Peter Berlin: Manchester City keeps rolling, a rash of red cards and more

Five things we learned from Saturday’s action in the Barclays Premier League:
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Jim Trotter: For fans, Hall of Fame focus will always be on who didn’t make it

INDIANAPOLIS — When the Hall of Fame voting is announced each year, there is typically a loud and immediate uproar about the finalists who did not earn a spot in Canton. This year is no exception.
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Bryan Armen Graham: Wing Bowl, a Philadelphia tradition like no other

It’s 4:45 a.m. and thousands of people are waiting in sub-freezing temperatures to enter a 20,000-seat arena for a competitive-eating contest that’s been sold out for weeks.
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Brian Cazeneuve: Olympic swimmer Garrett Weber-Gale combines his passions

Garrett Weber-Gale has a lot on his plate these days … and in his bowls and sauté pans. The swimmer who won Olympic gold medals and four world championships on relays with the likes of Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte has assembled a new all-star cast of teammates for a Gold Medal Dining Experience.
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Joe Lemire: Prince Fielder heads home and his father hopes to join him

NEW YORK — Cecil Fielder was in the air on a cross-country flight for most of Tuesday, but when he landed that afternoon, he powered on his cell phone and immediately started receiving calls.
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Bryan Armen Graham: Wing Bowl, a Philadelphia tradition like no other

It’s 4:45 a.m. and thousands of people are waiting in sub-freezing temperatures to enter a 20,000-seat arena for a competitive-eating contest that’s been sold out for weeks.
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Garrett Weber-Gale to host dinner benefitting USA swimming foundation

Garrett Weber-Gale has a lot on his plate these days … and in his bowls and sauté pans. The swimmer who won Olympic gold medals and four world championships on relays with the likes of Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte has assembled a new all-star cast of teammates for a Gold Medal Dining Experience.
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Loretta Hunt: Strikeforce fighters do not want to be considered inferior to UFC fighters

Tim Kennedy wasn’t the least bit insulted when Strikeforce middleweight champion Luke Rockhold used his Jan. 7 post-fight interview to ask that UFC contenders be brought in to challenge him next. Kennedy agreed with him.
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Alexander Wolff: Middlebury, MIT emerge as unlikely D-III college hoops powerhouses

Of all the schools to rise to the summit of small-college basketball, they’re surely two of the unlikeliest.
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Sam Amick: Martin agrees to sign with Clippers

Kenyon Martin has agreed to a one-year deal with the Clippers worth $2.5 million, two sources confirmed to SI.com.
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Seth Davis: OSU-Wisconsin, Kansas-Missouri, more weekend hoops picks

SATURDAY
No. 3 Ohio State (19-3, 7-2 Big Ten) at No. 19 Wisconsin (18-5, 7-3), 2 p.m., ESPN
I love the Badgers, but I can?t say I like them. I love how hard they play, how smart they are, how disciplined they are. But I think their talent ceiling is lower than it has been the past [...]

Don Banks: Revenge, solid O-line will lead Pats to Super Bowl win

INDIANAPOLIS — The Patriots-Giants Super Bowl rematch has anything but a been-there, done-that feel to it. This is a classic matchup of two proud and well-run organizations, with head coaches and quarterbacks who are exceedingly accomplished and familiar, and teams that play the game the right way, and have the long-term results to prove it. [...]

Don Banks: Griffin makes case that he should be draft’s No. 1 pick

INDIANAPOLIS — There may or may not be any significance in the order Gatorade brought the NFL draft’s top two quarterback prospects to the Super Bowl this week — Andrew Luck first, on Thursday, and Robert Griffin III second, on Friday — but that’s certainly not the order Griffin is resigning himself to in terms [...]

Andy Glockner: Jim Calhoun’s latest health issue could be final act in storied career

When word spread Friday afternoon that Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun was taking an immediate leave of absence — his fifth while in charge of the Huskies — it prompted immediate thoughts of a conversation with Calhoun from last season. Not one of the several about Kemba Walker’s brilliance or his team’s shocking stampede through March, [...]

Ben Reiter: Updated Reiter 50: Top free agents remaining

On Thursday, the Nationals agreed to a one-year deal with starting pitcher Edwin Jackson that is reportedly worth between $8 million and $12 million. It also means that each of baseball’s top 20 domestic free agents, as ranked by SI.com at the off-season’s beginning, now has an employer. Still, of the top 50 available players, [...]

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