Each year the NFL stages a press conference on the Thursday prior to the Super Bowl with their celebrity entertainer or group as in years past, with everyone from Bruce Springsteen, to The Who, to The Black Eyed Peas last year! Yesterday it was an 18 minute question & answer exchange with Madonna, who admitted she’s still nervous about everything coming off perfectly for the biggest show audience she will ever have, and yes, she promised there would be no wardrobe malfunctions!

Have they finally decided on a replacement for Regis Philbin? For awhile the rumors were that Rob Lowe, who was certainly the favorite of all the ladies on the syndicated talk show staff, was the frontrunner to finally replace Regis as a co-host with Kelly Ripa, but now sources are saying they’re almost 90% sure it’s going to be Howie Mandel! Is this your pick? Watch this clip to see Wednesday’s host chat with Kelly & Howie!

The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club made their decree Thursday morning in central Pennsylvania: Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, and there’ll be six more weeks of winter. The announcement was met with boos from the enormous crowd gathered at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney. Folks in the East and elsewhere gave a collective shrug, as temperatures have been unseasonably warm. “The daffodils are already in bloom in NW Mississippi,” wrote Jackie Barnes Garrett on TODAY’s Facebook page, where hundreds of people are weighing in. “We are already fighting mosquitoes and flies.” “Yesterday it was almost 60 degrees in Iowa,” wrote Facebook commenter Letha Ann Alexander. But Sara LaPoint, from Colorado, has seen enough of this season. “I am SO done with snow and winter!” she wrote. The Associated Press reports that the groundhog has seen his shadow 99 times since 1886; he’s not seen it only 16 times, according to the Groundhog Club’s Inner Circle.

Groundhog day is one of my favorite movies of all time! Here’s 19 minutes of highlights that, not unlike the movie’s plot itself, I’ve watched over & over & over again! This funny 1993 romantic comedy, directed by Harold Ramis, written by Ramis & Danny Rubin, stars Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell & Chris Elliot, and carries a simple message of, do it over until you get it, and get it right!

At the urging of First Lady Michelle Obama, Jay Leno actually ate some veggies Tuesday night!

Then Jay found out more about President Obama’s quiet singing career we all saw a week ago!

To see what the First Lady was talking about seeing in the Green Room, Click on “More”

Don Cornelius, creator of the iconic “Soul Train” was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, California home Wednesday morning, and law enforcement sources indicated it appears he committed suicide. Police discovered the body at around 4 AM PT. Cornelius died from a gunshot wound to the head and officials believe the wound was self-inflicted. Cornelius was taken to the Cedars-Sinai hospital where he was pronounced dead. “Soul Train” changed the television landscape when it debuted in 1971 and ran until 2006.