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toine Winfield sacked Carolina quarterback Jake Delhomme on a uncontested corner blitz. Delhomme fumbled, and Winfield picked up his handiwork and ran in for six points. Minnesota has a hard game next week against Tennessee, who is off to a quick and unexpected 3-0 start. Second Supper Power Rankings 1. Dallas Cowboys (3-0) — Firing on all cylinders, clearly the best in the NFL.
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2. Denver Broncos (3-0) — Questionable defense needs to step up, but so far so good. 3. Philadelphia Eagles (2-1) — Any doubts about Donovan McNabb are being quickly dismissed.
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nick.koegl@secondsupper.com Another week goes by, and the football world keeps on turning. Following a 27-16 loss against the Dallas Cowboys, the Packers are now left to regroup and see what went wrong. The primary culprit seems to be the lack of a run defense.The Cowboys Marion Barber had a career night, bursting through every hole possible for 142 big yards. All in all, Dallas ran up a team total of 217 rushing yards. The explanation seems to lie on the Packers plan to stop Terrell Owens, which they did quite well. Owens' 17 yards did not factor into the game, but underestimating Dallas’ ability to run proved deadly. To make matters incredibly worse, word came early in the week that Packers' vaunted corner Al Harris is expected to be out, maybe for the rest of the season, with a ruptured spleen. This seemed to have been suffered when Harris collided with teammate AJ Hawk in a seemingly harmless collision.Well, that goes to show how delicate the spleen is. On a positive note, Aaron Rodgers was 22 for 39 and passed for 290 yards. No touchdowns, though. Wide receiver Greg Jennings also had a great day, catching 8 balls for 115 yards. Green Bay can recoup this week and will have a very winnable game against Tampa Bay on Sunday. On the Minnesota side of sports, the Vikings broke through and had a solid game against the Carolina Panthers, winning 20-10 for their first win of the season. Now-starting quarterback Gus Frerotte came in and made the short throws that Minnesota so sorely needed, and even had a 34-yard touchdown pass to Visanthe Shiancoe, who overcame his drop problem to finally show a little potential. Adrian Peterson had a solid day with 77 yards, but seemed slowed by a bum hamstring. The defense was once again the star unit they are paid to be.The highlight came when corner An-
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4. New York Giants (3-0) — The defending champs are winning defensively, and Eli Manning has vastly matured from two years ago. 5. Tennessee Titans (3-0) — The team seems to do better with QB Kerry Collins, and not Vince Young.
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Honorable mention – Buffalo Bills (3-0) — Who saw this coming? With Tom Brady down, this leaves much wide open in the AFC. Baseball News It’s crunch time, Brewers faithful. At press time, Milwaukee is only 1 game back of the New York Mets in the wild card race. Even better is that they start a three game set against the Pirates.These are almost must-win games against a clearly weaker team. If the Brewers can win here, they will have the benefit of the Chicago Cubs playing the Mets.This bodes very well, unless Chicago will be resting their players. Cubs manager Lou Pinella has hinted at this, but also mentioned he understands the implications at stake and will try to maintain the integrity of the playoff chase. We’ll see what happens here and hope for the best. The Minnesota Twins are currently 2.5 games back of the division leader Chicago White Sox, and have a three-game home set against that very team this week. This is make or break, with the season at stake. Minnesota has won five of six against the ChiSox at home this year already, but one would bet Chicago would give them everything they got. By next week, we will know who has survived and progressed on to the playoffs. Will the Brew Crew overcome this late season collapse? Can the Twins sneak in another year? Will Chicago have two teams involved in the playoffs? We are down to the wire in an exciting season and soon we will see how the stretch treats all of our region’s home teams.
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