AP – Tom Coughlin says he has every intention of returning to coach the Giants next season.

AP – Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sport’s highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping.

AP – Tom Brady let his final pass fly toward the scrum of players in the end zone, hoping for an incredible finish.

AP – Back in August, back before the season began, Eli Manning was asked whether he considered himself an “elite” quarterback a la Tom Brady.

AP – Turns out the “new” Bill Belichick looks and sounds an awful lot like the “old” one.

AP – Tom Brady was one of the last ones out of the shower, perhaps hoping some extra hot water would help take the sting out of a crushing Super Bowl loss. In a nearly deserted New England Patriots locker room, he sat wearily pulling on his boots, the pained look on his face never changing.

AP – No more hot seat for Tom Coughlin. No more second-guessing.

AP – British hip-hop artist M.I.A.’s obscene gesture in the Super Bowl halftime show is prompting apologies from NBC and the NFL. But it isn’t immediately registering as a moment that viewers latched on to.

AP – It was like 2008 all over again for disappointed Patriots fans who watched as their team lost Sunday to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl for the second time in five years.