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Bobby Knight is giving the commencement address at Trine University, and a lot of sportswriters are having a lot of !$%^#&* fun with the idea. Here's, for example, via NPR, is the "10 Greatest Bobby Knight Soundbites."

Hang in there, Colts! Even though you lost the Super Bowl, we still love you! We are proud of you, and we can't wait to . . . Oh, never mind:

The end of the Indianapolis Colts' season came down to 11 people.

I've figured out why the Colts lost the Super Bowl. It's amazingly simple when you think about it, and it all goes back to this one play:

The Saints coach made all the right moves, most notably calling for an onside kick to start the second half, depriving the Colts of the ball when Indianapolis had a 10-6 lead and changing the tone of the game.

I've liked The Who a long time, but I must respectfully disagree with this:

The Super Bowl finally found its soundtrack with The Who, whose halftime show provided music as big and loud as the game itself.

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Well, thank God:

Indianapolis - The NFL is changing the rules on where you can watch the Super Bowl this year.

In the past, the league threatened to sue churches and community centers that showed the game on big screens.

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All's well that ends well:

For there was a time on Sunday when it appeared as if the Colts might become victims of their own creation. It was, after all, Indianapolis who rested its starters halfway through a game against the Jets two weeks before the end of the regular season when the Colts had already clinched home-field advantage in the playoffs.

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Ouch -- nice jab:

I have a feeling the Colts are going to play their starters against the Jets Sunday.

The oddsmakers are making the Jets 8-point underdogs.

You can get tickets to Saturday night's NFL game between the Colts and Ravens for $100 to $700, or you could pop for a $20,000 luxury suite for yourself and 19 friends. Sure, that's pricey, but at least the Colts will be trying to win this time. If they do, and make it all the way to the Super Bowl, maybe you'd like to save your money for that:

Super Bowl tickets are selling on the secondary market for anywhere from $1,700 to $370,000.

I opened this story because my quick glance at the headline -- "Unsung heroes keep Jets moving forward -- because I thought it might be about the people behind the scenes making sure relief keeps flowing to Haiti. If I'd looked a little closer, I would have noticed the capital "J" and known not to bother: