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Should we open with a little bit of basketball? Yes, yes we should. This NBA team took the unusual step of announcing that its season opener will be televised without commercials:
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Dallas
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Sacramento
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Miami
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Indianapolis
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We learned just this week that this recognizable NBA figure has cleared his name following a bizarre identity theft/child sex case:
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Carlos Boozer
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Roy Hibbert
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Ty Lawson
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Chris Anderson
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RIP to this boxing great and one-time heavyweight champion:
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Ken Norton
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Leon Spinks
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Larry Holmes
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Sonny Liston
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Putting a bright spot at the end of another hapless season, the New York Mets turned its TV broadcasting booth over to this comedian to call Tuesday's game:
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Louie Anderson
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Louis CK
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Jerry Seinfeld
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Robin Williams
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The LA Dodgers became the first baseball team to earn a playoff berth, when the partied in this team's pool after winning a game against them:
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Marlins
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Diamondbacks
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Cardinals
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Astros
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Later, the Red Sox completed their surprising worst-to-first turnover, clinching the AL East crown by topping this team 6-3:
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Detroit
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Chicago White Sox
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Kansas City
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Toronto
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If you are this college football team's head coach, you spent much of the week trying to fend off a media storm surrounding audio tapes in which the coach harshly assails his university's fans:
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Nebraska
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Florida State
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Michigan
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Texas
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Meanwhile, a broken finger has sidelined this school's starting quarterback for the rest of the season:
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UCLA
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Florida
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Notre Dame
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Stanford
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And college football received another black eye when the NFL's Arian Foster admitted to receiving cash while he was playing college ball. Now, remind us again where Arian Foster played college ball:
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Oklahoma
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Tennessee
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Syracuse
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Washington State
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Already on their way to a runaway rout, this ranked team played with a running clock for a good deal of the second half of Saturday's game:
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Alabama
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Oregon
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Louisville
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Michigan
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This team's surprisingly lackluster loss Sunday capped a tumultuous week after one of its defensive standouts was arrested for DUI a few days earlier:
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Buffalo
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Green Bay
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San Francisco
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Philadelphia
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We think that a Lisfranc injury is totally made up, but apparently it's enough to prevent this NFL squad's offensive tackle from playing this season:
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Indianapolis
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Denver
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Seattle
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Houston
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Apparently, you need your Lisfranc a lot more than you do your finger, as a safety for this team lost part of his finger during the game on Sunday but continued to play:
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Arizona
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Pittsburgh
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Carolina
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Jacksonville
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Thanks to a highly unusual trade, running back Trent Richardson went from wearing the brown and orange of Cleveland at the beginning season to wearing these colors on Sunday:
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Blue and white
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Black and gold
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Green and yellow
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Brown and orange, just of a different team
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And we'll close by noting that this road team won in a particular city Sunday for the first time in 74 years:
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Chicago
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Detroit
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Kansas City
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Cleveland
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