A group from Indianapolis is traveling to Arizona this week, with intentions of making a bid for the Super Bowl in 2012, according to the Associated Press. The city lost to Dallas in their bid for the 2011 game last year. "Indianapolis is a great football city and, frankly, it deserves a Super Bowl," city Mayor Greg Ballard told the AP. "They're going to send it back to a cold-weather city on occasion, and this is our time."

The Associated Press has reported that Steelers' safety Troy Polamalu will skip next month's Pro Bowl because of a knee sprain he suffered as his season came to a close. Antoine Bethea of Indianapolis will replace Polamalu on the AFC roster.

Tony Dungy decided to remain the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts on Monday, a little more than a week after the Colts were eliminated from the playoffs. The team announced on Monday that Dungy would remain the team's head coach through at least the 2008 season. "It was a family decision," Dungy said. "We're on board, and we look forward to '08, look forward to putting together a winner."

Jim Irsay, over of the Indianapolis Colts, told the Indianapolis Star on Sunday that he remains optimistic Tony Dungy will return as his coach, and is expecting a decision on Monday. "Nothing has been decided," Irsay said Sunday evening, "but I am hopeful he'll come back." In an e-mail to The Star on Sunday, Dungy said he hadn't finalized a decision and "will meet with Jim in the morning."

Assistant Head Coach Jim Caldwell would replace Tony Dungy if the Indianapolis Colts coach retires, team owner Jim Irsay said Thursday night. Irsay hopes Dungy will return and expects to speak to him this weekend, the owner said at a party celebrating an exhibition of the Jack Kerouac "On The Road" manuscript he owns at The New York Public Library. Irsay said he might be able to make accommodations for Dungy such as allowing him to attend his son's high school football games in Florida on Friday nights. But he has no doubt that Dungy's commitment will be "100 percent" if he continues coaching. "That's the type of guy he is," Irsay said. Otherwise, he said, "Jim Caldwell would be the guy."

The Indianapolis Colts have signed starting strongside linebacker Tyjuan Hagler to a one-year contract extension through 2008, a move that keeps the three-year veteran off the restricted free agent market. The deal is worth $1.417 million, which is the same amount of the restricted free agent qualifying offer the Colts would have made to Hagler before the start of the free agent signing period in the spring. Without the extension, other teams could have pursued Hagler and perhaps signed him to an offer sheet which would have forced the Colts to either match it or pass on it and allow the three-year veteran to depart. Barring another extension, Hagler will be eligible for unrestricted free agency in the spring of 2009. By retaining Hagler, the Colts assured that the trio of starting linebackers from a defense that statistically ranked No. 3 in the league this season will return intact for 2008.

Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy denied an Internet report on Profootballtalk.com that he has decided he will step down and be succeeded by assistant Jim Caldwell, ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported Wednesday. Dungy laughed at the speculation. "Believe it or not, I'm going to go through the process just like I said I would," Dungy told Mortensen. "[Owner] Jim Irsay and I, along with [team president] Bill Polian, have have been talking about this for the last couple of days in Indianapolis. Jim wants me to open the new stadium. I'm not opposed to it, my wife it not opposed to it. I'm going to go through this process to make sure that I should do it. "My wife and I will continue to discuss it and pray about it," he said. "We should have some type of decision by Saturday or Sunday. The first person outside my family that will know about it is Jim Irsay on Monday morning, and nobody else will know about it before Jim." Dungy added: "It's amazing that people don't want to believe what I said all along, that I would take this week to make my decision." Irsay has said that he will do whatever it takes to keep Dungy on the sideline.

Assistant Coach Gregg Williams interviewed again Monday for the Redskins' coaching vacancy, and the team was also planning to speak to Seahawks' aAsistant Jim Mora and Colts' Assistants Jim Caldwell and Ron Meeks. Owner Dan Snyder met for the third time with Williams, who has been in charge of the Redskins' defense since 2004. Williams had a preliminary interview Wednesday and his first full session with the owner Saturday.

Tony Dungy, as expected, said he and his wife will mull over their options and Dungy's future as coach of the Indianapolis Colts, with a decision to be reached by next week. "My wife and I will sit down and evaluate this week and talk about it, talk it through," he said during his media availability Monday afternoon at the Colts' complex. "We'll probably do a lot of praying about what we want to do." "We'll probably come to some decision this weekend and be ready to move forward on Monday one way or the other." Dungy's sixth season as coach of the Colts came to a close with a 28-24 AFC divisional playoff loss Sunday to the San Diego Chargers. Speculation arose recently that Dungy might decide to retire after reports surfaced that his children had returned to their home in Tampa, Fla., and enrolled in school there. Dungy, 52, always has maintained he would take some time after the playoffs to think about his future before making any decision.

Marvin Harrison was cheered when he took the field for pregame warm-ups. The capacity RCA Dome crowd roared Sunday when he was introduced. But as wildly anticipated returns go, this one was not so triumphant. Playing only his sixth game of the season and his first since Oct. 22 because of a knee injury, the Indianapolis Colts' wide receiver clearly was not his Pro Bowl self. He fumbled on his first reception. He caught two passes for 27 yards. He labored into the fourth quarter before taking a seat on the bench. "I did what I can do. That's the bottom line," Harrison said. "It was a coaching decision. I don't know how it came down, but at that point in the game we were better off probably without me out there."