[Times photo: Bill Serne] After 15 fruitless years, the ex-UF lineman makes his first Super Bowl with the Giants. Super Bowl coverage

Super Bowl
Turn off TV: Brown plays in big game
After 15 fruitless years, the ex-UF lineman makes his first Super Bowl with the Giants.

Here come the fans with money to burn
For many diehard Giants fans, money is no object. The result is Super Bowl tickets going for up to $5,000.

Marino + Montana = Dilfer
It was me.

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Lightning/NHL
Lightning stopped by Hasek, 3-1
A 41-31 shot edge not enough against Buffalo's "Dominator."

Gratton: My critics might have been right
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Chris Gratton is almost a year older. He said he is definitely wiser.

Baseball
The hall brothers
After dissimilar careers that included atime as teammates, Dave Winfield and Kirby Puckett head side by side into the Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame voting
x-Dave Winfield, 435; x-Kirby Puckett, 423; Gary Carter, 334; Jim Rice, 298; Bruce Sutter, 245; Goose Gossage, 228; Steve Garvey, 176; Tommy John, 146; Don Mattingly, 145; Jim Kaat, 139; Bert Blyleven, 121; Jack Morris, 101; Dale Murphy, 93; Dave Parker, 84; Dave Concepcion, 74; Luis Tiant, 63; Keith Hernandez, 41; Dave Stewart, 38; Ron Guidry, 27.

Baseball briefs
Williams still critical but "is improving"

Et cetera
College football roundup
Buckeyes add Gruden to list of possibilities

Ahanotu sues, seeks injunction against women
TAMPA -- Bucs defensive end Chidi Ahanotu has filed a lawsuit claiming a woman he had a brief relationship with bilked him out of $17,000.

Jones bulls into match
Light heavyweight champion gets 900-pound birthday gift to help him hype Feb. 24 fight.

NBA roundup
Streaking Heat keeps Pistons tumbling

Sports digest
Jones: Husband will be cleared

Outdoors
Captain's corner
Flats fishing has been up and down along with our temperatures. Higher temperatures this week should improve fishing. The fish will begin to come out of their winter holes to seek the warmth of the sun on the shallow flats. They will not travel too far from their safe haven. Look on the flats near power plants, mouths of rivers and creeks.

College basketball
Back may cost Dupay rest of season
Florida junior guard Teddy Dupay, who had surgery last week for a herniated disc in his lower back, may not return this season, men's basketball coach Billy Donovan said.

Bulls focused on their present, not past
TAMPA -- When the South Florida men's basketball team plays at Marquette tonight, don't expect it to seek retribution or try to redeem itself.

Next game, not polls, the priority for Semrau
Florida State women's basketball coach Sue Semrau knows the possible ramifications of Thursday's home game against ACC rival North Carolina.

Tonight: No. 7 UF vs. Georgia
WHEN/WHERE: 7; O'Connell Center, Gainesville.

Tonight: USF at Marquette
WHEN/WHERE: 8; Bradley Center, Milwaukee, Wis.

ThunderDawgs
ThunderDawgs seek new, local ownership
ST. PETERSBURG -- Nine games into the ABA 2000 season, the Tampa Bay ThunderDawgs are for sale.

Preps
Tampa lures all-star game
TAMPA -- The Florida Athletic Coaches Association, along with the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, is working to bring the North vs. South all-star game to Tampa.

County considers fining athletes
Under state rules, an athlete ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct is ineligible to compete for the next seven days.

PHU aims to capture PCAC title
The Palm Harbor University program is in its fifth year, has a new coach and has never finished higher than ninth at the Pinellas County Athletic Conference tournament.

Fourth-quarter freeze out lifts Bears
LECANTO -- It took awhile, but Central finally realized the best way to stop Lecanto forward Erin Bailey from scoring is to stop her from getting the ball.

Land O'Lakes blanks, then thrashes Pasco
DADE CITY -- No, 10-0 is not the final score of Super Bowl XXXV.