PACKERS
Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers wins MVP award
INDIANAPOLIS -- Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award in a landslide.
Packers promote Clements
GREEN BAY -- QBs coach named offensive coordinator
Packers to cancel Fan Fest for second year in a row
GREEN BAY -- The Green Bay Packers say Fan Fest is being canceled for the second straight year.
Hawaii can't heal wounds of defeat for Packers
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii -- When Packers coach Mike McCarthy left frigid Green Bay, the temperature was in the single digits. When he landed in Honolulu, it was a balmy 80 degrees.
Irwin, former voice of Packers, dies
MILWAUKEE -- Jim Irwin, the longtime former radio voice of the Green Bay Packers during a distinguished sports broadcasting career, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 77.
Packers' Philbin accepts Dolphins' coaching job
MIAMI -- A month of wrenching emotion for Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin took another turn when he landed the Miami Dolphins' head coaching job.
McCarthy: Needs will be filled through draft
GREEN BAY -- This time, the Green Bay Packers' season did not culminate in confetti and heavyweight title belts. Only a dismayed and undaunted coach Mike McCarthy holding his season-ending news conference back home at Lambeau Field.
Packer tacklers grabbed air too often
GREEN BAY -- When McCarthy and defensive coordinator Dom Capers sat down for most of the day Wednesday to review the season from a defensive perspective, the one thing that kept coming up was poor tackling.
Dolphins interview Philbin
MIAMI -- Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin interviewed for the Miami Dolphins’ head-coaching job for a second time Wednesday.
Stunned Packers face change; Driver ponders future
GREEN BAY -- As stunned Green Bay Packers players cleaned out their lockers Monday morning, veteran wide receiver Donald Driver knew he might be packing up for good.
FOOTBALL
Column: There's still a game in there somewhere
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 ...
Giants TE Ballard has left ACL tear
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- New York Giants tight end Jake Ballard tore his left anterior cruciate ligament during the second half of Super Bowl, the team announced on Tuesday....
RB Ricky Williams says he's retiring from NFL
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) -- Ricky Williams is retiring from the NFL....
Belichick: Giving Giants TD gave Pats best chance
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Bill Belichick gave clear instructions to his defensive unit: Let the runner score....
Report: Haley Steelers' next offensive coordinator
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Steelers will hire former Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley to be their offensive coordinator, according to an ESPN report....
Coughlin plans to be back with Giants in 2012
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Tom Coughlin is looking forward to the parade and a couple weeks off to reflect on the Giants' second championship in five seasons. Then he will begin preparations for defending the title....
Amid Super Bowl kudos, Indy cleans up, looks ahead
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Bleary-eyed and jubilant, Super Bowl organizers swung into cleanup mode Monday and hoped the rave reviews from fans and journalists over how it pulled off its first Super Bowl will draw the NFL's showcase event back to town....
Super Bowl-champion Giants return home
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The Super Bowl-champion New York Giants have returned home....
Tom Coughlin has 2 Super Bowls, and job for life
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- No more hot seat for Tom Coughlin. No more second-guessing....
Column: The 'new' Belichick lasts less than a week
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Turns out the "new" Bill Belichick looks and sounds an awful lot like the "old" one....
