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NFL expands Thursday night games
  • NFL expands Thursday night games

  • NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league will expand Thursday night games so all teams get a prime time game during the 2012 season.

    Bears QB Cutler and fiancee Cavallari are expecting baby
  • Bears QB Cutler and fiancee Cavallari are expecting baby

  • Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, 28, and fiancee Kristin Cavallari, 25, are expecting their first child together.

    Erie Schools: Allegations of bullying, hazing "unable to be proven"
  • Erie Schools: Allegations of bullying, hazing "unable to be proven"

  • UPDATE: Erie Superintendent Bradley Cox says the internal investigation is complete, and the district was not able to prove allegations of bullying and hazing brought forward by a high school wrestler.

    Packers fan talks about the YouTube video of her that's gone viral
  • Packers fan talks about the YouTube video of her that's gone viral

  • The Green Bay Packers lost the game against the New York Giants because of how they played. But maybe, just maybe, it really came down to sparkles painted on one die-hard Packers fan's finger nails.

    Area college boots 12 players and forfeits basketball season
  • Area college boots 12 players and forfeits basketball season

  • Southeastern Community College men’s basketball forfeited the rest of the season after ten players were kicked off the team and two more were deemed academically ineligible.

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    Occupy activists to protest right-to-work at Super Bowl

    Occupy activists to protest right-to-work at Super Bowl

    INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street activists said on Friday they will march to protest Indiana's new anti-union "right-to-work" law...

    VOTE: What's the top local sports story of 2011?

    Which of these stories is the top Quad Cities-area sports story of 2011? We'll reveal OUR top ten January 1, 2012. Here are your choices, in no particular order:

    • Augustana basketball's Elite 8 appearance
    • Mallards survive
    • Rock Island's first-ever boys basketball championship
    • Softball (Moline/Morrison/United win state titles)
    • Assumption girls (soccer/basketball champs, 2nd in state - track)
    • Steve Stricker wins third straight JDC
    • Bix/Ragbrai big day for Davenport
    • College football (Zook leaves, ISU beat OK State, Iowa Rhabdo
    • QC River Bandits (flood, All-star game, championship win)
    • Morrison football wins championship/Bettendorf finishes 2nd

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    Who will win Super Bowl XLVI?

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    • New York Giants

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