Roscoe Parrish, the Buffalo Bills wide receiver was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.


Police Department spokesman said Parrish was taken into custody on a DUI charge at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday. Parrish was driving a 2005 Bentley westbound on MacArthur Causeway, which connects Miami Beach to the mainland. A Miami-Dade County jail spokeswoman said he was released later Saturday on $1,000 bond.

The Hiring Sherman Smith as offensive coordinator Friday, the Washington Redskins completed their coaching staff under new coach Jim Zorn.


Smith comes from the Tennessee Titans, where he was the running backs coach since 1995 as well as an assistant head coach for the last two seasons.


“It was a hard decision because I couldn’t make a bad decision,” Smith said. “The opportunity to work with Jim, the opportunity to develop further as a coach and in the coordinator position and to be a part of the Redskins’ organization, I’m looking forward to that”.

LB Zach Thomas, the Dolphins‘ all-time leader in tackles, is moving on after 11 seasons in Miami. Thomas who is a seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker, who plans to continue his career with another team.


“Zach Thomas has been a great player on this team for many years, and because of the type of player and the kind of person that Zach is, this was not an easy decision,” said Dolphins General Manager Jeff Ireland. “In addition to his numerous accomplishments on the field, he was a leader off of it as well. We want to thank Zach for everything he has done for the Dolphins organization and the South Florida community. We all wish him the best of luck in the future.”


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Two-time Pro Bowler Mike Wahle signed a multi-year contract on Thursday with Seattle Seahawks.


The 10-year veteran became a free agent after he was released by the Carolina Panthers on Monday due mainly to salary cap purposes.


Wahle who is 30 years old, started all 16 games at left guard for the Carolina Panthers last season and has started 128 of 142 career games played.


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1st Quarter
AFC TD Lorenzo Neal, 1 yd run (Rob Bironas kick is good), 10:59. Drive: 7 plays, 70 yards in 4:01
NFC TD Larry Fitzgerald, 6 yd pass from Tony Romo (Nick Folk kick is good), 7:08. Drive: 9 plays, 54 yards in 3:51
AFC TD T.J. Houshmandzadeh, 16 yd pass from Peyton Manning (Rob Bironas kick is good), 2:42. Drive: 9 plays, 58 yards in 4:26
AFC FG Rob Bironas, 33 yd field goal , 0:48. Drive: 5 plays, 14 yards in 1:41


2nd Quarter
AFC TD T.J. Houshmandzadeh, 1 yd pass from Ben Roethlisberger (Rob Bironas kick is good), 12:08. Drive: 4 plays, 29 yards in 1:48
NFC TD Terrell Owens, 6 yd pass from Tony Romo (Nick Folk kick is good), 7:58. Drive: 8 plays, 51 yards in 4:10
AFC FG Rob Bironas, 48 yd field goal , 3:30. Drive: 9 plays, 51 yards in 4:28
NFC TD Chris Cooley, 17 yd pass from Matt Hasselbeck (Nick Folk kick is good), 0:28. Drive: 6 plays, 77 yards in 3:02


3rd Quarter
NFC TD Adrian Peterson, 17 yd run (Nick Folk kick is good), 9:49. Drive: 9 plays, 67 yards in 5:11
AFC FG Rob Bironas, 28 yd field goal , 6:58. Drive: 6 plays, 56 yards in 2:51


4th Quarter
NFC TD Terrell Owens, 6 yd pass from Jeff Garcia (Nick Folk kick is good), 12:29. Drive: 9 plays, 80 yards in 5:46
NFC TD Adrian Peterson, 6 yd run (Nick Folk kick is good), 2:43. Drive: 9 plays, 73 yards in 5:21

The NFC has 14 first time Pro Bowlers: Peterson, Barber, Cooley, Chad Clifton, Leonard Davis, Cole, Darnell Dockett, Greg Ellis, Patrick Willis, Al Harris, Marcus Trufant, Terence Newman, Andy Lee and Ethan Albright. NFC has lost seven of the last ten Pro Bowls overall, but in the last four years, the two sides have alternated wins and losses. With 13 players, the Cowboys has the most Pro Bowl players of any team and representatives in seven of the eight offensive positions. Take a look at NFC Pro Bowl Team


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The AFC has 24 first time Pro Bowlers:
Ben Roethlisberger, Derek Anderson, Joseph Addai, Fred Taylor, Willis McGahee, Braylon Edwards, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Kellen Winslow, McNeill, Thomas, Logan Mankins, Kris Dielman, Dan Koppen, Jared Allen, Albert Haynesworth, Vince Wilfork, Harrison, Vrabel, Ryans, Asante Samuel, Antonio Cromartie, Antoine Bethea, Rob Bironas and Josh Cribbs.


Take a look at AFC Pro Bowl Team


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Ralph Wilson is convinced Toronto is ready to support an NFL franchise. Asked then to assure Bills fans he’s committed to keeping the team in Buffalo, the 89-year-old declined to guess.


“Don’t worry right now,” was the best answer he could provide at a news conference Wednesday announcing the Bills would begin playing an annual regular-season game in Toronto beginning this season through 2012. Based on what Wilson saw during a half-hour drive from the airport to a downtown hotel, he was convinced Canada’s financial capital and North America’s fifth largest sports market was ready for the NFL.


“I can answer that in the affirmative,” Wilson said. “It reminds me of my trip to Dallas a few months ago. They’re building in Dallas, Texas, everywhere, cranes, brand-new structures. And I see the same thing here in Toronto. It’s no secret, Buffalo is diminishing in size,” Wilson said.


Toronto will formally land on the NFL map later this year, when the Bills become the league’s first franchise to play an annual regular season game outside the United States. The deal also includes the Bills playing three preseason games ( one every other year, starting this year ) in Toronto.

McCarthy, who was named the 2007 Motorola NFL Coach of the Year last week, signed on Tuesday a five-year contract that runs through the 2012 season with the Green Bay Packers. The new contract is worth about $4 million per season. The 44-year-old McCarthy, a Pittsburgh native, has won 18 of his last 22 games after getting off to a 4-8 start in his first season as head coach in 2006.


“I am excited by the opportunity to meet those challenges and someday return another Lombardi Trophy home to Green Bay. We have accomplished some of our goals over the past two seasons, but there remains much left to be done.” McCarthy said.


“McCarthy brings tremendous passion, work ethic and structure to his position,” general manager Ted Thompson said. “These are the traits we saw in him when he was hired, and we’re very happy for the success we have had under his guidance.”

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said he is putting the Patriots 17-14 loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLII in the past.


“It’s time to move on,” Belichick said. “I’m not going to sit here and dwell on anything, good or bad, that happened in the past. It is what it is. We played our last game of the 2007 season.”


With the memory still fresh of the incredible Super Bowl loss that ruined the New England Patriots perfect season, their coach hasn’t watched tape of the game yet or analyzed everything that went wrong.


“I wasn’t really sure of the time,” Belichick said in a conference Tuesday. “Everybody started on to the field and then I got over there and I wanted to congratulate Tom. I’ve been in that situation before after the game. I wanted to get over there and congratulate him on the championship. There really wasn’t much left at that point.”


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Jim Mora was officially announced as the successor to head coach Mike Holmgren in the Seahawks staff.


Seattle CEO Tod Leiweke and general manager Tim Ruskell officially introduced the 46-year-old Mora as their head coach for the 2009 season at a press conference. The plan in Seattle also includes a five-year contract for Mora, which will become a head coaching contract for the 2009 season. Strangely, neither Holmgren nor Mora were in attendance.


“It’s a great thing for an organization to be able to do and say that, and have the head coach endorse that,” said Ruskell. “It knocks out a great deal of uncertainty. It’s a good thing. It’s a unique thing to be able to do this in the world of sports.”


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Eli Manning, who completed 19 of 34 passes for 255 yards and two TDs against New England joined his older brother, Peyton Manning who was also named the Super Bowl MVP last year after the Colts beat the Bears.


A new Cadillac Escalade, a champion ring, a Super Bowl MVP trophy and more than 97.5 million viewers of his performance…could someone ask for more than?


With the biggest game of his life still only hours behind him, Giants quarterback Eli Manning said:
“I never doubted myself, I never lost confidence, as a quarterback I think that’s the most important thing, you can never lose confidence in yourself”.


“When you’re not playing well and you’re losing games, they’re looking to everything you do and dissect it, my demeanor and how I am on the sidelines and my personality,” Eli Manning said. “But I’m very comfortable in my own skin, you know, I am the way I am and I wasn’t going to change.”

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… and the Giants win the Super Bowl XLII.


“They were basically double-teaminmg me all night, playing a man press, playing a guy over the top,” Burress said. “We were just waiting for that one time where we could get him over there in single coverage. I gave him a slant fake, he bit it, Eli put it up there and I came down with it.”


Unable to practice the majority of the season while playing on an ankle that he admitted during the week was worse than advertised. “Most guys who have what I have, they probably would have had surgery and gone on IR”. Asked about the ankle following the Super Bowl victory, an elated Plaxico Burress responded, “I don’t feel nothing.”


Perhaps no player on the Giants epitomized the team’s resiliency and fortitude more than Plaxico Burress.

With 97.5 million viewers, Super Bowl XLII was the most-watched ever.


The New York Giants‘ thrilling win over the New England Patriots eclipsed the previous Super Bowl record of 94.08 million, set in 1996 when Dallas defeated Pittsburgh.


A tight contest where throughout the game, the teams were never separated by more than a touchdown. An exciting finish involving a team that was attempting to make history as the NFL’s first unbeaten team.


But the Giants ended New England’s perfect season, 17-14.


More people watched Sunday’s game than all but one American television broadcast ever, the “M-A-S-H” finale in 1983, which was seen by 106 million viewers. Fox could not have hoped for more.

The Giants put an end to the Patriots’ perfect season, winning Super Bowl 2008 in thrilling fashion with a touchdown in the last minutes.


“It’s the greatest feeling in professional sports,” Burress said before bursting into tears.


The Giants became the first NFC wild card team to win a Super Bowl; four AFC teams have done it. They also are the second team in three years to play nothing but away games and come away with the big prize; Pittsburgh did after the 2005 season.


Eli Manning celebrates after the Giants clinch a 17-14 win over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.


Check the rest of the article for play-by-play stats of the Super Bowl


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