BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- Mike Magee scored on a penalty kick, Austin Berry headed in the tiebreaker in the opening minutes of the second half, and the Chicago Fire beat the Colorado Rapids 2-1 on Wednesday night. Magee tied the score in the 23rd minute with his fifth goal in five matches -- three in MLS play and two in the U.S. Open Cup. The goal was set up by Rapids defender Marvell Wynnes hand ball in the penalty area. Magee converted with a right-footed kick that beat goalkeeper Clint Irwin to his left. Berry got the winning score in the second minute after halftime for the Fire (4-7-3). Chicago captain Jeff Larentowicz fed the ball in from outside the penalty area, and Berry was open in the right crease for the header, his first goal of the season. Jamie Castrillon opened the scoring when he stripped the ball from Berry in Chicagos half of the field and scored on goalkeeper Sean Johnson on a 22-yard blast in the 17th minute to put Colorado (5-6-5) ahead. The Rapids lost their second straight and extended their winless stretch to 0-2-1. The Rapids pressed hard during four minutes of stoppage time at the end, but forward Tony Cascio hit the right post from a yard out in the 91st minute, and forward Deshorn Brown was called for a hand ball to negate an apparent goal a minute later. Irwin entered the game with a league-low 0.85 goals-against average, but was beaten twice in the first 47 minutes and was called on to make six saves in all. Johnsons single save was on Castrillon in the 38th minute. Jim Rice Jersey . Artturi Lehkonen, Joni Nikko and Ville Leskinen had the other goals for Finland (1-0) while Juuse Saros stopped 28 shots. Tim Robin Johnsgard had the lone goal for Norway (0-2). Blake Swihart Jersey . LOUIS -- Mike Smith is used to facing plenty of shots, so this was nothing new. http://www.theredsoxteamshop.com/Red-Sox-Jackie-Bradley-Jr-Kids-Jersey/ . The Nashville Predators were glad their captain was still on their side. Weber had a goal and two assists, and Roman Josi scored the shootout winner to lift the Predators to a 4-3 win over the Flyers on Thursday night. Roger Clemens Jersey . PAUL, Minn. Ted Williams Jersey . -- Vincent Lecavalier got everything but the desired result in his return to Tampa Bay. DALLAS -- Owner Mark Cuban defiantly disagrees with those who have declared the Dallas Mavericks season a lost cause and have suggested that tanking is in the franchises best interest.Haters gonna hate. We think that you always compete, Cuban said after finishing his pregame StairMaster routine Sunday night. If youre competing when the league is better, like it is this year, if you dont do well, youll be in a position to get a good pick. Which, remember, even if you have the worst record in the NBA, theres a 75 percent chance youre not going to get the top pick.The injury-ravaged Mavericks snapped an eight-game losing streak with Sundays 91-81 win win over the?New Orleans Pelicans but still have the leagues worst record (3-13). It was the teams longest losing streak during Cubans ownership tenure, which dates to January 2000.However, Cuban refuses to acknowledge that this is a rebuilding season for the Mavs, pointing out that Dallas is 5? games out of the Western Conferences eighth seed with the vast majority of the schedule remaining.Cuban, whose team has made the playoffs in all but one full season under his watch, is also adamant that accepting losing in an attempt to get the top pick in the draft is a poor franchise-building strategy.There are so many teams that became four years away from four years away because guys just learned how to lose, Cuban said. They stopped caring about any individual game and just got used to it, and you dont want guys developing those bad habits. We have so many young guys on this team, we want the games to mean something. Not to be, OK, who are we going to pull in the fourth quarter so we can lose this game? Thats not how teams develop good habits.The only way you overcome that is to have the ultimate superstar carry you through, and its tough to draft the ultimate superstar. I dont see any Shaqs or LeBrons or Tim Duncans in this draft, so I dont think thats the right way to do it. You just ignore the haters, let them bitch, and go about your business.Cuban did admit that there is a distinct possibiliity that the Mavs, who also rank last in the league in point differential, could try as hard as possible to win and still end up with a top pick.dddddddddddd That might even be probable if Dirk Nowitzki, who continues to struggle with soreness in his right Achilles tendon and missed his 11th game of the season Sunday, cant get fully healthy and return to form.If the Mavs dont improve significantly, Cuban didnt rule out making future-minded trades before the deadline in February. But hes nowhere close to making that kind of determination in late November.Well play it by ear, Cuban said. The one thing you dont do is panic. The one thing you dont do is make any rushed judgments. You see what you have -- right? -- and thats exactly what well do, and well make determinations from there. If we just cant get healthy, that will tell us one thing. If we can and were just not any good, that will tell us another thing. If we can and we start rolling along and we think we can get a lot better, then that tells what we do there. You just dont know. The crazy thing you dont do is panic.Cuban laughed when he said that the Mavs would tank if they knew there were a few transcendent players in the draft. Yet he indicated that he was not as high on this draft class, which has been hyped as one of the best in years.This is not a race-to-the-bottom year, Cuban said. So we get every chance to be as good as we can be. The team that has the worst record has a 75 percent chance that they wont get the No. 1 pick. Thats not good odds. Youll get a top-three pick ... but theres no good reason to tank unless you think that theres three difference-makers. Not just All-Stars, but difference-makers.?Well see what happens across the course of the season to see if anybody emerges like that, but Im not panicking, not rushing to judgment, not pulling the plug -- pick a euphemism.Saad Yousuf of 103.3 FM ESPN in Dallas contributed to this report. ' ' '