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Box Score 1/5: Westbrook's clunker costs him
Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook, left, pleads with referee Sean Corbin, right, after being called for a technical foul in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Hornets in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 AP Photo/Chuck Burton

Box Score 1/5: Westbrook's clunker costs him

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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while we wait for Woody Johnson's endorsement in 2017.

Happy birthday to Sam Wyche, Vinnie Jones, Jeff Fassero, Joe Juneau and Kyle Calder. On this date in 2007 Bill Cowher resigned as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. (Coincidentally enough, also the date of former Steelers head coach Chuck Noll's birth.)

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Name every Steelers defensive Pro Bowler in the Super Bowl era.

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Around the league

  • The Eagles PR team wasn't having it with, um, the press box being loud and kicked out a reporter over the objections of the other reporters covering Philadelphia-Dallas. A bunch of reporters and a bad interaction with the team? You bet there's already an oral history. [The Ringer] 
  • College football players in the Power 5 now get small stipends to help them throughout the year, what do they spend the money on? Car repairs, family expenses and just getting by. [NYT]
  • Shaun Assael has a new book out about the death of boxer Sonny Liston and The Undefeated has a look at the controversy surrounding the fighter's passing. [The Undefeated]

Whoops, that's sure to result in detention.

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