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Linda Robertson: Saints' Drew Brees helps revive a ravaged New Orleans

Like New Orleans, Drew Brees once was left for dead.

He was damaged. He became a reclamation project. Few had faith in his future.

Urban Meyer's future looms over recruits

The country's best class of football recruits made a commitment to Florida coach Urban Meyer on Wednesday.

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Linda Robertson: Miami's racing community making strides

The ING Miami Marathon and Half Marathon is perfectly wonderful as an event for the masses. Who better to appreciate a Creamsicle-hued sunrise, salsa pep bands and dolphins leaping alongside the Venetian Causeway than devoted local runners and the tourists giving themselves a reward (if 13.1 or 26.2 miles can be considered a reward) for winter training.

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U.S. women's skating needs likes of Cohen

Women's figure skating always has been a celebration of iconic beauties and cuties, and so the audience at Spokane Arena greeted Sarah Hughes warmly when the Olympic gold medalist was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame on Thursday night. Her presence was like a whiff of smelling salts for a sport with a weak pulse.

Athletes' acts of generosity are inspiring

Jonathan Vilma, Jozy Altidore and Adler Volmar have watched the scenes of devastation and grief in Haiti. They have cried for the Haitian people. They have sought information on missing relatives.

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Value of loyalty disappears on college gridiron

Maybe Lane Kiffin's act will play better in Hollywood than it did in Knoxville.

Time will tell. But for now, his arrival at Southern California was as awkward as his departure from Tennessee.

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Love 'em or hate 'em, victory over Texas validates Bama coach

Love 'em or hate 'em, victory over Texas validates Bama coach

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No playoff, but we still have OB treasure

During a cold evening of tailgate parties before the Orange Bowl, Georgia Tech fans huddled over a grill. They were less interested in the hamburgers than the warmth emanating from the coals.

Karate master Felix Puga imparts wisdom from a wheelchair

Adozen pairs of shoes and flip-flops sit in neat rows at the threshold of a rectangular box of a room bustling with movement.

We thought we knew Tiger, but he's an illusion

Tiger Woods always gave the impression that he was a picky person with exquisite and exacting taste, whether it was his dapper appearance, his top-of-the-line yacht or his beautiful wife.

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Miami Heat pass Spoelstra's test of character

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra sought motivational magic to yank his team out of its malaise.

He hit on a theme: 77 days.

It's a renaissance at Miami Central High

Miami Central High School, branded by five straight Fs, was once classified as the worst school in Florida.

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Tiger's tale becomes fodder for tabloids

Tiger Woods has spent most of his life inside that bubble of sterility known as the country club. His calling since age 5 has been playing a game in an arranged landscape where even the obstacles are fake.

Boise State and TCU threaten the status quo

The most fascinating bowl game, and the one most emblematic of this nutty college football season, is Texas Christian vs. Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl.

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Miami Dolphins' season can be saved in 4th quarter

When it comes to crunch time, the Dolphins get crunched.

The Dolphins have relinquished 49 percent of the points scored against them this season in the last 25 percent of their games.

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Bobby Bowden, FSU's master of the game, bows out

FSU's master of the game ready to let it go

Feeling bloated? It's all that fat sports feeds us

If Thanksgiving is the holiday

to express gratitude for our bounty while indulging in it, then the day after is the right time to recognize that enough is enough.

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Understudies take the stage for Miami Dolphins

The hobbling Miami Dolphins looked like a troupe of unusually muscular improv artists on Thursday night against the Carolina Panthers.

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NASCAR sorely needs Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s resurgence

It has been a brutal season for Dale Earnhardt Jr., so bad that even the National Enquirer can't resist embellishing his tale of woe.