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This week in sports blogs and news:

• The life story of Todd Marinovich - Deadspin
• Chris Paul may become a Maverick - SportsByBrooks
• $800 Million for Citi Field and the water doesn’t work - Larry Brown Sports
• Danny Ainge has a heart attack - Fox Sports
• Adrian Gonzalez… -The Sports Hernia
• Top 7: Non-baseball streaks of the past 20 years -Joe Sports Fan
  

This week on the Smarter Sports Blog we covered:

• “Is it too late to tell the Broncos I’m sorry” 
• Joe Frazier Says God Gave Ali Parkinson’s Disease
• Greg Paulus Works Out for the Green Bay Packers
• Packers, Now the Wolverines: Paulus to Michigan?
• Goodbye: John Madden Retires from Broadcasting

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It looks like Jack Elway is following in the footsteps of Jay Cutler, instead of his father.

He’s quitting on his team.

Jack, the son of NFL legend John Elway, has decided to quit the Arizona State football team after redshirting his freshman year.

Apparently it wasn’t the pressure of living in his father’s shadow that got to him. He just wanted to quit the game altogether and just go to college and pursue other dreams.

Hopefully Jack’s other goals in life don’t involve his father’s other passion which is selling Toyota Camrys and Tundras. Hate to tell you Jack, there’s not much glory and many 21 year-old sorority chicks hanging around the used car lot. Well, unless they’re there to buy a car of course.

But hey, to each his own.

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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

This week in sports blogs and news:

• Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh to make “Moneyball” movie on Billy Beane - Variety
• USA Swimming Suspends Michael Phelps for 3 months - ESPN
• Patriots put the franchise tag on Matt Cassell: $14.65 million -Fox Sports
• Top high school prospect may choose CFL over NCAA - SportsByBrooks
• Anquan Boldin wants out of Arizona - Larry Brown Sports
  

This week on the Smarter Sports Blog we covered:

• “Champions” 
• Santonio Holmes Catch Makes the Steelers Champions
• Manny Ramirez to the Dodgers: No Thanks
• Kevin Costner to Bring Baseball to Illinois Suburbs
• Prank Gone Bad: Peyton’s Joke on Cutler Backfires
  

Pranks sure are fun…that is until they go bad.

Peyton Manning’s bright idea of throwing Jay Cutler into their hotel pool, with the help of a few offensive lineman, was supposed to be a friendly Pro Bowl “baptism”. They thought that they had every angle covered. They even managed to snag away Cutler’s cell phone before his little dip.

There was just one problem.

Cutler is a Type 1 diabetic and in his pocket was his blood sugar monitor. A blood sugar monitor that is not water proof.

So after the little plunge, you guessed it. It got fried.

“It was a bad audible on our part,” Manning said. “I think we were thinking right, trying to get the cell phone. Then we realize, the guy gets insulin shots. We missed that.”

Yeah, Manning. Great thinking. Good thing you got the cell though. That way if Cutler needed to call an ambulance later, he’d be set!

Hey Peyton, I know a kid on crutches, just in case you get bored and want to push him down some stairs.

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Check out and see who made an impact this week in the NFL for your fantasy football teams:

Fantasy Studs:

• Denver’s Brandon Marshall had 18 catches for 166 yards and a touchdown.
• Adrian Peterson ran all over Indianapolis, gaining 160 yards.
• Anquan Boldin caught 6 balls for 140 yards and 3 touchdowns, including a 79 yard score.
• Jay Cutler passed for 350 yards and four touchdowns.
• Arizona’s Kurt Warner showed why Matt Leinart is on the bench with 361 yards and 3 touchdowns.
• Aaron Rodgers had his first 3 touchdown game of his career and passed for 328 yards.
• Greg Jennings had 167 yards receiving.
• San Diego’s Philip Rivers had 377 yards and 3 touchdowns in a heart breaker to Denver.
• Calvin Johnson had 2 touchdowns and 129 yards for Detroit.
• Santana Moss had 164 yards receiving which including a game winning 67-yard touchdown reception.
• Rookie Darren McFadden ran all over the Chiefs, with 164 yards and a touchdown.

Fantasy Duds:

• LaDanian Tomlinson had only 40 all purpose yards for the Chargers.
• The Chiefs’ Larry Johnson ran for a dismal 22 yards.
• Indy’s Marvin Harrison managed only 1 catch for 16 yards.
• Randy Moss finished the day with only 2 catches and 22 yards.
• Jeremy Shockey lost a fumble and finished with only 2 catches.

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Tom Brady is at is again, but Adrian Peterson was shutdown and held to only three rushing yards. Here are the players that made an impact this weekend.

• Tony Romo passed for 302 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner to Jason Witten with under a minute in the game.
• Jason Witten hauled in 15 passes for 138 yards, including the touchdown.
• Marion Barber finished the day with three touchdowns for the ‘Boys.
• Randy Moss caught 7 passes for 135 yards and two touchdowns.
• Tom Brady did it again with four touchdown passes and 399 yards.
• The Colts Defense had a great day with 3 interceptions, 2 fumble recoveries, 4 sacks, a safety and a blocked punt.
• Peyton Manning matched Brady with four touchdowns of his own and 246 yards.
• Jay Cutler had a great day with 4 scores and 244 yards.
• Ryan Grant ran for 156 yards and a touchdown in a win for the Packers.
• Wide receiver Lee Evans had 2 touchdowns for the Bills in a win over the Dolphins.
• LaDainian Tomlinson rushed for 146 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner in overtime over the Titans.
• The Vikings Defense racked up 2 sacks, 3 fumble recoveries and 2 interceptions, including one for a touchdown.
• Eagles running back Brian Westbrook had 116 yards rushing, 38 yards rushing and touchdown.

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Here are the best of the best in NFL action yesterday. And surprisingly, Tom Brady wasn’t the most dominant player this weekend.

• In a heartbreaking loss to the 49ers, Kurt Warner tossed for a staggering 484 yards and 2 touchdowns, but it was his costly fumble in the end zone that lost the game for the Cardinals.
• Frank Gore did it all for the 49ers, running for 116 yards with 2 touchdowns and catching 11 passes for 98 yards.
• Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald hauled in 9 passes for 156 yards and 2 touchdowns.
• Colts signal caller Peyton Manning was back this week with 3 touchdown passes and 272 passing yards.
• Despite not having any touchdown grabs, Patriot Wes Welker caught 13 passes for 149 yards.
• Antonio Gates caught 6 passes for 105 yards and 2 touchdowns for the San Diego Chargers.
• The Viking Defense had an awesome game with 3 out of their 4 interceptions being returned for touchdowns and 3 sacks.
• Bronco Jay Cutler passed for 302 yards and 2 touchdowns.
• Brett Favre was up there with Kurt Warner in terms of stats, but led the Packers to a win with 381 yards and 3 touchdowns.
• Kellen Winslow caught 10 passes for 107 yards and a touchdown.
• Drew Brees threw for 3 touchdowns and rushed for another one in a win over Carolina.
• Chad Johnson had 3 touchdowns and 103 yards receiving on 12 catches.
• Tom Brady passed for 380 yards and only 1 touchdown.

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Tom Brady and Randy Moss were at it again, Wes Welker does his thing, and a kicker makes NFL History.

Here are some players who made some noise this weekend.

• Is Tom Brady ever going to cool off! The New England Patriot went 21 for 25, 354 yards and 6 touchdowns including strikes of 35 and 50 yards to Randy Moss. The receiver finished with 4 catches for 122 yards.
• The “other” Patriot receiver, Wes Welker, caps off his afternoon with 9 grabs, 138 yards and 2 touchdowns.
• Despite a tough loss to the Bengals, the New York Jets had something to be happy about. Laveranues Coles finished the day with 8 catches, 133 yards and 2 touchdowns.
• Despite two interceptions, Denver Bronco Jay Cutler passed for 3 touchdowns and 248 yards.
• Ben Roethlisberger tosses 4 touchdowns and 290 yards for the Steelers.
• Cincinnati Bengals running back Kenny Watson had a career day with 130 yards rushing and 3 touchdowns.
• Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas sets an NFL record with 8 field goals.

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