News sport : NHL Game at Penn State's Beaver Stadium has been discussed

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With an NHL game being played at Michigan Stadium last year and another scheduled for Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium on New Year’s Day 2016, another Big Ten football venue – Penn State’s Beaver Stadium – seems like another logical location for a future Winter Classic game.


The Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins have one of the fiercest rivalries in the NHL, so bringing that matchup to State College, which is right in the middle of the state, would make for an awesome atmosphere at 107,282-capacity Beaver Stadium. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman thinks so too, and he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the league has discussed it.


“There’s been talk about it,” Bettman said. “I’m intrigued by the possibility. But it’s not anywhere close to fruition.”


While that’s at least somewhat promising for Pennsylvania hockey fans, it also got us thinking about what other college football venues could host hockey games.


Notre Dame Stadium – South Bend, Indiana



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Built in 1930, Notre Dame Stadium is one of the most iconic venues in all of college football. The stadium currently holds 80,795 and a $400 million renovation project is on the way. Once those renovations are complete in South Bend, a Blues-Blackhawks game would be a great way to show it off.


Ohio Stadium – Columbus, Ohio



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Michigan did it, so you know the Buckeyes want to show that they can put on a better show at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. The Horseshow holds 104,944, so you’d probably need to bring in the Detroit Red Wings to play the Columbus Blue Jackets to fill the joint. It would be awesome.


Rose Bowl – Pasadena, California



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California may not be the most outdoor hockey-friendly environment, but if a Ducks-Kings game could be played at Dodger Stadium last year, a game could totally be played at the iconic Rose Bowl. The San Jose Sharks-Los Angeles Kings rivalry has intensified with playoff meetings in three of the past four seasons. A game at the 92-542-seat Rose Bowl would be a ton of fun.


Michie Stadium – West Point, New York



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This would be a bit more of an intimate environment than the others with a capacity of just 38,000, but an outdoor game at the United States Military Academy would make for a great aesthetic. There are plenty of NHL teams that could be involved, including the Buffalo Sabres, the New York Rangers, the New York Islanders and the New Jersey Devils.


Others: Neyland Stadium (Tennessee), Milan Puskar Stadium (West Virginia), High Point Solutions Stadium (Rutgers)


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News sport : Report: LSU can't sign early enrollees to financial aid agreements for 2 years

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LSU won't be able to sign any recruits who wish to enroll early to financial aid agreements for the next two years.


The Advocate found the penalties handed down from the SEC via a public records request. The penalties stem from a player who signed a financial aid agreement with LSU to enroll early in January. When a player does so, the school he signs an FAA with is allowed unlimited contact – but only if he early enrolls with that school. The player didn't, and therefore LSU violated the unlimited contact provision.


As part of the sanctions, LSU will also lose 21 (10 percent) of its 2015 recruiting evaluation days.


The name of the recruit is unknown and the Advocate said LSU declined comment. The report does list one player who signed a FAA early but didn't sign a LOI with LSU.


From the Advocate:



Matt Womack, an offensive tackle from Mississippi, signed a financial aid agreement with LSU in August intending to enroll at the school in January. Instead, Womack de-committed — as hundreds of prospects do each year — and signed a National Letter of Intent with Alabama in February.




Financial aid agreements, instituted by the NCAA in the fall of 2013, allow high school seniors who plan to enroll early to sign with that school starting Aug. 1 of their senior years.




A financial aid agreement doesn’t bind the player to that particular school like a National Letter of Intent does, but it affords coaches of that school unlimited contact with the signee — contact that would normally be considered against NCAA rules.



However, Womack's father said in the fall to the Clarion-Ledger that LSU wasn't using the financial aid agreement to contact his son on an unlimited basis.


Players can sign multiple financial aid agreements. Therefore, by initiating unlimited contact with a not-rock-solid recruit who has signed a financial aid agreement with the intention to enroll early, programs run the risk of the violation LSU committed.


LSU's 2015 recruiting class was ranked No. 8 in the country by Rivals.


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News sport : The 10-man rotation, starring MTV's 'Rock N Jock,' all these years later

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A look around the league and the Web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.


C: Complex. Thomas Golianopoulos delivers an oral history of MTV's "Rock N Jock" franchise, replete with fond memories of the 25- and 50-point baskets and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar telling Michael Rapaport to quit yapping. Very fun times.


PF: TrueHoop. Steve McPherson on Kevin Garnett's victorious return to Minneapolis, which revealed the reason he was brought home: "[...] in his first game back, he showed the Wolves' players and reminded the Wolves' fans that it's okay to want: to not just hit your marks and do what you're supposed to but in that moment to want to make the play so badly that you want it more than anything else -- to know that you can make that feeling happen when you need it."


SF: Toronto Star. Bruce Arthur on how the Eastern Conference landscape shakes out after Derrick Rose's latest injury, and what it all means for the scuffling-but-still-standing Toronto Raptors.


SG: Raptors Republic. Speaking of that scuffling, which has seen Dwane Casey's club drop three straight and five of nine in February to cut the Raps' lead on the surging Cleveland Cavaliers and now Rose-less Bulls for East's the No. 2 seed to just 1 1/2 games, Ryan McNeill suggests agitated Torontonians relax a bit: "The reality for the Raptors is their goals of winning the division and a playoff series can and will survive a horrible month."


PG: Medium. Bethlehem Shoals on Larry Sanders' explanation of why he's chosen to walk away from the NBA, and the reminder it offers that the players we watch on the hardwood every night are, to some degree, just people with jobs like we are: "You can’t force someone to be an athlete, no matter what their physique or natural feel for a sport [...] the identity crisis of having to be an athlete sounds harrowing."


6th: Bleacher Report. A good, sharp read from the great Howard Beck, who asked a bunch of smart and successful people who'd know to address some of the myth-and-strawman-based arguments against the use of analytics in NBA decision-making that continue to make the rounds.


7th: The Triangle. Bryan Curtis takes a different angle on the sour notes about statty types struck by the Round Mound of Rebound (and others): "Barkley’s problem with reporters isn’t that they’re using the wrong tools. It’s that they’re reporters."


8th: CelticsBlog. Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger, who's out for the rest of the season with a broken bone in his left foot as his club pursues a playoff spot, talks about the importance of getting into better shape this summer to avoid the sorts of recurring injuries that often befall big-boned big men. It sounds like Celtics general manager Danny Ainge thinks it's high time the Ohio State product gets with that particular conditioning program.


9th: Sports Illustrated. Rob Mahoney looks at how the Houston Rockets have not only built the NBA's third-best defense — a rise up the league rankings that would have been unthinkable just a year ago — but maintained it with top stoppers Dwight Howard and Patrick Beverley missing chunks of time by finding a balance where the D feeds the O and vice versa.


10th: SB Nation. Paul Flannery goes long on Anthony Davis, weird mascots, civic duty and two big challenges — of getting New Orleans to fully embrace the Pelicans, and of getting the Pelicans to fully embrace New Orleans.


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News sport : Oakland guard drops defender with a dazzling crossover

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One of the most memorable ankle-breaking crossover in college basketball history occurred in the 1995 ACC tournament when Wake Forest's Randolph Childress dropped Jeff McInnis and took the time to taunt the North Carolina guard before burying a deep 3-pointer.


The move Oakland's Kahlil Felder pulled off Wednesday night isn't in that class, but it's one of the better crossovers we've seen in a while.


When Youngstown State forward Bobby Hain switched onto Felder after a high ball screen, the Oakland guard recognized the mismatch and tried to take the 6-foot-10 junior off the dribble. Felder drove left and then crossed over through his legs back to the right, toppling Hain and freeing himself for a wide-open layup.


Felder's crossover was the signature moment of a 20-point, 10-assist night for the sophomore guard in an 82-71 Oakland victory. The Golden Grizzlies are now only one game behind first-place Valparaiso in the Horizon League standings, and Felder's emergence as the team's leading scorer and best facilitator is a big part of that.


While the victory was nice, earning the No. 1 spot on SportsCenter's top plays segment was also a special moment for the 5-foot-9 Felder.



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News sport : Brandon Bostick befriends someone who understands his mistake

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Brandon Bostick shouldn't be the name forever associated with the Green Bay Packers' NFC championship game collapse, but that will probably be the case.


Many, many other mistakes were made (still waiting to hear why Julius Peppers ordered Morgan Burnett to go down, and why Burnett did it, with five minutes to go), but Bostick is the easy target. Instead of blocking for Jordy Nelson on an onside kick, he tried to get the ball and fumbled it away. The Seattle Seahawks recovered and ended up winning in overtime. No one play determines an entire football game, but Bostick was easy to blame.


Earnest Byner knows.


If we're making a list of the most heartbreaking losses in NFL history, the Packers' loss to Seattle goes right alongside the Cleveland Browns' loss in the AFC championship game at the end of the 1987 season. Byner was running in for what would have been the game-tying touchdown with a little more than a minute to go, and he was stripped by Broncos defensive back Jeremiah Castille. The Broncos recovered and went to the Super Bowl. Everyone knew Byner's name.


According to a first-person column in The MMQB, Bostick said out of the blue he got a call from the one man who knew his pain: Earnest Byner.



"Byner called me out of the blue, and now we talk about once or twice a week," Bostick wrote. "His biggest advice: Face your mistake, don’t run from it."



It doesn't help when the Packers put a bit of public blame on him. Bostick was cut earlier this month. Bostick said he was told that the onside kick had something to do with the move but there was no further explanation.



"I feel as if there’s a little more to it than that," Bostick wrote. "With how close we were to reaching the Super Bowl, I think a lot of people in the organization couldn’t live with me being there. I think seeing me would remind them of losing the NFC championship. I think the Packers wanted a new start, so I got one, too."



Bostick ended up with the Vikings. He talked about making a mistake on the onside ("I forgot everything I was supposed to do," he wrote) and how he got death threats on Twitter. Hopefully Bostick can move on from what happened in Seattle, because he's far from the only reason the Packers lost and definitely doesn't deserve to be verbally abused on social media.


Maybe by not hiding Bostick can help change the narrative. Byner has probably told him this fact: After his infamous fumble against the Broncos, he went on to help Washington win Super Bowl XXVI. There's time for Bostick to redeem himself.


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News sport : Judge overturns Adrian Peterson's NFL suspension

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Let's go ahead and chalk the Adrian Peterson suspension up as another mistake for the NFL as it tries to police its own league.


The NFL suspended Adrian Peterson after his court case involving him injuring his 4-year-old son with a switch was resolved. On Thursday a federal judge said the NFL arbitrator who made that suspension decision overstepped his authority, so he overturned the suspension. The Star-Tribune said Judge David Doty sent "the case back for further arbitration proceedings 'consistent with' the players’ collective bargaining agreement."


According to Doty's order (via the Star-Tribune), Peterson and the NFL agreed in writing on Sept. 18 that he would be put on the commissioner's exempt list until his court case was resolved. Peterson pleaded no contest to misdemeanor reckless assault in November. The NFL held a disciplinary hearing for Peterson, and Peterson didn't show up because the NFLPA was upset about the process and that the league wasn't honoring what the union said was an agreement to reinstate him.


Doty agreed with Peterson and the NFLPA, saying former NFL executive Harold Henderson was wrong to suspend Peterson without pay for the remainder of the season on Nov. 18. It's yet another misstep for the NFL that a judge ruled it wrongfully took away games and pay from Peterson last season. In the NFL's other high-profile case last year, Ray Rice's indefinite suspension stemming from his domestic violence case was overturned in late November. Rice still hasn't signed with a new team.


Peterson was supposed to be eligible for reinstatement on April 15. Having the suspension lifted now is important for Peterson because free agency starts on March 10, and there's no guarantee Peterson returns to the Vikings.


Between his $15.4 million cap hit and lingering feelings about how the Vikings handled the situation last year, Peterson is no sure thing to return. The Vikings have been able to stall because Peterson was suspended. Now the timetable for a decision will speed up.


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News sport : SMU coach Chad Morris tweets out new patriotic Mustangs helmet (Photo)

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A new era of SMU football is upon us with former Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris taking over the program as head coach.


With the beginning of the Mustangs’ spring practices only a few weeks away, Morris tweeted out a photo of a brand new team helmet. It is very patriotic.


Take a look:



That’s a sharp look, especially with the Americanized mustang logo with the chrome facemask. The team went just 1-11 last season, but Morris is doing anything he can to generate some excitement for the future of the program.


Spring practice begins on March 17. Maybe we’ll see these new helmets in action.


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News sport : SMU coach Chad Morris tweets out new patriotic Mustangs helmet (Photo)

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A new era of SMU football is upon us with former Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris taking over the program as head coach.


With the beginning of the Mustangs’ spring practices only a few weeks away, Morris tweeted out a photo of a brand new team helmet. It is very patriotic.


Take a look:



That’s a sharp look, especially with the Americanized mustang logo with the chrome facemask. The team went just 1-11 last season, but Morris is doing anything he can to generate some excitement for the future of the program.


Spring practice begins on March 17. Maybe we’ll see these new helmets in action.


For more SMU news, visit PonyPride.com.


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Arsenal, City not doing England proud

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Manchester City and now Arsenal have proved to be poor ambassadors for the self-proclaimed best league in the world in the Champions League this week.


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London - The Premier League can attract mega riches from global broadcasters but first Manchester City and now Arsenal have proved to be poor ambassadors for the self-proclaimed best league in the world in the Champions League this week.


Richard Scudamore, the league's chief executive, complained the loudest when plans for a winter World Cup in Qatar in 2022 were announced on Tuesday claiming the 'integrity' of his competition would be harmed by a mid-season break.


But City and Arsenal jointly combined to undermine his claims of grandeur with damaging defeats in the first legs of the knockout stage of the competition.


After Manchester City capitulated for the second successive season to Barcelona by losing 2-1 at home on Tuesday, Arsenal were exposed as “naive”, according to manager Arsene Wenger, against a superbly-organised, but far from spectacular AS Monaco who won 3-1 in north London.


Both could yet turn their ties around but on the evidence of their first leg performances, that is highly unlikely.


No team in UEFA's elite competition has overturned a two-goal first leg home defeat and progressed since Ajax Amsterdam did that against Benfica after winning a play-off in 1969.


Chelsea, the last English team to win the Champions League in 2012, have the best chance of progressing to the quarter-finals after securing a 1-1 draw at Paris St Germain with the second leg at Stamford Bridge to be played on March 11.


Everton, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur all made it into the last 32 of the Europa League, which will be completed later on Thursday, and none are likely to be demolished in quite the same way that Arsenal were on Wednesday.


Their defeat not only raised questions about the true merits of the Premier League's top level but also re-ignited the debate about the future of manager Wenger, who seemed at a loss to explain one of the worst performances by an Arsenal team at home in Europe in his nearly 19 years as boss.


Frank McLintock, who captained Arsenal to their first FA Cup and League Double in 1971, had plenty of ideas as he told Talksport Radio on Thursday.


He questioned whether Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil, who had a poor match, was suited to the English game, he was critical of their commitment and questioned the mental toughness which Wenger continually praises his team for.


Before Wednesday, Arsenal had won eight of their last nine matches, but McLintock tried to put that into perspective.


“When we play against somebody who is at least as good as us or above us in the League, that's very often when we crumble and that is not a good sign,” he said.


“As soon as we play someone who is better than us, we seem to lose it all again.”


One thing looks certain for the second leg in Monaco on March 17 - the home side's defence will not crumble. Monaco have only let in four goals in their last 12 matches, and only two in seven Champions League matches this season.


Unless there is a complete turnaround, Arsenal will be eliminated at the last 16 stage for the fifth successive season, and City will again fail in their attempt to make the last eight for the first time.


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News sport : TCU QB Trevone Boykin to undergo wrist surgery

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Dec 31, 2014; Atlanta , GA, USA; TCU Horned Frogs quarterback Trevone Boykin (2) hoist the offensive player of the game trophy following their 42-3 win over the Mississippi Rebels in the 2014 Peach Bowl at the Georgia Dome. (Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports) TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin will miss the final week of spring practice to have surgery on his left, non-throwing wrist.


TCU head coach Gary Patterson said that Boykin, the 2014 Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, injured the wrist when he fell out of bounds and landed on it against Kansas State on Nov. 8. According to Fox Sports, Boykin’s injury is a fractured bone.


“We’re going to make sure that gets fixed right,” Patterson said per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “He won’t go through the last three practices of spring, three or four. We’ll get that done so he’s ready to go come August.”


Boykin was able to play with the injury for the rest of the 2014 season and lead the Horned Frogs to a share of the Big 12 title and a Peach Bowl win over Ole Miss. Patterson said the surgery and recovery is a “five-week process,” which will have Boykin ready to return for summer workouts.


“That puts him by the end of May where he can have a great June and July,” Patterson said. “He gets eight weeks, gets a cycle of lifting, gets himself ready to do the things he needs to do.”


Boykin put up huge numbers for the Horned Frogs last season, throwing for a school-record 3,901 yards and 33 touchdowns. He also ran for 707 yards and scored eight more touchdowns on the ground en route to a fourth-place finish in the Heisman voting.


TCU opens spring practice on Saturday.


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News sport : Report: 49ers to bid to host College Football Playoff title game

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The Associated Press is reporting that the San Francisco 49ers wil bid to host the college football playoff championship game at newly opened Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.


The team will attempt to host either the 2018, '19 or '20 title game and have until May to announce its bid.


Levi’s Stadium, which opened prior to the 2014-15 NFL season, hosted the Foster Farms Bowl on Dec. 30 and drew an attendance of 34,780. The stadium has a capacity of 68,500, which is expandable to 75,000.


AT&T Stadium in the Dallas area hosted the First College Football Playoff National Championship and had an announced attendance of 85,689.


The next two college football title games already have been awarded to Glendale, Ariz., and Tampa, Fla. The College Football Playoff will announce future championship sites later this fall.


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News sport : Miss. St. DB Cedric Jiles cleared to return after missing 2014 season

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After missing the entire 2014 season, Cedric Jiles has been cleared to return to the field for Mississippi State.


Jiles, a 5-foot-10, 185-pound cornerback, missed the entire 2014 season with a hamstring injury sustained during fall practice last August. Jiles was slated to enter the season as the Bulldogs’ third cornerback, but never got the chance. Now, six months later, Jiles is cleared for spring ball.



According to the Clarion-Ledger, Jiles is expected to compete for a starting role in the secondary opposite returning starter Taveze Calhoun. Will Redmond, who had 51 tackles and three interceptions in 12 games last season, will also be in the mix to start.


The 2015 season will be Jiles’ fourth with the program. Jiles appeared in the first three games in his true freshman season in 2012, but missed the rest of the season with an injury. He returned in 2013 after receiving a redshirt and played in 11 games, including three starts, and registered 20 tackles.


Jiles’ return provides a needed boost to a secondary that loses Jamerson Love (13 starts) at cornerback and Jay Hughes (12 starts) and Justin Cox (eight starts) at safety. Additionally, returning safety Kendrick Market (four starts) tore his Achilles in the regular season finale against Ole Miss, so his status for the 2015 season is up in the air.


The Bulldogs, who went 10-3 in 2014, are scheduled to begin spring practice on March 18.


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News sport : Ineligible Baylor RB Silas Nacita admits to breaking rules, apologizes

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Ineligible Baylor RB Silas Nacita tweeted an apology Thursday morning for breaking NCAA guidelines.


Baylor announced Wednesday that the formerly homeless walk-on running back was ineligible because of rules violations. While Nacita said Wednesday that he was ruled ineligible by the NCAA, the NCAA said it never heard his case or made a ruling about it, meaning Baylor never took the case to the governing body.


Thursday, Nacita apologized for breaking NCAA rules, misleading in his previous tweets, and said he should have accepted NCAA-approved guidance offered to him by Baylor.



Players are allowed to accept housing assistance from close family friends, but as he said in his apology, his utilization of the people around him didn't fit the guidelines.


As we wrote Wednesday, the multiple layers of the story meant we likely didn't know the whole sequence of events that led to Nacita's ineligibility. While his apology helps clear the waters, it's still safe to say there's likely more here than meets the eye.


And this should be a lesson to all NCAA athletes to check with compliance before doing anything that could be considerend a violation of NCAA rules, no matter the circumstances.


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News sport : Ineligible Baylor RB Silas Nacita admits to breaking rules, apologizes

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Ineligible Baylor RB Silas Nacita tweeted an apology Thursday morning for breaking NCAA guidelines.


Baylor announced Wednesday that the formerly homeless walk-on running back was ineligible because of rules violations. While Nacita said Wednesday that he was ruled ineligible by the NCAA, the NCAA said it never heard his case or made a ruling about it, meaning Baylor never took the case to the governing body.


Thursday, Nacita apologized for breaking NCAA rules, misleading in his previous tweets, and said he should have accepted NCAA-approved guidance offered to him by Baylor.



Players are allowed to accept housing assistance from close family friends, but as he said in his apology, his utilization of the people around him didn't fit the guidelines.


As we wrote Wednesday, the multiple layers of the story meant we likely didn't know the whole sequence of events that led to Nacita's ineligibility. While his apology helps clear the waters, it's still safe to say there's likely more here than meets the eye.


And this should be a lesson to all NCAA athletes to check with compliance before doing anything that could be considerend a violation of NCAA rules, no matter the circumstances.


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News sport : College football proved tricky again on Jeopardy!

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We've already established that easy college football questions for the Dr. Saturday reader can be incredibly tough questions for the Jeopardy! contestant, so what happened on Tuesday's Jeopardy! episode should come as no surprise.


The clue for the $400 question was "In September 2013 a record crowd of more than 115,000 saw host Michigan beat Notre Dame in this football-crazy city."



Yes, they even gave away the state where the game was played. And it went unanswered.


Of course, the answer is Ann Arbor. We wrote about this game.


Previously, Jeopardy! contestants have been stumped by Johnny Manziel's college and the number of members in the Big Ten.


(H/T MLive.com)


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