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49ers coach profited from many mentors
The story begins in the dimly lit Harbaugh family basement in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1974. Jack Harbaugh, an assistant coach at Michigan, has taken home a canister of 16-millimeter film of an opponent. He loads the reel on a projector that shows a game on...
Tags: Super Bowl, National Football League, Chicago Bears, Jack Harbaugh, Oakland Raiders
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There's one sure Super Bowl bet: Spectacle will give way to sadness
Bums me out that San Francisco stands poised to be a world champion in yet another sport. I was up there recently and it seemed to be mostly falling down. There are no right angles in that decaying city, and termites eat better than the tourists....
Tags: Beyonce, Audrey Hepburn, Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Colin Kaepernick
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Alex Smith handles demotion like a Super Bowl champion
NEW ORLEANS — Barely two months ago, Alex Smith stood alone under center as the NFL's hottest starting quarterback for one of its best teams. One concussion later, he is lost in the crowd. At the San Francisco 49ers' Super Bowl media day this...
Tags: Super Bowl, National Football League, Injuries and Wounds, Chicago Bears, Flu
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The perfect Super gathering
"Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning." — Wicked Witch of the West, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum The Wicked Witch never invites me to her parties. When you can't get an invitation from...
Tags: Cam Cameron, Chicago Bears, New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts, L. Frank Baum
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Jim and John Harbaugh are brothers at arm's length
NEW ORLEANS — John Harbaugh, coach of the Baltimore Ravens, stepped onto the convention center stage wearing a suit, a tie and a smile. Jim Harbaugh, coach of the San Francisco 49ers, followed him wearing khakis, sweatshirt and a stare. John...
Tags: Super Bowl, National Football League, Jim Schwartz, Jim Harbaugh, Turkey (animal)
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Jim Harbaugh knows no bounds
NEW ORLEANS — The world's next great football coach has been on a roll this week, speaking of incorporating an enthusiasm unknown to mankind, building a beaver dam, lacking a "tweeter," living a childhood that was the opposite of the song Cat's in...
Tags: Super Bowl, National Football League, Chicago Bears, Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick
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Cameron has longtime bond with Harbaugh brothers
After his first season as Indiana University head coach in 1997, Cam Cameron took a bittersweet phone call from then-Eagles director of pro personnel Michael Lombardi. Lombardi, recently hired in a similar role with the Browns, sought permission to...
Tags: Super Bowl, National Football League, Cam Cameron, Chicago Bears, Jim Harbaugh
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NFL Week 17 preview: The NFL has gotten the end games right
Three years ago, the 14-0 Indianapolis Colts pulled Peyton Manning in the middle of their 15th game, and, instead of trying for a perfect season, coasted into the postseason with back-to-back losses. It was a prime example of the mail-it-in attitude...
Tags: National Football League, Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, Peyton Manning, Mike McCarthy
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Quarterback change reiterates that NFL is foremost a business
The NFL is a business. Easy to say. Hard to swallow. Nowhere was that more evident this week than in San Francisco, where Alex Smith officially lost his starting quarterback job to Colin Kaepernick, who had filled in for him after Smith suffered a...
Tags: Super Bowl, National Football League, Rich Gannon, Injuries and Wounds, New Orleans Saints
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In Ed Reed case, NFL plays more head games
An initial response to Ed Reed's one-game suspension this week was a shrug. It didn't really matter, anyway. His Baltimore Ravens are playing the San Diego Chargers on Sunday. It got sillier as other reactions poured in. Baltimore Sun columnist Mike...
Tags: National Football League, Trials, Fines, Michael Vick, Dave Duerson
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The 10 biggest (and overdone) Super Bowl story lines
Take cover. Here it comes. The Brother Bowl. The Harbowl. Two weeks of hearing how Jim and John Harbaugh turned every bike ride as kids into a race, every family dinner into an eating competition, every game of tiddlywinks into a war. Until Super Bowl...
Tags: Aaron Rodgers, National Football League, Cam Cameron, Michael Oher, Tom Brady
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NFL powers, and underdogs, rain on playoff aspirants' parade
On a Sunday when the sprinklers accidentally went off at Sun Life Stadium, dousing the Seattle Seahawks and Miami Dolphins, playoff-minded teams all over the NFL were treated to a cold, harsh splash of reality. The New Orleans Saints, who had clawed...
Tags: Brandon Weeden, Reggie Wayne, Chicago Bears, Ben Roethlisberger, Indianapolis Colts
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