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...Colorado at Colorado Springs. "Peyton's longing for a Super Bowl keeps the conversation going, and if he wins, that conversation stops." In an age of sports parity, in which seven teams have won World Series titles this decade and about a dozen NFL teams were fighting for playoff spots during the last weeks of the season, we can use a dramatic story line...
...cost the Dallas Cowboys a playoff win. It's going to sit with me for a long time ... I don't think I've ever felt this low at any point...
...League, the distinction is even greater—we’re a subdivision of the second-rate subdivision. With no hope of ever competing for the title as the Mountaineers and Minutemen did thanks to the league’s inability to partake in the 16-team playoff, the Crimson and co. knows a little bit about fake attempts at inclusion.And just as we’re referred to as I-AA participants without all of the rights the rest of the I-AA schools have, it’s in very poor form for the NCAA...
...TURNS OUT THAT QUARTERbacks can play defense too. With a little over a minute left in an AFC playoff game, Indianapolis Colts defensive back Nick Harper, his team down three points, picked up a fumble by the Pittsburgh Steelers near the Colts' 1-yd. line and ran for what should have been a touchdown. But Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hustled to trip Harper, saving the game for the Steelers, who went on to win the Super Bowl...
...cons for one simple reason: the current state of affairs in the Ivy League is one of extreme stagnation. A postseason tournament, even if it only included the top four teams, would give teams at the bottom of the standings an incentive to fight for that crucial last playoff spot, rather than to play out the string in meaningless games. As it stands now, every year is the same, with Princeton or Penn coming out on top, and every year a multitude of pointless games are played down the stretch between the non-P’s in front...