By Ed Graney
I’m embarrassed to be a Cowboys fan. … It seems the great Emmitt Smith needs something to do between interviews and checking out the next hip party here in Phoenix, so the Hall of Fame running back has decided to try breaking the Guinness world record for washing the largest dish. [...]

By Ed Graney
It was Thursday afternoon and before news conferences were held with those entertainers who will be performing on Sunday, when veteran sportswriters began talking about their favorite acts at past Super Bowls. It seems the most attended pregame news conference was for Paul McCartney in 2005. But the next most popular came in 1992, when skater [...]

By Ed Graney
Tickets to the Maxim party on Friday night are considered by some more valuable than ones to the actual game on Sunday, with a guest list headed by Brad Pitt and Cindy Crawford. For those with no prayer of landing a ticket or sneaking in behind one of those boxes holding those 2,000 bottles of [...]

By Ed Graney
Call some tree huggers. As of 4:32 p.m. Wednesday, the NFL had distributed 205 stacks of quote sheets that were each at least 50 pages deep. At least we know the copy machine is working, unlike the wireless. For a corporation worth billions of dollars, you would think the NFL could come up with better [...]

By Ed Graney
A colleague heard about a family-owned Mexican restaurant (Guadalajara’s) on the outside of town, so we pointed our cabdriver in its direction and awaited what we thought would be some fantastic local fare here at the Super Bowl. Turns out, the place was closed. We then asked the driver to choose for us his favorite local [...]

By Ed Graney
Tell us below (in comments) who you think will win Sunday. Will it be the Patriots or the Giants? Let us know your pick and why you think they will win.

By Ed Graney
Here’s one thing you see a lot during Super Bowl week: Hall of Fame finalists making the rounds on radio row and chatting up veteran reporters in hopes of earning support for the weekend’s voting. There are 17 finalists this year and while the only thing missing from the secret balloting process is a puff [...]

By Ed Graney
Former 49ers and Lions coach Steve Mariucci, while a reporter waited outside a media bathroom to inquire about him possibly returning to the sidelines with the Redskins, being overheard in a stall giving financial real estate advice. You figure Mariucci, still collecting on a five-year, $25 million deal with Detroit, knows a little about how [...]

By Jason Bracelin
Calm like a bomb? Yeah, Rage pretty much lived up to the hyperbole with a fat-free, hard-eyed set of galvanized funk as the Vegoose headliner. Tom Morello stood atop his amps in full rock god glory, wielding his guitar like a battle axe, while Zach De La Rocha convulsed on the mic like a man possessed. It was [...]

By Jason Bracelin
Matthew Bellamy's guitar bit people's heads off and spat battery acid. Rivaling the Queens of the Stone Age for buffet-of-riffs supremacy at Vegoose, Muse unleashed the six-string pyrotechnics with enough force to make Zakk Wylde's goatee wither. Seriously, what's with a bunch of demure English dudes doing stomping alt-rock's head in? Dense and enveloping, their tunes are soft [...]