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If you are a college football coach who was not fired in a decidedly humiliating manner after a loss on Saturday, please step forward. Not so fast there.....
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Les Miles
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Mike Leach
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Lane Kiffin
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Mike Gundy
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Similarly, if you are a baseball team that will be playing in the post-season, please raise your hand. Hands down,
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Boston Red Sox
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Atlanta Braves
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Arizona Diamondbacks
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Pittsburgh Pirates
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The final day of the MLB regular season saw a strangely-underreported no-hitter thrown. The woeful Miami Marlins won 1-0 when they scored on a _____________ in the bottom of the ninth:
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Wild pitch
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Walk-off home run
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Suicide squeeze
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Sacrifice bunt
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A pair of really, really odd mid-week NFL stories made us laugh. Baltimore Raven Jacoby Jones was smacked upside the head by a bottle of champagne, wielded by a:
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Policeman
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Child
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Retired NFL referee
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Stripper
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And the Lions' Nate Burleson went and broke his arm in an unusual car accident cause by this common foodstuff:
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Peanut butter
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Bananas
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Bacon
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Pizza
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If you missed an attempt at a 71 yard field goal attempt this week, then you have a surprising amount in common with the kicker for this NFL team:
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Denver
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San Francisco
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San Diego
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Detroit
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This SEC team emerged victorious in the weekend's only matchup of Top 10 teams:
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Alabama
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LSU
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Georgia
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Florida
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We learned this week that, after the 2014 season, we won't have the commissioner of this sport to kick around any more, as he is retiring:
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NASCAR
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PGA
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NHL
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MLB
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A team sponsored by Oracle executed an unlikely and stirring comeback to prevail in the signature event in this sport during the week:
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Dogsled racing
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Yacht racing
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Polo
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Australian rules football
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In a sign that perhaps it is loosening up its straight-lacedness, the NBA announced the possibility of, in a few select games, letting players sport this on the backs of their uniforms:
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Names of their favorite offspring
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Nicknames
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Name of their favorite charity
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Favorite sneaker brand
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Sticking with the roundball, we note that this NBA player went and pissed off Dwyane Wade when he opined that James Harden, not Wade, deserved a spot in Sports Illustrated's list of 10 Best NBA Players:
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LeBron James
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Kevin Durant
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Kevin Garnett
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Chris Paul
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And get ready for The Big Ownership, as Shaquille O'Neal is exploring a venture to buy part of this Association team:
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Boston
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Atlanta
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Sacramento
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Oklahoma City
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SI determined that the loudest football stadium in all the land is the one on the campus of:
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LSU
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Oregon
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UCLA
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Michigan State
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It is hard, so damn hard, to win a game in the National Football Game when your team's quarterback throws three or more interceptions in a game. Which of these fellows avoided such an ignominious achievement on Sunday?
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Joe Flacco
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Matt Flynn
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Blaine Gabbert
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Jay Cutler
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And in closing, as the NFL season hits the quarter pole, which does not correctly match a 4-0 team with one that is 0-4?
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Denver & Pittsburgh
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Kansas City & Jacksonville
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New England & Washington
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Seattle & Tampa Bay
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