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• With TV Proposal, Ahmad Rashad Married Sport and Pop Culture

  

  PhotoWith Bob Costas, right, acting as an intermediary, Phylicia Ayers-Allen accepted Ahmad Rashad's marriage proposal on NBC during halftime of the Lions-Jets game on Thanksgiving in 1985.CreditNBCIn the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” the titular Pilgrim proposes to the lovely Priscilla Mullins by proxy — his roommate, John Alden, does it for him. Thirty Thanksgivings ago, on Nov. 28, 1985, the sportscaster Ahmad Rashad performed a similar ritual, asking for ..

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• The Patriots Are Sketchy And Deserve Scrutiny

  

  Monday night’s Buffalo Bills-New England Patriots game was a primetime display ofshoddy officiating. The most egregious instance involvedan inadvertent whistle on a Danny Amendola catchthat would have been a huge gain, if not a touchdown, but Gene Steratore’s crew bungled other plays throughout the night. Maybe it was that it was a night game, or maybe it was that the calls in question were significant, but the errors seemed out of control.At one point, the Bills had the ball on fourth down with..

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• Brady Says Despite No Matchup, He Still Respects Peyton

  

  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady is too busy concerning himself with what he calls "the best defense in the NFL" to spend much time thinking about missing another matchup with Peyton Manning.That's not keeping the New England Patriots quarterback from tipping his helmet to his long-time adversary."There's nobody that has more respect for Peyton than me, outside of probably his parents, his brother," Brady said Wednesday. "If anybody can appreciate what Peyton has accomplished, it's me. He's just b..

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• Restaurants Prep For Hungry Thanksgiving Diners

  

  Follow CBSDFW.COM:Facebook|TwitterFORT WORTH (CBS11)– Millions of Americans are expected to dine out for Thanksgiving this year. The trend is keeping restaurants in North Texas busy this season. Dozens will offer special Thanksgiving menus to cater to groups who don’t want to deal with the hassle of preparing a meal and cleaning up later.“This day could be one of the busiest days of the year, and I think, could eventually surpass Mother’s Day,” says Buffalo West General Manager Chris Piekarski.F..

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• WATCH LIVE: Wednesday Night Rivalry (Flyers-Islanders...

  

  Tyler Enniscan probably relate with the Buffalo Sabres’ opponent on Wednesday, as he’s struggling almost as much as the Nashville Predators.Perhaps some of that has to do with health?Whether that’s the case or not, Ennis is out for the Sabres tonight, as the team announced that he’s dealing with an upper-body injury.INJURY UPDATE: Tyler Ennis is out tonight with an upper-body injury.#NSHvsBUF— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres)November 25, 2015The Buffalo News discussed Ennis’ strugglesin this arti..

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• Buffalo Wild Wings Is A Delicious Steal - Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc

  

  SummaryBuffalo Wild Wings has a 15-25% implied upside in a five year period.The company is undervalued due to misplaced investor overreaction following a loss in earnings due to an expensive franchise buyback program.New cost control for ready-to-cook chicken wings.Horizontal expansion into the fast-casual dining sector.Increased efficiency from transitioning franchise-owned stores to company owned stores.By Brian Minkus,Reese Davis,Anish Aggarwal, andClayton KurpiewskiInvestment ThesisBuffalo W..

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• Review: Good Dinosaur Awes, But Doesn't Innovate

  

  Photo: PixarThe Good Dinosaurhas as its premise two witty reversals of the kind Pixar has become known for: What if the asteroid that allegedly hit the Earth 65 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs missed our planet; and what if, millions of years after that near-miss, the still-extant dinosaurs had become civilized, and the humans were the wild animals that had to be domesticated? The resulting film is amiable, pretty, and charming in all the right ways — even if it..

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• Panthers Take Perfect Record to Big D

  

  So Tony Romo is back and all is right in Dallas.The Panthers will come to Big D and leave with a Big L, their first after 10 straight wins. And the Cowboys will be on their way to a seven-game winning streak to close the schedule.Pro Picks doesn't buy it.Romo made plenty of big plays at Miami last Sunday. He also showed plenty of rust.Yes, he's a vast improvement over the guys who lost seven in a row with Romo sidelined by a broken collarbone. But these Cowboys (3-7) aren't all that good, and th..

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• The Biggest Mismatch In Patriots – Broncos: Bill Belichick Vs. Gary...

  

  By Matt Dolloff (@mattdolloff)BOSTON (CBS) — The New England Patriots face their biggest test of the season on Sunday night, as they head to Denver for a showdown with the Broncos. With a banged up offensive line that struggled to protect Tom Brady – and a receiver corps that couldn’t get open – against the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Football, the Patriots have an even bigger challenge against the ferocious Denver defensive front. On paper, the Pats’ O-line is severely overmatched.But the big..

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• AFC playoff picture: Patriots closing in on clinching

  

  APThe Patriots haven’t clinched a playoff berth just yet, but they may do it as soon as Sunday. And they may clinch home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs soon after that.At 10-0, the Patriots have a whopping five-game lead in the AFC East, and a two-game lead over the rest of the conference. New England can clinch the AFC East with a win and a Jets loss on Sunday, and New England can also open up a three-game lead in the conference with only five games to play, if the Patriots beat th..

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