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| WR Nicks among Giants to miss practice |
NFL Football |
01/27/2012 |
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| East Rutherford, NJ (Best E Casino) - New York Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks missed practice for a second straight day Friday because of a sprained shoulder. Nicks, the team's second-leading receiver, said he has a sprained AC joint but expects to be ready for the Super Bowl February 5 against New England. "I just want to give myself a couple days to try and get it back right and rehab it a little bit," Nicks said. Linebacker Jacquian Williams (foot) and cornerbacks Corey Webster (hamstring) and Will Bla |
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| Patriots' defense making the most of spare parts |
NFL Football |
01/27/2012 |
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| a considerable amount of misses on the defensive side in recent years. New England selected seven defensive players in the first three rounds of the two drafts that followed the franchise's last Super Bowl appearance, the memorable 17-14 loss to the New York Giants in Arizona during the 2007 season. The Pats did hit a home run with linebacker Jerod Mayo, a 2008 first-round choice and one of the group's linchpins, and safety Patrick Chung has developed into a reliable contributor since being tabbed in the secon |
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| Brady's promise weighs about seven pounds |
NFL Football |
01/27/2012 |
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| ime we step on the field it won't be the same thing. I promise you that." That promise by Branch, and Brady's own pact with Kraft, can only come to fruition if the entire offense is on the same page for the Patriots' Super Bowl XLVI matchup with the New York Giants. And that starts with the quarterback. The Patriots know they'll have their hands full on both sides of the ball against the G-men, and that Brady is getting no younger under center as well. Is the window of opportunity closing for the poster boy of |
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| No longer doubted, Giants' Thomas finds niche on special teams |
NFL Football |
01/27/2012 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Devin Thomas always believed he'd be an impact player in the National Football League, albeit with another team and in a far different role than the one he currently occupies with the New York Giants. Four years ago, the physically-gifted wide receiver was hailed as a potential future frontline player after bursting onto the radar of scouts and personnel executives with a sensational junior season at Michigan State. Blessed with 4.4 speed on a chiseled 6-foot-2, 215-pound frame, Thomas was |
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| Despite defections, plenty of talent still on hand for Pro Bowl |
NFL Football |
01/27/2012 |
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| me will be lacking some of its star power once again due to a variety of factors. This will mark the third consecutive year in which the Pro Bowl will be held one week prior to the Super Bowl, thereby removing members of the New England Patriots and New York Giants that were chosen to play in Sunday's exhibition from their conference respective rosters once those teams qualified for the upcoming championship game. The AFC has been hit particularly hard by the rule, as the Patriots had seven starters and eight |
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| Road to Super Bowl XLVI: Giants have been down this path before |
NFL Football |
01/26/2012 |
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| (Best E Casino) - While the narrator in Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" may have decided to take the path less traveled, the New York Giants have opted for a different approach on their route to Super Bowl XLVI. Some of the situations in the Giants' current season and the one that ended with a Super Bowl victory on Feb. 3, 2008 are so similar that it almost seems like a foregone conclusion that New York will once again hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy following this year's NFL championship game. For |
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| In the FCS Huddle: FCS players could impact the Super Bowl |
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01/25/2012 |
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| ollins made one of the bigger plays when the Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in last year's Super Bowl. In two weeks, plenty of former FCS players have the opportunity to be game- changers, particularly those from the NFC champion New York Giants, who will play the AFC champion New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 in Indianapolis. The former FCS players will hope to live up to Collins' interception return for a touchdown in Green Bay's win last February. Collins, one of six Pack |
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| Rookies Newton, Dalton among Pro Bowl replacements |
NFL Football |
01/23/2012 |
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| Cincinnati were among the players selected for this week's Pro Bowl as replacements for those originally selected from the Super Bowl participants. With the Pro Bowl again being played the week before the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl selections from the New York Giants and New England Patriots will not play in the league's All-Star contest in Hawaii. Newton, the first overall pick of the 2011 NFL Draft, will replace New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, while Dalton, selected in the second round, will take the |
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| Irony abound on Championship Sunday |
NFL Football |
01/23/2012 |
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| ts. Then again, in a season where close contests and rousing comebacks have been anything but uncommon, such puzzling twists of fate probably shouldn't seem all that peculiar. Still, to have Sunday's NFC Championship nail-biter between the 49ers and New York Giants decided on a second botched punt return by San Francisco's Kyle Williams was a bit weird, a circumstance almost as eerie as the similar sequence of events that unfolded to make Rex Ryan's worst nightmare come true -- a rematch between the Giants and |
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| NFL Playoff Game Capsules |
NFL Football |
01/23/2012 |
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| nd the New England Patriots held on for a 23-20 victory in Sunday's AFC Championship Game. Tom Brady's diving touchdown on fourth down early in the fourth quarter was the decisive score, and helped the Patriots advance to Super Bowl XLVI against the New York Giants. New England advanced to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 2007 season, when the Patriots were 18-0 before losing to the Giants. Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal with 15 seconds left, two plays after Evans dropped a catch in the end zon |
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