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The NCAA vs. Student Athletes: The End of the 'the Best Business Model in the World'?
"The players are the workers who generate the money."
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20 Most Effective Super Bowl Ads (Video)
The Daily Beast ranks the most successful Super Bowl spots since 2005.
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Don't Worry, Astronauts on the ISS Will Get to Watch the Super Bowl Too
There are plenty of things you don't get to have when you're in space. Like gravity, for instance. Or normal food. But Super Bowl parties aren't on that list.
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Ravens survive Niners' rally to win Super Bowl
Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens were turning the Super Bowl into a rout when, without even a flicker of warning, the power went off.
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Watch all of the Super Bowl ads right here
Whether you're a die-hard fan or aren't even sure which teams will be playing on Sunday (Google tells me it's the Ravens and the 49ers, who I understand both play football), Super Bowl commercials are an integral part of both the game and American culture.
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The Funniest Tweets Of The Great Super Bowl Blackout
The lights went out during tonight's Super Bowl. Twitter rose to the occasion.
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Inside the daunting job of a Super Bowl photographer
Peter Read Miller's been to so many Super Bowls that he can't even remember exactly how many. "I think this is 38," the long-time Sports Illustrated staff photographer told me.
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Super Bowl contest winner denied entry to U.S.
A Vancouver Island man who won an all-expense-paid trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans has been refused entry into the U.S. because of a marijuana possession conviction 32 years ago.
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The Best And Most Surreal Photographs From The Power Outage At The Superdome
The power outage tonight in the Superdome created 34 minutes of awkward television and some truly dreamlike sports photography...
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Chances Are You've Seen A Fixed Soccer Game
A wide-ranging match-fixing investigation has uncovered more than 680 suspicious games - including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games - and found evidence that a Singapore-based crime gang is closely involved in match-fixing, Europol said Monday.
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Europol: investigators identify 380 fixed football matches
Europol has said that an investigation has uncovered a criminal network involved in match-fixing in football, with around 380 matches, including a Champions League match played in England
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How Oreo Culture-Jacked The Super Bowl
After the lights went out at the Superdome in New Orleans, and the game that pitted the Baltimore Ravens against the San Francisco 49ers came to a grinding 34-minute halt, Oreo's team took action and posted a simple ad that was retweeted, or shared, more than 14,500 times on Twitter. How did 360i --the agency responsible for the ad-- do it so quickly?
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Danilo Gallinari's 'Shot of the Century'
Best part about this other than JaVale McGee's reaction (which is not quite this, but pretty close) is how the Nuggets announcers go from calling it.
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'Unflattering' Beyoncé Photos Have Been Removed From Getty's Website
Getting images removed from photo agencies' websites: so hot right now. On Monday, we discovered that photos of Kanye West in his much-maligned kilt at the 12-12-12 concert were removed from Getty's site and various others.
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The Case for Legalized Sports Betting
Last week, football fans across the country committed a crime: they bet on the Super Bowl. Like participating in an N.C.A.A. office pool, betting on the Super Bowl is an all-American pastime. But in most of the country it’s illegal.
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Kobe Bryant Tells ‘Em: Delete ‘Your Gay’ From Vocabulary
Kobe really did take something positive from that time he was caught yelling "f*gg*t" at an NBA referee. Bryant tweeted it's not cool to use "your gay."
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Oscar Pistorius (Blade Runner) shoots girlfriend to death
Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend after mistaking her for a burglar, police say.
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U.S. National Team Member Robbie Rogers Comes Out As Gay, Walks Away From Soccer
Rogers, who had 18 caps for the USMNT, starred for the Columbus Crew, and most recently played for Leeds United, has made the decision to leave soccer at just 25 years old.
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Bloodied cricket bat found in Oscar's home
The latest development into the investigation surrounding the shooting death of model Reeva Steenkamp has centred on a bloodied cricket bat found in the home of her boyfriend and alleged attacker, Oscar Pistorius.
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The Bizarre Sport of Goose Pulling
Goose pulling is an old sport originally played in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, England and North America from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The sport involves a goose that is hung by its legs from a pole or rope that is stretched across a road.
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