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Cartoon of the day. Heh.
As the New England Patriots and New York Giants square off this Sunday for Super Bowl XLVI, America’s estimated 113 million viewers will have something besides football and commercials on their minds: Food.
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Ranking of Super Bowl Sunday among America’s top eating days, after Thanksgiving
- 1.25 billion
Chicken wings Super Bowl watchers will polish off Sunday
- 100 million
Pounds of meat in those chicken wings
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Percent of the year’s 25 billion wings that will be consumed on Sunday
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Times those Super Bowl Sunday chicken wings could circle the Earth if they were linked up in a chain
"I enjoy being around children. I enjoy their enthusiasm. I just have a good time with them."
— Jerry Sandusky in a 1987 NBC interview.
Occupy Wall Street? Egyptian riots? London looting?
NOPE.
Penn State student rioting over the firing of Joe Paterno. More photos from last night’s riots here.
"It’s not fair. The board is an embarrassment to our school and a disservice to the student population."
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Justin Muir, 20-year-old Penn State student, reacts to Joe Paterno’s firing
Penn State students protesting Joe Paterno’s firing need a reality check, via The Frisky
College football gets fashionable
The Ducks, “a team that loves costume changes,” have long been credited with starting the chic uniform trend that’s taken college athletics by storm. In the past few years, they’ve sported “dozens of uniform combinations,” including these two. This season, watch out for an all-black Nike Pro combat uniform reminiscent of Darth Vader.
Increasingly, teams across the country are taking a page from Oregon’s playbook with eye-popping, avant garde uniforms — and partnerships with Nike and Under Armour.
The average college basketball player is worth $265,000 per year while the average Football Bowl Subdivision player is worth $121,000. University of Texas football players are at the high end of the football scale — worth $513,000 each — while Duke’s basketball players are worth the most overall, about $1 million each.
A new report titled ”The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sport” calculates the exact six-figure dollar values of various types of college athletes. The NCAA maintains that college players — “students first and athletes second” — are not paid because they are not university employees.
Here’s the argument for why college athletes deserve six-figure salaries
Who’s 61-years-old, a Vietnam vet, a grandfather and a college football player? This guy.
On Saturday, 61-year-old Alan Moore became the oldest player ever to compete in a college football game when he suited up for the Faulkner University Eagles and kicked in the team’s first extra point of the season.
