Mike Downey

He is back, baby! Dick Vitale is doing college basketball games again, baby! Do you think this could be why Bob Knight picked this exact point in his life to...

I dreaded this Super Bowl. I really did. No way the Giants could win. No way on their best day they could pull this off. Eli Manning is in Tom...

Tom Brady, meet the heartbreakers. The super team lost the Super Bowl. The super quarterback didn't get the job done. "You score 14 points," Brady said, "that's not going to...

Tom Brady, meet the heartbreakers. The super team lost the Super Bowl. The super quarterback didn't get the job done. "You score 14 points," Brady said, "that's not going to...

I have been to about XXV of these XLII things now, so I have a pretty good idea what to expect. Therefore, here is your Super Bowl Sunday in a...

Predict a victory? No, guarantee a victory. Plaxico Burress did what? Hey, his own coach isn't 100 percent positive how well Plax will play. Or even how much. "It's a...

He is a "dirty, cheap, pompous [bleep]" -- a rival's words, not mine -- so it is altogether possible that Richard Seymour of the New England Patriots is the dirtiest...

Eli Manning is going to guide his team to victory in a Super Bowl, exactly the same way big brother Peyton did a year ago? No way, people say. "People...

The true horror of the New York Giants being in the Super Bowl did not occur to me until this weekend, nearly a week before the game. What a terrible...

Isn't it fabulous? Not only do we finally live in a world in which a woman can become president of the United States, just like a man, we live in...