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Jared Allen made this weekend's Vikings-Lions game a little bit more interesting. The [Lions hope] to get back on the winning track when they welcome the 2-10 Minnesota Vikings to town this Sunday. Previewing the game for KFAN-FM, Vikings star defensive end Jared Allen expressed his dislike for the city of Detroit. "I don't like going to Detroit," Allen said. "I'll be honest, it's gloomy, it sucks. Everything is brown and then there is snow on the ground. There's like Brownstones everywhere and I'm like, 'Awesome.' I don't know, I couldn't do it. If I had to live in Detroit, I think I'd just drown myself in the river that was across the way. I'm not trying to be mean, but it's just depressing when I go there," he continued.(MLive.com) CommentKeep those Mannywood signs mothballed. Manny Ramirez is not coming back to the Dodgers. [Read the full article] CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois has hired Toledo's Tim Beckman as its head football coach, The Associated Press has learned.Beckman told his players Friday that he has taken the Illini job, said an official at Toledo who spoke on condition of anonymity because Beckman's hiring hasn't been announced. Illinois was expected to announce the decision later Friday.Beckman will replace Ron Zook, who was fired late last month after seven seasons. Illinois was 6-6 when Zook was fired and had lost six straight. The Illini are headed to the Dec. 31 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl against UCLA.Beckman comes to Illinois after three seasons at Toledo, where he was 21-16 overall. This season's 8-4 team will play in the Military Bowl against Air Force, but Beckman will not coach in the game. [Read the full article] The funniest moment of the baseball Winter Meetings happened when a minor league executive absentmindedly walked into a reflecting pool of the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas. Of course, given the blanket coverage of sports these days, a reflection itself of the game's health, the happenstance was captured by multiple cameras.Taking the plunge was as good a metaphor as anything for the week of baseball business, though as we saw last year (Carl Crawford, Jayson Werth, Adam Dunn), such plunges come with the risk of embarrassment. The money flowed, albeit from unusual places. Here is a quick scorecard of the winners and losers of the week.Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Owner Arte Moreno spent $183 million when he bought the team in 2003. He spent $331.5 million during breakfast Thursday. Talk about your expensive room service bills. The negotiations of Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson concluded with shocking speed. [Read the full article] 
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