Maybe this is the reason it is called a wild-card game. LaDainian Tomlinson, the NFL rushing champ, runs for 42 yards. Antonio Gates is carted off in the second quarter with a toe injury.

Don't tell the San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos that they're Christmas Eve game didn't mean anything. John Lynch met LaDainian Tomlinson head-on early in the first quarter, a collision of two star players following a simple 2-yard run.

LaDainian Tomlinson took over the NFL rushing lead, got his fourth straight 100-yard game and called it a night.

By Lauren Gregory, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. Nov. 3--Three Chattanooga men caught Friday with what police call a "robbery pack" face a number of felony charges in connection with a recent string of school break-ins, officials said.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger flipped the coin, thanked the firefighters and yelled, "Go, Chargers, go!" Did they ever, helping bring a sense of normalcy to a region that's been ravaged by deadly wildfires.