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Super Bowl Sunday: What We’re Eating, Where We’re Watching, How Much We’re Spending
It’s almost time for that most American of semi-holidays, the Super Bowl. The football-championship-turned-media-spectacle automatically conjures certain images...
Her Excellency Wears Prada: Could Anna Wintour Be the Next U.S. Ambassador to Britain?
The Vogue editor and Obama supporter is reportedly in the running to be the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's.
Steel Yourselves for This Week’s NFL Lessons
Pittsburgh prevails, and the Falcons continue to fly.
Drake Finally Graduates from High School
The star who raps, "money over everything, money on my mind" on his song "Headlines" shifted his priorities long enough to earn his high school diploma.
Classic ‘Mean’ Joe Greene Ad Gets a Super-Bowl Reboot
A 1980 Coke commercial featuring "Mean" Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers has been tweaked into a new spot touting fabric softener. It's not quite as...
Briefing
'When I saw him scoring, first of all, I just thought, Thank you, Lord.' 1. TIM TEBOW, Denver Broncos quarterback, who threw a game-winning 80-yard touchdown...
Give Me an A: CNBC Picks the 10 Best NFL Cheerleading Squads
Super Bowl XLVI is just weeks away, and while the competing teams have yet to be decided, there’s one big difference between this year and last year’s matchup:...
Tebow vs. Belichick: The Battle for the Soul of the NFL!
Bill Belichick, the perpetually grim-faced three-time Super Bowl champion coach of the New England Patriots, is a good guy, his friends and many former players...
Tim Tebow’s 316 Passing Yards Evoke Biblical Number
It would have been more than enough for the polarizing Denver Broncos quarterback to simply lead his underdog team to victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on...
Why the NFL Needs a Concussion Ref
The NFL has recently taken important steps to keep its players safer: from harsher penalties for helmet-to-helmet hits to stricter return-to-play guidelines, to...
Head Cases: NFL to Add Concussion-Only Trainers to Games
The NFL keeps saying it wants to take concussions seriously. So, for the first time, all NFL games will feature an independently certified athletic trainer...
Stadium Goes Dark—Twice—During Monday Night Football Game in San Francisco
Candlestick Park, which originally opened in 1960, couldn’t handle the energy created by a primetime Monday Night Football game, going dark twice during the...
Does Freedom of Tweet Extend past Morality Clauses?
One of the great things about social networking is that anyone can say what they want without fear of censorship... Well, in theory, at least. But according to...
Christina Aguilera: Biography
VITALS Born Christina Aguilera on December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York As a young child, Christina Aguilera was going places all the time — with a...
Meet Your NFL Final Four: Boiling Emotions, Bitter Rivals, and the Next Joe Montana?
Well, that couldn't have worked out any better for the NFL. After a compelling divisional round of the NFL playoffs that featured a few upsets, a transcendent...
John Murtha
John Murtha, who died on Feb. 8 at 77, will be mourned in Congress because of the respect he commanded from his colleagues. We were honored to call him...
What Sports Fans Get From Chanting and Cheering
With all the attention the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers will be getting at this Sunday's Super Bowl, it's not likely anyone will pay much...
Hardheaded?
When motorcyclists wear helmets, they are less likely to die if they crash--no one disputes that. But should helmets be mandatory? The question came to the fore...
Hayden Before the Senate: Playing the Game Well
Last fall, at the height of Washington Nationals fever in the nation's capital, everyone was invoking baseball metaphors — even John Roberts, the...
Lynn Swann's Super Bowl Win
As Jerome Bettis and the Pittsburgh Steelers closed the book on a storybook season at Super Bowl XL in Detroit Sunday, the season of another Steelers legend was...
