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Brandon Browner is telling his New England teammates not to hold back against Seattles Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas.In an interview with ESPN, Browner talked about the toughness both Sherman and Thomas showed in the NFC championship game playing with injuries. Sherman suffered a sprained elbow, while Thomas suffered a separated shoulder.But Browner said he would also target those injuries.Im going to tell my teammates go hit that elbow, or go hit that shoulder, Browner said in the interview.Asked if he would tell his teammates that, Browner said, Most definitely.Try and break it if you can. Youre going to be my best friend after the game, but at the end of the day I know you want the Super Bowl as bad as I do, Browner said.Asked about Browners comments, Seattle players didnt seem to take offence.I would expect nothing less. This is the Super Bowl. What do you expect? Seattle wide receiver Doug Baldwin said. I understand the fans want it to be classy, said publicly, and everything to be said politically correct, but that is the truth of the matter. We want this game just as much as they do and they want this game just as much as we do. I expect nothing less from Brandon Browner. We go after them in an aggressive fashion just as much as they are going to go after us.BELICHICK DEFLECTS PRAISE: Bill Belichick wouldnt answer any more questions about deflated footballs, but he was in a joking mood by the end of his 15-minute news conference.After former NFL tight end Johnny Mitchell, who now works for ESPN Brazil, softened the coach with endearing praise before asking him how hed like to be remembered, Belichick replied: If we have an opening on our staff, if youd like it, well put you out in front there.The dour Belichick even cracked a big smile and everyone laughed out loud.I appreciate the compliments, but again, its really not about that right now for me, he said, regarding his legacy. What its about for me is this week and our matchup with the Seattle Seahawks.What did or didnt happen in any of other five, six Super Bowls I coached, five Super Bowls as a head coach, three that I was involved in as an assistant, this now being the ninth one, this is the one that is really important.LIGHTING THE WAY: In a season during which the NFL has seen more controversy than it could ever anticipate, it would not surprise anyone if the Super Bowl were decided by a replay challenge being upheld or overturned.So the NFL is making sure it has the best possible technology for those replays.This season, University of Phoenix Stadium became the first NFL venue illuminated with high output LED Lighting. Not only does such lighting dramatically reduce energy usage by more than 75 per cent, but the Ephesus LED system provides much more light evenly distributed throughout the playing surface than ever before.For the Super Bowl, Ephesus Lighting engineers expect to provide nearly 20 per cent more light than ever for an NFL game.The way we are lighting the field for Super Bowl 49 will allow NBC cameras to get more clarity and a greater depth of focus, said Joe Casper, founder of Ephesus Lighting.As a result they will be able to zoom in tighter on replays and super slow motion without the flicker-effect or blurriness that is often associated with zooming in. This should help replay officials have the best possible pictures to make the right call.When we went into the sports LED lighting business we wanted to focus on three attributes, Casper added. We wanted to improve player performance, give the fans at home and at the game a better experience, and reduce energy usage. 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The Professional Referee Organization, which manages game officials for the U.S. Soccer Federation and MLS, notified the Professional Soccer Referee Association of the lockout and said replacement officials will be used.Canadian university students who want to play sports such as football and hockey will be required this fall to waive their right to privacy if their names are uncovered by law enforcement authorities during drug busts. Under the current legal landscape, when law enforcement staff seize steroids and other banned substances that are being smuggled into Canada at border points or through the mail, the Canada Border Services Agency is typically not allowed to disclose information to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport about who has ordered the drugs because of privacy legislation. The privacy laws handicap the CCES in its investigations, staff say. TSN has learned that the CISs board has unanimously endorsed a request from CCES chief executive Paul Melia that some university athletes be required to sign a waiver that would allow law enforcement officials to disclose their identities if they are discovered to be involved with importing banned substances. The CISs 11-member board approved the motion unanimously, CIS executive director Pierre Lafontaine told TSN. CCES chief executive Paul Melia said the consent waivers are just one of the ways the CCES is trying to improve its policing of drug use in Canadian sport. The CCES also has two full-time staffers recently dedicated to intelligence gathering, has purchased computer software to cross-reference the names of athletes on other information databases, and has requested briefings with anti-doping authorities in the U.K. and Australia, asking how they manage their own investigations. Melia said the CCES has also started to ask Canadian universities for information such as speed and strength test data. Player sprint times and bench press results might tip authorities off to drug use, if the results improve appreciably from one year to the next. Melia said having athletes sign a consent agreement would help his staff gather information about steroid trafficking far more quickly. If there is a seizure at the border by CBSA and they lay charges and there is a conviction then the names of those convicted will become public, he said. In many instances, though, seizures are made and charges not necessarily laid. More important, the seizures often also include client lists, distribution lists and destination points for distribution, all of which would be of enormous interest to the CCES. Similarly, the police might conduct a drug bust and only pursue charges against certain individuals and their activities related to the so-called hard drugs like heroin and ecstasy even though steroids and human growth hormone might have been involved. Again, computer lists of names, clients, customers might be part of what is seized but not available to us under the current coonditions.dddddddddddd Athletes who compete in Olympic and Paralympic sports already are being given the consent agreements to sign. The agreement, part of the 2015 Canadian Anti-Doping Program, reads: I consent to having police and law enforcement agencies, border services agencies, Sport Organizations of which I am a member and sporting clubs and athletic associations to which I belong, in Canada and elsewhere, disclose my personal information to the CCES to assist the CCES in the enforcement of the CADP. For the purpose of this consent, the term personal information means information relating to an identifiable individual that is recorded in any form. Melia said hes not looking immediately to secure the consent of every Canadian university athlete. We have to balance the cost and practicality of securing athlete consent, Melia told TSN. We will certainly be focusing on the high risk sports and football is at the top of the list...we will certainly be looking at hockey carefully. Melia said that while the signed consents would allow CCES to have conversations with law enforcement agencies, including border service, theres no legal framework that would compel those agencies to assist the CCES. The CCES and CIS have been discussing the consent form for athletes weeks after police in Alberta seized nearly $10 million worth of steroids in a string of raids at five locations in Edmonton. At that time, police confirmed the CCES was investigating whether those steroid dealers sold banned performance-enhancing drugs to professional or amateur athletes across the country. Four people were arrested in what authorities say is the biggest illegal steroid seizure ever by Canadian police, who took into custody 350,000 tablets, 10,500 vials and 124 kilograms worth of raw steroid powder. Police have not presented evidence that any college or university athletes bought illegal steroids from the Edmonton criminal ring and in Canada, it is not illegal to possess steroids, but it is illegal to import them or possess them for the purpose of trafficking. The Edmonton bust came months after three top Canadian college football prospects tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs at a CFL-sanctioned training camp. Critics have called college football in Canada a Wild West where players game the system without fear of being caught. Thats because there are 11,000 athletes competing in Canadian university sports, but only enough money to administer 200 drug tests per year. In 2010, the University of Waterloo suspended its football program after a wave of players were discovered using steroids. There was a brief period when drug testing across Canada increased, but it has since reversed course. ' ' '