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INDIANAPOLIS -- The Houston Texans hoped to cash in on a hefty offseason investment in the offense.Turns out, their rugged defense may still be the way to the playoffs.On a day the Texans scored only one touchdown against Indianapolis, the defense forced three turnovers and stopped the Colts on fourth-and-1 with 1:24 left in the game to preserve a 22-17 win on Sunday.What the defense did is truly unbelievable, quarterback Brock Osweiler said. It was like a playoff game.Win a couple more, and it will be a playoff game.By snapping a three-game losing streak, Houston (7-6) and Tennessee remained tied atop the AFC South though the Texans are better positioned because of season sweeps over the Titans and Colts (6-7).The Texans won their second straight game in Indy after losing their first 13 and have won nine straight over division foesThis one sure wasnt easy.Nick Novak made five field goals, Lamar Miller ran 21 times for 107 yards and scored on a 2-yard run late in the first half for all of the points.Osweiler, meanwhile, went 14 of 24 for 147 yards with no touchdowns despite twice starting drives inside the Colts 20-yard line.Still, the old-school style played right into the hands of Houstons defense, which picked off Andrew Luck twice and recovered a fumble after Jadeveon Clowney beat tight end Dwayne Allen on third-and-goal from the 3-yard line.They finished it off by beating the Colts with a blitz that forced an errant throw on Indys final play.Luck blamed himself.Bad plays, I mean those turnovers, he said after going 24 of 45 for 276 yards with two TD passes. We didnt execute and youve got to execute to have a chance to win the game.After the Colts took a 3-0 lead on their opening series, they didnt score again until Frank Gore took a screen pass and raced 18 yards to the end zone to make it 16-10 early in the third quarter. T.Y. Hilton scored on a 35-yard TD pass early in the fourth, cutting the deficit to 19-17.But the Texans used nearly 6 1/2 minutes on the ensuing drive to set up Novaks 34-yard field goal, and the defense, as it did all day, held up.Was it perfect by any means? No. But we got the job done, Osweiler said.MOVING ON UPGore and Adam Vinatieri continue climbing the NFL charts. Gore, the Colts top running back, finished with 74 yards from scrimmage to move past Terrell Owens (16,185) for No. 11 on the NFLs list.And Vinatieri scored five points, ending the day with 104 to extend his NFL record to 19 100-point seasons. Hes achieved that feat nine times since joining the Colts, a franchise record.Texans linebacker Brian Cushing finished with six tackles, giving him 639 in his career -- breaking DeMeco Ryans franchise record (636).REACHING 1,000While Houston ran 41 times for 185 yards, Miller reached the 1,000-yard mark for the second time in his career. The milestone came on a 20-yard run midway through the fourth quarter. He has 1,012 yards this season -- a pretty good return for a team that signed the free agent to a four-year deal in March.INJURY REPORTTexans: Cornerback Johnathan Joseph (ribs) was inactive, and right guard Jeff Allen left in the third quarter with a concussion.Colts: Already short-handed on defense and down one starting offensive lineman before the game, things got worse throughout the day. Indy lost left guard Jack Mewhort (left knee) in the third quarter and starting center Ryan Kelly also left briefly in the third quarter.Linebacker Curt Maggitt (knee) limped directly from the field to the locker room after getting hurt on a fourth-quarter kickoff and receiver Donte Moncrief injured his hamstring.THEY SAID ITTexans: Our defense competes. Our defense is tough to beat with our secondary playing well, Texans coach Bill OBrien said.Colts: We had a different play called and they did a nice job and they called timeout got it in right at the right time, took a picture of what we were doing, coach Chuck Pagano said, referring to Indys final play. They made a substitution and we called a different play and the executed it and obviously we didnt.UP NEXTTexans: Host Jacksonville next Sunday.Colts: Travel to Minnesota next Sunday.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL . Stitched NFL Jerseys . 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ATLANTA -- Consider it fitting that what was billed as the final formal end-of-season speech of Tim Finchems career was held Tuesday morning at the Tour Championship in something called the FedEx hospitality venue.Thats not a knock on the outgoing PGA Tour commissioner, who is poised to retire at years end after more than 22 years on the job. Its just the opposite.Finchem will be remembered for ushering in the Tiger Woods era, capitalizing financially on the frenzy, and maintaining that boon through global economic crises and the downturn of Woods career. He will be remembered for inventing a season-ending playoff system that created not only a viable conclusion but also greater monetary windfalls for his membership. He will be remembered for overseeing a transition of the tour from a pleated-pants, country-club set to a promising alternative for any athletic kid who wouldve previously opted for other endeavors.All of these rivers flow into the same ocean. The greatest legacy of Finchems career is money -- securing it for his tour, increasing it for his players, and producing more of it from various sources than ever before.And so, yes, its fitting that his final address occurred at the FedEx hospitality venue, the name alone epitomizing the intrinsic value that the commissioner has heaped upon the tour over the past two decades.Not that hes buying any of it.While seated in the swanky suite off the new 18th hole sponsored by a company that will reward a lone playoff champion with $10 million later this week, Finchem took the honorable road. Asked about the greatest legacy of his tenure, he didnt mention anything about financial impact or economic progress or so many other money-related phrases hes so often repeated over the years. Instead, he pointed to his people.Im proudest about the quality of our team and the interface with the players, he answered. Working with these people is just a fabulous experience. Watching their growth, the number of good people that have come to us, has been really rewarding. If you have that kind of strength, then good things happen. So Im really comfortable with watching the transition now going forward and whats going to happen. I think some of the changes that are already being made, even before I step aside, are really, really good changes.Again, its honorable. Its also a bit misguided.Lets alloww the numbers to do the talking.dddddddddddd When Finchem took over for Deane Beman during the 1994 season, there were 44 events on the schedule. The total combined prize money was $56.4 million, with a top winners share of $540,000. This year? With 46 events, the prize money is $320.4 million and the greatest winners share is $1.89 million.Thats a 568 percent increase in total prize money and a 350 percent increase in the highest winning paycheck while adding just two events to the calendar.As if to only further this point, most of this years winners have earned more than the value of most entire tournament purses from the year Finchem became commissioner.Sure, much of this is the direct correlation of Woods rise as the games most dominant player and one of the worlds most popular athletes. But that doesnt mean marketing and selling a tour that included him was ever a foolproof proposition.By 98, Tiger was dominant, Finchem said Tuesday. So the questions were: How do you manage to grow the tour when your dominant player is playing 17 or 18 times and you have 46 events? How does that work? Well, between 96 and today, every one of those tournaments has grown in virtually every category almost every year. The lesson there is that fans like golf. They demonstrated that they like having a dominant player. ... [It] demonstrated that we can grow, and I think thats a good lesson for the future.Its a future that soon wont include Finchem, at least not on a formal basis.He maintained that hell still be happy to serve as a consultant to incoming commissioner Jay Monahan, if need be. Finchem will work on his handicap, which is either a 4.3 or a 6.5, depending on which GHIN number you trust. And if youre wondering what to get for the man who has everything, he said the perfect retirement gift would be riding 18 holes in a golf cart at Latrobe Country Club alongside none other than Arnold Palmer.Other than that, Finchem can rest easy when he steps down, secure in the knowledge that he didnt just leave the PGA Tour in a better place than when he started, but he ushered it through one era and into the next, producing a level of financial stability that will endure as his lasting legacy -- even if he doesnt think so. ' ' '