A Huge Weekend In Sports
Hunter S. Thompson once said: “It still hasn’t gotten weird enough for me.” It is a shame he could not have seen Sunday’s night’s 6-6 tie between the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals. He’d retract that statement.
The Cardinals’ Chandler Catanzaro missed a 24-yard field goal try with 11:41 gone in OT, banging it off the left upright. The Seahawks chugged down the field and Steven Haushka missed a 28-yard field goal try to the left with seven seconds remaining. So ended the lowest-scoring overtime game in NFL history. Westwood One radio reported that since 1970 there had been three 6-6 ties, and all of them involved the Cardinals.
In games where actual points were scored, the Philadelphia Eagles got 21 of them and allowed Minnesota only 10, handing the Vikings their first loss. Matthew Stafford’s touchdown toss to Anquan Boldin with 18 seconds left carried the Detroit Lions to a 20-17 win over Washington, ending the Redskins’ winning streak at four. And Jay Ajayi became only the fourth NFL player to rush for more than 200 yards in consecutive games as his Miami Dolphins upended the Buffalo Bills 28-25.
NASCAR
The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup is down to eight drivers after the Hellmann’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Joey Logano won the race to qualify as one of the eight. The others: Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch. Kenseth, Edwards, Hamlin and Kyle Busch all drive for Joe Gibbs Racing.
Baseball
The World Series between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs begins Tuesday night at Wrigley Field. The Cubs knocked off the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 on Saturday night to win the National League pennant. The Indians last won the World Series in 1948; the Cubs last played in it in 1945 and last won it in 1908. Yes, some kind of history will be made.
College Football
Ohio State lost 24-21 on the road to Penn State and dropped from second to sixth in the AP poll. Houston, which was upset by SMU, fell out of the poll entirely. The top five: Alabama, with all but one vote; Michigan, which got that wayward vote; Clemson, Washington and Louisville.
Post By: Larry Weisman, a longtime sportswriter for USA TODAY, blogs for Twistity.com. Follow him on Twitter @MrLarryWeisman
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