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| Garza plays for Bears, his heritage |
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01/31/2007 |
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| inutes from the Mexican border. That's where Roberto Garza grew up. And now, he's in the Super Bowl. His high school will hold a pep rally Friday. There will be a community gathering on Saturday, the day before Garza and the Chicago Bears play the Indianapolis Colts. Though not the first Hispanic to do so, making the Super Bowl is just the latest achievement for the favorite son of Rio Hondo, a town of 1,600. A `Roberto Garza Day' is already held every Dec. 2, even though Mayor Santiago Saldana plans to move |
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| Colts ride Clark's quick recovery into Super Bowl |
NFL Football |
01/31/2007 |
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MIAMI (AP) -Dallas Clark cherished every second of his interview session. While he had to contend with the requisite interrogations regarding his no-stoplight hometown and his religion, the Indianapolis Colts' tight end viewed this experience as a luxury. Two months ago, on a nationally televised prime-time game, Clark feared his season was over after Philadelphia's Sean Considine wrapped him up low. As Clark rolled over, he grabbed his right leg and writhed in pain before finally limping into the locker r |
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| Manning savors shot at the title |
NFL Football |
01/31/2007 |
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| men six deep, Manning joked a little, reminisced a lot and seemed to enjoy his first Super Bowl media day. ``I know how hard it is to get here,'' he said, ``because it has been.'' Still to come are the 60 minutes that matter most, when Manning's Indianapolis Colts play Chicago for the NFL title. But while Bears center Olin Kreutz grumbled that he might prefer a trip to the dentist over Tuesday's interview marathon, Manning embraced media day as part of what makes the Super Bowl America's favorite carnival.< |
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| For Huizenga, Super Bowl week is a bittersweet time |
NFL Football |
01/31/2007 |
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MIAMI (AP) -There's some aspects of hosting a Super Bowl that Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga doesn't particularly enjoy. He owns the stadium where Sunday's game between the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears will be played, yet has to pay for the 55 tickets that'll allow him to enter his suite, plus shell out some more money to enter the parking lot - which he also owns. ``I'm no different than anybody else,'' Huizenga said Tuesday as he took in the media day festivities at the stadium. ``That's jus |
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| Vinatieri back on the big stage |
NFL Football |
01/31/2007 |
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| oints, and the guys that are on the field at the same time I am do a great job. You've got confidence in (your teammates), you know the ball's going to be there, then you just have to do your job." Below is a capsule look at the special teams of the Indianapolis Colts: Placekicker: Vinatieri's resume is beyond reproach. He's made 82 percent (37- of-45) of his field-goal attempts during the postseason and has 19 career game-winning kicks in the final minute of the fourth quarter or in overtime under his belt. The |
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| Line of Scrimmage: Tale of the Super Bowl Tape |
NFL Football |
01/30/2007 |
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| Philadelphia, PA (MySportsbook) - The last time the Indianapolis Colts departed the state of Florida, they were licking their wounds from a 44-17 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jags rolled up 275 rushing yards in that Dec. 10th contest, cementing Indianapolis' reputation as a comically poor run- stopping team, an M.O. that wouldn't even last a month thanks to our obsession with the most recent thing we've seen. The last time the Chicago Bears saw the Indianapolis Colts, they were busy having their fur h |
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| Dungy Facing Old Demons - and Some New Ones |
NFL Football |
01/30/2007 |
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| (MySportsbook) - For years, the knock on Tony Dungy was that he couldn't win the big one. As the 51-year-old head coach guides his Indianapolis Colts into Super Bowl XLI Sunday night, that storyline isn't quite dead - though it is on a respirator, and the prognosis is dire. And while there are no real "Dungy haters" out there, as the quality and class of the man commands almost universal respect, there remain those who doubt Dungy's abilities to finish the job with a Super Bowl win. The argument this time is a |
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| Irsay's unconventional methods turn around Colts' image |
NFL Football |
01/30/2007 |
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| ero and paid nearly $2.5 million to buy Jack Kerouac's original coffee-stained manuscript of ``On The Road.'' He's even fought an addiction to painkillers. Eclectic, yes, and Irsay approaches football with the same unique approach. The 47-year-old Indianapolis Colts owner wants to win at any cost. ``It's taken a lot out-of-pocket money to deliver, and it's the same thing with our coaching staff and our scouting department. They're as big as anyone's in the league,'' Irsay said. ``But we want to win. Those are |
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| GOLDBERG ON FOOTBALL: Manning vs. Grossman: a stark contrast at QB |
NFL Football |
01/30/2007 |
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| ee seasons with the New York Giants, suffers, as Grossman does, from comparisons with Peyton. Grossman has a pedigree, too. His grandfather played briefly in the All-American Football Conference in the 1940s for the Baltimore Colts, who became the Indianapolis Colts in 1984. His father, uncle and cousin played at Indiana University and his parents have been Colts season ticket holders since the team moved to Indiana. Manning went out of his way Tuesday to defend his counterpart. ``If you're a quarterback wh |
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| Urlacher: small town to the Super Bowl |
NFL Football |
01/30/2007 |
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| one of the NFL's greatest quarterbacks, Peyton Manning. Both will be making hand signals, pointing and instructing their teammates where to go on every play. It'll be a showdown between the two marquee players - the two central characters - of the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears. ``Brian Urlacher is a guy I will always know where he is. You just can't help it,'' Manning said of the Bears' six-time Pro Bowl middle linebacker. ``There are certain guys like that.'' Urlacher, who was hurt in 2004 when the |
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