WPPA / T0102 SPORTS / Monday

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Danny Briere, Braydon Coburn and Matt Read scored and Ilya Bryzgalov made 31 saves in the Philadelphia Flyers' 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers last night. Bryzgalov won for the fourth time in five starts.

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers held on for a 24-17 win yesterday over the Cincinnati Bengals. Rashard Mendenhall ran for a pair of touchdowns, and the Steelers intercepted rookie Andy Dalton twice in the fourth quarter.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — John Skelton threw a 5-yard TD pass to Early Doucet with 1:53 left and the Arizona Cardinals rallied for a 21-17 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday. Michael Vick had another so-so performance and the Eagles blew a fourth-quarter lead for the fifth time this season. They are 3-6.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ashton Gibbs scored 24 points, including the clinching 3-pointer with a minute remaining, and Number 10 Pittsburgh escaped Rider 86-78 last night. Nasir Robinson added 22 points and six rebounds for the Panthers, who trailed by as many as six in the second half but ended the game on a 16-5 run to win their 58th straight nonconference game at the Petersen Events Center.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — J.J. Avila didn't miss a shot in scoring 14 points, and helped lead Navy over Penn State-Altoona 88-54 yesterday. Penn State-Altoona was led by Eric Sarra with 18 points. Jonathan Ross added 11 points for the Cougars, who turned the ball over 22 times.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — B.J. Monteiro and Andre Marhold scored 17 points apiece as Duquesne coasted to an 84-66 victory over Green Bay yesterday. The Dukes took a 30-14 lead with 5:47 left in the first half after a 12-1 run, and the Phoenix never trailed by less than 10 points after that.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Number 1 Penn State shrugged off a host of offseason troubles and started defense of its national championship with a 39-3 defeat yesterday of Bloomsburg. After raising its Big Ten and NCAA championship banners, the Nittany Lions stepped on the mat and won nine bouts.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's governor says a Penn State football coach who told a grand jury that he saw another coach molest a child did not meet what the governor called "a moral obligation" to intervene. The coach who testified, Mike McQueary, said he saw retired Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in a shower at a campus football facility almost a decade ago.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State University lost some of its innocence last week, the worst in its 156-year history. Students and alumni say they felt betrayed as child sex abuse allegations exploded onto the nation's front pages, bringing notoriety to a place largely untouched by scandal. Now, as a new week begins and Penn State takes its first tentative steps toward normalcy, students and alumni alike wonder what that means.


NFL
Thursday's Game
Oakland 24, San Diego 17
Sunday's Games
Dallas 44, Buffalo 7
Denver 17, Kansas City 10
Miami 20, Washington 9
St. Louis 13, Cleveland 12
Arizona 21, Philadelphia 17
Tennessee 30, Carolina 3
Pittsburgh 24, Cincinnati 17
Houston 37, Tampa Bay 9
New Orleans 26, Atlanta 23, OT
Jacksonville 17, Indianapolis 3
Seattle 22, Baltimore 17
San Francisco 27, N.Y. Giants 20
Chicago 37, Detroit 13
New England 37, N.Y. Jets 16
Monday's Game
Minnesota at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.
NHL
Sunday's Games
Philadelphia 3, Florida 2
Chicago 6, Edmonton 3
Minnesota 3, Anaheim 2
Vancouver 4, N.Y. Islanders 1
Monday's Games
Philadelphia at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Montreal, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m.