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You may have heard that three Tennessee football players were arrested at 1:47 this morning for an attempted armed robbery.

Here’s a late-afternoon roundup:

• Here’s the Knoxville News-Sentinel story on the arrest of the three freshmen.
• John Adams of the News-Sentinel says it’s an easy choice for Lane Kiffin — give the players the boot.
• A Knoxville TV station got the scoop by checking the overnight reports.
• Here’s Chris Low of espn.com writing on the early-morning brush with the law on Cumberland Avenue.
• FanHouse’s Clay Travis writes on CSI: Knoxville.
• Paul Gattis of the Huntsville Times writes the Tennessee arrests are nothing but bad news for everyone.
• Jeff Schultz of the AJC makes an excellent point — what’s Kiffin going to talk about now?