PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Jay Cutler tossed two TD passes and Matt
Forte (fohr-TAY') ran for 133 yards in leading the Chicago Bears to
a 30-24 victory over Philadelphia. The 5-3 Bears stayed in the wild
card hunt with their third straight victory while the 3-5 Eagles
fell into a tie with Washington for last place in the NFC East.
NEW YORK (AP) - Commissioner David Stern is warning NBA players
that the league's offer on the table will become less generous if
the players do not accept the deal by Wednesday. Speaking to ESPN
yesterday, Stern says the offer will "get worse from there" if
his self-imposed deadline is not met.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly
says Penn State's Joe Paterno, the winningest and perhaps most
revered football coach in America, is not a target of the
investigation into how the school handled accusations of sexual
misconduct involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
But she refused to say the same for the university president,
Graham Spanier.
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Ole Miss is looking for a football coach in
the wake of Houston Nutt's resignation, effective the end of the
season. The Rebels are 2-7 this year, have lost 12 straight SEC
games and are 24-23 in Nutt's four years at Mississippi.
PHILADELPHIA (AP)- The boxing world is mourning the death of
"Smokin" Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champ who died of
liver cancer yesterday at 67. Frazier beat Muhammad Ali to win the
heavyweight title in 1971, though for the rest of his career mostly
had to settle for second fiddle to Ali's greatness in that era.
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