By Andrew DeWitt

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Real Clear Sports is one of my favorite sports news Web sites. It collects a lot of different opinions and by 3 p.m., it has collected the best sports enterprise and features in the country. However, in its latest Top 10 list, Real Clear Sports calls the Telephone Trophy that Missouri and Iowa St. play for every year the sixth best college football trophy. Seriously?

Missouri plays Iowa St. on Saturday in Columbia. I’m sure the Tigers are talking about taking home the telephone trophy all week.

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I will get a lot of crap from my friend Shawn Garrison for this but college basketball before March is probably my least favorite sport to watch of the Big Four. The game has no flow and it takes two hours to play a 40-minute game. The refs decide how the game is played, who gets the majority of the calls and dictate the game. It drives me nuts how inconsistent basketball referees are so I just don’t like watch it. I would rather watch the NBA than college basketball unless the game is played in March.

Football is my favorite but it is only played four months of the year.

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My favorite new Web site I discovered this week is multimedia shooter. Obviously, I’m in the multimedia journalism generation that is going to take everything from the print newspaper to digital readers or the internet. I can’t wait until the digital readers become cheap enough. Imagine the flash graphics that you could present on a reader like that. You can entirely change how a story is told and how people consume the news.

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One day after Bill Belichick goes against tradition and goes for it on fourth down, people are still pissed off. I don’t understand why people aren’t okay with him trying to win the game on one play. On offense, Belichick has the best quarterback of the decade, the best wide receiver, the best slot receiver and a great offensive line.

Advanced NFL Stats breaks down why statistically it was the best move. Honestly, does anyone think that the Pats defense was going to stop Peyton Manning at home with over two minutes and a timeout?

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