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LSU beat Oregon 40-27 in the biggest college football game of the opening weekend Saturday. Carolina wide receiver Brandon LaFell had a bet with teammate Jonathan Stewart over whose school would win the game. LaFell won that bet, and the result is Stewart wearing an LSU jersey this week:

LaFell tweeted that picture with the accompanying message “Jonathan Stewart will be in purple n gold all week.”

Stewart replied “I know I lost the bet though!! Gotta be a man of my word LaFell, Oregon and LSU will meet again.”

It was an impressive win for LSU given that they went with Jarrett Lee at quarterback for the game. I’m guessing most people didn’t expect the Tigers to be up by 20 most of the second half. Well, at least I’m sure Stewart didn’t. He should just be happy he didn’t have to wear this after losing the bet.

For those of you who missed it, Dennis Hallman made an interesting wardrobe selection over the weekend at UFC 133.  His banana hammock made headlines everywhere, and the trunks were so small his berries even made a disturbing appearance during his fight.  Needless to say, Dana White was furious with what Hallman wore and the fact that people allowed it to happen.

Hallman told MMAJunkie.com on Monday that he had to smuggle grapes to his fight with Brian Ebersole because he lost a bet with a couple of training buddies.  He explained that he isn’t the first guy to wear a Speedo and the only reason it’s a big deal is because he’s the first in the modern UFC era to do it.  Then he came out with this gem:

“People are sick, disgusting perverts,” Hallman said. “They’ll break the film down frame-by-frame so they can get a little ball action. That’s kind of strange. They have problems.”

In other words, we’re sick and twisted for talking about Hallman’s balls popping out during a UFC fight.  He’s not sick and twisted for wearing something that turns a fight with a mostly male audience into a peep show.  We’re glad he only wore the Speedo because he lost a bet, but don’t try to defend it by calling us perverts.

Yup, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire lost a bet with infielder Tsuyoshi Nishioka over the World Cup Sunday and had to wear that shirt. Sure, the terms could have been much worse (we would have preferred something along these lines), but that’s not bad. Nishioka is a rookie infielder from Japan and Gardenhire is … well the guy who paid the price for the U.S. losing in penalty kicks.

Forearm bash to Big League Stew for the story and Nikkan Sports for the picture