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It took 5 cops with stun guns and Mace to stop Maurice Clarett's rampage.  How come he couldn't make the NFL?

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It is settled science that the Cleveland Browns are cursed.

To appease the curse the Browns offer sacrifice by maiming a key player early each season.

Every training camp Browns fans believe the curse will be broken.  Hopes were high this year due to an unusually robust offensive line.  All Pro LeCharles Bentley, a graduate of St.
Ignatius High School in Cleveland, would play center and protect quarterback Charlie Fry of Akron.  As an added bonus, tight end Kellen Winslow was 90% recovered from his motorcycle sacrifice of last season.

Bentley's knee exploded on the first play of the first day of training camp.

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Frenchman, Zinedine Zidane, responded to an insult from Italian, Marco Materazzi, with a common soccer move… the header.

According to Reuters, World Cup ratings in the U.S. tripled from 2002 to 12 million viewers.  Meanwhile, a Pew poll finds that 52% of Americans have a favorable view of France, up from 46% a year ago.

Coincidence?  I think not.

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Mick Jagger was the leading ground gainer at the Super Bowl. He suffered a loss of two words for sexual suggestiveness. Maybe the censors didn't notice the giant tongue with 2000 people dancing under it. Those 2000, by the way, were originally supposed to be between the ages of 18 - 45 due to the rigors of the act. When aging baby boomers pointed out that the youngest member of the band was 58 the requirement was lifted.

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