Florida congressman Cliff Stearns asks Nancy Pelosi for football break (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress?
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Fla. congressman asks Pelosi for football break (AP via Yahoo! News)
Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? Rep. Cliff Stearns hopes so.
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College Football: Unique And Unrepresentative (NPR)
The Florida Gators and the Oklahoma Sooners meet Thursday in Miami for the national college football championship. But the game won't likely settle the controversy over how college football chooses its national champion. And that's just one of the oddities of the sport.
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Bills' Smith among Football Hall of Fame finalists (Sports Illustrated)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Career sacks leader Bruce Smith, Rod Woodson, Shannon Sharpe and John Randle are among the 15 finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the only first-year eligible players to make the final round this year.
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Man City owner top of the table for football's rich list (BBC News)
Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan heads football's rich list but Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich slips to third.
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Appeals panel rejects suit over football great George Gipp's exhumation (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The legal fight over exhuming the remains of Notre Dame football great George Gipp may have ended.
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Man City owner tops British football's rich list (ESPN Soccernet.com)
Manchester City's hugely wealthy owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan has toppled Roman Abramovich to head British football's rich list.
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Israel calls off football matches due to fighting (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
JERUSALEM - The Israel Football Association has postponed its entire weekend schedule of league games because of the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.
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Iowa State football: Veteran aide Pope joins Rhoads’ staff (The Des Moines Register)
Kenith Pope hit the rewind button before joining the Iowa State football coaching staff. Pope spent last season as the running backs coach for Nevada-Las Vegas. So he got an up-close view when the Rebels beat the Cyclones in overtime.
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British football, horse racing hit by big freeze (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
LONDON - Six more football games and five horse racing meets were called off Tuesday as freezing temperatures continued to hit sports in Britain.
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