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Looking to smother the competition with sheer numbers, this country will be sending a contingent numbering 230 athletes, the largest delegation in Winter Olympic history, to Sochi:
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Canada
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United States
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China
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Jamaica
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Monday night saw this host in its inter- um....intra- same-state matchup defeat the visitors for the tenth straight time:
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Oklahoma, hosting OK State
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UCLA, hosting USC
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Kansas, hosting K-State
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Texas, hosting Texas Tech
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Having been nuked as the Texans' head coach at the end of the season, Gary Kubiak has found gainful employment as the offensive coordinator for the:
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Falcons
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Ravens
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Cowboys
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Browns
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College football players might learn from the ways of the Teamsters, now that gridironers from this NCAA school have sought to form a union:
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Stanford
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West Virginia
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Florida State
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Northwestern
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Say goodbye to professional hockey played outdoors for a while. This NHL organization closed out this year's Stadium Series by notching a second victory in the fresh-air events:
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Rangers
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Kings
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Maple Leafs
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Devils
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Ohio State basketball's winter of discontent continues, with this Big 10 foe scratching out scratching out an overtime win over the Buckeyes this week:
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Nebraska
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Penn State
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Purdue
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Illinois
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While Peyton and Russell were QB'ing it up in the Super Bowl, this NFL signalcaller was caught up in a scandal amid accusations of selling fake merchandise:
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Eli
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Phillip
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Tony
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Colin
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Nothing says classic ACC matchup like Duke against.......Syracuse? Anyway, the first meeting of the conference's new marquee machup resulted in a:
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Duke win at home
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Duke win on the road
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Syracuse win at home
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Syracuse win on the road
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The Super Bowl wasn't the only game in town in New York this weekend. Madison Square Garden played host to a college hoops game in which Michigan State was upset by this unranked, struggling team:
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VCU
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UNC
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Georgetown
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Butler
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Later in the weekend, #1 Arizona joined the ranks of the defeated thanks to a last-second loss to this Pac 12 opponent:
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Cal
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Arizona State
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Stanford
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Washington State
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The king is dead. Long live the king. A new commish ruthlessly took the reigns of power over the weekend in this sports league:
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NFL
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NHL
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NBA
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MLB
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If you're like most people, you thought the Super Bowl sucked. Unless you thought it ruled. Say hello to your Super Bowl MVP:
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Russell Wilson
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Marshawn Lynch
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Malcolm Smith
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Golden Tate
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This was the margin of victory in the anticlimactic affair:
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38
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41
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35
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29
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The first points in the game were scored via:
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Fumble return
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Punt return
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Kickoff return
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Safety
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