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1. Heads rolled in the NFL this week. A team from each of these two conferences axed its head coach:
AFC West and NFC North
AFC South and NFC West
AFC East and NFC North
NFC East and AFC West
 
2. The NFL brought its usual Thursday Night Football awfulness to Saturday night, which featured a game contested by miscreants from this division:
AFC East
NFC West
AFC North
NFC South
 
3. It was cold cold cold on Sunday...so much so that players playing in this frigid city wore wet suits under their uniforms for extra warmth:
Cincinnati
Chicago
Denver
Buffalo
 
4. Meanwhile, the League has decided to make you interested in the upcoming Pro Bowl by adding a spirited bout of this schoolyard game to the festivities:
Freeze tag
Hopscotch
Touch football
Dodgeball
 
5. In the junior circuit, the first bowl game of the season was the bowl named for this state:
Florida
Hawaii
Arizona
New Mexico
 
6. And the NCAA crowned a new all-time career rushing leader. Say hello to Donnel Pumphrey of this school, who set the mark in the Las Vegas bowl:
Navy
San Diego State
Eastern Michigan
Toledo
 
7. And in FCS action, this school saw its streak of five straight championships come to and end at the hands of James Madison in the FCS semis:
Mount Union
North Dakota State
St. Cloud State
Charleston Southern
 
8. Finally, in a story we can't quite get our heads around, a knucklehead from this ACC school's broadcast team has been charged with supplying helpful information to members of rival schools' coaching staffs:
Maryland
NC State
North Carolina
Wake Forest
 
9. In college roundball, the game of the year so far was logged as this school, which you might have heard of, knocked off North Carolina 103-100 in a terrific barnburner:
UCLA
Baylor
Villanova
Kentucky
 
10. It was a resumption of hostilities between former Big East foes, as Georgetown and Syracuse met up once again, with the result being:
An Orange victory at home
An Orange victory on the road
A Hoya victory at home
A Hoya victory on the road
 
11. The storied career of pugilist Bernard Hopkins came to an unusual end on Saturday night, as Hopkins lost to Joe Smith Jr. when:
Hopkins didn't answer the bell at the start of the second round
Hopkins was DQ'd for a series of low blows
Hopkins was knocked out of the ring
Hopkins fainted in the corner between rounds
 
12. And nothing but praise poured forth at the passing of Craig Sager who died at the age of 65. At the end of his storied career, the broadcasting legend most regularly contributed to the telecasts of which network?
NBC
ABC
ESPN
TNT
 




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