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Was Chubby Prince Fielder The Greatest Power-Hitting 9-Year-Old Of All Time?

The best assorted links from across the web (and what you should watch on TV tonight) for Tuesday, January 24th. This edition brought to you by the best craigslist ad for Super Bowl tickets we’ve seen this week. If you’d like to see something on SportsGrid, send it to tips@sportsgrid.com. Now here’s our starting five.

1. CHUBBY PRINCE FIELDER: GREAT LITTLE LEAGUER, OR GREATEST LITTLE LEAGUER? Prince Fielder signed a fat contract today, so an internet flood of photos of him when he was a fat little kid soon followed. He appears to be a happy fat kid (his father, Cecil, played 13 years in the big leagues, so he would bring chubby young Prince around the ballpark; they hate each other now), which makes it okay to note his fatness. Anyway: can you imagine the power numbers chubby Prince was putting up in little league? The fear he induced in opposing 9-year-olds as he walked/waddled to the plate? There is nothing in the way of stats to back this up, but based on that photo alone, we have to assume he was one of the greatest slugging little leaguers of his era. Performance enhancers? Nay. Just lots and lots of Big Macs.

2. DWIGHT HOWARD MAKES FUN OF FAT TEAMMATE. Really, a lot of fat jokes being thrown around today. Not cool, you guys.

3. THE LONELY LIFE OF TERRELL OWENS: “Even in the NFL, where tales of brutal childhoods and absent fathers are as common as concussions, Terrell Owens’s story stands out. Raised mostly by his joyless Baptist grandmother, who kept the kids inside her tiny, dark home virtually every moment they weren’t in school and sometimes drank so much she passed out, he discovered the hard way at age 11 who his father was: after he developed a crush on the girl across the street.”

4. BEST ADVERTISING LIE EVER?

5. NOT SPORTS RELATED, STILL IMPORTANT: The best look yet at Anne Hathaway’s full costume in the upcoming Dark Knight Rises comes courtesy of newly-released statues. Batman. Collectibles. Anne Hathaway. Nerdy? Yes. Form-fitting? Also yes.

WHAT’S ON TV TONIGHT: Michigan at Purdue (ESPN, 7 p.m.); Cavaliers at Heat (NBATV, 7:30 p.m.); Australian Open quarterfinals (ESPN2, 9 p.m. and 3:30 a.m.), State of the Union address (CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, 9 p.m.); Justified (FX, 10 p.m.); Southland (TNT, 10 p.m.).

AND, FINALLY TONIGHT: Worst Church Singer Ever is worst church singer ever.