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NFL Analysis: Green Bay & San Francisco Set The Bar High

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If you’re a part of the conventional wisdom that sees Green Bay-San Francisco as a logical—even likely—matchup in this coming January’s NFC Championship Game, then nothing happened on Sunday afternoon to change your mind. The 49ers held serve at home with a 34-28 win over the Packers, but both teams set a high bar for any challengers to come after.

MLB Coverage: How Boston Blew The AL East Open

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One of the more surprising developments of the second half of the major league baseball season has been the blowing open of the AL East race. While I’m enough of a partisan Boston fan to still be on pins and needles as they get set for a three-game series with Tampa Bay starting tomorrow, I also know how I’d view a race that had a margin of 7 ½ games with three weeks left if I were on the outside looking in—as all but over.

Daily Sports: Monday Night On The Beltway

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It’s going to be a busy night on the Beltway, from the opening Monday Night Football game, to key playoff race baseball. The patch of I-95 between Washington D.C. and Baltimore should be packed, with the cities of Philadelphia and New York also involved, Monday night’s daily sports amounts to a virtual Mid-Atlantic war.

College Football Coverage: Miami Sends Another ACC Statement

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Week 2 marked the second straight week in college football that the ACC made a statement at the expense of the SEC. Last week it was Clemson beating Georgia. This time around it was Miami beating Florida, as the Hurricanes knocked off the Gators 21-16, and with the win Miami sent the message that they expect to be in the group with Clemson and Florida State vying for the ACC crown, Orange Bowl bid, and with a little luck, maybe more.

College Football Coverage: BCS Bowl Projections After Week 2

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The legal saying “The defense rests” applied on Saturday a lot more than fans in outposts like Columbia, Austin and South Bend would have liked. The defenses of South Carolina, Texas and Notre Dame were positively awful in big road losses that reshaped TheSportsNotebook’s BCS bowl projections. Here’s the rundown on the damage and the new-look bowl projections.

Daily Sports: NFL Week 1 With A Baseball Complement

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The first Sunday of the 2013 NFL season is here, with its standard run of an early afternoon where most people watch their local teams, a marquee late afternoon game and then a prime-time battle setting the agenda. The powers of the NFC are the focus today, and the daily sports card is ably filled out with big baseball games both early and late.

MLB Coverage: Did Tough-Minded Texas Miss An Opportunity?

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The Texas Rangers are in first place in the AL West, holding a half-game lead on the Oakland A’s, and they have a 5 ½ game cushion on at least making the wild-card. The Rangers are a team that’s overcome a lot and not received nearly enough credit for it. But I wonder if they aren’t going to look back on the past few weeks as a time of missed opportunity.

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