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Add the conference seed numbers of the participants in this year's Super Bowl together, and you get:
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2
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4
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6
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8
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Call your bookies and move some disposable income around. The opening line of the Super Bowl is:
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Baltimore by 3.5
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San Francisco by 5.5
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Baltimore by 2.5
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San Francisco by 4.5
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Louisville's stay at #1 was a short one, as this Big East rival came into their house and bumped off the Cardinals:
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Syracuse
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St. John's
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Notre Dame
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UConn
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Saturday night gave us a terrific college basketball game as the Butler Bulldogs pulled off a miraculous last-second victory against these other bulldogs:
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Yale
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Gonzaga
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Mississippi State
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Georgia
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We say either congratulations or we've very, very sorry to this team's former offensive coordinator for his being named to the head coach position in San Diego:
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Detroit
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Denver
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Dallas
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Washington
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Meanwhile, the Bears, after considerable cogitating, awarded their head coach position to a dude who had most recently coached:
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In the NFL
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In college
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In Arena football
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In the CFL
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And Chip "No Neck" Kelly enraged Duck Nation as he is headed to the NFL to coach in the:
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NFC East
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NFC South
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AFC North
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AFC West
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Baseball lost two legends this week. We're pouring one out for the colorful - to say the least - manager of the:
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Tigers
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Red Sox
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Orioles
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Dodgers
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Also called home was a superstar whose identity was intrinsically tied to this franchise (and vice-versa):
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Brooklyn
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St. Louis
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Cleveland
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Pittsburgh
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Blazing through her opening matches at the Australian Open, this woman set a record in losing only five games prior to the quarterfinals:
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Maria Sharapova
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Venus Williams
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Serena Williams
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Victoria Azarenka
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And speaking of baseball, many, many fans of the sport were glad to see this outlawed during the week:
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Balls hitting the foul ball called fair
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The designated hitter
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Hitters moving out of the batters box
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Fake-to-third-throw-to-first
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To the delight of possibly dozens, the NHL season got underway at long last. This team was the pooper to the Stanley Cup champion Kings' party, who routed the defending champs 5-2 in Los Angeles:
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Detroit
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Chicago
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Dallas
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Minnesota
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After having given birth to one of the most spectacularly bizarre sports stories ever, Manti Te'o sat down off camera with this EPSN personality to explain DeadGirlfriend-gate:
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Rachel Nichols
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Stephen A. Smith
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Jeremy Schapp
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Scott van Pelt
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Wednesday gave us only the fourth time in NBA history a father has coached against his son, as Doc Rivers' Boston Celtics faced off against these guys, for whom his son Austin plays:
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The Hornets
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The Wizards
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The Grizzlies
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The Bobcats
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Having stopped the Clippers' 17 game winning streak on New Years Day, these hoopmeisters ended the Thunder's six game winning streak this week:
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San Antonio
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Memphis
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Denver
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Portland
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