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This week in sports blogs and news:

• Jay Cutler traded to Chicago Bears - Fox Sports
• Cleveland is a hot mess right now - SportsByBrooks
• Kevin Love glass cleaner…no really - Larry Brown Sports
• Norm McDonald’s ESPY monologue of 1998 - Deadspin
• Top 7 Matches in Westlemania history - JoeSportsFan

This week on the Smarter Sports Blog we covered:

• “I don’t understand Spanish!”
  
• Coach K and Bobby Knight Play Guitar Hero
• Twitter Mania: First Shaw, Now Paul Pierce
• MMA Video: Michael Westbrook Beats Up a Bully
• April Fools Joke! Hasheem Thabeet Pranks on Twitter

It looks like everyone is getting in on the Guitar Hero action. That includes college basketball.

But instead of Tyler Hansbrough, Blake Griffin and other collegiate stars starring in the latest spoof of “Risky Business” for the Guitar Hero commercial, it happens to be coaches sliding across the living room floor.

Coach K, Bobby Knight, Rick Petino and Roy Williams showed us their all for the latest promo. Check it out.

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This week in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• Looking for a job? Kazakhstan wants you! - The Meaningful Collateral
• Let the NFL free agency period begin! Updates from Fox Sports - Fox Sports
• A perfect world. What would happen if Madden and Grand Theft Auto joined to be make a video game - You Been Blinded
• Top 7: Random 2008 Spring Training Invitees - Joe Sports Fan
• NFL Combine: The Lost Stories - The Sports Hernia
• Bobby Knight is headed to ESPN - ESPN

And in Smarter Sports we talked about:

• Darren McFadden Baby Rumors Swirl at the NFL Combine
• Spurs Score Only 5 Points, Atlanta Hawks are Doomed
• Newscaster Gets Harassed, Brings the Pain
• 2008 Predictions on Why Carl Pavano Will Miss this Season

This week in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• One lucky Giants fan sneaks into parade and celebrates with the New York Giants - Deadspin
• New York Mets pitcher taped at a cockfight - MSNBC
• You don’t know pain. Gilbert Arenas knows pain, but reveals too much information - The Big Lead
• New Yankees Stadium to cost a measely $1.3 billion - WNBC Sports
• This is what commercial you would have saw, had the New England Patriots won - Larry Brown Sports

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And in Smarter Sports we talked about:

• Super Bowl Commercial: Terry Tate - Office Linebacker
• Giants Upset the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII: 17-14
• 97.5 Million…
• We’re Gonna Miss Bobby Knights’ Soundbites
• The Matrix Meets Soccer
  
• Shaq Traded to Phoenix for Shawn Marion

Yesterday, Bob Knight resigned from his position as the head basketball coach at Texas Tech. And unless you’ve been under a rock the past few decades, you know that Bobby Knight was anything but dull. From his chair throwing tantrums to his cursed filled press conferences, we’re surely going to miss his antics.

Here are some of his best moments throughout the years.

 
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This week in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• Bobby Knight is making it rain shotgun pellets on this man’s house? - The Sports Hernia
• Coach Paterno’s salary finally revealed at Penn State - Larry Brown Sports
• Who would play Barry Bonds if HBO made the movie about him - 100% Injury Rate
• Tony LaRussa DUI video - The Big Lead

And in Smarter Sports we talked about:

• Get fit! Dream Holiday Gift: Schwinn 418 Elliptical Trainer
• Tragedy strikes the NFL. Redskins’ Sean Taylor dies.
• Slam dunk! It’s gotta be the shoes
• They said what!? - David Beckham
• Dancing with the Stars champ Helio dating Hough?

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