Super Bowl may be most wonderful time of the year for gamblers (MyCentralJersey.com)
CENTRAL JERSEY — The guacamole dip is on the table and jambalaya on the stove. While some will gather at a Super Bowl party today to see Indianapolis Colts‘ quarterback Peyton Manning at work, others want to critique commercials that cost $100,000 per second to air.

Sports gambling can be a costly deal (Stamford Advocate)
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) Kevin stared down at New York’s East River, its murky water beckoning him to jump.

Horse racing: The best bets and latest news plus our weekly tipping competition
The latest news and best bets in our daily horse racing blog, plus our weekly tipping competition Today’s best bets, by Tony Paley The weather is expected to play its part this week with meetings under threat from snow, frost and rain. Folkestone has been abandoned today and there …

paw prints (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
Females: Terrier mix, white/black, 9 weeks; pit bull mix, black, 3 years; pit bull/Lab mix, tan, 1 year; Central Asian shepherd, white/tan, 7 years.

Which came first: The birth certificate or the letter of intent? (The Lantern)
If only Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez would have been born a few years later. The neighborhood home run king and future Los Angeles Dodger from “The Sandlot” could have avoided years of backyard stickball. These days, scouts clamor over teenagers with that much talent.

Miami celebs tell you where to go (CNN)
When in Miami — say, for the Super Bowl this weekend — do as the celebrities do. You know they know how to have a good time.

‘Snake bit (Missoula Independent)
Darkness falls on a grueling ski trip across Missoula’s backyard wilderness by Chad Harder Our gently-climbing traverse continues around what seems to be an endless series of parallel ridges, and when we finally break above the dense cloud cover, the view is as extraordinary as it is horrifying: the winter sun, setting fast behind a cottony inversion. It wouldn’t really matter, except that the …

Horse racing: The best bets and latest news plus our weekly tiping competition (Guardian Unlimited)
The latest news and best bets in our daily horse racing blog, plus our weekly tipping competition Today’s best bets, by Chris Cook There can be few horses in training tougher than Novikov (3.20) . Since this six-year-old made his seasonal reappearance in mid-November, he’s run seven times, including five times on soft going and once on heavy, and run to form each time. Indeed, there is a case …

LIVE SATURDAY RACING BLOG! (Sporting Life)
Latest horse racing news from sportinglife.com. Cards, tips, statistics, live commentaries & results. Full, free coverage of horseracing from a UK perspective.