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On Tuesday, Roma travel to the Bernabeu looking to overturn a 2-0 first-leg deficit against Real Madrid and advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2008.It will be almost 23 years to the day since Francesco Totti made his Serie A debut for Roma as a 16-year-old against Brescia. Since then, he has played more than 700 matches for the club, scored 300 goals and is their longest-serving captain by a considerable margin.But, with his 40th birthday on the horizon in September, and after a testing few months, this could be his last appearance at the highest level of European competition. If he even features... Born in Rome, Totti started out as a ball boy with the Giallorossi before moving into the youth ranks at the age of 12.Ever since - and despite opportunities to move to some of the top clubs abroad - Totti has stayed loyal to his beloved Roma. Nobody will ever again refuse the money I did from Real Madrid and Barcelona, he said.Now, in the twilight of his career, Totti remains the Re di Roma - King of Rome - even as his talent fades, his first-team opportunities diminish and others urge him to call it a day.You cannot hide from reality. If youre not up to it anymore, then enough is enough, he was recently told by former AC Milan midfielder Zvonimir Boban.But Totti has not had enough. Not yet. Reports in the Italian press suggest that in a recent meeting with Roma president James Pallotta, Totti asked for a one-year contact extension that would see him play into his 40s. Francesco Totti has scored 300 goals for Roma Roma have apparently offered him an executive role for the next six years, but Pallotta was not giving too much away when asked about the meeting. Just one year? Why not give him another five or 10 years on his contract? Were all making a much bigger issue out of it than it really is.The issue Pallotta refers to is Tottis recent fall-out with head coach Luciano Spalletti.Frustrated by his lack of minutes, on February 20, Totti gave an interview saying he would like more respect from the club. Spalletti had planned to start Totti the next day against Palermo but after hearing his players comments, he called him into his office and told him he would not be involved in the squad at all. It was a brave move by Spalletti - especially considering he had only recently returned to the club. It also caused plenty of controversy, even though Roma ran out 5-0 winners.Fans showed their support with songs for their idol as he watched from the stands, while Rome-based newspaper Corriere dello Sport said the decision was an insult to history. Francesco Totti watched from the stands against Palermo after being dropped from the squad Tottis old coach Carlo Mazzone told Romaforever.it: What [Spallettis] done has destroyed the reputation of an exceptional person - both in football and human terms. Any coach with good sense and character wouldnt have done something like this.Has Tottis reputation really been affected, let alone destroyed?The majority of fans are with Totti, says Sky Italys Angelo Mangiante. Even at the age of 40, they want to see him on the pitch. They are convinced that the King of Rome is not dead.The rift with Spalletti has had a great emotional impact and perhaps widened the gap between the two of them, but not between Totti and the fans. Luciano Spalletti and Totti have not always seen eye to eye While it seems Totti wants to continue - he recently said he is in good shape - recent results show Roma are doing just fine without him. Better than fine, in fact.They have won their last seven Serie-A matches to move up to third in the table. Without Totti, or perhaps more so with Spalletti, who returned in mid-January to the post he held between 2005 and 2009, they have reignited their Champions League hopes and even have a faint shot at the title.Spalletti has done what some other managers have not dared to do: put sentimentality to one side, leave the untouchable Totti on the bench and do things his way. I manage Roma, not Francesco, he said before the first-leg defeat to Real. Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric posted a picture on his Facebook with Totti after the first leg along with the message: My idol. Whatever happens with Tottis playing career, it looks almost certain that his future lies with Roma. How could it not?Now in his 23rd season, he has made more appearances for Roma than any other player (750), scored more goals (300), is their youngest-ever captain and became the oldest player to score in the Champions League with his cute chipped finish against Manchester City in September 2014.His career may not be littered with silverware, but two trophies stand out: the Serie A title in 2000/01 and the 2006 World Cup. Totti was instrumental in both.In the title-winning season under Fabio Capello, which also included a Coppa Italia victory, he was named the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year and received his first nomination for the Ballon dOr.In the World Cup in Germany, he played all seven matches, scoring a decisive injury-time penalty in the last-16 win over Australia and then calling time on his international career after the shoot-out win over France in the final. Totti with the World Cup after Italys win in 2006 Mangiante thinks he will be remembered with the very best in Italy when he does retire. One of the best of all-time. Up there with Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Del Piero and Gianluigi Buffon.Fittingly, given his history with the club, Roma president Pallotta said over the weekend that the decision of retirement is down to Totti.He is the one who has to think about it, Pallotta said. I spent a lot of time with him this week. Francesco has to think about what he wants to do. There is so much conjecture on his future, but only he can make that decision.Totti has previously said that retirement terrifies him: It will mean the end of a dream that Ive been living for 20 years. I darent even imagine the reaction of the fans.Dare to imagine their reaction if Totti dazzles one last time on the European stage at the Bernabeu. 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Henry has moved on to the NFL, but three 1,800-yard rushers are back this season: LSUs Leonard Fournette, Stanfords Christian McCaffrey and Oregons Royce Freeman.The surge in star power at the position flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that college football has become a quarterback-dominated game.The running game, I wouldnt say it had gotten lost necessarily, because there have been a lot of good runners, Stanford coach David Shaw said. But the emphasis has been on the spread passing attacks. But really good spread teams always have a good back. Its good to see in college football, guys turn around and hand it to a runner and be physical. I think those guys are fun to watch -- and we have a pretty special one, too.The notion that a running backs value was fading gained credence when no players at that position were drafted in the first round in either 2013 or 2014. Quarterbacks won the Heisman eight times in a nine-year stretch from 2006-14, the exception being Alabama running back Mark Ingram in 2009.People have definitely advised me to pick another position, said Tennessees Jalen Hurd, whos a bit taller than the average running back at 6-foot-4. Ive got people all the time just looking at me like, `Dude, are you sure you want be a running back? But thats my position.Hurd stayed in the backfield and enters his junior season just 891 yards shy of Travis Henrys school rushing record.The emergence of Fournette, Hurd and Georgias Nick Chubb, who is recovering from a knee injury that sidelined him for the second half of the 2015 season, has helped the Southeastern Conference maintain its elite status during a stretch when it has struggled to produce top quarterbacks.I think definitely if it didnt change last year, the running back value is going to change this year, Hurd said.This running back resurgence goes well beyond the SEC and stretches from coast to coast.The Atlantic Coast Conference returns three players who ran for more than 1,400 yards last season -- Florida States Dalvin Cook, Clemsons Wayne Gallman and North Carolinas Elijah Hood. The league also welcomes back 2014 ACC player of the year James Conner of Pittsburgh after his successful fight with cancer.On the West Coast, the Pac-12 has the Heisman Trophy runner-up in McCaffrey as well as Freeman.There are a lot of good-looking running backs out there, said Dave Warner, Michigan States co-offensive coordinator/running backs coach.In the NFL, theyrre not as premium anymore because they dont last very long, Warner added.dddddddddddd (In) college, they last with us.Many of those running backs are competitive enough to keep tabs on one another.I watch all of those guys, Cook said. Fournette, McCaffrey. ... Chubb will come back 100 percent. Jalen. Royce. I watch all of those guys. Great backs. (I) take little lessons from their game, try to tweak my game a little bit because all of those guys have different running styles. You cant ever stop learning, no matter what.Defenses havent quite learned how to slow them down.Football Bowl Subdivision teams averaged 178.3 yards rushing per game last season, the most since 1980. Thats at least partly due to the increased number of snaps that have come from the rise in up-tempo offenses.But teams also are running more effectively than before. FBS schools averaged a record 4.5 yards per carry last seasonI think its a byproduct of spread offenses, Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. I think its the byproduct of play-action passes and all the run-pass options that offenses are doing now where a quarterback has three or four options on a run play in every single play.The soaring totals have left some running backs fighting for attention.Hoods track record would make him a legitimate Heisman candidate many other years, but McCaffrey, Fournette, Freeman and Cook are coming off even better seasons. The North Carolina standout said he didnt worry about the lack of attention and, my play speaks for itself.San Diego States Donnel Pumphrey has rushed for more than 3,500 yards over the last two seasons, yet he isnt particularly well known outside the Mountain West Conference. Gallman rushed for 1,527 yards last year while being overshadowed by Cook and Hood in the ACC and by quarterback Deshaun Watson in his own backfield.Thats an extra chip. I have to go out there and prove myself every play, Gallman said.Recent history suggests they shouldnt expect a payoff down the road.At least two running backs were drafted in the first round every year from 1985 to 2010, but the NFL doesnt hold that position nearly in the same regard anymore. A total of three running backs have been first-round selections over the last four years, including Ohio States Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth overall pick in the most recent draft.But at least in college, running backs have become increasingly vital. Its no coincidence the nations most prolific runners play on some of college footballs top teams.---AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Josh Dubow, Pete Iacobelli, Joe Reedy, Noah Trister and Kurt Voigt contributed to this report.---AP college website: collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '