When surprising St. John’s tapped into some of its old glory by handing No. 9 Pittsburgh its first loss of the season last Saturday, it was just part of a special day for the Big East.

Sven Goran Eriksson has announced that he will leave his role as England manager after the World Cup this summer, so the race to succeed him has started in earnest. Sports Betting Index looks at the main candidates for the most important and high profile job in English football.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers, led by second-year quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, have seemed to be the NFL’s obviously best active team since the night when New England’s luck disappeared in Denver.

The Seattle Seahawks, who will travel to Detroit to play Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XL on Feb. 5, were discounted by a lot of people who believed Coach Mike Holmgren should step aside and that the franchise might be better off without running back Shaun Alexander.

Now that talk of an undefeated Duke season has ended and Mike Krzyzewski has reasons to ride his team all the way to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, it’s time to find another countdown.

The distance between Pittsburgh and Detroit is about 220 miles - about a 5- or 6-hour bus ride. The journey Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome “The Bus” Bettis took 13 NFL seasons to complete.

Super Bowl XL betting is on! Football fans all across the globe will start placing their bets on Super Bowl XL. Be it for money or just for fun, through an office pool or online, tens of millions of people in America will be betting on the outcome of the big game, and Bodog Sportsbook is already offering odds on the four possible Super Bowl match-ups.

Leading online sportsbook Bodog is betting the Bus and Big Ben will keep winning through Motor City. The Pittsburgh Steelers emerged as 4-point favorites as Bodog Sportsbok picked the Steelers to defeat the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl XL.

The Pittsburh Steelers did the unthinkable. Forced to play on the road throughout the playoffs, they became the first team in NFL history to beat the No. 1, 2 and 3 seeds in consecutive weeks to reach a Super Bowl.

This NFL season is very different. It’s difficult to overlook the compelling on-the-road stories being staged by the Carolina Panthers and Pittsburgh Steelers. One wild card entry advancing to the Super Bowl is unusual. Two wild card teams make the trip is rare, in like it’s never happened.