“This championship is for you, New Orleans,” Drew Brees shouted after steering the Saints to victory in their first appearance in a Super Bowl. Brees, the New Orleans quarterback, was named Most Valuable Player for completing 32 passes and throwing two touchdowns as the Saints beat the more-fancied Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Miami.
“I was all [...]
Fort Lauderdale – Jerry Rice always finishes his route. He did it forever as a 49ers wide receiver, and again in his brief time with the Raiders. It helped make him the greatest wide receiver of all time, and arguably the greatest NFL player, period.
Rice wouldn’t pull up short Saturday, not now that he’s been [...]
Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney is unsure if he will be able to play in the Super Bowl on Sunday against New Orleans as he continues to receive treatment for an ankle injury suffered in the AFC Championship Game.
Freeney had a throng of reporters surrounding him at Media Day on Tuesday at Sun Life [...]
The final chapter of Brett Favre’s 20-year career may have been written. And it’s a fairy tale, all right.
But instead of it being about Favre courageously re-entering the game on a bum ankle, this tome’s protagonist is not one person or even a single team.
It’s an entire city.
Rejoice, New Orleans. Four-and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts cut ties with Marvin Harrison, their all-time leading receiver, last February. His presumed replacement, third-year man Anthony Gonzalez, went down with a knee injury in Week 1 and never returned.
Somehow, the Colts never seemed to miss either of them, a point driven home in Sunday’s 30-17 win vs. the New [...]
Wade Phillips finally has some security in Dallas.
The Cowboys have signed Phillips, their head coach to a contract extension through 2011.
Team owner Jerry Jones confirmed earlier this week that he had picked up an option on Phillips’ contract for next season.
“I’m encouraged by the progress that we made this year, but in no way are [...]
Call it Bama’s economic stimulus.
The Crimson Tide’s championship season has pumped untold millions of dollars into the state’s economy and after Thursday night’s national championship victory, additional millions are being generated.
Retailers carrying Alabama apparel, books and merchandise scored big as many shoppers bought their products not only for gifts during the holiday shopping season but [...]
Tim Tebow rose above all the distractions caused by coach Urban Meyer’s uncertain future and capped a storied college career with his finest performance.
It was the best in BCS history, too.
Tebow threw for a career-high 482 yards and three touchdowns, ran for 51 yards and another score, and fifth-ranked Florida overwhelmed No. 4 Cincinnati 51-24 [...]
Eighty years young and having coached in, ahem, parts of seven different decades, Bobby Bowden was just getting warmed up.
Roughly 45 minutes had passed since his coaching swan song had ended at the Gator Bowl on Friday, yet he leaned back in his chair, adjusted the microphone, and launched into another comical anecdote relating to [...]
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech fired coach Mike Leach on Wednesday, just two days after he was suspended by the school as it investigated his treatment of a player with a concussion.
The school handed a termination letter to Leach’s attorney, Ted Liggett, just minutes before the two sides were to appear in a Lubbock, Texas, [...]
Clothing county newborns
CFCC presents student leadership awards
‘Bad to the Bone’
Stakeholders Advisory Group holds first meeting
Veteran returning from Mideast treated to chicken wing special
County Canning Kitchen
Inverness Fourth of July
A Homosassa Fourth of July
14 students complete safe babysitting course
Covered with ladybugs