He had an onagain, offagain relationship with the Saints starting in 1997. After six seasons as a backup there, a stint in which he played all of six games (two starts), he signed a twoyear deal with Carolina in 2003. He became the engine behind Carolina's "Cardiac Cats," orchestrating wins eight times in the final two minutes or in overtime, and leading the Panthers to their second Super Bowl.Another big deal for me is Donnie Osmond coming to the Borgata on Saturday, Aug. 27. I would pay twice the admission to hear Osmond discuss candidly the music business and the changes since he and his brothers first took to the stage in the 1970s.

I heard that Bank of America had drastically written down its potential recovery from MBIA to the neighborhood of a $1 billion. But if MBIA went into rehabilitation (the insurance version of Chapter 11), the priority of claims by CDS counterparties would have been determined by New York State Department of Finance chiefBenjamin La