Word: bowlful
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...entire coaching career, I've never seen another team's practice film prior to playing that team.' BILL BELICHICK, New England Patriots coach, refuting allegations that he videotaped the St. Louis Rams' walk-through prior to Super Bowl XXXVI...
...Hornets staffers also blame football for the team's slow start. They started selling tickets as the Saints kicked off a season that carried Super Bowl expectations (alas, they didn't even make the playoffs). Plus, up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University began a march to the national championship. "Our attendance is reflective of that circumstance," says Hugh Weber, the Hornets' president. "Football is a way of life here...
There was something not quite authentic about the Super Bowl victory celebration here last week. The crowd was not rowdy football fans; it was a group of shy local women and children who are unlikely to have seen the game, but came anyway to get a free Super Bowl T-shirt or hat. And then there was the fact that the champions being celebrated on those T-shirts and hats were the New England Patriots...
...fact that the Patriots lost the Super Bowl may be why the celebration was being held in this small Nicaraguan village - because Boston's loss was definitely Diriamba's gain, in the form of the "Perfect Season, 19-0" Patriots T-shirts and hats that Brady, Belichick and Bruschi were supposed to have worn on the field after the game. Due to NFL regulations that prohibit the sale of the losing team's "championship" apparel, the T-shirts and hats were donated to needy Nicaraguans by World Vision, in conjunction with the NFL and Reebok...
...always—a shamed Orioles fan. I was convinced. The Sports Illustrated cover jinx? Please. Ten days after the magazine featured Eli Manning on its cover, the little brother overcame a brutal postseason history to win the Most Valuable Player award in the Giants’ Super Bowl win. So the Harvard women’s basketball team will have to excuse me for pointing out the déjà vu I’m feeling as I watch it put together a season quite similar to its Ivy title run a year ago. Some will...