Mayweather told to pay $114,000 in Pacquiao case

LAS VEGAS (AP) ? A federal judge has ordered boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. to pay about $114,000 for avoiding questioning from rival fighter Manny Pacquiao's lawyers in a defamation case.

Attorneys for Pacquiao earlier lost a bid to end the lawsuit with a more severe sanction ? a default judgment for Pacquiao.

But on Monday they won more than $113,000 in legal fees and $774 in costs for what U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks bluntly called "Mayweather's obviously intentional decision not to appear for his court ordered deposition."

Pacquiao, a Filipino fighter against whom the undefeated Mayweather is frequently measured, has alleged that Mayweather defamed him by suggesting Pacquiao used performance-enhancing substances.

Pacquiao has denied the claim. He filed the lawsuit in Las Vegas in December 2009 and has sought unspecified damages.

"Calling a professional athlete a cheater is the most serious charge one can make," the lawsuit said. "Accusing an athlete of using performance-enhancing drugs ? however baseless and lacking in evidence ? is toxic."

The two boxers have never fought in the ring, and the court saga playing out in Las Vegas has been seen as an impediment to a much-anticipated bout.

Mayweather lawyer Mark Tratos in Las Vegas declined comment. Pacquiao lawyers Daniel Petrocelli and David Marroso in Los Angeles didn't immediately responded Wednesday to messages about the court order.

News of the ruling came at the same time Las Vegas police reported handing a residential disturbance call involving Mayweather at his daughter's mother's house last week. No one was arrested and no criminal charges were filed in the Sept. 9 incident.

A Mayweather business entity owns the property, according to county records, and Melissa Brim, the mother of Mayweather's daughter, lives there, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Brim on Wednesday were unsuccessful.

Police found no evidence of a physical altercation, Las Vegas police Officer Bill Cassell said, and no one in the house wanted to file a police report. Cassell called the case closed.

With no police report, an aide to Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said the incident had no bearing on an unrelated domestic battery case for which Mayweather served two months this summer in a Las Vegas jail. He was released Aug. 3, and is not currently on probation.

Mayweather pleaded guilty last December to reduced misdemeanor charges stemming from a hair-pulling, arm-twisting attack on another former girlfriend, Josie Harris, while two of their three children watched. Harris and the children now live in the Los Angeles area.

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Islam vs tolerance debated in Prophet film's wake

CAIRO (AP) ? Behind the anger over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad, public protest is giving way to measured debate over free speech in the new Muslim world.

But while many crave more openness, few if any will go so far as to say that includes the right to blaspheme.

Angry shouts of "No, no to America!" and "No to Israel!" have been balanced by voices condemning the weeklong violence that has targeted U.S. and other Western embassies and left more than 30 dead in seven countries, including Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

"Muslims should know that Islamic extremist groups bear some responsibility for the uproar taking place now, and for the collision of the world cultures," said Sheik Hameed Marouf, a Sunni cleric in Baghdad.

"The moderate people and clerics in the Islamic world should do their best to isolate and stop such groups that do not represent the true moderate values of our religion."

Religious extremists ? whether Muslim, Jewish or Christian ? "will lead only to more killings and more blasphemous acts," he said.

Anger is still palpable over the anti-Islam video made in California, as well as French political cartoons that denigrate Muhammad, but most of the Arab world has not seen protests for much of this week.

The streets around the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, where clashes raged for days, were relatively quiet Thursday. Egyptian security forces patrolling the area casually leaned their rifles against the same compound walls that were scaled by angry protesters just last week.

The easing of the violence reflects the balance that Egypt and other Islamic nations are trying to find as they work to nourish democracy in societies where blasphemy is a crime.

"There is no doubt that most Muslims take offense at anyone mocking the prophet," said Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center. "The great divide is over the response. The vast majority of Muslims understand that the world is now interconnected and all kinds of material ? good or offensive ? pours in."

"What we see now is a rage against both the film and, indirectly, the interconnected world," he said.

The violent backlash stretched from Indonesia to Morocco, but nowhere did Muslims take to the streets en masse to protest the film.

In Cairo, there were never more than 2,000 demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy at any point during four days of protests. And most were believed to be ultraconservative Islamists, known as Salafis, although U.S. officials say the crowd shifted over time and eventually was galvanized by gangs of rowdy teenagers. Salafis are seeking the creation of an Islamic state founded on a strict interpretation of Shariah law.

"The whole thing, our reaction, was way, way over the top," said Ali Abdel-Halim, a 22-year-old business graduate from Cairo, who did not participate in the clashes but said he visited the area around the embassy to watch them.

"I think the film is meant to provoke us as Muslims," he said. "My personal view is that we should have ignored it. It received much more attention than it deserves. Really, it was not worth people dying for."

Over the last decade, dictators have been toppled in four Mideast countries ? Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya ? and a fifth is threatened in Syria. With that has come a widespread embrace of assembly and religious freedoms that had been held in check by authoritative regimes for decades.

Khalil al-Anani, an expert on Islamist movements, predicted it will take a generation or more for Mideast nations to fully develop a working democracy that respects individual rights and Muslim values.

"The Arab world is on the edge of choosing between joining the modern world and political development, or to remain as in the last few centuries," he said. "There shouldn't be a trade-off. But it's an enormous challenge, and it will take time."

Iraq was the first Mideast country to embrace democracy after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, but it is arguably more unstable than ever.

"The Muslims are taught to die for God, not to live for God, so I think that the chances of moderation are limited in our Islamic world," Baghdad businessman Hassan Rahim said Thursday. "The West should accept the fact that Muslims might tolerate a specific level of criticism on Islam, but not mockery or blasphemy."

In Egypt, al-Anani said, the government should encourage progressive thinking by pumping more funding into religious schools that offer a range of interpretations of Islamic texts ? and not just conservative views. Salafi influences rose in Egypt over the last decade, in part because of the schools and growth of satellite TV, which conservative clerics use to promote extremist views and, often, hate speech against Christians and Jews.

The anti-Islam video, like Danish cartoons mocking Muhammad several years back, is believed by some to be part of a conspiracy against Muslims to provoke them into acts of violence. But even the voices of moderation on the issue are in agreement with the militants that the film, the latest French cartoons demeaning Muhammad and the Danish caricatures before them cannot be tolerated as freedom of speech.

At the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, which is considered to be the primary seat of Sunni Muslim learning and a traditional voice of moderation, Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb is calling for an international law that ensures respect for religions and criminalizes blasphemy.

Judicial authorities in Egypt, meanwhile, have said they would try those behind the film in absentia before a criminal court.

The approach to religion is dividing Egypt, creating a fault line between Islamists and secularists as well as between various shades of Islamists. That Salafis spearheaded the protests is evidence of that schism. The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Islamist President Mohammed Morsi hails, has stayed away from the protests, only condemning the film and calling for peaceful demonstrations.

Morsi's government also stepped up its policing of the riots after President Barack Obama called Egypt neither an ally nor an enemy, but "a new government that's trying to find its way." Washington began airing ads in Pakistan this week condemning the video in an olive branch to the Muslim world.

In Gaza City, Shukri Abu Fadel, a 42-year-old teacher, proudly said he joined protesters who were demonstrating peacefully ? a basic tenet of democracy.

"We sent our protest message in a civilized and modern way, and it should be known that this movie has unified Muslims and Christians in the Middle East, and has unified all strong believers in God all over the world," Fadel said as he left a mosque.

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Associated Press Writers Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad, Rebecca Santana in Islamabad, Brian Murphy in Dubai, and Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City contributed to this report.

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Weak world economy smoothes way for deals, U.S. execs say

BOSTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of 3M Co and Honeywell International Inc on Wednesday said the grim global economic outlook is whetting their appetite for acquisitions.

When organic growth opportunities slow, major U.S. companies typically turn to buying other businesses as a way of quickly boosting their revenue. The slowdown is making it easier to do so by lowering sellers' price expectations, executives said.

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote suggested that the uncertain economy has led some potential takeover targets to entertain lower-priced offers from his Morris Township, New Jersey-based company.

"When times are bad and everybody is uncertain about the future, that is the right time to buy," Cote told an investor conference in Boston. "You don't want to buy when everybody is saying, 'Wow, things are great, this is a good time to do it,' because you're probably catching things on the peak."

Inge Thulin, who took over as CEO of 3M in February, said told investors that sellers' price expectations had declined and he was likely to pursue larger acquisitions than his predecessor George Buckley. He held to the company's target of doing $1 billion to $2 billion worth of takeovers per year.

"You will see fewer but more strategically important" deals, said Thulin, whose company makes a broad range of products from Post-It notes to films used in television screens. "They should be a little bit more sizable."

The company has not given up on its effort to acquire Avery-Dennsion Corp's office products businesses, despite U.S. antitrust objections, 3M executives added.

Similarly, the head of auto parts supplier American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc said the weak European auto market -- where industry sales were down 8.5 percent in August -- could give his company an opportunity to buy distressed companies with interesting new technologies in Europe.

"If there's a way to expand our presence in Europe that strengthens our brand, we'll do it," said David Dauch, the company's CEO, at Detroit Economic Club.

GRIM GLOBAL ECONOMY

Europe's continued slump and weakening demand in Asia stood out as the main concern on executives' minds.

Thulin said 3M's long-standing goal of growing sales by 7.0 percent to 8.0 percent a year, factoring out the effects of acquisitions and currency fluctuations, looked like a "stretch target" in the current economy.

"The market has changed since that target was put in place. It was done in a different economic environment," Thulin said. "Now it's a stretch target in a way and in 3M we have an organization that responds very well to stretches."

Honeywell's Cote said that in recent months the global economy had grown slightly weaker, though the maker of building-control systems and cockpit electronics has not seen any sharp changes in demand.

"This is more of a steady degradation," Cote said.

Honeywell believes the company will continue to grow sales despite the overall sluggishness, Cote told investors. "Next year, I think sales will generally be up, but it's not going to be anything that's exciting."

Investors have grown warier of companies' prospects in the past few months, with firms in the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index <.spx> now expected to post a 2.1 percent collective profit decline in the third quarter. That is down from forecasts that called for 3.1 percent growth when the calendar quarter began on July 1, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

The view is not quite so dark for Thulin and Cote's sector. Analysts look for industrial companies to record 4.7 percent earnings growth in the quarter, though that is down from an earlier 10.1 percent growth forecast.

EUROPE IS THE BIG WORRY

Europe, gripped in a debt crisis, remains corporate America's main worry, executives said.

"The European market is mixed. Northern Europe continues to be robust ... southern Europe clearly is depressed and a whole different story," Carlos Cardoso, CEO of U.S. tool and engineering company Kennametal Inc , told an investor meeting in New York.

That weakness has hurt the Latrobe, Pennsylvania-based company's sales, Cardoso told investors in New York.

"The first quarter is coming slightly below what we expected," he noted. Analysts had expected sales to rise about 5.5 percent in the company's first fiscal quarter, which ends September 30.

Cardoso said the uncertain economy has made it more urgent for his company to close deals on businesses that want to sell.

"We have to be prepared to make the acquisitions if they come together," Cardoso said. "If we're not prepared, they go to someone else."

(Additional reporting by Nick Zieminski in New York and Deepa Seetharaman in Detroit; editing by Patricia Kranz and Andrew Hay)

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Angling for gold: Alternative description of atomic level gold bonding

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) ? A new model provides an alternative description of atomic level gold bonding.

A study on how gold atoms bond to other atoms using a model that takes into account bonds direction has been carried out by physicist Marie Backman from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues. These findings, which are about to be published in The European Physical Journal B, are a first step toward better understanding how gold binds to other materials through strong, so-called covalent, bonds.

What scientists need is an empirical model, based on a so-called potential, that describes the gold-gold bond in a reliable way. Most previous models only accounted for interactions in the spherical electron density around the atom. Although it is suitable to describe bonds between gold atom pairs, it is not adequate to describe how surface gold atoms bond to other materials. In such a case, the density of interacting electrons is no longer spherical.

Indeed, bond angles matter when gold binds to other materials. Thus, the authors used a model based on potentials with angular dependence, referred to as Tersoff potential. It offers a compromise between including bond directionality, which is needed for covalent bonds, and keeping the computer time needed for the simulations low.

The authors used theoretical and computational analysis to study gold atoms interacting with their neighbours. They fitted their potential functions to the most important observed characteristics of gold, such as gold atoms' lattice constant, binding energy and elastic constants. Thanks to such potential functions they were then able to describe bonding in atomistic simulations. This involves, first, determining the forces on each atom based on their relative positions and second solving equations of motion, to show how the atoms move, on a very short time scale.

Building on this model, future work could, for example, involve the development of cross potentials for gold nanoparticles and nanorods in a matrix, typically used in biomedical imaging and nanophotonics.

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Concrete Stamping BC - Add Class to Your Outdoor ... - IdeaMarketers

Concrete stamping is one of the popular ways of adding classiness to the flooring of your homes and commercial establishments. A professional concrete stamping BC firm would use grey concrete to replicate the looks of other surfaces which saves you a lot of money while building as well as in maintenance. Concrete stamping services Abbotsford firms can easily simulate the look of a stone, brick and other patterns on the concrete surface. There are a lot of things which you can try out with stamped concrete and he we shall take a look at some of them -

Basic Stamping: This is the most common thing that most customers in Abbotsford look for. A concrete stamping BC firm will offer you the choice between a large numbers of concrete stamps which will make your outdoor landscape look beautiful and seamlessly blend with the overall architecture of the building. Stones, bricks, tiles and the choice are endless for you to spice the outdoor landscape. Apart from this you can also choose from a wide variety of colors of your choice. If that doesn't sound exciting you can also opt for stamping patters with different stains which brings in a retro look to the patio.

Try a Border: This isn't something which everyone does and perhaps it one of the main reasons why you should try adding a border to your stamped concrete. When you are setting up the contract with a concrete stamping services Abbotsford firm ask them about the feasibility in terms of visual aesthetics of adding a border to the concrete. Borders make a bold statement and are a nice way to add that touch of richness to the landscape. One of the ways to make good use of borders to stamp the surface with a basic design and incorporate a darker border with bricks or tile patters to highlight it.

Make Curves and Levels: All of us want our landscape to look unique and you can try by adding curves to your courtyard and walkways which bring in a very casual feel to it. However curves need to be handled very professionally or else they can spoil the complete look of your landscape. You can also try levels over the stamped concrete and opt to finish one level in a particular fashion and try something new in another level. This does away with the mundane look in the courtyard.

Concrete is an amazing building material which can take any shape you want. If you aren't satisfied with the stamps that the concrete stamping services Abbotsford firm offers, you always have the option of creating your customized stamps. You need to ensure that you hire the services of a professional concrete stamping BC firm for this job. Make sure that you take a close look at their portfolio as this is the best way to judge their expertise in the job. Discuss in details about the budget, the kind of stamping you are looking for and the expected time of completion.

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Cards, Eagles unbeaten while Saints sinking at 0-2

The Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles are still perfect, surprising standouts on the NFL's quickly dwindling list of undefeated teams.

Sure, it's just two weeks into the season, but 2-0 sure sounds good. Especially when only five teams can say that.

The New Orleans Saints, however, are still looking for a win without their head coach or their once-dominant defense.

Kevin Kolb threw for one touchdown and ran for another, Stephen Gostkowski missed a potential winning field goal in the final seconds, and Arizona upset New England 20-18 on Sunday.

"Nobody really gave us a chance," said Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt, whose team was a two-touchdown underdog, "but our guys believed they could do it and it's great to see them operate that way."

Houston, San Diego and San Francisco also improved to 2-0 on Sunday, with Denver (1-0) and Atlanta (1-0) looking to join the club heading into their Monday night matchup.

The Cardinals (2-0) have won nine of their last 11 games, and they got this one thanks in large part to Kolb, who filled in for starter John Skelton and sent the Patriots (1-1) to their first loss in 11 home openers since they moved into Gillette Stadium in 2002. The Cardinals also ended a five-game losing streak against the Patriots, beating them for the first time since Sept. 29, 1991.

"We knew what kind of game this was going to be," Kolb said. "We've been kind of stressing it all week: Stay patient, don't get greedy."

The Patriots began their final possession after Vince Wilfork recovered a fumble by Ryan Williams at the Cardinals 30-yard line with 1:01 left. A 30-yard run into the end zone by Danny Woodhead was nullified by a holding penalty against Rob Gronkowski. New England then moved to the 24 before Tom Brady spiked the ball to stop the clock with 6 seconds remaining.

But Gostkowski sent his kick to the left.

"I had a chance to win and it came down to me and I didn't pull through, and it stinks," said Gostkowski, who had been 3 for 3 in his career on field-goal attempts in the final two minutes with a chance to tie or win a game.

The Patriots suffered a big loss when tight end Aaron Hernandez, their most versatile offensive player, hurt his right ankle in the first quarter. He left Gillette Stadium wearing a walking boot and carrying crutches. The Patriots gave no update on the injury.

At Philadelphia, Michael Vick scored on a 1-yard TD run with 1:55 left, helping the Eagles overcome a slew of turnovers to beat the Baltimore Ravens 24-23 for their second straight comeback win.

The Eagles are 2-0 for the first time since Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens led them to the Super Bowl in 2004.

"In the moment, you have to be at your best," Vick said. "It's got to be an any-means-necessary mentality."

Rookie kicker Justin Tucker made field goals of 56, 51 and 48 yards for the Ravens, but Joe Flacco couldn't get Baltimore (1-1) in his range in the final minute.

The Ravens had a lot to say about the replacement officials after this one.

"There's some serious calls the refs missed," Baltimore's Ray Lewis said. "It's just the way it is, man, all around the league. We have to correct that. These games are critical. Guys are giving everything they've got all across the league. But these are calls, with the regular refs, if they were here, we know the way the calls would be made."

At Charlotte, N.C., Cam Newton threw for 253 yards and ran for a career-high 71 yards and led the Panthers to a 35-27 win over New Orleans that left the NFC South champion Saints 0-2 for the first time since 2007.

"Times change," wide receiver Steve Smith said of Carolina's first win over New Orleans since 2009.

Coach Ron Rivera said a loss to Drew Brees and the Saints would have been tough to take especially with a tough game coming up Thursday night against the Super Bowl champion New York Giants.

"The way we responded as a team this week was outstanding," Rivera said of his 1-1 Panthers. "I think the attitude, the effort was great."

The Saints, meanwhile, have serious concerns on defense. They've allowed 922 yards and 75 points in two games against Newton and Robert Griffin III.

"If you look at our defense, and you look at the two offenses we've played, we've played the most unconventional offenses in the National Football League," said interim coach Aaron Kromer, who is running the team because coach Sean Payton and assistant head coach Joe Vitt are serving suspensions for their roles in the Saints bounty scandal. "So do we have to do better against those styles of offenses? Yeah, we do.

"One thing we need to get settled in on is on that style. But we've played two good offenses, and we just need to keep working at it and plugging away."

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GIANTS 41, BUCCANEERS 34

At East Rutherford, N.J., Eli Manning came up with a near-record performance in throwing for 510 yards, and Andre Brown scored on a 2-yard run with 31 seconds left to lift the New York Giants over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Manning's yardage total was the second most for a Giants quarterback, and tied for the eighth-highest in NFL history. He threw three first-half interceptions, and came back with a monster 295 yards passing in the second, finishing 3 yards short of Phil Simms' team record.

The Bucs (1-1) led by 11 points before the Super Bowl champions came back and avoided an 0-2 start.

Manning threw touchdowns of 23 yards to Hakeem Nicks, 80 to Victor Cruz and 33 to Martellus Bennett with 3:59 to play to give New York (1-1) a 34-27 lead. Cruz finished with 11 catches for 179 yards, both career highs, while Nicks had 10 catches for 199 yards, with the yardage a personal best. Only the 1951 Rams had a 500-yard passer and two 150-yard receivers in the same game.

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COLTS 23, VIKINGS 20

At Indianapolis, Adam Vinatieri made a 53-yard field goal with 8 seconds left to give Andrew Luck his first NFL victory.

Minnesota (1-1) rallied from a two-touchdown deficit in the final 5? minutes and tied the score on a 6-yard TD pass from Christian Ponder to Kyle Rudolph with 31 seconds left.

But that was too much time for Luck, who had thrown two touchdown passes for the Colts (1-1). He started with back-to-back 20-yard completions, then drew the Vikings offside before spiking the ball with 12 seconds to go. Vinatieri, the best clutch kicker in NFL history, knocked the 53-yarder through the uprights to win it.

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49ERS 27, LIONS 19

At San Francisco, Vernon Davis caught touchdown passes of 21 and 23 yards from Alex Smith, who extended his franchise-record streak of passes without an interception to 216, leading the NFC West favorite Niners (2-0) to their ninth straight win in the series.

Smith took a hard hand to the helmet from John Wendling late and bloodied his nose, but the 49ers ran their home winning streak against the Lions (1-1) to 12 ? and there was no heated greeting afterward this time. Coaches Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz met before the game with a friendly hello and handshake.

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DOLPHINS 35, RAIDERS 13

At Miami, Reggie Bush ran for 172 yards and two touchdowns, and the Dolphins won a home opener for the first time since 2005.

Ryan Tannehill threw his first NFL touchdown pass, ran for another and avoided any turnovers after tossing three interceptions in his pro debut a week earlier.

The Dolphins improved to 1-1, and Joe Philbin earned a sideline drenching for his first victory as a head coach. The Raiders, under new coach Dennis Allen, are 0-2 for the first time since 2007.

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TEXANS 27, JAGUARS 7

At Jacksonville, Fla., Arian Foster ran for 110 yards and a touchdown, Ben Tate added 74 yards and two scores and Houston dominated from the start.

The Texans improved to 2-0 for the third consecutive season by winning their fourth in a row against the AFC South-rival Jaguars, who started 0-2 for the third time in the last five years.

Jacksonville, which has never had a winning record after dropping its first two games, was far from competitive in the latest meeting. The Jaguars finished with a franchise-low 117 yards.

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BILLS 35, CHIEFS 17

At Orchard Park, N.Y., C.J. Spiller scored twice and had 123 yards rushing in sparking Buffalo.

Ryan Fitzpatrick threw two touchdown passes, including a 49-yarder to Stevie Johnson, and Leodis McKelvin scored on an 88-yard punt return ? the second-longest in team history ? in the Bills' home opener.

Buffalo's high-priced defense had five sacks and forced three turnovers as the Bills (1-1) bounced back from a season-opening 48-28 loss to the Jets last week.

Dwayne Bowe scored both touchdowns for Kansas City, 0-2 for the sixth time in seven years.

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BENGALS 34, BROWNS 27

At Cincinnati, Adam "Pacman" Jones returned Cleveland's first punt 81 yards for a touchdown, and Andy Dalton matched his career high with three touchdown passes.

The Bengals (1-1) have won 13 of the last 16 against the Browns (0-2), who got impressive games from rookie quarterback Brandon Weeden and running back Trent Richardson. Weeden threw for two touchdowns, and Richardson became the first Browns rookie to run for 100 yards and score on a run and a pass.

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STEELERS 27, JETS 10

At Pittsburgh, Ben Roethlisberger passed for 275 yards and two touchdowns and the Steelers smothered the New York Jets in the second half.

Roethlisberger completed 24 of 31 passes. He hit Heath Miller for a 1-yard score to give the Steelers (1-1) the lead late in the first half, then found Mike Wallace for a 37-yard strike early in the third quarter to break the game open and avoid Pittsburgh's first 0-2 start in a decade.

Mark Sanchez passed for 138 yards and a touchdown, but the Jets (1-1) hardly resembled the offensive juggernaut that piled up points in a 48-28 opening-week blowout win over Buffalo.

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RAMS 31, REDSKINS 28

At St. Louis, Sam Bradford threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns and Danny Amendola caught 15 passes for 160 yards in rallying the Rams (1-1).

The Rams made their comeback after running back Steven Jackson left the game after drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the second quarter. Later, coach Jeff Fisher said Jackson left because of a groin injury.

Griffin led the Redskins (1-1) to a 21-6 lead, but the Rams came back thanks to the pass-catching of Amendola, who tied the NFL record with 12 first-half receptions.

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SEAHAWKS 27, COWBOYS 7

At Seattle, Marshawn Lynch ran for 122 yards and a 3-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter and the Seahawks' special teams came up with two huge first-quarter plays that led to 10 points.

Michael Robinson forced Felix Jones to fumble on the opening kickoff that led to a short field goal, and Malcolm Smith blocked Chris Jones' punt and Jeron Johnson returned it for a touchdown to give Seattle (1-1) a 10-0 lead in less than 5 minutes against the Cowboys (1-1).

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CHARGERS 38, TITANS 10

At San Diego, Dante Rosario had three touchdown catches for the first time in his NFL career and the Chargers' defense harassed Jake Locker all day in beating Tennessee for the ninth straight time.

Before the game, the Chargers (2-0) retired Junior Seau's No. 55. Seau, the hard-hitting, first-pumping leader of the Chargers for 13 seasons, committed suicide May 2. San Diego's winning streak against the Titans (0-2) dates to 1993, when the franchise was still the Houston Oilers.

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