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SCOTT JACOBS
“Circumstances… Those circumstances,” said Colts long-time owner Jim Irsay.
“Times change, circumstances change,” said Peyton Manning.

It was the buzzword of the day, and the final cue to a 14 year relationship that produced the most successful era of Colts football. Ever.
“Growing up together in an organization,” Irsay said, “I was a 37 year old owner [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
In 1939 college hoops instituted what would become the NCAA tournament, an 8 team single elimination playoff, to crown a champion. There were 3 rounds and none of the games were televised.  Why? Well, television didn’t exist at the tourney’s birth. Twelve years later, the tournament was expanded to 16. A few years later [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
Scrappy Sacramento is the capital city to the behemoth that is California, and like many other smaller capital cities lost in the shuffle of a massive state, Sac-Town isn’t a household city to the average person.  When you think about Sacramento, what do you think of?  Besides the capitol of the Golden Coast, it [...]

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MIKE KAYE
With just a week to go before the NFL Combine, Juiced Sports looks at who is rising and falling in the latest mock draft.
First Round
1. Indianapolis Colts: Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford
As stated in pretty much every mock draft in the universe, this is the obvious pick. Andrew Luck to the Colts with the [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
Captivating, invigorating, exasperating, culmination.
The Giants took on the Patriots once more in a winner-take-all grudge match, on sports’ biggest stage, and once more beat them in gut-wrenching fashion, using a late, clutch final TD drive to put a stake in the once infallible New England machine. And in just 120 minutes of on the [...]

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JIM RUBERA
(Rubera writes for The Spop)
Let’s get a few things out of the way before we get into this so it’s clear that objectivity will reign supreme.
Fact: I live in Massachusetts and am a huge Patriots fan.  It would mean a great deal to me if they won.
Fact: I have picked against the Patriots [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
For years Peyton Manning covered up many of Indianapolis’ glaring needs. Year after year as they piled up double digit wins, his offensive brilliance and cohesion made him the most important player in the Colts organization.  Then, when neck surgeries went awry, we found out quickly that he was the most valuable player in [...]

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JIM RUBERA
(Rubera writes for The Spop)
Playoffs:  3-5  AFC: 0-4 NFC:  3-1
4- Teams left
3- Great defenses
2- Great offenses
1 – Blogger with no clue how either game will turn out.
But I’ll give it a shot.  Here we go.
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