Box Score 2/7: Still working off our Super Bowl hangover

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Happy birthday to Kristin Otto, Peter Bondra, Juwan Howard, Steve Nash, Matt Stafford, Steven Stamkos and Isaiah Thomas. On this date in 1998, the Winter Olympics kicked off in Nagano, Japan. It was the first Games that saw women's hockey and snowboarding as medal sports, and curling returned to competition for the first time since 1924.

Daily brain workout

Name every stadium the New England Patriots have called home.

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• We wrapped up the Super Bowl with what else, Boston. The band. Guitar solos and all. 
• It's not a Super Bowl unless we rank all the commercials. 
• Did you appreciate the hell out of Tom Brady's and Matt Ryan's performances during the Super Bowl? The beauty of the deep ball is that it's completely outrageous and harder to pull off than you think. 
• And finally on the football front, with yet another young player leaving football when they have years left to play, we can't help but wonder if Pat McAfee's retirement a sign of things to come for the NFL.
• If you missed it, we're doing a weekly roundup on Fridays of all the business, legal and political news around sports. There only seems to be about a dozen or so new venues to keep track of. Wait, how many? 

Around the league

• Martellus and Michael Bennett's father believes the NFL should do a better job of keeping youth coaches better instructed in how to teach the game – safely – to the next generation of players. [The Undefeated]
• Why were the only crowd shots during the Super Bowl of famous people? Gisele seemed like the only fan that was having fun. [Deadspin]
• What's it like to play basketball in Iran? [The Vertical]

LeBron just reminding us it's his world, we're just living in it.