The Eagles-Bears game was a 4:15pm start which meant I had to consider newspaper deadline pressure. When the Eagles finally scored the first touchdown of the game, I shot it (left) and ran through the tunnel back to the workroom to process it and send it. I finished quickly and with that out of the way, I decided to try and get back on the field for some post-game celebration. There was a minute left in the game and looking around for someone on the Eagles bench cheering on the crowd or some such thing. I kept wandering and then realized that the Bears were actually moving down the field. I got to about the 20-yd line in time to catch the Bears' score with nine seconds remaining (right). They had gone 97 yds with no timeouts. Game over.



Here's the tale of two quarterbacks: Bears QB Brian Griese avoids a sack by Lito Sheppard and Donovan McNabb gets sacked in the 4th quarter by a few people.




Except for the last drive, the Eagles defense was OK. Here, Sheldon Brown breaks up a third down pass attempt to Chicago Bears WR Muhsin Muhammad (he's the giy who would later catch the game-winning TD) in the 2nd quarter.

The Eagles' biggest weapon, Brian Westbrook, wound up with 119 yds combined, but he's just one man.

The funky, artsy, river town of New Hope, PA had some of the business community promote a biker friendly day Sunday. However, not everyone in New Hope wants to welcome the sometimes noisy motorcyclists en masse. Here, local law enforcement officers were on hand to keep a watchful eye.

All in all, there weren't that many extra bikers and good will carried the day.

From left; John & Jeanne LaSelva, the parents of New Jersey National Guardsman Anthony LaSelva, who was killed last month in a motorcycle accident while in Iraq, walk back to their seats after receiving momentos on their son's behalf during a ceremony saluting Iraqi veterans (and their families) from this area, soldiers of Company D 250th Brigade Support Battalion, who served an extended deployment in Iraq. How young the parents look to have a son the age of a soldier.

Relatives look over a photo album looking for their loved one.

There's a fascinating section in the city of Trenton. It's like stepping into a modern city in Poland (this coming from someone who has never set foot outside of North America) but anyway, where it seems like all the growing is happening in suburbs, this is a thriving community within a city, the city I grew up in, and here's something you don't see everyday. Taking a leap of faith, Bishop John M. Smith, Catholic Diocese of Trenton, center, steps into the basket of a lift as he prepares for his ascension to bless the new roof at St Hedwig Church in Trenton. The ceremony happened, of course, after Sunday mass. Helping him are Robert Zaremba, the roofer, left and Father Jack Labinski, Pastor, St Hedwig.

And we have liftoff!

The faithful are pleased with the levitating Bishop.

Once the roof is done, the Bishop turns to bless the crowd below.

Bordentown is celebrating it's 325th Anniversary and since I'm the only one working Sunday, I got the assignment. Hey Ken!

Trenton firefighter Robert Bland, left, of Ladder 4, hoses off a man caught hiding out after a stolen car chase. The man jumped out of the car and off of a bridge and entered a storm drain. It must have seemed like a good escape route, but unfortuately for him, the width of the pipe became too small for him to go very far, so after a standoff, looking like a color-blind contestant at an audition for the Blue Man Group, he came out and gave himself up. At The Times, our resident punmeister Ralph quipped that the fellow must have tried to commit sewer-side. Ouch!

Rowers from the US Men's National Team hoping to compete in Beijing in 2008 practice on the the lake at Mercer County Park after sunset.