Enter the SportsFilter NFL Playoff Pickem: The wild card round of the NFL playoffs begins this afternoon when the Los Angeles Chargers play the Houston Texans. Pick the winner of each game along with some props to establish your prognosticative dominance on a lovingly crafted artisanal-batch bespoke sports blog. Good luck!

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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Skip Bayless, Fox Sports executive named in lawsuit alleging sexual, workplace harassment: "Bayless then grabbed her hands, began kissing them, and offered her $1.5 million to have sex."

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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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NBA Pickem Week 11: Hoopy New Year: There are NBA doubleheaders on TNT Tuesday and ESPN Wednesday. So many of us laid eggs on Christmas Day you'd think it was Easter. Ufez holds onto first by 10 points. Make your picks.

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CFL Pickem Champion: Ic23b: The winner of the Canadian Football League Pickem was Ic23b despite picking the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who went down to the Toronto Argonauts 41-24. Tommybiden made a late charge and scored 45 in the final week of the contest, falling 21 short. I take the Costanza.

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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NFL Pickem: All the Marbles: The final weekend of the NFL regular season has a Saturday doubleheader followed by the remaining 14 games Sunday afternoon. Ic23b has a healthy 49-point lead with week winner NoMich in second. I only scored 85 despite getting 15 of 16 games correct, which is a feat unto itself. Make your picks.

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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Sugar Bowl Postponed After Bourbon Street Attack: The Sugar Bowl has been moved from Wednesday to Thursday after a truck attack on Bourbon Street early New Year's Day killed 15 and injured dozens. The game between Notre Dame and Georgia is a College Football Playoffs quarterfinal.

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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When the Olympics Gave Out Medals for Art: In the modern Olympics’ early days, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver and bronze

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NFL Pickem Week 17: Happy Footmas: There's NFL football all over the place the next seven days, starting with two games on Netflix Christmas Day: Chiefs/Steelers and Ravens/Texans. Eight of the 16 games this week have a timeslot to themselves. Ic23b is holding onto first 16 ahead of Rumple. NoMich wins the week with 108. Make your picks, ye merry gentlemen.

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NBA Pickem Week 11: Merry Hoopmas: There are five NBA games on the tube Christmas Day: Spurs/Knicks, Wolves/Mavs, Sixers/Celtics, Lakers/Warriors and Nuggets/Suns. Ufez Jones has taken the lead in the pickem with a 36-point week. Forgetting to pick two games was a bad strategy for me, in hindsight. Happy holidays to you and yours.

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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Rickey Henderson, Hall of Famer and MLB’s all-time stolen bases leader, dead at 65: He died in the Oakland, California, area on Friday after battling pneumonia

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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Hartford Whalers: From Heartbeat to Heartbreak: Whalers and Canes fans on here may want to check this out. Almost an hour run length so maybe not for casual quickie viewing.

As a former Hartford resident, I remember what the downtown area was like during hockey season when the Civic Center was rocking.

In the early 80's the UConn men's basketball team played some of its games there, but they hadn't hired Jim Calhoun and become nationally prominent yet, so the Whalers were absolutely the main game in town.

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No football for NC this week: Panthers game this week won't be broadcast in almost half of North Carolina

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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NFL Pickem Week 16: Penix Time: The NFL returns Thursday night with a Chargers/Broncos matchup. Scores were crazy high in the pickem last weekend. Ic23b scored 129 to pass Rumple for first place. Tommybiden won the week with 158. Make your picks and get ready -- Festivus is near.

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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NBA Cup Looking Up in Year Two: Ahead of the finals tonight, the NBA Cup is doing pretty well with players and coaches in its second year. The league hopes it will grown to become "a true second championship," said NBA strategist and analytics exec Evan Wasch.

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NBA Pickem Week 16: : The NBA Pickem is highlighted this week by Tuesday's NBA Cup Final on ABC between the Milwaukee Bucks and Oklahoma City Thunder. The game's played in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena and OKC is favored by 4.5. I'm holding on to the contest lead by 21, but Ufez got 10 more points locking Houston over Golden State.

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