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Peyton Manning spent his 14th season with the Indianapolis Colts as a spectator, the future Hall of Fame quarterback missing every game because of a lingering neck injury that required several surgeries. He will spend his 15th NFL season on another team. Manning and the Colts are parting ways, according to a report, bringing to an end the four-time MVP's career with the team that drafted him No. 1 overall in 1998, then watched him start every game for 13 years. ESPN, citing sources close to the team, said the announcement will be made at a press conference Wednesday. The...

Peyton Manning's 14-year career with the Indianapolis Colts is coming to an end after owner Jim Irsay informed the four-time NFL MVP on Monday night that the team will release him, according to team sources.

Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts had both hoped he would play his entire NFL career with that franchise. What was speculated about for months will become official Wednesday when the Colts officially part ways with their future Hall of Fame quarterback. FOXSports.com has confirmed that Manning will be released, ending his storied 14-year tenure with the club. FOXSports.com NFL insider Jay Glazer reported that Manning and Colts owner Jim Irsay will conduct a joint news conference Wednesday in Indianapolis. The tone is intended as a farewell tribute to Manning, whom Irsay has long championed as a close friend as...

<p>The Peyton Manning era in Indianapolis is expected to end Wednesday, according to a report.</p> <p>Citing anonymous sources, ESPN reported Tuesday that the Colts plan to hold a news conference to announce the long-expected decision. Manning is expected to attend.</p>

The Indianapolis Colts' sudden crash has cost coach Jim Caldwell his job. The team fired Caldwell on Tuesday, the second major decision in what is expected to be a long offseason shake-up. Team owner Jim Irsay fired team vice chairman Bill Polian and his son, Chris, the team's general manager, the day after the season ended.

INDIANAPOLIS (CN) - A cheerleader claims the Indianapolis Colts fired her because of her race and gender, after claiming she had appeared in "painted pictures" which the team did not show her, and which were never published or offered for sale. Her federal complaint contains a long list of "morals" offenses for which players were not disciplined. Malori Wampler, who is Indonesian, seeks lost wages and punitive damages for racial and sexual discrimination.

Graduating from high school is supposed to be one of the greatest moments of your life. You’re looking forward to college; feeling like you’re on top of the world, all set to run off and explore everything life has in store for you. Four days before my graduation, that’s exactly how I felt. But then something happened that changed things in a hurry: my mother passed away. Suddenly, my entire future looked a lot different. I had every reason to sink down into the dumps at that point, to be bitter at the world and everyone in it. But my...

The Saints beat the Colts 31-17 for their first Super Bowl victory. It was a thrilling win, with the outcome in doubt until Tracy Porters' 74 yard "pick six" with 3:12 left in the game and the Colts driving for the potential tying score. The other big winner in this game was sports books. Evidence shows that bettors love two things: favorites in point spread betting and the over on total betting. According to sportsbook.com, as of about 4pm Eastern on Sunday the line was the Colts -5 and the over-under was 57. Based on action at off-shore sports books,...

Peyton Manning(notes) didn't shake hands with New Orleans Saints players after his Indianapolis Colts lost 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV. Apparently some think this is a sign of poor sportsmanship from the NFL's greatest player. It's not. Walking off the field without congratulating Drew Brees(notes) may go against our misguided notion of what sportsmanship should be, but it wasn't at all disrespectful or bitter. It shows how much Peyton Manning wanted to win the game. And who can argue about that? LeBron James was caught up in a similar controversy during the NBA playoffs last year and the same thing...

Miami, FL -- When millions of people around the world tune in for the Super Bowl tomorrow, they will finally get a chance to see the commercial celebrating the life of Tim Tebow. But viewers may not know Clyce Christensen, the assistant head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has his own potential abortion story that changed his life.

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Miami, FL (LifeNews.com) -- When tens of millions of people around the world tune in for the Super Bowl tomorrow, they will finally get a chance to see the commercial celebrating the life of Tim Tebow. But viewers may not know Clyce Christensen, the assistant head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has his own potential abortion story that changed his life.Christensen's mother was an unwed teenager who gave birth to him when she was 15 -- an age where many teens have an abortion because their pregnancy is frequently a result of sexual assault."I also can't help but look back...

Maurepas High School officials sent a student home Friday for wearing a blue-and-white Indianapolis Colts football jersey to class on Black-and-Gold Day, an event staged to salute the New Orleans Saints, his father said. Colts fan Brandon Frost, 17, said he was called out of his first-period class by Principal Steven Vampran and told to go home because he wore the Colts jersey on the day the school was celebrating the New Orleans Saints going to Super Bowl XLIV. The Saints will play the Colts in the big game on Sunday. In response, Marjorie Esman, executive director of the American...

An opinion and wish on who will win Super Bowl XLIV, also a poll to cast your vote. Who Dat! or Will Manning reign supreme?

A Louisiana high school student says he was sent home for wearing an Indianapolis Colts jersey Friday - the day the principal encouraged students to wear New Orleans Saints black and gold as the teams get ready to face off in the Super Bowl. "If they tell other students to support their team, why can't I support mine?" Brandon Frost, 17, told The Associated Press. The senior at Maurepas High School moved three years ago from Indianapolis to the rural town 30 miles from Baton Rouge. A Livingston Parish School Board member said Frost wasn't sent home, but was told...

Americans are so polarized right now, even the Super Bowl's dividing them along party lines. Overall 32% of voters we polled on our last national survey said they'd be rooting for the New Orleans Saints this Sunday, with 22% going for the Indianapolis Colts and 46% expressing no preference. There's a significant partisan divide within those numbers, as Democrats prefer the Saints by a 36-21 margin while Republicans say they want the Colts to be victorious by a closer 26-25 spread. Independents lean toward the Saints as well, 33-20. Beyond the partisan divide it's also interesting to note that a...

Here’s yet another dividing line between Republicans and Democrats: the team they want to win the country’s showcase sporting event. A new Public Policy Polling survey finds a Super Bowl Sunday split between Republicans and Democrats, with Democrats rooting for the New Orleans Saints by a 15-point margin (36 percent to 21 percent) and Republicans narrowly in favor of the Indianapolis Colts. Independents break towards the Saints as well, 33 percent to 20 percent. “There may not be the same kind of partisan gap on the Super Bowl that there is for Barack Obama’s approval ratings, but when it comes...

While the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts are preparing to go head-to-head in Super Bowl XLIV at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, U.S. justices and even our president are squaring off in arenas of jurisprudence from sea to shining sea. Here are just a few recent examples: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito shook his head in dismay and mouthed the words “not true” when President Barack Obama rebutted the entire Supreme Court in the justices’ presence and before the whole nation during his State of the Union speech. The president alleged that the court “reversed a century...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis Colts Coach Jim Caldwell on Friday brushed aside comments from the New Orleans Saints camp about plans to intimidate quarterback Peyton Manning. Caldwell responded to comments New Orleans defensive coordinator Gregg Williams made Thursday on a Tennessee radio station in which he said defenders will "have a couple of remember me shots" for Manning and that "if it happens, you hope that he doesn't get back up and play again." "Comments that individuals make, we can't control that. They use whatever motivational tools they like to," Caldwell said. "I'm not going to pass judgment on anything he...

That was the question posed to Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Jim Caldwell. After hearing this question I started wondering if African American (I hate that title) Coaches were somehow inferior. I mean why else would a reporter feel the need to ask this question? Is it not the same to a Caucasian coach if he gets to the super bowl? Is it not the same level of coaching involved? Coach Caldwell did a fantastic job with his Football team this season, and not because he happens to be black. Your ethnicity does not give you an advantage in coaching football....

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The NFL flaps its gums to appease Colts fans forced to watch their team tank last week's game against the Jets, blowing their perfect season. MIAMI (AP) -- Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL competition committee will review league policy regarding late-season games where teams might be tempted to rest their starters for the playoffs. Goodell said the league was sensitive to criticism in the wake of the Indianapolis Colts' decision to use backups a week ago in a game they lost, ending their bid for a perfect season. ''It is something we'll look at,'' Goodell said Sunday. ''We heard...

Sorry for the second stupid post about trying to find an NFL game online to watch since it is NOT on TV (that I can find) and I have checked the link given the other day by helpful freepers re: another online NFL game that was NOT on TV (at least not on free TV channels I get) and could not find THIS GAME at that link.

It was Charles Dickens who once wrote “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” It’s almost as though Mr. Dickens had privy to a time machine and was in attendance to witness the same pain and agony that Texan’s fans saw first hand on Sunday after noon at Reliant Stadium.

Live thread oppurtunity. Trapped in work, listening to the game on radio in my work vehicle. Any takers......Go Pats

No one knows for sure what the outcome of the game would have been if Kris Brown's field goal attempt would have been good as time expired in Indianapolis on Sunday. But we do know that the game would have been extended to overtime; and the way the Texans’ offense was clicking, chances are, they probably would have found the end zone.

Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the St. Louis Rams ran into opposition within the NFL on Tuesday. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay vowed to vote against him and commissioner Roger Goodell said the conservative commentator's "divisive" comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider.

BOSTON (AP) - Rush Limbaugh's bid to buy the St. Louis Rams ran into opposition within the NFL on Tuesday. Colts owner Jim Irsay vowed to vote against him, and commissioner Roger Goodell said the conservative commentator's "divisive" comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider. "I, myself, couldn't even consider voting for him," Irsay said at an owners meetings. "When there are comments that have been made that are inappropriate, incendiary and insensitive ... our words do damage, and it's something that we don't need."

Peyton Manning leading the "hot" Colts against the Titans, who are 0-4 so far this season. Another fun game maybe - any other Colts (or Titans) fans out there?

Anybody watching the Colts vs. the Cardinals? Slow news night here. Old Colts fan here (from back in the Johnny Unitas days) Just watching if anyone else is - join in.

The superintendent of transportation for Lackawanna County was charged Wednesday with pressuring fellow employees into giving him prescription painkillers for more than a year. Anthony T. Koloras harassed, insulted and publicly ridiculed a County of Lackawanna Transit System bus driver and a female employee until they relented, according to court documents. He called the woman “fat” and made fun of her clothing when she refused to comply. “You don’t really need all of it,” Mr. Koloras, told the woman he repeatedly harassed for Vicodin pills, according to the documents. In an interview with county detectives, Mr. Koloras admitted asking people...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts have scheduled a press conference for 5 p.m. today, presumably to announce the future of head coach Tony Dungy with the team. But FOXSports.com is reporting today that Dungy has already decided to step down. According to the Internet report by NFL writer Jay Glazier, Dungy is "walking around the team's complex saying good bye to players and team employees and informing them that the transition should be a smooth one for new coach Jim Caldwell." A source told Glazier that Dungy explained that he has talked it over with his family and they believed...

Atlanta at Arizona (pk) Saturday January 3rd, 2009 NBC 4:30pm EST Indianapolis at San Diego (+1) Saturday January 3rd, 2009 NBC 8:00pm EST Baltimore at Miami (+3) Sunday January 4th, 2009 CBS, 1pm EST Philadelphia at Minnesota (+3) Sunday January 4th, 2009 FOX, 4pm EST

They invested 24 days and an estimated 98,000 words to complete Tony Dungy's memoir, "Quiet Strength." Jefferson High School teachers read the book to their students from January to March as part of the One Book, One School project. Today, the 1,800 students heard from the Super Bowl-winning coach himself. A goal of Dungy's 2007 book is to motivate people to live productive lives even when facing adversity. Based on the reaction at Jefferson High, it achieved its mission.

In the penultimate paragraph of his best-selling book, "Quiet Strength," a work whose subject matter certainly transcends the folly and fleeting stardom of sport, Tony Dungy wrote this: "I coach football. But the good I can do to glorify God along the way is my real purpose." For one more year at least, perhaps even a little longer than that, Dungy will continue to moonlight in those pursuits, to address with great purpose the duality of his life, and to chase both his ultimate vocation and his higher-profile avocation. And for at least one more season we're all the richer...

11/20/2007 - INDIANAPOLIS (AFPN) -- The Indianapolis Colts earned the National Football League's Lombardi Trophy as the Super Bowl XLI champions last February in Miami. Now the team can add a prestigious Air Force award to its ever-expanding trophy case. Gen. William R. Looney III, commander of Air Education and Training Command, presented Colts team president Bill Polian and head coach Tony Dungy with the American Spirit Award at midfield prior to the kickoff against the Kansas City Chiefs at the RCA Dome Nov. 18 here. The American Spirit Award is the Air Force's highest form of recognition given to...

The Indianapolis Colts already expect Dwight Freeney not to play for several weeks because of a left foot injury, but now there's reason to believe the Pro Bowl defensive end's season might be over. Though more tests have to be completed for the team to make a final determination, a source said Tuesday that Freeney might have suffered a Lisfranc injury in Sunday's loss to the San Diego Chargers. If additional tests verify the initial diagnosis of the midfoot injury, the source said Freeney will need season-ending surgery. Players who have suffered Lisfranc injuries, even those not needing surgical repair,...

The NFL is looking into allegations that the Indianapolis Colts piped in noise during the game Sunday between the Colts and the Patriots. The charge comes after Patriots President Jonathan Kraft became the latest NFL team executive to accuse the Colts of the distracting tactic that is against the rules. "We're aware of it and we're looking into it," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Monday. "It may just be the TV feed from CBS, but we're checking it out." Observers at the game said there seemed to be a "skip" in the sound during the game Sunday, which the Patriots...

Indianapolis - Colts fans will now have a chance to get their hands on a coveted Super Bowl XLI ring and help Indiana charities at the same time. The Indianapolis Colts announced their Quest for the Ring contest Tuesday. Five authentic Super Bowl XLI rings will be given away to fans, and all proceeds generated by the contest will be donated to Indiana charities through the Indianapolis Colts Foundation, Inc. (ICF), a nonprofit organization. It's the first time authentic Super Bowl rings will be available to fans. Colts owner Jim Irsay announced the contest during a Blue Tuesday rally on...

They're beating a 4-2 Redskins team by a score of 45-0, with plenty of time left in the 4th quarter? In game 8, of a 16 game season, Brady now has 31 touchdown passes for the season? Which puts him on pace to throw more than 60 touchdown passes in a single season? Can the Colts beat this team? If they stay healthy, are the 2007 Patriots the best team in the history of the NFL? Discuss.

Patriots at Colts has a powerful, compelling narrative. Namely -- Good vs. Evil. Argument for the Indianapolis Colts as paladins who carry the banner of that which is beneficent: Sportsmanship, honesty, modesty, devotion to community, embrace of traditional small-town life, belief in higher power, even love of laughter. Argument for the New England Patriots as scoundrels in the service of that which is baleful: Dishonesty, cheating, arrogance, hubris, endless complaining even in success. The Patriots have three Super Bowl rings, but that jewelry is tarnished by their cheating scandal. They run up the score to humiliate opponents -- more on...

There is a poll posted to the front page of IndyStar.com that asks: "Do you think the property tax protesters should demonstrate during the Colts game?" Leave it to Gannett to attempt to justify tossing the Bill of Rights. FReep that poll!

INDIANAPOLIS - Some of the Republicans running for President have descend on the Circle City. Three of the candidates are in town for the Midwestern Republican Leadership Conference. 24-Hour News 8 has an exclusive one-on-one interview with Fred Thompson. Thompson leads in the polls, has huge name recognition and when he walks by in downtown Indianapolis people whisper, "there he is." News 8 walked with him about everything from Peyton to being President. Fred Thompson granted his only one on one interview exclusively to 24-Hour News 8. He got serious about his new role as a possible president immediately. Karen:...

It was a testament to the reputation of Tony Dungy. When STV approached athletes, coaches and members of the media—both Christian and not—about lessons they’d learned from the Indianapolis Colts’ head coach, the average rate of return on the quote request was less than a day. That never happens. But when it comes to Tony Dungy, it seems that people are more than willing, even eager, to express their awe and admiration for him—a man who has been through so much in so little time. Perhaps the words of ESPN’s Chris Berman expressed it most clearly: “Tony Dungy is probably...

Grateful Freeney signs $72 million deal with Colts By John Clayton ESPN.com Defensive end Dwight Freeney has spent his entire football career chasing and sacking quarterbacks. Now, he's going to be paid as the premier player at his position. Freeney, the Indianapolis Colts' franchise player, signed a six-year, $72 million contract with the team Friday that includes a $30 million signing bonus. He becomes the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history. "To have me paid among the top players in the league -- not just as a defensive players -- means a lot of me," said Freeney, who flew to...

Nearly two-dozen University of Minnesota students demonstrated at an appearance by University of Minnesota alumnus and longtime NFL coach Tony Dungy at Mariucci Arena on Tuesday afternoon. Dungy played football for the Golden Gophers in the early 1970s and has coached for numerous NFL teams, most notably as head coach for the Indianapolis Colts, champions of Super Bowl XLI. He was honored by the University of Minnesota Alumni Association with an Outstanding Achievement Award presented as part of a celebration of the TCF stadium deal. Dungy sparked a minor controversy in March when he was honored at the Indiana Family...

Welcome to Sanity Island, where only adults are allowed. President Bush had a busy day today. He met with General Petraeus in the Oval Office to discuss the War in Iraq. President George W. Bush delivers a statement on the War in Iraq during a visit Monday, April 23, 2007, by Gen. David Petraeus, Commander of the Multinational Force-Iraq, to the White House. Said the President, "I will strongly reject an artificial timetable withdrawal and/or Washington politicians trying to tell those who wear the uniform how to do their job." With them is Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint...

President Bush holds up an Indianapolis Colts football team jersey with quarterback Peyton Manning during a ceremony honoring the 2007 NFL Super Bowl Champions, the Indianapolis Colts, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) President Bush Congratulates NFL Super Bowl Champion Indianapolis ColtsWhite House News 3:08 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. How about it? Like, the Indianapolis Colts here on the South Lawn. Congratulations. Welcome to the Super Bowl champs. (Applause.) I want to welcome Jim Irsay and Meg, and Carlie, Casey, and Kalen. I...

Those who remember how quickly the leftists drove conservative blogger Ben Domenech out of the Washington Post blogging corps after three days (with no conservative replacement) should know that the liberal cast of bloggers remain untouched (and perhaps, in some cases, unread). I've been tipped to one Emil Steiner today, taking off after Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy for supporting a marriage-protection bill in Illinois. This, to Steiner, makes him akin to the religious folks who brought 9/11, not to mention foolish religious advocates of "racial purity, ethnic cleansing, and drinking the Kool Aid." Most importantly, Steiner thought Dungy's position...

This week, the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy, appearing at a pro-traditional family meeting in Indiana, said he supports state legislation defining marriage as the union solely between one man and one woman. Speaking at the Indiana Family Institute, where he received a "Friend of Family" award, Coach Dungy said he embraces the stance of the organization, which works to protect traditional marriage. "We're not trying to downgrade anyone else," he stated. "But we're trying to promote the family – family values the Lord's way." Not surprisingly, his comments have drawn criticism from homosexual-rights organizations that...