Notebook: For Peppers, it&#39;s the long and short of it
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For a moment, Julius Peppers&#39; 101-yard interception return against Denver yesterday appeared to have turned abruptly from takeaway to giveaway.
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The lure of this moment is what made his retirement so short. A pennant on the line, an adopted city&#39;s heart in his hands, a hostile stadium and swarming opponent.
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The skinny: The Giants&#39; first-round pick (30th overall) in the 2001 draft, Lowry owns the second-longest career-opening winning streak in Giants history to Hooks Wiltse&#39;s 12-0 run in 1904.
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By Jeff Hood, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep.
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For the first seven games, the much-ballyhooed duo of Carmelo Anthony and Kenyon Martin looked more like a misfit. But not Wednesday night, when the two perhaps gave
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It is considered by Germans to be one of the culinary highlights of spring and summer. But this year the asparagus season is likely to be cut short because thousands of hectares of the crop have been left to rot.
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Troy Brown has had to make a lot of adjustments while playing both sides of the football. &quot;You always want to score when you get the ball -- offense or defense
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Keys to the game: QB Chad Pennington is eventually going to have to complete some deep passes if the Jets&#39; offense is going to reach its potential.
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The drive covered just over three minutes, but in that brief amount of time USC&#39;s football team yesterday discovered the kind of resolve that often produces a champion.
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The A&#39;s got younger all over Saturday. There&#39;s a pretty good chance they got quite a bit better, too. In completing the long-rumored trade that sent underachieving left
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Manny Ramirez [stats, news]&#39; days as a Red Sox [stats, schedule] could be numbered. The Red Sox and Mets have been swapping ideas about how to pull off aneconomically-driven
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer. take long for that to happen. And we want to keep it high. I don&#39;t have a. problem with that.
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The New York Yankees haven&#39;t given up improving their pitching rotation yet, and they appear to be making moves with a certain tall left-hander in Arizona in mind.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ -- Technically the statement took no longer than 85 seconds or so. Ninety, tops. But when you factor in the two hours and forty-three minutes of official game time, well, Chad Pennington
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Eating hot peppers may do more than just spice up your diet.
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No, his position in the starting lineup isn&#39;t solidified after one preseason game, and there&#39;s a big question mark surrounding his future.
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On paper, the matchup of Hideki Matsui against Pedro Martinez didn&#39;t look like a good one for the Yankees. But, as Derek Jeter always says, that&#39;s why they don&#39;t play the games on paper.