Facing a big-name, big-play offense standing 23 yards from the game-deciding touchdown, Pierce and his relatively unsung Giants teammates controlled their playoff fate.
Tuukka Rask, who recorded his 13th career shutout, was idle for several long stretches as his teammates controlled play at the other end of the ice.
His Gerolsteiner teammates controlled the peloton and kept a three-man breakaway in striking distance for much of the 121-mile stage, and Schumacher stayed with his rivals as the road rose over two steep climbs in the last one-fifth of the route.
The entire mood of the series is dominated by the feeling that you and your three teammates (controlled by the software if you choose to play it solo, offline) are a few of the only human survivors being tossed about by the whitecaps on a vast sea of zombiedom.
Ferry tells his players to go after the ball rather than to box out when rebounding, so they tap a missed shot the way volleyball players might, until a teammate can control it.
For much of the season, Webber looked like he had his younger teammate under control; a little more than halfway through the season, Webber had won four races, while Vettel had won only two.
Miami center Mario Bland, who scored 13 points, then missed a jumper, but his teammate John Salmons controlled the rebound.
(AP) AROUND THE LEAGUE In his first game since grumbling about how his teammates defer to him too much, Dirk Nowitzki scored 20 points over the first three quarters, then saw his teammates take control in the fourth as host Dallas beat Memphis, 106-101.
It buoyed his teammates, who controlled the ball through midfielder Dax McCarthy and advanced judiciously on the flanks with Benitez and Chavez.
Earnhardt, driving his familiar No. 3 black Chevrolet in a pack of cars that was chasing the eventual race winner, his teammate Michael Waltrip, lost control of his car just before the crash.
