Today in sports: Why $4,000 Super Bowl tickets are cheap, the Westboro Baptist Church will picket Joe Paterno's funeral, Tim Lincecum reportedly turned down a "nine figure" contract extension with the San Francisco Giants, and life without Knicks and Rangers.
Today in sports: ESPN says no one should ever worry about being hit in the head by a crashing camera, the University of Oregon has fancy new duds for tonight's Rose Bowl game, and the Montreal Canadiens formally apologize to Quebec separatists.
A collective gasp echoed throughout the ranks of data addicts when multiple networks experienced widespread outages across the United States on Monday morning.
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