Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes in the final 2:06 as New England rallied from an 11-point arrears to exhausted Buffalo 25-24 on Monday night.
Leodis McKelvin fumbled on the alpha acknowledgment afterwards the Patriots pulled aural 5 credibility and placekicker Stephen Gostkowski recovered at the Buffalo 31. Brady bare three plays afore hitting Benjamin Watson for the absolute 16-yard touchdown with 50 abnormal to go.
Just 1:16 earlier, he begin Watson on a agnate play for an 18-yard score.
Brady alternate afterwards missing all but the aboriginal account of endure division because of a knee injury.
Buffalo seemed accessible to breach an 11-game accident band adjoin New England and win for the aboriginal time in Gillette Stadium, but Brady led the comeback.
Trent Edwards outperformed Brady for abundant of the bold and threw for two scores. A 10-yard awning canyon TD to Fred Jackson put Buffalo advanced 24-13 with 5:32 to go. Terrell Owens had two catches for 46 yards in his Buffalo debut.
Randy Moss (12 catches, 141 yards) and Wes Welker (12, 93) were Brady's top targets.
The Patriots accept not absent a regular-season bold with Brady at quarterback aback Dec. 10, 2006.
Chargers assemblage to win
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers opened the division accomplishing what they do best: assault the Oakland Raiders.
Rivers answered a brace of ambitious denticulate by Oakland by arch two touchdown drives, capped by Darren Sproles 5-yard run with 18 abnormal larboard that gave the Chargers their 12th beeline in this biased rivalry, 24-20 Monday night.
This ability accept been the toughest one of the bunch. JaMarcus Russell had accustomed Oakland a 20-17 advance with a 57-yard touchdown canyon to amateur Louis Murphy with 2:34 left. But admitting accepting two advancement linemen in the game, Rivers calmly led the Chargers down the acreage for the acceptable score.
Rivers was six for seven for 79 yards on the acceptable drive afore Sproles silenced the army with his run up the middle. This apparent the Raiders' 11th beeline accident in prime time and conceivably the a lot of painful, because how abutting they came.
Rivers accomplished 24-for-36 for 252 yards.
Eagles assurance Garcia
PHILADELPHIA -- Jeff Garcia, the NFL's adaptation of Rocky Balboa, is aback with the Philadelphia Eagles.
The aggregation has agreed to agreement on a one-year accord with Garcia, a 10-year adept who played for Philadelphia in 2006 and went 6-2 in eight starts -- including the playoffs -- while McNabb was injured.
The Eagles bare a advancement quarterback in case McNabb, who suffered a torn rib in Philadelphia's 38-10 win over Carolina in the division opener, is not able to play this anniversary adjoin the New Orleans Saints.
Third-year pro Kevin Kolb abounding in for McNabb and will alpha if McNabb is out, drillmaster Andy Reid said.
"Whether it's a anniversary or two weeks or the absolute season, I'm aflame about the opportunity," Garcia said in a appointment call. "As far as a aggregation I can go to and alloy appropriate in, this is the aggregation for me to do that."
Urlacher out for division
LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Finally advantageous afterwards two years, Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher launched his approved division by authoritative a run at Aaron Rodgers, blurred his accept and agronomics over the Packers quarterback in the aboriginal quarter.
His 10th division was off to a acceptable start. And then, it was over.
Chicago's brilliant linebacker went on afflicted assets afterwards accepting anaplasty Monday to adjustment a confused appropriate wrist and will not be aback this season, a above abstract for a aggregation with top expectations.
There was no actual chat from Urlacher added than a argument bulletin to the Chicago Tribune that said simply: "season is over." But drillmaster Lovie Smith said Urlacher acutely was disappointed.
"He had put himself in position to accept an outstanding year," Smith said. "He was arena able-bodied in the bold afore he went down with the injury. Even afterwards the abrasion to his hand, the adversary in him capital to abide to play. It's a boxy break. There's no way about it, but he's been afflicted afore and he's appear aback before."
No anaplasty for Polamalu
PITTSBURGH -- This ability be the aboriginal time Troy Polamalu is blessed to apprehend that an abrasion will accumulate him out from three to six weeks.
Polamalu realizes his abrasion could be abundant worse. Maybe even Brian Urlacher-like worse.
The backstab All-Pro assurance doesn't charge anaplasty to adjustment the breach in his larboard medical accessory bond that occurred during a clutter for the brawl on a blocked-field ambition attack Thursday adjoin Tennessee. Drillmaster Mike Tomlin's basic appraisal of Polamalu getting out three to six anniversary aswell hasn't changed.
Giants brace alone
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants first-round abstract aces Hakeem Nicks and active aback Danny Ware are apparently traveling to be alone at atomic two weeks with injuries abiding in the division opener.
Coach Tom Coughlin adumbrated Monday that the timeframe was a minimum, and that the injuries ability amusement the players longer.
Nicks, a advanced receiver, sprained his larboard bottom in the fourth division of the Giants' 23-17 win over the Washington Redskins. He spent the final account of the bold sitting on the sidelines with crutches at his side. The receiver bent two passes for 18 yards.
Ware, the third aback abaft Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw, confused his larboard bend abiding the aperture kickoff.
Tennis
Williams abjure access
NEW YORK -- Her doubles championship brought some cease Monday to what has been an awkward, agitated U.S. Open for Serena Williams.
Time to celebrate. Time to move on. Maybe even time to accomplish acknowledgment with the band adjudicator she unloaded on during that animal accomplishment to her semifinal accident two nights ago.
"I would like to accord her a big ol' hug," Williams said.
Williams and sister Venus teamed up for a 6-2, 6-2 achievement over arresting champions Cara Black and Liezel Huber to win their 10th Grand Slam doubles title, and aboriginal at Flushing Meadows aback 1999.
During a post-match account on the court, ESPN2's Patrick McEnroe prodded Serena about her abusive access at the end of her accident to Kim Clijsters and its aftermath. Williams had issued an acknowledgment anon afore the doubles match, adage she is "a woman of abundant pride, acceptance and integrity, and I accept if I'm wrong."
It was a added apologetic account than the one she appear the day afore -- if she was socked with a $10,000 accomplished for acting in a "threatening manner," according to clash administrator Jim Curley.
Boxing
Mayweather sued
LAS VEGAS -- Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is getting sued by a coffer in Las Vegas for added than $167,000 contributed on a accommodation for a half-million-dollar affluence car.
A advocate for JP Morgan Chase Coffer said in a accusation filed endure anniversary in Clark County District Cloister that the above five-division battle best bought the Mercedes Maybach 57S in February 2007 and chock-full authoritative account payments a year later.
The accusation says the coffer repossessed the car in January, awash it for $196,000, and is gluttonous to compensate the difference.
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