Chip Kelly gets a Fiesta Bowl win, is it his last hurrah at Oregon?

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GLENDALE, Ariz. - The Oregon fans at the Fiesta Bowl, fully aware that the end of the game started the race by NFL teams to woo head coach Chip Kelly away, started the "We-want-Chip!" chant as the final minute of the Ducks' 35-17 win against Kansas State ran down.

They started the chant again during the bowl trophy presentation. What made that unique was that the Oregon players started their own "We-want-Chip!" chant around the podium.

Oregon's biggest, richest and most notable fan stood at midfield and was asked what he thought.

"I want Chip,"said Phil Knight, the Nike co-founder and enormously influential Ducks booster.

Sentiment and unanimity probably doesn't matter for Oregon at this point. Although Kelly said pretty much nothing about his future after the game, when his players talked about him they seemed resigned to him leaving. Kelly said he's never discussed the situation with his players because they had a bowl to play, but his players see the same news everyone else sees. The NFL is after Kelly with a full-court press, and it sure seems like it will take a miracle for Oregon to keep him from making the jump.

That won't stop Oregon fans from keeping hope alive.

"I think ... I don't know," Knight said when asked what he thought Kelly would do. "We'll have to wait and see.

"Chip will make up his own mind. I won't have much to say about it. We'll talk, I'm sure, but he'll make up his own mind."

He brought up Kelly turning down the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after last season as a sign of hope for the Ducks.

"He listened to Tampa Bay for a long time, and he never did accept the job," Knight said. "We'll see what happens."

The pull will be great. USA Today reported that the Bills, Browns and Eagles will interview Kelly. Kelly got out of discussing that news by saying his agent set everything up and kept him in the dark because Kelly didn't want to be distracted for the Fiesta Bowl, which is hardly believable. Kelly can make incredible salary demands and ask for as much power as he wants during these NFL interviews, and he'll probably get offered almost everything he desires from one of his suitors. That's the power of leverage. Oregon's probable upcoming meeting with the NCAA's committee on infractions regarding the football program's financial relationship with prep adviser Will Lyles won't give Kelly more incentive to stay in college. He avoided talking about that too, saying Oregon has cooperated, will continue to cooperate and he felt "confident in the situation," whatever that means.

Kelly talked about upcoming NFL interviews as a "fact-finding mission," like he is blissfully unaware of what the situation is, even though everyone else has a pretty good handle on it.

Oregon understands it'll be tough to keep Kelly, who has brought the Ducks to four straight BCS bowls. USA Today reported that offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich has already been tabbed as Kelly's successor if he leaves, which says all you need to know about what is likely to happen in the next few days.

Oregon's players praised Kelly, saying he has done as much for them off the field as he has done on the field. It seemed like they were giving a final thank you to Kelly with him sitting at the other end of the table.

"What Coach Kelly brought to this program has taken it to another level," running back Kenjon Barner said.

Freshman quarterback Marcus Mariota was asked if he thought he'd played his last game for Kelly.

"Whatever happens, happens," Mariota said. "But we're all behind him."

Kelly was at ease in his postgame news conference, even for NFL questions he knew were coming and tried his best to avoid answering. When a reporter identified himself as being with a Philadelphia newspaper, Kelly quipped, "You guys have a big Tostitos Fiesta Bowl fan base?" Then he danced around answering if he had an interview scheduled with the Eagles. Kelly had other lighthearted moments during his news conference, and why not? He had just won another big game at Oregon, dominating a very good Kansas State team for most of the Fiesta Bowl, NFL teams couldn't wait to offer him a large pile of money and Ducks fans were pleading with him to stay, however slim the chances of that actually happening seem.

"I've always said I'll listen," Kelly said about the NFL possibility. "That's what I'll do."

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American Horror Story': Lily Rabe on Sister Mary Eunice's pivotal episode

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[SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE LATEST AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM]

Lily Rabe gave a tour-de-force performance this season on American Horror Story: Asylum as Sister Mary Eunice, a simple nun possessed by the devil. Funny and frightening, Mary Eunice sadly said goodbye last night after being thrown off the asylum staircase by Monsignor O’Hara (Joseph Fiennes). EW talked with Rabe, who played original house owner (and infantata mama) Nora in the first season of AHS, about her character’s death last night, the relationship with Dr. Arden (James Cromwell) and whether she’d sign up for American Horror Story season 3.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Did you always knew Sister Mary Eunice would die?

LILY RABE: Well, it’s sort of part of being on this show is you know sort of toward the end of this season there’s a high likelihood that’s gonna happen. Then I did know when that was going to happen as things moved along. It wasn’t toward later I knew when and how because it wasn’t all known early on.

And Ryan said you did some of your own stunts when Joseph Fiennes threw you off the ledge!

I did them all! I worked with this incredible stunt double on a couple of things and she was able to work on this job. I had never done wires before. She did some incredible stuff too but I was able to do the whole thing. I was able to do the throw and the fall.

So that was you actually falling?

It was on wires, yes.

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Was that scary though?

Well, I love that stuff [laughs]. So it’s scary to me in the way I love to be scared. I have a little bit of a thrill-seeker in me.

That makes sense given the character you’ve played this year.

Yeah. I like it. I jumped out of a plane when I was 16 or something. The first thing out of my mouth was, “I want to do that again and again and again!” But it’s really fun to also be able to do that so you experience it and it was such an important moment. I know Ryan and I when we talked about it, it really is a suicide more than it is a murder.

Arden and Mary Eunice ended up very Romeo & Juliet like. What did you think about how that wrapped up?

Well, it seemed sort of wonderfully fitting. There were lots of Shakespeare references when we got that script because [James Cromwell and I] sit around and talk about Shakespeare all the time so we thought, “How perfect!” But to me they do have this sort of very bizarre American Horror Story love story. I think that it was wonderful. I think it was perfect in its own crazy way. It was very true to the show. That was a very intense scene to shoot also. That was harder for me than the wires. I would do that any day over going into an incinerator, let me tell you.

Did you have a ball with this role? It just seemed you loved it.

That twisted sense of humor is right up my alley. I think both seasons of the show have had a lot of laughs — I know it might not be that way with everybody. I did have a lot of fun with that. Being so cruel to people, it’s similarly painful to Nora where I was suffering from so much heartbreak and loss and pain. It’s a different kind of pain where you are literally the devil. You just sort of lose your soul and detach. But that’s also really fun so there’s no complaining about going through that kind of pain because it’s what gets me out of the bed in the morning, to play parts like that. I even got to sing and dance! I couldn’t believe my luck! I felt very very lucky and in love with the part and I got to do so many different things.

And you’re pals with Sarah and Zach?

Yes! Sarah and I are inseparably close and Zach is a really dear friend. Sarah and I were very close before we were starting and now I feel very close to Zach. You are not wrong to think I was having a really good time.

Do you have a favorite Sister Mary Eunice moment? Or even the craziest, most disturbing moment?

I don’t know if it was my favorite but that first murder in episode three, that was something I will never forget shooting. It was just sort of a very big experience and that was right when the devil was taking over. And singing and dancing was really fun, terrifying and fun. But yeah those murders I would say I never got used to them.

Would you do a season three of American Horror Story?

I would. I would do pretty much anything for Ryan Murphy [laughs]. You just know you’re not gonna get that first script and think, “Oh this is going to be boring.” When you have that kind of relationship with someone and just someone who inspires you and sees you, you just wanna keep working with them in whatever way.

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Sofia Vergara accidentally flashes boob as she tumbles to the ground amid a New Year’s Eve party skirmish

The stunning 40-year-old actress tried to break up the fight at Story nightclub in Miami, but got knocked to the floor as one of her breasts popped out of a strapless dress. She had been partying with fiance Nick Loeb, who was furious.

Sophia Vergara flashed the nightclub when she stumble to the floor at a New Year's bash.

Sofia Vergara might have fallen on her behind, but she is not falling behind in the wardrobe malfunction category.

One of the “Modern Family” star’s breasts popped out of her sexy strapless number as she fell to the ground at a New Year’s Eve party.

The 40-year-old voluptuous actress strutted into Story, a Miami nightclub, in a suggestive outfit with ample cleavage on display. The long blue dress almost reached the ground, but the leather top left little to the imagination. Before long, the top would leave nothing to the imagination.

A fight broke out at a table near Vergara, who was partying with her fiancé, Nick Loeb, so she stepped over to break up the skirmish but got knocked to the floor, according to TMZ.

Although the buxom beauty was not hurt, her seductive leather top could not contain her famous breasts as one bounced free toward the flashbulbs.

Loeb was reportedly so furious at the man who knocked into Vergara that security forced him to leave the VIP section. Loeb even sustained a few bruises from the incident, according to reports.

Vergara is no stranger to wardrobe malfunctions. When she wore a form-fitting emerald green gown to the Emmy Awards in September, a wide opening exposed her white thong and booty. Luckily, she caught it before the “Modern Family” cast stepped on stage to accept its Outstanding Comedy Series award.

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But she actually shared that bootylicious blunder with a photo on WhoSay.com.

"Yes!!!! This happened 20 min before we won!!!!" she wrote beside the photo.

But she unintentionally flashed the nightclub at the New Year’s bash. Her healthy bosom simply leaped from behind her top in a single bound – to the delight of all men present with the likely exception of her fiancé. 

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