OAKLAND, Calif. — The Kansas City Chiefs didn’t need much production fromPriest Holmes to extend their winning streak over the Oakland Raiders.

Larry Johnson scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 1-yard run early in thefourth quarter and the Chiefs beat the Raiders for the ninth straight time,winning 12-10 Sunday in Holmes’ return from a two-year absence.

Holmes, Kansas City’s career leader in yards rushing and touchdowns, wasactivated this week for the first time since suffering a neck injury on avicious hit from San Diego’s Shawne Merriman on Oct. 30, 2005.

Holmes entered the game on the third play of Kansas City’s third drive. Hecaught a screen pass from Damon Huard, but was tackled by Nnamdi Asomugha for a6-yard loss. Holmes had no other catches and rushed four times for 9 yards,gaining a key first down with under 3 minutes left and Kansas City (4-3)protecting a 12-10 lead.

The Chiefs were unable to run out the clock and the Raiders (2-4) took overat their 26 with 1:46 remaining and one timeout.

Daunte Culpepper completed three straight passes to move the ball to the 44before Jarrad Page jumped in front of a slant pass to Ronald Curry with 35seconds left, sealing Kansas City’s fourth win in five games.

It was another nailbiting finish for Kansas City against Oakland. Eight ofthe wins during the Chiefs’ streak have been by seven points or fewer. It’s thelongest streak any team has had against the Raiders, who have also lost 17straight division games.

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Blanco’s going to the playoffs. Beckham’s not.

John Thorrington scored in extra time Sunday and the Chicago Fire beat theLos Angeles Galaxy 1-0 to earn the MSL’s eighth and final playoff spot.

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SEATTLE — Mike Bellotti’s team received a perfect primer for what liesahead.

Fifth-ranked Oregon walked out of Husky Stadium on Saturday night with afourth consecutive win over rival Washington, backed by a record performancefrom Jonathan Stewart and the Ducks’ running game.

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CHICAGO - David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy were knocked out of playoff contention Sunday when the Galaxy fell 1-0 to the Chicago Fire on the final day of Major League Soccer’s regular season.

The Galaxy, who had mounted a late-season surge to keep their playoff hopes alive, needed a victory in order to advance to the eight-team championship playoffs of the 13-team league.

The Fire only needed a draw but managed to go one better with a 90th-minute goal to claim the last playoff spot.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — One slippery-handed minute almost cast a dark shadow overthe rest of Ohio State’s season.

In the span of almost 60 ticks of the game clock, the top-ranked Buckeyesthrew an interception that was returned for a score, watched a fumble come backfor another TD and then bobbled the ball again.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama had mixed a little bit of everything intothe season, from fast starts and strong finishes to blown leads and loads ofdrama.

But Nick Saban’s first Crimson Tide team hadn’t done this: Fashion adominant, drama-free victory like Saturday’s 41-17 win over rival Tennessee. Infact, it was the first time No. 22 ‘Bama had managed such an impressive win overa Southeastern Conference power since a 31-3 upset of Florida in 2005.

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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Blanco’s going to the playoffs. Beckham’s not.

John Thorrington scored in extra time Sunday and the Chicago Fire beat theLos Angeles Galaxy 1-0 to earn the MSL’s eighth and final playoff spot.

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MIAMI — Tom Brady was flawless at the start and off the bench, too.

With his team winning easily, Brady came out of the game early in the fourthquarter Sunday, then re-entered to throw a team-record sixth touchdown pass,capping unbeaten New England’s 49-28 rout of the winless Miami Dolphins.

Brady’s TD total exceeded his career high of five, set last week againstDallas. Brady now has 27 TD passes after seven games. The NFL record is 49 setby Peyton Manning in 2004. If Brady maintains his current pace over 16 games, hewould finish with 61.

Brady completed his first 11 passes for 220 yards and four scores, includingthrows of 35 and 50 yards to Randy Moss. His other touchdown passes covered 14and 16 yards to Wes Welker, 30 to Donte Stallworth and 2 to Kyle Brady.

Willie Andrews returned a kickoff 77 yards for a touchdown to help thePatriots lead 42-7 at the half.

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Trent Dilfer became the latest quarterback tosuffer the wrath of Osi Umenyiora, Michael Strahan and the New York Giants’defense.

Umenyiora scored on a 75-yard fumble return and the defense helped toaccount for 24 points as the Giants won their fifth straight with a 33-15victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

The dynamic four-end defense of the Giants (5-2) had a field day against theNFL’s worst offense. New York forced four turnovers by the 49ers (2-4), sackedDilfer six times and made him play with his head on a swivel while Alex Smithrested his ailing shoulder on the sidelines.

Michael Strahan had his biggest sack performance since 2003, collecting 2 1/2 against his former defensive coordinator and current 49ers coach Mike Nolan.

Eli Manning threw touchdown passes to Amani Toomer and Jeremy Shockey, andBrandon Jacobs ran for 107 yards and a touchdown for the Giants, who also gottwo field goals from the struggling Lawrence Tynes.

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LANDOVER, Md. — This wasn’t a football game. It was a series of unfortunateevents.

The Washington Redskins and Arizona Cardinals seemed poised to set footballback for decades Sunday with bad penalties and bonehead mistakes. Since theRedskins had the only thing resembling a normal scoring drive, it seemedappropriate they were the winner, 21-19, although they finished the day withonly 160 total yards and survived a 55-yard field goal attempt that was barelywide left with two seconds remaining.

Arizona’s Neil Rackers missed what would have matched the longest field goalof his career. The attempt was set up when the Cardinals recovered an onsidekick following a touchdown and a failed 2-point conversion.

No one expected a classic. The Cardinals showed up with a one-armedquarterback and two backups who barely knew the play book, while the Redskinshad to patch together a starting offense after injuries to three linemen lastweek.

That didn’t do much to explain the combined 15 penalties for 128 yards. Orthe blocked punt by the Cardinals. Or the blocked extra point by the Redskins.Or the fact that the Redskins let the Cardinals back into the game by committingneedless dead-ball fouls after twice stopping Arizona during a long drive thatresulted in a touchdown.

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