Ink Links | Feb 5

• Gun-toting athletes no barrel of laughs Kim Landers for ABCs The Drum.

Imagine if cricketers Simon Katich and Michael Clarke had resorted to guns in their dressing room altercation over the singing of the Australian team's song? Instead it would seem Simon Katich merely grabbed Michael Clarke by the throat.

• The Saints are America's team Billy Sothern for http://www.open.salon.com/

New Orleans' great Super Bowl hope represents everything that's good about this tragedy-stricken city.

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