Super Bowl
Bloomberg announces a car-free, all-weather 'Super Bowl Boulevard'
Back when Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a young man, he used to go to a lot of football games in the old Yankees stadium, during the winter, when it was cold outside.
And so today, after he announced that in the four days preceding next year's Super Bowl at the Meadowlands, 10 blocks of Broadway would be closed to traffic to make way for a free, open-air football-entertainment extravaganza called Super Bowl Boulevard, he brushed off any concerns about the cold.
"The best game I ever went to was, I think I went to," he said, prompting laughter from the reporters assembled before him. "Well, I was 16 years old, that's a long time ago folks, but I realy do remember it. It was the Colts Giants in Yankee Stadium."
"I grew up in a world where [football] was played outdoors, in the real weather," Bloomberg continued. "That's one of the things that makes it special." More
(1)A day for the new-look Obamas
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Anatomy of a performance: Whitney Houston sings 'The Star Spangled Banner,' Jan. 1991
It wasn't just what Houston was able to do with her voice. There is a powerful two-way current at work which is one of the reasons for the performance's great and lasting impact. So many singers make the mistake of thinking that singing the national anthem is somehow about them. They see it as a career moment before a captive audience. Whitney Houston, even down to her choice of outfit, shows that she was there not for herself. She was there to embody not only the spirit of the song, but the spirit of her country, to give voice to the inchoate emotions of patriotism, hope, optimism, and togetherness swirling about in her vast national audience. That is quite a tall order. Only geniuses should apply. More
(9)Repackaging the story of Greg Kelly and the ''rape' beauty'
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(6)One more time, front and center: Justin Tuck, Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning
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Gisele Bundchen, talking all kinds of trash
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(2)A long-ago love letter from the Giants to Eli Manning, requited
Accorsi’s hand-written, all-caps report, composed when Eli was a junior at the University of Mississippi, is a love letter of sorts, too—from an aging general manager who has never won a championship to a quarterback he believes can fill that hole in his football soul. The report begins with common enough scout-speak: “Excellent arm strength under pressure … Good touch. Good vision and poise.” More
All-out with two-time Patriot-slayer Eli Manning and the Giants
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Why Giants fans (already) love this Super Bowl team more than the last one
If one is to assume a perfectly equitable distribution of championships across every team in the league, it would mean that each N.F.L. fan base is “entitled” to one title every 32 years. From this perspective, waiting five years seems like a reasonable, mature concession to the idea that you can’t have everything you want in the world.
But I think I speak for many Giants fans in saying that I would be incredibly disappointed if they lost on Sunday. More
Madonna dances for the captive Super Bowl media, and Brian Cashman gets 'fleeced'
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(1)A close-up for real-life Lifetime Movie Network villain Luis Ortiz, a.k.a. 'Baby'
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Jokers! Brady hearts Jeter and Mitt clubs Newt
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From sad-sack to sack machine: The happy, charming, deadly Justin Tuck returns
The fact that the 9-7 Giants are only three-point underdogs to the 13-3 Patriots, and the fact that around 85 percent of WFAN callers are predicting a double-digit Giants win, speaks to a generally accepted premise: The Giants team that started off this season 7-7 is a wholly different entity than the one that has since gone 5-0. More
Two beautiful little girls and the hunt for Dalisha Adams
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The strong leg, sure hands and foul mouth of Steve Weatherford
When it comes to profanity-laced exultations of joy that are caught on camera, Steve Weatherford’s reaction to Lawrence Tynes’ game winning-field goal in the conference championship game against the 49ers last week might not have had the significance of, say, Joe Biden’s reaction to universal health care. More
