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Show StatesmanSports Friday, Nov. 30, 2007 Friday Sports Picks Favre-less Packers fall to Cowboys IRVING, Texas (AP) — Standing on the sideline, scowling and gingerly holding his bandaged right arm, all Brett Favre could do was watch Tony Romo impersonate him. The kid was good. Too good for Favre and the Green Bay Packers. The Wisconsin native who spent all week denying Favre was his childhood hero sure played a lot like a young No. 4 Thursday night — full of moxie and joy, but needing a bit of a high-wire act to send the Dallas Cowboys past the Packers 37-27 and into the lead for home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. Romo threw four touchdown passes to send the Cowboys (11-1) to their sixth straight win. The Packers (10-2) ended a six-game winning streak and are now essentially two games behind Dallas. Page II Sammy Hislop 52.25% Games GREEN BAY PACKERS QUARTERBACK BRETT FAVRE holds his arm on the sideline after injuring it in the second quarter against the Dallas Cowboys in their NFL football game,Thursday in Irving, Texas.The Cowboys' Tony Romo threw four touchdowns as his team won, 3727. AP photo/Tony Gutierrez G. Terry 58.4% Sam Bryner 66.5% Missouri ® Okla. Oklahoma Oklahoma Missouri Oklahoma Pitt ® W. Virginia W. Virginia W. Virginia W. Virginia W. Virginia B.C. @ V. Tech Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Boston College Virginia Tech LSU @ Tennessee LSU LSU LSU LSU UCLA <3> USC USC USC USC USC Wash. @ Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Jags @ Colts Colts Jaguars Colts Colts Broncos @ Raiders Broncos Broncos Broncos Raiders Giants <g> Bears Giants Giants Giants Bears Ariz. @ ASU Arizona State Arizona State Arizona State Arizona State Down: Ag women drop to 0-5 DEATH SKULL ENTERTAINMENT [• continued from page 9 a learning experience. Every game lost is a jumping-off point to get better and move on, she said. The team will have to keep their mental clarity and know that they can do better, she said. "No matter what we see, whether we're playing against a really physical, tough team, we're going to be OK," Pebley said. "We're going to be confident, and we're still going to be Dave Baker 60.75% able to execute what we do." Coming up for the Aggies is an away-game schedule that takes them to Cheney, Wash., to compete against the Eastern Washington University Eagles on Dec. 2. Then Dec. 8 puts the ladies in Flagstaff, Ariz., on the home court of Northern Arizona University, -erin.wadsworth@aggiemail. usu.edu PRESENTS: THE 2007/2008 PRE-SEASON PARTY! ^ „. LIVE BANDS! A SPECIAL SHOWING OF THE NEW SNOWBOARD FILM, "THE PASSION" Avenge: Santa Clara up next 9 continuedfrompage 9 Santa Clara returns two starters and eight letter-winners from last year's team that went 21-10, including a 77-75 overtime victory over Utah State last season. In that game, Aggie big man Stephen DuCharme recorded a season-high 22 points and 11 rebounds. Jaycee Carroll will look to improve on his performance from last year as he recorded a season-low 14 points. Utah State had a chance to win the game at the buzzer when guard Mikel Watson's running jump shot rolled out as time expired and DuCharme's tip-in was waived off because the buzzer had already sounded. In overtime, Santa Clara started off quickly by scoring six of the first eight points to build a four-point lead before hitting four straight free throws in the final 25 seconds. A trend for Utah State has been that it wins when Carroll scores 20 or more points. For Carroll's entire career, he has scored 20 or more points 39 times, and USU is 32-7 in those games. This year, Carroll is averaging 19.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game while shooting 49 percent from thefield,48 percent from 3-point range and 94 percent from the free-throw line. Also averaging double-digit scoring for Utah State this season is DuCharme, who is averaging 13.6 points. Junior forward Gary Wilkinson averages 10.1 points. DuCharme is coming off a week where he was named the Western Athletic Conference player of the week as he scored 40 points over the Aggies two games in the South Padre Invitational. He also put in 10 points in the Aggies' win over Austin Peay on Nov. 20. Senior guard Kris Clark and junior forward DeUndrae Spraggins are coming off of career games against Iowa State. Clark recorded a career-high nine assists while Spraggins scored 14 points and dished out five assists. -sam.bryner@aggiemaH.usu.edu Saturday Dec. 1 at High Point Gymnastics at the Sports Academy 8-11 pm Come Jump the tramp gaps Huge air competition (Prizes) Live Bands Full Gymnastics Facility $1O A Special Showing of From -graham.terry@aggiemail.usu. edu Skull Ent. UtahState AS WE STEP BACK herxelf, will he at xtep, hack p,riee&. O continuedfrompage 9 Estelle for Montreal. Calvillo is the CFL's career leader in passing yardage. More former WAC players in the CFL include Chick s Saskatchewan teammate Yo Murphy from the University of Idaho and Boise State's career passing leader Ryan Dinwiddie of Win nip eg. Although Guy said he hopes Chick's fine performance in the Canadian league earns him another look from NFL teams, the easy-going Chick said he and his wife Catherine, a Utah State grad, are content. "I'm tired of moving my family around, and we're happy where we are," Chick said. "It's a great community for my wife and kids. I'm not really pursuing anything." Maybe one reason Chick is so happy to be in Saskatchewan is the great Canadian fans. "The fans in Saskatchewan are the craziest of all fans," Chick said. "They bleed green here. They're throughout all of Canada. Saskatchewan Roughriders is the only team in Saskatchewan, so everyone from Saskatchewan is Roughrider fans. Most of our games we'd go to you'd notice the Saskatchewan fans just as much as the opposing team fans." PRIZES! PRIZES! P R I Z E S ! Mk< Grey Cup: Chick enjoying CFL Chick said he still follows the Aggies, mainly by looking at news tickers to see how they are doing and keeping in touch with his friends. He said he had some advice for the current Aggies as they work this off-season to improve their record again next season: "The number one thing when I was there, a lot of the guys I knew it seemed like it was hard to stay positive. When there's negativity in the locker room, it produces bad things." Chick said the Saskatchewan Roughriders were underdogs most of this year. "That was in the media. But inside the locker room everyone believed we could win. That started with the head coach and everyone bought into what he said. It showed in practice, it showed in meetings and it showed in games. You're going to have bad experiences to learn from. We had a three-game losing streak and some losses that shouldn't have been losses," Several'USU players besides Chick have found success in the CFL, such as Jerome Dennis, who plays for the British Columbia team Chick and the Roughriders beat en route to the Grey Cup, or safety Mark Estelle, a Montreal Alouette. Former Aggie quarterback Anthony Calvillo plays with Enter the Huge Air Contest In: Single, Double, and Triple flips! will Ixe at the, 9:OO - Qte-e-n. &hurjiday. Qlo-a. 29 th Qlaa. 30th UNIVERSITY |