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Notre Dame allowed more than 21 points once during the season. Gave up this many by halftime in its BCS championship game loss to Alabama:
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22
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26
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28
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31
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In one of the meteoric-est rises to fame we've ever seen, by the end of the week, we learned that AJ McCarron/object of Musberger lust Katherine Webb:
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Will transfer from Auburn to Alabama
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Was named Miss America
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Accepted a job on Good Morning America
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Will appear in the upcoming Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition
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Nick Saban's Feel Good Party Crew wrapped up the championship by this crew:
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42-14
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45-15
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38-10
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55-21
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Fashionably waiting for the season-ending blood to stop flowing, this team terminated its head coach:
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Oakland
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Jacksonville
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Miami
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Carolina
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And this squad is looking for a new defensive coordinator as of this week:
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Dallas
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NY Giants
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Arizona
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Cleveland
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The Kings look to be not long for Sacramento, as a potential sale is in the works, with the likely outcome that the NBA team would be relocated to:
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Las Vegas
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Seattle
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Kansas City
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Calgary
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At the confluence of breakfast cereal and a team bus was a rather altercation between stars of these two NBA teams:
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Clippers and Lakers
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Mavericks and Spurs
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76ers and Nets
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Knicks and Celtics
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The Broncos returnalicious 35-28 win over the Ravens, which we turned off with about 30 seconds to go in regulation, and it's weird for us to even say "regulation" because there's no way it would go into overtime, featured each of the following, except for:
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Fumble return for touchdown
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Punt return for touchdown
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Interception return for touchdown
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Kickoff return for touchdown
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Meanwhile, this dude notched two receiving and one rushing touchdown in his playoff game:
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Ray Rice
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Arian Foster
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Marshawn Lynch
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Shane Vereen
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A field goal with this many seconds left seemed to give the Seahawks a trip to the NFC championship game. Nope.
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31
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28
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45
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51
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This guy celebrated with a little swagger as he kissed his bicep following a touchdown this weekend:
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Wes Welker
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Jacoby Jones
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Tony Gonzalez
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Colin Kaepernick
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At the beginning of the week, there were several undefeated men's college basketball teams. Now? Not so much. Arizona went down for the first time of the season of the hellaciously ugly court of:
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Oregon
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Arizona State
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Colorado
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Stanford
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First-loss-apalooza continued during the week as Coach K's squad were handled by the:
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Yellow Jackets
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Wolfpack
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Tar Heels
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Cavaliers
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And Michigan, the last of the unbeatens, earned an L against Ohio State:
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By nine points at home
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By three points on the road
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By three points at home
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By nine points on the road
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Hey, tennis. This woman began her Australian Open campaign by double-bageling her first-round opponent:
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Li Na
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Serena Williams
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Caroline Wozniacki
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Maria Sharapova
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