Bowled Over: Twelve seconds into the Super Bowl, Denver blew a snap and was two points down to Seattle. Denver was never in the game. Opening with that two-point safety, Seattle went on to win 43-8. Denver’s NFL MVP quarterback Peyton Manning failed to put points on the board until the last second of the third quarter. Among the high and low lights, Manning was intercepted twice and Seattle ran a kickoff back for a touchdown. It was Seattle’s first Super Bowl win, and only the second year in the pros for winning quarterback Russell Wilson.

Final Curtain: The talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead yesterday in his New York apartment of an apparent drug overdose. He was just 46. A syringe was found in Hoffman’s arm and police found an envelope containing heroin. Hoffman had been public about his drug addiction early in life and said last year he had “fallen off the wagon” after being straight for 23 years.

  Some critics described Hoffman as one of the greatest actors of his generation. Rumpled and overweight, he played significant parts in recent years in “The Master,” “Moneyball,” and the “The Ides of March.” He was brilliant as the rock and roll journalist Lester Bangs in the 2000 “Almost Famous.” A steadily working actor of range and depth, he tended to play character roles, but he won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2005 for his portrayal of the writer Truman Capote.

World: Embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is expected to return to work after taking an unexpected leave for unexplained illness. Thousands of protesters continue to occupy Kiev’s central Maidan square. And opposition leader Dmytro Bulatov has arrived in Lithuania for medical treatment. He appeared on television last week badly beaten and claiming he had been abducted and tortured.

>A Moscow high school student shot a teacher and a police officer dead then held 20 students hostage before he was talked into surrendering. News agencies said the shooting might have been in revenge for a conflict with a teacher. The Russian press generally portrays school shootings as an American phenomenon.

Denial: Woody Allen’s PR rep has issued a denial of accusations by Allen’s estranged daughter that he molested her starting when she was 7. “Mr. Allen has read the article and found it untrue and disgraceful. He will be responding very soon,’” publicist Leslee Dart said. Dylan Farrow, now married with children living under a different name, published an open letter in the NY Times renewing childhood accusations against Allen.

News from Hogwarts: “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling told a British magazine that she may have gotten it wrong romantically pairing Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. She said Ron and Hermione are a mismatch and might eventually need couples therapy. Except, they aren’t real.

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