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NFL News - Monday, January 21,2008
... Super Bowl Match Up, Reggie Bush and more...
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Road warrior Giants find luck in Green Bay cold
A cold night was no match for a hot team.
Despite temperatures below zero and wind chills of minus 24,
despite the long odds of a wild-card team traveling for the
third consecutive week, the New York Giants burned with a
nasty fury on their weird and wild journey to the Super Bowl.
Three playoff games away from home. Three victories. The last
earning them one more trip — to Glendale, Ariz., for Super
Bowl XLII on Feb. 3. The Giants' NFL record 10th consecutive
road victory came in the most dramatic of fashions. Lawrence
Tynes, who missed a 36-yard field goal try as the fourth
quarter ended, converted a 47-yard kick with 2:35 elapsed in
overtime to lift his club to a 23-20 victory in the NFC
Championship Game.
Perfect Patriots, improbable Giants headed to Arizona for
Super Bowl
The New England Patriots' path to perfection has one last
hurdle: a New York team of road warriors hoping for a Giant
upset. "We'll try to elevate our game for one last performance,"
said Tom Brady, the Patriots' dimple-chinned, record-setting
quarterback with the model girlfriend. Brady and the Patriots
(18-0) will try to match the 1972 Miami Dolphins as the only
teams to complete an undefeated season when they face Eli
Manning and the Giants on Feb. 3 in the Super Bowl at
Glendale, Ariz. "I think you enter the season and you're
hoping to put together a bunch of great wins and you realize
there's challenges every step of the way," Brady said after
beating San Diego 21-12 in the AFC championship game Sunday.
"To not have a letdown like most teams have - we had a few
letdowns or times where we didn't play our best, but we
overcame them." Standing in the Patriots' way are the Giants
(13-6) and Manning - Peyton's little brother, whose moxie and
leadership abilities no longer can be questioned. "We haven't
been given a shot, but we're here," Manning said of his Giants,
who have won 10 straight on the road - including a 23-20 overtime
win at Green Bay in the NFC title game. "I think we're deserving
of it." Las Vegas oddsmakers might think differently. They
installed New England as a 13 1/2-point favorite in the big
game, in which New York will get another shot at destroying
the Patriots' path to perfection. New England won 38-35 in
its final game of the regular season, rallying from a 12-
point second-half deficit against the Giants. The teams also
played in the preseason finale, when New England won - with
Brady sitting that one out. Brady and the Patriots are playing
in the Super Bowl for the fourth time in seven years. A win
in this one would rank the Patriots as perhaps the greatest
champion in NFL history - Spygate a long-forgotten speedbump.
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Bush could lose Heisman
Reggie Bush's 2005 Heisman Trophy and USC's 2004 national
championship could be in jeopardy as evidence continues to
mount that the former star halfback received illegal benefits
from a fledgling sports marketing company. Lloyd Lake, a front
man for New Era Sports and Enter tainment, a sports market ing
company, provided HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" with
recordings of telephone conver sations he had with Bush's
stepfather, Lamar Griffin, that support his claims he gave
the USC running back cash and a car. "Real Sports" will air
the segment Tuesday night (10 p.m., HBO). Lake has filed a
$291,000 suit against Bush and spoken to NCAA officials about
the alleged numerous illegal benefits he provided Bush and his
family while Bush was at USC. According to Lake, a former
convict, he directly gave Bush $3,000 a month in a Secret
Service-style arrangement and was with Bush when the star back
picked out a $757,000 house for his parents that Lake claims
New Era paid for. Neither Bush nor any of his family members
agreed to talk to the show. In the past this has been mostly
a he said-she said scenario. But the tapes of the telephone
conversations are the first proof that Lake and Griffin did
have a relationship. The authenticity of the tapes will have
to be confirmed. "Whatever you gave Reggie, Reggie is not
going to turn his back," Griffin says on one recording.
"Reggie said tell Lake if I don't come to this business or
whatever I'm going to give every penny that he gave me, from
the car, from the money you've given me before," continues
Griffin. "He's not going to be like that." Bush already has
settled out of court with one of Lake's business partners,
Michael Michaels. According to HBO, Bush settled with Michaels
for $200,000, including a confidentiality agreement among all
parties. The Pac 10 Conference and NCAA are investigating the
allegations. No player has ever been stripped of a Heisman
Trophy, not even O.J. Simpson.
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Ex-NFL player Stubblefield pleads guilty in BALCO case
Former NFL defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield pleaded guilty
Friday to lying to investigators in the BALCO steroids case,
making him the first football player charged in the long-
running federal investigation. Stubblefield, a three-time Pro
Bowl player who testified before the BALCO grand jury in
November 2003, was charged with making false statements to
federal agents about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
The charges, unsealed in federal court, allege Stubblefield
lied to an IRS agent when he said he had not used steroids
linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and denied
receiving performance enhancers from BALCO founder Victor
Conte. The plea deal calls for the 37-year-old Stubblefield
to spend zero to six months in prison, though U.S. District
Judge Susan Illston said she is not bound by that agreement
and can sentence him to up to five years. He is to be sentenced
April 25. Stubblefield and his attorney, Mike Armstong,
declined to comment as they left court. Stubblefield is the
latest target in a federal investigation that has spanned five
years and ensnared several elite athletes and members of the
Burlingame-based steroids distribution ring, including Conte,
who served four months in prison. The biggest name was Barry
Bonds, the former San Francisco Giant and baseball's career
home run king. He pleaded not guilty to perjury and obstruction
of justice charges and is awaiting trial. Stubblefield played
on the defensive line for the San Francisco 49ers, Washington
Redskins and Oakland Raiders from 1993-03, and was the NFL
defensive player of the year in 1997 while with the 49ers.
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