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2006

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Temple-UMass

Press Notes

Coming off a tremendous 91-84 win over defending A-10
regular-season champion George Washington on Wednesday, the Minutemen host
arch-rival Temple on Saturday at Noon at the Mullins
Center. UMass
comes into the game with a 12-4 record and a perfect 2-0 mark in A-10 play. The
Minutemen are off the best start since the 1995-96 season
when they won the first 26 games of the season and were ranked No. 1 most of
the year. UMass is seeking its first 3-0 start in
A-10 play since 1997-98 when they started 8-0. The UMass-Temple
rivalry opens a new chapter as the Owls come to Amherst
without their longtime Hall of Fame Coach John Chaney, for the first time in
history. Under new coach Fran Dunphy, the Owls are
6-8 overall and 0-2 in the league, riding a four-game losing streak. The
Minutemen reached the 10-win mark earlier than any point in a season since that
year, when they were 10-0. UMass has been stellar away from the Mullins Center this season with an 8-2 record. Those eight road/neutral
wins are tied for the most in the nation among all teams. No. 12 Butler is 8-1
away from Indianapolis and Virginia
Commonwealth has an 8-2 mark like UMass. It
is huge improvement for UMass, which was just 3-13
away from home in 2005-06. UMass has won eight of the
10 games away from home in the first two months. That includes a stretch of
five wins in a row away from Mullins. UMass has won
14 of its last 18 at home.

Cincinnati-South Florida

Press Notes

The University
of Cincinnati will seek its first
BIG EAST Conference victory of the season and an end to a three-game losing
streak when the Bearcats visit USF on Sunday, Jan.
14. Game time at the USF Sun Dome is 2 p.m. UC enters the
contest with a 9-6 record but has been idle since its 54-42 loss to Rutgers
on Jan. 7 in its league opener. USF is 9-8 overall
and 0-3 in BIG EAST play. The Bulls lost to Louisville,
81-55, on Wednesday. Cincinnati and
USF have played one common opponent. Both have lost
to UAB. UC incurred a 59-57
setback to the Blazers on Dec. 4 while USF fell,
78-62, on Dec. 27. The Bearcats will be out to avert their longest losing
streak in 19 seasons. UC last dropped four in a row
in February of the 1987-88 season.

NFL

Seahawks-Bears

Boston Globe

WR Darrell Jackson (left toe)
was forced out in the third quarter of the Seahawks’ 21-20 wild-card win. Coach
Mike Holmgren didn’t expect D.J.
Hackett (sprained right ankle) to even play vs. Dallas, but he contributed two
catches for 8 yards .WR Deion Branch has four 100-yard
receiving games in the postseason, all with New England . In QB Matt Hasselbeck’s seven games since returning from a right knee
injury, the BC product has topped out at 243 yards passing. The Bears allowed
more than 300 yards in each of their final six regular-season games. CB Marcus Trufant (ankle) is out .The Seattle run defense, which
allowed an average of 152.7 yards the last six games, was ranked 22d. Holmgren has a 12-9 playoff record and is 14-3 vs. the
Bears.

Courier News

At least on paper, the Seattle Seahawks look like the
ideal opponent for the Bears’ running game. That’s because Seattle’s
run defense has been paper thin. The greatest obstacle for the Bears’ running
attack may have been removed Friday when fullback Jason McKie
was given clearance to play by coach Lovie Smith in Sunday’s playoff game after missing most of
two games with a sprained ankle.

Patriots-Chargers

Victoria Times Columnist

Tom Brady is 11-1 in playoff games as a starting
quarterback. Philip Rivers is starting his first.

SF Gate

San Diego
scored an NFL-high 492 points behind Tomlinson and first-year starting quarterback Philip Rivers. New England
held its opponents to 237, second-lowest in the league. Defensive-minded coach
Bill Belichick no doubt will throw something at Rivers that the QB hasn’t seen.
While the Patriots will try to keep marching toward their fourth Super Bowl
appearance in six seasons, the Chargers and their coach, Marty Schottenheimer,
will try to erase some brutal playoff history. The Chargers haven’t won in the
playoffs since stunning Pittsburgh
in the AFC championship game on Jan.
15, 1995. Counting the Super Bowl wipeout that followed, they’ve
lost three straight in the postseason. And of course, Schottenheimer is 5-12 in
the playoffs, with Cleveland, Kansas
City and San Diego. Should the loss
column hit 13 short of the Super Bowl, he could be fired by general manager A.J. Smith.The Chargers, who won
their last 10 games to finish an NFL-best 14-2, are well aware of the Patriots’
mystique.