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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while we wait to see if the Pirates are going to rip our hearts out at the Winter Meetings.
Happy birthday to Kevin Cash, Robbie Gould and Matt Niskanen. On this date in 1986, Vinny Testaverde won the Heisman Trophy.
Around the league:
YB ICYMI:
MLB
"Who is buying, who is selling and who is sitting back in the wings, waiting to find the moment to make an impact? All of these things will happen and each can take place seemingly out of nowhere." - Matt Whitener, MLB Winter Meetings primer: Every team's trade temperature on the hot stove
CFB
"In a conference full of great coaches, no one did a better job than James Franklin in 2016, not Urban Meyer, not Jim Harbaugh, not Paul Chryst." - Joe Boland; James Franklin, Penn State come up roses
"But just outside the playoff picture, for those who were paying attention, there was plenty of intrigue to be had. So to help you make sense of the interesting football you missed while you were watching the SEC championship, we've enlisted Diana Ross. " - Sam Greszus, Championship Week as explained by Diana Ross
NFL
"Let's put this into perspective here. San Francisco had as many passing yards (six) as it had points against a bad Bears squad that entered Week 13 with two wins. The team also committed almost twice the amount of penalties (11) as it had passing yards in its 11th consecutive loss." - Vincent Frank, The good, bad, and ugly from NFL Week 13
Should have left him in to hit 100.
This guy next to me was on today. 60 point
— Zaza Pachulia (@zaza27) December 6, 2016
Way to go my man @KlayThompson pic.twitter.com/P55oh9s4TA
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