PITTSBURGH Steelers' wide receiver Hines Ward wants to retire with the Pittsburgh Steelers, offering to restructure his contract to do it.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers named Mike Sullivan as their new offensive coordinator on Friday.

The San Francisco 49ers have extended the contract of general manager Trent Baalke through 2016.

CINCINNATI Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Rey Maualuga (mow-uh-LOO'-guh) has been charged with assault stemming from a downtown Cincinnati bar incident.

The Tennessee Titans signed wide receiver Lavelle Hawkins to a multi-year contract on Friday.

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski reportedly underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his left ankle.

NEW YORK The Patriots got exactly what they wanted when the Giants threw to Mario Manningham on New York's last Super Bowl drive.

The Oakland Raiders released cornerback Stanford Routt on Thursday, just one season after he signed a three-year contract extension.

The Buffalo Bills have released safety Jon Corto, who missed the entire 2011 season with a shoulder injury.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Rudy Gay had 19 points and nine rebounds, and Quincy Pondexter added a career-high 17 points as the Memphis Grizzlies snapped a three-game losing streak with a 85-80 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night.

NEW YORK It appears Santonio Holmes is sticking around - just as the New York Jets said he would.

The Indianapolis Colts have promoted Tom Telesco to vice president of football operations.

The Carolina Panthers signed long snapper J.J. Jansen to a four-year contract on Wednesday.

Betting the underdog in the Super Bowl is never a sure thing as evidenced by Green Bay's win and cover as the favorite in the 2011 contest. However, with the Giants victory as 2.5-point underdogs last Sunday, the team getting points has now covered eight of the last 11 Super Bowls. That translates to a 73% winning percentage. For my money, it doesn't get better than that.

The strangest coaching decision during Super Bowl week wasn't when Bill Belichick ordered his defense to act like matadors and wave Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw by for a touchdown from 6 yards out with less than a minute left in the game. That's just the one people will remember. The really odd one came four days earlier when the uber-prepared Patriots coach, anticipating a halftime show that would dictate a 30-minute intermission rather than the usual 12, ordered his players to take a break from practicing football and practice sitting in the locker room for a half-hour instead.

New York Giants tight end Jake Ballard suffered a torn knee ligament in the Super Bowl, the team said Tuesday.

The New Orleans Saints officially hired Steve Spagnuolo as their new defensive coordinator on Tuesday.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. New York Giants tight end Jake Ballard tore his left anterior cruciate ligament during the second half of Super Bowl, the team announced on Tuesday.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. It wasn't the Canyon of Heroes and there wasn't as much tickertape, but that didn't seem to bother about 30,000 New York Giants fans who flocked to MetLife Stadium Tuesday to celebrate the team's rousing Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots.

Former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley has been named the offensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Baltimore Ravens running back Ricky Williams is planning to retire, multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Kansas City's fifth offensive coordinator in four years is hoping to lend some much-needed permanence to his new team.

The New York Giants celebrated another Super Bowl title Tuesday with a parade up the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan and a ceremony at City Hall Plaza.

OWINGS MILLS, Md. Ricky Williams is retiring from the NFL.

The Buffalo Bills re-signed kicker Rian Lindell to a multi-year contract extension on Tuesday.

The Chicago Bears on Tuesday reached an agreement with Jeremy Bates to become the team's quarterbacks coach.

Before Peyton Manning's future become dissected and over-analyzed to tiresome Favrethian degrees over the next month, it's time to give his little brother some very big credit.

INDIANAPOLIS Tom Coughlin is coming back. Eli Manning is only getting better. And the vast majority of the New York Giants' starting lineup is under contract.

CARSON CITY, Nev. Sports fans bet $93.9 million at Nevada casinos on Sunday's Super Bowl matchup between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, the most wagered in the past decade.

PITTSBURGH The Steelers will hire former Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley to be their offensive coordinator, according to an ESPN report.

INDIANAPOLIS Bill Belichick gave clear instructions to his defensive unit: Let the runner score.

CINCINNATI New England Patriots wide receiver Chad Ochocinco (oh-choh-SINK'-oh) has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in Cincinnati hours after playing in the Super Bowl.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. The Patriots say there's no finger-pointing after their Super Bowl loss, even if supermodel Gisele Bundchen won't abide by that code.

The Oakland Raiders have named Jason Tarver as their new defensive coordinator.

INDIANAPOLIS 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.

The Kansas City Chiefs hired Brian Daboll as their new offensive coordinator on Monday.

ST. PAUL, Minn. Yet another plan is in play for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium.

NEW YORK For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history.

NEWARK, N.J. The Super Bowl-champion New York Giants have returned home.

INDIANAPOLIS 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.

INDIANAPOLIS Turns out the "new" Bill Belichick looks and sounds an awful lot like the "old" one.

INDIANAPOLIS 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.

Is Eli Manning elite? That's likely no longer a concern for the New York Giants quarterback.

At one point in his life, Jason Pierre-Paul didn't want to be a football player. But after a broken leg ended his basketball career in high school, Pierre-Paul made a decision that sent him on a path to winning a Super Bowl.

BOSTON Hundreds of officers who lined the streets of Boston had little to do as fans quietly mourned their team's Super Bowl loss Sunday night, but 14 people were arrested across the state at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst when police in riot gear dispersed a rambunctious crowd.

INDIANAPOLIS Justin Tuck called together his pals from the New York Giants' defensive line, gathering them in the end zone before the game for an impromptu pep talk and urging them to create some havoc for Tom Brady.

INDIANAPOLIS Bill Belichick saw the New York Giants at the 6-yard line and a clock with only 64 seconds left on it.

Former New England Patriots wide receiver Tiquan Underwood, released a day before the Super Bowl, sent dozens of tweets during the game Sunday but didn't have much to say immediately after it was over.

NEW YORK The repeat performance was just as good as the first for New York Giants fans as they watched their team again beat the New England Patriots 21-17 Sunday in the Super Bowl.

INDIANAPOLIS Robert Kraft stared at the scoreboard, to see if time really had run out.