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As the Strip pondered all of this last week, it endured a different type of flurry — not white stuff from the clouds but crazy stuff from other reporters' dreams.

KMBC Channel 9's Jim Flink reported that a handful of pro hockey and basketball teams are now thinking about moving to Kansas City. Flink claimed that AEG's offer to the Penguins, which amounted to $27 million in incentives, was enough to lead teams — including the Los Angeles Clippers —to consider Kansas City.

The Clippers? Dude, the Clippers just signed a long-term lease, and the team is building a $25 million practice facility in Los Angeles.

With all due respect, TV boy, the Strip is pretty sure you got smoke blown up your ass.

Likewise, there's been talk for months that the Nashville Predators may move if fans don't start paying attention to them. (Back in July, The Kansas City Star's Randy "I'll Put KC in Front of Any Team for a Headline" Covitz reported that the Predators could end up in Kansas City.)

Let's hear from Predators owner Craig Leipold, who made this comment to The Tennessean last Friday: "There's no way we're going to Kansas City. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in the world. There's nothing going on. This is the Nashville Predators franchise, and that's where we want it to be."

Hasn't Leipold heard about the sweet deal Kansas City is offering to any team that will come? We're talking a regulation-size practice facility and everything! That's one handsome piece of ice.