Anticipated hearing ready to unfold

WASHINGTON -- Roger Clemens will climb a Hill unlike any other he has scaled during his 354-win pitching career. At the ready to fight off his best stuff will be Brian McNamee, the former trainer who claims to have injected him with illicit drugs.

The arbiters will be 41 members of a congressional committee essentially boring into the validity of the Mitchell Report.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's much-awaited hearing into the contested focal point of the report examining the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in baseball takes center stage Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill.

Senator to Meet N.F.L. Commissioner About Patriots’ Spying

N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell will travel to Washington on Wednesday to meet with Senator Arlen Specter for a discussion about the league’s investigation into the Patriots’ spying on other teams.

Superbowl wonder

An inspiring Addidas advertisement once reminded us that "impossible is nothing." On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008, the New York Giants justified that statement when they pulled one of the biggest upsets in sports history by defeating the almost perfect New England Patriots at Super Bowl XLII.

Ninety-seven and a half million Americans, the most amount of viewers of any NFL Super Bowl, frantically watched as Eli Manning and the Giants did what most of the sports world viewed as "unthinkable."

Not only were the fifth seed New York Giants crowned Super Bowl champions, they were responsible for putting that dreaded "1" in the Patriots' loss column.

How could this have possibly happened is the question on everyone's mind. How could the 2007 Patriots, the team who earned its spot among the greatest sports teams of all time, come so far and so close, yet fall so short?