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On the money line, betting without the spread, Arizona can be had for +220, while Pittsburgh will cost you -260…here’s where my greedy eyes are staring; Pittsburgh -17.5 at +340…the over/under team totals are also interesting. How about Pittsburgh over 27, combined with Arizona under 20? Yes, there are opportunities to wager with gusto and enthusiasm this Sunday!…amazingly, there are only two active NFL head coaches with Super Bowl rings. By Sunday night we’ll be adding Mike Tomlin to the list…Pittsburgh is 9-0 this year in games where Ben Roethlisberger does not throw an interception. If the QB plays mistake free football the defence virtually ensures success…Steelers disembarking from the plane yesterday, upon their arrival in Tampa, carried video recorders to shoot the waiting crowds. Now who exactly would ever be interested in watching those videos?…Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees fell 16 yards short of breaking Dan Marino’s regular season passing record. I loved his honesty in a recent interview with The Sporting News where he commented, “It stinks”. Brees did go on to pick the Cardinals to pull an upset on Sunday, on the basis of that revved up offense, so I don’t want to be too effusive in my praise…in “The Yankee Years”, former Yankee skipper Joe Torres has it in for Alex Rodriguez. At one point he mentions A-Rod, “needs people to make a fuss over him”, and wants to be the focus of attention. Well, at least we know why he broke up with Madonna…Allen Iverson, of the Detroit Pistons, was benched for the final eleven minutes of their loss to the Houston Rockets on Sunday. This is a situation that should become fodder for the tabloids in the near future…Shawn Merion has missed three of the last four Miami Heat engagements. In the one match he played, he was on court for a mere eight minutes. This is going to be an interesting acquisition by the Toronto Raptors with Bryan Colangelo on tap for some serious explaining…hey; Colangelo hasn’t become a drunk or a speed freak, or something? Wouldn’t that be just the soothing message the tortured Toronto sports scene needs at the moment? Just in case, I’m going to start taping A & E’s “Intervention”… Curlin deserves recognition as the American Horse of the Year, over West Coast filly Zenyatta, on the basis of the latter’s confinement to restricted races. The Horse of the Year, with a view to the rest of the world, is the unbeaten Arc winner Zarkava. And c’mon, Raven’s Pass is the clear choice as three year old of the year after smashing success on both sides of the ocean…the Onion reports Disney Land is adding a “Magical Parade of Layoffs” as their new feature attraction…after a four year absence, how can U2’s new single, “Booty the Quacking Duck”, or something, sound so similiar to “Vertigo”? Wasn’t this supposed to be a new experimental phase for the Dublin band?…