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1. The Sopranos will serve as the primary sponsor for Clint Bowyer's Chevy in the March 12 NASCAR race in Las Vegas. The show's logo will appear on the car's hood and quarter panels, while the Bada Bing logo will be on the rear quarter panel. Expect Bowyer's car to struggle, though, from the extra weight of the bodies in the trunk.

2. Star-crossed skier Bode Miller tweaked his ankle while playing basketball on Tuesday. Fortunately, Miller's contract offer of $42 million over four years from Knicks president Isiah Thomas still stands.

3. Though Turin has taken some knocks for not seeming overly excited to host the Winter Olympics, at least the temperature has been appropriately frigid. And that's just when Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick are in the same room.

4. Both the U.S. and Canadian men's hockey teams were bounced from the Olympics on Wednesday, with the favored Canadians falling victim to a 2-0 shutout by Russia's Evgeni Nabokov. It was Nabokov's finest work since Lolita.

5. NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol insists that the network will make a profit of 50-75 million from the Winter Olympics. The bad news is that it's in Italian lire.

6. In a move aimed at getting guns off the street, the 76ers and Philadelphia police will allow the public to turn in a working firearm at a police station in exchange for a pair of tickets to a Sixers game. Police and team officials are working toward a better world in which only the players carry guns.

7. Hockey can be a dangerous sport. That's especially true of street hockey in northern Quebec, it seems, where a 700-pound polar bear might crash the action at any time. That's what happened earlier this month in Ivujivik, whereupon 41-year-old Lydia Angiyou saved the day by miraculously wrestling the bear to keep it away from her young sons. Angiyou, described by a friend as "5-foot nothing and 90 pounds on a wet day," kicked and punched the beast until it swatted her in the face, knocked her down and got on top of her. Angiyou then managed to fend the bear off with her feet long enough for a neighbor, hearing the fracas, to retrieve a gun and shoot the bear. Somehow, Angiyou escaped the ordeal with just a few scratches and a black eye. Now that deserves a medal.

8. The Massachusetts state police will not charge Blazers guard Sebastian Telfair for bringing a loaded weapon onto the team's private jet because investigators can't prove that the player was in possession of the weapon while in the state. In addition to dropping the charges, Telfair can get in free to a Sixers game.

9. Boxing promoter Roy Engelbrecht on Wednesday opened Fight Promoter University, a three-day session in fight promotion in Irvine, Calif., that will offer a Masters of Boxing Administration. The hope is that offering an academic degree will class up the profession by attracting more white-collar criminals.

10. While I've been poking plenty of fun at the Winter Olympics, I've watched a hefty amount of coverage -- albeit on my own sweet DVR schedule. That's in part because I recently bought an HDTV set, a 30" widescreen Samsung. (Come on, fellas, how about a retroactive discount?) Hockey, skiing and skating are all much more exciting to watch in HD, and for as much as I knock NBC, it has been broadcasting in HD for all its Olympic coverage. If you've been thinking about an HD set, please, take the plunge. For those who don't want to break the bank, consider buying a traditional tube set (CRT) that can receive in HDTV, as I did, rather than a flat-screen plasma or LCD. It's bulkier and not as flashy, but one can also spend less than a grand and still get the HDTV effect.