SUPER BOWL XLIV

MIAMI - Peyton Manning, the Big Easy.

Hardly a stretch for a nickname, you know. The NFL's dominant player can claim New Orleans heritage, after all. At 6-foot-5, 230 pounds, he's no shrimp. And as the only four-time league MVP, he makes this quarterbacking thing look simple.

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Yet when Manning leads his Indianapolis Colts onto the field next Sunday against the Saints in as juicy a Super Bowl matchup as anyone could imagine, all of Nawlins - heck, pretty much any place in Bayou Country - will be wishing the worst on a native son.

Sorry, Peyton, the Saints take precedence in their quest for a first NFL championship.

Manning, whose father Archie was the first Saints superstar, understands.

"It's certainly an exciting opportunity for our team to be going back to the Super Bowl down in Miami, and I'm very happy for the New Orleans Saints and, of course, the entire city of New Orleans," Peyton Manning says. "My parents live there, my older brother Cooper lives there. Eli and I have both participated in philanthropic organizations down in New Orleans, whether it's Katrina relief or just various charities. So New Orleans is a huge part of my life, as well as Eli's life. My dad's been a part of the Saints organization for 39 years in some ways. We definitely have strong ties.

"The Saints have had a great year. They deserve it, and I know the city is excited. And the New Orleans Saints players do just wonderful things for the community down there. It's been a great relationship between the players and fans, and what a great way for these players to reward them with a trip to the Super Bowl."

But it's Manning's job to spoil the party, to put some misery into the Miami Mardi Gras for those Saints and their fans. Nobody is better equipped to do so.

Manning once was criticized for failing to win big games, and his career playoff record is just 9-8. He's won six of the last eight, though, and led the Colts to the championship three years ago, in the rain in Miami. Indy is 16-2 this time around, and it might have been a perfect 18-0 if the Colts hadn't pulled Manning and other starters in the final two games of the regular season.

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Manning set an NFL record for 300-yard playoff games with his seventh in last week's AFC championship win over the Jets. He has 22 TD passes, five this year, and averages 284 yards through the air in the postseason.

Against two of the league's stingiest defenses - Indy beat the Ravens before the Jets - Manning was masterful.

The Saints (15-3) aren't exactly the 1985 Bears. On defense, they're not even the 2009 Colts. Still, Manning is cautious.

"You know a team is going to have a Super Bowl package," he says. "There are two weeks to prepare. That's more things they can change. You have to prepare for the unexpected."

The unexpected? Such as the Aints in the Super Bowl?

Let that one roll around your mind like the good times on Bourbon Street.

The Saints were one of five teams never to get this far; the Lions, Jaguars, Browns and Texans are the remaining outsiders. Clearly, now, the Aints are dead, and a franchise that had no home in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans has become one of the most successful clubs in the nation's most popular sport.

And while Indy has become as muc
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TOP ARGENTINIAN RIDES AWAY AS

Rated at the ultimate 10 goals, Argentine polo player Mariano Aguerre says he is retiring from the Argentine Open, the highest level of international polo competition. He will continue to play high-goal tournaments in Wellington.

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Aguerre is one of fewer than a dozen players in the world at the top of his game. He has played on winning teams in the United States Open, eight U.S. Polo Association Gold Cup championships and seven Argentine Open championships, most recently scoring the winning goal for La Dolfina in overtime this year.

He has been rated at 10 goals for 20 years and has been the mainstay of Peter Brant's successful White Birch polo team since 1986. What makes this talented rider and polo player a rarity is that he is retiring from the highest level of competition at the top of his game.

In much the same wholesale discount vein as Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown and Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls, Aguerre is leaving the top echelon of his game on his terms.

A Dec. 23 announcement said Aguerre wouldn't return to the 40- goal La Dolfina team, which recently captured its fourth Argentine Open championship in five years on the strength of his overtime goal.

"I have no doubts that La Dolfina will be remembered the way it deserves, as one of the teams that made history," Aguerre said.

"It is said that things end in a bad way or don't end. We (La Dolfina) came to an end in very good terms, looking ahead, and with a lot of respect for my teammates, as well as all the spectacular moments we lived together."

The 40-year-old Aguerre shares the spotlight with Brown and Jordan not only for a massive list of honors, but for the fact that he made the decision to step aside at the apex of his playing career.

Unlike the others, Aguerre won't be giving up the game completely; he is just leaving competition at the game's highest level: the Argentine Open championship.

A familiar sight on the winter polo scene in South Florida, Aguerre will take the field with Fred Mannix Jr. and his Millarville Hawks for the 20-goal Iglehart Cup starting Sunday at the International Polo Club in Wellington.

With Brant sidelined for the 2010 winter season, there currently are no plans for Aguerre to play in the 26-goal C.V. Whitney Cup in February.

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But the season is yet to get started, and Aguerre remains one of the game's best.

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Entrada Expands Medical Docume

Entrada, a provider of health care information technology for clinical documentation and data exchange, announced the availability of a software application for Apple mobile devices.

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The Company said the new eDictate application extends Entrada's automated clinical documentation process to the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, providing physicians with a productivity tool that unlocks the potential of electronic medical records (EMRs).

"More and more physicians now realize that automated documentation and other web-based EMR applications are critical to improving their productivity and satisfaction," said Alexander Poston, president and CIO of Entrada. "As the healthcare sector evolves and smart phone software development becomes increasingly important to health IT, Entrada replica Jimmychoo Handbags will continue to deliver the most advanced, most functionally rich mobile dictation services to physicians."

eDictate captures spoken medical reports on Apple handheld devices and securely transmits them to Entrada's web-based data center, where its voice recognition system automatically converts the recordings to text. Most reports are ready within minutes, according to the Company.

"There is a perfect storm brewing in the U.S. health care system. Tens of millions of new patients are entering the system at the same time as the Baby Boomers are beginning to require more medical care," said Dr. William Edwards, Jr., a veteran vascular surgeon and operating officer for Entrada. "Physicians recognize the benefits of modernizing their practices and the potential for IT to help deliver high quality patient care. But to meet this growing patient demand, physicians need a solution to the data-entry disadvantages of today's EMR systems."

Entrada offers a gateway of technology and web-based services designed by physicians to streamline and enhance electronic health records. Entrada automates the management of documentation at each point in a patient's visit, while also streamlining the delivery of information to EMR, billing and other systems. The company's platform ties together information from scheduling, documentation, EMR and other systems to speed documentation, reduce errors replica Lancel Handbags and improve the efficiency of medical recording.

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