NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Offensive linemen Alex Boone and Mike Iupati stood in one corner of a near-empty San Francisco locker room and pondered just how close they had come to winning the Super Bowl.

The Winslow girls hockey team needed to win its final two regular-season games to climb into the East Division playoffs.

DENVER (AP) — For more than a decade, daredevils in snowsuits climbed atop their quarter-ton snowmobiles, sped them up icy ramps and flipped them head over heels into the frosty night air. Fans of action sports cheered while others, less enthralled with the event, wondered whether the sport was a good idea.

SALEM TOWNSHIP — There have been many chances for Mt. Abram’s Miranda Smith to give up basketball this season. She could have packed it in because of the pain that keeps her from playing more than a few minutes at a time. She could have quit when a few players didn’t come out for the team in midseason or when two more players left the team after the season began, leaving the Roadrunners with six varsity players.