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Broadway Brett Favre Becomes a New York Jet

August 7, 2008 By JUDY BATTISTA THE NEW YORK TIMES The Jets, once the team of one of football’s most charismatic quarterbacks, now have another one. They acquired Brett Favre from the Green Bay Packers in a deal late Wednesday night that the Jets hope will ignite excitement for a team that struggles to remain […]

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Redskin Sean Taylor’s Murder Investigation Snags Fifth Suspect

5th person charged in Redskins safety’s killing 1 hour ago MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors in Miami say a fifth person has been charged in the slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor. Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office spokesman Ed Griffith says Wednesday that 16-year-old Timothy Brown is charged with first-degree murder under a sealed warrant. […]

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Heady Days, Immortalized Where the Ticker Tape Fell

September 30, 2004 BLOCKS By DAVID W. DUNLAP   N the midst of the longest ticker-tape drought in a quarter century, lower Broadway – the Canyon of Heroes – has been paved instead with 164 granite plaques from Bowling Green to the Woolworth Building. They commemorate ticker-tape parades from October 1886, when the Statue of […]

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Giants notebook: Practice goes outside

By Rob Demovsky rdemovsk@greenbaypressgazette.com EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin tried to set the tone this morning with regard to the weather. “Our team is not going to entertain a whole lot of questions or spend a lot of time talking about the weather,” Coughlin said. That didn’t work. With temperatures […]

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