Texans embrace the role of underdog that they earned with their subpar playMike Florio, profootballtalk.com The Texans enter the divisional round of the playoffs as decided underdogs to the Patriots. And the Texans embrace that role. Which is a good thing, because they’ve earned that role. “Yeah, I love being the underdog. It’s my claim to fame,” defe… |
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Final, Celtics win, 103-91: Paul Pierce (23 points) and Kevin Garnett (17 points) led the Celtics in scoring, but they again got a strong effort from Green, Lee and Sullinger off the bench. The Celtics showed something new in this game, earning a win ag… |
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Ashley Brooke Nevel, dimemag.com James Harden pump fakes to draw the foul and sinks in the basket in tonight’s matchup between the Houston Rockets and Boston Celtics. |
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Ashley Brooke Nevel, dimemag.com The Boston Celtics rookie Jared Sullinger attacks the glass as he hustles to grab the rebound with one hand and cashes in a hook shot tonight against the Houston Rockets. |
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Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein says he understands the ballclub's culture better now than he did when he first arrived in Chicago. |
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Boston.com Patriots news, boston.com FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Across nine years and five teams, Brandon Lloyd never played in the postseason. |
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The Celtics host Jeremy Lin, James Harden and the NBA's most prolific offense on Friday night. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Throughout the regular season, there was a regular Friday post wrapping up the final injury reports of the week. Frequent readers of that post will know that you could set your clock to the Patriots listing some large portion of their roster as question… |
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Boston.com Patriots news, boston.com The Patriots look ready for the Texans and the Broncos should beat the Ravens. Can the Seahawks and Packers win in the NFC? CineSport's Noah Coslov and The Boston Globes Greg Bedard discuss. |
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Mike Rodak, ESPN.com The New England Patriots made a massive overhaul to their injury report on Friday, removing 15 players who had been listed as limited in Thursday's session. |
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Sunday divisional playoffs preview: Tom Brady will lead potent Patriots offense to AFC title gameJan 11
Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com Houston Texans at New England Patriots Sunday, January 13, 2013 Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass. The Houston Texans have the most wins in franchise history, won a second consecutive AFC South title and, after last week's 19-13 win over the Cincinnati Be… |
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Boston.com Patriots news, boston.com Sunday will be the 45th playoff game of Bill Belichick's long career, and he's still excited about the opportunity in front of Patriots. |
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Don Banks, CNNSI.com The NFL's divisional round means we're down to the league's elite eight in the playoffs, and that's when the Super Bowl pairing starts to first come into view. There are still 16 potential matchups for Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans next month, and her… |
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Five nuggets of knowledge about Sunday's Houston Texans-New England Patriots divisional-round playoff game at Gillette Stadium: Guarding against overconfidence: The New England Patriots are heavily favored against the Texans. New England trounced Housto… |
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How can the Patriots move past the Texans and into the AFC title game? Jim McBride has the answers in his scouting report. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Allegedly, Rajon Rondo wants to see Rudy Gay in Boston Celtics green, and really, why wouldn’t he? It looks like Rudy is one of the most blatantly-available difference makers on the trade market. If Gay is going be headed somewhere, it’s only natural … |
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Everyone knows quarterback Tom Brady and the New England Patriots' top-rated offense will be ready for the postseason. But what exactly do we make of New England’s inconsistent defense? Will we see the aggressive Patriots defense that shut out the Miami… |
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Iam Thomsen, CNNSI.com PORTLAND, Ore. -- The clock was unraveling down to its last threads, but LeBron James moved without panic as the defense trapped out to him. His backhanded pass around the defenders found Chris Bosh alone in the seam. Another closing defender forced Bos… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Texans defensive coordinator Wade Phillips did not say anything controversial or disrespectful when asked on Thursday about how Houston will cover Patriots receiver Wes Welker this weekend. But that didn’t stop Phillips’ comments from becoming a story… |
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The majority of Patriots have playoff experience, but three veterans brought in this year — Brandon Lloyd, Aqib Talib, and Trevor Scott — will be part of the NFL’s second season for the first time when New England hosts Houston Sunday in the divisio… |
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Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt sets the bar very high for himself, because he had to. Now he hears people saying his team can’t beat the Patriots, and it just drives him to prove them wrong. Coming off last month’s lopsided loss in Foxborough, it … |
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The Texans, who have converted only three of their last 13 trips inside the red zone since they lost at New England, will need to get 7 points instead of 3 if they hope to stay with the Patriots in Sunday’s playoff game in Foxborough. |
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