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Welcome to the pinnacle of gridiron fantasy games!The beauty of Eliminator Challenge lies in its simplicity: every week youre asked to pick the winner of one NFL game straight up. Air Max 97 Off White Australia . If the team you choose prevails, then you advance! The only caveat is you can only use a team ONCE during the season, and so the strategic intricacies emerge.Looking for more ESPN Fantasy Games? Play Capital One Bowl Mania, our college football bowl pickem game, and compete for a chance to win $1,000,000! Just pick all 42 bowl games correctly!Do you map out the entire schedule ahead of time, assuming the teams you feel are strong at the start of the season can remain that way for all 17 weeks? Do you take the biggest favorite every week and hope to consistently survive the dreaded upset? Perhaps you save an elite team for a juicy matchup down the road and rely on one thats less favorable to carry you through.For instance, Carolina is sure to be a sizeable Week 2 home-favorite over San Francisco, but burning a potential Super Bowl caliber team that early might be playing it too safe for your taste.As is always the case in the NFL, nothing comes easy. Its usually the matchup you overlook that gets the better of you, and if that happens your season is over. Thats right: if you lose even once youre out. While potentially devastating in its abruptness, the challenge of having to survive and advance each and every week is what makes this game so fun to play.No matter the strategy, theres sure to be a time when youre sitting on the edge of your seat wondering why you decided to stake your entire season on a team thats now losing in the 4th Quarter. Its inevitable, but if you survive theres sure to be another week when youre in the clear and good percentage of your competitors are facing a similar situation.At first glance it might seem as though you can leave all of your NFL player-based knowledge and spread savvy at the door for this one, but youll need all of that and more to succeed here - and quite possibly a bit of luck as well.If you need more help, ESPN.com has all the tools you need to make the right decisions, week after week:NFL Pick Center: ESPN Insiders can look at two different simulation models to get an idea of how every NFL game will play out each week.NFL Power Rankings: Who are the best teams in the league? Consult the power rankings, a weekly poll of some of the best writers in the business.ESPN Chalk:?Comprehensive betting coverage, including best bets for every NFL game. Adidas NMD Womens Australia .Y. -- Jayna Hefford scored the winning goal Friday as Canada survived a scare with a 4-3 win over Sweden at the Four Nations womens hockey tournament. Air Force 1 Low Australia . Belfort (24-10) needed just 77 seconds to down Henderson in the headlining bout of Saturdays "UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson" event at Goiania Arena in Goiania, Brazil. The fight served as a rematch of the pairs 2006 meeting, which Henderson won by decision. http://www.salenikeshoesaustralia.com/ai...-clearance.html . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf. LOS ANGELES -- Tyler Chatwood left with the lead on the road where hes been dominant. The Rockies bullpen couldnt hold on.Yasmani Grandal homered twice, including a grand slam in the seventh inning, to rally the Los Angeles Dodgers past Colorado 7-4 on Thursday night, the Rockies 80th loss of the season. Theyve dropped three of four.Chatwood has gone 7-1 on the road with a 1.88 ERA in 12 starts. Hes been even better at Dodger Stadium, where he has a 1.62 ERA in six career starts. The right-hander staked the Rockies to a 4-2 lead before leaving after six innings.My curveball and two-seamer were working well, Chatwood said. I felt good and strong, and overall I felt like I had it in me.The Rockies bullpen sure didnt.Jordan Lyles gave up a ground-rule, pinch-hit double to Andre Ethier to open the seventh. Boone Logan (2-4) took over and loaded the bases on two consecutive one-out walks. He then walked Adrian Gonzalez, forcing in a run and leaving the Dodgers trailing 4-3.Grandal followed with his second career grand slam, sending a 2-2 pitch into center field and giving the Dodgers their first lead of the game, 7-4.Logan gave up four runs and one hit in one inning, walked three and struck out none.I was walking guys and I wasnt getting my first pitch in for a strike, Logan said. When you do that its tough and then I gave up that big hit. I took my licking, but we play every day and well be back tomorrow.Colorado manager Walt Weiss and third baseman Nolan Arenado were ejected in the seventh for arguing after Carlos Gonzalez lined into an unassisted double play at first, who doubled off DJ LeMahieu to end the inning.I was down 0-2 and I battled back to 3-2 and then he called me out, Arenado said of home plate umpire Alfonso Marquez. If I get on, then Carlos is up and he can hit it a long way and we have a chance to tie it up. I went back and looked at the video and it was up. It should have been ball four. We had a chance and it hurts to lose.The Rockies took an early 2-0 lead on an error by right fielder Josh Reddick and Daniel Descalsos sacrifice fly.LeMahieu extended his consecutive on-base streak to 38 games with a homer in the fifth, extending Colorados lead to 4-1.The victory reduced the Dodgers magic number for clinching their record fourth consecutive NL West title to four. Their division lead remained at six games after San Francisco beat San Diiego 2-1. Adidas NMD R2 Australia. .Luis Avilan (3-0) got the win in relief, pitching a scoreless seventh with one strikeout.Kenley Jansen retired the side in the ninth for his 46th save in 52 chances.Grandal hit a solo shot in the second for the sixth homer given up by Chatwood in his last four games.Making his first start since Aug. 20, Brett Anderson gave up four runs and six hits in five innings. The left-hander struck out two and walked one after coming off the disabled list with a blister on his left index finger.TRAINERS ROOMRockies: 1B Gerardo Parra was scratched an hour before the game because of illness and was replaced by Stephen Cardullo. ... 3B coach Stu Cole, hit by a ball during batting practice on Tuesday and taken to a Denver hospital, was back on the field Friday.WHAT A PLAYChase Utley made an amazing play on Chatwoods groundout to second base in the fourth. Utley went to field the ball and it escaped his glove as he spun around. Utley somehow grabbed the ball and flipped it with his right hand and his back turned toward first base, where Adrian Gonzalez was fully stretched to make the play that ended the inning.VISITING VINIt was Weiss turn to visit Vin Scully. The team presented the 88-year-old Hall of Fame broadcaster with the letters `LAD from the Rockies scoreboard.His intellect and recall of the game is amazing, Weiss said. I didnt even think he would know who I was, but he knew everybody, even the guys who werent in jersey.Weiss played shortstop for Oakland against the Dodgers in the 1988 World Series. He told Scully he still has nightmares when he hears the call from Game 1 in which hobbled Dodgers pinch-hitter Kirk Gibson slugged the winning home run.Vin told me Gibsons home run was the most theatrical, Weiss said, and that (Hank) Aarons home run was the biggest moment of his career.UP NEXTRockies: RHP Jon Gray (10-8, 4.42 ERA) is coming off a franchise-record 16 strikeouts in his first career complete-game shutout, an 8-0 win over San Diego. He is 2-2 with a 3.38 ERA in five career starts against the Dodgers.Dodgers: LHP Scott Kazmir (10-6, 4.59) starts for the first time since Aug. 22 after missing 28 games on the disabled list with neck inflammation. He is 4-6 with a 4.11 ERA in 13 home starts this season. ' ' '