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OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Dennis Pitta defied the odds and the advice of medical experts with his return to the NFL.Now that the Ravens tight end has proven that two serious hip operations and a two-year layoff wont keep him down, his next objective is to return to the form he displayed during Baltimores Super Bowl run in 2012.Pitta caught three passes for 39 yards on Sunday in a 13-7 victory at home against Buffalo. After the first reception, many of the fans stood and applauded his return.Now its about continuing to get the feel, Pitta said Wednesday. I hope I can improve as the weeks go on.Pitta dislocated and fractured his right hip during training camp in 2013. He played in the final four games that season, but injured the same hip again in September 2014 at Cleveland.At that point, Pitta had to decide whether a second comeback was feasible, or even possible.There were doctors that suggested I should quit, Pitta recalled. There were friends and family -- looking out for my best interest and my health -- who wanted me to just be smart about it.Including Mataya Pitta, who helped convince her husband to return after the initial hip surgery.My wife is still nervous to this day, to watch me out there, Pitta said. She was nervous last Sunday.The 31-year-old Pitta smiled broadly when thinking back to the feeling of facing the Bills.It meant a lot, being able to take the field, running out of the tunnel again, he said. It was something I didnt know if I was going to be able to do. Extremely grateful and humbled to be back on the field with my teammates.One of those teammates, quarterback Joe Flacco, wasnt exactly swept away with emotion over having his good friend as a target again.Not to sound cold or anything, but I really didnt think about it too much, Flacco said. When he caught the pass, the place erupted a little bit and I thought to myself, `I guess that was the first pass he caught today.Flacco and Pitta formed an impressive connection in 2012, teaming for 61 completions and seven touchdowns. That was merely a prelude to the postseason, when Pitta grabbed 14 passes for 163 yards and three scores, including a 1-yard TD in the Ravens 34-31 Super Bowl win over San Francisco.Pitta didnt play in another game until the following December. Before facing the Bills on Sunday, he played in seven games over a three-year span.After failing to get medical clearance last season, Pitta arrived at training camp this year ready to go. Then, during the first week of practice, he got into a scuffle with a teammate and fractured his right middle finger.It was frustrating at the time ... but fortunately, it wasnt an injury that wasnt going to keep me out of the regular season, he said.Now hes back, and his next stop comes Sunday in the city where his previous comeback ended.The last time I played in Cleveland was a pretty big low point. That was probably the lowest, Pitta said. When you dislocate your hip for a second time in that many years, its tough. I didnt know how I would respond, how my body would feel six months down the road, a year down the road.So I was really relying on what the doctors were telling me, which wasnt all that positive, to be honest.Pitta beat the odds. This week, instead of worrying about his hip, hes got the same agenda as most players: to improve each week.Were both talking about, `OK, now heres where we have go from here, coach John Harbaugh said. You move on to the next thing. 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Nike Air Max Plus Nz . -- Adam Snyder returned to the San Francisco 49ers this season because the offensive lineman thought it was his best opportunity to win a championship. Lancashire 152 and 28 for 3 need 319 more runs to beat Warwickshire 219 and 279 for 7 dec (Ambrose 59*, Lilley 3-56)Scorecard Whatever the last day has in store, Warwickshire will have to conclude that this has been a let-down of a season, irrespective of the trophy they brought home from Lords last weekend. They began it as a popular choice among the pundits as the team most likely to derail Yorkshires bid for a hat-trick of titles, yet have finished it in a relegation scrap with Lancashire.Whats more, it is a youthful, inexperienced Lancashire, a side in its development stage, several years away from reaching maturity. Perhaps Warwickshire are a little too mature, lacking the mental vigour of youth, the appetite for success perhaps having lost a little of its edge. Seven of the side in action here are the wrong side of 30, with Keith Barker not far away.Barkers contribution has been beyond reproach, comprising 608 runs and 60 wickets - his highest haul yet - and Jeetan Patel has underlined his status as the best spinner in the Championship, despite being pressed hard by Somersets Jack Leach. Beyond those two, however, there are not many contenders for player of the year.The new lease of life that Ian Bell perhaps hoped to have drawn from the captaincy has not happened and nor has the England recall of which he retained some hope. Jonathan Trott, about to bare his soul in his new autobiography, has recovered well from his troubled times but not even he could manage 1,000 Championship runs, a milestone well out of reach of everyone else. Sam Hain, the great hope of recent seasons, has taken his overdue chance in white-ball cricket well enough but in the red-ball game by the most generous assessment he has had a year standing still.If they do survive - and to do so they must win if Hampshire defeat Durham in Southampton - they will at least have avoided slipping into the backwater that will be home to all the other Midlands counties next season. You fear they might be battling against the current again next year, however, unless something happens to shake things up.Given their experience and the bonus of three wickets in the final hour of day three, you would expect them to get the job done. Their second innings matched the first in producing only one half-century but those who made a start without building on it substantially accumulated enough runs collectively to set Lancashire a real challenge, enabling Bell tto set 347 to win in a day plus 18 overs.ddddddddddddTrott, not at his most fluent but still able to produce some lovely drives, appeared to be the one who would come up with the key innings until he was bowled through the gate by offspinner Arron Lilleys second ball, after which Bell was bowled off an inside edge attempting his familiar late cut. But Tim Ambrose stepped up with an unbeaten 59 that held things together. There was not as much turn in the pitch as was anticipated but although there were some batting misjudgments - Alex Mellor, Ian Westwood and Hain all fell offering no stroke - Lancashire kept up to their work willingly and Tom Bailey led the attack with discipline. Lilley finished with 3 for 56.Those evening inroads, though, have probably swung the balance. Haseeb Hameed survived, but the loss of Rob Jones, trapped in front by Barker, Luke Procter, another to be leg before without playing a shot, and Karl Brown, who feathered a catch to Ambrose off Chris Wright, leaves Lancashire already running out of reliable batsmen, although they will draw some comfort from knowing a draw would be enough for their survival.As Patel explained, it was enough to give Warwickshire belief that they can finish Lancashire off and leave their former coach, Ashley Giles, looking for assistance from Durham to keep a relegation off his CV.Win or not, Patel agreed that Warwickshires poor season in four-day cricket needs to be addressed.To take those three wickets tonight was very important because it put more pressure on them and gave us a bit of belief, he said. It is all about tomorrow now , tomorrow is the biggest day of our season. We are in a position where we can win the game and if we can get ruthless and keep pushing and pushing we can knock them over.But it is very disappointing to be fighting to avoid relegation because we started the season aiming to win all the competitions.It is a tough division but Im not going to lie - we are down at this end of the table not for that reason but because we just missed key moments.I think regardless of the result it will be spoken about and hopefully guys are willing enough and man enough to take it on the chin and say how do I get better because next year will bring the same pressures. People will get better and weve got to get better with them. ' ' '