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Panthers fine with quiet ascent to an 8-2 record

As a local television reporter astutely noted during coach John Fox's weekly news conference Monday, the Carolina Panthers are about as “under the radar” as an 8-2 NFL team can get. Only the Tennessee Titans (10-0) and New York...

Hit and miss for Stover

Veteran sets record for consecutive PATs after early field-goal attempt was blocked Matt Stover set the NFL record for most consecutive point-after touchdowns, but that's not what will be remembered about him from yesterday's...

Obama still stumping for playoff

By Michael McCarthy, USA TODAY With President-elect Barack Obama supporting a playoff system to decide college football's national champion, the future TV home of the Bowl Championship Series could become a political football....

Knicks fold down stretch vs. Mavs

The Knicks blew a seven-point lead in the last 2:08 of regulation and their offense went in the tank at the absolute worst time as the reeling Dallas Mavericks stormed back to shock them in overtime, 124-114, at the Garden.

NOW, ELI'S TOSSES GO BOSS' WAY

It sure looked as if the Giants were missing Jeremy Shockey and treating the tight end position as an afterthought when in the first six games of the season Kevin Boss had just six receptions. In the past three games, though,...

Mosher: Once-dominant RBs have lost grip

What's wrong here? Two years ago, the league's best two running backs -- hands down -- were San Diego's LaDanian Tomlinson and Kansas City's Larry Johnson. Today, Carolina's DeAngelo Williams and rookies Matt Forte (Bears) and...

There is more to an NFL quarterback than managing the game

By Dave Goldberg, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Last Sunday, the Chicago Bears stacked eight and nine men at the line of scrimmage to stop Tennessee's league-leading running game and dared Kerry Collins to beat them. Collins did,...

Lupica: Leon is Jets' little big man

Saturday, November 15th 2008, 8:44 PM Rogash/Getty Leon Washington has been a spark plug for the Jets this season. This is a quarterback year for the Giants and the Jets, a star-power quarterback year the likes of which the two...

Hard-Hitting Giants, Ravens Square Off

An attacking and intimidating defense has propelled the New York Giants to the best record in the NFC so far this season, not to mention a Super Bowl victory just nine months ago. The two elite stop units will be on display...

A year after the Super Bowl, Giants still The One

In less than a year, the New York Giants have gone from a team fighting to make the playoffs to one being touted as the best in the NFL. They constantly are in the spotlight, just as the New England Patriots have been for most...

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