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Daily Devil Dish: Burfict squanders Bengals' playoff run; Sophie Brunner named ESPNW National Player of the Week

We look into ASU alum Vontaze Burfict's decisions that cost his team the game on Sunday against the Pittsburg Steelers and ASU Women Basketball's Sophie Brunner who made national headlines this week. We break all that down and more in this edition of the Daily Devil Dish.

By Kristina Vicario

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Top Stories:

Burfict loses cool, implodes Bengals playoff run en route to suspension- We take our weekly look around the NFL and find a former Sun Devil with a dirty hit followed by a penalty in Sunday's playoff game that many say cost his Bengals team the win.

Sun Devil WBB's Sophie Brunner named ESPNW National Player of the Week- With wins over Stanford, Washington State, and Washington, Brunner averaged 11.7 points and 8.7 rebounds, shooting 50 percent from the field in last week's matchup making her this week's national player of the week.

ASU Football:

ASU traget Byron Murphy sets date to announce his college commitment- The senior cornerback and wide receiver from Saguaro High School, Byron Murphy, is azcentral sports' No. 1 2016 football prospect and is set to make his college football announcement on Jan. 21 at 12:15 p.m. MT. Read about him here.

More renovations are taking place at Sun Devil stadium in the offseason as builders now work to reinvent the North end zone.

ASU Basketball:

The famous ASU Curtain of Distraction was featured on SportsCenter last weekend while reporters were in town covering the CFP Championship game featuring Alabama and Clemson on Monday.

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