Monday Rundown

---Super Bowl 46 Recap

---Michigan/Michigan State Recap

Mailman "Unstable" Man?

A war of words has erupted between the owner and CEO of the Utah Jazz and the
first-ballot Hall of Famer who fueled the team's golden era.

The most-stinging salvo came Friday night in a blog post written by Greg
Miller in which he called Karl Malone "too unreliable and too unstable" to help the team as an assistant coach and claimed the 14-time All-Star and two-time NBA MVP lied to a newspaper about having to use a scalper to purchase tickets to a Jazz game.

The blog followed a scathing Twitter post earlier Friday by Miller, the
son of longtime Jazz owner Larry Miller, who died in 2009.

"Hey Karl - you're lying," Miller wrote on Twitter. "You have my number.
Next time you need a seat to a Jazz game, call me. You can have mine."

Miller's reactions came a week after Malone also called out the Jazz for
their handling of the Deron
Williams-Jerry Sloan feud.

During a radio appearance Jan. 27, Malone said the Jazz gave Williams too
much power, and ultimately it was their coach who paid the price.

"I know for a fact that (Sloan) was overridden on practices sometime on
the road because Deron was calling our GM (Kevin O'Connor) at that time," Malone
said, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. " ... You give a guy that much power,
and he's the kind of player you think he played hard all the time, but if he
wanted to sulk he could sulk ... I never went to (co-owner) Larry (Miller) to
talk about Coach Sloan. ... It's not one time, in my gut and heart, that I would
go over his head."

Read more here

Brooks Orpik Crushes Daniel Paille

Friday Morning Rundown

---Recap the Red Wings/Canucks game

---Look ahead to Michigan/Michigan State at the Breslin Center on Sunday

---Everything you need to know about Super Bowl 46

---Peyton Manning has been declared healthy. What should the Colts do?

Poor High School Basketball Player

At the Hilton Invitational, Charlotte Christian had a 1-point lead over Norcross with less than a minute remaining. The ball went out of bounds and Charlotte Christian inbounded the ball to senior Ryan Potocnik who scored easily – on the wrong hoop with 17 seconds to play. The basket ended up being the game-winner for Norcross.

Gisele makes plea to family to pray for Tom

The New York Post, as ever doing yeoman's service, obtained a copy of a "disgustingly sappy" email sent by Gisele Bundchen to friends and family asking them to send positive thoughts to her husband, Tom Brady, before Sunday's Super Bowl matchup against the New York Giants.

Bundchen's message reads like it was written by a guy selling art in the parking lot at a Phish show.

"My sweet friends and family. This sunday will be a really important day in my husband's life. He and his team worked so hard to get to this point and now they need us more than ever to send them positive energy so they can fulfill their dream of winning this super bowl. [...] I feel Tommy really needs our prayer, our support and love at this time. [...]

"So I kindly ask all of you to join me on this positive chain and pray for him, so he can feel confident, healthy and strong. Envision him happy and fulfilled experiencing with his team a victory this sunday."

As if being himself and waking up next to a Brazilian supermodel weren't enough, Tom Brady now needs positive thoughts to be confident, healthy and strong? That's like Warren Buffett's wife asking friends to pray for his wealth. Let the rest of us have some, Gisele!

Les Miles bashes recruit who decommitted for Notre Dame

Still smarting from a BCS Championship blowout at the hands of Alabama, LSU fans were in the market for a little good news Wednesday, and they certainly didn't get it from the recruitniks: Rivals rated the Tigers' latest signing class 17th nationally, far below their usual perch in the top ten, in large part due to the absence of a single signature from any of the top four prospects in Louisiana. Fortunately, coach Les Miles showed up to the annual "Bayou Bash" Wednesday night armed with a little red meat at the expense of a certain out-of-stater: Gunner Kiel, the former crown jewel of the 2012 class.

Kiel, of course, is the coveted, five-star slinger from Columbus, Ind., who was briefly committed to LSU before his eleventh-hour defection to Notre Dame last month. Barely two weeks later, the kid is such a pariah in Baton Rouge that Miles basically challenged Kiel's manhood to a chorus of lusty cheers.

"We needed a quarterback," Miles told the crowd. "We lost two. We needed a quarterback in this class. There was a gentleman from Indiana that thought about coming to the Bayou State. He did not necessarily have the chest and the ability to lead a program, so you know."

Madonna wants daughter to go to the University of Michigan

Check out the video at NFL.com. Madonna tells Rich Eisen, a Michigan grad, that she wants her daughter to go there. Video link here

Jim Leyland will join me at 8:30 Thursday morning

Other things coming up Thursday...

---Foolish from WJLB will join me after 7:30 to tell you why the strip club is the best place to watch the Super Bowl

---Michigan/Indiana recap; Pistons/Nets recap

---Michigan/Michigan State National Signing Day recap

---Our poll question on the best broadcast team in the NFL

---Pistons/Nets tickets for Star Wars night at the Palace Feb. 10

---Do you feel cheated if Peyton Manning never plays again

Deion Sanders calls Martin Mayhew 'Prime Time' GM

Detroit Lions general manager Martin Mayhew may not have a famous nickname, but NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders is seemingly ready to call him "Prime Time."

Sanders praised Mayhew's role in building Detroit into a playoff team this season as the New York Giants and New England Patriots prepare for Super Bowl XLVI. Detroit was 0-16 the year before Mayhew was promoted to general manager. Mayhew proceeded to draft quarterback Matthew Stafford, defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, tight end Brandon Pettigrew, defensive end Nick Fairley, safety Louis Delmas, defensive end Willie Young and receiver Titus Young.

Read more here at Mlive.com

Peterson: NFL wants a million bucks to change numbers

A million bucks just to change a jersey number? Adrian Peterson says Reebok must be out of its mind.

For those of you who don't follow the Vikings' star running back on Twitter, that about covers his message upon finding out that he would have to fork out a mill if he switched from No. 28 to 23, as he desired. Read more here

Rocky McIntosh does radio interview about recruiting ‘hostesses’; wife not amused

Washington Redskins linebacker Rocky McIntosh did an interview with The Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan in DC on Wednesday. The Junkies wanted to know about Rocky's days as a high school recruit being courted by big-time colleges, with a special emphasis on any male/female interactions that may have been involved.

Rocky got into it a little bit, but apparently did so while on speakerphone ‒ and it doesn't sound like his wife approved of the subject matter. You can hear her get involved at around the 2:00 mark. Here's the clip: