Super Bowl QBs: Two guys from near the dock of the Bay

By Art Spander
For Maven Sports

ATLANTA — They came from the suburbs of the Bay Area, growing up 50 miles and almost a generation apart, the new kid on the block and the onetime kid who has knocked off everyone’s block, Jared Goff and Tom Brady.

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Goodell on Rams-Saints botch: Game ‘not officiated by robots’

By Art Spander
For Maven Sports

ATLANTA — The job has its benefits, starting with the current annual salary of $35 million a year. The job — or at least the person holding it — has its critics, and it always has.

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Wade Phillips has his defense in another Super Bowl

By Art Spander
For Maven Sports

ATLANTA — His father, Bum Phillips, once said of another coach, probably Don Shula but possibly also Bear Bryant, “He can take his’n and beat your’n, and he can take your’n and beat his’n.”

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Pepsi in Coke country; here comes the Atlanta Super Bowl

By Art Spander
For Maven Sports

ATLANTA — Super Bowl media day always has been crazy. Now it’s commercial. Now it’s “Opening Night Fueled by Gatorade.” Now it’s been turned into another spectator event, people in the stands and, of course, paying to get in.

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Youth wasn’t served; Brady, Pats buck the trend

By Art Spander
For Maven Sports 

OAKLAND, Calif. — The trend had started. Torches were being passed, along with footballs and, down in the Australian Open, tennis players indiscriminate enough to rush the net.

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