&#39;Friday Night&#39; Takes the Ball &amp; Runs With It
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In the punt, pass, and pray world of Texas football, the goal post is a holy crossbar, and you&#39;d best genuflect before the uprights if you know what&#39;s good for you.
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The television image to remember from Auburn Hills Friday night was not the flying beer cups or the thrown punches. Not the chaos of brainless bums disguised as fans, or unhinged vigilantes who a moment before were professional athletes.
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In a game that might force league stat freaks to create yet another esoteric category, yards after missed tackles, it was altogether fitting on Friday afternoon that Green
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SAN FRANCISCO If you&#39;ve seen the new crop of ads for NBC&#39;s upcoming season of Sunday Night Football, you may have noticed a heavy emphasis on the &quot;Sunday night&quot; part, but not so much the &quot;football.&quot; That&#39;s not an oversight. The strategy is based on extensive research conducted last year that shows weekend sports viewing is for many people more about the social interaction than the game.
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It&#39;s certainly not where Cloutier and the other locked-out NHL players wanted to be Friday night but, given their circumstances, they&#39;ll play anywhere now.
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Too big. That&#39;s what it came down to last night for Shane Mosley. The little man who once could can&#39;t anymore. He can&#39;t move fast enough, he can&#39;t
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Ray Allen shot 5-for-19, and Rashard Lewis was 3-for-12 before leaving late in the third quarter with a strained left shoulder. &#39;&#39;That is why a good team is a good team if guys can really contribute
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MIAMI -- Game for the ages? Sorry. Game of the season? Nope. Game of the day? Maybe, but that was only because it was a Friday night and the college football schedule was light.
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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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On Monday, LaMont Jordan talked the talk. On Wednesday, it was Santana Moss&#39; turn. To paraphrase a phrase familiar to longtime Jets followers, what each said, in essence, was: &quot;Give me the damn ball!
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Call it Moving On week. Teams, players, and coaches all made their moves as the college football season&#39;s last full slate of games was completed over the weekend.
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FOXBOROUGH - They are not much different from the folks who read the sports pages and call the talk shows. They are football fans and they will watch the games this weekend. Just like you.
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A proposed pro league that would compete with the NFL and play on Friday nights, long sacred to high school football, is in the preliminary stages.
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The term âthrowing in the towelâ takes on new meaning this week, thanks again to televisionâs continuing creative contribution to sport.
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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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Green Bay&#39;s victory over Carolina on Monday night featured an entertaining performance by Brett Favre. It wasn&#39;t that the quarterback had one of his typical Favre nights.
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Director Peter Berg is so preoccupied with staging superb football sequences that he almost forgets to craft a movie from Buzz Bissinger&#39;s book Friday Night Lights.