In high school, A-Rod used to be able to bench 310 lbs.

Brett Favre is moving on. So he says anyway. It’s getting a little tedious to have him retire or act like he’s going to retire after every season.

TAMPA – The Steelers held their Saturday walkthrough today and head coach Mike Tomlin opened it up about 250 friends and family, according to a pool report submitted by Mike Reiss of The Boston Globe. Tomlin invited Reverend Jesse Jackson as well. This is Reiss’ report “Pittsburgh Steelers held a 38-minute walkthrough at the University of South Florida on Saturday morning, their final on-field practice before Super Bowl XLIII.

The Superbowl is this weekend and I’m really getting anxious for Spring Training to start. These combined circumstances led me to ask myself this question: Who is baseball’s version of Troy Polamalu ? Polamalu is one of my favorite football players because he plays with reckless abandon while on the field but off the field he is a very quite, unassuming, and family-oriented person.

Conference Championship Sunday brought us a couple of games that ended up being just about everything we, as fans, could have hoped for. Neither game was determined until the final five minutes of the fourth quarter, and we got to see big plays on both sides of the ball from 3/4 of the teams involved (the Ravens had no big offensive plays)

I wrote about this yesterday , and linked to some still photos from the ad in which the NBA’s biggest star joins the NFL.

Ok, so I’ll eat crow on this one after I predicted Alabama would run over Utah, the Utes went and proved me wrong and in doing so proved that mid-majors can play with the big boys. It was a few years ago when another mid-major was headed to a BCS game and was given no chance at all against a BCS opponent. The year was 2007, the bowl was the Fiesta Bowl, the teams were Boise State of the Western Athletic Conference and Oklahoma of the Big XII.

By Josh Satler - www.profootball101.org So we’ve finally come to the point in the season when things really begin to count: the playoffs. And to kick off our coverage, we’ll start with a game that has two unexpected visitors who decided to crash the party in the 9-7 Arizona Cardinals and 11-5 Atlanta Falcons.

  A couple of weeks ago, the Denver Broncos were 8-5 and the Chargers were 5-8. With these two teams holding first and second place respectively within the AFC West, Denver was pretty much a green light for the playoffs. Then they lost and the Chargers won

Although the cold was bitter, it didn’t stop one running back from being on fire. Derrick Ward and the 12-3 Giants beat the 11-4 Panthers in an overtime thriller, 34-28, to clinch the number one seed, and home field advantage throughout the playoffs