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TV SPORTS Soccer-Premier League, Manchester United at Chelsea, 9:30 a.m. (FOX) Women's College Basketball-Texas-El Paso at Rice, 11 a.m. (FXSP); Missouri at Texas Tech, 1 p.m. (FXSP); Washington at Southern California, 3 p.m. (FXSP) NHL Hockey-...

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The New York Giants battled back to beat the New England Patriots 21-17 and win the Super Bowl with heart-stopping fourth quarter comeback capped by a six-yard touchdown run by Ahmad Bradshaw with 57 seconds left. The Giants, who...

5th in a 10-part series How dysfunctional are the Chicago Bears at wide receiver? In two seasons under pass-happy Mike Martz, they couldn’t come up with a 1,000-yard receiver. If that’s not a sign something is wrong, it ought to be. Martz,...

The New York Giants eliminated last year's Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers from the National Football League (NFL) playoffs with a stunning 37-20 road win on Sunday to reach next week's NFC title game against the San Francisco 49ers. Eli Manning...

Thanks to Clemson’s Orange Bowl no-show and a 2-6 record this bowl season, ACC football’s image problem – details in this post from last week -- shows no sign of easing. But as the weekend’s four NFL playoff games reminded, the...

Because doing a full, 32-team list of power rankings is too much work for a Monday afternoon, I will rank the top 11 teams in the NFL after each exciting football Sunday (that's where the "first and 10" comes in). Here is how I rank them heading into...

TV SPORTS College Football-Champs Sports Bowl, Florida State vs. Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN); Alamo Bowl, Washington vs. Baylor, 8 p.m. (ESPN) Men's College Basketball-Florida at Rutgers, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Elon at North Carolina, 6 p.m. (ESPNU); Penn...

Giants have momentum Ron Fritz Baltimore Sun The Giants are gaining some momentum while the Cowboys are sinking quickly. Based on that, you'll see the Giants in the playoffs and the Cowboys sitting at home. Jerry Jones will have all offseason to come...

TV SPORTS College Football-Armed Forces Bowl, Brigham Young vs. Tulsa, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Pinstripe Bowl, Rutgers vs. Iowa State, 2:20 p.m. (ESPN); Music City Bowl, Mississippi State vs. Wake Forest, 5:40 p.m. (ESPN); Insight Bowl, Iowa vs. Oklahoma, 9 p....

Once the New York Giants figured out a way to cope with their massive amount of injuries, there was no stopping them this season. They had a quarterback in Eli Manning who was durable and unflappable and focused. They had a running back in Ahmad Bradshaw...

I presume that the Bears’ new so-called general manager watched the Super Bowl, as the Bears traditionally have done for 44 of the previous 46 years. And so, I presume that Phil Emery told Lovie Smith that his defensive line is nowhere close to...