Fittingly, a &#39;Skins-tight win for Birds
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Philly survives on Brian Dawkins&#39; fourth-quarter pick in the end zone, and one last defensive stand. By Larry O&#39;Rourke. LANDOVER, Md.
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The San Francisco Giants finally found a way to win a one-run game.
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LANDOVER, Md. The Baltimore Ravens became the latest team to frustrate Washington&#39;s struggling offense, doing it with a 17-to-10 win over the Redskins.
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Sue Birdâs 3-pointer with 10.6 seconds left, her only points of the game, lifted the Seattle Storm to a victory yesterday against the Liberty in New York.
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ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Rams desperately needed a win and played like it. The Philadelphia Eagles desperately wanted to stay healthy and played like it.
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LANDOVER, Md. - Even the margin of victory reminded the playoff-bound Washington Redskins of Sean Taylor.
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The solution to a complex problem was deceptively simple. The Eagles had two 5-foot-10 cornerbacks starting for the first time this season to match up against Minnesota&#39;s
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The Rangers got back to the kind of game that had marked their early-season success, a low-scoring, tight-checking one that produced a much-needed victory.
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Long-suffering Eagles fans would never be so foolish to think a trip to the Super Bowl was a lock, even though their Birds are clearly the best team in the NFC this season.
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Sue Bird, the No. 1 pick in the 2002 WNBA draft, didn&#39;t get many minutes at the Athens Games. By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY. In the gold medal game, a 74-63 victory against Australia, she played just one.
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The St. Louis Rams desperately needed a victory and played like it. The Philadelphia Eagles desperately wanted to stay healthy and played like it.
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Washington&#39;s defense was solid, as it has been all season. And with Mark Brunell still off target, Clinton Portis had to carry the Redskins&#39; offense.
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Few players on the Eagles&#39; roster felt they had more to prove this season than the young members of the secondary - strong safety Michael Lewis and cornerbacks Lito Sheppard and Sheldon Brown.
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In Seattle&#39;s last meeting with the Sun, 6-foot-1 Katie Douglas guarded Sue Bird, who is 5-9. Douglas&#39; size disrupted the Storm offense, and Bird had one of her least effective games.
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The difference between the defending N.B.A. champions and the Knicks league seemed remarkably small at times Friday evening. But the true gap showed up in the final seconds of a tight game.
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USC didn&#39;t beat the Cal Bears so much as it survived them. Kinda like a baseball team that gets no-hit by a flawless pitcher and yet still claws out the win anyway.
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LA QUINTA, Calif. -- Fred Couples, the defending champion, and Tiger Woods, who has a miserable Skins Game record, had good chances Saturday to win skins.