Brett Favre threw two touchdown passes and Leon Washington ran for two scores as the New York Jets routed the Tennessee Titans 34-13 on Sunday, snapping a 13-game regular-season winning streak by the NFL’s last undefeated team.
The Jets (8-3) came in atop the American Football League East after a victory over New England at Foxborough. They have won five straight for the first time since October 2004 and seven of their last eight.
The Titans (10-1) hadn’t lost since Dec. 16 last year, in becoming only the 11th team since 1970 to win their first 10 games.
Favre threw for 224 yards and broke a tie with Dan Marino for victories in the most NFL stadiums by winning in his 32nd at LP Field.
PATRIOTS 48, DOLPHINS 28
In Miami, Matt Cassel threw for 415 yards and Randy Moss caught three touchdown passes as the resilient Patriots won a shootout.
The Patriots (7-4), who remained a game behind the AFC East-leading New York Jets, avenged an upset loss to Miami in September. New England haven’t been swept in a season series by a division opponent since 2000.
For the Dolphins (6-5), the loss snapped a four-game winning streak and hurt their chances of an improbable play-off berth after going 1-15 last year.
COWBOYS 35, 49ERS 22
In Irving, Texas, Terrell Owens broke out with seven catches for 213 yards to help Dallas beat San Francisco.
Owens’ total was the second-highest of his career, behind only the 283 yards he had in a game in 2000 in which he caught an NFL-record 20 passes back when he played for the 49ers, and tied the fourth-best in Cowboys history.
Shaun Hill was 21-of-33 for 303 yards for the 49ers (3-8), but was sacked four times.
RAVENS 36, EAGLES 7
In Baltimore, Maryland, Donovan McNabb watched from the sidelines as the Baltimore Ravens beat the Philadelphia Eagles, presenting first-year coach John Harbaugh with a lopsided victory over the team he served as an assistant for 10 years.
Ed Reed picked off McNabb’s halftime replacement, Kevin Kolb, and returned the interception an NFL-record 108 yards for a touchdown to give Baltimore (7-4) a 22-point cushion with 7 minutes, 24 seconds left.
McNabb was eight-for-18 for 59 yards with two interceptions and a fumble in the first half — a miserable 13.2 quarterback rating.
In Sunday’s other NFL games it was:
• Bills 54, Chiefs 31
• Vikings 30, Jaguars 12
• Texans 16, Browns 6
• Bears 27, Rams 3
• Buccaneers 38, Lions 20
• Giants 37, Cardinals 29
• Oakland 31, Denver 10
• Falcons 45, Panthers 28
• Redskins 20, Seahawks 17
• Colts 23, Chargers 20
SS Lazio on Monday fired the far-right sympathizer who handles their eagle mascot after he posted online a series of videos and pictures of his erect penis. Falconer Juan Bernabe, who has been present at Lazio home matches with Olimpia the eagle since the 2010-2011 season, posted the footage on social media after having surgery on Saturday to implant a penile prosthesis to improve his sexual performance. Lazio said that they had “terminated, with immediate effect” their relationship with Bernabe “due to the seriousness of his conduct,” adding that they were “shocked” by the images. The Serie A club added that Bernabe’s dismissal
Doping fears prevented former US Open champion Emma Raducanu from treating insect bites on the eve of the Australian Open, she said, with players increasingly wary about ingesting contaminated substances. The British player was speaking in the wake of high-profile doping cases involving Iga Swiatak and Jannik Sinner. “I would say all of us are probably quite sensitive to what we take on board, what we use,” the 22-year-old said, recalling an incident on Friday. “I got really badly bitten by, I don’t know what, like ants, mosquitoes, something. I’m allergic, I guess,” she added. The bites “flared up and swelled up really a
Dubbed a “motorway for cyclists” where avid amateurs can chase Tadej Pogacar up mountains teeming with the highest concentration of professional cyclists per square kilometer in the world, Spain’s Costa Blanca has forged a new reputation for itself in the past few years. Long known as the ideal summer destination for those in search of sun, sea and sand, the stretch of coast between Valencia and Alicante now has a winter vocation too. During the season break in December and January, the region experiences an invasion of cyclists. Star names such as three-time Tour de France winner Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel and Julian Alaphilippe
‘TOUGH TO BREATHE’: Tunisian three-time Grand Slam finalist Ons Jabeur suffered an asthma attack in her 7-5, 6-3 victory over Colombia’s Camila Osorio Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei yesterday cruised into the second round of the women’s doubles at the Australian Open, while Iga Swiatek romped into a third-round women’s singles showdown with Emma Raducanu and Taylor Fritz was just as emphatic in his pursuit of a maiden Grand Slam title. Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, the third seeds, defeated Slovakia’s Tereza Mihalikova and Olivia Nicholls of Britain 7-5, 6-2 in 90 minutes in Melbourne. Ostapenko and Hsieh — who won the women’s doubles and mixed doubles at the Australian Open last year — hit 25 winners and converted five of nine break points to set
RSS