No plan to retire

For all the things that are still up in the air, Peyton Manning is certain about this much: He isn’t ready to retire yet. “I have no plans on doing that,” Manning (pictured right) said Tuesday. Manning finds himself in a kind of limbo. The Super Bowl is being played in his town, Indianapolis, at the end of a season in which he didn’t play. An iron man for 13 seasons, he’s struggling to recover from three neck surgeries over the course of 19 months. A four-time MVP, he’s one of the game’s most recognizable faces. Yet it’s his shadow and the question of whether Manning will play again that looms over the season’s biggest game. “My plan hasn’t changed,” he said. “I’m on track with what the doctors have told me to do, and I’m doing that.” – Associated Press