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WASHINGTON, Dec 14, (RTRS): Results and standings from the NFL games on Sunday.

American Football ConferenceAFC East

W L T OTL PF PA PCTNew England 11 2 0 1 402 253 .846NY Jets 8 5 0 0 325 256 .615Buffalo 6 7 0 0 316 301 .462Miami 5 7 0 0 240 300 .417

AFC NorthW L T OTL PF PA PCT

Cincinnati 10 3 0 0 354 229 .769Pittsburgh 8 5 0 1 344 260 .615Baltimore 4 9 0 1 278 326 .308Cleveland 3 10 0 1 240 357 .231

AFC SouthW L T OTL PF PA PCT

Indianapolis 6 7 0 1 275 356 .462Houston 6 7 0 0 259 291 .462Jacksonville 5 8 0 1 326 357 .385Tennessee 3 10 0 0 253 326 .231

AFC WestW L T OTL PF PA PCT

Denver 10 3 0 0 281 225 .769Kansas City 8 5 0 0 331 243 .615Oakland 6 7 0 0 299 326 .462San Diego 3 10 0 0 250 334 .231

National Football Conference

NFC East

W L T OTL PF PA PCTWashington 6 7 0 1 281 307 .462Philadelphia 6 7 0 0 301 322 .462NY Giants 5 7 0 1 307 296 .417Dallas 4 9 0 2 230 305 .308

NFC North

W L T OTL PF PA PCTGreen Bay 9 4 0 0 317 245 .692Minnesota 8 5 0 0 258 255 .615Chicago 5 8 0 2 272 314 .385Detroit 4 9 0 0 267 336 .308

NFC South

W L T OTL PF PA PCTCarolina 13 0 0 0 411 243 1.000Tampa Bay 6 7 0 0 288 322 .462Atlanta 6 7 0 1 279 295 .462New Orleans 5 8 0 1 323 397 .385

NFC West

W L T OTL PF PA PCTArizona 11 2 0 0 405 252 .846Seattle 8 5 0 2 340 235 .615St Louis 5 8 0 1 210 271 .385San Francisco 4 9 0 0 188 315 .308

Philadelphia 23 Buffalo 20Cleveland 24 San Francisco 10St Louis 21 Detroit 14New Orleans 24 Tampa Bay 17NY Jets 30 Tennessee 8Pittsburgh 33 Cincinnati 20Jacksonville 51 Indianapolis 16

Kansas City 10 San Diego 3Washington 24 Chicago 21Carolina 38 Atlanta 0Seattle 35 Baltimore 6Oakland 15 Denver 12Green Bay 28 Dallas 7New England 27 Houston 6

NFL Results/Standings

Gent vs WolfsburgAS Roma vs RealPSG vs ChelseaArsenal vs BarcaJuventus vs BayernPSV vs AtleticoBenfica vs ZenitDynamo vs City

(First legs on Feb 16-17and 23-24. Return legs onMarch 8-9 and 15-16)

CL Last 16 Draw

New England Patriots quarterbackTom Brady (12) is sacked by HoustonTexans outside linebacker JadeveonClowney (90) during the second halfof an NFL football game, Dec 13, in

Houston. (AP)

Ex-winners Juve, Bayern clash as Real drawn against Roma

Barca face Arsenal, Chelsea play PSG againNYON, Switzerland, Dec 14, (RTRS):Holders and Spanish league leadersBarcelona will play Premier League lead-ers Arsenal in the last 16 of the ChampionsLeague, 10 years after the sides faced eachother in the final, following Monday’sdraw for the first knockout stage.

Spanish league leaders Barcelona,chasing a sixth title, prevailed 2-1 in the2006 final at the Stade de France in Parisand also triumphed in the knockout phasein 2010 and 2011.

Chelsea, who are enduring a torridtime in the Premier League, will faceFrench league leaders Paris St Germain

in the knockout stages for the third yearin succession after the French championstriumphed at the same stage last seasonand the London club had the upper handin the quarter-finals the previous year.

Another clash between big guns will fea-ture former winners Juventus and BayernMunich, while 10-times champions RealMadrid were drawn against AS Roma.

It is the game between the pacesettersin Spain and Arsenal which most catchesthe eye, however.

“We are certain to see a sporting spec-tacular,” said Barca director Albert Soler.

“Arsenal and Barcelona have a similar

style of play. The fans will enjoy them-selves, we’re two sides with a similarunderstanding of the game. They will betwo great matches. We must have maxi-mum respect for Arsenal.”

“Barca are used to playing under pres-sure in every sense. But we are the reign-ing champions and that gives you anedge.”

Arsenal club secretary David Milessaid: “It is not easy and the one to avoid

at this stage, but it is up to us and we willgive them a game.

“Messi, Neymar, Suarez... you couldgo on, but we have our own world classplayers and I am sure they will be fantas-tic games in London and in Barcelona.”

There is also a familiar feel about theChelsea v PSG tie.

“There is not much we don’t knowabout Paris,” said Chelsea general secre-tary David Barnard.

“You only know if it’s a good drawafter the tie. We are ambitious, we havetwo-and-a-half months to prepare,” PSGsports director Olivier Letang said.

Real Madrid and Roma have also seena lot of each other in the competition,though not since 2008 when the Italianswon 2:1 home and away in the last 16.

“You have to be very much on yourguard. If we see ourselves as favouritesthings won’t go well for us,” said Realdirector Emilio Butragueno.

“We know what can happen if you have10 poor minutes on a European night.”

Juventus could come to regret havingblown their finale in the group stage,leaving Manchester City, who will takeon Dynamo Kiev, with the better draw onpaper.

Unbeaten Panthers clinch playoff byePats snap skid

CHARLOTTE, NorthCarolina, Dec 14, (AP): CamNewton added to his MVPresume, completing 15 of 21passes for 265 yards andthree touchdowns, and theunbeaten Carolina Panthersdefeated the Atlanta Falcons38-0 on Sunday to clinch afirst-round bye in the NFCplayoffs.

Newton connected on scoringstrikes of 74 and 46 yards to TedGinn Jr., and Jonathan Stewart ranfor a touchdown as the Panthers (13-0) scored on their first three posses-

sions.Newton also

threw a 4-yard TDpass to Ed Dicksonin the final secondsof the first halfbefore leaving forgood at the end ofthe third quarterwith Carolina up 38.He finished with acareer-high quarter-back rating of

153.3, and the Panthers won their 17thstraight regular-season game.

Carolina’s defense forced fourturnovers and had five sacks, while limit-ing struggling Falcons quarterback MattRyan to 224 yards passing. Atlanta is 6-7and has dropped six in a row.

Patriots 27, Texans 6In Houston, Tom Brady threw for 226

yards and two touchdowns and the NewEngland Patriots snapped a two-gameskid to clinch a playoff spot.

Brady threw TD passes to KeshawnMartin and Rob Gronkowski in the firsthalf to help New England build a 17-6lead.

The Patriots (11-2) didn’t move theball as well in the second half, but thedefense harassed Brian Hoyer into multi-ple mistakes. Jabaal Sheard had stripsacks on Hoyer twice after halftime. ThePatriots recovered the second one early inthe fourth, and James White made it 27-6with a 2-yard run three plays later.

Hoyer was sacked five times and leftthe game to be evaluated for a concussionwith about 9 minutes remaining for theTexans (6-7). The quarterback alreadymissed a game this season after getting aconcussion on Nov. 16.

Steelers 33, Bengals 20In Cincinnatti, Andy Dalton broke his

right thumb while making a tackle on aninterception, and the Steelers roughed upbackup AJ McCarron while pulling away

The Bills (6-7) fell two games behindin the AFC wild-card race.

Taylor’s streak of 222 passes without apick ended when his deep pass went rightto Reynolds with 1:16 remaining.

Redskins 24, Bears 21In Chicago, Kirk Cousins threw for

300 yards and a touchdown and theRedskins hung on to beat the Bears afterChicago’s Robbie Gould missed yetanother late field goal.

Washington, which came in tied withPhiladelphia and the Giants for the NFCEast lead, went ahead early in the fourthquarter on Dustin Hopkins’ 47-yard fieldgoal. The Redskins (6-7) broke a nine-gameroad losing streak dating to last season.

The Bears (5-8) were in position toscore after Jay Cutler hit Alshon Jefferywith a 50-yard pass that put the ball onthe Washington 35. The usually reliableGould, who missed the potential winnerat the end of regulation in last week’sovertime loss to San Francisco, got achance to redeem himself.

His 50-yard attempt wasn’t even closeas it sailed wide right.

Jaguars 51, Coplts 16In Jacksonville, Florida, Blake Bortles

threw for three touchdowns and ran for ascore all in the second half and theJaguars ended the Colts’ 16-game win-ning streak in the AFC South.

The Jaguars (5-8) scored on offense,defense and special teams in the samegame for the first time since 2011, thefranchise’s most complete game underthird-year coach Gus Bradley.

It helped Jacksonville gain ground inthe muddled division, at least on the Colts(6-7).

Indianapolis’ division streak was thelongest in NFL history. The Colts’ previ-ous loss against the AFC South came onDec. 16, 2012, at Houston.

Chiefs 10, Chargers 3In Kansas City, Mississippi, the Chiefs

kept San Diego out of the end zone twicein the final seconds for their seventh con-secutive win.

Alex Smith threw for 191 yards and atouchdown, along with his first intercep-tion after a franchise-record 312attempts. But it was a banged-up defensethat held San Diego without a touchdownfor the second time this season thatallowed the Chiefs (8-5) to escape.

The Chargers (3-10) took over at their11 with 5 minutes left and quickly movedinto Kansas City territory, convertingfourth down three times. But after SanDiego was called for delay of game at theChiefs 1 with 5 seconds left, PhilipRivers threw incomplete into the endzone.

San Diego still had 2 seconds left, andan incomplete pass that would haveended the game was blown dead for afalse start. With the ball pushed back tothe 11-yard line, Rivers scrambled to hisright and threw to the end zone, where hispass final pass fell incomplete.

The Chiefs spilled onto the field to cel-ebrate another big win in their playoffchase.

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Carolina Panthers players celebrate late in the second half of an NFL football game in Charlotte, NC, Dec 13. The Panthers won 38-0. (AP)

to a victory that left the AFC North up forgrabs.

The Steelers (8-5) rumbled with theBengals during pregame warmups andthen led the whole way, sendingCincinnati (10-3) to its first lopsided lossof the season.

William Gay returned one ofMcCarron’s passes 23 yards for a touch-down, and Ben Roethlisberger had anoth-er good day as Pittsburgh’s resurgentoffense kept rolling. Pittsburgh hasscored 30 points in five straight games, afranchise record.

The game and potentially Cincinnati’sseason turned on one interception.Stephon Truitt picked off Dalton’s shovelpass in the first quarter, and the quarter-back broke his right thumb while makingthe tackle. It’s unclear how many weekshe’ll miss.

Raiders 15, Broncos 12In Denver, Khalil Mack had five sacks

of Brock Osweiler, including one in theend zone for a safety, and Derek Carrbounced back from an awful first half.

Carr threw two touchdown passes andthe Raiders (6-7) beat the Broncos for thefirst time since Sept. 12, 2011, despitebeing held to minus-12 yards in the first

half the worst performance by a teamheading into halftime in nearly a quarter-century.

The Broncos (10-3) failed to hold ontoa 12-0 halftime lead or several on-targetthrows from Osweiler, including two bigdrops by Demaryius Thomas, one for atouchdown and another for a late firstdown.

The one that really stung was a drop bya wide-open Vernon Davis at the Oakland42 on fourth-and-5 from the Denver 37with 3:45 left.

Denver’s Brandon McManus, whonailed four field goals in the first half,clanked a 49-yarder that would have tiedit off the left upright with 10:22 remain-ing, however. Sebastian Janikowski thenmissed a 43-yarder with 5:07 remaining,giving the Broncos good field position attheir 33, but Davis had his big drop onfourth down after that.

Packers 28, Cowboys 7In Green Bay, Wisconsin, Eddie Lacy

ran for 124 yards and a touchdown, whilefellow running back James Starks addedtwo scores.

The Packers (9-4) have a one-gamelead in the NFC North over Minnesotaafter their second straight victory.

With 435 yards and 29 first downs,Green Bay got better production out of itsinconsistent offense with coach MikeMcCarthy assuming play-calling dutiesagain.

The Packers were still hampered attimes by penalties and problems in short-yardage situations.

But the defense and running gamecame up with big plays in the fourth quar-ter. Dallas’ touchdown came on RobertTurbin’s 7-yard run midway through thethird quarter to make it 14-7.

The Cowboys (4-9) suffered a setbackto their chances of winning the mediocreNFC East.

Seahawks 35, Ravens 6In Baltimore, Russell Wilson threw

five touchdown passes, three to DougBaldwin, against the injury-depletedRavens.

Wilson went 23 for 32 for 292 yards.The five TD throws matched a careerhigh set earlier this season againstPittsburgh and gave him 16 over his lastfour games.

Baldwin scored on passes of 14, 22 and16 yards. Tyler Lockett caught TD throwsof 8 and 49 yards.

Seattle’s second-ranked defense

backed Wilson by keeping the Ravens (4-9) out of the end zone, forcing twoturnovers and allowing only 28 yardsrushing.

The Seahawks (8-5) have won six ofseven to move into position for an NFCwild card.

Baltimore’s offense sputtered underthe direction of Jimmy Clausen, whocompleted 23 of 40 passes for a career-high 274 yards and an interception.

Eagles 23, Bills 20In Philadelphia, Caleb Sturgis kicked a

30-yard field goal with 3:26 left, then EdReynolds intercepted Tyrod Taylor’s passin the final minutes.

LeSean McCoy had 74 yards rushingand 35 receiving in his return toPhiladelphia. He kissed the Eagles logo atmidfield before the coin toss, but ran offthe field immediately after the game.

McCoy never approached Chip Kelly.He said last week he didn’t want to shakeKelly’s hand or talk to the man who trad-ed him.

The Eagles (6-7) and Redskins (6-7)are tied atop the NFC East standings. TheNew York Giants (5-7) could make it athree-way tie with a win at Miami onMonday night.

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