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Notre Dame Fighting Irish – Surviving the Best College Basketball Game of the Season
Notre Dame have already been to a couple of overtime games this season, but no one expected their top 25 clash with Louisville to last five overtimes, with both teams barely separable, and players like Erik Atkins spending 60 minutes on the floor, en route to a very special win.
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Wisconsin Badgers – Ben Brust With an Unforgettable Finish
There’s not a lot of flash and flair in the way Wisconsin play basketball, like most teams across College Basketball. But by managing to drag a much more talented Michigan team to their kind of basketball, and give Ben Brust the opportunity to hit two huge three pointers he’ll never forget.
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NFL Rumors – San Francisco 49ers Looking for Alex Smith Trades
It’s not exactly a secret that the San Francisco 49ers are considering what to do with Alex Smith, not wanting to have such an expensive player functioning as a backup quarterback, currently leaning towards trading him instead of releasing him before March 12, avoiding the big pay they’ll owe him by then.
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2013 NFL Draft – Collin Klein Looking for his Place in the League
Like many more successful quarterbacks in College Football, Collin Klein, coming out of Kansas State, isn’t exactly being viewed as a great prospect for NFL success. Still, with the right kind of work heading into the combine and pro-days, Klein might get a chance to impress teams that run the read-option in some form, like the Seattle Seahawks, San Franciscoo 49ers, Washington Redskins or Philadelphia Eagles.
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NFL Rumors – Baltimore Ravens Not Getting Discount From Joe Flacco
After winning the Super Bowl and the MVP award for the game, Joe Flacco is expecting to become one of the highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL. Whiel making things a bit easier for the Baltimore Ravens is an option so they remain below the salary cap, he isn’t planning on giving his only NFL team during his five year career a ‘hometown discount.’
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NFL Teams Salary Cap Space Pre-2013 Season
In 2013, the NFL Salary Cap took a slight increase, reaching $121.1 million. This means there are 20 teams under the salary cap, including six with huge room to make big moves in free agency, having more than $20 million under the cap.
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Africa Cup of Nations Final – Nigeria vs Burkina Faso Predictions
Not the final most expected, but surprises are a big part of one of the hardest to predict international football tournaments on the planet as Nigeria step onto the pitch in Johannesburg as huge favorites to win their third Africa Cup of Nations title, facing the cinderella of the tournament, Burkina Faso.
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Lionel Messi, Now Also in the Spanish Dictionary
If it’s in the dictionary, it has to be true, right? It’s always amazing the spread of the Lionel Messi phenomenon reaches to. The latest installment in the growing craze around the Barcelona footballer is an inclusion of a new word in a certain Spanish dictionary, Inmessionante.
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Premier League – Manchester United vs Everton Predictions
With the league title almost a certainty now, it’s not going to be a big surprise if Manchester United don’t field their strongest lineup as they host Everton, a team that beat them on the opening weekend of the season, before things started to go smoothly for league leaders.
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2013 Six Nations – Ireland vs England Predictions
It’s been quite a while (ten years) since England last managed a Six Nations win at Ireland, but their first visit to the Aviva stadium since August 2011 brings with it a different sense of favorites, and a sign of change in the constant power struggle.