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| Backups Should Rule Day in Colts-Titans Matchup |
NFL Football |
12/24/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Those who had been feverishly anticipating this Sunday's game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Tennessee Titans may have a sudden change of plans in regards to their holiday weekend. This season-ending showdown between the AFC South's top two teams once had the potential for colossal implications, but fans in attendance at Lucas Oil Stadium this weekend will likely be witnessing the equivalent of a preseason tune-up between two postseason-bound clubs. Both the Titans and Colts are lock |
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| Line of Scrimmage: Looking Ahead to a Meaningful Week 17 |
NFL Football |
12/22/2008 |
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| Philadelphia, PA (MySportsbook) - Strange that a late-December game between division rivals that are a combined 24-6 will be completely meaningless. But the Tennessee Titans' 31-14 pounding of the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday assures that the Titans (13-2) will be the No. 1 seed in the AFC Playoffs, and their Week 17 opponent - the Indianapolis Colts (11-4) - locked up the top Wild Card position with their Thursday night win over the Jaguars. That means lots of Jim Sorgi and Vince Young at Lucas Oil Stadium |
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| Collins helps Titans clinch home-field with rout of Steelers |
NFL Football |
12/21/2008 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - Kerry Collins passed for 216 yards and hit Justin Gage for a touchdown, as the Tennessee Titans rattled off 21 unanswered points to seal home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs with a 31-14 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Collins connected on 20-of-29 throws while Gage finished with 104 yards on five catches for the Titans (13-2), who finished with 323 total yards in the win, becoming the first team this season to surpass the 300-yard mark against the vaunted Ste |
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| NFL Inactives (Sunday, December 21, 2008) |
NFL Football |
12/21/2008 |
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| th, T Chris Patrick, G Shawn Andrews, WR Kevin Curtis, WR Hank Baskett Redskins - 3rd QB Colt Brennan, WR Malcolm Kelly, G Will Montgomery, DT Kedric Golston, DT Ryan Boschetti, T Jon Jansen, G DAnthony Batiste, DE Rob Jackson PITTSBURGH STEELERS AT TENNESSEE TITANS, 1:00 P.M. (ET) Steelers - 3rd QB Dennis Dixon, T Marvel Smith, DE Orpheus Roye, DT Scott Paxson, T Tony Hills, CB Fernando Bryant, S Anthony Smith, LB Bruce Davis Titans - 3rd QB Chris Simms, DT Albert Haynesworth, DE Kyle Vanden Bosch, WR Paul Wil |
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| Steelers LB Harrison leaves early |
NFL Football |
12/21/2008 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison left Sunday's critical AFC matchup against the Tennessee Titans with an apparent hip injury. Harrison, who was selected to the Pro Bowl earlier in the week, suffered the injury while trying to make a diving tackle on Titans running back Chris Johnson along the sideline early in the first quarter. The fifth-year pro landed awkwardly on his hip and was tended to on the sideline. He returned on Tennessee's next possession but hobbled o |
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| Capsizing Raiders Host Streaking Texans |
NFL Football |
12/19/2008 |
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| next to you. So, to walk your (expletive) out of here is about as bad a deal as you could possibly do to that group of guys." Meanwhile, things are a touch happier in Houston. The Texans won their fourth straight game Sunday, downing the AFC-leading Tennessee Titans, 13-12, to climb back to .500 on the season and within two more victories of a single-season franchise record. Coach Gary Kubiak's club finished at 8-8 in 2007, its best record since joining the NFL in 2002. Defeats of the Raiders and Week 17 foe Ch |
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| Jets Need to Spoil Holmgren's Seattle Swan Song |
NFL Football |
12/19/2008 |
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| franchise history to lead in both. Seattle averages 268.6 total yards per game. Though its strong start has kept the New York defense high in overall statistical category rankings, the last few weeks have been unkind. Since holding the then-unbeaten Tennessee Titans to 13 points on Nov. 23, the Jets have allowed 34, 24 and 27 to Denver, San Francisco and Buffalo, respectively. Still, first-year New York linebacker Calvin Pace is having a career year, having recorded a personal-best seven sacks so far in 2008. A |
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| AFC's Best Square Off in Titans-Steelers Affair |
NFL Football |
12/19/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The most intriguing AFC matchup of the season is on tap this Sunday at LP Field, where the Tennessee Titans welcome the hard-charging Pittsburgh Steelers in a crucial AFC matchup with homefield advantage throughout the postseason on the line. Tennessee opened the 2008 campaign with 10 straight wins, took the AFC South title away from the Indianapolis Colts, and earned a first-round bye in the opening round of the playoffs. Now all the 12-2 Titans have to do in order to achieve the homefield |
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| Armanti Edwards wins 2008 Walter Payton Award |
Division I-AA College Football |
12/18/2008 |
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| shed in 1987 by The MySportsbook and previous winners of the honor include current NFL players such as Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (2002, Eastern Illinois) and Philadelphia Eagles running back Brian Westbrook (2001, Villanova), and former Tennessee Titans and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Steve McNair (1994, Alcorn State). 2008 Walter Payton Award Voting NAME (SCHOOL) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Total 1. Armanti Edwards, Appalachian State 53 21 12 5 3 398 2. Rodney Landers, James Madison 17 27 14 11 5 290 3. |
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| NFL fines Titans CB Finnegan |
NFL Football |
12/18/2008 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - The NFL has fined Tennessee Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan $25,000 for his rough action in this past Sunday's 13-12 loss at Houston. The 24-year-old Finnegan was docked pay for two personal fouls, the first being a helmet-to-helmet hit on Texans quarterback Matt Schaub in the fourth quarter. Later, Finnegan was given an unnecessary roughness penalty for spearing Houston tight end Owen Daniels. Finnegan told the Tennessean that he plans to appeal the fines, but Titans coach |
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