Leading Off: The Day After We welcome you to the official Super Bowl hangover day in the journalism category. Yes, people who had actual hangovers experienced them Monday, but even in this instant-news world, it takes a day for a news hangover to hit. The rush of the Giants" victory and all its fresh story-generating energy is over and unless you will spend the day attending and then extricating yourself from the Giants" parade and resulting traffic, well, now what? You could talk the D word, as Mike Vaccaro of The Post is already doing, but that seems a little extreme. You could spend another day marveling at Eli Manning's performance, as Peter King of SI.com is, or take stock of the whole crazy week for the Manning family, as described by Elizabeth Merrill on ESPN.com. She also reminds us that now we will be returning to endless stories about older brother Peyton. In Warren, Ohio, it's all about hometown hero Mario Manningham, as Dave D'Alessandro writes in The Star-Ledger of Newark, and his Star-Ledger colleague Kevin Manahan writes about how Kurt Warner played a role in the coaching evolution of Tom Coughlin. Mike Freeman writes on CBSSports.com that General Manager Jerry Reese ought to be getting an awful lot of credit for this championship too, although he - like Patriots management - has some decisions to make this off-season, writes Don Banks on SI.com. In Boston, the mood is somber, but as Dan Shaughnessy reminds us in The Boston Globe, the loss isn't even in the same league of heartbreak as the Red Sox have brought over the years. The Patriots, though, are now faced with some tough personnel decisions, writes Karen Guregian in The Boston Herald, including the fate of Wes Welker, whom The Herald's Steve Buckley believes should be re-signed despite his gut-wrenching drop that Tom Brady's wife, Gisele Bundchen chose to blame for the loss. Perhaps the most amazing part of the Patriots" tumble is Brady's disappearing Teflon layer, writes Pete Prisco on CBSSports.com, after having lost his last two Super Bowls and scattering in some other less-than-superhuman playoff performances since his last triumph. Michael Rosenberg argues on SI.com, however, that leading this patchwork Patriots team to a Super Bowl actually embellished Brady's legacy instead of tarnishing it. And well, maybe he made some money on one of the Super Bowl's silly set of prop bets, including how long Kelly Clarkson took to sign the national anthem. The best way to deal with the Super Bowl news hangover might be to ease yourself back into the other sports. No, this is not officially approved by the N.F.L. and its henchmen may track you down or at least send you threatening text messages. But, if you are brave, there is a whole big sports world out there. And it has actual news! In the N.B.A., Kobe Bryant drew a momentary spotlight by passing Shaquille O'Neal for fifth on the league's all-time scoring list, for which he even got Twitter congratulations from his longtime nemesis/teammate, but as Ken Berger writes on CBSSports.com, statistics mean little to Bryant. He'd much rather bring the Lakers another title to cement his legacy. There isn't much legacy talk in Dallas these days with the Mavericks struggling and Dirk Nowitzki arguing he doesn't deserve an All-Star spot, writes Tim MacMahon on ESPN.com. College basketball's center of gloom has become Storrs, Conn., with Jim Calhoun on a medical leave and the defending N.C.A.A. champs in danger of not making the tournament at all. Their latest collapse against Louisville was just ugly, writes Jeff Jacobs in The Hartford Courant, and Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com believes the rudderless team has little hope of a turnaround without Calhoun. Nothing was quite so sobering on Monday as the tortured conclusion to the Alberto Contador doping case, writes Jim Caple on ESPN.com, which finally decided the 2010 Tour de France. The title was official tugged from Contador's hands, and given to a less-than-joyous Andy Schleck, which means cycling can now try to move on again, writes William Fotheringham in The Guardian. Considering its history, good luck with that. With that kind of news, a Super Bowl news hangover doesn't seem so bad.