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Rick Tebow, unattractive older brother of Broncos QB Tim Tebow, was hit with more bad news earlier this week when he was laid off from his overnight job at a Jacksonville-area bottling plant.

In order to vent their frustrations about kickers sealing their fate in both the NFC and AFC Championship games, Jim Harbaugh, head coach of the 49ers, and John Harbaugh, head coach of the Baltimore Ravens, will spend the day seeking out and beating mercilessly any kickers they can get their hands on.

“I’m pretty much recovered from the rib cage and lung injuries I suffered in the Patriots game,” Tebow told supporters at a press conference. “I am deeply disturbed by the direction of this great country under the leadership of Mr. Obama, so I decided the best way I could effect change was to become President.”

Kendrick Perkins spent the evening in a Los Angeles hospital after Blake Griffin mounted a thunderous dunk over the entire body of the Oklahoma City center.

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Stern revealed the NBA had conducted several impartial focus groups in which the topic of Blake Griffin receiving three or even as many as 10 points for a single dunk was discussed.

After being responsible for two game-changing turnovers in Sunday's NFC Championship loss, 49ers WR and PR Kyle Williams has at least one defender in his father, White Sox GM Kenny Williams, who pointed out that his son might have cost the Niners a chance to play in the Super Bowl, he himself has done far worse, especially in signing Adam Dunn to a four-year, $56 million contract last year.