buzzer that sends a contestant straight to the live shows.

If he wins the top prize Ketterer says one of the first things he’ll do is make his home more accessible to his 9-year-old son Rodrigo, or Rodee, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. No matter what happens its been worth it.

“I feel like when I put my uniform on and go to with these kids (at CHOC) I really feel like I can impact lives,” he says. “I’ve learned that my music can have that impact too.”

Brian King Joseph

Joseph, 28, grew up in Washington D.C., picking up the violin when he was 4 and never setting it down. A few years ago, though, he learned that he had a nerve disease, his hands and feet going numb as the nerves in them died, he says.

Trying out for TV shows after moving to Los Angeles was a potentially last-ditch effort to get his name and music in front of a larger audience. After many rejections one night he got the call he’d hoped for.

“They said, ‘So we have one slot left tomorrow to perform in front of the judges, you want to come on down?’” Joseph says. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s 10 o’clock the night before!’”

Of course he went, and wowed the judges with his big smile and dazzling performance of Major Lazer and DJ Snake’s “Lean On,” making it all look so much easier than it actually was given that he can no longer actually feel his fingers on the strings.

“I play from muscle memory,” Joseph says. “The nerves in my hands are mostly gone at this point. I have to do a constant second by second, millisecond by millisecond adjustment while I play. I’m constantly having to listen to myself and readjust my fingers.”

Walking on stage for that audition was the first time he’d been in a theater other than the one concert he’d ever seen in his life so far — tickets weren’t in his family’s budget — a Linkin Park show  to which he won tickets in a radio contest. So he was nervous, Joseph says, to be backstage and see Tyra Banks and Mel B and Howie Mandel walking by, though once he started to perform he clicked into the safety of that familiar place inside himself.

If he were to win he’d use some of the prize money to cover his health care and hopefully find treatments to let him play as long as possible. He’d also start a charity to help other kids with needs like those he experienced growing up.

“I come from a life where people don’t expect you to do great things because of where you come from, what color your skin may be, or what kind of access you have to certain kinds of education,” Joseph says. “I want to create an opportunity for children to pursue what they love, to pursue their talents, and be bigger than they are, or bigger than what people are telling them they can be.”

Samuel J. Comroe

Comroe, 30, has done stand-up comedy since he was a 17-year-old student at Canoga Park High School and he decided, despite never having performed in public before, to ask his principal if he could do a comedy show once a month at school.

“I was lucky to have such a supportive principal,” he says. “He let a 17-year-old get up on stage and say whatever I wanted to say.”

It felt amazing, Comroe says, who had learned to love comedy through hanging out with his dad and watching comics on TV.

“I just realized how beautiful it was, just one person on stage along with a microphone,” he says of the appeal. “Talking about their lives, their struggles, and just sharing that.”

Comroe certainly had struggles. As a young child he’d been diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome, and the tics and twitches of that condition had long put an unwelcome spotlight on him at school and in other public places.

“When I first started stand-up I really tried not to talk about it too much,” he says. “I was determined not to be a Tourette’s comedian. I wanted to be a comedian who just happened to have Tourette’s. I didn’t want to be defined by it.”

Then a few fellow comedians in the clubs where he performed gave him some advice about being real with himself and the audience alike. “They said, ‘We realize you have Tourette’s, we can see you twitching on stage, the audience can see it,” Comroe says. “We really think you should talk about it.”

He went home, wrote some new material, came back and did a six-minute riff on life with Tourette’s in his next set. And people loved it. “That’s what people want,” Comroe says. “Someone up there being real and honest, being relatable.”

Already his life has changed thanks to the exposure of “America’s Got Talent.” His fan base has exploded and he’s got tour dates lined up through 2019, including a show at the Brea Improv in October and three nights in Ventura the following month.

“If you came to my show three months ago there might have been 20 people there,” he says. “Now you might be lucky to get a seat.

“Now that I have a little girl, everything I do is for her,” Comroe says. “To get to the finals, that’s for her.”

Simone Rocha looked to the quirky women’s hairstyles of China’s Tang dynasty, and antique market reproductions of famous female portraits for this collection, an explosion of embroidered flowers on tulle, long trembling veils and bulbous shapes, all with the Rocha curves and generous proportions.
These clothes are always bold, conceptual, textural — immediately identifiable — and Rocha’s latest collection was no exception, what with the heavy flower brocades worked into coats with rounded sleeves and dresses shrouded in black veils. Other tulle dresses were abloom with red and white flowers, while others still had Victorian vibe with off-kilter ruffles and ruching.
Imitation portraits of Chinese ladies were magnified across lace-edged or veil-covered dresses. Looks that weren’t draped in lace were layered with starched white — or bejeweled black — bibs. There was a lot going on here, and it was often overwhelming. Where to look first? At the broad-brimmed hats and encompassing veils? The painted ladies? The fat folds of silky embroidered fabric?
Rocha said she was having fun. “I wanted it to be very playful, and one of the ideas was how I could make these spheres [from the Tang ladies’ hairstyles] into dresses. We’re very playful with our work in the studio when

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Pedro Lourenço admits that sustainability is difficult to achieve and, instead, he focused on creating “conscious pieces.” “It’s still not possible to be 100 percent sustainable,” he confessed.
Zilver is Lourenço’s new brand and for his debut collection he designed with simplicity in mind. Button-down shirts and khaki parkas were crafted with clean, sharp lines in a black and white color palette that was broken up with a neon green oversize sweatshirt and a tomato-red biker outfit.
He also took inspiration from military styles. Two-tone denim jeans were decorated with removable silver hardware and asymmetric leather miniskirts were done up with zips and belts.
There were plenty of basics to offer. Among these there was a standout piece, a colorful racecar design that was printed on a pair of jeans.
“The print is super important and inspired by racing helmets,” Lourenço said. He also translated this into his new Helmet bag, “in Paris, when all the girls and boys take their helmets off, they hold it by the strap and use it to hold their keys and wallets,” he said.

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Reem Acra made her spring collection a study in gloriously soft, ethereal glamour with no diversions. The lineup was more focused and edited than usual. “I wanted it to be very precise and not overwhelming,” said Acra, who worked within a palette of dreamy pastels and flesh tones, adjusting silhouettes to tea length with a light fullness. Some of the prettiest styles were done in pink or white fil coupe with metallic accents, cut with a dreamy, elegant take on folkloric dresses. There was also a fair amount of Grecian-inspired draping and pieces that came with veiled overlays to add a touch of mystique to lingerie-inspired styles.

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Sadie Williams’ gang of biker chicks was actually more cute than intimidating. Inspired by Japanese Bosozoku gangs and motocross riders, the collection included a colorful boiler suit and tire-patterned tights.
Williams translated racing tracks into a jovial, abstract print that appeared on dresses and long-sleeve shirts, while a multicolored patchwork skirt had a checkered-flag pattern that also popped on a red and blue jacquard jacket and skirt combination.
The palette hinged on bold jewel tones — heightened with shots of shimmery Lurex yarn. Those colors spilled onto multicolored, jockey-style shirts and scarves.

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Margaret Howell put a utilitarian spin on her usual laid-back tailoring. Relaxed button-down shirts and khaki slacks could easily walk off the runway and into the workplace.
Not one for obvious statements, Howell played with subtle details — a pointed collar here, a round neck there and the occasional sailor collar — and natty accessories. Pageboy hats sat on model’s heads and these tipped playfully to one side while colorful neckerchiefs and square tipped ties were knotted loosely with a slapdash hand.
Howell’s women were dressed in high-waisted, pleated shorts, roomy and fuss-free skirts and slouchy mannish pants. And her men made do with trousers rolled up at the cuffs. She paired these androgynous looks with bracelet-sleeve shirts, one decorated with a circle-patterned print.
While her palette remained muted and soft, there was an iridescent khaki dress shirt, a rust-colored sweater and a mustard yellow shirt. These were soft accents that sat well alongside her collection, unlike the spandex cycling shorts and body suits that more or less resembled unflattering swimsuits.

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LONDON — Designer Jenny Packham is best known for her bridal gowns, red carpet sparklers and demure, printed or embellished dresses worn by the likes of the Duchess of Cambridge, but on the rocky terrain of British fashion — where so many companies struggle to survive — she’s also a member of an elite society of long-standing brands.
Her 30-year-old business, which she runs with her husband Mathew Anderson, is independent, profitable and makes its money from clothing — with the business split 50/50 between the eveningwear and bridal collections. She has a healthy wholesale business, a flagship on Mount Street here, and in July opened her first store in China at the Beijing Peninsula Hotel, a 153-square-foot space that carries her bridalwear.
Packham has always stuck to what she does best, and her clients — Emily Blunt, Kate Hudson, Rihanna, Gigi Hadid, Taylor Swift, Adele, Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie and Kerry Washington — keep coming back for more. The Duchess of Cambridge wore a Packham dress each time she appeared outside St. Mary’s Hospital for her photo op after giving birth.
On the opposite pole of the celebrity spectrum, Kim Cattrall’s Samantha Jones was also a big fan, with the stylist Patricia

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Watch the Delpozo Spring/Summer 2019 London Fashion Week Show live on WWD on Sunday, September 16 at 9:00 a.m. EDT.
 

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The British marque’s classic E-Type has been blended with the DNA of the I-Pace, and the result has a range of 170 miles.