After spending the first half showing what they can do, the Carolina Panthers spent the second half showing what they can't.

I'm in a group. There are 56 of us, and we pick three games every week against the line.

“I was scared to death,” he says.

At 7 p.m. tonight on Independence's field, Jabari Cuffie will play the biggest game of his life.

Tom Sorensen: At some point during Carolina's 34-21 victory against Arizona Sunday I asked myself if the Panthers were as good as they looked.

Delhomme deserved a chance to resurrect his season, and his team, here on the cusp of the desert against the team that began the great undoing.

Tom Sorensen: I was walking a buddy's dog ... and hear a guy yell, "Sorensen, is that you?" ... I say yes. And he yells, "You're a pantywaist!"

The oddsmakers are getting tough. To entice fans to bet against the elite teams they've been raising the lines point by point almost every week.

Tom Sorensen: You know those movies in which a guy wakes up and walks outside and everybody is gone and he thinks he's the only human in the world? ... That's how I feel this morning.

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Tom Sorensen
Tom Sorensen has been a columnist at The Observer for 20 years and has been at the paper for 25, writing about nearly every sport in the Carolinas.