Russo on Football: Kicking it away
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With parity spreading, the difference between contending for a title and playing in the Alamo Bowl can be just a few points. Kickers may be more important than ever.
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Special Olympics has something for all four of the Russo brothers.
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The operative word in the National Football League this season is ouch.
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FOXBOROUGH -- Kickers and punters, like Rodney Dangerfield, get no respect. This is true on the field, in the locker room, and, most of all, behind the walls of the Hall of Fame.
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What to look for: Columbus has a sick 18-game unbeaten streak going, and while 10 of those have been ties, I&#39;m not about to think the Revs have what it takes to pull off the upset.
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The running gag in NFL locker rooms is that kickers aren't really football players &#151; just guys who hang around on the field before the game chatting with the other team's kickers.
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Every team that makes it to the Super Bowl has its own road to follow. In the case of Archbishop Williams, it was a drive 99 yards long.
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Willie Andrews's 77-yard kickoff return against the Miami Dolphins last Sunday wasn't an accidental trip to the end zone, a football fluke. It was a strategic strike on par with anything the Patriots' offense or defense has done this season.
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The only way to stop Adam Vinatieri from making field goals might be to keep him from kicking them.
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A week ago, James Thrash was in the headlines as the culprit on an illegal motion penalty that cost the Washington Redskins a chance to win a game.
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Mike Ditka is getting back into football as an owner.
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Adam Vinatieri carved out a living at his former address by insisting kickers should be seen and not heard.
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There are different types of pressure. In Everett, the pressure is on Matt Nuzzo to keep it going. Having won 33 games and three Super Bowls in a row, the expectation level has been raised to a point of near-absurdity in a town that rallies around its high school football like no other.
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If anyone expects him to be a decoy at receiver, forget it, Terrell Owens said. He seems to believe that decoys are for duck hunting, not for the Super Bowl.
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Actually, I just finished looking at the final BCS standings and could use a boost. More to the point, I could use an aspirin. So let me get this straight: Pittsburgh loses to Nebraska and Connecticut, narrowly
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Pushing, shoving and even throwing a punch arenât that uncommon in the heat of battle of an NFL game. But it isnât often the. steam comes billowing up as the boiling point is reached before kickoff time.
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The Big Game has a new name and a fat contract to go with it. And corporate America has tarnished another great college football tradition.