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Wide receiver Joe Horn claims he called his family Sunday night from the Saints' end zone. Graham Hays knows better. How? Because he monitored those calls . . . you know, for training purposes. Page 2 divulges Horn's real call log, while Sportoon presents what's under the goal-post padding in other stadia.
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Take that, Terrell! The Saints' Joe Horn raised the bar Sunday when he took a cell phone out of the goalpost padding after one of his four tochdowns. The Daily Quickie says that end-zone celebration is now the standard by which all others will be judged. Plus, the Yankees as fourth-best?

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We wonder what kind of victory celebration might have produced this Cherokee Parks tattoo. Page 2 highlights the NBA's best body art in a photo display from "in the PAINT," a new book about hoops tats.
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THE BOWL REPLACEMENT SERIES CHAMPION
Must be the uniforms. Either that, or the Wolverines really are the best team in college football. We crown our reader's choice as the champion of Page 2's Bowl Replacement Series bracket.


Nobody ever accuses us of being afraid to accentuate the negative. So . . . hot on the heels of last week's inventory of the best moves of the year comes this week's counter-catalogue. Which goofs and gaffes make our list of worst moves of the year? There's only one way to find out.
10]  Stephen Jackson's Big Oopsie
Last year's swingman for the Spurs wanted to test the market, so he turned down San Antonio's $10 million, three-year offer. Just look at his contract now!
9]  The Thing That Wouldn't Leave
And Penn State won't make him go, so maybe Joe Paterno's continued tenure qualifies as a non-move rather than a move. A 22-26 record over the last four years says it's a bad decision either way.
8]  Sammy puts a cork in it
Whether he inadvertently picked up the wrong bat or not, Sammy Sosa's cork-popping swing last summer still tarnished a game badly in need of polish.
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The Wrong Call?
So, a guy walks into an NFL end zone, picks up a cell phone ... and suddenly it signals the end of Western civilization as we know it.

Not so fast, say the free spirits of the Writers' Bloc. What's wrong with a man celebrating? Our WB crew is dancing in the streets.

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