It is Screech’s chance to return the favor.

San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh made a guest appearance 17 years ago on "Saved by the Bell: The New Class" where he played the cousin of Screech, played by Diamond. Harbaugh was then the starting quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts and he appeared on the episode to provide a lesson to a football player on fictional Bayside High School who had gotten cocky and needed to learn about humility. So Screech called on “Cousin Jim” to teach that lesson.

In the scene, Harbaugh advises, “People think I'm a hero because I can throw a football but I wouldn't be anything without my teammates.” The seriousness aside, Diamond also refers to the hefty Harbaugh as “skinny” when they first interact at the local eatery, The Max.

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Well now Diamond is ready to return the favor for his “cousin” with his own Gipper-esque speech ahead of the Super Bowl where Harbaugh’s 49ers face the Baltimore Ravens.

namathdimagmontanaLike he did last season, NFL Hall of Famer and New York Jets legend Joe Namath will join Yahoo! Sports and the Shutdown Corner Blog for commentary and analysis. Make sure you like the Official Joe Namath page on Facebook. And with playoff news always breaking like injuries and weather, please make sure to check the Broadway Joe site for updates and even more playoff insight from the legend himself! There’s also some great football gear and memorabilia as well!

Momentum can be everything in the playoffs and come this Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, you have one team that was a favorite to be here in this game and one team that got hot at the right time. On paper, the 49ers were favorites in preseason to come out of the NFC and heading to New Orleans, but not a lot of people were talking about the Ravens making it this far. But momentum has carried the Ravens here and they just feel a bit like a team of destiny, don’t they?

You have a linebacker in Ray Lewis who has given an emotional lift to this team and a quarterback in Joe Flacco who is out to prove that he is elite like a Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning and the rest. Just because they didn’t receive a first round bye doesn’t mean that they aren’t a dangerous team.

Steve Young likes what he sees. (AP)Now all that's left is the commercials.

There's no need to watch the Super Bowl for the actual game, at least not with PredictionMachine.com having run 50,000 simulations of Sunday's Super Bowl matchup and determining that the San Francisco 49ers will beat the Baltimore Ravens by a likely score of 28 to 21. The simulations gave the edge to the 49ers' run and pass offense over the Ravens' defense and perhaps most importantly, an edge to the 49ers' run defense in stopping the Ravens' rushing attack.

From the 50,000 simulations, PredictionMachine.com had the 49ers winning 66.9 percent of the time. But while a touchdown spread and a relatively narrow game is the most likely winning margin for the 49ers, there is a 38.6 percent chance that San Francisco wins by more than 10 points. In other words, the simulation likes the 49ers an awful lot.

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(@deiondrasanders)Deion Sanders was a two-sport athlete.

Now his daughter is making a name for herself by playing a sports league named after a two-piece bathing suit.

Deiondra Sanders, daughter of the Hall of Fame football player, has agreed to play in the upstart Bikini Basketball League this season. Featuring several former professional basketball players including some who have played in the WNBA and overseas, the league is a bit of a misnomer as the players wear shorts and sports bras and not actual bathing suits.

Still, it amounts to a little more material than Deion’s famous bandanna he’d wear on his head on game day. And even though Deiondra's father was known for his flamboyant personality including gold chains and exuberant touchdown dances, his daughter's signing with the league didn’t originally sit well with dear old dad.

“My dad was kind of upset, but that’s like any parent who just sees bikini league,” Deiondra told Jeff Sammut of 590 The Fan in Toronto. “He thought I was gonna be out there in a bikini. He [saw] a picture of our uniform and stuff like that, so I think once he saw that we’re actually covered up a little bit, he wasn’t as concerned.”

Deiondra hopes that playing in the league will put her in prime-time position for her career and for being a “positive voice.” She will play for the Atlanta Peaches.

(AP)One of the biggest draft busts in NFL history is trying to re-kindle his football career. Yahoo! Sports has learned that JaMarcus Russell is planning a comeback attempt that he hopes will see him play in the league again. The former No. 1 pick in the 2007 NFL draft has not played a single NFL snap since the 2009 season with the Oakland Raiders.

The reclamation of Russell will follow a tricky road for a quarterback who was always known more for his physical blessings than technique. Russell, 27, who has effectively been out of football since tryouts with the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins in 2010, might find overcoming himself his biggest challenge. Currently at 308 pounds, Russell is down from the 320 pounds he weighed this past fall and has been focusing on cardio conditioning the past six weeks to lose the weight.

“My first year out, I couldn’t watch football but after a while, I couldn’t keep the TV off. I got that itchy feeling but now I gotta watch it, gotta watch,” Russell said.

“The last few years, the things going through my life, football is my job and it is how it feeds my family. People would say [that] I didn’t love the game but that pisses me off. People don’t know the real you but I want people to know the real me and see what I can do. People are always saying that I’m a bust. I want show them I’m not. I’m committed to this now.”

Yahoo! Sports has learned that Russell’s mentor through this whole process is former NFL wide receiver Mike Clayton, who like Russell is a LSU product. Over the next couple months, Russell will be training with Brian Martin of TEST Football Academy and TEST West, whose draft products include Joe Flacco and Patrick Peterson among others. In addition, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jeff Garcia (quarterback technique training), Olympian Ato Boldon (speed training and analysis), Dr. Robert Price of Elite Minds (mental and psychological analysis), former NFL wide receiver Quinn Early (disciplinary work and focus), former New York Giants quarterback Scott Brunner (reading defenses and classroom sessions) and NFL Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk (reading defenses) will work as part of the team trying to reclaim the quarterback’s promise.

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Depending on what happens in the BCS National Championship Game, Ohio State could still be voted the Associated Press National Champion after a 12-0 season, despite being banned from the postseason.

That's very unlikely, but technically possible. Whether Ohio State could have beaten either team playing for the BCS championship tonight will remain a mystery.

Sanctions stemming from the Jim Tressel era kept the Buckeyes from playing in the Big Ten Championship Game this year or participating in the postseason at all. Despite the limitations, the first season under head coach Urban Meyer was an undoubted success.

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PISCATAWAY, N.J. – It is as if Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice has a “Mini-Me.”

Six years ago, it was Rice who ran Rutgers to relevancy, rushing for what was then a program record 1,794 yards (he broke his own record the next year) and 20 touchdowns in 2006. He was the standout performer and the rising star during an 11-2 season in which the Scarlet Knights finished No. 12 in the polls.

This season, Rutgers is in the Russell Athletic Bowl preparing to face Virginia Tech on the back of its latest talented running back, Jawan Jamison.

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Although Alabama’s Nick Saban is arguably the best college coach of his generation, he is still disappointed by his two years in the NFL and how he abruptly left the Miami Dolphins to return to the college ranks.