Professional Sports

With Lambeau Field looking like a snow globe, Favre frolicked in the flurries, throwing three touchdown passes as the Packers beat Seattle 42-20 Saturday, the highest-scoring postseason game in Green Bay history.

Oakland Athletics veteran Mark Kotsay may be the Atlanta Braves' starting center fielder in 2008, but only if his surgically repaired back first passes inspection. The Braves may be prepared to send young reliever Joey Devine, a 2005 first-round pick, to Oakland for Kotsay. Kotsay first must pass a physical exam.

Lou Dickenson scored his fourteenth goal of the season and Jeff Campbell notched his 35th assist, but it wasn

Mark Recchi, playing against his former Pittsburgh teammates for the first time, scored the only goal in a shootout to give the Atlanta Thrashers a 3-2 win over the Penguins tonight.

Commissioner David Stern took away a win in the afternoon, then Atlanta fell to Washington in the evening. Antawn Jamison scored 22 points and Caron Butler added 21 to lead the Wizards to a 102-98 victory over the hard-luck Hawks.

Tomas Pospisil notched his forth goal of the season for the Gladiators in the first period helping the Gladiators to a 3-1 win over the Pensacola Ice Pilots at the Arena at Gwinnett Center on Friday night.

ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat must replay the final 51.9 seconds of their game last month because the NBA said the official scorer ruled incorrectly that Shaquille O'Neal fouled out. This will be the first time since 1982 the league has sent teams back on the court for a replay.

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball launched a department of investigations today. It's a permanent branch of the commissioner's office responsible for looking into drug use in the sport.

Ilya Kovalchuk extended his lead in the NHL goal-scoring race. He couldn't find the net when it was just him and the goalie

ATLANTA -- The Falcons lost a candidate in their search for a general manager when Chris Mara of the New York Giants dropped out Thursday. Mara, the Giants' vice president of player evaluation, withdrew from consideration two days after interviewing with Falcons owner Arthur Blank.