Playoffs: (seedings in parenthesis) NFC: (2) Minnesota Vikings 34, (3) Dallas Cowboys 3 Brett Favre passes for four touchdowns, three of them to Sidney Rice, and leads the Vikings to the NFC Championship Game against the New Orleans Saints at the Superdome. AFC: (5) New York Jets 17, (2) San Diego Chargers 14 Buoyed by 128 yards (including a 53-yard touchdown run) from Shonn Greene and three missed field goals by Nate Kaeding, the Jets will head to the AFC Championship Game next Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. Philip Rivers throws for 298 yards and a touchdown for the Chargers, but was intercepted twice. Badminton Korea Open Super Series in Seoul: Men's singles: Lee Chong Wei Women's singles: Wang Shixian Men's doubles: Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae Women's doubles: Cheng Shu/Zhao Yunlei Mixed doubles: He Hanbin/Yu Yang Biathlon World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany: 4 x 7.5 km Relay Men: Russia (Ivan Tcherezov, Anton Shipulin, Maxim Tchoudov, Evgeny Ustyugov) 1:22:29.8 (0 penalty loops+2 extra bullets) Norway (Halvard Hanevold, Tarjei Bø, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Emil Hegle Svendsen) 1:22:58.4 (0+6) Austria (Daniel Mesotitsch, Friedrich Pinter, Tobias Eberhard, Dominik Landertinger) 1:24:04.6 (1+9) Standings (after 4 of 5 races): (1) Norway 208 points (2) Austria 199 (3) Russia 197 Bobsleigh World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland: Four-man: André Lange, René Hoppe, Kevin Kuske, Martin Putze 2:10.13 Karl Angerer, Alex Mann, Andreas Bredau, Gregor Bermbach 2:10.38 Alexandr Zubkov, Filipp Yegorov, Dmitry Trunenkov, Petr Moiseev 2:10.48 Standings (after 6 of 8 races): (1) Steven Holcomb 1455 points (2) John Napier 1186 (3) Jānis Miņins 1162 Cricket England in South Africa: 4th Test in Johannesburg, day 4: 180 and 169 (42.5 ov); 423/7d. South Africa win by an innings and 74 runs, 4-match series drawn 1–1. Pakistan in Australia: 3rd Test in Hobart, day 4: 519/8d & 219/5d (Simon Katich 100); 301 & 103/4 (34.2 ov). Pakistan require another 335 runs with 6 wickets remaining. Katich scores his ninth Test century, and Ricky Ponting scores 89 runs for a career-high aggregate of 298. India in Bangladesh: 1st Test in Chittagong, day 1: 213/8 (63.0 ov) Cross-country skiing World Cup in Otepää, Estonia: Women's Sprint Classic: Hanna Falk Petra Majdič Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Overall standings: (1) Justyna Kowalczyk 1221 points (2) Majdič 1113 (3) Saarinen 892 Men's Sprint Classic: Emil Jönsson Ola Vigen Hattestad Nikita Kriukov Overall standings: (1) Petter Northug 1060 points (2) Lukáš