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...such codes exist for the gridiron...
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS NBC, TUESDAYS, 8 P.M. E.T.; PREMIERES OCT. 3 You don't need to know a quarterback from a halfback--I'm told those are football terms--to appreciate this drama about a high school team in gridiron-obsessed Texas. The fictionalized version of the based-on-a-nonfiction-best-seller movie (directed by Peter Berg, who co-produces and directs here) has the same quick-cut look, crisp dialogue and bone-crunching game scenes. And the series promises to get deeper into the lives of the players, who are treated like gods and movie stars--as long...
...SCREEN DRAMA Real-life events inspire three new films: the Rocky-like Invincible (out now); Gridiron Gang, starring the Rock, right (out Sept. 15); and We Are Marshall, about the 1970 air crash that killed most of the M.U. team...
WHADDYA KNOW? If you know what number Da Bears retired to honor Dick Butkus, you'll probably score pretty high in the new NFL Gridiron Trivia Challenge game. If you're asking "Dick who?", you haven't got a Hail Mary's chance...
...press, flown in from Baghdad to this agricultural gridiron northeast of Samarra, huddled around the Iraqi officials and U.S. Army commanders who explained that the "largest air assault since 2003" in Iraq using over 50 helicopters to put 1500 Iraqi and U.S. troops on the ground had netted 48 suspected insurgents, 17 of which had already been cleared and released. The area, explained the officials, has long been suspected of being used as a base for insurgents operating in and around Samarra, the city north of Baghdad where the bombing of a sacred shrine recently sparked a wave of sectarian...