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Five Star Quarterbacks – Busts and Success
In the last decade, Rivals.com have rated 23 quarterbacks as five star prospects heading into College Football. Some of them, like Tim Tebow and Cam Newton, have been obvious success. Others, like Ryan Perrilloux and Garrett Gilbert remain memorable busts to this day.
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Best Out-of-State Recruiting Teams in College Football
The three most recruited states in College Football are Florida, California and Texas. No one recruits better beyond state lines than Bob Stoops and Oklahoma, with a strong foothold in Texas. Nick Saban and Alabama do great about everywhere while other schools like Clemson, Oregon and Ohio State do very well beyond borderlines as well.
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Super Bowl XLVII – 49ers Defense vs Ravens Offense
The Baltimore Ravens are going into the Super Bowl as the underdogs. In order to eliminate the advantages the San Francisco 49ers have over them, they’re going to have to get their offense going early, which means Joe Flacco making the most of short windows of opportunities and Ray Rice to be dominant in both on the ground and in the air.
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El Clasico – Real Madrid vs Barcelona in Cup Matches
For the third consecutive season, we’re having a Copa Del Rey Clasico, as Barcelona and Real Madrid clash in the Spanish Cup semifinal. More important to who? It’s a Clasico, it’s always big, but with the La Liga title seemingly all sewn up and delivered to Barca, this one is much more important to Real it seems.
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Most Popular Teams & Players in the World (On Twitter)
Twitter isn’t the optimal way to measure the number of fans teams have across the globe. Not everyone uses the internet as their way of getting news about their most popular clubs. While it sounds reasonable that Barcelona and Real Madrid are the most followed, Manchester United don’t have an official account, and Lionel Messi doesn’t have a twitter account as well.
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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Reaches His Lowest Point
These days, the league is so much more important than the FA Cup, no matter what managers say. Still, it’s hard to decide if Brendan Rodgers thinks so highly of the youngsters in his squad or is he really that uninterested at this moment with anything not having to do with Liverpool in the Premier League?
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Mario Balotelli Still Not Closer to AC Milan
In what is probably the most dominant saga of the January transfer window, Mario Balotelli is still not getting any closer to leaving Manchester City for AC Milan because of money the clubs can’t agree on, but that’s not the only reason.
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Longest Grand Slam Championship Streaks
By winning the Australian Open for a third consecutive time, Novak Djokovic put himself on a very prestigious list of men’s tennis players who won at a Grand Slam competition at least three time, previously inhabited by Roger Federer, Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl.
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NBA Trade Rumors – Paul Pierce to the Memphis Grizzlies
There has been plenty of talk about breaking up the Boston Celtics’ remaining big four, but the injury to Rajon Rondo might usher in the new era, beginning with sending Paul Pierce to the Memphis Grizzlies, possibly for the on-and-off the trading block Rudy Gay.
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Los Angeles Clippers – Falling Back on Blake Griffin
Last time Blake Griffin was the centerpiece of the show for the Los Angeles Clippers, they were a team on the rise, but not good enough to be taken too seriously. Now, waiting for Chris Paul to come back from his injury, it’s a little bit different, and with a better team around him, it’s enough to keep the ship steady.