Former MSU football head coach Nick Saban left the Miami Dolphins last week to assume the vacant coaching position at Alabama.

MSU officials had reportedly made overtures to Saban to return to the Spartans, but their interest waned when Saban wouldn't stop laughing on the other end of the phone.

An Air Force B-1B bomber will do a fly-over of University of Phoenix stadium just before the start of today's championship game.

Bowl officials expect it to be the loudest noise in the stadium until Florida fans start calling for backup quarterback Tim Tebow in the second quarter.

The Dallas Cowboys' postseason ended Saturday when quarterback Tony Romo botched the hold of a potential game-winning field goal in the game's final minutes.

Reporters waited anxiously to ask Romo what went wrong on the failed play, but his answer was inaudible after he dropped the microphone on the ground.

Miami Heat head coach Pat Riley, whose team has dropped five straight games since losing Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal to injury, underwent surgery on his right knee last week.

Riley said doctors told him the surgery would sideline him until a few days after Wade and O'Neal return.