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    Sports Buzz: Crenshaw turns back clock

    - 11:13 PM CDT

    Ben Crenshaw found his long-lost golf game Friday, shooting a 4-under 66 for a 1-stroke lead over Fred Funk at the midway point of the Senior Players Championship in Timonium, Md. Crenshaw, who has just one top-10 finish this year, said: “It’s kind of unexplainable for me. I’ve been anything but predictable over my career.”

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When Brodie Croyle returns to the lineup on Oct. 19 against Tennessee, how long before he suffers an injury that will sideline him again?

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Fans have paid enough during Peterson’s reign

Right now, about the only thing not wrong with the Kansas City Chiefs is you, the fans who wear red on Fridays, fill up Arrowhead Stadium on Sundays and call radio talk shows on Monday to gripe.

Joe Posnanski

This kind of game shouldn’t happen

CHARLOTTE, N.C. | Well, it was fitting that this was the fifth week of the season because the Chiefs have now gone through all five stages of grief. There seemed to be no denial left in the locker room after the Chiefs’ nauseating 34-0 loss Sunday to Carolina. There wasn’t much anger. The Chiefs’ players were not in the mood for bargaining, and few players even seem very depressed.

Blair Kerkhoff

Blair Kerkhoff’s around the nation: Game of the week, upset special

LSU at Florida Is this Tim Tebow’s breakout game? Last year’s Heisman Trophy winner ranks sixth in the SEC in passing and is only the league’s third-leading rusher among quarterbacks. And his signature moment this season is the first down he didn’t pick up that cinched the loss to Mississippi. Still, Florida owns a big edge at the position while LSU is stronger on both lines. The Tigers have already proved they can get it done on the road with the stirring...

Jeffrey Flanagan

Chiefs announcer says ‘homer’ not in his vocabulary

T here is one magic word that will set off Chiefs play-by-play announcer Mitch Holthus. It’s a moniker often given to team’s play-by-play announcers everywhere.

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Week 6 picks: Campbell, Buckhalter, Jones-Drew will roll

You don't need me advising you to start Drew Brees and Larry Fitzgerald, or to steer clear of Joe Flacco and Mike Furrey. So I'll spare you the obvious recommendations, focusing instead on the players typically on the bubble of most fantasy rosters. Here are my picks to roll, and get rolled, in Week 6.

The Top Spin

Swinging for the fences with matchup play

You can play it safe every week with producing players anchoring your foundation, but rolling with weekly matchups is sound strategy if you lack bona fide studs at every position. It's trickier than it sounds, as understanding when to go with this alternate plan determines success.

Candace Buckner

Behind Harvey, SM West drubs SM South 48-18

Every Friday night, Darron Harvey wants to prove himself. To his Shawnee Mission West coaches, to teammates, to those college recruiters who may think he’s fragile.

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This could be Peterson’s last stand with Chiefs

For the first time in his career, Carl Peterson enters a season in which the prevailing wisdom at Arrowhead Stadium is this: How the team performs will determine whether he keeps his job.

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