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This is The Sports Reporters.

Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Albem, and Bob Ryan.

I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I am Mike Lubica, MLB.com in the New York Daily News.

And I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press, and this is the Sports Reporters podcast.

Setting up a very big weekend in professional football.

We will talk about the Hall of Fame voting and the last chance opportunities, perhaps,

for two of the biggest names in the history of the game, Barry Bonds

and Roger Clemens.

I said you met Billy Wagner and Todd Hilton.

Okay, go ahead, right, fine.

But first we want to begin with the football games coming up this weekend, which should be

great.

It should be a really interesting Sunday.

And we start in Los Angeles where, stop us if you've seen this show before.

But the Rams and the 49ers will play for a third time this season. And the 49ers have won the

last six games. And I believe it's nine of the last 11. If ever a team has had another team's number,

it would be the 49ers against the Rams.

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