2012 NFL Playoff Schedule (for Detroit Lions)
The 2012 NFL playoff schedule for the primary 2 weekends is out. The NFL created the announcement throughout the Sunday night game between the Giants and Dallas Cowboys (the Giants won, by the way).
For the Detroit Lions, what you would like to grasp is easy. as a result of they’re the No. six seed within the NFC, the Lions are set to require on the New Orleans Saints, the No. 3 seed, at the Superdome. Their game are going to be on NBC at eight p.m. (Eastern Time) on Saturday night. If the Lions win, they’re going to play at the No. 1-seeded inexperienced Bay Packers at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Sunday, Jan. 15.
WILD-CARD ROUND
Saturday, Jan. 7
- 4:30 p.m. – Bengals at Texans (NBC)
- 8 p.m. – Lions at Saints (NBC)
Sunday, Jan. 8
- 1 p.m. – Falcons at Giants (FOX)
- 4:30 p.m. – Steelers at Broncos (CBS)
DIVISIONAL ROUND
Saturday, Jan. 14
- 4:30 p.m. – Saints/Giants/Falcons at 49ers (FOX)
- 8 p.m. – Broncos/Steelers/Bengals at Patriots (CBS)
Sunday, Jan. 15
- 1 p.m. – Texans/Broncos/Steelers at Ravens (CBS)
- 4:30 p.m. – Giants/Falcons/Lions at Packers (FOX)
All Times Eastern
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Robert Griffin III wins first Heisman Trophy for Baylor
Baylor QB Robert Griffin III won the Heisman Trophy tonight, a little bit of a surprise for any person who might not have been keeping up with the shift in the voting major up the announcement. Andrew Luck was the preseason preferred right after foregoing the NFL previous offseason, some thing we Panther supporters took a tiny private.
Draftek conversely doesn’t even rank Griffin in the top rated fifty. ESPN ranks Griffin #12. Walter Football thinks the Redskins will go for Griffin at #five all round, possibly a pick too early for the Panthers. FFToolbox has Griffin at #23. So it would look when in comparison to other potential clients Griffin comes in much decrease than when considered wherever he may really be drafted.
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Ryan Braun Has Positive Drug Test
National League MVP Ryan Braun has tested optimistic for a banned material and is appealing to stay away from a 50-game suspension, in accordance to people acquainted with the case.
ESPN cited two sources Saturday in first reporting the outcome, saying the Milwaukee Brewers slugger tested optimistic for elevated levels of testosterone, adding that a later on check by the World Anti-Doping Company lab in Montreal decided the testosterone was synthetic.
Main League Baseball does not announce optimistic assessments and penalties in drug cases involving first positives until finally all arbitration is concluded. The case is even now being appealed to an arbitrator beneath MLB’s drug software.
If suspended, Braun wouldn’t be eligible to engage in for the NL Central champions till Could 31 at Dodger Stadium, barring any postponements. He would miss the 1st 57 times of the main league time, losing about $one.87 million of his $six million wage.
The 28-calendar year-outdated Braun, the 2007 NL Rookie of the Yr, strike .312 with 33 homers and 111 RBIs previous period and led Milwaukee to the NL championship series, in which the Brewers dropped to the eventual World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals.
Braun currently was signed by way of 2015 when the Brewers gave him a new deal working through 2020 that added $105 million and guaranteed him a total of $145.5 million around a decade.
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