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Let's make like John Lennon and . . . Imagine. Imagine a perfect January. Imagine picking every NFL playoff game: 11 winners, 11 spreads. Bill Simmons imagines it. Oh, what bliss it would be for the Sports Guy. He'd be on every magazine cover in creation. He'd be the King. Hey, no time like the present to get started ...
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Now that Pete Rose has admitted that he's been lying to us all these years, the Daily Quickie wonders what his moral compass will point to next. Any reason we should believe anything from Charlie Hustle any more? Plus, let's hear it for the two-champ system, and overrated Super Bowl-winning coaches.

Metrosexual Makeovers Gods and Goalposts
What can an ex-linebacker like Matt Millen learn from a Renaissance man like David Beckham? You'd be surprised. Page 2's Ted Kluck draws up a road map to sensitivity with his Metrosexual Makeovers.
 Too bad they've already made "Angels in the Endzone," because Brett Favre's last two games make a hell of a plot line. Page 2's Eric Neel looks at the otherworldly influences at work in the first round of the NFL playoffs.

HOW MUCH DO YOU REMEMBER?
Pop quiz: What coach bears an uncanny resemblance to Chucky from "Child's Play"? (Hey, we want to know if you were paying attention last year or sleeping in class again.) Take Jim Caple's Final Exam for 2003.


What better way to top off 2003 than with a list of . . . well, lists. Here are our favorites from a Page 2 year chock-full of bests, worsts, and in-betweens, along with some occasional second thoughts..
10]  Worst Cases of Foot-in-mouth Disease
Oops. Did I say that out loud? Yep, people like Al Campanis (to Ted Koppel), Bobby Knight (to Connie Chung) and Marge Schott (to just about everybody) really did.
9]  100 Greatest Home Runs of All Time
Where does Big Mac's 62nd dinger rank? How 'bout the 'Shot Heard Round the World'? Fisk in the '75 World Series? And can any of those top Maz's 1960 Series-ender?
8]  Gutsiest Calls in Sports
Oklahoma's Bob Stoops and the Texans' Dom Capers made some nail-biters early in the football season. But did they measure up to Dr. Tom Osborne's 1984 Orange Bowl call?
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NFL FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG O/U
Saturday Ravens 3 Titans 49
Saturday Packers 7 Seahawks 44
Sunday Panthers 3 Cowboys 34
Sunday Colts 2½ Broncos 40½
NCAA FOOTBALL FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG O/U
Sugar Oklahoma 6 LSU NL
Fiesta Kansas St 7 Ohio St NL


 
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Take It To The Bank . . .
O, crystal ball, what say ye for 2004?

"Three things are abundantly clear," sayeth the ball. "One, predictions column are a very lame gimmick for New Year's. Two, the members of the Writers' Bloc couldn't resist this very lame gimmick as they forecast what '04 will hold for Jacko, Kobe, Lance, the Sox, the Yanks and many others."

And the third guarantee, o, all-knowing ball?

"Sports Guy will pick the Pats to win Super Bowl XXXVIII."

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