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The former NBA star didn’t complain while chowing down on the dish.
Making a bet on TCU to win the college football national championship didn’t work out in anyone’s favor as the Horned Frogs lost Monday in the biggest blowout in title game history, 65–7, to Georgia.
One person who wagered an interesting bet was Shaquille O’Neal. He bet his fellow NBA on TNT host Ernie Johnson, a Georgia graduate, that he’d eat horned frogs on live television if TCU lost.
So, as one can imagine, the bet had to be fulfilled.

The baseball trend towards robot umpires is accelerating.
Controversy around umpiring mistakes has grown in recent years, thanks in large part to visible strike zones during TV broadcasts.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has supported the idea, although opinions have been mixed throughout the league.
Some managers have openly encouraged it out of frustration with the current system of balls and strikes.
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But others around the game, including many players, prefer to keep the human element.

The defending AFC champions are not shy as they begin their quest to return to the Super Bowl.
Last year, the Bengals’ run to the Super Bowl caught most of the football world off guard. They won’t be sneaking up on anyone this time around—and, based on the words from their star running back, that’s just the way they prefer it.
Joe Mixon threw down the proverbial gauntlet on Thursday, three days before Cincinnati’s wild-card round matchup with the division rival Ravens.

The San Francisco 49ers have Geno Smith and the Seattle Seahawks slated as their Wild Card opponents, and while the Niners defense is nothing to sneeze at, they’ve got a rookie, Brock Purdy, leading the charge on Sunday. Nick Wright weighs the odds of Purdy getting a win on Sunday, and to take it a step further, being the first rookie QB to make a Super Bowl appearance.