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Heads rolled in the NFL this week. A team from each of these two conferences axed its head coach:
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AFC West and NFC North
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AFC South and NFC West
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AFC East and NFC North
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NFC East and AFC West
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The NFL brought its usual Thursday Night Football awfulness to Saturday night, which featured a game contested by miscreants from this division:
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AFC East
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NFC West
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AFC North
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NFC South
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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:
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Cincinnati
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Chicago
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Denver
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Buffalo
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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:
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Freeze tag
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Hopscotch
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Touch football
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Dodgeball
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In the junior circuit, the first bowl game of the season was the bowl named for this state:
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Florida
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Hawaii
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Arizona
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New Mexico
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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:
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Navy
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San Diego State
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Eastern Michigan
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Toledo
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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:
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Mount Union
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North Dakota State
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St. Cloud State
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Charleston Southern
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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:
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Maryland
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NC State
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North Carolina
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Wake Forest
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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:
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UCLA
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Baylor
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Villanova
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Kentucky
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It was a resumption of hostilities between former Big East foes, as Georgetown and Syracuse met up once again, with the result being:
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An Orange victory at home
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An Orange victory on the road
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A Hoya victory at home
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A Hoya victory on the road
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The storied career of pugilist Bernard Hopkins came to an unusual end on Saturday night, as Hopkins lost to Joe Smith Jr. when:
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Hopkins didn't answer the bell at the start of the second round
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Hopkins was DQ'd for a series of low blows
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Hopkins was knocked out of the ring
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Hopkins fainted in the corner between rounds
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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?
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NBC
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ABC
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ESPN
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TNT
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