Santa Claus is Dead.

R.I.P. Ed Asner, aka Lou Grant.

And Santa Claus in the classic movie Elf.

This weekend the Braves took two of three from the team with the best record in baseball. Friday night rightfielder Joc Pederson sealed the win with a great catch. I feared he might catch his spikes in the fence like Brian Asselstine did back in the day.  

Today Ian Anderson returned from the disabled list to toss a shutout.

Spent a little time at Chandler Park early Saturday morning.

Saturday as I was leaving the College Gameday set, a tall well-dressed young man was being escorted from the adjacent building to the set. I didn't recognize him, but we nodded to each other. It was former Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, minus his trademark dreadlocks. Seconds after we crossed paths, Griffin taped a short video for Twitter.

Tech legend Maxie Baughan rushes Falcons QB Bob Berry.

Baughan was considered for the Hall of Fame. 

The top 30 NFL players not in the Hall of Fame (not named Herschel Walker). One of those clickbait pictorials that I'm not going to go through again.

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This week the veterans committee voted Cliff Branch into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. There are scores of other candidates from Branch's era and before that deserve consideration, like Herschel (above). If only one senior candidate is inducted each year, little progress will be made. Something would have to change. 

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JACK McDOWELL  [B-R Bio] Indian threw the first pitch in the New Comi skey Park, on 18-Apr-1991. He induced the Tigers Tony Phillips to fly out to left. McDowell played for Cleveland in 1996—97. Attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California. McDowell was the only American League pitcher to win at least ten games every year from 1990 to 1996, with 14, 17, 20, 22, 10, 15 & 13. McDowell was front man for a musical group called Stickfigure. Here’s a sample of their work. I’ll let you guess the origin of the group’s name.

I John 3:18: Little children, let us not love in word or talk, but in deed and in truth.