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Dallas Cowboys Vie To Be First NFL Team To Reach Super Bowl Held At Home Stadium

By Ryan Hogan

Dallas Cowboys Vie To Be First NFL Team To Reach Super Bowl Held At Home Stadium Super Bowl XLV is scheduled for Feb. 6, 2011 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Since that's the home venue of the Dallas Cowboys—and the team is highly touted by NFL pundits—football fans should be prepared for a heavy dose of a certain... »

New Orleans Saints: Quintet of Accomplishments Needed For Super Bowl XLIV Victory

By Ryan Hogan

New Orleans Saints: Quintet of Accomplishments Needed For Victory In Super Bowl XLIV The Indianapolis Colts will compete against the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV held in Miami, Florida on Feb. 7, 2010. While there are two teams and dozens of players involved in this annual contest of gridiron greats the majority of attention will be paid to... »

San Diego Chargers: 10 Reasons Why They Will Represent The AFC In Super Bowl

By Ryan Hogan

San Diego Chargers: 10 Reasons Why They Will Represent The AFC In Super Bowl The San Diego Chargers are two victories away from returning to the Super Bowl. They must defeat the New York Jets in the Divisional Round and then either the Baltimore Ravens or the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Championship. Can the Bolts do it? Does this... »

Manning First Quadruple Winner of NFL MVP Award

By Ryan Hogan

Manning First Quadruple Winner of NFL MVP Award Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is the first player to win The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award four times. Manning received 38 1/2 votes of a possible 50. The other three candidates receiving votes were all signal callers. [caption id="attachment_3670" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Future hall of fame quarterback Peyton Manning won his fourth... »

Colts & Saints: Five Observations About Their Perfect Regular Seasons

By Ryan Hogan

Colts & Saints: Five Observations About Their Perfect Regular Seasons For the sake of this article we will speak only of a perfect regular season. It's understandable that in a league that covets winning the Super Bowl as much as the NFL does a 16-0 regular season is meaningless if the team falters in the postseason. Nonetheless, Bombastic Sports believes... »

Indianapolis Colts: The Ethereal Favorites For Super Bowl Glory

By Ryan Hogan

Indianapolis Colts are the ethereal favorites for Super Bowl glory. Eleven weeks into the season and NFL team representing Indianapolis has proven, thanks to their perfect 10-0 record, that they are indeed contenders to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. Yet, after watching the team perform in ten grueling gridiron contests our intuition tell us that the Colts of Indianapolis have... »

Belichick Imperilment Gives Manning, Colts Victory (VIDEO)

By Ryan Hogan

Belichick Imperilment Gives Manning, Colts Victory (VIDEO) New England Patriots head coach Bill Belchick, defying convention, had his team "go for it" on 4th and 2, at the Indianapolis Colts' 28 yard-line, with 2:08 left in the game while leading by six. The prudent play was to punt, but Belchick entrusted the game to the arm of Tom Brady. The Golden... »

Favre Supplies Drama, While Manning & Brees Move to 7-0 in NFL Week 8

By Ryan Hogan

The lead story of NFL Week 8 was Brett Favre returning to Lambeau Field as a Minnesota Viking. Favre spent 16 years as the Green Bay Packers quarterback and his name became synonymous with the historic franchise. For the most part, fans at Lambeau booed him. The sports media parsed this development like a Dan Brown novel. [caption... »

How Did Favre Do Against The Packers? And Other Stats From NFL Week 4

By Ryan Hogan

Week Four of the NFL was consumed by Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre challenging his former team the Green Bay Packers. How did Favre do against the Packers? He did quite well. Favre was 24 for 31 for 271 yards and 3 touchdowns in Minnesota's 30-23 victory over Green Bay. What doesn't show up in... »

Favre, Manning and Flacco Thrive In NFL’s Week 3

By Ryan Hogan

The NFL's third week was highlighted by great and poor quarterback play. Some signal callers put up terrific numbers--Flacco, Manning, Kolb--while some struggled mightily--Quinn, Cassel, Russell. It won't show up in the numbers below, but Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre had the moment of the weekend when his 32-yard heave found Greg Lewis in the back of the endzone. ... »

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  • Game 7: Most-watched NBA game in 12 years

    ABC's coverage of the NBA Finals' Game 7 garnered the largest basketball audience in 12 years. Thursday night's Game 7 drew 28.2 million viewers, the largest television audience since a Bulls vs. Jazz game in 1998. Lakers-Celtics scored a hefty 11.4 rating among adults 18-49. The pivotal game was also TV's top non-Olympics summer telecast in nearly a decade.

  • Last Game of NHL Finals Scores Best Ratings in 36 Years

    The sixth and final game of the Stanley Cup Finals, in which the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Philadelphia Flyers for their first championship since 1971, drew 8.3 million viewers making it the most-watched NHL game in nearly 40 years. The entire 2010 Stanley Cup Finals was the most viewed finals in nearly 13 years. However, NBC still came in second thanks to the Fox Network's two-hour edition of So You Think You Can Dance.

  • Shawn Johnson Set To Tumble At London Olympics

    Iowa native and gold-medal winner in gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Shawn Johnson, recently announced that she plans on competing at the 2010 Summer Games in London. The 18-year-old gymnast made the announcement to a crowd of 8,000 students at Des Moines' Hy-Vee Hall. In 2008, Johnson won four medals the Summer Olympics, a gold in the balance beam as well three silvers.

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