Greetings from Phoenix, where it's 59 degrees with clearing skies after a heavy rainfall Sunday that led to some flash flooding.

Here's what's on tap for Monday from the site of Super Bowl XLII:

The Patriots will hold a press conference beginning at 5:30 p.m. (EST), with Coach Bill Belichick. He'll be followed by Rodney Harrison, Matt Light, Junior Seau, Adalius Thomas, Ty Warren and Wes Welker.

Quarterback Tom Brady, whose right foot is now as famous as he is (and who proclaimed himself fit to play Sunday night when the Patriots arrived), will not be available again to the media until Tuesday, at Media Day at the University of Phoenix Stadium.

This is the first Super Bowl for Welker, who set a Patriots record with 112 receptions this year. It'll be interesting to hear what he has to say.

Seau is back after a 13-year absence. He last was here with the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX when they lost to San Francisco 49-26.

The upstart New York Giants arrive this afternoon and will have a press conference at their hotel, the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass, at 7 p.m. Tom Coughlin will be the first speaker.

Players will include Eli Manning, Plaxico Burress, Amani Toomer, Michael Strahan, Antonio Pierce and Jeff Feagles.

Toomer and Strahan are the only Giants left from the team that lost to Baltimore, 34-7, in Super Bowl XXXV.

We'll update things later as they develop.

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