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Reflections on the Saints, Colts and Super Bowl XLIV.

Super Bowl XLIV Thoughts

Super Bowl XLIV and, “Who dat?” The Saints are no longer the Aints. Seldom has a sports championship of any time meant more to the fans of a particular city. Some personal musings from watching the big game:

• The Colts’ tackling was horrible. Scratch that… it was abysmal, deplorable, and any number of other craptastic words. Absolutely embarrassing for the championship game at the highest level of play.
• The onsides kick to open the second half will go down as one of the gutsiest calls ever. Think Boise State vs Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl huge. High-risk equals high-reward if ones pulls it off, and it takes a special kind of coach to throw such caution to the wind, especially in the biggest game of your career. Even though the Saints’ dominated time of possession in the second quarter, the second-half kickoff was the momentum turning point of the game; if a coach could be named MVP, Sean Payton deserved it for that play. Never underestimate the element of surprise.

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Much like in college football, it’s not just the big boys seeing success in college basketball these days.

Cornell Ranked for the 1st Time in 59 Years!

Don’t look now, but Cornell is ranked in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. Yes, an Ivy League team. For the second straight week.

Even better, the Mountain West Conference–the most powerful of the non-BCS leagues in college football, the one that actually dares to threaten the supremacy of the Big Six on a conference-wide level–is making a similar surge in college basketball. The MWC has three ranked teams this week, one more than the ACC and three more than the Pac-10 (translation: Pac-10 = 0 ranked teams) in both polls.

Gotta love how college basketball demonstrates the inequities of big-school favoritism.

Super Bowl predictions and the ridiculousness of the media coverage leading up to the big game.

Super Bowl XLIV

Since the Super Bowl began, the stories that pass for news have grown stranger and stranger.

Yes, it’s news that Dwight Freeney has a torn up ankle, but the coverage of his injury was akin to being forced to watch a cheesy reality show.

The pundits–these poor people–have to come up with a new angle to keep the non-story alive.

It can’t help but be silly.

Me and my crack research team–Boris Stolichnaya and my Dalmatian rescue, Franky–examined some past non-story stories.
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Reflections on the NBA season so far and what is to come in the playoff stretch.

NBA Mid-Season Highs and Lows

Up to now, NBA articles have been conspicuously missing on Deep Into Sports for the 2009-2010.

I’ll admit it: the NBA is my least favorite of the Big Four sports leagues. I like the sport of basketball–I’m a huge fan of the college game–but the pro version doesn’t really become that interesting to me until the second half of the campaign, i.e. when the NFL season ends and the playoff picture starts generating genuine speculation.

Heck, examining the NBA standings as they currently, well, stand, the outlook for the season appears pretty much identical to that which the league had in February 2009, that a Finals match-up between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers is the most likely outcome.

Of course, that didn’t happen in the 2008-2009 campaign; that’s why they play the game.
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The NFL’s Pro Bowl has finally been changed for the better.

Are You Listening, Roger Goodell?

Reflecting on the changes to today’s Pro Bowl–taking place the weekend between the Conference Championship and the Super Bowl in the Super Bowl city, Miami, and not in Hawaii–I recalled my VideoDeep post regarding such from last year.

Were you listening, Roger Goodell?

No, I’m not so egotistical to think the NFL’s head honcho read and/or watched video on this site and made drastic changes to the league’s all-star game. I am neither the first nor the only to suggest these adjustments.

It’s just positive that the NFL finally listened. Are you paying attention, O Lords of the BCS? Listen to the fans and media!

The video:
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