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The Baltimore Ravens and rookie first-round pick Joe Flacco agreed to a five-year contract worth up to $30 million, agent Joe Linta said Wednesday night. The deal includes $8.75 million in guaranteed money.

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If you’re jonesing to get your Rock Band 2 on like we are, you’ll be all over these new shots of the game’s upcoming controllers that we got all grubby on today at E3.

First, the new guitars not only look better, but they will include some welcome hardware tweaks. The new axe includes an optical sensor that will make syncing the game to your display a breeze. Rather than go through that annoying tap..tap…tap synchronization scheme, all you’ll need to do is hold up your controller to your display and it will figure things out with you based on your screen’s refresh rate. In addition, the new guitars have been updated with slicker fret controls that make it easier to slide from one to the other. Meanwhile, the strum bar has been tightened up a bit. No clicking, though — the guys at Harmonix say no one “dreams of playing a metronome” anyway. A dig at Guitar Hero? Perhaps, but if you’re looking for some click feedback from your controller, look elsewhere.

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Terry Murray has been hired as the new coach of the Los Angeles Kings.

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Good news, plastic rockers — Activision announced at E3 today that its upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour game will work with Rock Band’s controllers, including the drumkit, and that Guitar Hero: Aerosmith on Xbox 360 has received an update that “should” make the game compatible with Harmonix’s axes. Nothing too wild on the Aerosmith tip, as the guitars should just work now (finally!), but Activision’s had to do some work to make World Tour play nice: the game is designed for a five-pad drumkit, but it’ll compress down to four to work with Rock Band’s set. See? Friends all around. Is that so hard, guys?

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Police found 5,000 marijuana plants being grown in a remote part of a Girl Scout camp in Kosciusko County, Indiana.

A former Clinton “Hillraiser” — meaning she raised more than $100,000 for the campaign — Ricki Lieberman is keeping her own private hope alive with a daily email blast to supporters which slams Barack Obama in the belief that superdelegates may change their minds in Denver and crown Hillary Clinton the nominee instead.

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The NFL has hired experts to study game footage to determine whether players are displaying street-gang hand signals as part of their on-field celebrations, the Los Angeles Times reported.