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Rob Gronkowski Has Successfully Taken Over Every State In The Union

The best assorted links from across the web (and what you should watch on TV tonight) for Tuesday, February 14th. If you’d like to see something on SportsGrid, send it to tips@sportsgrid.com. Now here’s our starting five.

1. GRONK NATION: The country, overwhelmingly, would prefer to have Rob Gronkowski on their favorite team as opposed to Victor Cruz, Jeremy Lin, Claude Giroux, and Clayton Kershaw. And you know what? The country’s right.

2. THE NEW TENNESSEE WEIGHT ROOM IS A “THUNDERDOME OF POWER.” I didn’t make up “Thunderdome of power.” The University of Tennessee actually used that phrase in a promotional video. I’m serious. Oh, and inside said Thunderdome is a mixed martial arts cage “so we can go in and fight and all that stuff,” according to head football coach Derek Dooley.

3. CLAP CLAP, CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP, CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP, DOG SHOW. Scenes from the Westminster Dog Show.

4. WHAT IF YOU TOOK THE LAST TWO STORIES AND MATED THEM? You would have “MMA Fighters and Their Dogs.”

5. NOT SPORTS RELATED, STILL IMPORTANT. Vintage Valentines: super violent, super dark!

WHAT’S ON TV: Heat at Pacers (NBATV, 7 p.m.); Florida at Alabama (ESPN, 7 p.m.); Texas A&M at Texas Tech (ESPN2, 7 p.m.); Ohio State at Minnesota (ESPN, 9 p.m.); Sports Illustrated: The Making of Swimsuit 2012 (VH1, 8 p.m.); Westminster Dog Show (USA, 8 p.m.); Justified (FX, 10 p.m.); Tosh.0 (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.); Key and Peele (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.).

AND, FINALLY TONIGHT: The Gentleman’s Rant on Valentine’s Day is fantastic.