Aldon Smith took over the NFL sacks lead with 15, passing Denver's Von Miller with 13, and recorded the secondbest total in franchise history behind Fred Dean's sixsack day on Nov. 13, 1983, against New Orleans. Tarell Brown and Dashon Goldson each had an interception for San Francisco's stingy defense, which shut down Campbell, Matt Forte and Co.But it is what it is. We 33 and now we just got to move forward and try not to allow those things to happen again so that we won find ourselves in this position down the road. It unfamiliar territory for the Patriots, who lost only three times in the regular season a year ago on their way to going to the Super Bowl.

The capital side, however, the MTA is wasteful beyond reckoning, with three unnecessary projects in Lower Manhattan alone. The $450,000,000 South Ferry subway station, replacing a station that has worked well since 1912, is one. The problem here is that you must leave or board the 1 or 9 train on only five cars, becaus