brian westbrook and the 49ers ran for 136 yards and a touchdown against arizona. san francisco beat the cardinals 27-6, and are only one game back in the nfc west. >>> in the nba, dallas won its sixth game in a row. dirk nowitzki of the mavericks had 20 points against houston. dallas got out to a big lead in the fourth quarter and held on for a 101-91 victory. >>> lebron james and miami scored 30 points, and dwyane wade added 26 as the superstar teammates put on a show against washington. the heat 105-94 win over the wizards was only their second victory in the last six games. in oklahoma city russell westbrook of the thunder showed he could drive to the hoop and shoot from long range as he led a surge in the fourth quarter against the hornets. oklahoma city beat new orleans 95-89. >>> when we return another look at this morning's top stories. >>> and retailers enjoy a holly jolly start to the holiday shopping season. now at sears, warm up the whole family with sweaters for $15 and under with crewnecks, turtlenecks and v-necks in every color, sweater season has ne

hendrickson's counter part westbrook coming off tommy johns surgery to lugo. o's losing 5-0. luke scott breaking up that wishful thinking of a shut out with the seventh win of the year. denied the shut out but the indians win. the o's host the orioles for a pair starting tomorrow night. >> absolutely there were some missed opportunities. we've had that happen to us several times this season. it's frustrating but the only thing we can do is come out tomorrow, play hard and hopefully things will turn around for us. >>> meantime grown up boys, high powered toys. oh no, clint boyer almost jacked up after a pit stop. >>> delaware ncaa lacrosse showing strength in numbers, supporting the nca women. 8-6 cavaliers, later britney cokfine scored the go away score. >>> next week virginia at carolina and penn at maryland. >>> rhondo and the celtics against howard and the orlando magic who never got off on the good foot. ray allen gets three. celtics didn't hit another bucket the rest of the game. so orlando took advantage. boston hangs on for the 92-88 victory. >> got a hockey score for

byron westbrook getting down the field on special teams for washington. dan: rackers has a 59-yard field goal as his career best. to get to that distance, the texans must get to the 37-yard line of the redskins. they have just one time-out and just 49 seconds to do that. if i'm the redskins, i'm going to double, i'm going to triple-team number 80, andre johnson, something they didn't do on fourth and 10 moments ago and it cost them big time. ian: first and 10 for houston. schaub, throwing, over the middle, andre johnson. modest gain on first down of four. as dan mentioned, one time-out remaining. they have to work the clock here, 37 seconds left this game tied at 27-27. second and six for the texans. dan: take an lot of time to get this play off. ian: there's no sense of urgency here for houston. knocked down at the line of scrimmage. it's holliday, the veteran, now in his 13th year. dan: it's almost as if the houston texans saw they weren't going to get a long punt return out of jones, they've gone conservative with the short pass on first down, thaves g

. >> i wear this wig in honor of katie westbrook. when she died at the age of 14 years old.... >> reporter: particularly her advocacy for children's charities for which she's helped raise millions of dollars. >> i do what i can because i believe it's, of course, the reason why you're famous. there's no other reason really to be famous. but the key component, of course, is charity begins at home. >> reporter: curtis's home life has been her top priority. focusing on raising her two children with her husband of 25 years the actor and director christopher guest. and she's found a new calling. >> i never planneded on writing book. i barely got through high school. >> reporter: her children's books written with illustrator laura cornell have sold more than 5.5 million copies. >> my mommy hung the moon. >> reporter: the latest "my mommy hung the moon" is dedicated to her mother who died six years ago. >> when she pours down rain so it's wet and dark, i climb up on her like she's noah's ark. >> this book is about mother- love. i've raised t

washington has invited westbrook for a visit on wednesday. he comes highly recommended by mcnabb who has apparently made a case for the running back. >> the mother of the university of virginia lacrosse player charged with murder broke her silence today. mar ta murphy's son, george hughley is accused of killing yeardly love. hughley's mother described love as a sweet young woman with a limitless future. she released this statement. >> coming up, lebron james and the cavaliers in serious trouble on their home floor. on their home floor. the latest in game 5 against hut! [ grunting, shouting ] [ grunts ] [ man ] mike, come on! mike, you're playing like betty white out there. that's not what your girlfriend says. whoa! whoa! baby, come here! eat a snickers. better? [ male announcer ] you're not you when you're hungry. better. [ male announcer ] snickers satisfies. it's where your armpits smell like you've been. old spice matterhorn. one of four triumphantly fresh new scents from old spice. [ wind whistling ] [ old spice whistle ] ♪ u2 streets

the office and he bring all these columns, these syndicated columns and he would clip them out about westbrook pegler who was a savage writer. and he would wrote like hunter thompson did later on. and they were the two people he loved. him and shirley when they started getting "the washington post." it almost got on your nerves you had to read what they said. i was very impressed. this must be an interesting living what these people do. and so i had some trouble in school in georgetown in 1959. and i had been expelled as a matter of fact, you know? >> for being combative. >> guest: father salinger expelled me. and i went to work for my father. he was the one person who would hire me given my situation. and i was an accountant for a year. when i went back to school and i said i don't want to stay in school anymore. i didn't want to go to law school. i didn't want three for years in law school. i didn't know what i was going to do. and i had never worked on a paper or anything, or a school paper. you know, why don't i try -- get good grades and try to get into columbia journalism he and super sa

philadelphia eagles fan, the team releasing running back brian westbrook today. the 30-year-old data ma that grad spent eight seasons and darts and the career leader in yards from scrimmage. he missed eight games last season with a pair of concussions and an ankle injury. he was due 7 1/4 million dollars next season. >>> well the olympic men's hockey tournament has certainly been a great fix for caps fans who might lament the loss of their team for two weeks. but for coach bruce boudreau it is a vacation to the bahamas and a commercial shoot. he explained why the olympic break came at just the right time. >> i think the break was a real good time for us. as a coach i think it was -- it's too long for me. >> yeah. >> if they had have had 3 or 4 or 5 games and then get goin' great, because at the end you go out on that pretty long streak and then you're starting to play not so well at the end of it, and i think the guys needed to re-energize and i think they will becoming back awful hungry. but it was a good time for it. >> you're back at it wednesday. what did you