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...NFL's two league championship pairings are set, but it certainly isn't the same old crowd. After Sunday's games, in which defending champ Dallas lost to the expansion Carolina Panthers, 26-17, and the Pittsburgh Steelers were flattened by the New England Patriots 28-3, both of last year's Super Bowl teams were out of the hunt. "It's a new order in the NFL," said Panthers linebacker Kevin Greene, "and I'm tickled to death about it." No matter how next week's matchups turn out, this year's Super Bowl will be the first since...
...YORK CITY: Mike White joined the coaches' casualty club on Tuesday, with Wayne Fontes in the on-deck circle. White was let go by Oakland after a 7-9 season, the fifth NFL head coach to go in the last five days. Fontes got a Christmas reprieve, but almost surely will learn Thursday that his 81/2-year tenure in Detroit will come to an end, which will bring to eight the coaching changes in the NFL since the start of the 1996 season. White joins Rich Kotite of the Jets, Dan Reeves of the Giants, Rich Brooks of St. Louis...
...Turner and Rupert Murdoch was little more than a battle between two egotistical billionaires. That has all changed now that Time Warner and Fox are in the midst of a game of chicken that could cut off access of the Fox network to 1.5 million viewers just as the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl are set to begin. Time Warner says Fox is threatening to pull its signal in five cities -- Austin, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee and Detroit -- in retaliation for Time Warner's refusal to carry the Fox news channel in New York. Fox counters...
...Rozelle who brought sports into 10 figures when he negotiated a landmark fiveyear, $2.1 billion contract with television's three major networks in 1982. Then he expanded the NFL's TV exposure to cable, selling a Sunday night series to ESPN as part of the next contract...
...biggest contribution, however, may have been introducing revenue-sharing in pro football 30 years before it created havoc in other sports. Doing so allowed teams in minor markets like Green Bay to equally share TV revenues -- the biggest part of the NFL pie -- with teams in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...