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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The temperature drops, friendly fans roar and the Patriots pile up victories.New England has the best home record in the NFL in Bill Belichicks 15 seasons as coach, playoffs included.Watch out, though. Here come the road-tested Baltimore Ravens for a divisional game Saturday.Theres nothing that the crowd can do to help you make the plays that youre supposed to make, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said.The Ravens arent likely to get rattled even against the AFCs top-seeded team. Not with cool Joe Flacco at quarterback and a 2-1 playoff record at Gillette Stadium in the past five seasons.Baltimore has 10 post-season road wins, all since 2008 and tied with Green Bay for most in NFL history.Why so many?Well, shoot, we cant get ourselves any home (games), I guess, Flacco said. Weve obviously had a lot of chances at (road games), a lot of experience with it, and reacted well in it.The Ravens won three road playoff games and the Super Bowl in the 2012 season. Last Saturday they won a wild-card game 30-17 in Pittsburgh while the Patriots had a bye.We could be going to play on Mars and Id still be very confident, Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith said.Since Belichick became coach in 2000, the Patriots are 1-2 in the playoffs against the Ravens and 11-1 against all other teams.New England lost AFC championship games to Baltimore in the 2009 and 2012 seasons and beat them in the 2011 season before losing the Super Bowl to the New York Giants.Both the Patriots (12-4) and sixth-seeded Ravens (11-6) insist thats irrelevant now with players and assistant coaches who werent in those earlier games.Thats all overblown, Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said. Its how well you play the game in that three-hour block against the opponent.Despite the personnel changes, the teams know each other very well.It seems like the Baltimore Ravens are a division opponent, we play them so much, Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork said.The last time they met, the Patriots won 41-7 late last season. But that was in Baltimore.On Saturday, the Ravens will be in a stadium where their only playoff loss was by three points.Weve had a good football team around here, Flacco said, and guys that are strong and not intimidated.Some things to watch as the Patriots seek their fourth straight AFC championship berth:FLACCOS TIME: Playoff time is Flaccos time to shine. Hes thrown 13 touchdown passes and no interceptions during the Ravens current five-game post-season winning streak. In the wild-card win over Pittsburgh, he threw for 259 yards and two touchdowns.Big-time players show up when you need them most, Smith said.He and Flaccos main target, Steve Smith, will have stiff challenges in cornerbacks Darrelle Revis and Brandon Browner, both in their first season with New England.PRESSURING BRADY: The Ravens were tied for second in the NFL with 49 sacks, led by 17 from Elvis Dumervil and 12 from Terrell Suggs. The Patriots offensive line has improved after early-season problems, but Brady may have to throw quickly to avoid being sacked.I dont think you want to stand back there and see how long you can hold the ball against these guys, he said.GRONKS BACK: Rob Gronkowski has been healthy and dominant all season after a knee injury kept him out of the last five games last season, including a playoff loss to Denver.Its always special just being in the playoffs, he said. I cant take it for granted.Gronkowski had 82 catches, led all tight ends with 1,124 yards receiving and tied Antonio Gates for most touchdowns at that position with 12.Hes big. Hes fast. Hes tough. Hes nasty, Harbaugh said. He gets the ball in his hands and he wants to punish people.FORSETTS EMERGENCE: Journeyman running back Justin Forsett turned into a cornerstone of the Ravens offence after Ray Rice was released and suspended. Forsett was fifth in the NFL with a career-high 1,266 yards rushing and led the leagues running backs with 5.4 yards per carry.He reads blocking schemes very well, sets up blocks well, has got good vision and he makes a lot of yards on his own, Belichick said.COLD FACTS: With temperatures expected in the teens, Wilfork still plans to wear short sleeves. 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A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit upheld Bonds conviction in September.LOS ANGELES -- UFC President Dana White is "thrilled" by the Association of Ringside Physicians call for the elimination of testosterone replacement therapy in mixed martial arts. White still believes the UFC cant be solely in charge of eliminating steroid users from its bouts, saying government athletic commissions should close the TRT loophole permanently. "The doctors came out and said they want to ban it? Well, thats the answer," White told The Associated Press on Monday. "Its legal in the sport. The commissions let you do it. You get an exemption, and you have to be monitored and all the stuff thats going on, but if theyre going to do away with it? There you go. Its a problem solved." The ARP is an association of ringside doctors involved in boxing and MMA -- the so-called combat sports. The organizations consensus statement calls for the elimination of therapeutic use exemptions for testosterone, a thorny issue in MMA circles for years. "Steroid use of any type, including unmerited testosterone, significantly increases the safety and health risk to combat sports athletes and their opponents," the ARPs statement said. "TRT in a combat sports athlete may also create an unfair advantage contradictory to the integrity of sport." Several UFC fighters in recent years have been given exemptions by athletic commissions to use synthetic testosterone before their bouts, including veteran stars Chael Sonnen, Dan Henderson, Vitor Belfort and Frank Mir. The exemptions were granted ostensibly for medical reasons, including a supposed deficiency in naturally occurring testosterone caused by hypogonadism -- a diminished function of the gonads. Well before the ARP added its influential voice to the chorus against TRT, many medical professionals have questioned the legitimacy of such exemptions, particularly for professional cage fighters. "The incidence of hypogonadism requiring the use of testosterone replacement therapy in professional athletes is extraordinarily rare," the ARPs statement said. "Accordingly, the use of an anabolic steroid such as testosterone in a professional boxer or mixed martial artist is rarely justified." White knows the UFCs next showdown with TRT use is imminent, and he hopes the Nevada State Athletic Commission wont grant an exemption to Belfort, who is scheduled to fight Chris Weidman for the middleweight tittle in Las Vegas later this year.dddddddddddd. The 36-year-old Belfort, who failed a steroid test in Nevada several years ago, has improbably revitalized his career with three spectacular stoppage victories in his native Brazil. Belfort knocked out the 43-year-old Henderson with a head kick in the first round last November in Goiania, Brazil, earning a title shot. Belfort has been open about his TRT use for the past year, while Henderson has acknowledged it for several years. "He drives me crazy, and me and Vitor were not on good terms a few months ago," White said. "Just because this whole TRT thing, I think, is unfair, and I said were going to test the living (daylights) out of him (during training). And we have, and he has complied, and he has been within the limits hes supposed to have." Although the UFC tests its fighters when they sign contracts and adds additional in-house testing before certain fights, White said hes wary of completely stepping in front of government regulators on the issue. When the UFC stages fight cards in areas with no appropriate athletic commission, the promotion acts as its own regulator. "We couldnt be more proactive," White said. "Drugs hurt us. Hurts our sport. Let alone our perception in the media and everything -- it destroys great athletes. Drugs destroy great athletes, because once you start on them, you can never get off them. Youre on them for the rest of your career." Other prominent fighters believe the UFC should be doing more. Georges St. Pierre, the UFCs longtime welterweight champion before stepping away from the sport late last year, re-ignited the public discussion of drug testing in MMA earlier this month with criticism of the UFCs current testing policies, calling them ineffective and beatable. St. Pierre believes performance-enhancing drugs are still a major problem in MMA. Tim Kennedy, a rising UFC middleweight and former Army Green Beret, hailed Mondays statement from the ARP in a post on his Twitter account: "So the Association for Ringside Physicians supports elimination of TRT in MMA, the fighters want it gone. Only the cheaters want to keep it." UFC middleweight Bubba McDaniel echoed Kennedys sentiments in a post on his Facebook fan page: "If you have abused Steroids so long that you need TRT to remain normal. Your time is up because youve CHEATED long enough!!" ' ' '