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Christion Jones made sure Alabama’s three-peat bid got rolling quickly.

Following a three-and-out debut by the Virginia Tech offense in the first series of the game, the junior wide receiver from Adamsville, Ala., received the ensuing punt at his own 28-yard line. After backtracking a few steps, Jones navigated the waves the onrushing Hokies for a 72-yard touchdown.

Unfortunately for Tech, this return may not have even been Jones’ most impressive of the night. After Frank Beamer’s ACC squad cut the Alabama lead to 21-10 in the second quarter, Jones returned the kickoff 94 yards for his second score of the game.

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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — As far as Tajh Boyd is concerned, Clemson’s victory against Georgia wasn’t a statement as much as a step toward much greater goals.

Boyd threw three touchdown passes and ran for two others as Clemson defeated No. 5 Georgia 38-35 on Saturday night. It was the Tigers second straight win over a top-10 opponent from the Southeastern Conference. While the victory over LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl left Clemson with a strong finish to last season, this win over gave the Tigers a strong start on what they hope is a special season.

“I think it was a good win,” Boyd said. “Nothing that we didn’t expect as a program, but it turned a lot of heads in college football.”

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Tim Tebow may be out of a job but his pursuit of a career in the NFL continues undaunted.

Hours after it was first reported that the New England Patriots were set to release him, Tebow took to Twitter to thank the organization, make plain his passion for the game and to share a Bible verse.

I would like to thank Mr. Kraft, Coach Belichick, Coach McDaniels and the entire Patriots organization for giving me the opportunity…

— Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) August 31, 2013

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Italian soft porn director Tinto Brass, the subject of a documentary screening at Venice film festival Saturday, told reporters he wants to make a film about ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi’s escorts.

“I want to make a film about Berlusconi. I had in mind the title ‘Thank you, Daddy'”, Brass said, referring to the nickname given to Berlusconi by the girls who attended the famously bawdy parties in his villa.

Brass — best known for his erotic films “All Ladies Do It”, a raunchy take on Mozart’s opera Cosi Fan Tutte, and the brutal cult movie “Caligula” — is in Venice to mark the screening of “Intintobrass”, a documentary about his life.

Kicking back on the terrace of the luxury Excelsior hotel with his busty companion Caterina Varzi, who he describes as his “muse”, the 80-year-old lamented “the preference today for senseless Internet porn over crafted erotic films.”

His would-be subject matter, the 76-year-old Berlusconi — who denies frequenting escorts or hosting lascivious parties — was found guilty in June of buying sex from a then 17-year-old prostitute nicknamed “Ruby the Heart Stealer”.

The self-proclaimed playboy features in a separate fictional film showing in Venice, Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’s ironic “Redemption”.

Berlusconi has been married twice. His second wife, Veronica Lario, filed for divorce in 2009, describing Berlusconi as “a dragon to whom young virgins offer themselves” and saying she could not stay with a man “who frequents minors”.

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Following up on its initial tease from earlier this week, LG has officially revealed the G Pad 8.3 ahead of IFA. The slate’s positioned as the next step from its G2 smartphone, and the company claims it’s the first eight-inch tablet with a 1920 x 1200 WUXGA (Widescreen Ultra Extended Graphics Array) full HD screen. The device features a 4,600mAh battery, and runs Jelly Bean 4.2.2 atop a 1.7 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor aided by 2GB of RAM. Despite all that, it’s just 8.33m thick and weighs 338 grams. Software enhancements include QPair and QSlide — the former lets you receive messages and calls from JB-equipped Android phones on the G Pad itself, while the latter allows for three apps to run on-screen at once. What’s more, with KnockOn you simply tap the screen twice to wake it up. The G Pad 8.3 will be available globally beginning in Q4 in your choice of black or white with 16 GB of storage. No word on pricing just yet, but expect a hands-on once we catch it on the show floor.

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