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| Mike Murphy, who has escorted five Giants head coaches on and off the field since 1991, says the occasional splash of a Gatorade shower is one of the perks of being the team’s chief of security.
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| Berj Najarian, the Patriots’ director of football/head coach administration, is the gatekeeper to Coach Bill Belichick and a key figure in the team’s inner circle.
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| Planning for the New York-area Super Bowl in 2014 remains in its earliest stages, but Al Kelly, chief executive of the host committee, visited Indianapolis for a fact-finding tour.
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| Drew Brees, representing the N.F.L.'s Play 60 initiative, wants kids to exercise and challenged some at a Super Bowl event to video game sprints.
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| During Super Bowl week in Indianapolis, a curling demonstration allows visitors the chance to kneel at the hack and learn the meaning of bonspiel.
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| Ranking the Giants' coaches for the 1934, 1938, 1956, 1986, 1990, and 2007 N.F.L. Championship teams.
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| There are several cigar-related events in Indianapolis this week. On Thursday, the puffing was for a good cause at Super Cigar Lounge IV.
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| Federal prosecutors closed an investigation of the seven-time winner of the Tour de France nearly two years after they began looking into allegations of illegal doping.
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| The Rhodes Trust confirmed that it had put on hold the candidacy of the quarterback, Patrick J. Witt, upon learning that a fellow student had filed a complaint against him.
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| Paul Pierce scored 30 points, leading the Celtics back from a 12-point second-half deficit to beat the Knicks, who lost for the 11th time in 13 games.
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| Ricky Rubio, drafted in 2009, joined Minnesota for this season after playing professionally in his native Spain.
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| The super combined was introduced to the World Cup in 2006, but it might not exist beyond next season.
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| On college football’s signing day, Georgia Coach Mark Richt lost one top recruit because of an immigration issue. He gained another after visits to a church and a jail.
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| Venus Williams, who has not played an official match since last year’s United States Open, will sit out the opening singles matches but is scheduled to play doubles.
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| Five people were killed on the second day of clashes between protesters and the police as demonstrators questioned the ruling military council’s ability to run the country.
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| The former M.V.P. Josh Hamilton, a recovering drug addict, apologized for a “weak moment” that started with a few drinks in a Dallas-area bar.
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| Mr. Spoonhour was 373-202 in 19 seasons as a Division I men’s coach, leading Southwest Missouri State to five N.C.A.A. tournament appearances and St. Louis to three.
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| Dwyane Wade had two dunks during a game-changing run for the Heat that ended the 76ers’ four-game winning streak.
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| Jim Calhoun, who turns 70 in May, has been in pain for several months because of spinal stenosis, a spinal condition that causes him severe pain and hampers his mobility.
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| Mark Eaton scored 2:35 into overtime in his 600th N.H.L. game to give the visiting Islanders a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Senators.
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| John Terry was removed as England’s captain on Friday while awaiting trial for racial abuse, but he will remain eligible to play for the national team at the European Championships.
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| Pittsburgh will join the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division in football, the league announced on Friday.
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| Spencer Levin holed out from a greenside bunker for eagle on the par-4 17th and shot an eight-under 63 to take a three-stroke lead in the suspended second round of the Phoenix Open.
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| Klaus Kröll gave Austria its first World Cup downhill victory of the season, edging Bode Miller by 0.01 of a second in a race so tight the top five skiers were separated by only 0.08 of a second.
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| The day in sports including field hockey in Argentina, ski jumping in Austria and tennis in Switzerland.
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| Local and national artists created 46 murals around Marion County, Ind., to dress up Indianapolis in advance of the Super Bowl.
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| Super Bowl media day at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, where Giants and Patriots players were interviewed and fans were allowed in for the first time.
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| Reporters from The New York Times and The Boston Globe go head-to head on which city has a better football coach and who has the better baseball team.
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| Jose Reyes sat in a barber’s chair during a live show on the MLB Network and came into compliance with the Marlins longtime policy prohibiting long hair.
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| While the Timberwolves' Kevin Love is a lock to back up Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin at forward in the 2012 N.B.A. All-Star Game, a case can be made for some others.
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| On Super Bowl weekend, we recall the first article about the lasting damage of football injuries.
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| The Connecticut city seems to ooze New England, but many fans remain faithful to their Super Bowl opponents, who played there for two seasons.
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| Eagles fans find themselves faced with a Super Bowl between two teams they are programmed to hate.
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| Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest betting day of the year, but its not always about money. Sam Borden reports from Indianapolis.
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| Amid all their early season problems, it was easy to overlook the impact of Amar'e Stoudemire's injuries.
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| N.B.A. analyst Charles Barkley has blasted the quality of play in the N.B.A. this season, particularly that of the Dallas Mavericks and Dirk Nowitzki.
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| Sam Gagner of the Edmonton Oilers had four goals and four assists in the team's 8-4 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night for the first eight-point game in the N.H.L. in more than 23 years.
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| Gordie Howe will be back at the Pacific Coliseum, in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Friday for the annual Gordie Howe night.
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| In Novak Djokovic's victory at the Australian Open, his return had depth and power.
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| Few players win their first Grand Slam title because they lost on the first day of the tournament, but that's exactly what happened to the Minnesota-born Arizona resident Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
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| The quarterfinals of the African Cup of Nations will take place this weekend, with two games Saturday and two more on Sunday.
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| Women's Professional Soccer has suspended operations for this season, but the Atlanta Beat's Yael Averbuch is staying positive about the future.
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| Kyle Stanley said he had moved on, physically if not psychically, from his last-hole collapse at the Farmers Insurance Open on Sunday.
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| After losing a three-stroke lead on the final hole and then falling in a playoff, Kyle Stanley could not control his emotions.
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| A measure introduced in the Maryland state legislature on Thursday is meant to stop colleges and universities from having access to students' social media postings.
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| Daniel Murphy is not ready to write off the 2012 season, despite the loss of several star players from last year.
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