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The All-Impact Team: 2021 recruits who will play right away
With that in mind, 247Sports put together its "All-Impact Team" for this 2021 class. The 25-player unit (11 offensive players, 12 defensive players, two special teams) doesn't necessarily include the most talented players this cycle. Instead, it spotlights the prospects with the best combination of ready-to-play skill and depth chart opportunity.

CBS Sports updates Top 25 and 1 after hectic week in college basketball
With March now on the horizon, each college basketball game becomes that much more important. This past week brought some surprises, and some changes to CBS Sports’ Top 25 and 1.

Report: Brent Dearmon's buyout with Kansas football shrinks
The clause states that Dearmon, “will not make or publish, directly or indirectly, any materially negative comments verbally or in writing, on social media or in any other forum to anyone about the University, Kansas Athletics, Inc., or any current or former employee of the University and/or Athletics, that might cause an individual to reasonably question the integrity, quality, character, competence or diligence of the University of Kansas, Kansas Athletics, Inc., or its administrators, coaches, faculty and/or staff.”

Bits o Chalk

Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid involved in multicar crash with life-threatening injuries
Kansas City Chiefs outside linebackers coach Britt Reid, the son of head coach Andy Reid, was involved in a multicar crash Thursday night that has left a 5-year-old child with life-threatening injuries, according to a team statement and the police report.

Sources: Brooklyn Nets' Kevin Durant won't travel, may sit multiple games due to contact-tracing protocols
After a confounding night surrounding the status of Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant at the Barclays Center -- which included him getting pulled out of the lineup in the pregame and third quarter for contact-tracing protocols -- Durant won't travel to Philadelphia for Saturday's game and could be lost for multiple games for the second time in a month, sources tell ESPN.

Stories behind every Super Bowl ring
esigned by Packers coach Vince Lombardi and teammates Willie Davis and Bob Skoronski, Starr was beyond proud of his Super Bowl I ring. "I think Bart just brought it home one day when they gave it to him at the Packers' office," Starr's wife, Cherry, said. It was pretty enough, with a 1-carat diamond set in a globe of white gold. But Starr preferred wearing his Super Bowl II ring with three diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires. One day Cherry got a call claiming that Bart's original Super Bowl II ring was being sold on eBay for $100,000. "I panicked," she said, "and went running back to our safe and opened it up and thankfully it was still there. It scared me. It was a duplicate, but it looked like the real thing." To ensure nobody ever sold Starr's rings, Cherry donated them to the team's Hall of Fame during Bart's final trip to Lambeau Field in 2017.

Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo - 'Don't care about the All-Star Game'
I think every player was looking forward to those five days, seven days, whatever the days are. We've got to all follow the big dog," Antetokounmpo said, referring to James. "The big dog says he has zero excitement and zero energy for the All-Star Game, and I'm the same way. I really right now don't care about the All-Star Game. We cannot see our families.

The true story of the Patriots fan who stole the Giants' Super Bowl rings
This is a story about craftsmanship. A story about a thief so smart even police call him "brilliant." A story about a criminal so knowledgeable even a judge once admitted he knew more than many of the attorneys who stood before him.

Eraser Dust

The immense impact of New Order’s Gillian Gilbert
“The only reason that they are anyway successful is because they are next to The Beatles in alphabetical order and Paul McCartney likes them. That’s it. Barbershop quartet music. Fucking rubbish,” he barked at the Blink 182 singer (This headline does not reflect the story. Its how Noel Gallagher hates the beach boys)

Supreme Court lifts some restrictions on California church services | TheHill
In a 6-3 ruling, the judges held that the state can’t ban indoor worship, but it can cap indoor services at 25 percent capacity. The court also didn’t stop the state from enforcing a ban on indoor singing and chanting.

Kalispell City Council Approves Hundreds of New Housing Units - Flathead Beacon
The 33-acre project will be part of the Bloomstone subdivision, which has already completed the first two phases of development. The following three phases will add 47 single-family lots, four multi-family lots with 104 dwelling units, three multi-family lots with 88 dwelling units and three-multi-family lots with 126 dwelling units on Treeline Road.

The Mayor of Montana Wrestling - Flathead Beacon
“As a freshman in high school I was 69 pounds, and my weight class was 98,” Anderson said recently from his home in Whitefish. “By my junior year I was 92 pounds but managed to place second at state.” (this was my high school geology teacher. Coolest guy in the world)

Where on Earth are 'Moon Trees?' NASA reveals where 'space seeds' were planted around the world | Daily Mail Online
About 500 seeds of different tree species were launched into space in 1971 that circled around the moon 34 times before returning to Earth where they were then planted in different spots around the globe.

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