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| Patriots Game Recaps |
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| wed it can grind it out, too. Moss caught a pair of touchdown passes, and Morris ran for 117 yards, giving the Patriots more than enough on a night when they didn't need a whole lot. ---GAME 5Patriots 34, Browns 17 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - The New England Patriots made history with a win over the Cleveland Browns, the latest victim of a powerhouse that seems to score at will. Tom Brady threw for three touchdowns, tying an NFL record with at least three in each of his first five games. Junior Seau grabbed tw |
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| Specter wants NFL to explain why it destroyed New England Spygate videotapes |
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WASHINGTON (AP) - With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a senior Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it destroyed evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal. ``I am very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes,'' said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in a Thursday letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary |
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| Specter wants NFL to explain why it let New England cheating tapes be destroyed |
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WASHINGTON (AP) - With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a senior Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it destroyed evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal. ``I am very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes,'' said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in a Thursday letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary |
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| Upshaw says players will accept HGH testing, but not in blood test |
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| he World Anti-Doping Agency, disputes that, saying two weeks ago that ``the storing of blood is practical, in fact has been effectively in practice for some time in World Anti-Doping Code-compliant testing.'' Safety Rodney Harrison of the unbeaten New England Patriots, the favorites in Sunday's Super Bowl with the New York Giants, was suspended last Aug. 31 for the first four games of the season after he admitted using ``a banned substance'' for the purpose of ``accelerating the healing process.'' Harrison did |
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| Sparks, Keys, Petty aim to put on super show at Super Bowl |
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| back, pop Phillippi Sparks never reached the big game. ``I said, 'Dad, I'm singing at the Super Bowl,''' she said Thursday. ``He said, 'At least one of us made it.''' No surprise about which team she'll root for when the New York Giants play the New England Patriots. Her dad spent all but one season with the Giants. ``There definitely is a tie with them,'' the 18-year-old Sparks said. ``I got to go for the underdogs.'' Sparks considers herself a ``huge, humongous football fan.'' Nine-time Grammy Award winne |
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| What's in a guarantee? Not a whole lot, even if you're The Greatest |
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| taken a terrible toll on his body and one of the greatest talkers ever is now basically mute. Something tells me he might have smiled a bit, though, when Plaxico Burress opened his mouth this week and not only guaranteed the Giants would beat the New England Patriots but predicted the final score. For those who weren't listening, that would be 23-17, a final that would not only make a lot of New York fans happy but some Las Vegas bookmakers, too. Even happier, though, are the hundreds of writers gathered here |
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| New Giants hierarchy for Super Bowl this time |
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| ead of me. I think he certainly would have enjoyed this. Both would have enjoyed this.'' One of the first congratulatory telephone calls that Mara received after New York beat Green Bay in the NFC title game was from Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, who will play against Mara's Giants in Sunday's Super Bowl. Kraft telephoned Wellington Mara many times for advice after buying the Patriots. But that's what made the elder Mara stand out. He was the league's patriarch, a man who was willing fo |
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| Burress sits out practice for second straight day |
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| Tempe, AZ (Best E Casino) - New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress didn't practice for the second straight day, as the team prepares for Super Bowl XLII against the unbeaten New England Patriots. Pool reporter John Clayton noted that Burress, who missed Wednesday's practice because of a chronic right ankle injury, also missed Thursday's because of swelling and soreness in his left knee. Burress dressed for practice, but spent most of the session getting treatment. "He has an ankle that always has been a pr |
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| SUPER BOWL: Profiles of key players |
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| te Veteran defensive back whose good hands make him suitable choice for this job ... Not a big threat to break one ... As a nickel/dime back, he has INTs in all three playoff games ... Previously played for San Francisco, Chicago and Detroit. ---NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTSOFFENSE Tom Brady (12), QB, 6-4, 225, 8th year, Michigan League MVP who set passing record with 50 touchdowns ... Is 3-0 in Super Bowls since becoming starter in 2001 ... Former sixth-round draft pick (2000) ... Threw a TD pass in all but one gam |
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| Perry's 1986 TD spawned Super Bowl betting frenzy in Vegas |
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| ywood Resort & Casino with a Patriots cap on. ``It's a 10-second bet and you know if you win or not. You don't even have to watch the whole game.'' As Super Bowl bettors trickled into Las Vegas on Thursday ahead of Sunday's matchup between the New England Patriots and New York Giants, oddsmakers refined their most outlandish lines. Station Casinos was taking bets on who would perform better: Giants quarterback Eli Manning this year, or his older brother Peyton in last year's Super Bowl. Peyton was favored b |
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