&#39;Friday Night Lights&#39; finds end zone, thanks to heart
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Like so many other movies, it prefers style over substance. So instead of getting to know the characters or advancing the story - or even coming up with a story in the first place - it spends
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Any lingering resentment over Ellis Hobbs mocking Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman's "Lights Out" dance after the Patriots' 24-21 victory over San Diego in the AFC Divisional playoffs last season appears to have gone the way of the dance itself. Merriman said before the season he was shelving his seizure-like sack celebration.
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Back here in Kurt Warner&#39;s adopted home town, the varying opinions on the cause and effects of the meteoric rise and fall of his storybook football life always will be blurred under so many dreamy - and divergent - emotional clouds.
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Kurt Warner, perhaps more than maybe any other American Football athlete, understands the bright light of stardom, and how quickly it can fade.
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Saturday night was all right to see Friday Night Lights for a couple of sophomore football players from Hammonton High School. Gary Kaye and Nick Goehringer couldn&#39;t see the opening of the trumpeted movie
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The 1961 and 1962 N.F.L. championship games, each ending with a Green Bay victory over the Giants, gave the league some much-needed celebrity and personality.
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It was promoted as a shootout, and eventually that is exactly what the Colts and Vikings provided on Monday night. The team with the last possession, the Colts, won on a last-second field goal.
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His teammates charged onto the Lambeau Field grass like high school kids who&#39;d just captured a state championship, basking in the glory of Ryan Longwell&#39;s game-ending 33-yard field goal.
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Friday night was a good  one for Disney Channel and USA Network.
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Lord, is ÂFriday Night LightsÂ good, and if the season is anything like the pilot, this new drama about high school football could be great in the way of a poem or painting.
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The season isn&#39;t over, after all, for the Kansas City Chiefs, who have in recent weeks resembled the Super Bowl contender that they had hoped and planned to be all along.
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It only took a half for the Green Bay Packers to find out how the other half lives. They figured it out somewhere between the last of Donovan McNabb&#39;s five first-half touchdown
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When Marat Safin is good he is very, very good, and yesterday evening, as darkness engulfed the city, his form was as high-voltage as the indoor lighting in Bercy&#39;s Palais Omnisport.
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What started as a complete long shot turned into a surprising reality last night when Patriots left tackle Matt Light agreed to a six-year contract extension worth $27 million.
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The Broncos are an example of how good things can be when the running game is working. Their opponent tonight, the Bengals, are an example of the flip side.
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This week&#39;s bandwagon-crisis quota was reached when Monday Night Football crossed the linen of scrimmage. Now in its 35th season, MNF also dragged us past the neutral zone and into the partisan box.
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When we last saw this lovely metropolis, LaDainian Tomlinson and friends were grousing about the spontaneous celebration of the Patriots on the lawn of Qualcomm Stadium. It was the latest in a half-century of games between the teams, early AFL rivals.