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| With excitement of game over, football fans pour out of Arizona |
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PHOENIX (AP) -Super Bowl fans had hit the parties and seen the big game and by Monday they were ready to go home. Fans poured out of Arizona by the thousands the day after the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots, some of them eager to get over their hangovers, others still marveling at what will go down as one of the biggest upsets in pro football history. ``Coming into this thing I knew it was going to be crazy getting out of here Monday, but it was so worth it,'' said Kevin Ciccotti, a 46-ye |
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| Imperfect team could lose key players in offseason |
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02/04/2008 |
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| ll coach Bill Belichick hang around until the end of the game instead of heading for the locker room with a second left and a security escort Tom Brady would have envied. The two-time Super Bowl MVP couldn't elude the steamrolling pass rush of the New York Giants the way he does the paparazzi who stalk him on the streets of the city where the new Super Bowl champions will be honored at a victory parade Tuesday. Brady was sacked five times in Sunday's 17-14 loss, the most in his 92 games since the New York |
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| Super Bowl champion Giants return home to NJ |
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02/04/2008 |
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -If the reality that they are indeed Super Bowl champions hadn't sunk in on the New York Giants' flight home from Arizona, the ride back from Newark Liberty International Airport probably did the trick. ``It's been seeping in,'' center Shaun O'Hara said Monday night after the team arrived at Giants Stadium. ``Maybe coming back from the airport did it. We usually don't have a police escort and flashing lights when we come back from an away game.'' Five buses carrying the team d |
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| Brady and Moss pull out of Pro Bowl a day after loss to Giants in Super Bowl |
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02/04/2008 |
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Tom Brady and Randy Moss pulled out of the Pro Bowl on Monday, a day after the New England Patriots were beaten in the Super Bowl. After throwing a league-record 50 touchdown passes during the season, Brady was battered by the New York Giants during their 17-14 win Sunday. He has been bothered by a tender ankle and was photographed in New York wearing a protective boot two weeks prior to the Super Bowl. Brady, who first injured his ankle against San Diego in the AFC championship game, was sacked five ti |
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| Giants to celebrate in New Jersey after New York parade |
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -New Jersey won't be left out of the New York Giants' Super Bowl celebration. The team will celebrate at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, following an 11 a.m. ticker-tape parade in New York City. John Samerjan, spokesman for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, said the event will be free and feature players, coaches and officials. Stadium gates C and D will open for the Tuesday celebration at 2:15 p.m., with the program start shortly after the arriva |
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| Vermeil doubts spying would have helped Patriots beat Rams in 2002 Super Bowl |
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02/04/2008 |
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| irty tricks prevented the franchise from winning it all again under Mike Martz in 2002. Vermeil, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his home near Philadelphia, said Monday night that players win games, not schemes. He used the New York Giants' 17-14 upset over New England on Super Bowl Sunday as an example. ``How was that game decided? By a receiver catching a ball on the top of his helmet,'' Vermeil said. The Boston Herald, citing an unidentified source, reported Saturday that a mem |
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| Devils forward Pandolfo back in NJ lineup for first time since November |
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02/04/2008 |
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| in team history. Arron Asham was scratched from the Devils lineup Monday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins to make room for Pandolfo. In 24 games this season, the 33-year-old Winchester, Mass., native - a New England Patriots fan playing in New York Giants territory - had eight goals and five assists. This was the longest stretch of inactivity in his 11 NHL seasons, all with the Devils.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may |
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| Former Giants GM not saying 'I told you so' about Manning |
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02/04/2008 |
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CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) -Vindication for former New York Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi came in one gut-wrenching, last-minute drive engineered by Eli Manning to win the Super Bowl. The architect of the blockbuster trade that brought Manning to the Giants on draft day 2004, Accorsi has been the scapegoat for frustrated Giants fans for the past 3 1/2 years. Every time Manning struggled, Accorsi got blamed for mortgaging the future of the franchise on Peyton Manning's not-as-good little brother. Not |
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| Detroit Tigers agree to $30.25 million, 5-year deal with Granderson |
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02/04/2008 |
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| rs, 20 triples and 20 doubles. Philadelphia shortstop Jimmy Rollins became a part of the 20-20-20-20 club later in the season Schulte was the first to accomplish the feat in 1911 while playing for the Chicago Cubs, and Mays did it in 1957 with the New York Giants. Granderson, who earned two degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has represented Major League Baseball as an ambassador during the past two offseasons in Europe and Africa. The Chicago-area native turns 27 on March 16. In 373 games |
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| Big Super Bowl winners: Giants, merchandise sellers |
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02/04/2008 |
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NEWARK, N.J. - The New York Giants aren't the only winners in the team's upset victory over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. Hats, T-shirts and other gear bearing the Giants logo started flying off the racks at sporting goods stores around the New York area right after the game ended, and the NFL estimated Monday that the total sales of official Super Bowl merchandise could surpass the $125 million record set more than a decade ago. But with fans lining up to buy Giants-branded memorabilia, B |
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