Even the Elias Sports Bureau, which can dig out the most arcane of facts, couldn’t find this one: have two teams ever played almost an entire game with quarterbacks who weren’t on their roster the previous week?
That’s what happened in Arizona Sunday, when the venerable Vinny Testaverde, who will turn 44 in 29 days and was on his couch on Long Island a week ago watching the Jets and Giants play, led the Carolina Panthers to a 25-10 win in Arizona.
Soccer-Weblog recently featured the best free-kick you've seen in a long time and I'd still argue that Lee McArdle's effort was top notch. But if there's a notch above top notch then this might be it. Venezuela defender Jose Manuel Rey scored this from almost the halfway line, to claim a World Cup 2010 Qualifying (yep, they've started already) victory over Ecuador this weekend. I've heard a few people say the keeper's to blame for this goal. He is not.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – John David Booty said he plans on throwing Tuesday in practice, and the quarterback hopes to play this weekend when No. 13 Southern California faces rival Notre Dame.
Booty sat out USC’s 20-13 victory over Arizona last Saturday after breaking the middle finger on his throwing hand the previous weekend, when the Trojans (5-1, 3-1 Pac-10) were upset by Stanford.
The story of the game was the emergence of freshman tailback Joe McKnight. McKnight flashed his electric moves on a 39-yard punt return which ignited the Trojan offense. He helped seal the Trojans’ victory with a 59-yard run last in the fourth quarter.
DENVER (AP) — The pitching has been good, the defense fine.
The problem is, the Arizona Diamondbacks can’t get a base hit when it matters, and that has them one loss away from being swept by the steamrolling Colorado Rockies in the NL championship series.
When a Diamondbacks player has hit one hard with runners in scoring position, one of those charmed Rockies makes a big defensive play.
Nebraska AD Steve Pederson has been fired in the wake of the team’s worst home loss in nearly a half-century.
Pederson, along with coach Bill Callahan, has been heavily criticized after a series of one-sided losses this season. The most recent was a 45-14 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday with former Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne and his 1997 national title team in attendance.
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The New England Patriots drove home the point, Sunday, that they’ve been making all season: there is no team in the NFL like them.
No, not even the Indianapolis Colts, the league’s only other unbeaten side.
Yes, the Patriots’ 48-27 win over Dallas was more difficult than beating teams like the Jets, Bills and Browns. And yes, the Cowboys actually took a 24-21 lead at the start of the second half.
