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The first massive trade of the NHL season just happened.
The Hurricanes wasted no time making their major cup-chasing move. Despite the NHL Trade deadline being over a month away, Carolina added the most-significant firepower imaginable by acquiring Mikko Rantanen from the Colorado Avalanche in a complicated three-way trade involving the Chicago Blackhawks.
This trade marks the No. 6 points scorer in the entire NHL landing on a team trying to make inroads in the league’s toughest division.

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As the Kansas City Chiefs continue their march towards a third consecutive Super Bowl Championship, controversy has continued to grow about the appearance of a refereeing advantage towards the team and its star quarterback, Patrick Mahomes. 
And there is research showing that the Chiefs do benefit from an inordinate number of penalties called on their opponents. But what do people around the NFL, including former players, think about it?
Retired NFL legend Champ Bailey joined Fox News and talked about the controversial calls in last week’s Chiefs-Texans playoff game.

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It’s no secret that the USC athletic department and football program were completely unprepared for the start of the NIL era. As elite SEC and Big Ten programs like Georgia and Ohio State jumped into action to prepare, USC was caught flat-footed. 
Their outside collective was a mess, the NIL budget was virtually nonexistent, and as a result, recruiting suffered in the first two seasons under head coach Lincoln Riley.

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The domestic violence trial of New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers has come to an end and on Friday a jury acquitted him of the charges he faced from an alleged incident last year.
Peppers was arrested in October after a woman accused him of assaulting her in his Braintree, Massachusetts home.
According to The Boston Globe, Peppers’ accuser took the stand on Thursday and said that the NFLer “grabbed me by the neck and slammed me against the wall.
On Friday, both sides presented their closing arguments and the jury was sent out for lunch and to start deliberating.

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