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| FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Donta Hightower has extra time to prepare for his top-seeded teams playoff game.Meanwhile, hell be rooting for another No. 1 seed.The New England Patriots linebacker plans to watch his college team, Alabama, face Ohio State in a College Football Playoff semifinal Thursday night.Im definitely going to catch that one, Hightower said Tuesday while wearing an Alabama pullover as he stood at his Patriots locker.He might even work out a small wager with safety Nate Ebner, the only Ohio State player with New England.Me and Nate have talked, he said. We havent set it yet. Im pretty sure that hell come up with something good.Running back LeGarrette Blount, safety Patrick Chung and rookie centre Bryan Stork also have a special interest in the college games. Blount and Chung attended Oregon, seeded second, while Stork snapped the ball last season to Jameis Winston, who leads third-seeded Florida State against the Ducks in the other semifinal Thursday.Oregons going to win, Blount declared before pulling his schools jacket from his locker.With a first-round bye in the AFC playoffs, the Patriots (12-4) have a lighter work week than usual. They cant concentrate on preparing for their opponent until they find out who it is.Hightower and Blount plan to watch both wild-card games in the conference: Baltimore at Pittsburgh on Saturday night and Cincinnati at Indianapolis on Sunday.A Baltimore win sends the Ravens to Gillette Stadium on Jan. 10. If the Ravens lose, the Patriots will host the winner of the Bengals-Colts contest.This week, the Patriots welcome having more time off than usual.Im one of the first ones to agree about that, Hightower said. Its good that weve got a slower pace and make sure that we understand things and let some guys get healed up. But were definitely taking advantage of it all the way around.Hightower was one of six starters inactive for last Sundays game against Buffalo that had no bearing on New Englands playoff position. The Bills won 17-9.Hightower and Blount, who played, were on the injury report for that game with shoulder problems.Im injured, but its football, Hightower said. Im going to play through it.He became the Patriots defensive signal-caller when Jerod Mayo suffered a season-ending right knee injury in the sixth game. Mayo also was limited to six games last season by a torn pectoral muscle.Ive got a lot of guys around me that help make me feel a lot more comfortable. So its been a lot easier this year, Hightower said. I was always one that talked, trying to be a nerd about things, and (linebacker coach) Pat Grahams really done a better job than what we did last year as far as just talking about situational things.Blount spent the first 11 games this season with Pittsburgh but was cut on Nov. 18, less than 24 hours after jogging off LP Field with the clock still running in a 27-24 win over Tennessee.The Steelers might have needed him now that running back LeVeon Bell is dealing with a hyperextended right knee that could keep him out of Saturdays game.Asked if he saw the play on which Bell was injured last Sunday against Cincinnati, Blount paused, then said, Man, Im just focused on the Patriots. Obviously, hes a friend of mine and I was concerned, but Im just focused on the Patriots.So much so that he claims he has no special interest in the Steelers wild-card game.Im going to watch them the same as I watch everybody else, he said. 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LOUIS -- David Ross never expected to be on a World Series podium.MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Juan Pablo Montoya is turning Indianapolis into his own triple play. Roger Penskes team announced Wednesday that the Colombian driver will add two NASCAR races -- Indianapolis and Michigan -- to his full-time IndyCar schedule. Montoya already is scheduled to compete in the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis on May 10. One week later, he will attempt to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Now hell return to Indy for the Brickyard 400 in July, too, and if he qualifies for each one, Montoya would be the first driver to start three feature races at Indy in the same season. "Three chances gives me a better chance of winning one of them now," said Montoya, who will drive the No. 12 Ford Fusion for Penskes team at Indy and Michigan. No driver has won even two of the biggest feature races at the track -- the 500, the Brickyard, the U.S. Grand Prix or the MotoGP race. Montoya wants to be the first to have it on his already unique resume. The 38-year-old was dominant in his 2000 Indy win, becoming the first rookie winner in 34 years. He completed another first Wednesday -- becoming the first driver to experience every racing configuration at the historic Brickyard. In addition to competing on the 2.5-mile oval in IndyCars and Cup cars, he also has competed on the original road course in Formula One, did a two-seater ride on the MotoGP course and was one of about two dozen drivers testing Indys new road course Wednesday. This years return to open-wheel cars could help him prepare for the June 15 and July 27 Cup races. He has competed in that series for the previous eight years. "I think running Michigan and here are two tracks where running open-wheel helps you, especially Michigan, which is a lot like an open-wheel car because you dont slow down much and use momentum and lot of high speed," Montoya said. "Coming here to the Brickyard, its one of those places where I feel like I got robbed a few times. To be able to come here and be able to close that deal will be really, really nice."" Montoya has two wiins, 24 top-five finishes and nine pole awards in his Cup career.dddddddddddd. He has one top-10 finish in three IndyCar races this year. He will join Penskes full-time Cup drivers, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano, both of whom have already visited Victory Lane in 2014. Ryan Blaney will drive the same No. 12 car for NASCAR races in Kansas and Talladega. SKF will sponsor all the races except Indianapolis. Until moving back this season, Montoya hadnt driven IndyCars since 2000 when he was competing with Chip Ganassis team, Penkses biggest rival. Montoya won seven races in CART and the 500 in his two open-wheel seasons with Ganassi. Their run together also included the 1999 CART championship. He then moved to Formula One, where he spent six seasons before abruptly quitting to return to the United States to compete in NASCAR. He reunited with Ganassi, but the results never came. His last win in NASCAR was in 2010, a year after he made the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship and finished a career-best eighth in the standings. Montoya was in serious contention to win at least two Brickyard 400s, but both chances slipped away in the waning laps. Montoya led 116 laps in 2009 until a speeding penalty on his final pit stop cost him the win. He was also leading in 2010 with 20 laps to go before a late caution sent him to pit road, where he got four tires while everyone else took two. Stuck deep in traffic with little time to make up the ground, Montoya crashed and finished 32nd. Penskes team is willing to give him another chance. "It (the Brickyard) is one of the biggest races of the year and to go there with somebody that could have won the race a few of times already is something that were looking forward to," Team Penske President Tim Cindric said. "To just run the Brickyard would be a pretty big ask of our team and of Juan, without having spent much time in our cars or having been out in a Cup car for a while, so we felt like we needed to give him another shot at it prior to the Brickyard so he could get ready for us." ' ' ' |
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