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last updated: Feb 06 2012 4:09 PM
- Sports court strips Contador of 2010 Tour title
(AP)
 AP - Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sports' highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping.
- Giants top Pats for 2nd Super Bowl in 4 years
(AP)
 AP - Tom Brady let his final pass fly toward the scrum of players in the end zone, hoping for an incredible finish.
- Coughlin plans to be back with Giants in 2012
(AP)
 AP - Tom Coughlin is looking forward to the parade and a couple weeks off to reflect on the Giants' second championship in five seasons. Then he will begin preparations for defending the title.
- Super Bowl draws record 111.3M viewers on NBC
(AP)
 AP - For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history.
- Amid Super Bowl kudos, Indy cleans up, looks ahead
(AP)
 AP - Bleary-eyed and jubilant, Super Bowl organizers swung into cleanup mode Monday and hoped the rave reviews from fans and journalists over how it pulled off its first Super Bowl will draw the NFL's showcase event back to town.
- Kentucky starts 3rd straight week at No. 1
(AP)
 AP - Kentucky is on top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll for a third straight week.
- New York celebrates Super Bowl, New England suffers
(Reuters)
Reuters - After a late night of Super Bowl celebrations, New Yorkers kept the party going on Monday following a Giants victory that fans said was made sweeter because it was over the exalted New England Patriots.
- Marlins' Sanchez awarded $8 million salary
(Reuters)
Reuters - Miami Marlins pitcher Anibal Sanchez will earn a record-breaking $8 million for 2012 after an arbitration panel ruled in his favor on Monday, Major League Baseball's website said.
- Timberwolves' Love suspended two games for flagrant foul
(Reuters)
Reuters - Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love has been suspended for two games for driving his foot into the upper body and face of Houston Rockets forward Luis Scola as Scola was lying on the floor, the National Basketball Association said on Monday.
- Pats fans disappointed by loss reminiscent of 2008
(AP)
 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.
- Contador's Tour dreams shattered by two-year ban
(Reuters)
Reuters - Alberto Contador's Tour de France dreams were shattered Monday when the Spaniard was stripped of one of his three titles and banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for failing a dope test during the 2010 race.
- Price, Canadiens shut out Jets 3-0
(AP)
 AP - Carey Price made 23 saves for his third shutout of the season, Tomas Plekanec had a goal and an assist and the Montreal Canadiens ended a three-game losing streak with a 3-0 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.
- LPGA season begins with more events, optimism
(AP)
AP - A dry board in the office of LPGA Tour Commissioner Mike Whan is filled with black-and-blue, an appropriate color scheme for a tour that had been taking its lumps over the last couple of years.
- MMA's 'Iron Mike' gets prison in Vegas sex case
(AP)
 AP - A mixed martial arts fighter once featured on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter is going to prison for one to four years for the attempted sexual assault of a woman at his home in April 2010.
- Chavez Jr. retain belt against Rubio
(AP)
AP - Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. retained the WBC middleweight title Saturday night, earning a unanimous decision over fellow Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio.
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