Talking points: Vols and Dancing with the Stars just needs a hug edition

Got a heaping truckload of contracts to review last night and this morning, but here are a few alternatives to Dancing with the Stars to keep you occupied:

• Who knew that after the dishumiliarrassment at Florida that all we needed was a hug?
  
  
  
  Before Tennessee embarked on its traditional Vol Walk on Saturday, coach Phillip Fulmer did something very untraditional. He told his players to hug each other. That's right, hug each other.

  "I thought the players were uptight," Fulmer said. "I asked them to stand up and go hug everybody in the room. It broke the ice and we came out ready to play."

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• Andy gauges the relative temperature of several SEC hot seats.
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• Pat Summit totally wants to kick Geno Auriemma's tail, but is too classy to say so. Turn off the cameras and recorders and shoo the reporters out of the room, though, and she'd rip his head off and kick it through the goal.
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• Second string offensive linemen Vladimir Richard and Jacques McClendon are working their way into that "dependable" category. Montario Hardesty is once again practicing at full speed.
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• Welcome to Revenge of the Birds, SB Nation's new Arizona Cardinals blog.