http://www.mysportsbook.com/ MySportsbook - Pro and College sport headlines and stories on the NFL, NBA, NCAA, NHL, MLB, football, baseball, basketball, World Series, Super Bowl. en-us jackblack@mysportsbook.com http://www.mysportsbook.com/ Players making their first deposit with MySportsbook.com will automatically receive a Tournament Ticket to the $500 Welcome Freeroll. http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965270.html New York Giants tight end Jake Ballard suffered a torn knee ligament in the Super Bowl, the team said Tuesday. Ballard tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the fourth quarter of Sunday's win over the Patriots. Fellow tight end Travis Beckum went down with a torn ACL in his right knee in the second quarter. Replays on TV showed Ballard trying to run and cut on the sideline, perhaps hoping to get back in the game, http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965266.html The New Orleans Saints officially hired Steve Spagnuolo as their new defensive coordinator on Tuesday. Spagnuolo spent the last three seasons as head coach in St. Louis, but was fired on January 2 after the Rams finished the 2011 season with a bleak 2-14 record. He finished his brief tenure with a mark of 10-38. The Rams were 1-15 in his first year, then took a big step forward at 7-9 in 2010 before regressing this past season. His http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965137.html Former All-Pro running back Ricky Williams has decided to retire after 11 NFL seasons. The 34-year-old Williams was a star at the University of Texas and a heralded first-round pick of the New Orleans Saints. He spent the majority of his pro career with the Miami Dolphins and played his final season with the Baltimore Ravens. "The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life," Williams said in a statement released by the http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965132.html Former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley has been named the offensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Haley was fired by the Chiefs on December 12 after a 5-8 start to his third season at the helm. The Chiefs were 19-26 in Haley's brief tenure, including 10-6 with an AFC West title in 2010. He guided the 2010 team to the greatest single-season turnaround in club history, as the Chiefs were just 4-12 the previous year. http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965131.html Baltimore Ravens running back Ricky Williams is planning to retire, multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday. The former NFL rushing champion assumed a reserve role with the Ravens this past season, gaining 444 yards and scoring two touchdowns while backing up Ray Rice. The news of Williams calling it a career comes two weeks after he said that he intended to return to the Ravens for the final season of his two-year contract. The 34-year-old veteran spent http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965130.html The New York Giants celebrated another Super Bowl title Tuesday with a parade up the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan and a ceremony at City Hall Plaza. Thousands of fans lined the streets as players, coaches and team personnel rode floats from the southern tip of Manhattan through the financial district as confetti fluttered down from the high-rise buildings. Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning and defensive lineman Justin Tuck headlined the http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965076.html The Buffalo Bills re-signed kicker Rian Lindell to a multi-year contract extension on Tuesday. Lindell's 2011 season was cut short by a shoulder injury suffered against the New York Jets in Week 9. He converted 13-of-15 field goal tries and was a perfect 25-for-25 on extra points in eight games, but was hurt making a tackle. Prior to landing on injured reserve, the 35-year-old had never missed a game since joining the Bills in 2 http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965057.html The Chicago Bears on Tuesday reached an agreement with Jeremy Bates to become the team's quarterbacks coach. Bates is familiar with Chicago starter Jay Cutler, having worked with him for three seasons in Denver. In 2008, his final season with the Broncos, Cutler excelled with Bates as his position coach, throwing for a franchise-record 4,526 yards. Bates mostly recently served as the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks in 2 http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/965047.html Before Peyton Manning's future become dissected and over-analyzed to tiresome Favrethian degrees over the next month, it's time to give his little brother some very big credit. If there were any lingering doubts about Eli Manning's worthiness among the NFL's upper echelon of quarterbacks heading into Super Bowl XLVI, they were erased much like the New England Patriots' once-mighty mystique in the aftermath of Sunday's latest vintage performance by t http://www.mysportsbook.com/news/sports_betting/964725.html The Oakland Raiders have named Jason Tarver as their new defensive coordinator. Tarver served as co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach at Stanford in 2011. The Cardinal ranked either first or second in the Pac-12 Conference in six defensive categories. Prior to his time at Stanford, Tarver spent 10 seasons in various coaching capacities with the San Francisco 49ers. He was quality control coach (2001-03), assist