For the Indianapolis Colts’ sake, let’s sure hope so.

Peyton Manning finally defeated his rival, Tom Brady, in the playoffs after leading his Indianapolis Colts over Brady’s New England Patriots, 38-34, to advance to Super Bowl XLI at Miami, Florida.

However, that win came with a price as we saw Peyton Manning jam his right thumb against the helmet of one his Colts teammates. Uh oh… Although the injury did not appear to be that bad, we saw something later in that fateful game that suggested Manning was indeed in a lot pain.

He told backup quarterback Jim Sorgi to get ready.

Well, Peyton DID played through the injury, leading the Indianapolis Colts to that final drive that earned them seven more points and a four-point cushion that will be enough for the Super Bowl invite. The question now is, how’s Manning’s thumb now?

Will it be a thumbs up for Peyton Manning when it’s time to play the biggest game of the year?

Peyton Manning has missed one play due to injury during his career, and that number is not expected to increase come Feb.4. The Indianapolis Colts quarterback gave a…

This one was THE taunt that ended it all for Reggie Bush and the New Orleans Saints.

New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees found Reggie Bush, Bush dances all the way to the endzone for the remarkable 88-yard touchdown. And then he taunts Chicago Bears MLB Brian Urlacher.

Yep, that was the sequence that ended it all for the New Orleans Saints at the NFC Conference championship game.

After that fateful play, Brian Urlacher was pissed just enough to stop the Saints offense. Enough to hold on for the win. And enough to get the invite to Super Bowl XLI at Miami, Florida.

Oh yeah, it didn’t end there for the finger-taunting rookie too.

Apparently, New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush was fined $5,000 for taunting Brian Urlacher at the end of his 88-yard touchdown play. After Bush wagged his finger at Brian Urlacher, NFL Football fired back.

Reggie Bush wagged his finger at the…

Yep, we may very well see the last days of the Vinsanity era in New Jersey.

As we approach the NBA trading deadline, trade rumors are beginning to circulate around the league involving some of today’s biggest stars in basketball. Names like Pau Gasol, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were mentioned and judging with the way these teams negotiate the past few months, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. (We can use this now since Adidas is now on this ‘’It takes five'’ bullshit…)

Who would’ve thought New Jersey’s ‘’Vinsanity era'’ would come to this?

After the Nets pried Vince Carter out of Canada and away from the Toronto Raptors, we thought VC and Nets president Rod Thorn will have a sweet and happy marriage.

Now, it seems Carter has become a thorn in Rod’s side and now, the Nets president may be filing for divorce.

The New Jersey Nets were rumored to have offered Vince Carter to the Memphis Grizzlies for Pau Gasol, the Seattle Supersonics for Ray Allen and get this, the Utah Jazz for Andrei Kirilenko, proving just how overrated AK47…

Reggie Miller is used to pressure-packed situations. Of course, we all saw his buzzer-beaters in the NBA, especially against Chicago.

However, he said he never felt as nervous as he was while watching the Indianapolis Colts play the New England Patriots at the AFC Conference championship for the right to represent the AFC in Super Bowl XLI.

Coming from a clutch performer like Indiana Pacers legend, Reggie Miller, that’s saying something.

‘’I was up and down, pacing, screaming at the TV,'’ Reggie Miller said in a radio interview with ESPN’s Dan Patrick. ‘’I couldn’t believe it. It was drama at its best.'’

Reggie Miller is known in NBA Basketball for his incredible buzzer-beater shots to win a basketball game. And yeah, none was better than all of his clutch performances against Michael Jordan and his Chicago Bulls.

It’s ironic that he witnessed another clutch performance this time from a different Indiana icon for the right to play against the same city that loved to hate him throughout his career in the NBA, Chicago.

‘’All the pressure is on Sexy Rexy,'’ Reggie Miller said, referring to…

The Chicago Bears, after a fast start to the season fizzled by inconsistencies, will be in the big dance after all.

Just when you thought Rex Grossman will fuck this up for the ‘’monsters of the midway,'’ he played just enough to hold on to that first round bye, just enough to win two straight games in the playoffs and yup, just enough to earn his Bears the invite to Super Bowl XLI.

Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman will be facing Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts at Super Bowl XLI in Miami, Florida. A lot of them folks are counting the Bears out already, but hey, they made it THIS far.

Can Rex Grossman, with his ups and downs throughout the season, win it all in Miami, Florida on Feb.4? Can the young Bears quarterback find just enough will to hold on for one more win? He could. And here are 8 reasons why.

ONE reason, as big boss OddJack puts it, Grossman has Brian Urlacher on defense. Grossman can rely on Urlacher to bail him out on any given game. We saw that during the regular season when Grossman played like a jackass against the Arizona Cardinals. Urlacher just refused to lose that game, and yep, they stormed right back to win it after being down, if my memory serves me right, 21-0. Amazing.

Grossman also has this two-headed monster running with the football, Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson, TWO more reasons why Rex may just win the Super Bowl. These guys can take over the offense if Grossman finds himself shooting blanks again. And boy, these two guys can run with it like the best of them.

Thomas Jones is the faster more agile back while Benson is the stronger ‘’twin.'’ Quite a scary combination.

TWO more reasons why Grossman can win the Super Bowl…

How should I know?!?

This season, the Indianapolis Colts, champions of the AFC, will meet the ‘’monsters of the midway,'’ the Chicago Bears of the NFC, at Miami, Florida for Super Bowl XLI.

Yep, it’s all going down in Miami, home of the stupid Miami Dolphins, and the equally pathetic Miami Heat. At least Miami will see winners for a change this year eh? Hell, Miami will see two of ‘em.

So as Colts head coach Tony Dungy and Chicago Bears head honcho Lovie Smith prepare for their highly-anticipated NFL Football championship game, proclaiming them as the first African American men to coach a Super Bowl, how do you prepare for a single game of this magnitude?

You see, unlike the NBA, the MLB and the NHL, NFL Football doesn’t have those best-of-seven series wars where two opposing teams race on who will win four games first. In the NFL, it’s a ‘’one game take all'’ showdown and with that being said, there’s no room for mistakes.

I guess that’s what makes the Super Bowl special.

Well, for former NFL Football head coach Dan Reeves, his advice is simple, enjoy the Super Bowl experience, but don’t forget the reason you’re there.

Dan Reeves laughed when asked how he handled the Super Bowl preparations and hype. He led Denver to the Super Bowl after the 1986, ‘87 and ‘89 seasons, then took the Atlanta Falcons to the title game after the 1998 season.

‘’You’re asking the wrong guy,'’ Reeves said, chuckling. ‘’You’re talking to…'’

The halfway point of the NBA Basketball season has finally come to pass.

Yep, it has been 41 games already and we have already seen numerous things took place that we taught we’ll never see. One of which was of course Allen Iverson being traded by the Philadelphia 76ers to the Denver Nuggets.

We also saw the now infamous Knicks – Nuggets brawl, the sequel to that war at the Palace of Auburn Hills between the Pistons and the Pacers. Oh yeah, speaking of the Pistons, we saw Detroit sign Chris Webber. And if that wasn’t newsworthy enough, Webber decided to wear number 84.

But perhaps no team has this much going on after the first half of the season as the Indiana Pacers.

Get this, they had a tough road schedule, they played inconsistently, then they saw Jermaine O’Neal play worthy of Defensive Player of the Year honors and then they traded two starters, Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington, trading the latter again in the very year they got him back from Atlanta.

All of these in the first 41 games of the NBA Basketball season.

A fast start was the last thing anybody expected from the Indiana Pacers after they added eight new players last summer. But fans didn’t expect losses to struggling teams like Minnesota, Charlotte and Boston, either, or to see their big offseason acquisition traded before the midpoint of the season.

As of press time, the Indiana Pacers are…

In case you guys don’t know it yet, Michael Schumacher won’t be returning for the 2007 F1 season.

Life without Schumi in Formula One begins when this year’s battles start in Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix on March 18. Yep, we won’t be seeing that famous German chin but hey, there’s still a lot of them left to look forward to coming to this new season.

Here’s five of them.

ONE World Champion will be representing a different team as Fernando Alonso will be driving for McLaren Mercedes after two championship seasons with Renault.

TWO new rookies from Britain will be tested in this brand new F1 season. Lewis Hamilton and Anthony Davidson, regarded as the future of Formula One, will compete in their first full seasons with F1. Hamilton will ride alongside Kimi Raikkonen with McLaren Mercedes while Davidson will join the once all-Japanese Super Aguri team.

THREE top teams of Formula One will have new ace drivers. World Champions Renault will be pinning their championship hopes on Giancarlo Fisichella after the departure of Fernando Alonso, who’s now with McLaren Mercedes. As for Ferrari, they are hoping newly acquired Kimi Raikkonen can carry the red scarlet Scuderia in this post Michael Schumacher era.

FOUR teams have an equal chance of winning it all this year. Unlike last year when it was all about Renault and Ferrari, McLaren now has a decent chance of winning the F1 title with the defending F1 champion, Fernando Alonso, under their wing. Honda, on the other hand, has everything going for them with the improving tandem of Jenson Button and ex-Ferrari driver, Rubens Barrichello.

FIVE new drivers will be on the grid this…

Well well well, Tom Brady is human after all.

Yep, Tom Brady and his improbable march towards Super Bowl XLI without any big name wideouts to throw the football to ended with a resounding halt.

Last Sunday was nothing new to Brady, that is driving the football to at least inside the opponent’s 30-yard line with less than two minutes remaining in a game. Yep, the New England Patriots quarterback was in the exact position again, needing to score to win a huge NFL Football playoff game.

However, unlike Tom Brady’s previous dramatic comebacks, this one was a little different. He needed a touchdown, instead of a field goal, with his Patriots down to the Indianapolis Colts 38-34.

When you’ve been as inconsistent as Tom Brady has been through the course of the season, summoning perfection in the final moments isn’t easy. And so Brady showed he was human last night, throwing an interception into the waiting arms of Colts’ rookie defensive back Marlin Jackson on Indianapolis’ 35-yard line with 20 seconds left on the clock.

It was a JACKASS decision by Tom Brady to throw a desperation pass that led to the interception with still more than a couple of seconds left in the game. Well, in fairness to Brady, the Patriots had no choice but to run desperation plays.

The Patriots were desperate and their final drive showed…

Yeah yeah yeah, Renault big boss Flavio Briatore is running his mouth again.

You have to wonder when will this fat boy stop eh? Yep, Flavio Briatore, after saying that McLaren won’t win with Fernando Alonso, he’s now saying that they can even with the defection of their former ace driver.

It seems Flavio is really taking Fernando Alonso’s departure to McLaren Mercedes hard eh? Yep, Briatore, (we’ve been talking about this guy a lot now haven’t we?) the flamboyant Italian head honcho of team Renault, is leading the revamped Anglo-French team (and by revamped, I do mean revamped, down to their new stupid unis…) into the new F1 season.

Giancarlo Fisichella will be returning for Flavio Briatore as Giancarlo will probably be taking Alonso’s spot as Renault’s no.1 driver. Rookie Heikki Kovalainen will play second fiddle to Fisi.

Speaking at the launch of Renault’s 2007 challenger in Amsterdam, Flavio Briatore said, ‘’This is not a one-man band. I always believe it is the team that is most important.'’

‘’We showed that with Benetton and now with Renault. Four championships with a very efficient budget in two years shows that. We have lost Fernando, who was an asset, but after he left, the team has extra motivation. Everyone in the factory has been working extra hard.'’

At least that’s what Flavio Briatore hopes if he wants to even have a chance in the coming F1 season against McLaren Mercedes and of course, Ferrari. And yeah, you can bet that Flavio is hoping Fisi can fill those big shoes Fernando left.

‘’Fisichella, for me, is better this year. I’m sure Heikki will push him a lot. He is not under more pressure, I think when you have Fernando Alonso as your teammate that is more…'’