Saints win first ever Super Bowl

Saints come marching home with the win

The New Orleans Saints triumphed over the Indianapolis Colts at the Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday with a final score of 31-17. This is the Saints first ever Super Bowl win in their 43-year history.

Colts star quarterback, Peyton Manning, found himself in an awkward spot as he walked onto the field for Sunday's game. A resident of New Orleans and a Saints fan as a child, Manning wanted a Super Bowl win, but felt a slight betrayal towards his father, Archie Manning, who played with the Saints for 10 seasons. Back then, the Saints were nicknamed "the Ain'ts" following a lengthy losing streak.

The streak is over as the still recovering city celebrated more than a win, but a revival of the city itself. After Hurricane Katrina ravished through New Orleans in 2005 the Saints were left homeless, along with the majority of the population. Many feared they would have to move out. The Saints temporarily called San Antonio home, but now are proudly a New Orleans team once again.

According to Bob Marshall, writer for The Times-Picayune newspaper,  "this wasn't just a victory lap for the sports fans. It was a cathartic scream, a cheer, a dance, a hug, a high five, chest thump, fist bump, a lay-on-the-lawn-and-kick-my-hands-and-feet-in-the-air-in delirium. It was a community feeling not just of overwhelming joy, but the release of mountains of frustrations, disappointments and sorrows that had nothing to do with football."

Palin considers the White House

A run for the presidency may be in the future for former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin. In a recorded interview with Fox News on Sunday, Palin stated she would consider the option and her decision to run or not would be based on "if I believed that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family."

"I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country," Palin said. "I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future."

Palin's statements came before her appearance at the first national Tea Party convention. She deemed the convention the first step towards gaining credibility as a legitimate political party. Palin believes the Tea Party movement to be a "ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way they're doing business," Palin said.

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"America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this," she said to participants.

Palin is confident President Obama will not be able to win votes in the 2012 election if he continues implementing his current policies. Palin believes the Tea Party movement is a step in the direction that America wants to take.

"Well, we have a representative form of government in our democracy," Palin said. "And we want him and we want Congress to listen to what the things are that we are saying."

Paterson defends personal life in wake of re-election campaign

Gov. David Paterson is beginning to meet with Democratic leaders about his plans for re-election, but is he is also becoming the central figure for rumored allegations associated with his personal conduct.

"The governor started making calls two weeks ago to step up his campaign effort and get ready to officially announce his re-election campaign," Richard Fife, Paterson's campaign spokesman, said. "The calls were -- and are -- going well ... And then look what happens: a coordinated effort to stop him and spread rumors."

However, an anonymous source associated with the Democratic re-election preparation stated that many rumors are surrounding the idea that the governor is considering resignation or not running for the position at all.

Many people close to Paterson are confused about the sudden outpouring of rumors and stories surrounding the governor. Doug Muzzio, politics professor at New York City's Baruch College said: "I've never seen the rumor of a story becoming the story as this one."

Paterson spokesman Peter Kauffmann also said: "This is a new low even by the standards of Planet Albany. The circus of the past week entirely fabricated out of thin air and innuendo is an embarrassment for all who have played a role in fueling it."