DAT'S A WINNER!!
HURLEY & CLIENTS MAKE IT A SAINT PAYDAY!
SIDE & TOTAL SWEEP
SAINTS (+5) 31, COLTS 17
UNDER 57

No one's laughing at the Who Dat Nation anymore.

Still, who would have thought that the New Orleans Saints' heart-thumping 31-17 win over the 4 ½-point favored Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV would have been accomplished without sacking Indy QB Peyton Manning at all and with the N'Orleans ...

HANDICAPPING NOTEBOOK

RIVALRY WEEK PUTS COLLEGE HOOPS
BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT

by Mathew Hurley, Managing Editor

With ESPN marketing RIVALRY WEEK very heavily over the next few days, we though it would be a good time to pick back up with our SPOTLIGHT coverage of major conferences. Today we'll look at the Big Ten and SEC, both of whom have big TV games tonight. The rest of the week will look like this:

WEDNESDAY: Big East and ACC (to get you ready for Connecticut/Syracuse and North Carolina/Duke).
THURSDAY: Pac 10 and West Coast Conference ...

$5 Million Is Offered If Zenyatta & Rachel Alexandra Meet

In an attempt to bring Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta together for the first time, Oaklawn Park in Arkansas announced Thursday that it would increase the purse of the April 3 Apple Blossom Invitational to $5 million if the two female stars competed in the race.

Neither camp has made a firm commitment to start in the Apple Blossom, but Charles Cella, Oaklawn’s president, said that he had discussed the race with the owners Jerry Moss and Jess Jackson and that both said they were enthusiastic about the idea.

“My family and I would love to see her run at Oaklawn Park,” Jackson, the owner of Rachel Alexandra, said in a statement. “If she is in top form and it fits in our schedule, we will be there. Rachel, as you know, likes the track, having won twice there last year.”

Moss, who along with his wife, Ann, owns Zenyatta, said this week that he would “love to be there,” when asked about running his champion mare in the Apple Blossom.

The $5 million purse would be the richest for a race restricted to female horses.

The distance of the race has also been ...