A 7-year-old San Francisco 49ers fan wrote a letter to receiver Kyle Williams, who fumbled two punts in the NFC championship game against the New York Giants and has taken a lot of heat for it from fans. But, as the Huffington Post reveals, this young fan just wanted to make him feel better.

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke has died from injuries sustained in a superpipe accident.

Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach. Read more: http://yhoo.it/vkPVm6

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A kayaker is surprised by two breaching humpback whales off the coast of Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, Calif. A local news broadcast is calling the rare photo a “whale of a tale.”

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A 100-year-old man completed the Toronto Marathon. Fauja Singh will be noted in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the oldest person to complete the 26.2-mile race. He finished it in just over eight hours as family and friends cheered him on.

Nicknamed the “Turbaned Tornado,” which is also the name of his biography, Singh said that he hit a wall at 22 miles, but continued on.

Apparently, Lady Gaga went to MTV VMAs as Roberto Luongo

Even if you’re not a sports fan, you’ve probably heard the explosive news this week that Nevin Shapiro, the University of Miami booster jailed for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, told Yahoo! Sports he provided millions of dollars in impermissible benefits to at least 72 of the school’s athletes from 2002 through 2010.

Yahoo reporter Charles Robinson conducted more than 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during his 11-month investigation into Shapiro’s allegations. Shapiro told him among the benefits he made avalable to Miami players were “cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and, on one occasion, an abortion.”

CNN said it “could be the biggest scandal in the history of college sports.” The expose has generated 7,000,000+ page views, 53,000+ Facebook shares and 5,000+ tweets.

You can read the investigation into University of Miami over at Yahoo! Sports or read more about the making of the piece over at The Cutline.