Box Score 1/31: LeBron is pure fire

Happy birthday to Nolan Ryan, Brad Thompson , Vernon Davis, Mario Williams and Josh Johnson.  On this day on 2000 Ray Lewis and his friends were involved in a knife fight outside of a club during Super Bowl XXXIV weekend in Atlanta that left two people dead.

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Name every Super Bowl MVP who wasn't a quarterback.

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• Everyday Should Be Saturday has started their annual charity drive for refugees. [EDSBS]
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How many fire emojis can you put a tweet? 140? This needs all of them, as LeBron has had it with Charles Barkley.