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Yahoo Sports columnist. NYT best-selling author. “Epic Athletes” for young readers. Exec Producer: Aaron Hernandez Netflix doc. College Football Enquirer pod

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Dan Wetzel
2 years
🎁 Need a gift for a young sports fan/reader (grades 3-8)? Please consider Epic Athletes: bios of Mahomes, Steph, Simone, LeBron, Serena, Brady, Morgan, Messi, Durant, Zion. Also a six book box set. Kid, parent, teacher and librarian-approved 🎁
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Nick Sirianni was asked who on the Eagles he wouldn't let his daughter date. "My daughter is five years old." Good to have Super Bowl Media Day back at full throttle!
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Both Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko - sons of a Major General in the old Soviet Air Force - made millions as heavyweight boxing champs. They could be safely living anywhere in the world. Instead they are in their native Ukraine vowing to take up arms and fight Russia. Heroes.
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Chase Daniel. 13 years in NFL. 71 games played. 5 starts. 261 passes attempted. 8 TDs. Career earnings: $41,828,471
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If you have an issue with a baseball stadium hosting a football game sponsored by a cloud storage system named after a Japanese horseradish kicking off at 11 a.m. on a Thursday, then I’m not sure we can be friends
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The trick play Dan Campbell ran was so good that it tricked the officials into declaring the wrong lineman eligible even though Campbell told them pregame how it was going to work? Amazing way to lose.
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Gisele, walking a back hallway to leave the stadium, took time to personally congratulate every Eagles player she ran into. They looked star struck.
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Michigan will suspend men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard for the rest of the regular season, a source tells Yahoo Sports.
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The Pac 12 no longer exists. We’ll never know who would win a mascot fight, although Mike Leach handicapped it well
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Indiana state playoffs. Sectionals. Guerin Catholic trails by one in double overtime. And then …
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Pretty good game so far …
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The overturned TD. The horrible roughing the passer. The bad spots, missed PIs, missed drop and situational targeting review call. That was truly one of the worst officiated games I can recall.
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Notre Dame will be led by 35 year old Marcus Freeman who’ll have a 29 year old offensive coordinator in Tommy Rees. Players fired up. New era, new vibe in South Bend.
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What does 40 years of coaching experience get you? Greg Kampe calls time out at 4:09 and then gets the planned under 4 minute media time out so his exhausted Oakland starters grab 6-7 minutes of rest.
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A laughing Jimbo Fisher on Finebaum: “There were a lot of NIL deals going on before all this was going on, they just weren’t legal. Nobody told nobody.”
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Post your favorite Sports Illustrated cover:
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Brad Allen is still confused about what happened. No way Decker, who was about to take part in maybe the biggest play of his career, was standing in front of him and didn’t report. NFL will need another statement.
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Charles Robinson
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Official sticking to his story, but there’s no way in hell Goff grabbed Taylor Decker by the arm, directed him to report, Decker went to official, official looked at him, and the Lions threw to Decker…but Decker didn’t report. It’s illogical. What’s logical is a ref being wrong.
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Pistons with a perimeter of Cade Cunningham, Jaden Ivey and Shaddiq Bey. Plus $43 million in salary cap. Hello.
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OJ upset that someone may have gotten away with something.
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Why is the initiator not being suspended? Someone please explain this to me. #CLEvsPIT #NFL
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Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski were clear on NBC that Valieva shouldn’t be skating. At end of her short program Weir: “All I feel I can say is that was the short program of Kamila Valieva at the Olympics.” That is some savagely great commentary.
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On Simone "quitting" on her team. She actually saved it. Her vault scored a 13.766. Brutally low. It was 0.534 below her teammates and 0.700 below the lowest Russian score. Russia took a commanding 1.067 lead because of it. US can't win silver if she's scoring like that.
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The NCAA presented Michigan with evidence that: A booster named “Uncle T” allegedly funded part of Connor Stalions scouting operation. An assistant coach attempted to destroy evidence after the scandal broke. Story w @RossDellenger
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Sentence never before written on Twitter: The Detroit Lions have won a playoff game.
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The Caitlin Clark effect: Big Ten women’s basketball tournament in Minneapolis is a near complete sell out despite being two weeks away. Fewer than 2,000 tickets across seven sessions remain (expected 109,000 fans). Will be the first ever full sell-out for the women’s event.
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Not sure what Aly Raisman is going to do with the rest of her life but fairly confident those gold medals she won will be the least of her accomplishments. Her statement was incredible.
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Since losing the Rose Bowl, Alabama as seen: Nick Saban retire 21 players enter the transfer portal (including stars Isaiah Bond, Caleb Downs, et al) 6 recruits from the Class of 2024/25 decommit. Tough stretch for the Tide. Welcome to the real world.
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If an FSU assistant introducing a transfer to a school collective is the new standard of cheating then I think we can go ahead an vacate the entire 2023 season.
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New Jersey state playoffs. Camden takes 46-45 lead. Manasquan appears to hit buzzer beat for the win. Refs reverse the call.
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50/50 chance the NCAA placed a wire tap on that championship trophy before giving it to Kansas.
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Patrick Mahomes led three 75-yard touchdown drives in the final 9:29 of the 4th quarter and overtime. Three of them.
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3 months
2024 Michigan Football Schedule is something else: Fresno State Texas Arkansas State USC Minnesota at Washington at Illinois Michigan State Oregon at Indiana Northwestern at Ohio State
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Anytime college programs are screaming at each other about ethics, always heed the words of our Patron Saint, Jerry Tarkanian. "Nine out of ten teams are cheating. The other is in last place."
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My annual tweet of appreciation for the single toughest person to ever walk the earth.
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Aly Raisman to Larry Nassar: You do realize that this group of women you heartlessly abused over a long period of time are now a force. And you are nothing. The tables have turned. And now Larry, it is your turn to listen to me."
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The University of Michigan has fired recruiting analyst Connor Stalions, a source tells Yahoo Sports. He was previously suspended with pay during the NCAA investigation into in-person scouting.
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Michigan and Purdue broke the exact same rule - they used advanced scouting to steal a future opponent’s signals. Why does the NCAA and B10 only care about one of them? From the Yahoo Sports Read & React newsletter.
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Connor Stalions scouting disguises are getting out of control
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In the second half Clemson neither scored nor punted. Amazing.
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Despite the banned substance, Kamila Valieva is going to skate. She’s going to win. Russia is going to cheat. This time. Next time. All the time.
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3 years
If 9-0 Cincinnati wasn’t even in consideration this year, of all years, then this isn’t a college football playoff, it’s an invitational for certain teams from certain conferences.
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There are a lot of loud stadiums in the NFL and someone will claim there is a louder one than Ford Field, but there isn't.
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There remains a possibility that on Dec. 2 commissioner Tony Petitti would have to hand the Big Ten championship trophy to Jim Harbaugh.
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At his press conference today, Jim Harbaugh: 1. Recanted his long held opinion that quarterbacks shouldn't eat chicken because a chicken is a "nervous bird." Says he now owns some chickens and they are "low maintenance and high production." 2. Cited watching lots of "Judge Judy"…
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Tiger Woods completed epic/unlikely comeback by winning the Masters, tying career PGA victory record and led US to Presidents Cup as captain and best player. As these Athlete of the Year awards comes out, how do you beat that?
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That really was one of the worst, low energy broadcasts of an absolutely incredible game I can recall. Wasn’t even any crowd noise coming thru.
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At Nassar hearing, Judge and prosecutor debating how many victims have spoken (about 156). Take a moment to consider size of that number, let alone that there are so many no one is certain.
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3 years
Imagine traveling for a million years to go to Syracuse in December.
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Jennifer Jacobs
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Million-year-old fireball meteor from asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter crashed into Earth’s atmosphere above Syracuse area, tripping earthquake detectors and scattering ancient debris as it burned at temps half as hot as the sun, @glenncoin reports.
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USC should have said it contracted Covid and skipped the game. Would’ve been in the playoff.
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Ryan Day, who took over for Urban Meyer, once said he wanted to "hang 100 (points)" on Michigan. Jim Harbaugh noted: "There's definitely stuff that people said that spurred us on ... sometimes people that are standing on third base and think they hit a triple, but they didn't."
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The talk of "cultural fit" for Brian Kelly and LSU is immaterial. You win and they love you. LSU just fired the greatest cultural fit of all time. This isn't about trading gumbo recipes. Saban and Meyer aren't from the South.
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Catapult, a video and data analysis company used in college football, confirms the NCAA and “local authorities” are investigating “unauthorized access” of footage. The investigation is not centered on Michigan but rather on at least one other school, sources tell Yahoo Sports.
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Joe Burrow is smoking a cigar inside the Super Dome which is illegal unless your name is Joe Burrow.
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Illinois fans get to watch coach you fired and an instate mid-major play for the Final Four. Good times.
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November 12: Appalachian State at Marshall. College Game Day, let’s go.
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I was fortunate to have gotten know (and attempt to cover) Bob Knight. He was brilliant. He was difficult. He was charismatic. He was complicated. On an American Original:
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On Sunday, as Kansas City was losing the Super Bowl in Tampa, Felicia Miller was back in Missouri, alone by the hospital bed of her comatose, 5-year-old daughter, Ariel.
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From the high school he founded, Jalen Rose works to convince his hometown to get vaccinated. The latest in an evolving life of service that his (and the Fab Five's) critics probably never saw coming. "Detroit matters so much to me."
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This is terribly unfair to the Notre Dame players, who had no control over their coach quitting on them.
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Pat Forde
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Barta time. On ND: "(Kelly's absence) is part of the criteria" for evaluating the Irish. Long story short: at No. 6 and without their coach, ND is up against it.
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Dan Monson was fired from Long Beach State on Monday but allowed to keep coaching. Won Big West Tournament tonight to earn NCAA bid. Kevin Keatts was on hot seat at NC State as week began. Won five games to take ACC title and NCAA bid which triggered a two year contract…
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Lots of current or former D1 athletes on Dancing with the Stars. Iman Shumpert (Georgia Tech hoops), Suni Lee (Auburn gymnastics), Matt James (Wake Forest football) and Olivia Jade (USC rowing).
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Strangest part of Brandon Miller being frisked in his pregame introduction is the Alabama defense that the team has been doing it all season. So in the five weeks since team members were involved in a downtown shootout that left one dead, no one at Alabama thought to stop it?
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Michigan is now 6-0 since in person scouting scandal broke, 3-0 v. top 20 opponents and 3-0 without a suspended Jim Harbaugh.
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The 5 year old girl who was injured Thursday in a potential alcohol-influenced crash involving Kansas City assistant coach Britt Reid is dealing with brain injuries and "remains in critical condition and is not awake." Family GoFundMe:
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“Knowing how busy you are, thank you very much for taking the time to write about college football.” Savage line by Bill Hancock.
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🚨BREAKING: The @CFBPlayoff just responded to my letter with more excuses & still NO TRANSPARENCY. @FSUFootball was #4 before beating #14 Louisville without Jordan Travis…but then after that win, the CFP thinks #FSU is a weaker team? It makes no sense. ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS!
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The SEC Championship game between LSU and Georgia is about to become an informercial for how great Alabama's season has been. "It's 3rd and 9 for the Dawgs, you know is great at converting on third and long? Bryce Young."
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Accurate
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Robert Kraft likely to get off in Florida massage parlor case
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Rachael Denhollander was the first Nassar victim to come forward publicly. She is the last to speak at sentencing. She is eviscerating Michigan State like a skilled prosecutor.
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Of all the new coach hires in college football, no one has improved their team more than Arkansas’ Sam Pittman. Razorbacks are really solid now.
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So far, Brady without Belichick isn't looking so good.
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Michigan postgame TV interviews. Sherrone Moore gets emotional and drops an F bomb. Blake Corum bleeds down his face. Never a dull moment.
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Biles: “I was like, ‘I am not in the right headspace. I am not going to lose a medal for this country and these girls because they’ve worked way too hard to have me go out there and lose a medal.��”
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Michigan's letter to the Big Ten notes that its margin of victory this season has gone from 34 points to 38 points since Connor Stalions was suspended. "There is simply no evidence that Stalions's actions had a material effect on any of Michigan's games this season."
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Having Sherrone Moore as head coach was supposed to be a penalty for Michigan. Instead - even amidst the pressure of Ohio State - he pitched a near perfect game.
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If TCU loses and the CFP argues Alabama is in because it is (theoretically) the better team, then how does explain Tennessee being (demonstrably) better than Alabama?
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Complaints about lack of coverage of Nassar are true, on national scale. But Indianapolis Star, Lansing State Journal, Detroit News, WLNS and many others have driven this. Support local journalism.
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A school shooting. A life stolen. In Oxford, Mich., on the eve of what should have been Tate Myre’s senior season, his dream season, a legacy endures.
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The gap between the current quality of play of 2021 No. 1 pick Trevor Lawrence and No. 2 pick Zach Wilson is galactic.
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An all-timer of a quote. The Big 12 found out Oklahoma was leaving via the Houston Chronicle.
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1. This would seemingly change nothing about the Michigan case. 2. Ohio State being behind it would be a soap opera plot twist and would likely result in Michigan boosters hiring (if they haven't already) PIs to investigate everyone and everything in Columbus. And vice versa.…
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Chris Balas
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BREAKING: Michigan, media gathering evidence on private investigators and their links to OSU – more on Jim Harbaugh extension #GoBlue
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A group of Big Ten presidents have begun exploratory discussions on expansion in light of Pac 12 uncertainty, industry sources tell Yahoo Sports. Focus is on possibly adding Oregon and Washington to move to 18 members or Cal and Stanford to reach 20.
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I’m old enough to remember when the PGA Tour tried to claim the moral high road on LIV and the Saudis.
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On the Manningcast Nick Saban said it’s important that a quarterback go to the team where he’ll be surrounded by the most talent. I’m sure that wasn’t directed at Arch Manning.
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2 years
If aliens landed on earth I don’t think I could fully and properly explain college football
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This is hell, although not as bad as trying to get your parent on Peacock to watch the NFL.
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Belleville (Michigan) Adrian Walker Jr with one of the greatest interceptions you’ll ever see.
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BYU (9-0) at Coastal Carolina (9-0) Saturday 5:30. Game scheduled this morning. Too much of college football is about avoiding risk so love seeing a showcase get set up for both programs.
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John Thompson once called the most violent drug trafficker in Washington to his office and told him to stay away from Georgetown players. The guy did as he was told. On Big John and the power and respect he commanded on and off the court.
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Pay me $95 million and I’ll happily record the podcast in the fake accent of your choosing.
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Mike Bundt
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Brian Kelly making his welcome speech at halftime of the Ohio/LSU basketball game tonight.
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Update: Judge is 10 minutes into an evisceration of Nassar, his letter. and his "feelings." Not slowing down.
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Larry Nassar sent letter to the judge saying he is struggling to deal with victim statements and is uncertain in "my ability to be able to face witnesses these next four days, mentally."
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Based on observable alcohol consumption in Ann Arbor this morning everyone around here is planning on running for Attorney General.
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The NCAA is a small town cop with a speed trap
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Ross Dellenger
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NEWS: NCAA Is expected to levy unprecedented penalties for NIL-related violations committed by Florida State, sources tell @YahooSports , including 3-game suspension for an assistant coach & disassociation from its booster collective and a booster
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Total wins in the 2023 Calendar Year Detroit Lions: 10 Detroit Pistons: 9 (Pistons are 9-49 since Jan. 1. Lions 10-2)
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Will Levis eats banana peels and puts mayo in his coffee and it’s possible NFL teams just drew the line with that and said no way.
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Eleven of the first 40 picks in the NFL Draft played Texas high school football. None of them went to Texas or Texas A&M. Incredible.
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Decker reported eligible. Skipper faked reporting eligible. The ref fell for the fake and declared the wrong guy eligible even though he was told pregame about it. Human error occurs and that’s a wild one.
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In honor of the 44th anniversary of The Miracle on Ice: What is the one sporting event in history you wish you could time travel back to attend?
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Judge Aquilina sentences Larry Nassar to 175 years in prison. “I just signed your death warrant.”
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