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This Week

The New England Patriots host the Philadelphia Eagles at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro MA. Kickoff is at 8:15 p.m. for the nationally televised Sunday night contest.

The Patriots are 4-0 at home this season and 2-0 against the NFC. The Eagles are 3-2 on the road and 2-0 against the AFC in 2007.

Here are the rosters for the Eagles and the Patriots.

The Line/Prediction

As of Thursday the line on the game from Yahoo Sports is Patriots -22. The over/under is 50. It is the third largest point spread in the NFL since 1976.

My prediction is Patriots 45, Eagles, 21. Give the points and take the over. I am 9-1 against the spread and have called the over/under eight out of ten times in 2007.

Tickets

The Patriots are reporting the game as a sell out.

Tickets to the game, if available, may be purchased through Ticketmaster. You can check the availability here. Many times tickets are released in the last 48 hours prior to the game.

Getting To The Game

If you’re lucky enough to be going to the game make sure you check out the links.

Here is the up to date weather forecast for the game from the American Weather Service.

Click for stadium directions, parking information, parking map, specific MBTA train times for this game and a Gillette Stadium seating chart.

Tailgating

Here’s a bunch of different tailgating recipes from Tailgaiting America. There’s something there for everyone and every type of meal or snack. I’ve tried some of the recipes and they’re very good and for good measure here is one of my own.

BROADCAST INFORMATION

Television

NBC is televising the game, it is the national Sunday Night Football Game. The play-by-play duties will be handled by Al Michaels with John Madden doing game analysis. The entire country gets the game.

Radio

The Patriots Rock Radio Network broadcasts the game from flagship station WBCN-FM 104.1 in Boston. Gil Santos handles the play-by-play and former Patriot Gino Cappelletti does the color.

It all starts with Gary Tanguay, Scott Zolak and Andy Gresch and the pregame show at 5 p.m. along the network.

The post game starts after the final gun and continues for three hours.

Check this out for the low down on the Patriots Rock Radio Network and stations in your area.

If you are outside of the broadcast area of the stations on the Patriots Rock Radio Network you can purchase NFL Field Pass which allows you to listen to any NFL game live. You can also pick which teams broadcasters you want to listen to.

All NFL games are also available on Sirius Satellite Radio. The Patriots radio call is available on Channel 126, the Eagles radio call is available on Channel 122.

The game will also be broadcast nationally by Westwood One. Dave Sims and BobTrumpy will call the game. Find a Westwood One station near you.

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After having won their first two games by a combined 118 points, the UConn women’s basketball team faced their first real test of the season against the Stanford Cardinal in the Paradise Jam at the University of the Virgin Islands.

The Huskies didn’t disappoint their faithful that made the trip with them to St. Thomas as they beat Stanford 66-54 behind Maya Moore’s 19 points and 12 rebounds. It was Moore’s third straight game in double figures and she had her second double-double of the season.

Kalana Greene added 18 points for the Huskies (3-0) and Tina Charles had a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds.

Preseason All-American Candice Wiggins led Stanford (3-1) with 15 points while Jayne Appel added 13 points and 8 boards.

UConn led this one from start to finish as they controlled the tempo of the game early as they got out to a 9-0 lead. UConn would eventually increase their lead to 22-8 before the Cardinal would battle back to the UConn lead to 31-22 at halftime.

Whatever UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said to his troops at halftime worked as the Huskies looked a little more inspired in the second half. Moore led the Huskies with 12 points during a 23-6 second half run giving the Huskies 26 point lead at 60-34. The Cardinal would battle back though with a 16-2 run to cut the lead to 12 points. The Cardinal would not get any closer than 12 points the rest of the way.

UConn will be right back on the court tomorrow at 8:30 PM on CPTV when they take on the Old Dominion Lady Monarchs.

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Written by Steve Hofstetter, Keith Alberstadt, Adam Hofstetter, Cody Marley, Ryan Murphy, Elliot Steingart, and Chris Strait

Alex Rodriguez said that his talks with the Yankees are “in the bottom of the fifth inning.” Hopefully for A-Rod, the metaphor takes place in a regular season game. If the Yankees do sign the ten-year deal, it’s mainly so they don’t have to speak to Scott Boras for the next decade.

The University of Alabama is looking into acquiring a live elephant for its football game day festivities. Unfortunately, John Daly was booked.

Michigan coach Lloyd Carr resigned after losing to Ohio State, calling it his most embarrassing loss of the last few months. Rumor has Carr going to Notre Dame next season. To play quarterback.

Ryan Leaf has surfaced as the quarterbacks coach for Division II’s number four ranked West Texas State. Leaf has taught his team how to throw a spiral, throw a tantrum, and throw in the towel.

Mike Tyson has served a 24-hour jail sentence, where he was forced to eat prison food instead of Lennox Lewis’ children.

New York Knicks radio announcer Gus Johnson was criticized for clapping every time New York scored a basket. Johnson later apologized for being a Knicks fan. The good news for the Knicks is that they got Stephon Marbury back. The bad news, of course, is that they got Stephon Marbury back.

And undefeated North Carolina won its fifth NCAA title in women’s field hockey. When asked what she’ll do next, the team MVP said, “I’m going to Lilith Fair.”

For more of the Sports Minute (Or So), visit minuteorso.com

As you would expect, the links for Red Sox news are thin like my waist line before eating a turkey dinner. Although today, I probably won’t be having a turkey dinner since I had it last night. Not much coming out of the Red Sox yesterday other than Daisuke Matsuzaka is back in Japan for a little while and he held an impromptu press conference, answering a few questions. You can see the transcript in the first link.

‘Not up to my standards’ [Boston Globe]

Santana: No sticker shock [Boston Herald]

For more headlines and stories, head over to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Providence Journal, and Hartford Courant websites.

The Torii Hunter sweepstakes is over.

After trading Orlando Cabrera to the Chicago White Sox for Jon Garland, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have made another big splash in the news. The Angels and Hunter have agreed on a 5-year $80 90 million deal. The deal came to fruition over the past 24 hours.

Oddly enough, the Angels signed a center fielder last year in Gary Matthews, Jr. It is expected that Matthews will move over to left field sending Reggie Willits to the bench and making Garrett Anderson the DH.

The signing gives the Angels someone to protect Vlad Guerrero in the lineup. Hunter will probably bat third in front of Guerrero in the upcoming season.

Ok so it was only a one-game skid. But between the Celtics, the Red Sox and the Patriots there hasn’t been much losing around these parts lately. The Celtics snapped the skid against last seasons playoff darling, the Golden State Warriors, with a 105-82 win in front of 18,624 at the TD BankNorth Garden on Wednesday night.

The Green were led by former UConn product Ray Allen who had 21 points, while Kevin Garnett and captain Paul Pierce each registered double-doubles. Garnett had 20 points and 10 boards, while Pierce had 19 and 10 as Boston improved to 9-1 on the season.

The Warriors, who were playing on the back end of a back-to-back, were led by reserve gaurd Monta Ellis who had 21 points and Stephen Jackson who had 15 points as Golden State had their 3-game win streak snapped.

Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz was at the game tonight.

The Celtics play the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night at the TD BankNorth Garden.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there. And a happy 10th birthday to AJ, the family chocolate lab.

I apologize for the lack of posts today. My parents dog is sick and of course they are in Hawaii on vacation so I’ve had to drive up to the kennel to pick him up. The vet is seeing us at 5:30 PM and it doesn’t appear that he’s too seriously sick. Maybe just some type of UTI or something.

I won’t be doing our show tonight because of this but head over to mybaseballbias.com to check with Jason on the status of tonight’s show. We had planned to do a show tonight but I can’t be too sure now.