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Last week, Thunder center Kendrick Perkins was on the wrong end of the dunk of the year by Clippers forward Blake Griffin. It was an embarrassing moment for Perkins, and he isn't happy in particular with how Heat forward LeBron James reacted on Twitter to the violent jam.

"Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! Wow! I guess I'm No. 2 now. Move over #6," James tweeted on Jan. 31 after Griffin posterized Perkins.

However, James told ESPN.com's Heat Index that he doesn't plan on apologizing. "I don't think I was the only one to react to the unbelievable play by Blake and that's what it was all about," James said.

LeBron is right. There was not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven ... let's just say there were an awful lot of NBA players who tweeted about Griffin's jam. If James is expected to apologize, then Perkins should probably seek out every one of those players. Since Page 2 believes in community service, we've done the dirty work and compiled the list for Perkins.

Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty ImagesIt's the dunk heard 'round the social media world: Blake Griffin throwing down over Kendrick Perkins.

• Dirk Nowitzki: Watched blakes dunk over and over again. Almost makes me wonder if me and him even play the same sport. What an athlete

• Chris Paul: WoW!!! Just saw @blakegriffin dunk from 2nite...WHAT IN THE WORLD!!! Something is wrong with that guy...#GladHeIsOnMyTeam

• Stephen Curry: ...................REWIND..................

• DeMarcus Cousins: Blake Griffin ...smh!!!

• Eric Gordon: That's was nasty by blake griffin... Damn

• Tony Allen: Everybody talkn about blake dunk!!

• T.J. Ford: Lots of guys getn posterize this week BGriffin WOW!!!

• Rudy Fernandez: wooooowwwwwwwww u see the dunk from Blake Griffin?? NO PUEDE SER VERDAD........

• C.J. Miles: Blake Griffin = Captain Planet

• DeMar DeRozan: OMG @blakegriffin!!!!!

• Rasual Butler: @blakegriffin Dunk was better then the one Last year against the knicks The one tonight Wow!!!!!!!! Nasty! I know clipper Daryl Loved it!

• Courtney Lee: @blakegiffin dunk of year? Yuuuupp(trey Songz voice)

• Marcus Thornton: Just seeing this Blake griffin dunk LAWD

• Dorell Wright: OMG!!

• Al Thornton: Got damn Blake!!!! Perkins career is over with!!! Whoaaaaaaa.

• DaJuan Summers: We clearly have just seen the dunk of the year...WOW

• Damien Wilkins: Just landed in new york. I see Blake Griffin was clownin tonight!!

• Omri Casspi: Wow what a dunk by Blake

• Amir Johnson: Perk jus need to sit down for the rest of the game..smh

• Matt Carroll: Who just saw @blakegriffin smash on K. Perkins head?!?!?!? Wow!!!

• Kevin Love: @blakegriffin I hope you told Kendrick Perkins to shut up about the mantra!!!

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stops by the "SportsCenter" set to answer some questions from fans on Twitter.

AP Photo/Juan KaritaMegadeth's Dave Mustaine has to keep the head-banging to a minimum after neck surgery.

As Super Bowl week media coverage built to a fever pitch, some breaking news finally answered the question that beleaguered Indianapolis all season: Peyton Manning had been medically cleared to play.

Dave Mustaine, the frontman for heavy metal group Megadeth, understands the Indianapolis quarterback's prolonged recovery from a cervical neck fusion. Mustaine underwent the same procedure from the same surgeon who operated on Manning, Dr. Robert Watkins.

Uncertainty about the future after a potentially career-ending injury is a mind game, Mustaine says, for both an MVP quarterback and a heavy-metal guitar hero. "There's that self-doubt. What am I going to do -- what can I do?"

Mustaine's own chronic pain was caused by stenosis, the result of decades of onstage head-banging. Mustaine tried to cope with the pain for nearly 10 years through acupuncture, yoga, trigger point injections, and both narcotic and non-narcotic medication.

"It got to the point where I just didn't want to live like this anymore," he said

The breaking point came just days before the historic Big 4 show -- Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax -- at Yankee Stadium last September. Mustaine's son found him crawling on the floor in debilitating pain, hand elevated in a desperate attempt for relief.

Mustaine, with the help of some doctor-prescribed steroids, powered through the show but knew it was time to address the injury.

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AP Photo/Nick WassHarvard's Jeremy Lin has inspired a cult following in New York after three breakout games.

While former Harvard University students dominate many facets of life in the U.S. -- politics, Fortune 500 companies, Hollywood, the Internet -- modern sports is one area where the needle-necks from Cambridge, Mass., don't rule. In sports, strangely, boasting an Ivy League education almost works as a black mark against a player's athletic prowess. The kid from Harvard, who didn't even get a full-ride basketball scholarship offer out of high school, is going to guard the five-star blue chipper everybody remembers from March Madness?

New York's newest cult hero, however, is helping bring some street cred to Crimson athletes. And Jeremy Lin isn't alone -- plenty of his fellow alumni have contributed to one of the best years for Harvard athletes since the mid-20th century.

Lin -- the undrafted, Taiwanese, blue-tongued Harvard graduate -- has three consecutive 20-point games for the New York Knicks, who are 3-0 since Linsanity began despite missing stars Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony. In addition to possessing a gold mine of a name for easy puns, Lin has become basketball's version of Tim Tebow, a good-spirited, feel-good story who's polarizing only because so many people don't believe he can be for real.

Well, for now, after scoring 23 points Wednesday night against the Wizards, it appears Lin is real and here to stay. Add him to the list of Harvard men enjoying athletics success. Here's our Winklevoss-free roundup of the men bringing notoriety to Harvard athletics this year:

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Buffalo Bills quarterback: The 2005 graduate led the Bills to a 3-0 start, made the Pro Bowl and grew perhaps the most impressive beard in sports. Buffalo rewarded the economics major with a six-year, $59 million contract in October. Not bad, although Fitzpatrick's old schoolmate, Mark Zuckerberg, ain't all that impressed.

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During his playing career, pitcher Curt Schilling took his day job pretty seriously; just look at all those stats (and rings) he produced with the Orioles, Astros, Phillies, Diamondbacks and Red Sox.

But at the end of the day -- each day, really -- he was done with baseball.

"There wasn't a lot of interest in pitching against the Giants and then going home and replaying that on the XBox," Schilling said.

In its place: fantasy games, a natural choice for the longtime Dungeons & Dragons/J.R.R. Tolkien fan. And now it's paying off. Fantasy has become reality. Schilling's company, 38 Studios, released its first game on Tuesday: the role-playing "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning."

It took five years to produce, with fantasy/gaming luminaries such as R.A. Salvatore, Todd McFarlane and Ken Rolston playing major roles. In the moments following its release -- with "amazing" feedback from users and strong reviews from places such as IGN 9 out of 10 -- Schilling said it felt just like his baseball days.

"In the 30 minutes after I would pitch and we would win a game, [you'd see] what you played for," Schilling said. "You understood why you were doing it."

But the key there is "30 minutes." With a sequel in pre-production and another offering -- a massive multiplayer online game code-named "Copernicus" -- in the works, the release is a lot like any victory that doesn't clinch the World Series.

"[Tuesday] was the first day where you had that post-win feel, and that was very exciting," he said. "And it's gone. Now we're on to the next thing and it's about focusing and continuing to focus on what it is we have to do as we move forward."

Don Emmert/AFP/Getty ImagesMichael Phelps was in New York Wednesday to begin campaigning for Head & Shoulders.

Attention, swimmers preparing for the Olympics in London this summer: Michael Phelps is back, both mentally and physically.

After winning 16 Olympic medals and being named American Swimmer of the Year eight times between 2001 and 2009, the 26-year-old Phelps has struggled in the pool at times since winning eight medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Ryan Lochte, 27, beat Phelps in both the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter medley at the world championships last year, and some people were questioning how dedicated Phelps has been heading into his final Olympics in July.

Phelps agreed that he had lost his focus for the past few years -- but no more.

"My attitude has changed recently and for the better. I'm happy now, and I'm actually excited about going to work out," said Phelps, who has been using a hyperbaric chamber to aid in recovery from training. "That's unusual for me. I wasn't like that for the last Olympics."

On Wednesday, Phelps was in New York to promote his new "Wash in Confidence" campaign for Procter & Gamble's Head & Shoulders shampoo. He already has sponsorships with Speedo athletic wear, Subway, Under Armour and Omega watches.

Phelps didn't divulge which events he'll be swimming in during the Games, saying it's the motivation to get out of bed and into the pool.

Will he defend all five individual crowns -- 100-meter butterfly, 200m butterfly, 200m freestyle, 200m individual medley and 400m individually medley -- and the relay crowns of 4x100m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle and 4x100m medley?

"'I will not be answering that question," Phelps said. "It's my motivation to keep it to myself."

But Phelps did say he's feeling great about where is mentally as he begins preparing for London in the next few weeks. On Sunday, Phelps heads to Colorado Springs, Colo., to begin a three-week training camp, with the all-important U.S. Olympic trials in June.

"This is the most excited I've been since going into Beijing, and this is the best shape I've been in," Phelps said. "I'm not pulling my hair out being forced to train. I want to get into the water. I've found my passion for it again."

ESPN's Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic discuss the proper pronunciation of the word "vase".

What stage are you in?

• "No, you're wrong! There will be pro football this Sunday!"

• "There better be football Sunday or somebody is gonna get hurt!"

• "Tell you what, I'll wash your car Commissioner Goodell this Sunday if you let me watch football first."

• "There's not gonna be any football on Sunday, is there? Why go on?"

• "OK, there's no football Sunday but life does go on. So what am I gonna do?"

There you go. After denial, anger, bargaining and depression, all that's left is acceptance. Once we've reached that final stage, however, the problem is finding something else to do on our Sunday afternoons (or even Sunday mornings on the Left Coast).

Yes, as many of pointed out, going to church is certainly an option but regular church goers are just that -- regular. We're talking about the rest.

That's why we're here -- to help out each other. You, the readers, have generated a list that should be posted on every refrigerator door. This is how you can get through the difficult months ahead. Read and clip:

Top 10 Things To Do On Sundays

10. "Time to find out what is being endorsed this year by any aging lawn-tractor driving athletic celebrities," said Mark F. of Adamstown, Md. (Who could he be thinking about? Betty White?)

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Oh, just your typical commute on the Chicago El train. You know, the kind that starts out slow and ends with a Chicago Bulls mascot flash mob -- led by the lead man himself, the real Benny the Bull.

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Less than a week ago, New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin was an afterthought in the basketball card market.

Worse. He was a throw-in.

Two star-making performances later, and the Bay Area-bred, Harvard-educated second-year player is soaring. His value is, at least.

After scoring 25 points in a 99-92 Knicks win over the Nets on Saturday, Lin's rookie cards shot up in value on eBay. Two days later, Lin dropped 28 points and 8 assists in a win over the Jazz, and a perfect storm of collectibility began to brew.

Panini AmericaThis Jeremy Lin autographed rookie card by Panini, which sold online for $3.24 on Dec. 27, fetched $71 on Wednesday.

Scorching-hot player? Check.

Undervalued rookie cards? Check.

The world's biggest sports market? Check.

Hundreds of millions of fans in Asia who have been waiting for a breakout NBA star for a decade, since Yao Ming's debut? One massive check.

Consider: From late December to the day before his first scoring explosion, Lin's highest selling 2010-11 rookie card went for $40, on Jan. 10, a day after he played zero minutes in New York's win over Charlotte. Most of his cards, even ones featuring autographs and swatches of game-worn jersey, were selling in the $3-$10 range, with nary a blip.

But in roughly two hours, Lin's cards doubled, tripled, quadrupled in price.

Around 8:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, the first eBay buy-it-nows started to pop, one by one, with some savvy collector/investor getting on the Lin Express. At 8:40 p.m., someone bought Lin's best base rookie card -- a 2010-11 Panini National Treasures Autographed Jersey rookie card limited to 99 -- for $29.99.

The same card sold on Tuesday night for $299.99. A much rarer Lin rookie card -- a Panini Timeless Treasures Autograph card limited to just one copy -- sold for $625.

Jeremy has spoken, and as long as he keeps up his hot hand, collectors will continue to clamor.

Doug Pensinger/Getty ImagesMany Sonics fans want a team back in Seattle, but not at the expense of another NBA city.

If you live up here in the Northwest and are a sports fan, there is no doubt then that you probably became very aware of the news that The Seattle Times broke on Saturday -- that secret talks have been under way since last spring for a new downtown NBA/NHL arena.

Yes, Seattle, it looks like we might be closer to getting our Sonics back than we had previously thought. At least, this is what the talk and Monday sports-radio chatter suggested -- that we are suddenly ecstatic at the thought of having the NBA back to its rightful place … up here.

But later in The Times piece, there seems to be a hint that the Sacramento Kings are being watched closely -- the organization might not survive financially -- and thus be a natural contender for a move.

Oh. Now that changes things a bit.

Look, Seattle was treated extremely poorly in that brutal Clay Bennett takeover and eventual straight-up hijack of our beloved NBA franchise. The Sonics are Seattle. The team is now dressed up as something called the "Thunder." There is no hiding that Seattle got completely blindsided.

I could never in good conscience or with a modicum of smarts blame the average OKC resident and fan of basketball. They have showed they are good fans of the game -- and I bet some even have a little regret about how they came about their NBA franchise.

Last spring -- when Anaheim was making a sort of play to get the Kings -- I wrote about how I thought this was a raw deal for fans up there in the Central California Valley, and that Sacramento supporters should fight hard to somehow keep their team. I also believe that fans should be given a say in what happens to their teams. We do, after all, finance the whole dang deal -- don't we?!

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Soccer legend and L.A. Galaxy Midfielder David Beckham graces the cover of the March issue of Men's Health and opens up about staying at the top of his game as he gets older and the importance of family and friends:

Men's Health MagazineDavid Beckham is on the cover of the March issue of Men's Health.

David on getting older …

"Even at 36, I'm still running 12 miles a game. [But] I've definitely become more aware on the field. I know what my limits are, what I can achieve, and which passes I can play. I have adapted to my age."

David on the importance of family and friends …

"I've got friends at the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case. I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends."

David on how stubbornness has helped his career …

"I am a very stubborn person. I think it's helped me over my career. I'm sure it has hindered me at times as well, but not too many times. I know that if I set my mind to something, even if people are saying I can't do it, I will achieve it."

David on fatherhood …

"It would be easy for our kids to sit back and not work for anything, but they're not like that. They're as competitive as Victoria and me. We're very lucky with our boys: They want to win. They want to work at something. They know their values. That's the way we've brought them up so far, and that's the way we'll continue to bring them up."

To read the rest, check it out here.

One of the most debated aspects of any sports game is the accuracy of each stadium. If any of the dimensions, wall sizes, or intricacies of any park are wrong, thousands of e-mails, tweets, and blog posts are sent out calling for the art designer's job.

But from what I can tell about the new Marlins Park in Sony's "MLB 12 The Show," it looks like the creators of the game really nailed every detail. From the MTV Cribs-like aquariums behind home plate to the giant fish used to celebrate home runs, this looks like a stadium not to be missed.

If only I could smash the aquarium glass in the game with a foul ball.

Imagine if you will this scenario. In 2004, freeskier Josh Dueck crashed doing something he'd been comfortable doing a thousand times before. He woke from the slam only to find he'd lost half of his bodily control, paralyzed from the waist down and mentally devastated to find himself no longer able to do what he once did.

Now imagine this. Imagine that same skier believes he can return to flight. Imagine returning with half the body to the exact same flight that had changed his life forever. Imagine the fear that comes along with the thought, "The last time I did something like this, I ended up in this wheelchair." And then imagine saying, "But this time, I've got it."

That's what Josh Dueck just did. In 2004 he was left paralyzed after an overshot frontflip over a jump in Vernon, BC. On Feb. 3, Dueck became the first person to perform a backflip on snow in a sit ski.

Dueck, the 2011 gold medalist at Winter X Games Mono Skier X, recently earned a bronze medal in Mono Skier X at the 2012 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. He was also the star of a recent film, "Freedom Chair," which earned Best Documentary at the 2012 Powder Video Awards.

Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesLook closely and you can see that Logan Mankins wore a mustachioed helmet in Super Bowl XLVI.

Patriots offensive lineman Logan Mankins sported a Fu Manchu mustache this past season, which garnered a fair amount of attention. But what most fans didn't notice is that Mankins took his 'stache to the next level during the Super Bowl -- by wearing little Fu Manchus on his helmet logos.

That right: Look closely at shots of Mankins from the big game and you'll see that the "Flying Elvis" logo decals on his helmet had been Fu-ified! He doesn't appear to have done this for any earlier games, so it was apparently something special he did for the Super Bowl (or maybe a special Super Bowl prank played by a Sharpie-wielding teammate).

Mankins' mustachioed Elvis recalls a similar bit of helmet embellishment from 20 seasons ago, when Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich drew sunglasses and a goatee onto his helmet logo for his NFL debut. And no, that's not a Photoshop job -- you can see it for yourself in this video clip.

As for Mankins, he didn't respond to inquiries left with the Patriots on Tuesday -- no surprise, since a player who just suffered a last-minute Super Bowl loss will presumably be in no mood to talk about uniform minutiae. But even if we never get the full backstory, the Fu-ification of Mankins' helmet stands as one of the coolest uni-related details in Super Bowl history.

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Got a friend with a birthday coming up? Then let Los Angeles Lakers rookies Andrew Goudelock and Darius Morris sing for them! … with a little coaching from Metta World Peace (but not a whole lot of melody).

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Kenny Smith can collect his crown for Dad of the Year.

The two-time NBA champion and current NBA analyst not only gave his 17-year-old daughter, Kayla Brianna, the green light for pursuing a music career, but he also organized a gang of his celebrity friends -- Chris Rock, George Lopez, Ice Cube and Keri Hilson -- to record at-a-girl video messages to his daughter after she landed a deal with Interscope Records. Last week, her record label debuted her new music video during TNT's halftime of the Lakers-Heat game, which interspersed player footage with Brianna's single. Folks liked what they saw: Brianna and her song "If You Love Me" became a national trending topic.

"I'm a basketball person, you know? If you wanna be a college basketball player, I can really help you," Smith says. "She said she wanted to be a singer, wanted to be an artist and I said, 'Why don't you write down the 10 things you think you need to be an artist, because I have no idea whatsoever.' And she wrote down those 10 things and I just provided those services for her. Her talent kicked the door in. I was the cab driver, driving her to the places that she put on her list."

Best lessons she's learned from Dad?

"I just see what he puts into his job, like how hard he works and his dedication … so I just use that in singing," says Brianna, who's hoping to be the next Beyonce.

Smith says that when he heard his daughter sing, he thought she was amazing. Of course, he also jokes that he was listening with his daddy ears, so he didn't want to jump the gun and crown her the next big thing.

"Other people would approach me and be like: 'Hey Kenny, do you have a daughter that sings? I saw her at this showcase. You really need to take this serious, man.' Others validated what I already thought," he said.

And as far as last week's big coup?

He wasn't surprised one bit.

"If I watch Kobe Bryant work out, and then all of a sudden he has a good game, you're not surprised. You saw the work that went into it. I got to see all of the behind-the-scenes, all of the effort, all of the hard work, all of the hours and hours in the studio getting there 'til 3 in the morning, and then waking up at 6 to go to class," he says.

This month is a big month for Brianna. She's finishing up the album -- and she's working with music legends Ron Fair (Keyshia Cole) and Vincent Herbert (Lady Gaga) -- and later this month, she'll perform in Orlando, Fla., during All-Star week. Her Twitter followers (@KaylaBriannaX) have a chance to win a trip to the game and hang out with her, courtesy of her record label; she's booked to perform at an NBA jam session.

As for her dad, he swears he's no daddy-ger (as in, daddy/manager).

"No! Not at all. The great thing about my situation is I still get to be Kenny, basketball Kenny. She has her own management team … she has her own record label," he said. "All I have to do is make sure that she's doing her homework."

Courtesy of DDPYogaDiamond Dallas Page says of his exercise regimen: "This ain't your momma's yoga."

A 6-foot-5 tattooed former pro wrestling champion does not seem like the type of guy to be doing sun salutations. This is a dude who looks so tough that Rob Zombie cast him as a bounty hunter in the horror flick "The Devil's Rejects."

But the life of former WCW and WWE star Diamond Dallas Page has taken a plot twist straight out of a Monday Night Raw storyline. The self-proclaimed "King of the Bada-Bing" has reinvented himself as a yoga guru.

When Page, 55, unrolls his yoga mat he doesn't shout out his old catch phrase, "Self high-five." But he doesn't offer any greeting along the lines of "Namaste" either. His newest catch phrase: "This ain't your momma's yoga."

"I usually tell my classes that if you want to reach your arms to the heavens and have the universe smile at you, you might be in the wrong class," Page said. The workout takes the basic principles of yoga and blends them with elements of strength conditioning, Pilates and mixed martial arts.

Page swears his yoga practice aided the healing of ruptured L4 and L5 discs in his lower back and allowed him to continue wrestling. Today he says yoga has put him in better shape than during his years in the ring.

He doesn't rule out a return to WWE and a recent agreement has led to him being a character in the latest WWE video games.

But, for now, he's focused on a different kind of mat.

High-profile friends like "Dancing With the Stars" alum and WWE star Chris Jericho have used Page's yoga theories to keep them sharp and work through injuries. That's in addition to the dozens of regular-guy testimonials that go with a host of products on his website, DDPBang.com.

"P90X and Insanity are awesome workouts for young guys who aren't beat up," Page said. "DDPYoga is for guys who are beat up. It's the fountain of youth for beat-up guys."

AP Photo/The Lewiston Sun-Journal/Amber WatermanPatrick Dempsey talks with fellow cyclists during the Dempsey Challenge charity fundraiser in Maine.

Which celebrity would cyclists most like to ride with?

According to a Bicycling magazine poll of more than 5,000 readers, it's Gisele Bundchen. Of course, some hardcore Patriots fans may disagree, though I'm sure even they would excuse/endorse her comments about New England's receivers if she were wearing spandex bike shorts.

At least, Gisele is the person whom male readers chose from a list of eight celebs noted for their interest in cycling. Women picked Patrick Dempsey, aka, Dr. McDreamy on "Gray's Anatomy," a passionate cyclist who holds an annual charity ride. Gisele finished last among women voters, while Tom Brady was next-to-last. The quarterback ranked fourth among male voters.

The runners-up for the men in order were: actor (and Lance Armstrong pal) Matthew McConaughey, Talking Heads musician (and author of "Bicycle Diaries") David Byrne, Brady, Dempsey, Madonna, actor Jake Gyllenhaal and actor Orlando Bloom. The runners-up among women were: McConaughey, Gyllenhaal, Byrne, Bloom, Madonna, Brady and Gisele.

Among other interesting tidbits from the poll: 50 percent of men cyclists and 58 percent of women would rather give up sex for a month than cycling for a month. (Again, the numbers might change if they were allowed to ride with Gisele and McDreamy, respectively.) Also, 64 percent of women said they give a thumbs up to men who shave their legs (I hope my wife doesn't see this).

Finally, while 79 percent of the respondents say they ride to stay healthy and 76 percent say they also ride for fun (you could pick more than one reason), 46 percent say they ride to look better. Hey, that last benefit is important if you're hoping to snag a ride with Gisele or McDreamy.

Peter Dill vaulted into the national spotlight when his explosive bench celebrations were featured on a "SportsCenter" highlight. The Seton Hall senior dominated the recap of the Pirates' 66-50 win over then-No. 8 UConn on Jan. 3, his new moves pointed out by anchors Kevin Negandhi and Linda Cohn as every basket preceded a close-up of Dill going buck-wild on the sidelines.

Too bad Dill missed it. The guard was sleeping after a late practice.

"Early morning I was getting texts from my coaches, asking me questions about something, and I ignored it in my sleep," Dill said. "They told me to put on 'SportsCenter,' but I was so tired, I told them I'd check it out later."

When Dill finally flipped on his television, he caught the initial stages of a mini-mania surrounding his fist pumps, Aaron Rodgers belt celebration and "Thor's hammer" moves. The YouTube video of the "SportsCenter" segment has nearly 400,000 views, and a quick Google search for Peter Dill brings up headlines like "Seton Hall's Peter Dill Is The Best Benchwarmer in College Basketball."

It even spawned a fake Twitter account @HammerofDill -- Dill and his teammates have been trying, in vain, to figure out who's running it -- and "Hammer of Dill" T-shirts have surfaced, the proceeds of which are going to charity.

But for Dill -- a walk-on whose high school didn't even field a basketball team and who has tallied six career minutes for the Pirates -- all the attention was, well, as funny as his celebrations.

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Bettors in Nevada wagered upwards of $93.8 million on Super Bowl XLVI in hopes of striking it rich, and 28-year-old Jona Rechnitz, owner of JSR Capital in New York, was fortunate to live every gambler's dream.

At the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Rechnitz bet $1,000 at 50-to-1 odds that the first score of Super Bowl XLVI would be a Giants safety. "My friends thought I was crazy," Rechnitz told Page 2. "To be honest, I actually thought I was crazy, too."

Rechnitz was very aware of the long odds he faced and welcomed the criticism and playful jabs while he viewed the game with 11 friends at the Cosmopolitan.

Courtesy of Jona RechnitzJona Rechnitz won big on this ticket when the first points of Super Bowl XLVI were scored on a Giants safety.

After Giants punter Steve Weatherford pinned New England inside its 5-yard line, the suspense mounted considerably for Rechnitz and his friends.

"I had a lot faith in Justin Tuck, Osi Umenyiora and Jason Pierre-Paul," he said, "This was my chance."

On New England's first play, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady threw a deep desperation pass to a vacant area of the field while being pressured by Tuck inside the pocket. When a flag for intentionally grounding was belatedly thrown with 8:52 remaining in the first quarter, the group erupted in cheers as Rechnitz became $50,000 richer.

"We celebrated for at least 10 minutes in complete mayhem," Rechnitz said with a laugh, "and my friends believed the bet was going to go viral!"

Interestingly, Rechnitz isn't an avid gambler. His friends frequent sports books, but this was his first time betting on a Super Bowl.

Here's the catch: Rechnitz said he doesn't believe in gambling as a means of earning income. "It's just something I did for fun, so I'm donating all of the money to charity," he said.

Coincidentally, Rechnitz's belief in charity work stems from his admiration of Patriots owner Robert Kraft and his philanthropic efforts, along with his own religious beliefs. Rechnitz studied for a year in Israel, where he played football at Kraft Family Stadium -- a football structure donated by Kraft in order to support American football overseas. "I have been a fan of Robert Kraft ever since," Rechnitz said.

Rechnitz said he plans to donate 10 percent of his winnings to a charity of Tom Brady's choice, which he hopes Kraft and Brady will match. He also plans to make a 10 percent donation to the charity of choice of the Giants' defensive line. He said the remaining money, after taxes, will be donated to charities which fight poverty and hunger.

Rechnitz did indulge in one purchase, however.

"Well, there is something else I purchased, too," Rechnitz said. "As a tradition, the big winner on Super Bowl night is responsible for purchasing the entire group matching sports gear or apparel to signify our brotherhood, and I bought each of us a pair of Kobe 7s."

So after a $50K win, Jona will surely be back in Vegas to test his luck again, right?

"Nope," he joked, "When you beat Vegas, you leave Vegas."

Where most saw an ordinary drainage ditch, some creative skaters in Guadalajara, Mexico, saw a half pipe. Luckily, Red Bull was around to film the trick-filled results.

Here's an offer to Bruce Greenwood, star of the ABC's new thriller "The River," which debuts Tuesday:

"If you could give it all up to go back to your dream as a child to become a pro skier, would you take it?"

Greenwood, who has starred in more than 50 movies including the reboot of "Star Trek" and "I, Robot," didn't hesitate: "If you could make that happen, I'd probably take you up on it. Sking is such a beautiful sport."

Greenwood was born in Canada but lived as a teen in Switzerland. He really wanted to become a pro skier until he hurt his right knee. Again. And again. And again. In fact, he has had six operations on his right leg.

"I had a dream of being that skier and being a poet. I somehow thought I could support myself doing both of those things," said the 55-year-old actor. "It didn't take too long when my knee exploded to realize I couldn't ski anymore. Then, reality hit when I realized I wasn't a good poet either."

So Greenwood turned to acting, and the rest is history.

On the new ABC show, Greenwood plays famed explorer Dr. Emmet Cole, who went on a tour of the uncharted Amazon and never returned. His family, after hearing his distress beacon six months after he vanished, begin the search.

"It's a cross between 'Paranormal Activity' and 'Apocalypse Now,' " said Greenwood of the show with Steven Spielberg as executive producer. "And I love that we film in a luxurious environment instead of just walking down a hallway in a suit."

The show might be about the Amazon but is filmed in Hawaii, and Greenwood said he got back into shape while there.

"I love being in outdoors and I love this character. He and I share a lot of similar traits," Greenwood said. "Hawaii just begs you to get into shape when you get to paddleboard four or five mornings to burn off laziness."

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Page 2 cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day.

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Not long ago, Dallas Mavericks star/NBA Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki channeled Britney Spears in a dramatic reading. Now, teammate Jason Terry explains why "U Can't Touch This" in a kinder, gentler version of Hammertime.

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Frederick M. Brown/Getty ImagesKristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler have announced plans to marry after their baby is born.

Human sack dummy Jay Cutler might have sat out the fast six games of the season, but he managed to stay busy -- and I mean bizz-ay -- by impregnating his fiancée, documented Laguna Beach resident Kristin Cavallari. The couple recently announced that they're going to hold off on a wedding until the baby's born and Cavallari's frame reverts from its convex state, which buys them enough time to break up and reunite three more times before actually tying the knot.

With mommy-to-be Hilary Duff's husband Mike Comrie sidelined indefinitely due to a nagging hip, the Cutler-Cavallari spawn might very well be the most relevant fetus to come from an athlete/celebrity combo in 2012. It's hard to imagine what the genetic mash-up of a middle-tier quarterback and an "America's Next Top Model" guest judge might produce, but we can certainly have fun speculating about best- and worst-case scenarios:

Best wishes to the couple. I eagerly anticipate the day Cavallari sappily solicits prayers for her husband's success and shortly thereafter profanely lambasts everyone else on his team.

When the New York Giants won Super Bowl XLVI and Eli Manning was named the game's MVP, all I could do was shake my head. EA Sports had done it again.

For the seventh time in the last nine seasons, EA Sports correctly predicted the Super Bowl winner utilizing the advanced Artificial Intelligence of their best-selling "Madden" video game, and they even managed to get some of the stats eerily similar to how the game played out for real Sunday night.

Here's a comparison of how EA saw the game compared to what happened in real life:

FINAL SCORE:

John Lamparski/Getty ImagesOur humble correspondent decided to skip the Super Bowl and head down to Broadway instead.

I've spent Super Bowl Sunday at the game (XXVI), on an aircraft carrier (XXXVII), on a plane (several times), on a beach, on a treadmill with the game playing on TV, at numerous parties and, of course, watching at home from my couch. But this year, I spent Super Bowl Sunday in perhaps the most anti-Super Bowl way of all:

Attending two Broadway musicals. Yes, my man card has already been suspended.

The first of these was the matinee performance of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," which is about three drag queens cruising the Australian Outback in outrageous glittery costumes and wigs while singing and dancing to such tunes as "I Will Survive," "It's Raining Men" and "Like a Prayer." It was a little like how I imagined Madonna's halftime show, only less flamboyant. (And the dancers are so buff and impossibly athletic they probably violate the NFL's policy on performance-enhancing substances.)

The second show was "The Book of Mormon," the Tony-winning musical by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. This show is normally an impossible ticket. The women in front of my wife and me were told that the next show with two seats available together is in October. But the beauty of Super Bowl Sunday is all sorts of people cancel plans to watch it, especially when the local team is playing. If you ever want to get a difficult ticket or reservation, just plan it around the Super Bowl.

Thus, "Priscilla'' tickets were half price, and with "The Book of Mormon" showtime coinciding with the first quarter of the Super Bowl, I was able to get tickets by standing in the cancellation line for only about 30 minutes. Others were shut out, though. Remember: Despite all the hype about the ratings, almost two-thirds of Americans don't watch the Super Bowl.

I was initially thankful for the couple who turned in the tickets, but then I felt a little sorry for them, imagining that two New Yorkers had purchased the tickets months in advance and eagerly awaited the show, only to have the Giants make the Super Bowl and provide a most unpleasant dilemma (as well as likely domestic strife): the game or the show?

Even though the Giants won, they made the wrong choice. "Book of Mormon" is a brilliant show, easily the funniest on Broadway since "The Producers." I give it a full V stars out of V. Plus, it ended early enough that we were able to duck into a nearby bar and watch the Giants' winning touchdown drive.