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AS WE TRIED TO STAY ALIVE WITH A PLACE TO LIVE, WHY WERE THE RAMS PLAYING?
Los Angeles was praying extreme winds and fires wouldn’t blow us away, yet a local NFL team relocated a Monday night playoff game in Arizona, which…
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ROBERT KRAFT IS PHONY ABOUT THE ROONEY RULE — AND BEARS SHOULD BE LIVID
Serious candidates should be interviewed for NFL coaching jobs, but the Patriots brought in two minorities to fill voids for Vrabel — which should anger…
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JIM HARBAUGH LOSES WHILE HIS BROTHER SEEKS ANOTHER TITLE WITH JACKSON
He wasn’t singing Black Eyed Peas songs when Justin Herbert threw four interceptions and was mangled by the Texans, who won on a day when John Harbaugh…
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EASIER THAN TEASING A FORMER ROOMMATE, OHIO STATE NEARS A NATIONAL TITLE
Jack Sawyer rambled and forced a Quinn Ewers fumble, returning it for a score in another wild victory for a Buckeyes team that has been unstoppable…
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THE AURA OF A BRILLIANT CALIFORNIA LIFE IS GONE, DISAPPEARING IN THE CHAR
The slaughter of Pacific Palisades and other Los Angeles areas has made the world wonder about living there or even visiting, with raging wildfires…
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WE LOVE MARCUS FREEMAN AND NOTRE DAME, WHICH MUST BE AN AMERICAN FIRST
The days of legends and a leprechaun are replaced by a new leader, who becomes the first Black coach to play for a national championship — and those who…
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MY CALIFORNIA DREAMS ARE LOST IN THE RAGING WILDFIRES OF PACIFIC PALISADES
Nothing was more fun than a day in a scenic town off Pacific Coast Highway, where I hung out and wondered who was eating at an Italian restaurant …
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KEEP LAUGHING: THE BEARS WILL USE 13 STAFFERS TO INTERVIEW, SAY, 16 COACHES
In a preponderance of pointlessness, a frail franchise hopes a very dumb man on an insanely long list — from Ben Johnson to Mike Kafka — will accept a…
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ALREADY, WITH MCCARTHY IN PLAY, THE BEARS ARE BUNGLING A COACHING SEARCH
Caleb Williams is raving about Ben Johnson, 38, when McCarthy has been a playoff flop in Dallas at 61 and won his only Super Bowl in 2011 — which is why…
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IF YOU WANTED THE WORST TROUBLE FOR SKIP BAYLESS, HE CERTAINLY HAS FOUND IT
Not long after he left his Fox Sports show, the analyst is being sued for sexually harassing a network hairstylist, which brings questions about why…
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WHAT IF THE BEARS, WITH NO VRABEL AND NO JOHNSON, BUY INTO THOMAS BROWN?
One by one, many top candidates will sign elsewhere, leaving us to wonder why general manager Ryan Poles — who should be without a job himself — was…
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS GREAT STORIES AND BIG TV RATINGS BUT FIX THE PROBLEMS
A 12-team event is convenient — and the Freeman-Franklin story resonates with Ryan Day’s resurgence — yet all four No. 1 seeds missed the semifinals…
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