Photograph of Michael Strahan, coach Tom Coughin (holding the Vince Lombardi trophy) and quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning by Tien Mao Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade.Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattle’s Saturday caucus.Londonist had Super Tuesday too.Elusive guerrilla street artist Banksy revisits Los Angeles.After the Patriots lost the Super Bowl and came this close to making......

News is breaking across the pond that this year's NFL fixture in the UK will be back at Wembley Stadium after all, with the New Orleans Saints hosting this season's losing Superbowl "semi-finalists" the San Diego Chargers on October 26th. San Diego president Dean Spanos, a member of the NFL's International Committee, reportedly in negotiations over the game almost since the first Wembley match ended just over two months ago, commented: We want to......

Last October's clash between the Miami Dolphins and Superbowl contenders the New York Giants at Wembley was obviously considered a success as the NFL's commissioner, Roger Goodell, has announced that another regular season encounter will take place on our shores in the autumn... but not necessarily at Wembley, or even in London. Goodell said: The game in London was undoubtedly one of the highlights of the entire 2007 season. The fan interest was tremendous.......

Don't get us wrong. As you can probably tell from last week there's a good deal of enthusiasm for the NFL on here. This Londonista in particular has to confess to a near addiction. However, while last night's Miami Dolphins hosting of the eventually victorious New York Giants at Wembley was the ideal meet-up for the sport's many fans in this country, and the NFL can finally put a big tick in the box......

Tonight marks the climax of nine months' eager anticipation since we broke the news to you that the NFL was coming to town. Two days ago we secured a ticket via the final sale we mentioned last Tuesday and we can't wait for the action to begin at 5pm. If you're catching the game on TV (Sky Sports live, or BBC2 highlights at 10:50pm), you're in plenty of company. The game is being carried......

As Sunday evening's "home" fixture at Wembley for the Miami Dolphins against the New York Giants edges ever closer we interview Brian Tennent, Londoner and chairman of DolFan UK, the only UK-based Miami Dolphins fan organisation officially recognised by the club itself. What first attracted you to the NFL in general and supporting the Dolphins in particular? When it was first regularly broadcast on Channel 4, it looked more exciting and glamorous than UK......

We warned you that Dolphins and Giants from America are soon to arrive on our shores. The players are no doubt taking utmost care in preparing for their arrival tomorrow morning. One player might have over-prepared but for completely the wrong country, so keep an eye out for the anxious guy with a puzzled-looking translator under one arm. If Channing Crowder, the Miami Dolphins linebacker approaches you this weekend, speak loudly, slowly and clearly......

Hot on the heels of basketball and ice hockey, the third of America's big four sports has begun its landing on our shores. The advance guard for Sunday's NFL encounter between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants consists of just one man. Albeit a very big one. Pictured above is the specially commissioned twenty-six foot high animatronic statue of Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor which is touring London and the South East......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making......

Missing the Sultan's Elephant? Here's a lengthy overview of The Saga of the Giants. Link Machine Go points us in the direction of a new map (plus one we already covered). Old school Transformers movie returns to London! The last movie that Orson Welles worked on complete with METAL (what else?) soundtrack. The founder of the Big Issue is running for mayor. And last orders for these London boozers?......

Last time we looked at the Olympic motto there was some stuff in there about Fastest and Strongest, but apparently we've given those attributes too much attention in the past. Yesterday in Trafalgar Square saw the launch of "Sporting Giants", a search fronted by five times gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave (6' 5¼" / 1.96m) for, basically, tall young people who will be invited to join programs that will hopefully turn them into the......

All Londonist Sport's Christmases have come at once. It is being reported that today the NFL, the world's premier professional league of football American-style, is about to announce that a game will be played between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants at the soon-to-be-completed Wembley Stadium some time in the autumn. "Oh yes," we hear you murmur. "We remember that sort of thing from the late eighties and early nineties." Well, yes......

Well we did as we said and went to see Shiny Toy Guns last night at Barfly. Now we take back everything we said about The Modern and Linken Park, and instead realise that STG fall much closer to Panic At The Disco territory. Yes, boys and girls, this is long, drawn out, hysterically over the top emo, but it just so happens to have whacking great dollops of pop in the middle of......

You might remember a while ago we reported on the fact that the NFL was talking about holding a game in London, probably at Wembley Stadium. Well today we read that the NFL have actually "provisionally booked Wembley Stadium for next October, five months after it is officially due to open." The important word there, of course, is 'provisionally'. If all goes well this could be pretty cool, as "The tie is likely to......

Please, somebody, anybody, send us in a photo of this one. The world’s tallest man AND the world’s ‘shortest stuntman’, together, in Westminster, today. Why were we not informed? According to the website Life Style Extra, the liaison of contrasting statures was organised by Guinness World Records for the launch of the 2006 Guinness Book of Records (which officially means that Christmas is coming). Here’s how they measure up: Xi Shun, World’s tallest man......