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
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