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Rosenthal: Why the Saints - or Colts - will win Sunday
Rosenthal: It's almost game time. You've read thousands of words on Peyton Manning and Drew Brees, heard how elated the city of New Orleans is to be in the Super Bowl for the first time and received hundreds of updates on Dwight Freeney's ankle. Consider all that your introduction into the game. Here's your main course: 13 ways how the Saints can win, and 13 ways how the Colts can win.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35247041/

Caldwell says Freeney still improving
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -Indianapolis coach Jim Caldwell says injured defensive end Dwight Freeney is still hopeful he can play in the Super Bowl against the New Orleans Saints.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35256275/

Cimini: Expect unheralded player to be Super-star
Cimini: Over the course of Super Bowl XLIV, the Colts and Saints will produce new celebrities for the NFL stage. It could be a nobody who makes a forever play (David Tyree, anyone?) or an underrated player who steps to the forefront in crunch time (see Santonio Holmes). But it will happen, count on it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35250785/

Celizic: How did the Super Bowl get to be like this?
Celizic: The Super Bowl grew beyond anyone's wildest dreams pretty much on its own. It was the perfect diversion at the perfect time of year in the perfect sport and a perfect excuse for a party. On the first Sunday in February, it's magic.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35251839/

Florio: Greatest QB ever? Another title and it's Peyton
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, winner of a league-record four Associated Press MVP awards, eventually could be remembered as the greatest NFL quarterback of all time.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35219156/

Skolnick: A Super QB who has been a Saint to a city
Skolnick: Like Dan Marino in Miami, and John Elway in Denver, Saints QB Drew Brees has become the face of New Orleans. How does one gain such recognition?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35224488/

LeBron outduels Wade as Cavs reach 40 wins
LeBron James scored 36 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers pulled away from the Miami Heat in the second half Thursday to win their 10th straight game and become the first team to reach the 40-win mark this season.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35248514/

Clippers' Dunleavy steps down as coach, stays GM
Mike Dunleavy has stepped down as the Los Angeles Clippers' head coach, retaining his job as general manager. Assistant coach Kim Hughes will replace Dunleavy on the bench, where Dunleavy has led the Clippers to just one winning season since 2003.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35247029/

Self-sanctions coming for Arizona, coach says
Arizona first-year coach Sean Miller says his school will impose its own sanctions on the basketball program for violations by former coach Lute Olson related to an offseason AAU tournament in 2008.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35251968/

Opinion: Thrashers had no choice but to trade Kovalchuk
Sporting News: Demands for a maxed-out contract broke any chance that Ilya Kovalchuk would remain in Atlanta past season's end. The Devils get an elite rental player; the Thrashers move on.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35251707/

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