Arizona's Super Bowl Host Committee has decided to punt instead of go long for a chance to host the NFL championship in Glendale in 2014.

Despite the surprise resignation of CEO Debbie Wardrop late Thursday night, the Arizona Super Bowl committee’s bid for the 2011 game shouldn’t be affected, committee president Bob Sullivan said Friday.

DETROIT - The Arizona Super Bowl host committee has a plum location for its exhibit during this year’s Super Bowl, plunked in the middle of Radio Row at the media center and within eyeshot of dozens of radio and TV stations.

DETROIT - The Arizona Super Bowl host committee has a plum location for its exhibit during this year’s Super Bowl, plunked in the middle of Radio Row at the media center and within eyeshot of dozens of radio and TV stations.

If the events surrounding Super Bowl XLII go off as planned early next year, one of the key reasons will be the planning of Scottsdale resident Erin Brin.

The Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee is holding a volunteer draft at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale on Saturday to recruit thousands of volunteers.

Scottsdale-based Sports Fan Marketing CEO Steve Sodell is betting locals are so thrilled to have Super Bowl XLII on their home turf, they’ll be buying lots of logo-emblazoned stuff for themselves and for Christmas gifts.

DETROIT - When the Motor City won the right to host the 2006 Super Bowl six years ago, Detroit’s automakers were enjoying record profits and booming sales of sport utility vehicles.

Lingerie-wearing, tackle-football playing women are planning to descend on as many as four city blocks of downtown Scottsdale during Super Bowl week next year to show off their pigskin and modeling skills during a three-day extravaganza leading up to Lingerie Bowl V.

The Super Bowl will be in the Valley in 2008. Getting it back here in 2011 may be a longshot.

In the upcoming months, there are hundreds of things Arizona’s Super Bowl host committee must do as Super Bowl XLII — to be held at University of Phoenix Stadium Feb. 3, 2008 — gets closer. That includes an attempt to get another Super Bowl. Soon.

Michael Bidwill scanned the room Tuesday while the Arizona Super Bowl bid committee was making its presentation at the NFL owners meetings.

TAMPA, Fla. - The sagging economy has put a hit on plans for this year’s Super Bowl, not that visitors to Tampa for the game and hundreds of millions watching on TV will be able to tell the difference.

New Orleans is the sentimental favorite, but Glendale is hoping to bring the Super Bowl back to Arizona in 2013.

Scottsdale resident Joe Kinnville started volunteering for the Super Bowl by stuffing vegetables into cans.

Super Bowl XLII may be heading west to Glendale, but the parties will be in Scottsdale in the days leading up to the big game.

CHICAGO — Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson said, “The people in Phoenix helped them finance the stadium, and that helped (their cause).”

ROMULUS, Mich. - South Florida heat prevailed over a city whose last Super Bowl was an icy one. Miami was awarded the 2010 Super Bowl on Thursday, a record 10th time the city will host the title game and record 15th time it will be in Florida.

MIAMI - At the Miami Beach Convention Center, it’s impossible to miss the Arizona Super Bowl committee’s setup. There is a huge, slickly made backdrop with desert themes throughout and a plasma TV in the middle continuously running a DVD about all that is great with the state.

The NFL’s 32 teams looked for championship-level talent on Saturday. So did officials running Super Bowl XLII.