The Daily Numbers: 20 carries for 38 yards on the ground yesterday for Eagles running back Brian Westbrook.
71 yards for a touchdown on a screen pass in the fourth quarter for Westbrook, sealing the Eagles wild-card win over the Vikings.
1 day, how long it took Delco to record its first homicide of the year, when a man was found shot to death in a Chester deli Friday afternoon.
1 person from Darby Borough charged in the region’s first homicide of the year, a fatal shooting in Philadelphia.
3 persons charged with firing guns in Upper Darby on New Year’s Eve as the clock struck midnight to welcome in the new year.
25 percent hike in tolls facing all those who drive on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
4 victims who were bound with tape during a convenience store robbery in Claymont, Del., Saturday night.
6 days a week Pennsylvania residents can now get help from state unemployment offices. You can now dial unemployment offices at 1-888-313-7284 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday to get unemployment compensation help.
0, what it will cost to enter the African American History Museum in Philadelphia during the Martin Luther King Weekend.
7 Philly fire companies and 11 libraries that are still in the crosshairs as Mayor Michael Nutter looks for ways to cut spending and shrink a growing deficit.
10,000 dollars won by a 70-year-old man at a blackjack table at the Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City. He was held up on his way to to his car.
10 million dollar winning lottery ticket cashed in by a widow in Connecticut. Her husband had purchased the ticket as part of his daily ritual. He suffered a fatal heart attack later in the day.
3 young pit bulls whose emaciated bodies had been thrown in trash bags and dumped in a rural part of Cumberland County, N.J.
500,000 dollar fine to be paid by the West Chester firm Lasko Products after they were cited by the feds for problems caused by defective fans.
4 career post-season interception returns for touchdowns for Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel. That’s an NFL record.
3, as in the third meeting of the year for the Eagles and Giants Sunday in the Meadowlands.
3 times the two teams have played in the post-season. The Giants hold a 2-1 advantage.
1 p.m. kickoff for the NFC Divisional playoff game in the swamps of Jersey.
4.5 point favorite, what the Vegas oddsmakers have installed the Giants over the Birds.

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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Did anyone else spend most of their day yelling at their TV and the antics of Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb, only to wind up smiling, in large part because of the Birds’ defense and Brian Westbrook?
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I Don’t Get It: Some people just insist on shooting off guns to celebrate the new year. It happened again this year in Upper Darby. And several people now have criminal charges filed against them to show for it.
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Today’s Upper: Maybe there’s something to all this karma and the idea of lifting the curse of Billy Penn. All I know is that the Eagles are alive for another week, meaning we’ve got something to cheer about for another week, and we’re another week closer to spring.
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Quote Box: “I mean, this is the time to step your game up.”
-- Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel, who returned an interception for a TD against the Vikes. It was the fourth time he has done so in the post-season in his career.