Wild ride into playoffs
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Take a deep breath, hold out your hands and don&#39;t move until they stop shaking. The 2004 baseball season, exhilarating and suspenseful until the final day, has ended.
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To some San Diego Chargers, there's a playoff seeding to secure and a rushing title to win.
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The Rams, Vikings, Jets and Broncos squeezed into the NFL playoffs and found familiar opponents waiting for them.
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The Jets and Vikings lost and the Rams won. Yet all three teams are in the postseason while one NFC wild-card spot remains. But can these late arrivals make a run?
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They&#39;re not strangers anymore. Not strangers to each other. Not strangers in the strange land that is the postseason. When last the Anaheim Angels entered the playoffs â-here
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A year ago, when the Boston Red Sox clinched the wild-card playoff in the American League, a number of their players reacted as if they had just won the World Series, jumping around and spraying Champagne.
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A tighter, stronger Washington Redskins team has emerged from a turbulent season, and the reward is a trip to the postseason.
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The Philadelphia Phillies kept their playoff charge going with a wild win on a long night.
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A pulled hamstring or booted grounder might not be the only factor that could help decide baseball&#39;s playoff chase. Contenders such as the Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, New York
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It was a longer and more exciting night than usual for goalies, sharpshooters and fans in NHL arenas all around the country.
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JAKE Plummer got off to a hot start and the Broncos defence pounded Billy Volek en route to a critical 37-16 victory over Tennessee that kept Denver in the hunt for a National Football League playoff berth on Christmas Day.
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While the Devils have the kind of stability that the other N.H.L. teams are pursuing, the Rangers took a huge step forward last season by making the playoffs for the first time since 1997.
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Divisional realignment in Central Mass has succeeded in creating playoff fever, with a multitude of teams elbowing for postseason berths.
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There&#39;s nothing like the stretch run in baseball. We&#39;ve got unbelievable races for the AL West and the NL wild card going on.
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Heading into the playoffs, cold weather teams known for their running game are throwing the ball, and those known for passing are piling up the rushing yardage.
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TORONTO - The next phase of winning, after you&#39;ve won at home and on the road, after you&#39;ve blown out teams, captured nail-biters and overcome large fourth-quarter deficits, is to beat an opponent more than once.
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Like the Jets-Chargers matchup, all of the weekend's N.F.L. wild-card playoff games feature one intriguing theme: You again?