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How cold will it be Sunday in Green Bay? Cold enought that Justin Smith, the 49ers’ famously grizzly defensive tackle, was considering the possibility of wearing long sleeves.
“There’s no advantage to not wearing them. It’s not like you’re not going to scare the opponent,” Smith reasoned. “They might call you a dumb-ass.”
Offensive lineman Alex Boone plans to go bare-armed, something his family thinks is nuts.
Boone said he told his family: “Leave me alone. I’m going to play football. I don’t tell you what to wear to work.”
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In case you’ve been living on Mars and hadn’t heard: Florida State junior tight end Nick O’Leary is the grandson of golf great Jack Nicklaus.
“I mean, it’s just like anything else,” O’Leary said. “Just he played golf for a living.”
Can O’Leary play?
“When I play a lot I will shoot 74, 76,” said O’Leary, who plays three times a week in the offseasson.
“That’s pretty good,” a reporter responded.
Asked the last time he out-drove his grandpa on a golf course, he joked, “Last time we played.”
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Conference play has arrived in college basketball and that means Division I teams will start picking on people their own size.
In the first two months of the season, seven games were decided by more than 70 points — the most blowouts of that magnitude since at least 1996-97.
The reason? A lot of Division I programs have difficulty lining up home games against quality opponents. Southern is coming off an NCAA tournament appearance yet doesn’t have a high enough RPI to make it worthwhile for a name team to travel to Baton Rouge, La., and possibly lose.
