A crowd of 41,202 attended Sunday's Texans-Bengals game, which marked "the second-smallest crowd in Paul Brown Stadium history" ( AP, 12/11 ).
An estimated crowd of 18,000 attended Saturday night's UFC 140 event at Air Canada Centre. Even though UFC 140 was "considerably scaled down" from UFC 129, which set UFC's attendance record in April, the turnout for the event "just missed cracking the UFC’s top five shows of all time" ( TORONTO SUN, 12/12 ).
A crowd of 8,647 attended Saturday night's Lamont Peterson - Amir Khan bout at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in DC. The bout was the "first major championship fight in the nation's capital since 1993" ( WASHINGTON POST, 12/11 ).
Baylor Univ. today is running a full-page ad in the N.Y. Times congratulating QB Robert Griffin III on winning the Heisman Trophy ( THE DAILY ).
