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Sports number crunchers split on Super Bowl winner
Two childhood friends who love football, one an award-winning sportswriter, the other a finance geek, have the answers that just might help you win your Super Bowl bet.
Jon Wertheim, senior writer at Sports Illustrated, and Tobias Moskowitz, University of Chicago finance professor, are co-authors of Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played And Games Are Won, which takes a Freakonmics-type approach to the science of winning games. The book answers questions like, does the hometown team really have an advantage? And, how much do fans make a difference?
Wertheim and Moskowitz tell American Morning’s T.J. Holmes how their research can be applied to predicting the Super Bowl winner live from Arlington, Texas.
So which team will it be–Packers or Steelers– for Super Bowl XLV?
Ads for everyman: Miller High Life deliveryman details new campaign
Miller High Life markets itself as the beer for the everyman. And now the company is launching an ad campaign for the everyman too.
Miller High Life will air new commercials in coverage surrounding the Super Bowl that revolve around the customer. Consumers will be able to sign up with Miller High Life to be "sponsored" and will then have the choice of receiving a $1 check, a $1 coupon for Miller High Life or donating $1 to U.S. veterans.
Windell Middlebrooks, the man starring in the ads, talks to T.J. Holmes about the philosophy behind the Miller High Life campaign and gives American Morning a preview of a new commercial.
Operation Pizza Bowl: Bringing pizza to patriots on game day
The Super Bowl is around the corner and, as is custom, many Americans will be chowing down on pizza.
But it's a little harder for service men and women thousands of miles away to order a slice–and that's where Mark Evans comes in. Evans is the Founder of Pizza 4 Patriots, an organization which delivers pizza to America's service men and women overseas. In partnership with UNO and DHL, Pizza 4 Patriots will be sending 7,000 pizzas to service members on Super Bowl Sunday. The pizzas will leave from JFK Airport on a special DHL flight to Bahrain and, from there, they will either go to Afghanistan or Iraq.
Mark Evans tells CNN's T.J. Holmes about Pizza 4 Patrios.
Barkley: 'Twitter is for idiots', Palin 'good looking'
NBA legend and TNT NBA Analyst Charles Barkley is in New York for Thursday night's New York Knicks/Miami Heat game at Madison Square Garden. But, true to form, Barkley's talking about more than just the sport that made him famous.
Barkley sounds off about Twitter, politics and other hot topics with T.J. Holmes.
The rush and the risk of big-wave surfing
Video of surfers riding a twenty-five foot wave at the surfing spot Maverick's near Half Moon Bay, California has many people awestruck. One surfer, Jacob Trette, was struck by the massive wave at Maverick's Saturday and nearly drowned. He was brought to the hospital and placed in an induced coma. Trette has since regained consciousness and is currently listed in 'fair condition'.
Expert big-wave surfer Grant Washburn helps organize the annual Jay at the Maverick's surfing competition and is familiar with the area's waves. He talks to American Morning's Kiran Chetry and T.J. Holmes about the risk and the rush of big-wave surfing.
Berman: Packers ‘slight favorite,’ but don’t discount Black and Yellow
Fans are celebrating in Green Bay and Pittsburgh this morning, with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Chicago Bears 21-14 for the NFC title, and the Pittsburgh Steelers rolling by the New York Jets 24-19 for the AFC title.
Today on American Morning, New York sportscaster Len Berman, ThatsSports.com, looks ahead to the February 6 Super Bowl when the two teams will face off in Dallas. He explains the meaning behind the match up of two legendary franchises and why the NFL is having “most successful year.”
Watch the two clips from his interview with AM’s Kiran Chetry and TJ Holmes.
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