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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- If there has been a constant in the New York Giants three-game winning streak, its been that Steve Spagnuolos defense has had to make a fourth-quarter stands to secure the wins.Last week, the defense stopped the Eagles at the New York 17 after Eli Manning threw his second interception of the fourth quarter in a 28-23 win.The unit had to pitch a shutout over the Rams in the final three quarters in a 17-10 win in London on Oct. 23.The streak started with the defense holding in the waning seconds after the Ravens got to the Giants 24 in a 27-23 win.We know how good we can be, but we are not there yet, linebacker Keenan Robinson said. We still have a long way to go. We havent done anything yet.The job for the defense will be tougher Monday night when the Giants (5-3) host the Cincinnati Bengals (3-4-1) at MetLife Stadium. While the Bengals defense has struggled this season, their offense is stacked.Andy Dalton has had a 100-plus quarterback rating in four of his last five games. A.J. Green leads the NFL in receiving with 59 catches, and his 896 yards are No. 2 overall. The running game is averaging 120.3 yards, with Jeremy Hill gaining 5.0 yards a pop. Giovanni Bernard gains roughly 4.0 yards per run and is second on the team with 31 catches.Theres more, too. Tight end Tyler Eifert returned to the lineup in London on Oct. 30 and had nine catches for 102 yards and a touchdown.`Man, they can run the ball or pass the ball, Giants defensive end Olivier Vernon said Friday. They have a good quarterback and they have a good receiver as well. They have good weapons on the offensive side of the ball, so we just have to play our ball.If there is one thing that the defense has done well, it is stop the run. New York is ninth in the league, limiting opponents to an average of 93.9 yards. Only three teams have gotten 100 yards on the ground -- Green Bay (147), Minnesota (104) and Dallas (101) -- and none in the last three games.You have to make them as one-dimensional as possible, linebacker Devon Kennard said. We have to go in and stop them on first and second down when it comes to the run game and make them have to throw; put them in third-and-long situations and make it harder on them.Stopping the run is going to fall on the Giants front seven with tackles Johnathan Hankins and Damon Harrison stuffing the middle, Vernon and fellow end Jason Pierre-Paul holding the edges and funneling the plays back inside.Safety Landon Collins gives the front seven an extra boost with his ability to come into the box. He leads the team in tackles, sacks and interceptions, picking up three in the last two games.Hes a big key part of their defense, Dalton said of Collins, who has taken major strides in his second season. `Hes all over the place, and you have to know where he is. Hes been playing well for them. For a guy to lead in sacks and interceptions, it shows how great a player he is.The defense has also excelled in the red zone. It has allowed only 11 touchdowns in 28 possessions, the best in the league at 39.3 percent.There are concerns, though. Too many big plays surrendered: The Eagles had seven plays of 20 or more yards last week and probably would have had more points had they not failed on two fourth-down plays in New York territory and had a field goal blocked.Sometimes big plays happen, said Robinson, who has done an excellent job recently covering tight ends. We want to make sure we play disciplined, sound football so we limit the big plays. Sometimes they are going to make the great catch or the great throw. If we are giving up big plays because we are not in the right position or made the wrong call, thats what we have to eliminate.Still, this is a major improvement from a year ago when the defense blew leads either in the fourth quarter or overtime in six games.I feel good, said cornerback Janoris Jenkins, the free agent signee who has given New York a shutdown cornerback, one who will probably draw Green on Monday night. I have been saying it since the beginning of the year, I think we can be special, and I still feel that. We just have to continue to work.Game notes WR Victor Cruz (ankle) did not practice for the second straight day. He hopes to play. ... Coach Ben McAdoo moved the practice into the teams bubble with winds gusting.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and -http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Carlos Gomez Jersey . 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Its an inconvenience for each side.But when Game 2 of the Los Angeles Dodgers-Washington Nationals division series was rained out, two of the most powerful men in sports were genuinely bummed.That would be Dodgers chairman Mark Walter and team president Stan Kasten, who planned to fly from Washington D.C. to Minnesota on the off day of the baseball series to attend Game 1 of the WNBA Finals between the Los Angeles Sparks and Minnesota Lynx.Instead of being able to watch baseball on Saturday and womens basketball on Sunday, they were forced to stay in D.C. for the rescheduled baseball game while the Sparks took on the Lynx, and neither was happy about it.Since buying the Sparks in 2014, Walter and Kasten have become huge fans. It wasnt a surprise for Walter, the CEO of Guggenheim Partners, a global financial services firm that manages upward of $240 billion in assets.His daughter plays basketball and volleyball, so he has an appreciation and connection to the game. In fact, Walters wife and daughter skipped the baseball game and still went to Minnesota to represent ownership at Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.We are truly very excited for both our teams, said Walter, whose Sparks have an opportunity to clinch their first title since 2002 Sunday in Game 4 (ESPN, 8:30 p.m. ET). The women on the Sparks are so talented and hardworking. They are also playing to prove something. We are all pulling for them.This year for the Dodgers, with all the injuries, I am so proud of our players working hard through it. We got contributions from so many; I really hope we will be fortunatee enough to keep it going.ddddddddddddFandom sneaked up on Kasten after he helped buy the Sparks in 2014.I didnt know how much I would love it, said Kasten, who has run both MLB and NBA franchises throughout his career. At first, Kasten said, It was about saving the team in the city, which made a lot of sense for me as were building our own establishment, our own profile, in the community.But once he went to a WNBA game, he was hooked.I love it, he said. I love the team. I love the women on this team. I have so much appreciation for how extraordinary their professionalism is. Obviously I know something about basketball [from his time as GM of the Atlanta Hawks], but I had no appreciation for how good the WNBA was until the first two minutes of my first game.I was stunned, like, Whoa, this is real world-class, high-level basketball. It was so impressive.Since then, the famously intense executive has turned his attention to managing the Sparks as well. He attends as many games as possible, even scheduling his baseball travel to catch the Sparks on the road at times. Hes even caught himself watching the second game of a WNBA doubleheader -- after the Sparks game ended.Im very much into it, he said. What I really love about this team is we obviously have stars. We have one two-time MVP (Candace Parker), another current MVP (Nneka Ogwumike), a Sixth Woman Of The Year (Jantel Lavender). We have stars, but you really see them playing great, high-level team basketball, which is great. Thats the perfect combination. ...Its been very exciting, and having them in the Finals ... I know how much it means to all of them.It would mean a lot to him, too. ' ' '