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Packers TE gets off-menu meal surprise

Green Bay Packers tight end Jared Cook got an unwanted surprise included in his chicken wings during a visit to Buffalo Wild Wings — a chicken head.
Green Bay Packers tight end Jared Cook got an unwanted surprise included in his chicken wings during a visit to Buffalo Wild Wings — a chicken head.

Green Bay Packers tight end Jared Cook got an unpleasant surprise on a recent trip to Buffalo Wild Wings.

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Cris Cyborg

On Friday, Cook tweeted that earlier this week he found a chicken head in his meal at the sports bar chain.

"This is what happened Tuesday when I went to eat @BWWings," the NFL player tweeted, posting a disturbing photo of the chicken's head. According to another tweet from Cook, the tongue, eyes and beak of the bird were all present.

Cook's tweet had been retweeted 6,000 times by Friday afternoon, garnering dozens of disgusted responses on social media.

"Forget clowns...this to me is way more scary!" Justus Cleveland, sports director of WEAU-TV in Eau Claire, Wis., tweeted.

Buffalo Wild Wings also responded to Cook, saying the chain was looking into the issue.

"This is something we take very seriously, and we are looking into it. We're getting in touch with you right now to learn more," the restaurant tweeted.

Daly film

ESPN will air 30 for 30: Hit it Hard, a film about golfer John Daly (Dardanelle, Arkansas Razorbacks) at 7 p.m. on Nov. 1.

ESPN's 30 for 30 films are done on a variety of people, teams and scandals in sports.

The film followed Daly -- now 50 -- as he was preparing for life on the Champions Tour and covers his rise to superstardom after an unlikely victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, as well as his playoff victory in the 1995 British Open at St. Andrews and the highs and lows he's experienced over the past 25 years.

His life has had many ups and downs, and he's still a star in part because -- as he says in the film's trailer -- he's probably never really grown up.

Daly is ranked 72nd among the 2016 money leaders on the Champions Tour.

Hair-raising tale

Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck says nerve damage he suffered during hair restoration surgery was responsible for a vocal cord injury he battled in 2011.

Buck is coming clean in a new memoir after publicly blaming the loss of his voice on a virus that hit the laryngeal nerve of his left vocal cord. Sports Illustrated reported Buck wrote that he believes a cuff the surgery center used to protect him damaged the cord.

Buck tells SI.com that he lied because the truth was "embarrassing."

Buck said the hair procedure was his eighth since beginning hair replacement treatment in 1993 at the age of 24.

He describes himself as "a hair plug addict." He said he hasn't had a procedure since 2011, but is open to undergoing another.

Calling out Rousey

Cris Cyborg is once again calling out former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.

Cyborg appeared on Thursday's edition of the Fox Sports 1 program Speak for Yourself to discuss the woman she has feuded with via social media and in the press for years, but whom she has never fought in the cage.

After using Instagram to challenge Rousey to a fight that would occur on Super Bowl Sunday, Cyborg told Speak for Yourself host Jason Whitlock that Rousey would "have to do surgery on her face" after the bout.

"I watched her shadowbox, and the shadow won," Cyborg added.

Sports on 10/08/2016

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