The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - October 24, 2005 - 7B Tomlinson stopped, Eagles win PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Quintin Mikell blocked a field goal and Matt Ware returned it 65 yards for a touchdown with 2:25 left, lead- ing the Philadelphia Eagles to a 20-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers yesterday. San Diego's LaDainian Tomlinson was held to a career-low 7 yards rushing on 17 carries and failed to score, ending his NFL record- tying streak of consecutive games with a touchdown at 18. Drew Brees rallied the Chargers from a 10- 0 deficit with a pair of touchdown passes, but San Diego couldn't put the game away after the Eagles failed to convert a fourth-and-1 at their own 30 late in the game. Mikell leaped in the air to swat away Nate Kaeding's 40-yard attempt, Ware picked it up after one bounce and raced into the end zone. The Chargers drove to Philadelphia's 19 on the ensuing possession, but Sheldon Brown stripped Reche Caldwell and Darwin Walker recovered. Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb set a team record with 35 completions in 54 attempts for 287 yards and one touchdown, and Terrell Owens caught his 100th career touchdown pass to help the Eagles improve to 4-2. The Chargers dropped to 3-4. Edinger, Toomer lead comebacks (AP) - Paul Edinger kicked a franchise-record 56-yard field goal as time ran out, lifting momen- tum-starved Minnesota past Green Bay. After losing their last two games by a combined 58-13 score and allegations of sexual misconduct by several players on a boat party emerging, the Vikings (2-4) trailed 17-0 in the third quarter and appeared headed for another ugly defeat. But Daunte Culpepper, who went 23-for-31 for 280 yards and two TDs with no interceptions, came to life and Edinger made his third field goal of the game. Green Bay's Ryan Longwell tied it at 20 with 24 seconds remaining on a 39-yard kick. Also on Sunday, Eli Manning threw a 2-yard ttouchdown pass to Amani Toomer with 5 seconds left to lift New York past Denver. Manning finished 23-of-42 for 214 yards and two touchdowns for the Giants (4-2), who trailed from midway through the second quarter until the final drive. Manning also connected with Plaxico Burress on a first-quarter scoring play. Jake Plummer finished 18-of-29 for 194 yards and one touchdown, and Jason Elam kicked three field goals for the Broncos (5-2). But Elam missed a 49- yarder with 5:18 left after New York's Tiki Barber scored on a 4-yard run to make it 23-17. The loss snapped the Broncos' five-game win- * ning streak. AP PHOTOS Left: Detroit Lions quarterback Jeff Garcia made his first start of the season, leading the Lions to a 13-10 win. Top: Amani Toomer celebrates after making his game-winning catch with two seconds remaining to complete a comeback victory against Denver. Bottom: Terrell Owens and the Philadelphia Eagles also were spurred by a late-game touchdown to win. Garcia, Lions topple Browns on the road CLEVELAND (AP) - Kicked out of town after one tumultuous season, Jeff Garcia came back to Cleveland and got some payback against the Browns. Making his first start this season in place of Joey Harrington, Garcia ran for a touchdown, and Jason Hanson kicked two field goals Sunday to lead the Detroit Lions to a 13-10 win over the careless Browns. After missing Detroit's first five games with a broken left leg, Garcia returned to practice this week and the 35-year-old got the starting nod before the game from Lions coach Steve Mari- ucci, who has run out of patience with an inef- fective Harrington. Garcia, whose one season in Cleveland was marred by inconsistent play, a feud with offen- sive coordinator Terry Robiskie and personal issues, had a one-yard touchdown run in the first half and Hanson kicked a 50-yard field early in the fourth quarter as the Lions (3-3) hung on. Following the game, Garcia strutted off the field and flashed a thumbs-up sign to cheering Lions fans near the team's tunnel. Garcia finished 22-of-34 for 210 yards and didn't turn the ball over. His biggest play came late in the fourth, when he stepped away from a possible safety and completed a 10-yard pass to Scottie Vines, one of the Lions' backup wide receivers, for a first down. Because of injuries, Detroit was down to its Nos. 4 and 5 receivers, but Garcia was able to buy himself time to throw in the pocket and made completions when it appeared he had nowhere to go. The same can't be said of Browns quarter- back Trent Dilfer, who was 10-of-19 for 73 yards and threw three interceptions. The Browns (2-4) did n't pick up a first down in the second half unti l only 9:52 remained. They had their chances, Ibut wide receiver Anto- nio Bryant dropped a key third-down pass in the fourth, and Cleveland didn't capitalize on a 100- yard performance by Reuben Droughns. Podsednik's walk-off blast gives White Sox 2 -0 lead CHICAGO (AP) - Scott Podsednik made it two electri- fying home runs for the White Sox - and two World Series wins. Podsednik's home run off Brad Lidge in the ninth inning gave Chicago a thrilling 7-6 victory over the Houston Astros on Sunday night and put the White Sox halfway home to their first World Series title in 88 years. "Incredible. What a ballgame," Podsednik said. "I was sit- ting on a fastball the entire at-bat." After yet another disputed umpiring call, Paul Konerko capped a momentous week with a seventh-inning grand slam on reliever Chad Qualls' first pitch, giving the White Sox a 6-4 lead and sparking the crowd of 41,432 to life on a drizzly, dreary night. But Game 1 hero Bobby Jenks couldn't work his magic two nights in a row. Pinch-hitting for Adam Everett with two outs in the ninth, Jose Vizcaino hit an opposite-field single to left off the burly reliever that drove in two runs and tied the game at 6. Chris Burke just beat Podsednik's on-target throw to score the tying run, but Podsednik made sure in the bottom half that the game didn't go to extra innings. Podsednik didn't have any home runs in 507 regular-sea- son at-bats. He hit his first of the season in the division series opener against Boston. He came up with one out in the ninth against Lidge, who hadn't pitched since Game 5 of the NL championship series against St. Louis, when he gave up a mammoth three-run homer to Albert Pujols that teammates joked rose to airplane cruising altitude. This one wasn't as long, but it was just as damaging. Podsednik lofted the ball to right-center field, and play- ers and fans craned to see whether it would clear the fence. When it did, Chicago players poured out of the dugout to greet Podsednik at the plate. "Well, we're not in a good spot," Houston manager Phil Garner said. "We had a chance to win this ballgame. We have to go home and regroup. We'll make a series out of this." Andy Pettitte had put his hometown team in position for its first World Series win, leaving after six innings with a 4-2 lead built largely by Lance Berkman, who had three RBIs. Chicago pressured reliever Dan Wheeler on Juan Uribe's one-out double and Tadahito Iguchi's walk, and the White Sox loaded the bases when Jermaine Dye was awarded first base on a 3-2 pitch that umpires ruled hit his hand. Houston disputed the call and replays appeared to show the ball striking his bat. If it had been ruled a foul ball, the count would have remained full on Dye. But he took first, Qualls relieved and he left his first pitch over the plate. Konerko turned on it, and it went deep into the left-field bleachers. AP PHOTO Chicago centerfielder Scott Podsednik gave Chicago a 2-0 lead in the World Series after a dramatic walk-off home run over Houston closer Brad Lidge. F 1 _______ _______________________________________________________ Unplanned Pregnancy? Ha Ws Tro +Th Wat 111 0- &pto n genc r;can he~p1r pyoitio s. Contact fur piegnay 4ouriselor for cone d (c s upport. 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