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Peyton Manning’s amazing streak of 227 consecutive starts will come to an end this Sunday amid news that Manning has been officially ruled out for the Colts’ opener against the Houston Texans.

“To say I am disappointed in not being able to play is an understatement,” Manning said. “The best part about football is being out there on the field playing with my teammates. It will be tough not to be out there playing for the organization and our fans.”

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Rebecca Black burst into the American pop culture sewage pool with her ear delicious tune “Friday” about, um, a day of the week. This was bad news for our Crush Of The Day, Rebecca Black, a fitness model and cover girl for mags like Oxygen and Muscle and Fitness Hers. Her name will forever be associated with “7am, waking up in the morning. Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs. Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal.” Ugh, that song is like tinnitus! It gets in the ear canal and doesn’t stop until the sweet relief of chugging cleaning bleach dulls it (and everything else).

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What a long, strange trip it’s been this NFL offseason. It seems like only yesterday the news was filled with talk of  a lockout and threats of a fall and winter without football. It’s now all in the past with nothing left to worry about but the fate of your favorite team.

Good and bad

Forty-four people were killed when a Russian jet carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team for the Kontinental Hockey League’s first game of the season crashed on takeoff on Wednesday.

It’s just the latest accident this summer involving Russian airliners — two other accidents killed a total 54 people which has led to calls for stricter safety guidelines.

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Happy Birthday to the sister that stole the show at the Royal Wedding. No, not Elton John, we’re talking about PMiddy herself Pippa Middleton. The butt seen round the world turns 28 today. Happy Birthday Pippa. Hope the day finds you happy, healthy and partying half-naked on a private yacht under the watchful lens of a million paparazzi.

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The Indianapolis Colts hired former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel to be a game-day replay consultant, but Tressel will only join the team in week 7, after the team decided to suspend him.

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The college football season is underway. Week one was mostly a humdrum affair, with Notre Dame and TCU suffering the biggest upsets among ranked teams. Here’s a complete look at how the top 25 did:

#1 Oklahoma 47, Tulsa 14

Junior walk-on RB Dominique Whaley rushed for 131 yards and four touchdowns in the top-ranked Sooners’ season opener. Any chance Tulsa had in the game vanished earlier in the week

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Spain, thus becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the globe (More info)

1901 – Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York (More info)

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Alex Morgan is a member of the US Women’s National Soccer Team and is the team’s youngest player. Her impressive resume can be found right here.

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Doug Flutie will be cheering hardest for the ladies on the sideline when he watches one of his former teams, the New England Patriots, play at home this year.

That’s because Flutie’s daughter, Alexa, will be making her debut as a New England Patriots’ cheerleader this season.

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