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Peyton Manning had a lot of witnesses to his soggy super win, with the estimated 93.2 million viewers representing the second most-watched Super Bowl broadcast ever. Only the 1996 Super Bowl between Dallas and Pittsburgh, which had 94.1 million viewers, had a bigger audience, according to Nielsen Media Research on Monday. Behind that 1996 game and the M-A-S-H series finale, Sunday’s game was the third most-watched program in television history.

Punxsutawney Phil, The Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary didn’t saw his shadow today, meaning it’s gonna be an early spring. The last time Phil failed to see his shadow was in 1999.

The much anticipated renaming of Cingular to AT&T has begun. See my previous thoughts on this here, in the meantime let Stephen Colbert explain it for you. Like Ma Bell, I got the ill communication…

On March 17, Web prankster Ze Frank will end his daily, year-long Internet video show to go all Hollywood. Good for him, but who will fill the void?

David Beckham to join LA Galaxy of the MLS. He’s due to sign a tasty $250m (£128m) contract over 5 years… Yep, a quarter of a billion dollars over 5 years, works out to be $961,000 (£492,000) a week, nice work if you can get it. Also it makes him the highest paid sportsman in US history, blowing Alex Rodriguez’ $252m 10yr deal in baseball a few years ago out of the water!

Walter Smith has quit as Scotland coach to become boss of Rangers for a second time after agreeing a three-year deal. Thats kind of good and bad, good for Rangers but bad for Scotland… Sucks it had to come to this.

Florida Gators upset The Ohio State Buckeyes 41-14 in the BCS Championship Game. Holy crap, go SEC! But Georgia won’t hear the end of this for a long time. I wouldn’t have put money on the Buckeyes being gator bait, not by 27 points. Damn, just damn! Of course, now Boise State is the only undefeated left, so much for the BCS….

Ocean’s 13 Teaser Trailer. Hmmm, I think this will be better than Ocean’s 12, but worse than Ocean’s 11…

Rangers manager Paul Le Guen has left the club by mutual consent. Did he jump or was he pushed by Barry Ferguson?

Abandonia, a site full of abandoned DOS games. Some classics in here, like Monkey Island, California Games and my personal favourite game of all time, Sensible World of Soccer. Old skool!

Gasper, one of the Georgia Aquarium’s five prized beluga whales, was euthanized Tuesday morning after months of declining health, officials said. The 17-year-old whale had been ill before arriving at the aquarium in October 2005, officials said. He and his tankmate Niko had been moved to Atlanta from an amusement park in Mexico City, where Gasper had developed skin lesions while living in a tank under a roller coaster. His immune system was weak from chronic illness, including the bone disease osteomyelitis, and medical tests showed his health had deteriorated further over the past few weeks, the aquarium said in a statement Tuesday.

Atlanta Falcons fire coach Jim Mora. Well, that was inevitable after recent events, maybe he can fulfill that dream job at the University of Washington afterall…

100 things we didn’t know this time last year. “74. Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it’s cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.”

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Teaser Trailer. Maybe this is the movie Fantastic Four should have been?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow. Author JK Rowling has revealed the title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book.