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If he only would have taken a moment to talk to Tom Brady about NFL safety instead of slurping his drink derisively, this Ravens defender might not have been lost for the year with a torn tricep:
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Ray Lewis
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Ed Reed
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Terrell Suggs
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Haloti Ngata
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Monday Night Football saw one of the great reversals of fortune, as Denver spotted the Chargers a ________ lead before running off _______ straight points:
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28 / 42
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21 / 32
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24 / 35
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17 / 24
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If you are a defensive coordinator who wasn't fired during the week, please take a step forward. Not so fast there, dude who used to work for:
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Tennessee
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New Orleans
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Carolina
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Philadelphia
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The preseason basketball rankings has a bit of a throwback feeling to it, with this team atop the USA Today poll:
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Indiana
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Louisville
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Georgetown
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DePaul
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Meanwhile, this team has a major cog now in place, as highly sought-after Nerlens Noel has been cleared to play for the school:
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Syracuse
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Duke
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Kentucky
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UCLA
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Kids, never ever do your exercises. That seems to be the takeaway from this NBA notable breaking his hand doing knuckle push-ups:
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Derrick Rose
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Kevin Love
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Blake Griffin
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Carmelo Anthony
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Boy, it's a bad week to be associated with this team, whose
main PR dude penned a piece directed at the teams fan titled "Take a Chill Pill":
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Buffalo
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Dallas
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San Diego
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Kansas City
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And, hey, a newly brewing controversy surrounding the use of a stickum-like substance wouldn't be brewing around the Chargers as well, right? Right??
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Right, it involves the Raiders
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Right, it involves the Giants
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Right, it involves the Texans
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Wrong
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In a rather odd occurrence, neither quarterback in this matchup of ranked teams threw for more than 100 yards Saturday:
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Florida-South Carolina
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Michigan-Michigan State
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LSU-Texas A&M
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Alabama-Tennessee
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This school's all-time career TD mark fell Saturday as its signalcaller passed the opposition silly to the tune of six touchdowns:
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USC
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Florida State
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Oklahoma
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Boise State
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Meanwhile, we're most likely looking for a new Heisman favorite (Manti Teo, put your hand down, for God's sake), after the total fustigation Geno Smith and West Virginia received at the hands of this Big 12 opponent:
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Oklahoma
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Kansas State
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Texas
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Oklahoma State
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Upgrade! The new Red Sox manager is the man who most recently skippered this team to a 154-170 record during the last two seasons:
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Colorado
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Kansas City
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Toronto
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Houston
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Add the number of games the ALCS lasted to the number of games that the NLCS will last, and you get this number:
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8
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12
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13
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11
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14.
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Say hey to your new WNBA champs, the skilled ladies from:
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Connecticut
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Seattle
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Minnesota
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Indiana
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An apparent game winning touchdown was nullified on a controversial illegal touching penalty, denying these dudes a W:
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Washington
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NY Jets
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Tampa Bay
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Arizona
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