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1. BRIEFS: Pineiro stifles Royals as Mariners avoid defeat

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SEATTLE: The Seattle Mariners avoided their first three-game losing streak of the season yesterday with a 4-0 blanking of the Kansas City Royals as Joel Pineiro allowed just one hit over six near-perfect innings.

2. Eagles keep perfect road run going

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KANSAS CITY: Once again, the Philadelphia Eagles felt right at home on the road.

3. Patriots fight back to defeat Jets

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EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey: The New England Patriots won a tale of two halves yesterday as they rallied back from a 13-point deficit to beat the New York Jets 17-16 and put themselves in the middle of the playoff chase.

4. Saints close in on playoff berth

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ATLANTA: New Orleans sacked Chris Chandler nine times and Deuce McAllister threw for one touch-down and ran for another in a 28-10 thumping of the Atlanta Falcons yesterday that put the Saints right into the NFC playoff picture.

5. Dolphins prove too strong for Colts

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MIAMI: Jay Fiedler threw three touch-down passes and ran for another as the Miami Dolphins crushed the Indianapolis Colts 41-6 on yesterday.

6. Bengals surprise high-flying Steelers

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CINCINNATI: Neil Rackers made up for a series of misses by kicking a 31-yard field goal 10:52 into overtime as the Cincinnati Bengals surprised the Pittsburgh Steelers with a 26-23 victory yesterday.

7. College championship ranking controversy hits Bowl season

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SALT LAKE CITY: If the top-ranked, unbeaten Miami Hurricanes (11-0) can beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers (11-1) at the Rose Bowl on Thursday they will be crowned national champions.

8. Ducks register crushing victory over Buffaloes

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TEMPE, Arizona: Joey Harrington fired four touch-down passes as the second ranked Oregon Ducks moved into position to claim a share of the national championship yesterday with a crushing 38-16 win over number three Colorado Buffaloes in the Fiesta...

9. Miami win national championship

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PASADENA, California: The top ranked Miami Hurricanes capped off a perfect season with a 37-14 demolition of the fourth ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Rose Bowl yesterday, giving college football the undisputed national champion it desperately...

10. Bears bag first divisional title

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CHICAGO: Defensive tackle Keith Taylor rumbled 67 yards after a key interception to help give the Chicago Bears their first divisional title since 1990 in a 33-13 rout of the Jacksonville Jaguars yesterday.

11. Buccaneers fire coach Dungy

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TAMPA, Florida: Tony Dungy was fired as coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers here yesterday, setting the stage for the expected return of three-time Super Bowl coach Bill Parcells with the National Football League club.

12. St Louis and Pittsburgh march into semi-finals

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ST LOUIS, Missouri: Defensive domination propelled top seeds St Louis and Pittsburgh into the National Football League semi-finals with reigning champions Baltimore and Green Bay ousted from the title hunt.

13. Rams~ Patriots book Super Bowl berths

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ST LOUIS: The surprising New England Patriots and the heavily favoured St Louis Rams have booked their tickets to next week’s Super Bowl XXXVI after gutsy victories yesterday.

14. Rams stars make Super Bowl homecoming

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NEW ORLEANS: Marshall Faulk and Aeneas Williams, the offensive and defensive stars for the St Louis Rams, returned here yesterday to their hometown in style with a juggernaut team favoured for its second Super Bowl title in three years.

15. Rams favourites for Super Bowl

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NEW ORLEANS: The star-studded St Louis Rams don’t need the distance of history to know they are a team that may be on the verge of greatness as they prepare for their second Super Bowl in three years.

16. Patriots out to stop the Rams

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NEW ORLEANS: Amid the tightest security ever for a US sporting event, one of the most prolific offences in NFL history will clash with a team coached by a defensive guru when the St Louis Rams take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI...

17. Super Bowl to highlight US resilience

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NEW ORLEANS: In the next six days Americans will be out to show the world they still know how to play in the post-September 11 era.

18. Patriots stun Rams to win Super Bowl

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NEW ORLEANS: New England stunned heavily favoured St Louis 20-17 when Adam Vinatieri kicked a 48-yard game-winning field goal as time expired yesterday in a Super Bowl with an ultra-patriotic red, white and blue theme.

19. Critics made to eat words

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NEW ORLEANS: Taking inspiration from insults, the New England Patriots used a hard-hitting defence to upset the St Louis Rams, winning a Super Bowl title that was all the sweeter for making the naysayers eat their words.

20. Brady equals magic of boyhood idol

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NEW ORLEANS: Not even Joe Montana could have done any better than Tom Brady, whose game-winning drive in the final seconds to win Super Bowl 36 was worthy of his boyhood hero.

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