
Nov 8 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
What in the name of power rankings has happened to the NFC East? The division that some thought would send three teams to the playoffs doesn’t look as if it deserves to send even one.

Nov 6 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
The toughest divisions to make a living in the NFL these days are not the NFC or AFC East. This popular notion has gone the way of the efficient offense in Washington and Buffalo. It’s disappeared.

Jan 16 - By Barry Wilner, AP Football Writer
Down and out for decades, the Arizona Cardinals have turned a bad joke into a Super Bowl-bound team.

Jan 15 - By Bob Baum, AP Sports Writer
One's career is on the rise, the other on the wane.

Jan 14 - By Tom E. Curran, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Every so often, a good player will appear on your television and one of the hired gums will say, “Now, there’s a surefire, first-ballot Hall of Famer ...”

Jan 11 - By Tom E. Curran, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
EAST RUTHERORD, N.J. - Oh, goody. It’s the “Waaah, Waaah, Waaah, Nobody Believed In Us Bowl…” brought to you by the National Football Conference.
Dec 28 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
NFC: (5) Atlanta at (4) Arizona, 4:30 p.m. on NBCAFC: (5) Indianapolis at (4) Denver or San Diego, 8 p.m. on NBC
Dec 9 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
NBC will air the Giants-Panthers game in Week 16 on Sunday Night Football, the NFL announced today.

Dec 8 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Move over Giants. Sit up and pay attention, all playoff-bound NFC teams. There’s a new team that you had better pray you don’t have to face in the playoffs.

Dec 2 - By Tom E. Curran, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Just which teams vying for the NFL postseason actually have a chance to reach Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Fla.? Tom Curran is here to sort out the top teams and figure out which are contenders and which are pretenders.

Nov 30 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
There’s no new sheriff in the NFL’s town. That office is still held by the New York Giants. But there is a posse’s worth of new deputies, and they’re not working out of the NFL East.

Nov 24 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
You think of a lot of things while watching a 51-29 game, and not many of them have to do with the tsunami of a blowout taking place on the field. Here are some of ones I had while enduring Saints 51, Packers 29.

Nov 23 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The Giants are the class of the NFL. If there were any doubts, they were laid to rest Sunday in Arizona, where a Cardinals team that thought it was ready to be called elite found out it has another thing coming.
Nov 16 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
On the PGA Tour, Saturday is known as moving day. It’s the three-quarter pole of the tournament, and it’s the day when the players who will contend on Sunday for the title separate themselves from the field.

Nov 10 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
If the Cardinals want us to believe that they’re finally a team to be taken seriously, they’re going to have to do better than they did Monday night against San Francisco. They had the attention of NFL Nation all to themselves, and all they proved is that come the playoffs, nobody’s going to be shaking in their cleats at the prospect of facing them.

Nov 9 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Even with Brett Favre aboard, when this season began, there probably weren’t too many people who would have said two of the most important games in the second half of the season would involve the Jets.
Nov 2 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The East is every bit as ferociously competitive as we thought it was going to be, both in the NFC and the AFC. It’s not that shabby in the NFC South, either, the only other NFL division that doesn’t have a losing team. And the only thing we learned in Week 9 is that it’s going to be one helluva stretch run in the NFL’s premier divisions.
Oct 19 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Week 7 is deep enough into the NFL season to wonder when the Colts and the Cowboys are going to start acting like supposed Super Bowl contenders.

Apr 28 - By NBC Nightly News
By the end of 2007, more than 50 percent of American households owned a digital television, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

Apr 23 - By NBC Nightly News
When Nokia introduced its 6612 Classic phone to European and Asian markets last week, there was fanfare over the device that doesn’t have the glitz of an iPhone or look much different than most mobiles.

Jan 20 - By The Associated Press
Eli Manning kept making plays. So did the Giants' defense. Finally, Lawrence Tynes got in the act, kicking New York into the Super Bowl. For anyone who has doubted Peyton's little brother or thought the Giants had no business in the NFC championship game at frostbitten Lambeau Field, chew on this: A Manning is going back to the Super Bowl riding a wave of road wizardry.

Jan 21 - By Associated Press
The Chicago Bears know how to make a Super Bowl memorable. They're making this one historic long before it's played. Dissed all season long, Rex Grossman and Co. are heading to the big game for the first time since 1985 after rolling over the New Orleans Saints 39-14 Sunday, and Da Coach leading them there makes it all the more special.

Dec 5 - By Barry Wilner, AP Football Writer
Going .500 gets fans upset, coaches in trouble and players released — except in this year's NFC, where a break-even mark is looking playoff-worthy. And a winning record makes you a Super Bowl contender.