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Chris Berman has taken his Swami Sez NFL picks segment seen on SportsCenter to ESPN Chalk. Each week during the NFL regular season, hell give his favorite picks against the spread here with a little further analysis.Season record:?18-4 ATS (last week: 4-1)Cincinnati Bengals at Dallas CowboysTheres a lot of excitement in Dallas, starting with the Texas Rangers in the playoffs, the annual Texas-Oklahoma game in college football and culminating in the Cowboys home game Sunday. Each week, this Dallas team seems to improve, and Ezekiel Elliott and this offensive line are starting to click. I have plenty of respect for Cincinnati, but with Tyler Eifert still out, I think Dallas has enough at home to beat a very good Bengals team.Score: Dallas 23, Cincinnati 20Houston Texans at Minnesota VikingsWithout Adrian Peterson, Teddy Bridgewater and tackle Matt Kalil, any Vikings fan should be over the moon with a 4-0 start. The run has included wins over Green Bay, Carolina and the New York Giants Monday night. Do they finish this run with a crescendo heading into their bye? All credit to Minnesotas defense, but I think Houston can go head-to-head in the trenches and keep this one close, even without J.J. Watt. Minnesota wins a close one.Score: Minnesota 20, Houston 17Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit LionsI generally dont like to take road favorites, especially ones with a rookie quarterback. However, Andy Reid has always been great off of byes, and since Doug Pederson coached under him in Kansas City, Im going to bank that Pederson will have a good game plan for this one. Plus, Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz (former Detroit head coach) returns to face the team that fired him. He ought to know what makes Matthew Stafford nervous, and hell cook up something here to stifle that offense. Eagles keep it rolling.Score: Philadelphia 23, Detroit 17Tennessee Titans at Miami DolphinsNeither team seems to have much going this season, but DeMarco Murray has played well, and I think Tennessees running game will use the clock and keep this one close. Ill take the head start with the points.Score: Tennessee 20, Miami 19Buffalo Bills at Los Angeles RamsIn a game where neither team reaches 20, Ill again take the points. Tyrod Taylor looked good last week against the Patriots, and Buffalo did what it had to do -- just enough to win the game. Im also assuming the Bills arent so thrilled with themselves that they forget they still have work to do, because this Los Angeles defense is very good. Ill be keeping an eye on the injuries to LeSean McCoy and Marcell Dareus, but I like the Bills in this one.Score: Buffalo 19, Los Angeles 18 Wholesale Football Jerseys . 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The 18-year-old American had five birdies in her bogey-free round for a 17-under total of 196. Lee held the overnight lead but mixed three birdies with two bogeys for a 70. If Kevin Ollie can find a silver lining in Friday nights opening loss to Wagner, its that his young team may well have learned a valuable lesson at the right time.Weve got to step back and go back to the drawing board and figure it out, Ollie said after his No. 18 Huskies were stunned by the visitors from Staten Island -- and the Northeast Conference. This is a dark time right now, but its going to a period after this where we say we got better from it.Another good thing for UConn is getting right back at it, which the Huskies will do when they host Northeastern Monday night.Weve got to get tougher, Ollie said. Our two toughest guys were our two smallest guys out there. Thats (freshmen) C.V. (Christian Vital) and Al (Gilbert). Weve got to get tougher and that starts with me as a coach. Ive got to get these guys ready to play. I take full responsibility and I will do that.Northeastern topped local rival Boston University 87-77 Friday night, with senior guard T.J. Williams scoring a career-high 30 points, dishing out eight assists and grabbing four rebounds -- and graduate senior transfer Alex Murphy scoring 20 points in the opener of his sixth college season.While THOSE Huskies have youth, the experience of the two opening night stars is similar to what Wagner brought to Storrs to snap UConns 27-game Storrs opening game winning streak.We did have a 12-0 run to tie it (in the second half), but they hit a three and every time they needed a bucket they made some big-time plays, said Ollie. Thats what a veteran-laden team does.Northeastern, out of Colonial Conference, was put on the map by Jim Calhoun, who moved from those Huskies to the UConn Huskies and did pretty well there.ddddddddddddNortheastern was picked to finish seventh in the Colonial. But Friday night, Williams became the first Northeastern player to score 30 in an opener since the late Reggie Lewis scored 32 at the Great Alaska Shootout -- against No. 2 Louisville -- in a win in 1986.That was Calhouns first year at UConn.We lost a lot of experience over the last two years, Northeastern coach Bill Coen said after Friday nights win.Murphy, who previously attended Duke and Florida, missed all last season because of injury and was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA -- taking it at Northeastern.Clearly, the level of competition rises for Northeastern Monday night -- especially considering UConn already learned the lesson of perhaps overlooking an unheralded opponent.Transfer Terry Larrier was a bright spot for UConn in his debut, scoring 19 points and grabbing seven rebounds.He played well for us, said Ollie. He was a real bright spot for us. He played very, very well for us, played with a lot of heart and played with pure heart.After Monday nights game, UConn, which likely cost itself a spot in the rankings, heads west. They visit Los Angeles, Ollies hometown, to play Loyola Marymount -- and then across the Pacific to play in the Maui Invitational. They face Oklahoma State in the tourney opener Nov. 21. ' ' '