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This one might make you tear up ... footage of NY Giants tight end Daniel Fells greeted by his kids the moment he returned home from a horrible 3 week hospital stay .. and they're PUMPED!!!

Fells nearly had his foot amputated due to an aggressive MRSA infection -- for which he underwent 7 surgeries, with at least 2 more surgeries expected.

His season -- and most likely his NFL career -- is over ... but he seemed to forget about all of that when he was greeted by his adorable kids on Tuesday.

Sinkhole, Schminkhole ... the San Francisco 49ers aren't sweating that crater that opened up on the football field last weekend -- telling TMZ Sports it "happens all the time in football" ... so, no big deal.

You know the story ... Ravens kicker Justin Tucker missed a 45 yard field goal after the Levi's Stadium ground crumbled under his plant foot ... causing some to doubt the quality of the field.

Who's not concerned? The 49ers -- 'cause a rep for the team tells us issues like Justin Tucker mystery hole -- which he insists is NOT a sinkhole -- are just a part of the game.

"I ensure you this type of thing happens all the time in football," a team spokesman told us, "with around 140 plays, the ground loosens up with wear and tear."

Austin 3:16 says ... orange mocha frappuccinos are for LOSERS!!!

So sayeth Stone Cold Steve Austin ... who says one thing that really pisses him off are those damn coffee snobs at Starbucks who waste everyone's time with "complicated bulls**t drinks."

Lamar Odom's condition is graphically illustrated by these photos which show him hooked up to various machines as he was wheeled into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A.

The photos in the gallery were taken Monday night, as Lamar was helicoptered in from Las Vegas. He was taken to Cedars because the family believes the hospital is better equipped than Vegas to deal with Lamar's medical issues.

You see Khloe in the foreground (below) leading the charge into the hospital.

Khloe Kardashian had a good luck charm at Sunrise Hospital when Lamar Odom was fighting for his life -- her leopard print blanket, and maybe it worked.

The blanket was frequently seen on "Khloe & Lamar" ... the couple laying in bed, wrapped in it.

When Khloe rushed to Lamar's bedside last week she brought the blanket for comfort and good luck. Not to screw with luck, Khloe made sure the blanket was snuggly wrapped around Lamar's body on the chopper ride back to L.A.

We're told it has truly been a security blanket for Khloe since she and Lamar split. She travels with it and she's been seen clutching the blanket on "Kourtney & Khloe Take The Hamptons," where she told Kris she wasn't ready to give up on the relationship.

We're told it's a source of comfort for Lamar as well ... and it seems to be a source of rebonding.

Seattle Seahawks running back Fred Jackson wrecked his sports car while drag racing with someone after a team practice ... according to witnesses.

The accident went down near the team's practice facility in Renton, WA. Witnesses tell us Jackson appeared to be racing with someone in a red Dodge Charger ... down a straightaway on a public street. We're told Fred was in a black Corvette, and somehow lost control .. smashing into a large planter box and then a stop sign.

As you can see in our pics and video ... Jackson's teammates Marshawn Lynch (driving a white Jaguar F-Type convertible) and Richard Sherman were some of the first people on the scene. You can see them trying to help Jackson open the doors on his 'Vette after the accident.

Police responded, but Seahawks staffers also showed up and took Jackson back to the team facility. It's unclear if Jackson suffered any injuries. We also don't know who was driving the Charger, but in our video it's parked a short distance away from the wreck.

Yeah, it's messed up ... yeah, it's blasphemous ... but Sylvester Stallone was surprisingly understanding when it came to the NY Giants fan who messed with his famous Rocky statue.

Of course, Stallone knew all about the incident the Philly PD called "a crime against humanity" -- when a NY fan put a Giants jersey on the Philly icon before the Eagles game.

"It was not defaced," Sly said ... "The statue was cold."

You gotta watch the clip ... Stallone's biggest problem with the situation was the garment the Giants fan used to troll Philly -- pretty funny stuff.

A bombshell revelation from Snoop's son Cordell Broadus -- who just admitted he only played football because he thought it was the only way to make his father love him ... only to realize he misjudged the situation.

Boxing? Let's just say they're working on it.

The whole crew ... including superstar PG Damian Lillard stopped into Box N' Burn in Santa Monica and got a little cardio sesh in to prepare for the NBA season.

TMZ Sports spoke to some of the training staff at BNB who told us they put the guys through a really tough workout, and that Lillard in particular picked up the basics of the squared circle pretty fast.

Count heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder as one of the many fans of new Canadian PM Justin Trudeau ... saying that his brawling skills might be enough to scare the world's biggest bully ... Vladimir Putin.

Wilder was out in L.A. when we got his expert opinion on Trudeau's brand of fisticuffs ... namely the 2012 charity boxing match that had to be stopped cause Justin was kicking so much ass.

Of course we had to ask him how the new leader in the north stacks up to Putin ... who continuously shows his athletic prowess in videos that are in no way staged because he rules his country with an iron fist.

Wilder's take? Trudeau can brawl ... and Putin better watch out.

All we know is that we'd pay to see it.

Rob Gronkowski wants to be the Tom Brady of gym equipment -- THE KING -- and now he's launched his own line of fitness products to take you to Jacked City.

The entire Gronk family is involved in Gronk Fitness ... selling everything from push sleds to battle ropes, squat racks and more.

Turns out, Gronk's dad used to own fitness retails stores and spent 25 years in the business -- and since his kids are bona fide muscle heads, they decided to put together their own gym equipment company.

We spoke with Rob's brother, Dan Gronkowski, who says the idea came about last year -- "We said if Rob wins the Super Bowl, we'll do it. And he did. So we did."

Dan says all the stuff is commercial grade quality -- "This isn't us slapping our names on some crappy product, this is quality stuff."

And the family is dead serious about growing the business -- "We want to be the place to go to for athletes and gyms."

Mike Ditka says he's a denier ... not a supplier ... when it comes to an alleged fart on the set of "Monday Night Countdown" -- insisting he didn't rip ass on Cris Carter.

It certainly sounded like he did ... and Cris Carter's reaction sure made it seem like he did ... but Ditka told the Chicago Sun-Times point blank, "It wasn't me."

He expanded on the matter ... "Believe me, I’m to the point in my life where it doesn’t matter. One day I’ll be happy if I can leave a fart."

"Right now, it wasn’t me. I don’t care what they think. They can think anything they want."

The Caitlyn Jenner collectible market is BOOMING ... at least one auction house is hoping it is ... selling one of CJ's used racing suits -- and they're hoping to score $20,000 for it!!!

The item is the driving suit Caitlyn (then Bruce) wore during the 1982 Celebrity Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach ... a race Bruce dominated and won!!

The suit eventually came into the possession of a collector who has decided to sell now that Bruce has become Caitlyn and Caitlyn has become a cultural icon for obvious reasons.

A rep for Nate D. Sanders, the company running the auction, tells TMZ Sports the starting bid is $5,000 ... but they're expecting bids to reach as high as $20k.

Hope you saved up!

The Game just went full Master P ... saying he won't watch a Lakers game this year if the team doesn't immediately sign Lamar Odom ... when he's felling well enough to play.

Game was out in L.A. when we asked him if he thinks Lamar could be back on the court ... a tall order being that Odom still has a long medical road ahead of him ... including a possible kidney transplant ... just to live a normal life.

Check out the clip -- Game is adamant that Lamar could be back but goes further and says he SHOULD be back ... telling our guy he "won't watch a game" unless the team ... including Kobe Bryant ... gives LO another shot.

Get well first, LO.

Ray Lewis says ... when you're rocking a $250k wardrobe, you're LESS LIKELY to kill someone ... and that's kind of the new defense he's using to explain why he didn't murder anybody during an incident back in 2000.

Lewis opened up about the violent incident in Atlanta in 2000 ... in which 2 people were stabbed to death during an altercation involving Lewis' entourage.

Ray has always denied having any hand in the killings, but ultimately pled guilty to obstruction of justice.

In his new book, "I Feel Like Going On" ... Ray addresses the long standing rumors that he was directly responsible for killing the two men.

"Remember, I was dressed out, had my jewelry on, my fine mink coat. I wasn't about to start mixing it up looking like that. That's the general rule of thumb when you're doing the town and looking good. The nicer you're dressed, the less inclined you are to get in a fight -- that is, if you're even inclined in that way to begin with."

Ray says he was leaving a party that night with his entourage, when some "gangbangers" rolled up on his crew and hit one of Ray's friends in the head with a champagne bottle.

"But I didn't engage with these dudes," Lewis says ... "No, sir. I tried to disengage."

At one point, shots were fired ... one bullet struck the limo's tire.

"There I was, all dressed out in my mink coat, my fine suit. Dude dresses like that, he's not looking for a fight. How I was dressed, it made no sense with what went down, those shots being fired, all of that. Forget what kind of statement my clothes might have made. Forget that I might have been a little loud, over the top. Point is, when you're dressed like that, you're off to the sidelines, and here were these gangbangers stepping out to us from the shadows, looking to make trouble -- but it was trouble we drove right past."

Lewis says he didn't know that anyone had been stabbed in the altercation until he got home and turned on the TV and saw cops were looking for his limo.

Ray eventually settled with the victims' families in civil court -- though Ray says the settlement is NOT an admission of guilt.

So, this is actually happening -- Roger Clemens in a real life pitching duel with Oil Can Boyd ... in a real life baseball game ... in the year 2015.

It's all going down in the Men's Senior Baseball League -- 50 and over division -- in Tempe, Arizona.

Both Roger's Houston Old Stars and Oil Can's Boston Wolf Pack beat a bunch of other old guys from around the country to play in the World Series tonight ... 26 years after they were teammates on the Red Sox.