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    • We all love videos, right? Your pals here at Yahoo! Sports are rounding up the best videos of the week for your forwarding pleasure. Got a good one for next week? Hit us up via email and follow us on Twitter at @jaybusbee. And away we go ...

      1. First up: Madison, South Dakota, where a wrestling match gets interrupted by HOLY HEAVEN WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?

      2. Next, we have lads on scooters. Sounds silly, right? No, no, no. Just watch. Don't try at home. Just watch:

      3. Johnny Football joins up with the fellas from Dude Perfect for a little football trickshottery. Is it real? Is it fake? Who cares?

      4. At the Australian Open, Serena Williams took out her frustrations at an early exit on a poor racket:

      5. As the Super Bowl nears, we've got plenty of Harbaughery. Here, John Harbaugh pranks his own parents:

      6. Check out this two-year-old going all Blake Griffin on his playmate. Drew the foul, too!

      7. Heartwarming story here, as a Rochester Hills (Mich.) eighth grader with Down

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    • The Turbaned Tornado in action. (Getty Images)

      A 101-year-old man who almost certainly must be the world's oldest marathoner has decided to hang up his competitive shoes after one more race.

      Fauja Singh of India, who runs under the nickname "the Turbaned Tornado," has said that at long last, he's getting too old for this business. He'll retire from racing after the Feb. 24 Hong Kong Marathon, according to Discovery. He turns 102 on April 1.

      Singh, who says he was born a year before the Titanic sank, first took up marathoning at age 89 (!), and has run races all over the world. Last year, he completed the London Marathon in a time of seven hours and 49 minutes, and carried the Olympic torch prior to the London Games.

      Even though he'll be retiring from marathoning, Singh says he'll keep on running four hours a day. "Running is my life," he said. "I will keep running to inspire the masses."

      He does do that. He credits daily exercise and a good diet as the reasons behind his longevity. So, yeah, you are officially out of excuses.

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    • Unbelievable riders handle a scooter better than you do anything

      Life is all about finding your niche, figuring out what it is that you do better than anyone else on earth and following that path, wherever it may lead you. For some, it's art; for others politics; for still others ... a tiny little scooter.

      You can scoff all you want about "professional" scooter riders, but just watch the video. This is some unbelievable skill and craftsmanship, created by filmmaker "Devin Supertramp" covering the exploits of the Lucky Scooters team in San Diego and Los Angeles.

      It goes without saying, kids: absolutely do not try this at home.

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    • Lance Armstrong and Oprah Winfrey. (AP)

      On Monday, Lance Armstrong sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss his career, allegations of cheating, and his future now that he's been stripped of his Tour de France victories and other medals. Here, Yahoo! Sports will discuss in detail the interview as it happens.

      • "Yes or no: did you ever take banned substances?" "Yes." Armstrong also admits to blood doping, human growth hormones, and other substances, and says he did so during all seven of his Tour de France victories. Clever use of yes-or-no questions to lay the groundwork.

      • "I viewed it as very simple." Lance Armstrong speaks truth. He did anything necessary to win. Anything.

      • Armstrong pinpoints his 2009 comeback as the reason why everything broke wide open. "We wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't come back." He evades Winfrey's question about whether he would have "gotten away with it" by saying we can't know what would have happened.

      • In sum, the interview has been a mix of hard facts (admitting to drug use) and dodging

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    • Manti Te'o. (Getty Images)The stunning revelation that Manti Te'o's "girlfriend" doesn't exist and never did has the sports world reeling. But it's by no means the first time appearance clashed hard against reality in the world of sports. Check out our list of the most famous hoaxes in sports history, and add your own below.

      10. Sidd Finch. The gold standard for all sports hoaxes since, Finch was entirely the creation of Sports Illustrated writer George Plimpton for an April Fool's Day issue. (Read it here, and note what the first letters of the sub-headline spell.) Finch, a supposed New York Mets recruit with the ability to sling the ball 168 mph. As Finch never even came close to existing, nobody got hurt in this scam but Mets fans, and we're all cool with that. Alas, because of Finch we have to endure "breaking" news stories every April Fool's Day, with increasingly diminishing returns.

      9. Taro Tsujimoto. A fake "player" drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1974 NHL draft, Tsujimoto was the creation of

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