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By holding serve at home, the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots get to try again. The next prize: a spot in the Super Bowl.Defending NFL champion Seattle used a slew of big plays to beat Carolina 31-17 Saturday night in an NFC divisional-round game. The Seahawks (13-4) will host either Green Bay or Dallas next weekend after becoming the first Super Bowl winner in nine years to win a post-season match the next season.Russell Wilson threw three touchdown passes and Kam Chancellor returned an interception 90 yards for a touchdown. Wilson hit Doug Baldwin for a 16-yard TD, found Jermaine Kearse on a 63-yard score, and capped the night with a 25-yard TD pass to Luke Willson early in the fourth quarter.Were just looking for this next challenge, and looking for this NFC championship and were just ready to go, Chancellor said. Were ready to get back to practice, get the preparation going and find out who well play and just get it going.The Patriots are making what seems like their annual trip to the AFC championship game. Tom Brady set a career record for post-season touchdown passes, leading New England back from two 14-point deficits for a 35-31 victory over Baltimore on Saturday. The Patriots will host either the Broncos or Colts next weekend for a berth in the Super Bowl.New England (13-4) is 9-0 this season at Gillette Stadium.Showed a lot of toughness coming back from those two deficits, Brady said. So it took a lot of effort, took a lot of guys making a lot of good plays, and well be happy to host the championship game next week.Brady broke Joe Montanas record with 46 post-season TD passes.Ive been part of a lot of great teams and theres been a lot of guys who have blocked and been on the receiving end of those, too. Those are all team awards to me. I mean, Joe, he and Steve Young were my two idols growing up, so it was pretty special.Seahawks 31, Panthers 17While Wilson was superb, Chancellor made the most eye-catching plays. He twice jumped over the Carolina offensive line on Graham Ganos field goal attempts at the end of the first half, although to no avail.And with Carolina (8-9-1) driving down by 14 points in the fourth quarter, Chancellor jumped in front of tight end Ed Dickson and returned his third career post-season interception for a touchdown. The 90-yarder was the longest touchdown in Seattles post-season history, topping Percy Harvins 87-yard kickoff return for a scored in last Februarys Super Bowl.It felt awesome, said the defensive back who normally is overshadowed by All-Pros Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas. It felt like preparation. It felt like everything I worked all week for. That was my first return of my career and it felt good.Patriots 35, Ravens 31Since Brady took over as New Englands quarterback in 2001, the Patriots have been to eight conference title games and five Super Bowls. They won the first three times, the last after the 2004 season, and lost the two most recent tries, both against the New York Giants. This will be their fourth consecutive appearance in the AFC championship.It was a tough go getting there. They were outrushed 136-14 — Justin Forsett had 129 yards for Baltimore (11-7). Joe Flacco threw for four touchdowns.But he also was intercepted twice, and New England gained 408 yards passing.New Englands Bill Belichick tied Tom Landry for most post-season wins by a coach with 20.Brady wasnt the only Patriot throwing for a TD. Wide receiver Julian Edelman, a former college quarterback, hit Danny Amendola with a 51-yard strike to tie it 28-28. Bradys 23-yarder to Brandon LaFell with 5:13 remaining won it.Baltimore played a great game, Edelman said. They came out and hit us in the mouth and we were able to get up and keep playing.On Sunday, Dallas is at Green Bay, followed by Indianapolis at Denver.___Dallas (13-4) at Green Bay (12-4)Green Bay lost the season opener at Seattle, but Dallas handed the Seahawks their only loss at CenturyLink field in the regular season.The Cowboys first post-season trip to Lambeau Field since losing the Ice Bowl on the final day of 1967 shouldnt be nearly that frigid. Still, it will be cold, and Dallas can take comfort in an 8-0 road record this season.Of course, the Packers were 8-0 at home.So youve got an immovable object going up against an unstoppable force, Packers fullback John Kuhn said. Which one is going to give? Well find out.A key element for Green Bay is the health of Aaron Rodgers (calf), who has been upgraded to probable.He looks like hes moving fine to me right now. (We are) not going to change anything or our approach of how we want to attack Dallas defence, coach Mike McCarthy said.The Cowboys high-powered offence is led by league rushing leader DeMarco Murray.I feel fresh, said Murray, who has 1,920 yards in 17 games, including the wild-card win over Detroit last week. I havent missed time. Im feeling good.___Indianapolis (12-5) at Denver (12-4)Both teams lost lopsided games to New England this season.Another spotless home team, the Broncos are 9-0 when Peyton Manning throws for at least 300 yards. But do they want to get in a shootout with the Colts, whose Andrew Luck — the quarterback who replaced Manning in Indianapolis — led the NFL with 40 touchdown passes?Denver has become more run-oriented than any Manning team thanks to the emergence of C.J. Anderson.I think a year ago, he broke probably every single-season record known to man. It was the style we played and what was best for our team at that point, coach John Fox said of five-time league MVP Manning. This year, I think were a little bit different team. Were built different.He was a 12-4 quarterback during the regular season, which is I think tied for the best record in football this year.Interestingly, the Colts, winners over Cincinnati last week, are relying more on Luck than they ever did on Manning. In his time in Indy from 1998-2011, Manning was responsible for 73.3 per cent of the Colts total net yards. During his three seasons there, Luck has accounted for 78 per cent, according to STATS.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL Stitched Jerseys . - Rookie Tesho Akindele scored three goals and Fabian Castillo added two in FC Dallas 5-0 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday night. Cheap NFL Jerseys . The pair ended pointless droughts when they each scored two goals in a 6-4 victory over the Winnipeg Jets that halted a two-game losing skid for the Stars (15-11-5).Chicagos Joakim Noah and Indianas Paul George received the most votes on this years NBA all-defensive team, released Monday. Less than two months after a landslide victory in balloting for the leagues defensive player of the year, Noah was the only player to receive more than 100 first-team votes and earn more than 200 points for the team. Noah received 105 of 123 possible votes, while George had 65 votes. The rest of the first team consisted of Clippers guard Chris Paul, Oklahoma City forward Serge Ibaka and Golden State swingman Andre Iguodala. Its the second consecutive year Noah was chosen to the first team. Four-time league MVP LeBron James and defensive player of the year runner-up Roy Hibbert were both on the second team. Noah dominated on the defensive end this season, joining Andre Drummond of Detroit and Anthony Davis of New Orleans as the only players in the league to average at least 10.0 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and 1.2 steals. Noah finished sixth in the league in rebounding (11.3), 12th in blocks (1.51) and helped the Bulls hold opponents to 43.0 per cent field goal shooting, the second-best maark in the league.dddddddddddd He also had 1.24 steals per game. George, widely considered one of the leagues best two-way players at age 24, finished fifth in the league in steals (1.89) and was the only player in the NBA to average at least 6.5 rebounds and 1.8 steals. Paul received 64 first-team votes after winning his sixth steals title (2.48). Ibaka made his presence felt in the Western Conference finals. After getting beaten twice in San Antonio without him, the Thunder won the next two games on their home court with Ibaka. The Spurs eventually won the series 4-2. Iguodala averaged 1.5 steals as the Warriors jumped from No. 19 in defence in 2012-13 to 10th this season. James and Iguodala each received 57 first-team votes but Iguodala had 14 more second-team votes to edge out James for the final spot on the first team. Houston guard Patrick Beverley, Chicago guard Jimmy Butler, San Antonio forward Kawhi Leonard and Hibbert rounded out the second team. Indiana and Chicago were the only teams with two players on the list, which is selected by a panel of 123 sports writers and broadcasters in the U.S. and Canada. ' ' '