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[SBN] Colts' President Bill Polian pretty much hates the Pro Bowl

What could move the mild-mannered Bill Polian to utter such uncouth language towards the hallowed Pro Bowl?

“It’s stupid,” he said on his Monday radio show. “It’s a disruption, but we’ll deal with it.”

Oh, nothing at all -- just Peyton Manning and six other Colts who are about to lose a day of practice the week before the Super Bowl to stand on the Pro Bowl sidelines in Miami and grimace for the cameras.

(Read the rest at SB Nation.)

[SBN] Indianapolis, New Orleans bet city treasures on Super Bowl outcome

I'm setting the over/under on a humorless fellow Colts fan tearing a strip off me for this joke at three hours and three minutes:

Bored with years of Super Bowl bets between mayors of warring factions involving famous local foodstuffs and t-shirts? Me too, which is why I love the loaner bets going down between the Indianapolis and New Orleans art museums (and yes, I'm as surprised Indianapolis has an art museum as you are):

"[Indianapolis Museum of Art director] Max Anderson must not really believe the Colts can beat the Saints in the Super Bowl. Otherwise why would he bet such an insignificant work as the Ingrid Calame painting?

That's right. INGRID CALAME SMACK TALK! This just got real, y'all.

I'm setting the over/under on a humorless fellow Colts fan tearing a strip off me for this joke at three hours and three minutes:

Bored with years of Super Bowl bets between mayors of warring factions involving famous local foodstuffs and t-shirts? Me too, which is why I love the loaner bets going down between the Indianapolis and New Orleans art museums (and yes, I'm as surprised Indianapolis has an art museum as you are):

"[Indianapolis Museum of Art director] Max Anderson must not really believe the Colts can beat the Saints in the Super Bowl. Otherwise why would he bet such an insignificant work as the Ingrid Calame painting?

That's right. INGRID CALAME SMACK TALK! This just got real, y'all.

[SBN] U.S.Olympic Ski Team Rosters Released

Speaking of Bode Miller, he's being talked up for a U.S. Open bid ... in tennis. But before you get too worked up, please note that he's been playing pretty much his whole life, so this isn't just some kind of drunk Bode antic. (Until he shows up at the court drunk, which will be wonderful television.)

(Read the rest at SB Nation.)

[Dr. Saturday] Surprise! Furor over that Tebow anti-abortion ad isn't going away

Of all the divisions this episode's bound to spark, however, none are as bizarre as the alliances it has the potential to create:

A national columnist for CBSSports.com, Gregg Doyel, also objected to the CBS decision to show the ad, specifically because it would air on Super Sunday.

"If you're a sports fan, and I am, that's the holiest day of the year," he wrote. "It's not a day to discuss abortion. For it, against it, I don’t care what you are. On Super Sunday, I don’t care what I am. Feb. 7 is simply not the day to have that discussion."

The end times are truly upon us. Forget the issue at hand; I'm now mortally offended that I'm being forced to agree with Gregg Doyel on an issue of the day. For such an ostensibly nice young man, Tebow sure has a way with lemon juice and open wounds.

(Read the rest at Yahoo! Sports.)

[EDSBS] Spicy Livin', Episode 2.2

DRINK:  PAMA Pomegranate liqueur.

Yes, pomegranate martinis are all the rage in the exurbs these days, but that doesn't mean you need to ruin your cocktail by drizzling thick syrup reductions therein. This delightful vodka-and-tequila-based concoction will add some tart flavor without straying too far across the Girl Drink Rubicon.

(Still ironing out some post-WordPress template headaches, namely funnily-justifying margins, but the rest is entirely readable at EDSBS.)

[SBN] No. 8 Lady Dawgs Knock Off No. 3 Lady Vols 53-50, Tennessee's Reign Of Terror Trembles

Jan 22, 2010 - Ten years and four days after their last home win in the series, before a throng of cussing senior citizens and beneath a gargantuan disco ball that no one in Athens seems to regard askance, the Lady Dawgs knocked off the Lady Vols, 53-50.  UGA head coach Andy Landers handed Pat Summitt her 1,000th career win in Knoxville last February, and for the first time in a decade he's wielding a team capable of swinging back.

(Read the rest at SB Nation.)

[SBN] In which our intrepid heroes play Scottish Tetris, and I play photog

Remember that time y'all thought we were kidding about that curling assignment? BEHOLD. (Our Heroine not pictured because she was slip-sliding around trying frantically not to fall on the $3000 camera slung around her neck.)

[SBN] Land Shark Stadium is no more

It hasn't been torn down, but next best thing:

Don't get excited; the Jimmy-Buffett-beer-branded monstrosity hasn't suffered the same cruel wrecking-ball fate as the rickety but beloved Orange Bowl. It has, however, had its naming rights sold to Sun Life Financial, and will sport the Sun Life Stadium moniker for the next five years. This is an excellent development, partly because "Sun Life" sounds vastly more Floridian than "Land Shark" (which I never understood at all, because aren't there plenty of non-land-based sharks in Miami?), but mostly because, to reiterate, it's no longer a football stadium named after Jimmy Buffett's beer.

It hasn't been torn down, but next best thing:

Don't get excited; the Jimmy-Buffett-beer-branded monstrosity hasn't suffered the same cruel wrecking-ball fate as the rickety but beloved Orange Bowl. It has, however, had its naming rights sold to Sun Life Financial, and will sport the Sun Life Stadium moniker for the next five years. This is an excellent development, partly because "Sun Life" sounds vastly more Floridian than "Land Shark" (which I never understood at all, because aren't there plenty of non-land-based sharks in Miami?), but mostly because, to reiterate, it's no longer a football stadium named after Jimmy Buffett's beer.

[EDSBS] The triumphant return of Spicy Livin'

Our offseason lifestyle column returns to EDSBS:

Welcome to the Digital Viking: The EDSBS Guide to Spicy Living. Published every Friday, the Digital Viking embraces zesty living with a six-part review of the essentials:

--A patron saint invoked for inspiration
--Drink
--Comestibles
--Combustibles
--Transit
--Canon

Steady study of the Digital Viking's recommendations will increase spiritual happiness and liver circumference. Apply once weekly for best results.

(Mind the formatting; we're still trying to work out a template that works on both our old WordPress and new proprietary publishing platforms.)

Will We Won't We Will We

This is a totally accurate representation of my day: