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Bryce Harper became a meme because he couldn’t pronounce meme. That’s how the cool kids on the interne troll.

Ronda Rousey faces a six-month medical suspension after a pummeling at the hands, and feet, of Holly Holm. The former UFC women’s bantamweight champion just couldn’t face the cameras when she returned to Los Angeles from Melbourne on Tuesday.

Miguel Cotto won the middleweight championship belt but he refuses to pay to keep it.

The unheralded Houston Texans invaded the home turf of the undefeated Cincinnati Bengals and made their “0” go. Then Houston’s best player added insult to injury. Kinda. Sorta.

Peyton Manning showed himself better than Brett Favre but worse than Brock Osweiler all in one game. It’s been that kind of Twilight Zone season for the 18-year veteran.

Success, and Holly Holm’s left foot, finally got to Ronda Rousey’s head.

The New England Revolution’s all-time leading goal scorer red-carded three University of Massachusetts-Boston players who ridiculed him on Twitter for embracing litigation-forced rule changes to youth soccer that eliminate heading for under tens and limit them for older players.

The University of Missouri wears all-white uniforms when the Tigers take on the BYU Cougars this Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium.

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, the first man to submit Josh Barnett in mixed-martial arts and knock out Bob Sapp in kickboxing, became the first man suspended by the UFC under its new drug-testing regime administered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez fight on November 21 to determine the best middleweight not named Gennady Golovkin. Their heavyweight promoters lay down a heavy bag of change on a bet on the fight.

Sports bore some sports writers. They advertise their professional discontent by turning the sports page into the op-ed section. An underachieving college football team in Columbia, Missouri, this week awarded the failed Grantland Rices the opportunity to become third-rate Mary McGrorys. This, rather than any imaginary civil-rights triumph achieved, compels scribes to scribble love letters to a football team on a four-game losing streak.

The office of New York’s attorney general fired off cease-and-desist letters to FanDuel and DraftKings fantasy sports websites.

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey says her vote belongs to Bernie Sanders in the upcoming presidential election.

Ken Griffey Jr. leads a pack of fifteen first-time candidates for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The United States Soccer Federation and other of the sport’s governing bodies announced new rules for youth competition on Monday to settle a concussion lawsuit filed by parents.

“I would like to build a university of which the football team could be proud,” quipped the late University of Oklahoma President George Lynn Cross. On Monday, University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe left a university of which his football team could be proud. Everyone else remains puzzled.

New York Jets defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson came out in support of the striking players at his almost alma mater.

More than thirty University of Missouri student-athletes interlocked arms for a picture this weekend conveying their solidarity to boycott football until school president Tim Wolfe resigns or receives his termination. But an anonymous player says the team is not as united as that photograph suggests.

A group of African American athletes at the University of Missouri vows to sit out the rest of the football season unless the school removes its president.

A reporter asked Rousey about her relationship with heavyweight fighter Travis Browne in the first the question posed to the 12-0 mixed-martial artist on the UFC 193 conference call. Rousey’s answer, such as it was, spoke loudly in its silence. Listen to the crickets.

Chris Christie thinks the feds live in a fantasy world.

Purple Heart recipient Shane Kruchten, an 11-3 professional mixed-martial artist, issued an inspiring all-expenses-paid invitation to a Gold Star Mother, Wife, or Daughter to accompany him to the Marine Corps Birthday Ball next month.

The Massachusetts Inspector General blasts a sweetheart deal between the Boston Red Sox and the city of Boston as an abuse of taxpayers.

Fox didn’t have game—Game One of the World Series—for several minutes Tuesday night.

Columbia University announced on Tuesday its latest faculty hire: former Boston Red Sox GM Ben Cherington.

Greg Hardy is, to paraphrase Dennis Green, who we thought he was.

Daniel Murphy boasts seven home runs and a .421 batting average this postseason. But because his stats on gay issues do not impress some Mets fans, they root against him. Yes, it’s come to this.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship reinstated Jon Jones on Friday.

The Columbus Blue Jackets fell to the Minnesota Wild 3-2 last night. The loss sent Columbus to 0-8, the worst NHL start in more than seven decades.

Before Dusty Baker chewed toothpicks next to Steve Garvey in the Dodger Stadium dugout, he smoked a joint with Jimi Hendrix on the streets of San Francisco.

An executive called the NFL Network quickly morphing into Skinemax during a postgame interview in the Cincinnati Bengals locker room “a regrettable mistake by our production team.”

Milwaukee Bucks big John Henson claims a Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, store, and the local police, racially profiled him on Monday.

Al Michaels made a joke about high taxes on national television, which one must never do, because, in its beneficence, Washington generously allows us to keep far, far too much of its money.

Tom Brady displayed Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat in his locker. His football rival put his money in the passed hat of Trump’s political rival. Peyton Manning has donated $2,700 to the presidential campaign of Republican Jeb Bush.

Johnny Manziel admitted to drinking alcohol in a driving incident earlier this week that did not result in an arrest.

Billy Beane remains frugal in handing out the green to players. But the tight-fisted executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland A’s keeps the spickets flowing to keep his lawn green.