Athlon's Essential 11 Links of the Day: November 11, 2014

This is your daily links roundup of our favorite sports and entertainment posts on the web for Nov. 11:

• Celebrate Veterans Day with some body painted babes.

• The sports world takes time to honor our veterans. Watch the USMC drill team perform at halftime of Panthers-Eagles.

• Monday Night's rout reduced Tirico and Gruden to making smoothies in the booth. All in all, it wasn't one of Tirico's better nights.

• Austin Hatch, survivor of two plane crashes, scored his first college point last night.

• Twitter brings out the best in Chicago Bears fans.

• LeBron apologized for not dunking more this season.

• Speaking of the Cavs, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving like to celebrate wins with pantomimed joint smoking.

• Bizarre story from the weekend: Florida backup DT Leon Orr was told he wasn't starting against Vanderbilt, so he hopped a bus back to Gainesville.

• A Washington State player apparently keeps a pet wolf in his apartment.

• A hockey game fight in the stands spilled down a flight of stairs.

• Derrick Rose made some sweet Derrick Rose moves last night.

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