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Links: Two Touchdowns in Final Five Seconds Leads to High School Win

News and Links for October 8, 2008…

In the best comeback since “jerk store,” a high school football team in Minnesota scored two touchdowns in the final five seconds of regulation, en route to an overtime victory. A 29-yard pass with five seconds left led to an onside kick that was recovered with enough time to run one more play for a touchdown. Sucks if you had the under…

The Cubs have exercised Rich Harden’s $7 million option for 2009. No word on if they got insurance for his impending trip to the 60-day DL.

Tim McCarver told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Manny Ramirez was “despicable” for the way that he treated the Red Sox, and compared him to Terrell Owens and Randy Moss for the way he held his franchise hostage. McCarver may be an idiot, and this was probably not the right thing to say, but based on the evidence, he’s right.

Donovan McNabb is “embarrassed” by his team’s performance this year, and by the way he’s played, he said in his Yardbarker blog.

If Manny Pacquiao agrees that he is putting his life on the line, what more do we need to stop this fight between him and Oscar De La Hoya? I really don’t want to see his career ended, but I have a bad feeling that I will watch Pacquiao’s career get beaten out of him.

Here’s eight questions about this NHL season that should make you feel like you know what’s going on in the league. I don’t expect you to watch any games, so this is your obligitory reading to at least know who the good teams are.

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