In the franchise's first playoff game in nine years, the 49ers played lethally all day long. The defense rattled bones and forced five turnovers before yielding to the overpowering Saints late in the game. As the assassin's role shifted to the offense, Alex Smith somehow won a shootout with the NFL's Sundance Kid..Brian Murphy, a Cuyahoga County prosecutor, told the court Thursday that the women had endured a ordeal for more than a decade in which they were beaten repeatedly and restrained and sexually assaulted. Charges against Castro, Murphy said, were based his deliberate and depraved decisions to snatch three young ladies from Cleveland's west side streets to use for whatever selfgratifying, selfserving ways that he saw fit. Was represented by a public defender, Kathleen DeMetz, who said he would be sent to a city jail medical unit where those charged with sex crimes or considered suicide risks are normally taken.

San Francisco had been eager to see Edwards' bigplay ab