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Payton's Place Ripe for More Parades

Feb 9, 2010 - 9:15 PM

It isn't a bandwagon we're jumping on. It's a Mardi Gras float, a wave of confidence that dares to suggest that the New Orleans Saints, a team that wasn't supposed to win the Super Bowl unless the...

Saints Win? Maybe Brees Is 'Breesus'

Feb 8, 2010 - 1:13 AM

MIAMI -- It was a convergence of voodoo and love and confetti, all the things a visitor feels walking through New Orleans yet rarely felt by the good people who live there. Finally, on a Sunday night...

I'm Rooting for Saints and Their City, and So Should You

Feb 6, 2010 - 8:25 PM

MIAMI -- There's a sense they've already won, that the notion of the New Orleans Saints reaching the Super Bowl is preposterously fulfilling enough to render the result anti-climactic. Oh, how...

Would NFL Owners Kill Golden Goose?

Feb 5, 2010 - 10:24 PM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- They wouldn't be this stupid, would they? Here in the second decade of the 21st century, with the NFL long established as the most powerful and prosperous of American sports...

Let's Hope OT Doesn't Ruin Super Game

Feb 4, 2010 - 9:35 PM

MIAMI -- It's hard to envision a nightmare Super Bowl scenario when the sun is shining, the parties are starting, the drunken New Orleans zanies are arriving and Rihanna -- no, Umbrella was not...

Time for Mr. Kardashian to Prove Worth

Feb 3, 2010 - 10:00 PM

MIAMI -- So there was Mr. Kim Kardashian, in a white T-shirt and sneakers, captured by a TMZ camera leaving a South Beach nightclub around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday. Um, wouldn't that be the last image...

The Manning Legacy: Greatest QB of All?

Feb 2, 2010 - 6:05 PM

MIAMI -- He is, without much debate, the shining light of sports in this country. At a time when Americana desperately needs someone to believe in, an athlete we can embrace without wondering about a...

Irony of Freeney Injury: Colts' Perfect Plan Flopped

Feb 1, 2010 - 10:15 PM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It is karma? Irony? Or simply a chilling reminder never to short-shrift any chance for a perfect season -- i.e. sporting immortality -- when it smacks you in the grill? Last...

Super Bowl No Place for Tebow's Views

Jan 27, 2010 - 1:30 AM

Super Bowl Sunday is a chance for America to unite around football, parties and, better still, those ambitious and occasionally hilarious 30-second ads. This year, we'll see such creative...

Saints and Their City Finally Get a Break

Jan 25, 2010 - 2:25 AM

NEW ORLEANS -- I saw men and women laughing through their tears Sunday night, staring at a confetti blizzard on a field where so many games have been blown and, in life's biggest picture, so many...

Wildest Super Bowl Ever Lathered in Steeler Cool

Feb 2, 2009 - 1:47 AM

TAMPA, Fla. -- We don't watch Super Bowls for the chip dip, as Bruce Springsteen wisecracked during his 12-minute party. We crave the emotional bull rush, a crescendo finish, the natural high that...

Steelers Will Win, Advance Legacy

Jan 31, 2009 - 7:30 PM

TAMPA, Fla. -- You know it's a different Super Bowl when hotel rooms are available, ticket scalpers are on suicide watch and -- bear with me here -- someone thinks it's a good idea to have ME??? walk...