The first half of the NFL season turned out to be mostly unpredictable.The NFC was surprisingly down. A rookie quarterback, Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys, is running away with the No. 1 seed in a conference that has Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton, Matt Ryan and Eli Manning. The New England Patriots, who didnt have Tom Brady for the first four games, lead the AFC East by three games and appear to be coasting to home-field advantage.And, talk about a flip in the standings: The NFC East, which was arguably the worst division in football last season, is 13-5-1 in non-divisional games this season, and every team is .500 or above. The NFC West, as recently as last season considered the best division in football, is 7-13 in non-division games and has only one team with a winning record.Lets take a stab at 15 predictions for the second half of the season:1.?Prescott will take the 7-1 Cowboys into the playoffs and draw a first-round bye. The Cowboys have the ninth-toughest closing schedule in the league based on other teams winning percentage, but they should get to 11 wins -- at least. What they have to worry about is facing a defense such as Seattle or Minnesota in the playoffs, teams that could make it tough for a rookie quarterback to win a playoff game. But the Cowboys probably would have home-field advantage.2.?The 5-4?Detroit Lions, believe it or not, will win the NFC North. With five fourth-quarter comebacks this season,?Matthew Stafford?has become the?comeback king of the league. The edge for the Lions over the 5-3 Vikings and 4-4 Packers is that three of their four remaining home games are against NFC North teams. If the Lions establish home-field advantage at Ford Field, the NFC North is theirs.Fran Tarkenton Vikings Jersey . The judges scored it 48-47, 48-47, 49-46 for Jones (19-1). It was the champions closest call. 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Harrison Smith Jersey Color Rush . -- Claudio Bieler hadnt scored since early September, and not from the run of play since mid-July.With its top players deciding to forego the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Australia announced its mens golf team of Scott Hend and Marcus Fraser on Wednesday. The countrys most successful womens golfer, Karrie Webb, was missing for a different reason -- she failed to qualify.No. 1-ranked Jason Day and Marc Leishman (Zika virus) and Adam Scott (scheduling) said they wouldnt play in Rio, leaving the 81st-ranked Hend and No. 86 Fraser to play in golfs return to the Olympics after 112 years. With all the other major pullouts, including Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, Hend and Fraser go into the Olympic tournament ranked 27th and 28th in the 60-man field.Minjee Lee (No. 14) and Su Oh (No. 41) will play on the womens team for Australia, leaving Webb, a seven-time LPGA major winner and World Golf Hall of Fame member, on the sidelines after her ranking of 58 failed to see her qualify.Webb, 41, has told fellow golfers of her excitement at playing at the Olympics since Sydney hosted the Games in 2000, and was part of the push to get golf back into the Olympics. She needed a strong finish at last weeks U.S. Womens Open -- top 10 or better -- and hope that Oh missed the cut in order for her to overtake Oh in the rankings.Oh missed the cut, but former No. 1-ranked Webb finished at 5-over, tied for 46th, and improved her ranking by just one place.Im sad for Karrie Webb not fulfilling her dream of representing her country in the Olys as she is the greatest golfer Aussie has ever had, American golfer Meg Mallon tweeted after it became official that Webb had missed out.Lee and Oh won Karrie Webb Scholarships in 2013 and 2014 to aid in their development in the game. The $10,000 amount for each was ffunded by Webb.ddddddddddddhe one side benefit from Webb missing out on the Olympics is that she might not retire, and perhaps try to stay in the hunt for the 2020 Tokyo Games.I said I was going to retire when I was 35, and Im 41 now, so still going, Webb said before the Womens Australian Open earlier this year. I think when youre 18, 30 seems like its a long way away, but from experience it comes around pretty quickly. I dont know what the future holds for me as far as full-time playing. Im concentrating this year on a full schedule and hopefully making the Olympic team and then just re-assessing where things are at the end of the year.Hend, who will turn 43 during the final round of the 72-hole stroke-play event in Rio, said hes ready to make the most of his opportunity.Ive never been to Brazil and ... Im looking forward to pulling on the green and gold as it will be something different, he said.The Perth, Western Australia-born Lee won her second LPGA Tour tournament in April in just her second year as a professional. Oh, also 20, has second- and eighth-place finishes on the LPGA Tour this year.When my parents brought my big sister, my little brother and me to Australia when I was eight years old, I didnt even play golf, said Oh, who was born in Busan, South Korea. 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