By DAVID NIELSEN, Scripps Howard News Service

LOS ANGELES - Winning awards is nothing new for actor Joe Mantegna. He has won a Tony award, been nominated for three Emmys and received numerous other honors and accolades during a stage and screen career that spans more than 40 years.

New Orleans Saints fans aren't the only ones reveling after their team's stunning victory over Indianapolis in the Super Bowl.

Die-hard Chicago Bears fan Joe Mantegna is celebrating, too.

The Colts are going to stampede the Saints this Sunday.

That's the opinion of the majority of celebrities who participated in the 21st annual Scripps Howard Celebrity Super Bowl Poll. Out of the 100 famous folks who made predictions, 60 believe that the Indianapolis Colts will win Super Bowl XLIV, while 40 picked the New Orleans Saints.

The race to the Academy Awards kicked off in earnest with last Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.

While many see the Globes as a bellwether for the Oscars, a more accurate predictor may be the Screen Actors Guild Awards, scheduled for Saturday at 8 p.m. EST from the venerable Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The 16th annual SAG Awards will be simulcast on TNT and TBS.

Before this week, legendary comedian Phyllis Diller and former Miss Panama-turned-actress Patricia De Leon had little, if anything, in common.
But now they're forever linked, thanks to an unlikely source: their football-handicapping prowess.

Football history was made Sunday, and not just on the gridiron.

Pittsburgh became the first team to win six Super Bowls. And the Steelers' last-minute touchdown enabled actress Patricia De Leon to become the first woman to win the Scripps Howard Super Sage Award.

If you're searching for clues on who to pick in your Oscar pool, check out the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, simulcast at 8 p.m. EST Sunday on TNT and TBS.

BEIJING -- As the world's spotlight turns away from Beijing, several vexing Olympic questions remain.Will the 29th Summer Olympics be remembered for their spectacular venues and efficiently run Games or did the glitzy architecture and meticulous precision overshadow a sinister display of state power and abuse?

BEIJING -- BEIJING -- It was well worth the wait.Sixteen days after the Opening Ceremony - and four years after dropping out of the 10,000 meters at the Athens Olympics -- Dathan Ritzenhein finished ninth in the marathon, the final track event at the Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING -- Capping an unlikely journey from suburban Baltimore to worldwide Olympic stardom, Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal at the Beijing Olympics Sunday.Phelps broke the mark of seven golds in a single Olympics set by American swimmer Mark Spitz at the 1972 Munich Games.