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NFL playoffs are set...final weekend's action...Carolina...Green Bay...Pittsburgh...Odell Beckham Jr. ...Rex Ryan, Jim Harbaugh...college football...Premier League...shark attack...

Annual Christmas missive...NFL's stretch drive...Jameis Winston...college hoops upsets...Joe Cocker

NFL playoff picture...Bo Pelini and Youngstown State...the pathetic Knicks and 76ers...more baseball moves...the Padres and White Sox...Lindsey Vonn...Ernie Terrell...the golden warbler and tornadoes...Bond...James Bond...

45th anniversary of Altamont Speedway concert...NFL Bits...Fuzzy Thurston...AP All-American team...Jahlil Okafor...

Recap of baseball's last few days...Sy Berger...NFL action...playoffs take shape...College Football...Marcus Mariota...Knicks continue to suck...poachers in South Africa...my Kiawah half-marathon performance...

College Football: last look at decision on Final Four...bowl lineup... Cubs sign Jon Lester...1976 Pittsburgh Steelers...the New York Knicks...Sportsman of the Year...groupies on the PGA Tour...Kid Rock...

The College Football Playoffs are set...Baylor and TCU are out...NFL Review...NJIT defeats Michigan in college basketball...the Philadelphia 76ers...

Entering the final weekend of college football and the playoff rankings...the cases for Baylor and Arizona...Kosta Karageorge...FSU and North Carolina...UAB shuts down football program...NFL action...college basketball...Jean Beliveau...

College Football review...Alabama prevails...the final push...death at Ohio State...NFL action...Ray Rice...more on Charlie Sifford and his era...death of Phillip Hughes...

College Football Playoff selection committee...the SEC's plight...RG3...Charlie Sifford...Viktor Tikhonov...