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Place Your Bets: 2011 Super Bowl Odds

February 9th 2010 01:32

: Place Your Bets: 2011 Super Bowl Odds

The Colts and the Saints are the early favorites to repeat in next year's Super Bowl. The Colts will have a easier time as the Saints have 29 free agents that will need new contracts.

Complete 2011 Super Bowl Odds:

Tampa Bay Buccanneers 100/1

Oakland Raiders 100/1

St Louis Rams 100/1

Detroit Lions 100/1

Cleveland Browns 100/1

Buffalo Bills 100/1

Kansas City Chiefs 100/1

Jacksonville Jaguars 50/1

Denver Broncos 50/1

Seattle Seahawks 50/1

Washington Redskins 50/1

Chicago Bears 40/1

Houston Texans 40/1

Carolina Panthers 40/1

Miami Dolphins 40/1

San Francisco 49ers 40/1

Cincinnati Bengals 30/1

New York Giants 30/1

Atlanta Falcons 30/1

Arizona Cardinals 30/1

Tennessee Titans 30/1

Baltimore Ravens 15/1

New York Jets 15/1

Dallas Cowboys 12/1

Green Bay Packers 12/1

Minnesota Vikings 12/1

Philadelphia Eagles 12/1

New England Patriots 10/1

Pittsburgh Steelers 10/1

San Diego Chargers 8/1

New Orleans Saints 8/1

Indianapolis Colts 6/1

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Wilson Selling Limited Edition Saints Super Bowl Football

February 9th 2010 00:37

: Wilson Selling Limited Edition Saints Super Bowl Football

Saints fans are releasing decades of frustration with celebrations after their first ever champoishop. Many will be flocking to stores to buy anything with Saints and Super Bowl Champions printed together. Banners to go along with the hats, t-shirts, and the upcoming Sports Illustrated championship pack are already everywhere online.

One of the nicer offerings that I have found is a limited edition football from Wilson. They are only producing 10,000 so they will be going fast. Check out the link to see how cool it looks and to see if they are still available.

Saints limited edition championship football.

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Calling All Peyton Manning Haters

February 8th 2010 23:42

: Calling All Peyton Manning Haters

It took about 1.7 seconds after the end of the Super Bowl for Peyton Manning haters on Twitter and message boards to start their rants.

This isn't new as it started in college with "He can't beat Florida" and continued during the Heisman campaign with "He pads his stats against weak teams". The latter was laughable as Tennessee had one of the top 5 toughest schedules in the country the year that Charles Woodson beat him for the award that's given tocollege football's best player. The media was the one who first built him up and then led the charge in bringing him down.

In the pros it was first, "He can't beat the Patriots" and later "He can't win the big games"

After he won the Super Bowl the talk shifted to "Until he wins as many as Montana or Brady he can't be in the discussion for the best ever."

So what if he does win two more championships, then will it be "Well he has never won a Super Bowl as a coach"?

I think the man is a class act and if not the best one of the top three quarterbacks of all time. I can't recall one controversial thing that he has ever muttered. Hequietly gives thousands to charities and generally gives credit to teammates in wins and the opposing team in losses.

Now its possible that being a Vols and Colts fan, I may be biased. This is why I am willing to take a huge risk and do something that I have never done before!

I'm going to give all Peyton Manning haters access to my blog to write whatever they want. Just imagine free access to a blog read weekly by thousands. This could be your chance to not only tell the world what kind of person Manning really is but also your chance to become an award winning sports writer.

Drop me an email at scgann@hotmail.com If you are interested.

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Danica's Success in ARCA Race Means Nationwide Start

February 8th 2010 05:24

: Danica's Success in ARCA Race Means Nationwide Start

Danica Patrick's goals were pretty simple in Saturday's ARCA series race, gain experience and bring the car into the garage with full impact fenders. She did much more than that with a 6th place finish after coming back from being spun around and falling back to 23rd. This will be a tougher challenge with heavier cars and much more talented drivers. I'm guessing that she will be up to the challenge once again.

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2010 Winter Olympics Guide: Bobsleigh

February 7th 2010 22:30

: 2010 Winter Olympics Guide: Bobsleigh

This is the 3rd of a 15 part series on the sports of the Winter Olympics.

Bobsledding first appeared as an Olympic sport at the 1924 Olympics with women's teams not included until the 2002 games

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Gatorade Super Bowl Commercials

February 7th 2010 18:18

: Gatorade Super Bowl Commercials

Two things are almost certain about today's Super Bowl, the MVP will be going Disney and the winning coach will get a Gatorade shower

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Danica Patrick Finishes 7th In ARCA Debut

February 7th 2010 00:01

: Danica Patrick Finishes 7th In ARCA Debut

Danica Patrick finished her first NASCAR/ARCA race in 7th place today. She had qualified off 12th. Patrick said the race was a big learning experience as she had tire problems and was spun around once during the race. The good result should keep her on pace to move up into the heavier Nationwide division later this year.

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Patrick Qualifies 12th For Lucas Oil ARCA Race

February 5th 2010 20:58

: Patrick Qualifies 12th For Lucas Oil ARCA Race

So far so good for NASCAR's most popular rookie driver. Danica Patrick qualified 12th out of 51 drivers for Saturday's Lucas Oil 200 at Daytona Speedway. Her run tomorrow will help determine how quickly she can move up into NASCAR's bigger classes.

Official Starting Order

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NASCAR Seeks Return to "Rubbin Is Racin" Days

February 5th 2010 20:20

: NASCAR Seeks Return to "Rubbin Is Racin" Days

NASCAR has had a tough last couple of years. The economy combined with watered down competition and new safety rules have taken its toll on America's favorite racing sport. Even at fan favorite Bristol, which had always sold out, tickets were readily available for the first time in years

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Tennessee Vols Land Top 10 Recruiting Class

February 5th 2010 19:37

: Tennessee Vols Land Top 10 Recruiting Class

Many recruiting insiders and fans were sure that Tennessee would suffer a terrible recruiting class from the fallout of Lane Kiffin's sudden move to coach USC. Tennessee AD Mike Hamilton moved quickly and and named Lousiana Tech head coach Derek Dooley to replace Kiffin.
Dooley did a wonderful job of multitasking by hiring coaches and working on recruiting. Assistant coaches Lance Thompson and Jim Chaney for keeping up relatiobships even when they were unsure they would be retained on staff

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