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NFL 2012 Season — Week Six Recap
Game-winning field goals and surprising blowouts highlighted the NFL action from Week 6. Here's a recap of all of Sunday's games:
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Youth Football Coach Attacks Opposing Player Mid-Game, Gets Charged With Child Abuse [VIDEO]
A parent volunteering as a coach for his son’s football team in Payson, Utah, is being charged with child abuse after allegedly attacking a player from the opposing team, giving him a concussion and ending his season.
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Lubbock Football Expert Pick Em’ Week 6
Week six of the expert pick em will see some big matchups, including the Red River Rivalry and Texas Tech battling another ranked opponent.
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Soccer Player Makes Diving Save, Slides Groin-First Into Goalpost
There are times in sports where giving that little bit of extra effort is a good thing but don't tell that to one Polish soccer player who took one for the team while saving a goal.
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Jerry Sandusky Sentenced to 30-60 Years Behind Bars for Child Sex Abuse
Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced Tuesday to 30 to 60 years in prison for his role in the Penn State sex-abuse case.
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Monday Night Football: Texans Beat Jets, 23-17, to Stay Undefeated
Arian Foster ran for 152 yards and a touchdown, and the Houston Texans beat the New York Jets, 23-17, in East Rutherford, N.J. on Monday night.
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College Football 2012 – Week Six Recap
The new rankings will look very different this week as three Top Five teams all went down to a defeat, part of a larger shakedown in college football that saw nine ranked teams all suffer losses.
Here are all the highlights from this week in the Top 25.
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Ukrainian Soccer Fan Attempts to Choke Ref During Match
There are plenty of sports fan who would love to attack an umpire or an official but most wouldn't go through with it if presented the opportunity. However, one Ukrainian soccer fan attending the Chernomorets/FC Metalist match this week decided to attack a linesman and nearly strangled him to death.
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Lubbock Football Expert Pick Em’ Week 5
Tony Romo was a bit of a let down but our expert pickers were not as one of our pickers had the biggest week ever. This week is chock full of tough games so check em out.
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Pee Wee Football Coach Accused of Paying Players to Injure Opponents
Kids wanting to be just like their athletic heroes is nothing new, but a Pop Warner football coach emulating the New Orleans Saints' "Bountygate" program, where players were paid extra to injure members of the other team? That's a twist. A very upsetting twist, if you ask the parents of the 10- and 11-year-olds who got the short end of this deal.
Reports made earlier last week allege that Darren Crawford, head coach of the Tustin Pee Wee Red Cobras, offered his players cash bonuses up to $50 for the "hit of the game," sometimes awarding even more if the opposing team's best player was hit so hard he had to leave the game.
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8 Not-So-Great Reasons to Remember the Replacement Refs
This weekend, finally, the real refs will be back on the sidelines, saving us from any further on-field debacles like the ending to last Monday Night's Packers-Seahawks game. For all the phantom pass-interference calls and overlong instant-replay reviews, certain moments are sure to stick out when, in future years, we look back on the first three weeks of the 2012 season and wonder just what the world happened.
Here are eight dubious ways for us all to remember the stand-ins responsible for imprinting the phrase "simultaneous catch" onto every football fan's brain:
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Cleveland Browns and Buffalo Bills Fans Brawl in Stands
We're pretty sure every NFL stadium has at least five fights during a game. The fights usually have little to do with what's going on on the field.