Manning led a game-winning scoring drive late in the fourth quarter to give the Giants an unlikely victory in the Super Bowl and spoil the Patriots? perfect season.
The unlikeliest of Giants championship runs hurdled the best of the National Football Conference and finally a team that was supposed to be one for the ages.
AP - The top presidential candidates and their big-name supporters campaigned from coast to coast Sunday, but one contender seemed atop everyone's mind: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
AP - The U.S. military said Monday that it had accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaida in Iraq — the deadliest known case of mistaken identity in recent months.
AP - With the Super Bowl on the line, look who had the perfection thing down Pat: Eli Manning and the road-conquering New York Giants. And what a beauty their 11th straight road victory was, a 17-14 Super Bowl win Sunday that shattered the New England Patriots' unblemished season.
The New York Giants won Super Bowl XLII with a last-minute touchdown, upsetting the New England Patriots' hopes of becoming the first team in the NFL to complete a season undefeated since 1972.
An explosion at a shopping center in the southern Israeli city of Dimona, killed three people and wounded five others, Israeli police and ambulance services said.
The remaining contenders for the presidency kicked off their final maneuvers for Super Tuesday, fine-tuning their closing messages in appearances on the Sunday talk shows and fanning out across the nation for an exhaustive list of last-minute campaign stops.