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SANTA CLARA, Calif. Radek Faksa Jersey . - ARIZONA (11-4) at SAN FRANCISCO (7-8)Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET, FoxOPENING LINE — 49ers by 4RECORD VS. SPREAD — Arizona 10-5, San Francisco 4-9-2SERIES RECORD — 49ers lead 28-18LAST MEETING — Cardinals beat 49ers 23-14, Sept. 21LAST WEEK — Cardinals lost to Seahawks 35-6; 49ers lost to Chargers 38-35AP PRO32 RANKING — Cardinals No. 8, 49ers No. 18CARDINALS OFFENSE — OVERALL (28), RUSH (30), PASS (16).CARDINALS Defence — OVERALL (24), RUSH (8), PASS (30).49ERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (23), RUSH (6), PASS (31).49ERS Defence — OVERALL (5), RUSH (7), PASS (5).STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Cardinals snapped four-game skid against 49ers in September win, just Arizonas second victory in 11 matchups. ... Arizona goes into season finale tied with Seahawks (11-4) for first in NFC West but Seattle holds tiebreaker with two wins over Cardinals. Seattle win at home over St. Louis clinches NFCs top seed. ... Cardinals outscored Niners 17-0 in second half of September meeting. Drew Stanton threw two third-quarter touchdown passes to rookie John Brown in rally. ... Cardinals coming off most one-sided loss under coach Bruce Arians. ... Arians began week planning to start rookie quarterback Logan Thomas but will go with Ryan Lindley in regular-season finale as Stanton recovers from sprained right knee. Stanton had arthroscopic surgery Friday to deal with infection. ... Thomas one completion in nine attempts was 81-yard touchdown pass to Andre Ellington. Lindley has no TD passes in 225 career attempts. ... Arizona has gone two games without a touchdown, scoring all 18 of its points on field goals. ... Jim Harbaugh could be coaching final game for 49ers, with one year remaining on $25 million, five-year contract signed in January 2011. Team missed playoffs for first time in four-year tenure after three straight NFC championship game appearances. ... San Francisco also has first skid of more than two games under Harbaugh with four straight losses. ... 49ers RB Frank Gore needs 38 yards for fourth consecutive 1,000-yard season and eighth in 10 NFL seasons. Hed be 11th player in NFL history with eight 1,000-yard seasons. Could be pending free agents last game in San Francisco uniform, though both sides are hopeful that wont happen. ... Niners 355 yards rushing last Saturday against Chargers most in franchise history and most by NFL team since Minnesotas 378 vs. San Diego on Nov. 4, 2007. ... Last meeting, 49ers were without TE Vernon Davis (ankle injury), his backup Vance McDonald (knee), RT Anthony Davis (hamstring) and CB Tramaine Brock (toe).___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL Craig Hartsburg Jersey . -- The Los Angeles Clippers chose not to speak publicly about owner Donald Sterling before they faced the Golden State Warriors for Game 4 of their first-round series Sunday. Dallas Stars Jerseys . PETERSBURG, Fla. http://www.authenticstarspro.com/Mattias-janmark-stars-jersey/ . There are some early surprises in the race for the Hart Trophy, but two of the contenders are the leagues biggest stars over the past decade. There are many more players in contention for the awards than just the three that Ive named, and a good or bad week can easily alter the landscape, but through the first 20 or so games of the NHL season, this is how the awards races look to me.Tim Leiweke has regrets.Jermain Defoe got homesick after less than a year in North America and wanted out. Toronto FC failed to make the MLS playoffs as promised. Good people lost their jobs.That was not part of the plan for the big-thinking president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment.It meant, after some heavy lifting behind the scenes in the wake of Defoe, Leiweke has had to orchestrate yet another reboot of the MLS franchise.Were trying to get it right and were not done, he told The Canadian Press on Friday after Jozy Altidore was unveiled at the Air Canada Centre. I believe in the next week or two, people will feel very very good about what our ownership has committed to here. Its pretty remarkable.Defoe, and the gymnastics Toronto had to do to get him here, are behind him. The 32-year-old striker is back in England with Sunderland.In his place is Altidore, a 25-year-old American striker looking to reclaim his glory after a bleak stint in England.Altidore is seen as major boost if for nothing else that he wants to be here — and is being paid a lot to do so.We ended up with a guy who wants to be here and a guy whos very predictable, said Leiweke, essentially summing up the Defoe issue.Toronto has more moves to make, with possibly more big news to come in the form of a Grade-A attacking midfielder. But a lesson has been learned. Any new marquee addition will be a young talent committed to the cause.Leiweke sees that in star midfielder Michael Bradley and Altidore.In a franchise devoid of consistency, Leiweke says he sees some light at the end of the tunnel.We have a chance now to build around these two guys. Theyre young, theyre committed and they want to be here, he said. And they like each other, theyre best of friends. I think were in a fortunate position.Leiweke says Altidore wouldnt be a TFC player had it not been for Bradley. The 27-year-old Bradley is also helping recruit the desired attacking midfielder.Asked whether Bradley restructured his contract to help pave the way for Altidore, Leiweke said: I would say Michael went above and beyond the call of duty here.He is a remarkable young man and I am in awe of how he handled himself these last two weeks. He is a class act.Altidore has a five-year deal worth less than the reported US$30 million, according to the MLSE boss. That number, not oonly its not correct, its not close. Brian Bellows Jersey. Speaking diplomatically about his last big-ticket purchase, Leiweke said its good to get Jermain settled. Were happy for him back in the EPL (English Premier League), he said. Its what he wanted.We understood he was homesick and we dont fault him for that. I think the only thing was the dance played as to was he really happy or was he not happy and if he wasnt happy then lets figure it out.Still Leiweke is not about to throw Defoe under that double-decker bus. The English striker collected 11 goals in his first 13 MLS games and Toronto never lost a game when he scored.But injuries and a desire to be elsewhere took their toll.Look Jermain was what we thought — which is a difference-maker, said Leiweke. He was a guy that would be just a pure gifted natural goal-scorer. And he was. And Jermain, by the way, was a delightful guy to be around. ... I think the only issue was the communication.Leiweke is grateful to Defoe in that Sunderland was not his first choice. But the striker knew it was the deal that did the most for Toronto, because of Altidore.It was a good experiment. It didnt work out as well as we had hoped. We have nothing but good things and wishes for Jermain. And we move on. Defoe told a different story than his advisers apparently.It was always an awkward communication, Leiweke said. Because if you talked to Jermain, hed be like Well, Im OK either way. But if you talked to his agent and those around him, there was no doubt that somewhere in July he had a change of heart. And, as I said, I do not blame him.I think it worked out as well as it could.In fact, Leiweke is cheering Defoe on in Sunderland.The more goals, he scores, the better for us, he said.We get some upside in this deal, he added when asked what that meant. Youll see in the very near future some of the things we did as part of this deal.That explains why the Defoe-Altidore deal is being described as a swap with cash considerations. Leiweke credited MLS vice-president J. Todd Durbin for helping shepherd the deal.We had to use our allocation, he said. Other clubs had a shot at him (Altidore). 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