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DETROIT FREE PRESS
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081107
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Friday, November 07, 2008
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METRO FINAL
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SPT; SPORTS
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6C
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 Mitch Albom, Nicholas J. Cotsonika, Drew Sharp
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Free Press sports writers
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Copyright (c) 2008, Detroit Free Press
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THE PICKS
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Sports writers Mitch Albom, Nicholas J. Cotsonika and Drew Sharp take their best shots each week at predicting the NFL's winners and losers. Their choices are made against the Glantz-Culver line. (Home teams capitalized.)

 THE GAMES                          TIME/DAY       TV              ALBOM        COTSONIKA    SHARP        
Jacksonville 6 1/2  over DETROIT    1:00 Sunday   Blacked out      Jacksonville Jacksonville Jacksonville 
CLEVELAND 3 over Denver           Thursday night -                Cleveland    Denver       Denver       
MIAMI 8 1/2  over Seattle         1:00 Sunday    -                Seattle      Miami        Seattle      
N.Y. JETS 9 over St. Louis         1:00 Sunday   -                N.Y. Jets    N.Y. Jets    N.Y. Jets    
Tennessee 3 over CHICAGO           1:00 Sunday   -                Tennessee    Tennessee    Tennessee    
Baltimore/HOUSTON, even           1:00 Sunday    -                Baltimore    Houston      Baltimore    
MINNESOTA 2 1/2  over Green Bay    1:00 Sunday   Fox (Channel 2)  Green Bay    Green Bay    Green Bay    
ATLANTA 1 over New Orleans         1:00 Sunday   -                New Orleans  Atlanta      Atlanta      
NEW ENGLAND 3 1/2  over Buffalo   1:00 Sunday    -                New England  Buffalo      New England  
Carolina 9 1/2  over OAKLAND       4:05 Sunday   -                Oakland      Carolina     Carolina     
PITTSBURGH/Indianapolis, no line   4:15 Sunday   CBS (Channel 62) -            -            -            
SAN DIEGO 15 over Kansas City      4:15 Sunday   -                Kansas City  San Diego    Kansas City  
PHILADELPHIA 3 over N.Y. Giants    8:15 Sunday   NBC (Channel 4)  N.Y. Giants  Philadelphia N.Y. Giants  
ARIZONA 9 1/2  over San Francisco 8:30 Monday    ESPN             Arizona      Arizona      Arizona      
Last week                         -              -                 10-4        5-9          9-5          
Season total (without Thu. game)  -              -                64-59-4      67-56-4      67-56-4
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forecast; football; list; dfreepress
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