Ricky Williams, the Dolphins’ second-leading all-time rusher whose time in Miami was marked by success and controversy, said he’s retiring from football.

It appears Santonio Holmes is sticking around - just as the New York Jets said he would.

Rudy Gay had 19 points and nine rebounds, and Quincy Pondexter added a career-high 17 points as the Memphis Grizzlies snapped a three-game losing streak with a 85-80 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night.

The strangest coaching decision during Super Bowl week wasn't when Bill Belichick ordered his defense to act like matadors and wave Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw by for a touchdown from 6 yards out with less than a minute left in the game. That's just the one people will remember. The really odd one came four days earlier when the uber-prepared Patriots coach, anticipating a halftime show that would dictate a 30-minute intermission rather than the usual 12, ordered his players to take a break from practicing football and practice sitting in the locker room for a half-hour instead.

Chatter on the Dolphins’ options and potential fits on offense when free agency begins March 13:

The Miami lawsuit is one of 20 the NFL faces nationwide, alleging the league ignored evidence that head injuries incurred during the game results in serious health issues later on.

Putting the Dolphins in any sort of Super Bowl context might at a glance seem ludicrous. That’s first because Miami is coming off a 6-10 season, and second, because when the Dolphins last won a Super Bowl, fans wore coonskin caps and rode to the game in cars with engines you cranked to start.

Most of us have heard, perhaps from an older relative, the expression, “What am I, chopped liver!?” — the time-tested lament of someone slighted, or forgotten.

If Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is the most adamant person in the organization about the need to upgrade at quarterback, Brandon Marshall apparently isn’t far behind. And Marshall’s record-setting performance at Sunday’s Pro Bowl gave a reminder to Peyton Manning or Matt Flynn or anyone else what he’s capable of.

With his offensive and defensive coordinators in place, Dolphins coach Joe Philbin pledged an up-tempo style.

Dolphins president Mike Dee said Friday the team will not increase any ticket prices and might lower some. Dee declined to detail what seats will be cheaper but said plans would be announced soon.

Ricky Williams, the Dolphins’ second-leading all-time rusher whose time in Miami was marked by success and controversy, said he’s retiring from football.

Said Giants QB Eli Manning after a second title in four years: ‘This isn’t about bragging rights. This is about something bigger.’

It was the moment of truth Ahmad Bradshaw had dreamed of since he was a kid hearing play-by-play commentary inside his head. With his team trailing and a minute left in the game, it was his chance to score the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl.

I Nice to see an old warrior who socked away enough of his haul. Jim Plunkett, the former Oakland Raiders quarterback who won two Super Bowls, brought 15 people to this one at $1,200 a head just for tickets.

I Yes, magic still exists in the big city. A few months ago they were ready to ride Tom Coughlin out on a rail. Today they’ll be strewing rose petals in his path.

INDIANAPOLIS This was the right ending, the perfect ending really. This was Eli Manning waiting until the final drive of the season to give his team another comeback win, which is basically the script he and the New York Giants followed all year and seemingly follow every time they win Super Bowls.

For the second time in five seasons, quarterback Eli Manning directed an underdog Giants team past Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Super Bowl, this time doing it in brother Peyton Manning’s town.

This, quite simply, was a blueprint for how a Super Bowl broadcast should be done. With exceptional announcing, timely but restrained use of graphics and nifty angles on replays, NBC delivered exemplary coverage of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday.

How unlikely is a safety being the first score of a Super Bowl? One site taking prop bets had it at 60-1.

Rudy Gay had 19 points and nine rebounds, and Quincy Pondexter added a career-high 17 points as the Memphis Grizzlies snapped a three-game losing streak with a 85-80 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night.

It appears Santonio Holmes is sticking around - just as the New York Jets said he would.

The strangest coaching decision during Super Bowl week wasn't when Bill Belichick ordered his defense to act like matadors and wave Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw by for a touchdown from 6 yards out with less than a minute left in the game. That's just the one people will remember. The really odd one came four days earlier when the uber-prepared Patriots coach, anticipating a halftime show that would dictate a 30-minute intermission rather than the usual 12, ordered his players to take a break from practicing football and practice sitting in the locker room for a half-hour instead.

Tom Coughlin is coming back. Eli Manning is only getting better. And the vast majority of the New York Giants' starting lineup is under contract.

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