Football

Almost everyone in this part of the world  - or possibly the entire world, given the show's success - is familiar with 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson. But did you know that Robertson, who first found wealth as the inventor of the Duck Commander duck calls also has a master’s degree in education. And on top of that, he's perhaps the best athlete ever to come out of his home town of Vivian!

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Caroline Pla, aged 11, has been playing football ever since she was five-years-old and has been on the Romans Football team in Doylestown, PA, for two years. However, now the team, which is run by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Catholic Youth Organization, is trying to get her to stop playing.

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Have you been on Twitter lately? It's really just a repository for Manti Te'o jokes. Ever since it was revealed yesterday that Te'o's story about his perfect girlfriend dying of cancer was a big fat sham (for the full story, this is a good source), the only purpose anybody has to go on Twitter right now is to make jokes about it. Here are some of our favorites, although there are so many it's really hard to choose.

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The big star at the 2013 Super Bowl may very well be a nine-year-old girl.

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A nine-year-old Utah girl is making headlines (see above) for her amazing skill at football.

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The New York Giants won despite blowing a big lead, and the Atlanta Falcons remained undefeated. Here's a recap of all of Sunday's action:

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It's been a pretty rough year for the New Orleans Saints. Their head coach, Sean Payton, was suspended for the season for his role in the bounty-gate scandal and the team that went 13-3 in 2011 started the 2012 campaign 0-4.

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When Tammy Faile and her two children were chosen as the military family of the game for South Carolina's match up Saturday against the University of Georgia, they probably expected some sort of message from their husband and father Sgt. First Class Scott Faile, who is stationed in South Korea.

And that's what they got at halftime, a video message on the University of South Carolina’s Williams-Brice stadium's Jumbotron.

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There is little more brutal in a free society than football practice in August. The Tigers of the University of Missouri were going through that horror show when, on the horizon, appeared two coeds, tan and lithe.

The shapely ladies were running the steps of Faurot Field. Or were they just visions? Pleasant thoughts that dance about the brain right before it shuts down with heat stroke?

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It is a bad day for Arkansas Razorback fans. Yesterday, Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino was fired because he "knowingly misled" his bosses and had an affair with a 25 year old female school employee. It sounds like Petrino was suffering from a midlife crisis, and it turned out bad.

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NFL Quarterbacks have the best trainers money can buy. Some of the sport’s biggest stars get lean and strong with workouts and tools that are surprisingly simple. Super bowl 46 is Sunday, February 5

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(With acknowledgement and apologies to Ernest Thayer, author "Casey at the Bat.")

The outlook was brilliant for the Tiger Eleven that day,

The score was nothing to nothing and there were four quarters of football to play,

When Alabama scored a field goal first, and LSU failed to answer,  

A sense of Déjà vu rose on those faithful to the Tigers

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