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Sports
7:00 am
Sun February 5, 2012
On Defense, Neither Super Bowl Team Wins
In football, defense wins championships, or so the saying goes. That hasn't been true recently. In fact, both teams in Sunday's Super Bowl, the Giants and the Patriots, featured less-than-stout defenses through the season. NPR's Mike Pesca has some possible reasons why.