Bowling: The Seattle Seahawks meet the Denver Broncos for the Super Bowl championship today at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The match pits what is believed to be the NFL’s best offense, Denver, against the league’s best defense, Seattle. It’s the Irresistible Force versus the Immovable Object. This is the 48th Super Bowl, number XLVIII as they like to say in New Jersey. Light rain and a comfortable high of 48 degrees are forecast. Kickoff time is 6:30 EST, give or take a few commercial breaks.

Woody: Dylan Farrow, the adopted daughter of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, renewed her accusations of child molestation against her movie-making father in an open letter posted on the NY Times website. Farrow, now married with children of her own, said Woody Allen began molesting her when she was 7 years old. She describes it in subtle but convincing detail. She wrote, “For as long as I could remember, my father had been doing things to me that I didn’t like.” Despite a finding of probable criminal behavior, Allen was never prosecuted, but he did lose all parental rights with Dylan. He ended up marrying Dylan’s also-adopted sister, Soon Yi. Dylan Farrow said she wrote the letter in objection to Allen’s recent Oscar nomination. She wrote, “So imagine your seven-year-old daughter being led into an attic by Woody Allen. Imagine she spends a lifetime stricken with nausea at the mention of his name. Imagine a world that celebrates her tormenter.”

Nation: Former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, 71, was undergoing tests at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after feeling ill and disoriented Friday on a business trip to Arizona. Daley was initially taken to intensive care. With 22 years in office, he was Chicago’s longest serving mayor.

World: Forty-six civilians are reported dead after government aircraft dropped barrel bombs on the city of Aleppo. Hundreds of civilians have died in warfare in Aleppo and the use of barrel bombs has been condemned as indiscriminate.

>At least six people were injured yesterday in a daytime gun battle in Bangkok between police and protesters trying to block distribution of ballots for national elections. Photos and videos show opposition protesters with guns. Protesters trying to oust Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra are trying to stop today’s general election. The protesters, most of them in Bangkok, represent a minority of the Thai population. Authorities say at least 89% of polling places operated successfully today.

>Conflict in the South Sudan is quickly turning into a food crisis for 3.7 million people, according to the United Nations. On Friday looters stole 1,700 tons of food supplies. Warfare broke out between the government and a rebel faction on Dec. 15^th. Since then thousands of people have died, and as many as 860,000 have been displaced.

It’s Groundhog Day!: Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, thereby predicting six more weeks of winter.

Cultural Landmark: Today’s Super Bowl marks the 10^th anniversary of Janet Jackson’s halftime performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII (38) and her contribution to the American cultural lexicon, the “wardrobe malfunction.” Or, as they also might say in the Latin speaking neighborhoods of New Jersey, “Vestes Malfunction X.”

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