Detroit News - Wright did score a team-high eight points in the first half, dove on the floor for loose balls, deflected some passes and hit a key 3-pointer during a 10-2 U-M run. Sims got some rebounds and scored six points during the first seven minutes but

‘Honeydripper’ is good; ‘Mars,’ ‘Vince Vaughn’ are not as good
St. Petersburg Times - Pinetop plans one big weekend score, bowing to new tastes by hiring Guitar Sam and his newfangled electric sound from New Orleans. When Sam doesn’t arrive by train, Pinetop and his bouncer, Maceo (Charles S. Dutton), devise a scheme that involves

It’s all right under his nose
Philadelphia Inquirer - Still, the money side went well enough that later, when he felt his score needed more (and expensive) orchestral rehearsal, the impresario side of him authorized it. “And nobody,” he recalls, “said no.” If anything impedes his opera’s future life, it

‘Cloverfield’ (starring Michael Stahl-David and Jessica Lucas) — 3
Chicago Tribune - There’s no conventional musical score to be heard in “Cloverfield,” for the record, all the better to heighten the fake realism. Then under the end credits, the soundtrack is suddenly awash in a lushly orchestrated 1950s-style suite composed by

Seattle Times - Quarterback Eli Manning, Super Bowl most valuable player, said, “I believe that we play football for the greatest city in the world, and all of you all deserve to have the greatest football team in the world.” The loudest cheers during the parade were

Rough night for Wideman
Boston Globe - I’d rather see a player hard on himself - we can pick him up and make the corrections - than have a guy who’ll say, ‘Well, I thought I was OK.’ ” Team’s lifeline The four-game scoring streak of Milan Lucic came to an end, while Chuck Kobasew

Despite low profile, Dougherty’s White highly regarded by Temple
Philadelphia Daily News - The way I see it, it’ll make me a better player and person.” White played in just five of Dougherty’s nine games. No. 3, a 21-20 overtime loss to Neumann-Goretti, is only a blur. Not even that, actually. “I don’t remember anything from that game, or

Southeast Pa. Football Commits
Philadelphia Inquirer - Player, Position High School College Trevor Behmke, TE Conestoga Miami, Ohio Patrick Campbell, K Council Rock North Temple Rashad Campbell, RB Chestnut Hill Aca. Cornell Steve Caputo, OL/DL Unionville Temple Matt Carroll, QB Unionville Northeastern

Two-sport standout picks college football
Philadelphia Inquirer - or play basketball at Monmouth. Villanova won. White, a 6-foot-5, 200-pound senior who was an Inquirer all-South Jersey receiver in the fall, chose Villanova “because it’s an excellent school and he felt it was best for him,” Robin White, the player’s

BioMed Central - This latter evidence provides strong theoretical support for the use of electrical stimulation to maintain and repair cartilage in the clinical setting and highlights its potential as a disease-modifying modality. Methods A double-blind, randomised

Exhausting Bill
Chicago Tribune - This is in response to “Description of job highlights differences” (Commentary, Jan. 29), by Jack Fuller, former editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Fuller’s commentary describes Hillary Clinton’s approach to the presidency as one of CEO

Critic’s corner
Boston Globe - It highlights much of what is special about this sitcom, as it flies around in time. The theme is how Lily, Marshall, and Ted met one another back in college, and whether or not there was a Lily-Ted kiss. The episode also introduces Barney’s Hot

Detroit Free Press - Was kicked off team after freshman year for violating NCAA rule on “payments over an extended period of time in excess of time actually worked.” He transferred to Sam Houston State. 2005 Mark Sanchez Southern Cal Hasn’t played much behind John David Booty

Edgewood basketball coach is out
Baltimore Sun - Lamont Pennick is out as coach of the Edgewood boys basketball team, less than two weeks after he protested an officiating call by ordering his players to stand still on the court when play resumed. School officials began an investigation into the

Rolex Regatta ends with a spirited battle
Miami Herald - It was the French team’s second victory at the OCR. Rohart said he figured he would face the same teams this summer in China that he raced against all week in Miami. But the with U.S. team going to China this summer, John Dane and son-in-law Austin

Across the world and rooting for the home team
Boston Globe - JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia - “What are your plans for the Super Bowl?” a friend in Florida asked the other day, knowing I would be out of the country these two weeks and out of the pocket of football fandom frenzy. I usually return to Southeast Asia this

Miami Herald - The Patchan family found out in the past few weeks just how passionate — and cruel — college football fans can be. Matthew Patchan, one of the nation’s top high school linemen, put his family roots aside and selected the University of Florida over

Civic pride at stake in Super Bowl
Newsday - In a joint statement, Spitzer said, “The Giants look unstoppable and Eli Manning is playing the best football of his career.” Patrick replied, “We’ve been waiting for this all year and I know our team is ready. Go Pats!” The governors’ bet follows a

Patriots more perfect than all
Miami Herald - They were unbeaten against the NFC East, the toughest division in football. Nobody else did that. They beat the Chargers by 24 points. Nobody else managed that. They led the Dolphins 42-7 at halftime. Nobody else did that, even though it felt like

Quotes from and about 2008 Pro Football Hall of Famers
International Herald Tribune - PHOENIX : Quotes from and about the class of 2008 for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which was selected on Saturday: “The 1983 first-round class I made it. Dan Marino, (John) Elway, (Jim) Kelly, (Eric) Dickerson, (Bruce) Matthews, Green

Patriots will use Spygate as motivation, again
FOXSports.com - Football commissioners have always liked to lecture on the integrity of the game. Well, where was the integrity of the investigation? Shoddy work makes for shoddy outcomes. The Herald’s story ensures the season that began with Spygate will end with

Hall sends out the call to Tippett
Boston Globe - PHOENIX - Andre Tippett was in the lobby of the Patriots’ team hotel yesterday afternoon, watching the NFL Network in suspense, hoping he would be named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Then, in one of the most poignant moments of his life, there

NFL owes debt to ailing old-timers
Miami Herald - VII, which ended with the Dolphins completing a 17-0 1972 season, which at least until Sunday night, when the Patriots try to go 19-0, is still the greatest season in NFL history. Hardly anyone will be thinking about these past masters of the football

Ravens offer words of advice
Baltimore Sun - Football is a physical game, but it all starts with mental preparation. “You can’t go in thinking I’m here and I just don’t want to get embarrassed,” Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan said. “You just can’t lay back and say ‘We want to keep it close

UO’s Jones arrested in Eugene
Oregonian - Derrick Jones’ future with the Oregon football team is in jeopardy after he was arrested for the second time in four months. On Jan. 25, Eugene police said they found less than an ounce of marijuana on a friend of Jones, Kenyon Tremaine Brown, at

Green, Monk Lead Inductees for Football Hall of Fame (Update1)
Bloomberg - Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Former Washington Redskins cornerback Darrell Green and wide receiver Art Monk were among six players elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Also selected were defensive end Fred Dean, offensive tackle Gary Zimmerman

Baltimore Sun - Jerry’s a football coach, and he’s proven a lot in this league as a special teams coordinator.” Rosburg’s special teams in Atlanta finished the 2007 season ranked second in the NFL in opponents’ average starting field position (25.5) and eighth in

Bob Ford: Circus is in town, and Glendale couldn’t be happier
Philadelphia Inquirer - They wanted it to say ‘Glendale,’ not ‘Phoenix.’ ” But the University of Phoenix, the nationwide, for-profit school aimed at adult education, paid $154 million for the 20-year naming rights, even though it doesn’t have a football team, or any

Super Bowl’s Big Day for TV, Pizza Sales
Newsday - NEW YORK - Super Bowl Sunday may be the biggest day of the year for football fans, but it’s also a big day for people who sell big screen TVs, recliners and pizza. Yes, some sports fans are willing to pay thousands of dollars for a TV just to watch

Sibling revelry
Baltimore Sun - Not surprisingly, Eli credits his parents - one of whom also was a very good NFL quarterback - with creating an environment in which he and his brothers could excel at football without feeling obligated to make it their life’s work. “I think my

Supporters Plan to Buy Liverpool Soccer Club, BBC Reports
Bloomberg - Taylor was quoted as saying “the time is right to offer a different solution to the rising concerns that football fans have about the patterns of ownership developing at our major football clubs.” To contact the reporter on this story

Brutal attack sends builders to their wallets
Seattle Post Intelligencer - He comes off as one gruff dude but construction worker Roy “Otis” Larson, who loves beer, football and his wife, is a big softie. When he heard about the young woman who was savagely beaten with a hammer near the University of Washington campus this

NFL Injury Report
ESPN.com - NEW YORK — The National Football League injury report for the Super Bowl, as provided by the league (OUT - Definitely will not play; DNP - Did not practice; LIMITED - Limited; FULL - Full participation in practice): ^Sunday= NEW YORK GIANTS vs. NEW

Foul call: Umps rip background checks
Boston Globe - year suspended prison sentence for a drunken driving accident that killed a man in Bulgaria . . . James Easter Heathman , the teenager who raced to a field near his family’s central Kansas farm to find the plane crash that killed Notre Dame football

Editors drummer enjoys sightseeing across the USA
Seattle Times - My favorite football team is the Chicago Bears because I used to have a Chicago Bears top; it was a picture of a teddy bear holding a football running along on my Chicago Bears jersey. So I followed them. Then I have the Toronto Maple Leafs because I

No scars of failure for veteran coach’s offensive line
Boston Globe - GLENDALE, Ariz. - After nearly 63 years, 38 football seasons, 6 Patriots head coaches, and 5 Super Bowls, Dante Scarnecchia still lives in fear of one vision: his quarterback pulverized under a pile of voracious defenders who were supposed to be held

Seattle Times - Jerome Stevens, a Husky defensive lineman, was on the field when Curtis Williams was paralyzed in the game against Stanford in 2000. Five years later, Stevens played for the Los Angeles Avengers, an Arena Football League team, when he witnessed

Detroit Free Press - Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg expects to play on Wednesday after missing the last two games of last week’s trip and Sunday’s All-Star Game because of back spasms. But coach Mike Babcock said the way Pavel Datsyuk and Johan Franzen have played

High Schools - Coach taking active role in Paul VI’s success
Philadelphia Daily News - PAUL VI COACH Tony Devlin certainly has reason to jump up and down about his team’s performance so far this season. But forgive Devlin if you don’t see him turning cartwheels or excitedly hopping around. Not because he doesn’t want to; rather, he’s

Barnes gives Bay Shore girls jump on track title
Newsday - had 147 points, followed by Northport (76) and Connetquot (70). BOYS BOWLING SJB wins. Vito Rago rolled a 280 in Game 2 of a 705 series for No. 2 St. John the Baptist in a 1,098-1,015, 1,180-975, 1,101-896 win over No. 7 Holy Trinity in the CHSAA team

Miami Herald - All-Star games are fun events, a chance for players to act like kids and chase down their peers for autographs, and grab hats, T-shirts and extra jerseys to bring home. Sunday’s 56th NHL All-Star Game was no exception, although in the final moments

Philadelphia Inquirer - That makes this one all the more worth telling. Cobb began his college career in the early 1970s at Texas’ Abilene Christian, where he was a football teammate of future Eagles great Wilbert Montgomery. He left school to pursue martial arts (one story

Brady takes a pass
Boston Globe - Football / Patriots FOXBOROUGH - The Patriots continued to play it safe with quarterback Tom Brady yesterday. Brady, who is recovering from a

Duarte on the Longhorns
Houston Chronicle - University of Houston football coach Kevin Sumlin addressed one of the remaining holes in his staff by hiring former Dallas Cowboys player and coach Jim Jeffcoat to handle the defensive line. A formal announcement is expected Monday. Jeffcoat spent

Owls promote assistant D’Onofrio
Philadelphia Daily News - Temple has promoted defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio to assistant head coach, head football coach Al Golden announced yesterday. D’Onofrio, 38, will continue in his role as defensive coordinator with additional administrative duties. D’Onofrio

Damascus Is Putting Everything Together
Washington Post - Resize Text Nobody associated with the Damascus boys’ basketball team will do anything brash or obnoxious to make the point, but the Swarmin’ Hornets definitely hope it’s getting across: This isn’t just a football school anymore. “We’ve been under

UW Football | Huskies offer coordinator job to Donatell
Seattle Times - The task of reviving a Washington defense that last season was statistically the worst in school history will apparently fall to Ed Donatell. Several sources told The Seattle Times on Friday that Donatell had been offered the job and was expected to

Racing Day draws drivers, speed fans
Detroit News - Remember that there won’t be any recruiters coming to scout you like in baseball and football. You have to make it on your own. It’s a rough road, but it’s worth it if you stick with it.” And what kind of cars do they drive in real life? “Acura RI

Players indicted in home invasion
Philadelphia Daily News - Two Texas A & M football players accused of tying up and mugging a drug dealer at gunpoint have been indicted on felony robbery charges. Yemi Babalola and Brandon Joiner were indicted Thursday on two counts each of aggravated robbery, the district

ASU football promotes strength coach Hilgart
AZCentral.com - Ben Hilgart has been promoted to head sports performance coach on Dennis Erickson’s football staff at Arizona State. Hilgart was senior assistant for three years under Joe Kenn, who resigned last month to take a similar position at Louisville

Harlan leaves Lambeau with legacy of football, financial success
International Herald Tribune - GREEN BAY, Wis. : Bob Harlan was huddled in a Lambeau Field equipment room with a select few members of the Green Bay Packers’ inner circle on Sunday, awaiting the inevitable: a trophy presentation and a trip to the Super Bowl. The New York Giants