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New England Patriots: Can Their 2010 Season Culminate In 4th Super Bowl?

By Ryan Hogan

New England Patriots: Can Their 2010 Season Culminate In 4th Super Bowl? As the 2010 NFL season approaches, fans, pundits, and aficionados are proclaiming the New Orleans Saints, the Indianapolis Colts, the Dallas Cowboys, and the New York Jets as the league's preeminent teams. Most of these so-called experts are dismissing or ignoring the number one team of the decade,... »

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... »

NFL

By Ryan Hogan

Injured Brady out of Pro Bowl, Schaub steps in BOMBASTIC SPORTS: "Not surpassingly, Tom Brady backs out of Pro Bowl. He'll be replaced by Matt Schaub of the Houston Texans. Even if healthy, one would have assumed Brady's ultimate desire was to skip the Pro Bowl. Brady doesn't seem the type to relish the extra meaningless... »

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... »

Kyle Orton, Denver Broncos Now Best & Other Stats From NFL Week 6 (Video)

By Ryan Hogan

After six weeks of the 2009 season the NFL's best team is the Denver Broncos and the league's MVP is Kyle Orton (both subject to change at any moment). The Broncos defeated the San Diego Chargers 34-23 on Monday Night Football. The Broncos got two touchdown passes from Orton and two kick returns for touchdowns from Eddie Royal. The... »

Jets and Dolphins Cap Manic NFL Week 5 (VIDEO)

By Ryan Hogan

New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins capped a manic week 5 in the NFL. Their classic duel on Monday Night, which resulted in a 31-27 Dolphins win, was one of eight games with a final score separated 8 points or less. The remaining 6 games on the scheduled finished with the victorious team leading by 19 points... »

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. ... »

Stokley’s Improable Touchdown Catch Highlights Week 1 In The NFL (VIDEO)

By Ryan Hogan

Week 1 in the NFL was a mesmerizing anthology of drama filled contests replete with fantastic conclusions, expert performances and extraordinary highlights. Perhaps the game of the weekend was the New England Patriots thrilling 25-24 victory over the hapless Buffalo Bills and the play of the week was Denver Broncos receiver Brandon Stokley’s improbable game-winning 87-yard touchdown catch via... »

NFL Dark Horse Teams For 2009

By Ryan Hogan

To be a dark horse candidate, at least in reference to the upcoming 2009 NFL season, a team must meet three qualifications. One, the team failed to make the post season in 2008; two, a successful 2009 campaign will surprise the majority of football fans; and three, the team isn’t the New England Patriots. With that being said three... »

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PTI Recaps

MONDAY

“Betty White shoes and I saw those this morning.”

TUESDAY

“Dirk goes pop, pop, pop.”

WEDNESDAY

"Los Suns."

THURSDAY

"Kornoscopy."

FRIDAY

"Wilbominant."

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Quick Quips

  • 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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