LAKE CITY REPORTER SPORTS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2009 SCOREBOARD TELEVISION TV sports , Today COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. ESPN - New Orleans Bowl, Southern Miss. vs. Middle Tenn. EXTREME SPORTS 4 p.m. NBC - Winter Dew Tour, .at Breckenridge, Colo. GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC - European PGA Tour, South African Open Championship, final round, at Western Cape, South Africa (same- day tape) MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 5:30 p.m. FSN - Florida St. at Georgia Tech 7:30 p.m.' FSN - N.C. State at Wake Forest NFL FOOTBALL I p.m. CBS - Regional coverage FOX - Regional coverage 4 p.m. CBS - Regional coverage 4:15 p.m. FOX - Doubleheader game 8:15 p.m. NBC - Minnesota at Carolina Monday MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 - UTEP at Oklahoma 8:30 p.m. ESPN2 - La Salle at Oklahoma St. NFL FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. ESPN - N.Y. Giants at Washington NHL HOCKEY 7 p.m. VERSUS - Buffalo atToronto SOCCER 2:55 p.m. ESPN2 - Premier League, Wigan Athletic vs. Bolton Wanderers, at Wigan, England FOOTBALL NFL schedule AMERICAN CONFERENCE New England. Miami N.Y.Jets Buffalo x-Indianapolis Jacksonville Tennessee Houston East W L 8 5 7 6 7 6 5 8 South W L 14 0 7, 7 6 7 6 7 TPct PF PA 0.615 348 234 0.538 292 306 0.538 275 211 0.385 215 271- TPct PF PA 01.000394248 0.500266 322 0.462 293 323' 0.462311 273 North W L TPct PF PA Cincinnati 9 4 0.692264 217 Baltimore 7 6 0.538319 218 Pittsburgh 6 7 0.462278 244 Cleveland 2 11 0.154 158 315 West W L TPct PF PA San Diego 10 3 0.769362 259 Denver 8 5 0.615256 230 Oakland 4 9 0.308155 316 Kansas City 3 10 0.231206 342 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East S W L TPct PF PA Philadelphia 9 4 0.692 372.273 Dallas 8 5 0.615296'233 N.Y. Giants 7 6 0.538341 330 Washington 4 9 0.308234 251 South W L TPct PF PA x-New Orleans 13 0 01.000466274 Atlanta 6 7' 0.462 302 305 Carolina 5 8 0.385225 282 Tampa Bay I 12 0.077 190 356 North W L TPct PF PA y-Minnesota .11 2 0.846 389 243 Green Bay 9 4 0.692 344 243 Chicago 5 8 0.385247 291 Detroit 2 II 0.154209406 West W. L TPct PF PA Arizona 8 5 '0.615 306 258 San Francisco 6 7 0.462269 242 Seattle 5 8 0.385250 301 St.Louis I. 12 0.077146361 x-clinched division y-clinched playoff spot Saturday's Game Dallas at New Orleans (n) Today's Games Miami at Tennessee, I p.m.- Arizona at Detroit, I p.m. Atlanta at N.Y. pts, I p.m. Houston at St. Louis, I p.m. Chicago at Baltimore, I p.m. New England at Buffalo. I p.m. Cleveland at Kansas City, I p.m. San Francisco at Philadelphia, I p.m. Oakland at Denver, 4:05 p.m. Cincinnati at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Seattle, 4:15 p.m. Green Bay at Pittsburgh, 4:15 p.m. Minnesota at Carolina, 8:20 p.m. Monday's Game -,' N.Y. Giants at Washington, 8:30 p.m. SFriday's Game San Diego at Tennessee. 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 27 Buffalo at Atlanta; I p.m. Houston at Miami, I p.m. Seattle at Green Bay, I p.m. Carolina at N.Y. Giants, I p.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, I p.m. Tampa Bay at New Orleans, I p.m. Oakland at Cleveland, I p.m. Kansas City at Cincinnati, I p.m. Jacksonville at New England, I p.m. Detroit at San Francisco,4:05 p.m. St Louis at Arizona, 4!05 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 4:15 p.m. Denver at Philadelphia. 4:15 p.m. Dallas atWashington, 8:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 28 Minnesota at Chicago. 8:30 p.m. Bowl games Saturday New Mexico Bowl Wyoming vs. Fresno State St. Petersburg Bowl Rutgers vs. UCF (n) Today New Orleans Bowl Southern Miss. (7-5) vs. Middle Tennessee (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday Las Vegas Bowl BYU (10-2) vs. Oregon State (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego Utah (9-3) vs. California (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU (7-5) vs. Nevada (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Playoffs Football Championship Subdivision Championship Villanova 23, Montana 21 NCAA Division III Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl Wisconsin-Whitewater 38, Mount Union 28 NAIA Championship Sioux Falls 25, Lindenwood 22 BASKETBALL NBA schedule Today's Games SNew Orleans at Toronto, 12:30 p.m. Denver at Memphis, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Boston, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Detroit, 6 p.m. Portland at Miami, 6 p.m. - Cleveland at Dallas; 7:30 p.m. SCharlotte at New York, 7:30 p.m. Monday's Games Utah at Orlando, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Indiana, 7 p.m. Sacramento at Chicago, 8 p.m. SLA. Clippers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Cleveland at Phoenix, p.m. Top 25 schedule Today's Games No. 14 Connecticut vs. UCF at the XL Center, Hartford, Conn., I p.m. . No. 22 Georgia Tech vs. Florida State, 5:30 p.m. Wyoming beats Fresno State in two overtimes in New Mexico B owl By TIM KORTE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Freshman Austyn Carta- Samuels threw three touch- down passes, the last a 13- yarder to David Leonard in the second overtime Saturday, and Wyoming beat Fresno State 35-28 in the New Mexico Bowl. The first of 34 bowls was a high-scoring matchup that was decided by defense. Wyoming (7-6) stopped the nation's leading rush- er, Fresno State's Ryan Mathews, on three rushing attempts from the 1 in the first overtime. The Bulldogs (8-5) tried a quarterback sneak on third down, and Mathews came up short again on fourth down. The Cowboys scored on the first possession in double overtime, then held Fresno State on downs. Wyoming fans spilled out of the stands to cel- ebrate as the school band played "Cowboy Joe." This was Wyoming's first bowl appearance since 2005, and it capped a winning season for first-year coach Dave. Christensen. Mathews, who led the nation in rushing average at 151.3 yards per game, fin- ished with 144 yards rush- ing on 31 attempts with two touchdowns. But he had a big fumble midway through the fourth quarter, setting up Carta-Samuels to lead a 19-play drive that tied it up. Wyoming's Ian Watts kicked a 37-yard field goal with 20 seconds left in regulation. But after the Cowboys stopped Mathews in the first overtime, Watts was wide left a 40-yard field try that would have won it. Carta-Samuels, the Mountain West's freshman of the year was picked the game's offensive MVE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wyoming wide receiver Greg Boiling (84) and teammate Chris McNeill celebrate Bolling's two-point conversion during the New Mexico Bowl Saturday in Albuquerque, N.M. qq THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME 1\ I 1 VAI, OiJ r ftA "by Mike Argirion and Jeff Knurek Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each.square, | - . ir.-.. yet to form four ordinary words. . I HICED I I -- NATIVE WHEN THE COAL WAS A DI DIFFICULT TO z EXTRACT, THE MINERS PLINEP 5PITWA- S Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. Answer here: IN (Answers tomorrow) Saturday's Jumbles: ANNUL ELITE ASSURE SQUIRM Answer: How he liked to treat his girlfriends - AS SEQUELS GATORS: Slip, fall in second half Continued From Page 1 resisted any temptation to call a timeout. "I wasn't going to bail them out," Donovan said. "I almost wanted them to stop the bleeding them- selves. They needed to play through that. "I take responsibility from the standpoint that obviously what I'm say- ipg to them is not getting through." The Gators totaled only 21 points in the second half, when they shot 7 for 27 (26 percent), including 1 for 9 from 3-point range. They led for the last time at 49-48. "We didn't shoot well," said Alex Tyus, who led Florida with 15 points. "We need to learn how to be a team that when we don't shoot well from the field, we can do other things to overcome that and still win games." . . Starting guards Erving Walker and Kenny Boynton shot a combined 5 for 23, including 2 for 11 from 3- point range.. "We came out flat in the second half," forward Chandler Parsons said. 'We've got to fight through that. When teams make runs, we have to keep bat- tling." Richmond sputtered offensively in the second half; too, missing 12 con- secutive shots over a 9-min- ute span before Gonzalvez's 23-footer with 1:33 left put them ahead 52-49. "The farther out he is, the better his percentage is," Mooney said. "I don't think there was anybody on our team surprised he made the shot." An earlier 3-pointer by Gonzalvez . helped Richmond build its biggest lead at 46-37. 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"It's a lack of awareness," Donovan said, "and almost a. lack of respect for the scouting report and under- standing what we've got to do to take away what they do well." Still, the Gators nearly pulled the game out Trailing 52-50 with less than 15 sec- onds left, they tried two shots with a chance to erase the deficit Walker missed a 3- pointer, and Vernon Macklin grabbed the rebound but missed the follow. When Florida's Dan Werner snatched the rebound he was stripped, and Anderson drew a foul. Anderson sank both ends of a one-and-one with 5.4 sec- onds to go for a 54-53 lead, and after Walker 'made a 3-pointer, Anderson hit two more free throws with 0.9 seconds remaining. Miami beat Florida Atlantic 87-69 in the first game of the doublehead- er at the NHL Florida Panthers' arena. 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