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New York Giants prepare for the Super Bowl with Yoga
Apart from typical running, throwing and strength training drills, the Super Bowl-bound New York Giants also reap the athletic benefits of season-long yoga sessions.

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Birk wins NFL’s Man of the Year award
Baltimore center Matt Birk is the Walter Payton Man of the Year for 2011, the NFL announced Saturday. Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was one of three...
From magic carpet to red carpet
arrives on the red carpet. Updated: 10:15 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS -- The Bengals may have been shut out of the NFL's major awards Saturday night, but their magic carpet ride of a season continued on...
San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh named Coach of Year
Jim Harbaugh, whose strategic wizardry and catchy slogans propelled the 49ers to the brink of the Super Bowl, was honored as the NFL coach of the year Saturday night at a lavish ceremony in...
Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers wins MVP award
Rodgers earned 48 votes to two for New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. The Packers star is the first Green Bay...
Super matchups everywhere with Pats-Giants
This Super Bowl certainly has all the makings of another thriller, the perfect finish to a season that began in turmoil and wound up the most successful in league...
Rodgers, Brees, Jim Harbaugh win AP awards
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The best quarterbacks bring fans out of their seats. Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning did exactly that Saturday night when the NFL Most Valuable Player accepted the trophy from...
Ravens LB Suggs wins Defensive Player of Year
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Baltimore linebacker Terrell Suggs, the most dynamic player on the Ravens' staunch defense, has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Year...
Packers' Rodgers named MVP by landslide vote
Aaron Rodgers has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award in a landslide. Rodgers earned 48 votes to two for New Orleans...
Brees, Suggs, Newton, Harbaugh win AP awards
Drew Brees ' record-setting season has earned the New Orleans quarterback the 2011 Associated Press NFL Offensive Player of the Year award. Brees...
Aaron Rodgers wins NFL MVP award
Rodgers earned 48 votes to two for New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. The Packers star is the first Green Bay...
Del Rio ignored advice to sit out 2012 season
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The links and lakes were appealing to Jack Del Rio, just not as enticing as the green grass and white lines of the football field where he's spent most of his life.So, after...
Emery introduced as Bears GM
Chicago Bears , and team president Ted Phillips loved his attention to detail and his toughness from his days as a strength and conditioning coach at Navy.That's how Emery became the top choice...
Chiefs hire special teams coach, release 3 others
Kansas City Chiefs hired Tom McMahon to coach special teams and cut ties on Monday with three assistants from former head coach Todd Haley's staff.McMahon will take over for Steve Hoffman, who...
Eagles hire Todd Bowles to coach secondary
Philadelphia Eagles ' secondary.Bowles, a 12-year NFL coaching veteran, was 2-1 as Miami's head coach after Tony Sparano was fired. He replaces Johnny Lynn in Philadelphia. The move was...
Tight end Gronkowski misses Patriots practice
Rob Gronkowski did not practice Monday because of his high left ankle sprain.Gronkowski suffered the sprain during the third quarter of the Patriots' 23-20 victory over...
Patriots WR Slater following in father's footsteps
Pittsburgh Steelers , and Jackie Slater never went back to a Super Bowl in a Hall of Fame career that lasted until 1995."I think that was one of the biggest things that he kind of missed on his...
Cortez Kennedy awaiting the Hall's call
Seattle Seahawks helmet is perched on a shelf, and his Miami degree -- the one he went back to finish at his own expense after leaving school early for the NFL -- is on the wall, not far from photos...
Former Colts coach Caldwell hired by Ravens
Baltimore Ravens quarterbacks coach.The 57-year-old Caldwell was hired on Monday by the Ravens. The appointment comes less than two weeks after Caldwell was fired as head coach of...
Martin, 4 linemen make Hall of Fame
The star running back with the Patriots and Jets for 11 seasons was one of six players elected Saturday to the shrine. Martin once disliked playing the game, but used it to escape a neighborhood...
Day before SB46, web page proclaims Giants winners
Some 24 hours before the Super Bowl, this showed up on the web: "The Giants are Super Bowl CHAMPIONS," complete with an image of the Lombardi Trophy and a link to order championship gear....
Pats release WR Underwood, sign DE Silvestro
Wide receiver Tiquan Underwood has been cut by the Patriots less than 24 hours before the big game - bad news for him, of course, but a move that increases the likelihood Chad Ochocinco will be...
Lions QB Stafford wins Comeback Player of Year
Stafford beat out six other players who received votes from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. Stafford fought through injuries his first two seasons, then threw...
Panthers QB Newton wins Offensive Rookie of Year
Newton is the second straight No. 1 overall draft pick to take the honor in voting by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. Rams QB Sam Bradford won it last...
Broncos LB Miller wins Defensive Rookie of Year
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller has won a two-man race with 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith for the 2011 Associated Press NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year...
Newton earns major rookie awards
was named Offensive Rookie of the Year by the Associated Press on Saturday evening. Newton also was named Pepsi Rookie of the Year. The winner of the AP award, considered the NFL's official...
Newton sweeps Rookie awards
INDIANAPOLIS _Panthers quarterback Cam Newton won both of the NFL's major rookie of the year awards Saturday night in the NFL's inaugural red-carpet Honors ceremony here during a taped...
Press Release - C Matt Birk Named 2011 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year
, it was announced today. The award recognizes a player's off-the-field community service as well as his playing excellence.The announcement was made during NFL Honors, a two-hour primetime...
Patriots add DE Silvestro, release WR Underwood
announced Saturday night that the team has released WR Tiquan Underwood and signed DE Alex Silvestro to the active roster in preparation for the Super Bowl tomorrow. Silvestro, 23, was originally...
Gronkowski walks without limp at photo session
New England Patriots gathered for photographs on Saturday. Gronkowski, recovering from a high left ankle sprain, and his teammates posed for official team Super Bowl photos and pictures with family...
Top coach: Jim Harbaugh
Jim Harbaugh has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year award for leading the 49ers back to the playoffs. In his first season as an NFL head coach, Harbaugh guided the 49ers to a 13-3...
Newton named offensive ROY
Cam Newton has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award. Newton is the second straight No. 1 overall draft pick to take the honor in voting by a nationwide panel of 50...
Martin, Kennedy headline Hall of Fame inductees
Curtis Martin and four linemen were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, along with one senior committee choice. Martin is the fourth-leading rusher in NFL history. He is joined...
Oakland Raiders reportedly eying Stanford co-defensive coordinator Jason Tarver
Stanford co-defensive coordinator Jason Tarver is under consideration to be the defensive coordinator of the Raiders, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.Tarver, 37, served one year as the...
Curtis Martin reaches Hall of Fame
Martin is the fourth-leading rusher in NFL history. He is joined by Chris Doleman, Cortez Kennedy, Willie Roaf, Dermontti Dawson, and senior selection Jack Butler. Jerome Bettis, Cris Carter and Bill...
49ers' Jim Harbaugh wins Coach of Year
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- San Francisco's Jim Harbaugh has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year award for leading the 49ers back to the...
Buyer pays $46K for Tom Brady game jersey
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A football jersey that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady wore in an NFL game has sold for $46,000 at an auction in...
Butler, Dawson elected to Class of 2012
And now there are 20.With Jack Butler and Dermontti Dawson having been elected today into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2012, the Pittsburgh Steelers now will have 20 of their...
Dawson center of attention again
It's not often a player comes along who has the ability to re-define the way a position is played, and those are precisely the kind of people who belong in their sport's Hall of...
Finally, the Hall calls for Butler
For years, his peers spoke on his behalf. They told stories of his toughness and listed his accomplishments and detailed his statistics. Today, those voices have been heard. Today, Jack Butler was...
Big Hall class, but no Parcells
Six new members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were selected today in Indianapolis: Jack Butler, Dermontti Dawson, Chris Doleman, Cortez Kennedy, Curtis Martin and Willie Roaf. The 44-member...
Report: Giants' website briefly proclaims SB win
according to NFL.com . The image featured ads for official Super Bowl Champions gear and a picture of the Lombardi Trophy. The page was taken down and replaced with a "page not found"...
Sporting News: Dolphins on Manning's short list
In the event of a breakup with the Indianapolis Colts, Peyton Manning has interest in joining the Miami Dolphins, according to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Citing an unnamed NFL...
Why Giants will win
Victor Cruz and Eli Manning are on serious hot streaks, which could mean trouble for the Patriots secondary. (Getty Images) INDIANAPOLIS — Since the NFL instituted a 16-game schedule, no team...
Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About the New England Patriots
When Billy Sullivan bought the rights to a Boston-based AFL football team in 1959, he was not the first to bring pigskin to Beantown. At least three football teams had already run through the city:...