MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005
SPORTS
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Eagles overcome injury, beat Raiders
PHILADELPHIA — David Akers, fighting through a strained right hamstring, kicked a 23-yard field goal with 9 seconds left to give Philadelphia a 23-20 victory over Oakland yesterday.
Donovan McNabb, playing with chest and groin injuries, threw for 365 yards and two touchdowns for the Eagles (2-1), while Brian Westbrook caught a TD pass, ran for a score and had 140 yards receiving. Terrell Owens had nine catches, including his 100th career touchdown.
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Kerry Collins threw a 27-yard TD pass to Doug Gabriel to bring the Raiders into a 20-20 tie with 2:17 left. Westbrook caught passes of 13 and 17 yards, Greg Lewis made a 13-yard catch on third- and 9 Owens had a 14-yard reception to set up Akers' kick.
Akers reinjured his hamstring on the opening kickoff, but came back to make two extra points and the winning field goal in the second half.
Randy Moss had five catches for 86 yards, but didn't score as Oakland fell to 0-3 for the first time since 1992.
Buccaneers 17, Packers 16
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Tampa Bay's Carnell "Cadillac" Williams broke Alan Ammeche's NFL record for most yards in his first three NFL games by rushing 37 times for 158 yards.
Green Bay's Ryan Longwell missed an extra point for the first time in 157 attempts, and that was the difference as the Packers fell to 0-3 for the first time since Brett Favre was a sophomore at Southern Mississippi in 1988.
The Buccaneers, 3-0 for the first time since 2000, got two touchdown receptions from Joey Galloway and two interceptions from Will Allen in snapping a 13-game road losing streak to the Packers. Their last
win at Green Bay came on Sept. 10, 1989.
Williams, the first NFL rookie to start his career with three straight 100-yard games, has 434 yards rushing, besting Ameche's mark of 410 set in 1955 for the Baltimore Colts.
Dolphins 27, Panthers 24
Carolina's Steve Smith had 11 catches for 170 yards and three touchdowns. His 53-yard score midway through the fourth quarter tied the score at 24.
MIAMI — Lance Schulters intercepted Jake Delhomme with 2 minutes left to set up Olindo Mare's game-winning field goal.
On the next possession, Schulters stepped in front of a pass intended for Keary Colbert and returned the interception 37 yards to the 25. Mare kicked a 32-yard field goal with 4 seconds left.
Under new coach Nick Saban, Miami is 2-1 and halfway to last year's win total. The Panthers, who lost seven of their first eight games last season, are off to another slow start at 1-2.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Shaking off a tender hamstring he hurt last weekend, Atlanta's Michael Vick threw two touchdown passes and scrambled for 64 yards on nine carries.
Atlanta 24. Buffalo 16
Warrick Dunn rushed for 97 yards and T.J. Duckett added 75 yards rushing and a touchdown for the Falcons (2-1), who snapped a three-game road losing streak dating to last season. Vick finished 15-of-27 for 167 yards passing and an interception.
Willis McGahee led Buffalo (1-2) with a career-high 140 yards rushing and a touchdown. Two-time Pro Bowl linebacker Takeo Spikes hurt his right Achilles' tendon in the second quarter and did not return.
Rams' defense holds off Titans
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Tennessee Titans' Drew Bennett (83) is tackled by the St. Louis Rams' Travis Fisher after a 43-yard pass from quarterback Steve McNair in the first half of their NFL game延迟在 St. Louis. The Rams defeated the Titans, 31-27.
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ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Rams' needed a last-minute defensive stand for a victory over the Tennessee Titans, and Leonard Little flashed back — not to his team's 2000 Super Bowl win, but to a fresh memory from seven days ago.
"I had thoughts of last week," Little said. "We played pretty good last week except
Marc Bulger threw three touchdown passes and the Rams survived a controversial replay ruling in the fourth quarter to hang on for a 31-27 win yesterday. Last week the Rams held off a down-to-the wire drive by the Arizona Cardinals to win by five points.
"They never did get that far."
for the last drive, and we knew if they got into the red zone they'd have a chance to throw it into the end zone.
the Rams got an 85-yard interception return from Adam Archuleta for a touchdown.
Torry Holt caught nine passes for 163 yards in the first three quarters and Kevin Curtis' 10-yard catch on the
"I thought it was coming together, we did the things we had to do at the end."
Jeff Fisher Titans coach
The Rams (2-1) won
The Titans converted three turnovers into 17 points while
their only Super Bowl when Mike Jones' overtime-saving tackle of Kevin Dyson at the 1 preserved a 23-16 victory over Tennessee. In their first meeting since, the Titans drove to the St. Louis 23 in the final minute and had two shots at the end zone before running out of downs.
first play of the fourth quarter was the goalhead score for the Rams.
"I thought it was coming together, we did the things we had to do at the end," Titans coach Jeff Fisher said. "We had time, we just ran out of downs."
Bulger was 21-of-28 for 292 yards with an interception; he also fumbled three times, losing two. The third was recovered in the fourth quarter by first-round draft pick Alex Barron, who was making his pro debut.
Steve McNair was 24-of-39 for 261 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for the Titans (1-2). It took Tennessee, which was leading 10-0
The Titans, who made it to the Super Bowl in 2000 with the help of a questionable lateral known as the "Music City Miracle," cut the gap to four points
and appeared close to another score early in the second quarter, a long time to recover from Archuelta's return.
on a similar play in the fourth quarter.
With the Rams leading 31-24, Bulger's swing pass to running back Steven Jackson appeared as though it might have gone forward before falling incomplete. But there was no whistle and Peter Sirmon scooped up the ball and returned it 41 yards to the Rams 29 with 10:26 left.
The Rams challenged the call and the St. Louis offense and Tennessee defense stayed on the field throughout the review process, an indication that the call would be overturned. But referee Tom White said there was inconclusive evidence and the play stood.
"I do that every day, that's what I do for a living," Bulger said.
"That's a hot route. But it's neither here nor there now, we won and we don't have to go kill the ref."
The Titans said White did the right thing.
"Our people upstairs said it was clearly a lateral," Titans coach Jeff Fisher said. "You have to have an awful lot to overturn it, and I was right there and I felt like it was a lateral."
A third-down sack by Little forced a 59-yard field goal by Rob Bironas that cut the Rams' lead to 31-27 with 6:02 to go.
Fans booed the officials at every opportunity the rest of the game.
The Titans outgained the Rams 111-5 in the first quarter and scored on a 16-yard pass from McNair to Ben Troupe and a 41-yard field goal set up by an interception by Tank Williams. Bulger said the Rams were confused at first by Tennessee's defense.
"Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job," Bulger said. "I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now."
Archuleta's third career interception reversed the momentum. He jumped on a short route for Drew Bennett and had a wide open field for the 85-yard return that got the Rams on the board early in the second quarter.
Energized, the Rams added a 46-yard field goal by Jeff Wilkins and a 13-yard touchdown pass from Bulger to Marshall Faulk for a 17-10 halftime lead. They increased it on a 32-yarder from Bulger to Holt in the third quarter.
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