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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- When New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. drops a pass, he takes it hard. It lingers.Beckham would even say he obsesses over it throughout the next week, until he gets on the field for another game.I have trouble just moving on, Beckham said Wednesday, three days after dropping a pair of passes in a win over the Dallas Cowboys. Im pretty obsessive on at least that area of the game. So it definitely bothers me whenever you drop a pass.But Im sure it wasnt the first. Im sure it wont be the last.Beckham dropped a first-quarter pass that wouldve gone for a touchdown and third-down pass deep in Dallas territory in the third quarter. Two offensive plays after his second drop, Beckham took a slant and raced 61 yards for a touchdown.The biggest thing from a drop is you have to rebound from a drop, coach Ben McAdoo said. Learn from it and rebound. He did it on Sunday.Beckham said after the game that he would spend extra time this week catching balls on the JUGS machine. He has done that. He also has gone back and analyzed the drops.Its all part of his weekly self-assessment.Just dropped it, he said of the perfectly placed first-quarter pass by quarterback Eli Manning down the right sideline. Trying to find the ball and found it late and tried to cradle it in instead of catching it how Id usually catch it. It just got up on me.The second one I was just trying to make a play. The ball kind of felt slick and I just tried to squeeze it and it just shot out of my hands. You cant really worry about it. Ive dropped a pass before. Its not the end of the world for me. It doesnt break my confidence any. Its not going to deter me from doing what Im capable of doing. I just dont want to have them. I dont want to have any more drops.The Pro Bowl receiver wouldnt use his thumb as an excuse, but when pressed on the issue he conceded it still bothered him. Beckham injured his thumb several weeks back when he scraped it across the turf against the Bears, and even left a game in Cleveland to have it checked.Its tough. Its a line between wanting to get better and also trying to protect that thumb for right now, just because you cant be taking too much contact to it until its really game time. Just trying to find a way, Beckham said. Its only when its contact or when I try to grab somebody. Its not like its a regular finger. Its a thumb. Its the most important one you have.Its definitely difficult. I dealt with it before. Im sure it will happen again. You kind of have to play through it and rub some dirt on it.Beckham leads the Giants with 79 catches for 1,109 yards and nine touchdowns. 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The Browns coaching search remains incomplete.LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- JaQuan Newton had 20 points and Anthony Lawrence added 18 as Miami beat Stanford 67-53 in the opening round Thursday of the AdvoCare Invitational.Bruce Brown chipped in 10 points for the Hurricanes (4-0).Stanford (4-1) got 15 points from Dorian Pickens, while Reid Travis had 11. Pickens has scored in double figures in nine of his last 10 games, dating to last season.Lawrence scored all of his points during the second half after being limited to five scoreless minutes in the first half due to foul trouble.I think they were just giving me the ball in the right moments, Lawrence said. My teammates were penetrating, kicking it to me. Once I hit the first one, I felt like I was on fire.Newton helped pick up the slack in the opening 20 minutes by scoring 12.Brown had a couple layups during Miamis 18-4 run over the final eight minutes of the game.The Hurricanes shot 62.5 percent (15 for 24) in the second half.I think our team does have a great deal of character and resiliency, Stanford coach Jerod Haase said. Were going to find that out. We have to get back to who we are. I thought the first half we did some nice things. Then the second half there were some breakdowns.Stanford, which lead by nine early on, took a 27-23 advantage at halftime.It wasnt frustrating at all in the first half, Newton said. It was more, weve just got to play better, play harder. We knew on the offensive end we werent playing as good as were capable of. We decided to keep iit going on the defensive end.dddddddddddd We kept doing that, and that led to our offense.BIG PICTUREStanford: The Cardinal were bidding to have their first 5-0 start since 2011-12.Miami: The Hurricanes announced before the game that junior guard Rashad Muhammad will no longer be part of the program for failure to meet team expectations. After sitting out last season following his transfer from San Jose State, Muhammad was suspended for the first three games this season for violation of team rules. He was looked at as a player that could help after the departure of last seasons leading scorers, Sheldon McClellan and Angel Rodriguez.DJ DOWNERMiami freshman guard DJ Vasiljevic was held to three points after averaging 11.7 in his first three games. He made visits to Miami and Stanford and chose the Hurricanes because he liked Miami coach Jim Larranaga and the weather.NUMBERS GAMETravis has 10 rebounds as Stanford outrebounded Miami 34-30. ... Stanford had 18 turnovers that resulted in 20 Miami points. ... The Cardinal scored four points on the 11 Miami turnovers.UP NEXTStanford: The Cardinal will play Indiana State, which lost 73-71 to No. 21 Iowa State Thursday, in Fridays consolation round.Miami: The Hurricanes, who got votes in this weeks AP Top-25 poll, get a chance to impress the voters with a semifinal matchup Friday against Iowa State. ' ' '