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• Packer Rundown: In little league; Marviel's second chance
• River Falls police need information on sex assault suspects

By Wheeler News Service & RiverTown Newspaper Group

The Green Bay Packers started practicing Sunday for their Thursday night showdown at Dallas and Head Coach Mike McCarthy told his players not to worry about the fact that Green Bay has not won at Texas Stadium since 1989.

"I told our football team, 90 percent of you were in little league the last time we played there. It's really irrelevant," McCarthy said.

"What they should be talking about is how many road games we've won in the last two years here because that, in my opinion, pertains to us as a football team," he added.

Quarterback Brett Favre is 0-8 there and he says he'd love to get that monkey off his back.

Favre said each of those losses were tough.

"We hope that changes this week. We know they are a good football team, they're playing great. I think we're playing good too," said Favre.

Three were in the playoffs, including the 1995 NFC Championship Game in which they lost 38-27 before winning the Super Bowl the following year.

Now, both the Packers and Cowboys come in at 10-1 and Favre is having his best season in years. He has averaged 327.5 yards over his last four games.

Cowboys' coach Wade Phillips says it's unbelievable how much in sync Favre's receivers are.

Marviel's second chance

Safety Marviel Underwood is back with the Packers.

He was cut at training camp August 21st, after missing most of the previous season with a banged-up knee, but Underwood was recalled during the weekend after two other safeties got hurt.

Nick Collins has been out with a knee injury, but coach Mike McCarthy says he could be healthy enough to start Thursday night at Dallas.

Collins' back-up, rookie Aaron Rouse, sprained a knee last Thursday at Detroit and status for the Cowboys' game is still in question.

Underwood had his first practice Sunday. He said the time off was frustrating, but it was good for his injured knee.

Since being cut, Underwood has been working out at San Diego State with the brother of Packers' defensive end Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila.

"It looks like he's kept himself in good shape and ready to go," McCarthy said.

Keeping himself may pay off as McCarthy added that Underwood might get a chance to start.

Underwood takes the roster spot held by defensive lineman Colin Cole, who was put on injured reserve over the weekend with a broken forearm suffered against the Lions.

Also, the Packers signed former Rutgers corner Joe Porter to their practice squad and they released safety Tristan Burge.

By Phil Pfuehler, RiverTown staff

River Falls police are still investigating a sexual assault that allegedly took place just outside the Kleinpell Fine Arts building at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls on the night of April 28, 2007.

The female victim didn't go to authorities with her story until Oct. 5.

The assault was said to have taken place outside the north door of Kleinpell near East Cascade Avenue around 10 p.m. The victim was first approached by the men as she walked toward Kleinpell.

The three male suspects, who may have been drunk, are roughly 18-25 years old. They are described as follows:

Suspect No. 1: Six feet, 180 pounds, muscular, wearing a baseball cap, dark jacket with a small emblem in the upper left chest and white stripes running down the arms, and blue jeans.

Suspect No. 2: Wore a ball cap, T-shirt and blue jeans, about 5-11, medium build.

Suspect No. 3: Wore blue jeans, T-shirt, about 6 feet, slight build, straight short dark hair and had a "5-o'clock shadow" for facial hair.

The first two suspects have since been spotted by the victim on the UW-River Falls campus.

Anyone with information on the case or any of the suspects should please call Police Investigator Charles Golden. To remain anonymous and be eligible for a reward, call area Crime Stoppers at 1-800-303-8477.