Two-minute drill: Players of the game, by the numbers
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Seahawks QB Matt Hasselbeck: Completed 21 of 30 passes for 254 yards and two touchdowns, good for a 117.9 quarterback rating. At one point, he completed seven passes in a row.
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Patience is less a virtue in the NFL than a vice. Thirteen coaches have been with their teams for two seasons or less. Check most rosters, and the same ratio applies to the players.
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Doug Scott was clearly the best player on the floor for an eight-minute span in the second half. The Quincy guard scored 19 points in that span. He was unstoppable. Unfortunately, for the other 24 minutes, he couldn't get anything going.
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Last week Xaverian learned the importance of the two-point conversion. This week the Hawks learned the importance of the field goal.
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They have played seven games this season, and won seven games. They began the season unranked and have climbed to No. 2 in the nation.
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There was some great basketball played last Friday night. From preps to pros, many remarkable things happened that are worth talking about.
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OAKMONT, Pa. -- His game is built around great length. But that is true of so many others in this day and age.
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HUDSON -- Being selected to play in an all-star game signifies a player's stellar performance over a season, but the games are often sloppy because of the lack of familiarity among teammates. The pitchers don't know the catchers well and occasionally cross them up, making for some long innings and crooked numbers on the scoreboard.
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There's a method to finding tomorrow's home runs.
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BOULDER, Colorado (Ticker) -- Vernand Morency kept a couple of streaks going while Donovan Woods made his passes count. Morency, who had two scores, recorded his eighth straight game with a touchdown and Woods
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - How fitting it was that a rookie, a second-round draft pick, no less, was the difference-maker down the stretch last night in a game between teams stocked with veterans, and one of them oozing in playoff experience.
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Stewart Cink was atop the leaderboard, and David Toms had the lead in the clubhouse. But with only 24 players completing second-round play in the rain-delayed NEC Invitational, it was hard to tell who had control.
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NEW YORK - Let's play two. No, better yet, let's play 13! The staff of the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team played for 24 hours nonstop over the weekend, battling little leaguers, circus clowns and waiters, among others, and raising $2,500 for local food pantries.
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Holy Cross won last week's game against Harvard with 19 seconds to play. Yesterday's game against Patriot League foe Georgetown was over long before that.
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A scientist at the annual AAAS conference presents a new statistical method for evaluating fielding performance in baseball. The Spatial Aggregate Fielding Evaluation uses a probability model to fit a smooth curve for entire teams, particular positions or individual players. Greta Lorge reports from Boston.
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What is a player's responsibility to stay focused, or at least appear to stay focused, before a big game?.
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Are these guys ever going to have a game that doesn't come down to the last possession? It seems that, if nothing else, the Celtics give you 48 minutes worth. Sometimes more.