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League has hits, misses at midpoint

Midseason awards often become tomorrow’s bird-cage liner in terms of relevance, but they allow us to look back at what was predicted and ahead to what might occur.

Brady not too old for one more Super run

After all these years, it’s still easy to put Tom Brady at the top when ranking NFL quarterbacks. Some impressive young guns are on the rise, and Brady’s trigger finger might be a hair slower and his legs a little heavier, but time has not passed him by.

Baffert not at fault for small stakes fields

Is it just me, or does it seem whenever trainer Bob Baffert starts a horse in a Santa Anita stakes race, the field is only four horses deep?

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Safety puts surprising cap on gambling’s greatest spectacle

A majority of sports books in Southern Nevada have reported a small win, and all reported a big handle for Super Bowl XLVII. The Nevada record handle for a Super Bowl might fall when figures are announced by Tuesday. The record stands at $94.9 million in 2006.

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