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Niners have better chance than Ravens to be back
The Baltimore Ravens carried off the Lombardi Trophy. Their beaten opponent has a better chance of doing it next season. San Francisco running back ...
Ravens edge 49ers 34-31 in electric Super Bowl
For a Super Bowl with so many story lines, this game came up with quite a twist. Try a blackout that turned a blowout into a shootout — capped by a ...
New Orleans braces for fallout from blackout
A Super Bowl week that had gone so smoothly for the Big Easy suddenly turned bizarre when everyone was watching. The lights went out on the biggest ...
Harbaugh brothers stage dramatic Super Bowl
It sounded as if John Harbaugh was happy his Ravens nearly blew a three-touchdown lead in the Super Bowl. The fact that Baltimore had to hold on the ...
Kaepernick nearly leads another 49ers comeback
Under pressure and off balance, Colin Kaepernick released a fourth-down throw into the end zone with the outcome of the Super Bowl hanging in the ...
SUPER BOWL WATCH: Super indeed, Baltimore's joy
Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: ...
Fans mob Baltimore streets to celebrate Ravens win
Hundreds of giddy Ravens fans poured into the streets Sunday night, whooping, hollering and high-fiving complete strangers as they celebrated the ...
Power outage stops Super Bowl for 34 minutes
The Super Bowl turned into Blackout Sunday. The biggest game of the year was halted for 34 minutes because of a power outage, plunging parts of the ...
Column: Not Super, but one Harbaugh good enough
It ended another lifetime after it began, with the Baltimore Ravens gladly surrendering two points that meant nothing except to some lucky bettors in ...
Ray Lewis ends brilliant career with championship
Before he could bask in a shower of confetti, before he could put his fingerprints on the Lombardi Trophy and before he could head into retirement as ...
What comes now for NFL after tumultuous season?
The Super Bowl closes a tumultuous year for the NFL. Suicides by former NFL players. Thousands of others filing concussion lawsuits. New studies ...
Super Bowl of firsts, lasts, bests
The journey to this Super Bowl wound through bounties and replacement refs, eventually bringing the big game back to the Big Easy — with a replacement ...
SUPER BOWL WATCH: NFL awards, real fun to come
Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: ...
Griffin beats out Luck, Wilson
Robert Griffin III of the Washington Redskins has won The Associated Press 2012 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award, beating out two other ...
Culliver to have sensitivity training, help youth
San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver will begin sensitivity training and education immediately after the Super Bowl following his anti-gay ...
Deep thoughts: Long ball could carry Ravens to win
Fear the dreadlocks, San Francisco. Torrey Smith just might be the difference in a Super Bowl that will hinge on the 49ers' ability to prevent the ...
Balanced 49ers offense aims to lead Super Bowl win
Colin Kaepernick is a mystery man under center, a strong-armed passer one moment and a 25-year-old kid who can run right out of the pocket for a huge ...
SUPER BOWL WATCH: Katrina, Coin flip bets, Modell
Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: ...
Harbaugh brothers could envision working together
Working separately, John and Jim Harbaugh each guided their team to the Super Bowl. They will be on opposite sidelines Sunday, John as head coach of ...
Ravens FB Leach on collision course to stardom
Vonta Leach's job is to get involved in a collision so Ray Rice won't. The Baltimore Ravens are in the Super Bowl in part because of Leach's ability ...
Dependable 49ers offensive linemen carry big load
Right guard Alex Boone arrives for work most days and swears at left guard Mike Iupati. From Boone, it's always considered a term of endearment ...
SUPER BOWL WATCH: Beyonce, avocados, practice
Around Super Bowl XLVII and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the ...
Feds: $13.6M in phony sports goods confiscated
Investigators have confiscated more than $13.6 million worth of phony sports merchandise over the past five months and expect to seize more in New ...