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Mavericks at Miami
HEAD COACHES
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Men's college basketball
Harvard at Princeton
Monmouth at Fairfield
Oregon at Arizona State
Kent State at Buffalo
Oregon State at Arizona
Boxing
Friday Night Fights
Golf
PGA: Phoenix Open
Euro: Omega Dubai
Desert Classic
NHL
Buffalo at Vancouver
Minor league hockey
AHL: Charlotte at
San Antonio
OHL: Erie at Kingston
College hockey
N. Dakota at Neb.-Omaha
Tennis
Australian Open:
women's singles final
Australian Open:
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ESPN
9:30 ESPN
5:00
7:00
7:00
9:00
9:00
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2:00 Golf
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Girls high school basketball: McKinney at
McKinney North, 6:15 p.m., KLAK-FM 97.5
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Time
NBA
Mavericks Insider
6:00
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6:30
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7:00
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9:30
Women’s college basketball
Oklahoma at Texas (replay) 8 am
OU Sooner Basketball with 5:30
Sheri Coale
College football
Bear Bryant Award Show
10:00
(replay)
High school football
UIL 5A Div. II final: Ennis vs. 1:00
Cedar Park (replay)
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Colleges
Big 12 Showcase
4:30
The Beat: Texas A&M
11:00
Athletics
Miscellaneous
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All shows live from Super Bowl Radio Row
5:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
7:55 a.m.: The Emergency Brake of the
Week on The Musers
8:55 a.m.: Roger Staubach with The Musers
9:15 a.m.: Comedian Frank Caliendo with
The Musers
9:35 a.m.: The Super Bowl Report with David Moore
10:15 a.m.: Former Cowboys assistant Dave
Wannstedt with Norm Hitzges
11:30 a.m.: Five-time Super Bowl champion
Charles Haley
12:30 p.m.: Bob’s breakdown of the Super
Bowl on BaD Radio
2:15 p.m.: A music quiz of Seahawks/
Patriots players with BaD Radio
5:15 p.m.: A return of one of The Hardline’s
greatest characters ever
MAIN EVENTS
HOME
GAMES
IN BOLD
30
31
1
2
3
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
TUE
MAVERICKS: 214-747-MAVS
at Miami
7 p.m.
(FSSW, ESPN)
KESN-FM (103.3)
Minnesota
7:30 p.m.
(FSSW)
at Orlando
6 p.m.
(FSSW)
STARS: 214-GO-STARS
KTCK-AM (1310)
Colorado
7:30 p.m.
(FSSW)
at Winnipeg
6 p.m.
(Ch. 21)
LEGENDS: 214-469-0822
at Rio
Grande Valley
7 p.m.
KVCE-AM (1160)
Rio Grande
Valley
7 p.m.
(Ch. 47)
THE LINE
By RUSS CULVER and KEITH GLANTZ
SUPER BOWL XLIX
(at Glendale, Ariz.)
Sunday
Favorite
New England
Open Today O/U Underdog
+3
1 471⁄2 Seattle
NCAA BASKETBALL
Today
Favorite
at Arizona
at Arizona St.
at Buffalo
at Canisius
at Columbia
at Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
IUPUI
at Manhattan
Monmouth (NJ)
at Niagara
Line
17
4
51⁄2
41⁄2
Pk
4
1
4
2
61⁄2
11⁄2
31⁄2
Underdog
Oregon St.
Oregon
Kent St.
Quinnipiac
Yale
Brown
at Penn
at Princeton
at W. Illinois
Siena
at Fairfield
Marist
Line
81⁄2
51⁄2
41⁄2
41⁄2
91⁄2
51⁄2
3
41⁄2
71⁄2
Portland
Sacramento
at Boston
at Utah
at New Orleans
Minnesota
Chicago
at Brooklyn
NHL
Favorite
Line
Underdog
Chicago
125-105 at Anaheim
at Colorado
120-100 Nashville
Pittsburgh
145-125 at New Jersey
St. Louis
150-130 at Carolina
at Vancouver
370-280 Buffalo
To read the money line, use $100 as the base unit.
Number on left is how much must be wagered to win
$100 on the favorite. Number on right is how much is
returned for a $100 wager on the underdog.
Underdog
at Miami
JURISPRUDENCE
DA: Video, DNA link
Hernandez to slaying
As trial opens, defense
accuses authorities of
‘sloppy’ investigation
FALL RIVER, Mass. —
With his ex-teammates about
to play in the Super Bowl, former New England Patriots star
Aaron Hernandez went on trial
on murder charges Thursday,
watching from the defense table as prosecutors said DNA on
a shell casing and security camera video from his own home
connect him to the crime.
Hernandez’s lawyer countered that the player had “the
world at his feet” and had no
reason to kill. He said authorities “locked” in on him as a suspect early on, ignored evidence
and conducted a “sloppy and
unprofessional” investigation.
Hernandez, 25, is charged
in the 2013 shooting death of
Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old
semipro football player who
was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée. Lloyd’s bullet-riddled body was found in
Winners come flat and fizzy
Mark Humphrey/The Associated Press
Matt York/The Associated Press
Patriots coach Bill Belichick generally shows little emotion
and shares few insights with the media.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is more demonstrative on
the field and often more relaxed in interviews.
Taciturn Belichick,
bubbly Carroll excel
with divergent styles
time and again.
A much fuller picture of
the coach was painted in the
2013 NFL Network production A Football Life, which
gave an inside and genuinely
absorbing look at the coach —
miked up and behind the
scenes during a disappointing
2009 season.
“Hard not to get choked up
about it,” Belichick said, barely controlling the tears, as he
toured his old stamping
ground, the old Giants Stadium, where he won his first
two Super Bowl rings as New
York’s defensive coordinator.
One trait his old boss, Bill
Parcells, turned into an art
was figuring out how to get
the most from each of his
players by treating them individually.
It’s not a trait Belichick
shares, at least in the sense
that no one seems to get the
superstar treatment in New
England. For instance: Jonas
Gray ran for 201 yards in a
win against Indianapolis but
has barely been heard from
since showing up late for a
meeting.
“He’s done a good job of
treating everybody fairly,
treating everybody the same,”
said Patriots linebacker Rob
Ninkovich. “If something
goes wrong, he makes sure we
know about it.”
PHOENIX — Put Bill Belichick behind a microphone
and he’s C-SPAN — minus the
information.
Pete Carroll is more like a
Lifetime movie. Or, as defensive lineman Michael Bennett
puts it, “He has that Benjamin
Button effect on everyone.”
The Super Bowl coaches
approach their obligations to
the public and media from opposite ends. Belichick, coaching for his fourth championship in New England, is dry,
offers little to no insight and
rarely makes anyone laugh.
Carroll, looking for his second
straight title, is a high-fiving,
fist-bumping extrovert who
started one of his news conferences this week with a welcoming, “What’s up?”
Different styles have produced similar results, though.
Belichick is making his
sixth Super Bowl appearance
as a head coach, and his
Patriots are as close as there is
to a dynasty in the current
NFL. Carroll’s team is being
mentioned as a possible dynasty, as well, and that notion
will only gain steam if the Seahawks win Sunday and become the first back-to-back
champions since — who else?
— New England in 2003-04.
Dissimilar as they are,
both have built their teams on
a foundation of unflinching
candor inside their locker and
meeting rooms — a quality
Carroll brings to some of his
public speaking, but one that
Belichick eschews.
“What you see on TV is
what you get, pretty much,
from the two,” said Patriots
cornerback Brandon Browner, who previously played for
Carroll in Seattle. “They have
similarities too, though. Their
football IQ is way up there.
They are so different, but at
the same time they’re the
same. That’s why they both
have succeeded at this level.”
Over his 15 years in New
England, Belichick has made
it increasingly difficult for
anyone outside of Patriots
Nation to love him. Nobody
likes a boring cheater, and
that is how he’s sometimes
portrayed. It’s all summed up
in his handling of the controversy of Super Bowl week —
Deflategate — a subject he
has refused to talk about
since Saturday, when he held
a news conference to deny
wrongdoing and announce he
was moving on.
“We’re just focused on Seattle this week,” he’s said, repeating some version of that
Carroll does the same
thing — just differently.
Quirky as they come, he
once said a book that guided
many of his core philosophies
wasThe Inner Game of Tennis, a 1974 self-help manuscript by W. Timothy Callwey
that is about finding “the state
of ‘relaxed concentration’ that
helps you play your best.”
Carroll has made it clear
this week that he respects the
individuality of his players —
from Richard Sherman, who
is willing to speak on just
about everything, to Marshawn Lynch, who doesn’t
want to talk about anything.
The coach’s willingness to
bend, however, does not
mean he deviates from the
routine he established when
he came to Seattle after nine
years at Southern Cal.
Wednesdays are “Competition Wednesdays.” Thursdays
are “Turnover Thursdays.”
And so on.
“He’s got a philosophy he
stays true to,” said Seahawks
offensive line coach Tom Cable. “For a lot of us who’ve
coached a long time, we’ve
been around a lot of great
teachers, but their philosophies can go up and down.
For him, he’s the way he is every day.”
Eddie Pells,
The Associated Press
BRIEFS
Today
Russ Culver is an independent consultant. Keith
Glantz is co-owner of Sports At A Glantz, Inc. Both
are former Las Vegas casino sports book directors.
NBA
Today
Favorite
Dallas
at Atlanta
at Cleveland
Houston
Golden State
LA Clippers
at Philadelphia
at Phoenix
Toronto
New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks
5:30 p.m. Sunday, University of Phoenix Stadium,
Glendale, Ariz. (Ch. 5)
Super Bowl XLIX
TODAY’S TV
The Dallas Morning News
an industrial park near Hernandez’s North Attleborough
home.
Hernandez — who had a
$40 million contract but was
cut by the Patriots just hours
after his 2013 arrest — could
get life in prison if convicted.
In a separate murder case
that has yet to come to trial,
Hernandez was charged last
year in Boston with killing two
men in 2012. Prosecutors in
this trial have suggested that
Lloyd may have been killed because he knew too much about
that crime. But the judge has
ruled that prosecutors can’t tell
the jury about those slayings.
In opening statements
Thursday, District Attorney
Patrick Bomberg showed the
jury before-and-after security
video to connect Hernandez to
Lloyd’s killing.
Defense attorney Michael
Fee told the jury that Hernandez is an innocent man. “They
locked on Aaron and they targeted him,” he said.
The Associated Press
Extra security planned for game balls
League says referee’s
actions were proper
before AFC title game
PHOENIX — NFL officiating chief Dean Blandino
said the inspection of the
footballs by referee Walt Anderson before the AFC Championship Game was handled
properly. He added that the
process of checking the footballs and security surrounding the inspections will be enhanced for Sunday’s Super
Bowl.
As the league’s investigation into New England’s use
of underinflated footballs
moves along, Blandino made
it clear the officiating crew for
the Patriots’ win over India-
napolis did its job.
“Everything was properly
tested and marked before the
game,” Blandino said. “Walt
gauged the footballs himself;
it is something he has done
throughout his career.
“Officiating is not part of
the investigation.”
Super Bowl referee Bill Vinovich and his staff will be
looking over a lot more footballs this week.
Normally, 12 balls per
team are brought to the officials’ locker room before a
game, where they are tested
and marked by the referee.
This week, each team gets 54
footballs — many are given to
charity after brief game usage
— and all of them will be taken into custody by the NFL
on Friday after the teams
have prepared them.
Lynch lashes out: Marshawn Lynch changed the
script and fired back at his
critics.
After two days of giving
only scripted answers, the Seattle Seahawks’ star running
back gave his most extensive
comments of Super Bowl
week, mostly telling reporters why he won’t talk to them.
“I don’t know what story
y’all trying to get out of me. I
don’t know what image y’all
trying to portray of me,”
Lynch said. “But it don’t matter what y’all think, what y’all
say about me, because when I
go home at night, the same
people that I look in the face
— my family that I love, that’s
all that really matter to me.”
Briefly: Still sounding
congested, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said he expects his cold to be gone in
time for the game. ... A fire
alarm sounded for the second
time in three nights at the
Patriots’ hotel. The Sheraton
Wild Horse Pass Resort &
Spa in Chandler said the early-morning
false
alarm
Thursday lasted two minutes
and was being investigated. ...
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll
said the referees will use
hand signals to indicate
clearly when normally eligible receivers check in as ineligible, a technique the
Patriots have used in the
postseason.
The Associated Press
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Event
NBA
Mavericks at Miami
HEAD COACHES
Time TV
Chicago at Phoenix
Men's college basketball
Harvard at Princeton
Monmouth at Fairfield
Oregon at Arizona State
Kent State at Buffalo
Oregon State at Arizona
Boxing
Friday Night Fights
Golf
PGA: Phoenix Open
Euro: Omega Dubai
Desert Classic
NHL
Buffalo at Vancouver
Minor league hockey
AHL: Charlotte at
San Antonio
OHL: Erie at Kingston
College hockey
N. Dakota at Neb.-Omaha
Tennis
Australian Open:
women's singles final
Australian Open:
men’s doubles final
7:00 FSSW,
ESPN
9:30 ESPN
5:00
7:00
7:00
9:00
9:00
ESPNU
ESPNU
Pac 12
ESPNU
Pac 12
8:00 ESPN2
2:00 Golf
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9:00 NHLN
7:00 FSSW+
6:00 NHLN
7:30 CBSSN
2 am* ESPN
4:30 Tennis
am*
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ON RADIO
NBA: Mavericks at Miami, 7 p.m., KESNFM 103.3, KZMP-AM 1540 (Spanish)
Boys high school basketball: McKinney at
McKinney North, 7:30 p.m., KLAK-FM 97.5
-Richardson at Mesquite Horn, 7:30 p.m.,
KEOM-FM 88.5
Girls high school basketball: McKinney at
McKinney North, 6:15 p.m., KLAK-FM 97.5
-Sachse at Rockwall, 7 p.m., KXEZ-FM 92.1
TODAY ON FOX SPORTS SOUTHWEST
Event
Time
NBA
Mavericks Insider
6:00
Mavericks Live Pregame
6:30
Mavericks at Miami
7:00
Mavericks Live Postgame
9:30
Women’s college basketball
Oklahoma at Texas (replay) 8 am
OU Sooner Basketball with 5:30
Sheri Coale
College football
Bear Bryant Award Show
10:00
(replay)
High school football
UIL 5A Div. II final: Ennis vs. 1:00
Cedar Park (replay)
NHL
1-hour replay of Starsnoon
Ottawa
Colleges
Big 12 Showcase
4:30
The Beat: Texas A&M
11:00
Athletics
Miscellaneous
SportsDay OnAir
7:30
am
TODAY ON SPORTSRADIO 1310 THE TICKET
All shows live from Super Bowl Radio Row
5:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
7:55 a.m.: The Emergency Brake of the
Week on The Musers
8:55 a.m.: Roger Staubach with The Musers
9:15 a.m.: Comedian Frank Caliendo with
The Musers
9:35 a.m.: The Super Bowl Report with David Moore
10:15 a.m.: Former Cowboys assistant Dave
Wannstedt with Norm Hitzges
11:30 a.m.: Five-time Super Bowl champion
Charles Haley
12:30 p.m.: Bob’s breakdown of the Super
Bowl on BaD Radio
2:15 p.m.: A music quiz of Seahawks/
Patriots players with BaD Radio
5:15 p.m.: A return of one of The Hardline’s
greatest characters ever
MAIN EVENTS
HOME
GAMES
IN BOLD
30
31
1
2
3
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
TUE
MAVERICKS: 214-747-MAVS
at Miami
7 p.m.
(FSSW, ESPN)
KESN-FM (103.3)
Minnesota
7:30 p.m.
(FSSW)
at Orlando
6 p.m.
(FSSW)
STARS: 214-GO-STARS
KTCK-AM (1310)
Colorado
7:30 p.m.
(FSSW)
at Winnipeg
6 p.m.
(Ch. 21)
LEGENDS: 214-469-0822
at Rio
Grande Valley
7 p.m.
KVCE-AM (1160)
Rio Grande
Valley
7 p.m.
(Ch. 47)
THE LINE
By RUSS CULVER and KEITH GLANTZ
SUPER BOWL XLIX
(at Glendale, Ariz.)
Sunday
Favorite
New England
Open Today O/U Underdog
+3
1 471⁄2 Seattle
NCAA BASKETBALL
Today
Favorite
at Arizona
at Arizona St.
at Buffalo
at Canisius
at Columbia
at Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
IUPUI
at Manhattan
Monmouth (NJ)
at Niagara
Line
17
4
51⁄2
41⁄2
Pk
4
1
4
2
61⁄2
11⁄2
31⁄2
Underdog
Oregon St.
Oregon
Kent St.
Quinnipiac
Yale
Brown
at Penn
at Princeton
at W. Illinois
Siena
at Fairfield
Marist
Line
81⁄2
51⁄2
41⁄2
41⁄2
91⁄2
51⁄2
3
41⁄2
71⁄2
Portland
Sacramento
at Boston
at Utah
at New Orleans
Minnesota
Chicago
at Brooklyn
NHL
Favorite
Line
Underdog
Chicago
125-105 at Anaheim
at Colorado
120-100 Nashville
Pittsburgh
145-125 at New Jersey
St. Louis
150-130 at Carolina
at Vancouver
370-280 Buffalo
To read the money line, use $100 as the base unit.
Number on left is how much must be wagered to win
$100 on the favorite. Number on right is how much is
returned for a $100 wager on the underdog.
Underdog
at Miami
JURISPRUDENCE
DA: Video, DNA link
Hernandez to slaying
As trial opens, defense
accuses authorities of
‘sloppy’ investigation
FALL RIVER, Mass. —
With his ex-teammates about
to play in the Super Bowl, former New England Patriots star
Aaron Hernandez went on trial
on murder charges Thursday,
watching from the defense table as prosecutors said DNA on
a shell casing and security camera video from his own home
connect him to the crime.
Hernandez’s lawyer countered that the player had “the
world at his feet” and had no
reason to kill. He said authorities “locked” in on him as a suspect early on, ignored evidence
and conducted a “sloppy and
unprofessional” investigation.
Hernandez, 25, is charged
in the 2013 shooting death of
Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old
semipro football player who
was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée. Lloyd’s bullet-riddled body was found in
Winners come flat and fizzy
Mark Humphrey/The Associated Press
Matt York/The Associated Press
Patriots coach Bill Belichick generally shows little emotion
and shares few insights with the media.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is more demonstrative on
the field and often more relaxed in interviews.
Taciturn Belichick,
bubbly Carroll excel
with divergent styles
time and again.
A much fuller picture of
the coach was painted in the
2013 NFL Network production A Football Life, which
gave an inside and genuinely
absorbing look at the coach —
miked up and behind the
scenes during a disappointing
2009 season.
“Hard not to get choked up
about it,” Belichick said, barely controlling the tears, as he
toured his old stamping
ground, the old Giants Stadium, where he won his first
two Super Bowl rings as New
York’s defensive coordinator.
One trait his old boss, Bill
Parcells, turned into an art
was figuring out how to get
the most from each of his
players by treating them individually.
It’s not a trait Belichick
shares, at least in the sense
that no one seems to get the
superstar treatment in New
England. For instance: Jonas
Gray ran for 201 yards in a
win against Indianapolis but
has barely been heard from
since showing up late for a
meeting.
“He’s done a good job of
treating everybody fairly,
treating everybody the same,”
said Patriots linebacker Rob
Ninkovich. “If something
goes wrong, he makes sure we
know about it.”
PHOENIX — Put Bill Belichick behind a microphone
and he’s C-SPAN — minus the
information.
Pete Carroll is more like a
Lifetime movie. Or, as defensive lineman Michael Bennett
puts it, “He has that Benjamin
Button effect on everyone.”
The Super Bowl coaches
approach their obligations to
the public and media from opposite ends. Belichick, coaching for his fourth championship in New England, is dry,
offers little to no insight and
rarely makes anyone laugh.
Carroll, looking for his second
straight title, is a high-fiving,
fist-bumping extrovert who
started one of his news conferences this week with a welcoming, “What’s up?”
Different styles have produced similar results, though.
Belichick is making his
sixth Super Bowl appearance
as a head coach, and his
Patriots are as close as there is
to a dynasty in the current
NFL. Carroll’s team is being
mentioned as a possible dynasty, as well, and that notion
will only gain steam if the Seahawks win Sunday and become the first back-to-back
champions since — who else?
— New England in 2003-04.
Dissimilar as they are,
both have built their teams on
a foundation of unflinching
candor inside their locker and
meeting rooms — a quality
Carroll brings to some of his
public speaking, but one that
Belichick eschews.
“What you see on TV is
what you get, pretty much,
from the two,” said Patriots
cornerback Brandon Browner, who previously played for
Carroll in Seattle. “They have
similarities too, though. Their
football IQ is way up there.
They are so different, but at
the same time they’re the
same. That’s why they both
have succeeded at this level.”
Over his 15 years in New
England, Belichick has made
it increasingly difficult for
anyone outside of Patriots
Nation to love him. Nobody
likes a boring cheater, and
that is how he’s sometimes
portrayed. It’s all summed up
in his handling of the controversy of Super Bowl week —
Deflategate — a subject he
has refused to talk about
since Saturday, when he held
a news conference to deny
wrongdoing and announce he
was moving on.
“We’re just focused on Seattle this week,” he’s said, repeating some version of that
Carroll does the same
thing — just differently.
Quirky as they come, he
once said a book that guided
many of his core philosophies
wasThe Inner Game of Tennis, a 1974 self-help manuscript by W. Timothy Callwey
that is about finding “the state
of ‘relaxed concentration’ that
helps you play your best.”
Carroll has made it clear
this week that he respects the
individuality of his players —
from Richard Sherman, who
is willing to speak on just
about everything, to Marshawn Lynch, who doesn’t
want to talk about anything.
The coach’s willingness to
bend, however, does not
mean he deviates from the
routine he established when
he came to Seattle after nine
years at Southern Cal.
Wednesdays are “Competition Wednesdays.” Thursdays
are “Turnover Thursdays.”
And so on.
“He’s got a philosophy he
stays true to,” said Seahawks
offensive line coach Tom Cable. “For a lot of us who’ve
coached a long time, we’ve
been around a lot of great
teachers, but their philosophies can go up and down.
For him, he’s the way he is every day.”
Eddie Pells,
The Associated Press
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an industrial park near Hernandez’s North Attleborough
home.
Hernandez — who had a
$40 million contract but was
cut by the Patriots just hours
after his 2013 arrest — could
get life in prison if convicted.
In a separate murder case
that has yet to come to trial,
Hernandez was charged last
year in Boston with killing two
men in 2012. Prosecutors in
this trial have suggested that
Lloyd may have been killed because he knew too much about
that crime. But the judge has
ruled that prosecutors can’t tell
the jury about those slayings.
In opening statements
Thursday, District Attorney
Patrick Bomberg showed the
jury before-and-after security
video to connect Hernandez to
Lloyd’s killing.
Defense attorney Michael
Fee told the jury that Hernandez is an innocent man. “They
locked on Aaron and they targeted him,” he said.
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Extra security planned for game balls
League says referee’s
actions were proper
before AFC title game
PHOENIX — NFL officiating chief Dean Blandino
said the inspection of the
footballs by referee Walt Anderson before the AFC Championship Game was handled
properly. He added that the
process of checking the footballs and security surrounding the inspections will be enhanced for Sunday’s Super
Bowl.
As the league’s investigation into New England’s use
of underinflated footballs
moves along, Blandino made
it clear the officiating crew for
the Patriots’ win over India-
napolis did its job.
“Everything was properly
tested and marked before the
game,” Blandino said. “Walt
gauged the footballs himself;
it is something he has done
throughout his career.
“Officiating is not part of
the investigation.”
Super Bowl referee Bill Vinovich and his staff will be
looking over a lot more footballs this week.
Normally, 12 balls per
team are brought to the officials’ locker room before a
game, where they are tested
and marked by the referee.
This week, each team gets 54
footballs — many are given to
charity after brief game usage
— and all of them will be taken into custody by the NFL
on Friday after the teams
have prepared them.
Lynch lashes out: Marshawn Lynch changed the
script and fired back at his
critics.
After two days of giving
only scripted answers, the Seattle Seahawks’ star running
back gave his most extensive
comments of Super Bowl
week, mostly telling reporters why he won’t talk to them.
“I don’t know what story
y’all trying to get out of me. I
don’t know what image y’all
trying to portray of me,”
Lynch said. “But it don’t matter what y’all think, what y’all
say about me, because when I
go home at night, the same
people that I look in the face
— my family that I love, that’s
all that really matter to me.”
Briefly: Still sounding
congested, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said he expects his cold to be gone in
time for the game. ... A fire
alarm sounded for the second
time in three nights at the
Patriots’ hotel. The Sheraton
Wild Horse Pass Resort &
Spa in Chandler said the early-morning
false
alarm
Thursday lasted two minutes
and was being investigated. ...
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll
said the referees will use
hand signals to indicate
clearly when normally eligible receivers check in as ineligible, a technique the
Patriots have used in the
postseason.
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