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Celizic: Trash Talk? Not at this Super Bowl

Celizic: Hype Week isn’t what it used to be. If you doubt it, keep track of the big stories coming out of Miami this week. New Orleans really, really loves its Saints. Peyton Manning is a really, really good quarterback. It’s not that there’s …

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |

AFC outguns NFC in nearly sold-out Pro Bowl

Thanks to the Pro Bowl, the scoreboard in Miami is all warmed up for the Super Bowl. Long gains were the rule and hard hitting was the exception Sunday night as the AFC all-stars beat the NFC 41-34.
 

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |
 

Colts defensive end Freeney doubtful for Super Bowl

MIAMI (Reuters) – Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney is doubtful for next week’s Super Bowl, the team said on Sunday.

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |

Colts: Freeney recovering from low ankle sprain

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -The Indianapolis Colts are maintaining that Pro Bowl defensive end Dwight Freeney has a low ankle sprain, not a torn ligament, and that he is still questionable for the Super Bowl.

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |
 

Manning climbing up list of great quarterbacks

NEW YORK (Reuters) – After another MVP season, an All-Pro honor and a bravura performance to lift the Indianapolis Colts to the Super Bowl, Peyton Manning is still climbing up the list of great NFL quarterbacks.

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |

Saints in Super Bowl is no mirage (AP)

AP – On the first day of February, the New Orleans Saints will be preparing for a football game. Think about that for a while: The team once disparagingly called the Aints whose fans wore bags on their heads are heading to South Florida to play in t…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |
 

Champions League final tops Super Bowl in TV

MIAMI (Reuters) – UEFA’s Champions League final has for the first time replaced the NFL’s Super Bowl as the most-watched annual sports event, according to a survey.

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |

Protecting against a ‘lone wolf’ at the Super Bowl

The vast security operation protecting the Super Bowl and surrounding events ranges from Air Force F-16s patrolling the skies above Miami on game day to a buffer zone extending at least 100 yards out from the stadium.

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |

Brilliant Kurt Warner retires

TEMPE, Arizona (Reuters) – Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner retired on Friday after a 12-year NFL career that yielded a Super Bowl championship and established him as one of the game’s elite players.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |

Florio: Non-Super Bowl storylines to follow

Florio: The Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints will get most of the attention next week in Miami. But what other NFL stories will get buzz? Here’s a look at 10 of them.
 

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Sports |