PHOENIX - Tiger Woods will tee off his season in front of 200,000 golf fans and an estimated million people will flock to a revived Phoenix downtown for NFL events.A pair of NBA games will be played in the heart of it all. Concerts abound and there will be parties galore.Oh yes, theres a football game, too. Although the Super Bowl is actually being played 30 minutes away in suburban Glendale.Super Bowl week is always a spectacle. With the addition of golfs biggest name in its most raucous tournament, the scene in and around Phoenix this week should be even crazier. For a few days, what once was a desert wasteland is the centre of the sports and entertainment world.It kind of puts us on the map, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson said. It kind of gives us that networking that we dont have like other teams — the Dallas Cowboys or the New York teams. Everybody can see what the state is all about.The fun will stretch from Glendale to the west to Scottsdale in the east.The epicenter is downtown Phoenix, where 12 blocks have been cordoned off for a myriad of Super Bowl activities and displays. Thanks to a temporary law change, fans can wander through with open containers of alcohol.A few steps away is the NFL Experience, billed as the leagues interactive theme park, set up in the Phoenix Convention Center.Walk a block or so, and theres US Airways Center, where the ever-entertaining, often-bizarre Media Day was held on Tuesday, with fans able to witness it for $28.50 a pop. The arena swings back into its usual purpose on Wednesday night, when the Washington Wizards play the Suns. Friday night, the Chicago Bulls are in town.Scottsdale has a party scene any weekend. Super Bowl weekend it goes over the top. Streets around the clubs will be blocked off with Maxim and Rolling Stone among those hosting gatherings.In north Scottsdale there will be a giant party that happens to have a golf tournament running through the middle of it.The Waste Management Phoenix Open, played on the spacious TPC Scottsdale course, has by far the biggest crowds on the PGA tour, with Saturday always the party day. Now that Woods is playing in the tournament for the first time in 14 years, it should be even more crowded, as hard as that is to imagine. Tournament officials have said more than 200,000 are expected this Saturday.Among those performing somewhere around town will be Lil Wayne, Kid Rock, Darius Rucker, Imagine Dragons and Kevin Hart. Rihanna has an invitation-only gig in Glendale on Saturday night.And, of course, Katy Perry will perform at halftime on Sunday.The Pro Bowl kicked everything off.Usually played in Hawaii, it was moved for this one season to the site of the Super Bowl. A sellout crowd of 63,225 packed the Sunday night event.This will be the third Super Bowl for the Phoenix area. The first was in 1996 at Sun Devil Stadium on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. In 2008, the game was played at University of Phoenix Stadium, with the New York Giants stunning previously unbeaten New England.At the time, downtown Phoenix was entangled in scaffolding for one project after another.For the Super Bowl to return, its an upgrade that was essential.Its really been the $44 billion development to the downtown Phoenix area, said Devney Preuss, senior director off the Arizona Super Bowl host committee. That created a downtown area thats primed and ready for an event like this.Hotels and restaurants were built. The convention centre was expanded. A light rail line opened from Mesa to downtown.Now more big games are on the way.Next January, the college football championship game is in Glendale. 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Armstrong was given the rank of "Chevalier" -- or Knight -- in the "Legion dHonneur" in 2005, the last year of his seven consecutive Tour de France victories.Minnesota Wild 2 Winnipeg Jets 1 – The loss snapped the Jets win streak at four, and dropped their road record to 3-5-1. Eight of the nine road games have been decided by one goal. The Jets got off to a slow start and were outshot 9-2 in the first period but were only down 1-0. Mikko Koivu had the only goal. Jets got going in the second and outshot the Wild 14-8 but could not beat Josh Harding. The best chance was a blast from Dustin Byfuglien from the edge of the circle that Harding made a glove save on. Blake Wheeler had a career-tying five shots on goal in the second. The Jets tied the game just 54 seconds into the third on a goal that initially was credited to Bryan Little, but later changed to Byfuglien. It was his fourth goal in the past four games. Wheeler drew an assist. Ondrej Pavelec made a number of big saves throughout the game and it looked as though these two teams were bound for overtime. The last three Jets games were decided by a shootout, while three of the last four games for the Wild have gone to overtime. However, a faceoff after an icing call, the Wilds top line connected for the game winner for the second time in as many games. Friday against Florida it was Charlie Coyle with the winner in the third, in this game Coyle set up Koivu for his second of the night. TThe goal coming at 16:48 of the third.dddddddddddd Final shots favoured Minnesota 24-22. With the win the Wild have now won six straight at home and are 10-1-1 in their last 12. The two teams meet in Winnipeg Saturday afternoon.Jets will play three straight at home starting with their third back-to-back of the season with Calgary Flames at the MTS Centre Monday. It will be the Flames first game in Winnipeg since the Jets returned to the NHL. Thursday the Jets are home to Chicago, and then the Wild game Saturday afternoon. All three games on TSN Jets and TSN 1290. Wheeler ended the night with eight shots on goal, a season high but one short of his career high. With Zach Bogosian out week to week with a groin injury, Keaton Ellerby played a season high 22:09, paired with Toby Enstrom. Zach Redmond in his first game of the year played 11:25 and was paired most the game with Adam Pardy. "We played a pretty good road game," stated Coach Claude Noel post game. "We got a bad start because we didnt shoot the puck, especially from our D. "We made some changes after the first and played a reasonable game. Tough game to lose. A mistake led to an icing that led to a D zone face-off that led to the goal." Tough night in the face off department with the Wild winning 63%. ' ' '