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...also reflects Thomas's commitment to academics. Curry earned an engineering degree at Georgia Tech and recalled how his college football coach had helped him with his studies by making him run steps when he cut chemistry. As a professional football player, Curry learned that only 37 percent of NFL players had a college degree. If you want proof positive that Curry was hired to do more than win, just look at his own record. Coaching at his alma mater, he had a losing record--hardly the normal credentials to coach at one of the premier programs in the country...
John Elway, operating on a wobbly left ankle, fired a 48-yd. scoring pass to Vance Johnson on the final play of the third quarter, lifting the injury-riddled Denver Broncos to a 22-17 NFL playoff victory over the New England Patriots yesterday...
...York Giants moved within a game of their first Super Bowl appearance ever by demolishing the San Francisco 49ers, 49-3, yesterday as Phil Simms passed for four touchdowns, Joe Morris ran for 159 yards and linebacker Carl Banks led a defense that shut down one of the NFL's top offenses...
...point victory margin was the largest in an NFL playoff game since the merger of the NFL and American Football League in 1970. The most lopsided game before this was Washington's 51-7 victory over the Los Angeles Rams...
Cincinnati had the NFL's second-ranked offense when it played the Patriots. San Francisco had the league's third-rated attack before it played them. And Miami will take the NFL's most productive offense into its game with New England...