TAMPA, Fla. - Drew Brees sent both Saints and Buccaneers fans home happy.The New Orleans quarterback did his part to ensure Tampa Bay picks first in next springs NFL draft, shrugging off mistake after mistake to lead a second-half comeback to beat the Bucs 23-20 on Sunday.An announced crowd of 59,952 was a mixture of Saints fans who had hoped their team would still have something to play for in the regular-season finale, along with Bucs faithful who watched the home team surprisingly build a 13-point halftime lead that held through the third quarter.By the end, New Orleans fans were cheering, while Tampa Bay backers hoping the Bucs will use the No. 1 overall pick on a potential franchise quarterback were relieved.Any time we play, our DNA needs to be were playing to win, New Orleans coach Sean Payton said. You just cant turn it on, turn it off some of the time. Obviously, the season hasnt been anything like we had hoped for, or our fans had hoped for, and yet I think it was important that we found a way to finish it on a good note.As promised, Bucs coach Lovie Smith gave more playing time than usual to some of his younger players, particularly in the second half.With the lead if you play pretty good defence you should be able to hold onto that, Smith said. They made a couple big plays at the end.Brees shrugged off three interceptions — two of them stopping promising third-quarter drives — to throw for 281 yards. His 36-yard touchdown pass to Marques Colston gave the Saints (7-9) their first lead with 1:57 remaining. Linebacker Junior Galette sacked Josh McCown for a safety that provided the final margin.Doug Martin rushed for a season-best 108 yards and rookie Mike Evans set a Tampa Bay record with his 12th touchdown reception for the Bucs (2-14), who went 0-8 at home and 0-6 against NFC South rivals.I dont think anybody tanked it. We played the guys we played to rotate guys in and give them a look, McCown said. As far as players are concerned, the draft, that stuff is not relevant as far to how were playing. We execute the plays that are called. We competed hard and thats the main thing. Got a chance to evaluate some younger guys as we build this thing.Mark Ingram scored on a 1-yard run early in the fourth quarter, trimming New Orleans deficit to 20-14. Keenan Lewis interception and return to the 50 led to Brees TD pass to Colston to make it 21-20.The Saints were eliminated from playoff contention by last weeks 30-14 loss to Atlanta, leaving the Falcons and Carolina Panthers to play for the NFC South title.Even though New Orleans had little to gain by playing Brees in the finale, Payton emphasized during the week that the Saints were playing to win.Smith said the same, even though a victory might have hurt the teams draft position. The Bucs began the day tied for the worst record in the league with Tennessee, which dropped its finale to Indianapolis.Coming into the game we were going to get a good pick and nothing really changed, Smith said. I know were in a little better position. When youre down there thats one consolation, I guess, from the season weve had.In building a 20-7 halftime lead, the Bucs outgained the leagues No. 1 offence 248 yards to 118, including a whopping 148-89 advantage on the ground, where both Martin and rookie Charles Sims were effective.It flipped after halftime, with the Saints rolling up 220 yards to Tampa Bays 32.NOTES: Evans and Vincent Jackson caught passes on the first two plays of the game, making them the first tandem of Bucs receivers to top 1,000 yards in the same season. Its the fourth straight 1,000-yard season — third with Tampa Bay — for Jackson, who left the game later in the first quarter and did not return. ... 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Anderson is scheduled to have neck surgery April 8 to repair the injury, which occurred when he collided with the Celtics Gerald Wallace during a game in Boston on Jan. 3. The 6-foot-10 Pelicans forward, who had been averaging 19. LOS ANGELES -- Rookie sensation Yasiel Puig singled home the tying and go-ahead runs in the seventh inning, Andre Ethier had a two-run double, and the Los Angeles Dodgers opened a four-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies with a 6-4 victory on Thursday night. Greinke (4-3) struck out five over seven innings and allowed four runs on 12 hits, including solo homers by Domonic Brown and Chase Utley, to help the Dodgers get their sixth straight win. The right-hander came out for a pinch-hitter in the seventh after giving up Utleys tiebreaking homer in the top of the inning. Puig was shaken up crashing into the right field auxiliary scoreboard while trying to track Utleys ninth homer in the top of the seventh that put Philadelphia ahead 4-3. However, Puig was none the worse for wear -- as he would prove moments later. The Dodgers loaded the bases in the bottom half against rookie reliever Justin De Fratus (2-2) without the benefit of a hit. A.J. Ellis walked and Juan Uribe reached on a bunt that first baseman Ryan Howard tried to field before slipping and falling on the play. Nick Punto advanced the runners with another bunt, and Hanley Ramirez drew an intentional walk while batting for Greinke. Skip Schumaker was called out on strikes for the second time, but Puig slapped an 0-2 pitch to left field to put the Dodgers ahead 5-4. The Cuban wunderkind is batting a robust .427 with seven homers and 16 RBIs in just 23 big league games. Matt Kemp, playing in his third game after missing a month with an injured right hamstring, was 2 for 4 with an RBI double. He led off the eighth with a single, then stole second and third base and scored on Ellis sacrifice fly. Kenley Jansen followed J.P. Howell and Ronald Belisario out of the bullpen and got the last three outs for his seventh save in nine chances. Phillies rookie Jonathan Pettibone threw 96 pitches through six innings and was lifted for a pinch-hitter after giving up three runs and four hits. The right-hander retired his final 15 batters, a stretch that began with a sacrifice bunt by Greinke after a leadoff single and stolen base by Punto in the second inning. Pettibone found himself trailing 3-0 after jjust 17 pitches.dddddddddddd Kemp hit an RBI double inside third base, and two more runs came in on Ethiers double off the fence in right-centre. Right fielder Delmon Young prevented another run, sprinting toward the corner and stretching out to grab Ellis extra-base bid. Young tied a career high with four hits -- all singles -- and put himself within seven of 1,000 for his career. Brown, in his first career at-bat against Greinke, put Philadelphia on the board in the second when he drove a 3-2 pitch to centre for his 21st homer and tied Colorados Carlos Gonzalez for the NL lead. Greinke then gave up a single to Young and a walk to Kevin Frandsen before picking off Young at second base. The Phillies tied it 3-all in the fifth with four consecutive one-out hits, including run-scoring singles by Utley and Jimmy Rollins -- only his second RBI in 10 games. Greinke, who hasnt committed an error in his last 87 starts, minimized the damage by turning Ryan Howards comebacker into an inning-ending double play after a visit from pitching coach Rick Honeycutt. NOTES: Former Phillies C Darren Daulton, who played for their 1983 NL championship team and spent the majority of his 15 big league seasons with them, was diagnosed with two brain tumors and will undergo surgery next week. The announcement was made Thursday in a statement by the radio station in Philadelphia that has broadcasted his program, "Talking Baseball with Dutch," for the past four years. ... Two days after UCLA captured its first College Baseball World Series title, most of the players from the team were introduced one-by-one along the first base line just before the start of the game. At the end of the line were two former Bruins who played for the Dodgers -- Tim Leary and Todd Zeile, whose son Shane is a catcher of the current squad. ... Utley, who also played for UCLA, has six home runs and a .320 average in 31 career games at Dodger Stadium. He was 3 for 5 Thursday. ... Frandsen started at 3B for the third time this season in place of Michael Young, who didnt start after playing in 21 consecutive games and starting in 20 of them. ... Kemp is 9 for 9 on stolen base attempts. ' ' '