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'Tis the season for thankfulness and our writers are serving up a hearty helping of praise for their favorite milestones, moments, stars and characters in this week's W roundtable.

If there were trophies handed out for being the best moms, these athletes say their mothers would be the winners. They helped their sons get where they are today.

'Tis the season for "naughty" and "nice," and we're afraid Marion Barber has not brought holiday cheer to Chicago Bears fans.

Sarah Spain, espnW's resident Chicago superfan, makes the case for the Windy City as the home of the best female sports fans in all the land.

The NFL championship games took center stage, some intriguing center court matches went on Down Under, and a power forward continues to wow the NBA masses. Melissa Jacobs is here with those stories and more.

Of course we were all about the NFL playoffs, but there was plenty of hoops action worthy of attention this weekend, including another win by an NBA team with a record that was supposed to be reserved for some threesome in Miami.

It was the ultimate holiday weekend for NFL and NBA fans. The NFL playoff picture no longer seems like a complex algorithm, and the NBA gave us some major marquee matchups.

Dangerous conditions, playoff implications and a possible Brett Favre sighting? The "Monday Night Football" game between the Vikings and the Bears has it all.