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Here are this week's results, followed by overall record, overall points, first-place votes and impeccable wit.
Atlantic 11 Week 10: Hoyas win, Hoyas win Dan Steinberg 2011
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The defending champion New Orleans Saints finished two points behind, despite garnering four first-place votes.
NFL power rankings: Colts top the field in post-draft analysis 2010
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The winner will receive many literary accolades and a first-place certificate tastefully printed on the nicest printer paper I can find in my filing cabinet (plus, they're telling me, a Field & Stream ball cap from the editors).
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Annulling the election outright could also ruin the advantage of first-place candidate Mirlande Manigat, a conservative former first lady whose supporters have protested violently in her favor, mainly in the countryside.
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The winner will receive many literary accolades and a first-place certificate tastefully printed on the nicest printer paper I can find in my filing cabinet (plus, they're telling me, a Field & Stream ball cap from the editors).
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At the end of this season, the first-place Yankees may look back on June as their most important month of the season.
How the Yankees Got Better by Getting Hurt Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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The Buckeyes are one of three top 10 teams not to lose last week and they received all the first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel Monday.
New College Basketball Standings AP 2011
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But, first things first -- against the first-place team
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The Buckeyes are one of three top 10 teams not to lose last week and they received all the first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel Monday.
New College Basketball Standings AP 2011
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Is the third-place team in the NFC South, or even the second-place team in the NFC East, really more "deserving" than the first-place team in the NFC West with a worse record?
Better than BCS Michael Oriard 2011
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