In addition, Comcast Digital Cable customers will be able to view these commercials on demand for all of the next week!

• 34.8% -- go to the other 29 teams in the NFL. That's 810 for each (or 23,490 seats in all) for this year's game.
• 17.5% -- go to the NFC championship team. That's 11,812 seats.
• 17.5% -- go to the AFC championship team.
• 25.2% -- go to the NFL home office. Minus 500 pairs for the fan lottery, that's 17,010 seats. That's where the majority of corporate people would be.
• 5.0% -- go to the host-city team. That's 3,375 seats.

It's the second-most-watched sport behind pro football. NASCAR-licensed products netted $2.1 billion last year! Corporate sponsors gave $1.5 billion, compared to $445 million for the NFL and $340 million for major league baseball.

Major League Baseball at one point was restricted to only white players. After much progress there were 7 Latin American players in the All Star game. That number has skyrocketed and this year there are 24 (from Cuba, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela).

Still just the Great "American" Pastime?

However, in discus throwing, the advantage comes when there is a head wind. Throwing a a discus into the wind can allow it to travel more than 25 feet farther than if it is thrown in the same direction as the wind.

The lift from the pressure differences over and under the disc (just like a plane) are more significant than the drag forces the disc incurs.

After hanging up the skates,
Tonya must have been in dire straights
Because now she's had one too many lunches
and makes her money throwing punches
at a woman slash man.
Who would have thought when her career began?

The phrase was confined to Illinois high-school ball until 1982, when CBS broadcaster (and ex-Chicago Daily News sportswriter) Brent Musburger used it during his network's NCAA tournament coverage.

Way to go Carolina -- 2005 National Champions! Coincidence?

Both teams lost two games in the conference. The '93 team lost their two games at Wake Forest and at Duke. This year's team lost...at Wake Forest and at Duke. Both teams suffered an early nonconference loss, with the '93 squad falling to Michigan and this year's team dropping the opener to Santa Clara. Both teams won the ACC regular season title with a 14-2 record and exited the ACC Tournament at the hands of Georgia Tech--77-75 in 1993 and 78-75 this year. The 1993 team was perfect at home, lost two games on the road, and lost two games on neutral courts. This year's team is perfect at home, lost two games on the road, and lost two games on neutral courts.

A player with the last name of Williams wore jersey number 21 on both teams (Donald in 1993, Jawad in 2005) and backup point guards on both teams wore number 11 (Scott Cherry in 1993, Quentin Thomas in 2005). The lowest scorer among the regular 1993 starters? Henrik Rodl, number 5 (he started 26 games, Donald Williams started only 14). The lowest scorer among the 2005 starters? Jackie Manuel, number 5. We won it all in 1993 --looks like we're going to win it all again this year.

The NHL sesason was cancelled this year, but normally the league produces $2 billion in annual revenue, of which 75% goes to players' salaries.

Is this a good use of money, or could it be better used?

Combined paid attendance over the last 10 seasons for Carolina-Duke games: 445,113.

The name "Super Bowl" was inspired by the daughter of Lamar Hunt, Kansas City Chiefs owner and Texas Financier, while she was playing with a small, bouncy rubber ball called a super ball. He watched her playing with it and the name Super Bowl came to him.

The median income of visitors to the ESPN website is $77,000 across 15.3 million unique visitors each month.

So far they've sold 28,000,000 of them!