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Lords a leaping: The Ravens’ Jacoby Jones and the 49ers’ Chris Culliver. (Harry How/Getty Images)
Grand jeté: San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree and the Ravens’ Ed Reed. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Next year's Super Bowl might not have a halftime show
We hope you liked Beyonce’s Super Bowl halftime performance, because it could be the last one for a couple years. Next year’s big game will be played in New Jersey’s open-air MetLife stadium, where the temperature is currently a frigid 27 degrees. And with next year’s Super Bowl likely to be similarly cold, NFL officials reportedly aren’t sure how to plan for the halftime show, as freezing temperatures could make the already-daunting task of quickly setting up and tearing down a massive stage even more difficult.
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The NFL had $9.5 billion in revenue in 2011, and they’ve donated a paltry $3 million to breast cancer? ”Pardon me while I don’t slobber all over the NFL’s pink-drenched marketing campaign.” -Erin Gloria Ryan at Jezebel.
The NFL is coming under fire in the wake of a new report that accuses the NFL of profiting from the cause, arguing that most of the money from the breast cancer awareness push “ends up in the pockets of billionaire NFL owners.” The NFL refutes that claim. What exactly does the NFL’s breast cancer campaign do in terms of raising money and raising awareness?
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Sneak peek at our newest cover, which may pale in comparison to TIME’s, but we’re still proud of it! On newsstands and in mailboxes tomorrow
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Cartoon of the day. Heh.
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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
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Chicken wings Super Bowl watchers will polish off Sunday
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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
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Cartoon of the day, Chuck Jones, copyright 2012 Creators Syndicate
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I enjoy being around children. I enjoy their enthusiasm. I just have a good time with them.
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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.
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It’s not fair. The board is an embarrassment to our school and a disservice to the student population.
—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
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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.
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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
