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Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers! The A8S team enjoyed a relaxing weekend jammed packed full of football, food, and more football Without further ado, this week’s #SoMash reviews college football Rivalry Weekend’s hashtag end zone, Google+ livestreaming LBJ, CP3, and Melo, and Arizona’s major Twitter announcement.

Last week, the Washington Wizards became one of the first NBA teams after the Phoenix Suns to join the official ranks of Google+ Pages. Upon Google announcing Pages for the new social network on November 7, a handful of major launch partners emerged such as Angry Birds, Toyota, Pepsi, and The Muppets.

The November issue of the Red Bulletin, Red Bull’s aptly titled magazine, hit newsstands last week and features NBA All-Star Rajon Rondo. For all the fans unable to secure a personally signed copy from Rajon in downtown Boston over the weekend, we’ve got some good news. You still have two more weeks to win one on Twitter thanks to @RedBullBOS, @RajonRondo, and Activ8Social!

Activ8Social, in partnership with Kwarter, is proud to announce our first official infographic! Kudos to the team at Kwarter Inc who were the masterminds behind the in depth market research which was conducted to demonstrate how the young San Francisco start-up is poised to “change the game” in terms of how fans experience the games we love.

Yesterday, Klout, which measures online influence based on a person’s ability to drive action among friends and peers, released a blog post rating the top 10 highest scores among MLB baseball players on rosters of playoff contending teams. Who do you think has the highest Klout score?

Late Monday afternoon, the New York Red Bulls (RBNY) launched a Foursquare check in sweepstakes on their official team Facebook Page. The promotion is in an effort to highlight a season long grassroots program conducted in partnership with the NYC Parks & Rec called New York’s Got Wings.

Welcome back to this week’s Social Mashup! We’ve got a heavy dose of sports and social media news for you this week. Leading off is Facebook and USA Today’s announcement of an app allowing fans to rate Super Bowl commercials, the Phoenix Suns looking to hire a social media sideline reporter, reports of a Twitter integration into Apple’s iOS5 and Sports Illustrated’s ‘Football Rivals’ app.

Two weeks ago, German marketing agency Divia released a blog post and infographic inspired by our “Top 30 Teams on Facebook” white paper ranking each of the twenty (20) Champions League teams from 2011 according to the strength of their Facebook Page marketing. Dankeschön Divia for the shout out!

Time to bust out the fall clothes and winter jackets. Temperatures are dropping on United States east coast, meaning those fun beach days are going to be a fond memory for the next few months. Sorry to cause any seasonal depression, but not to worry though, Monday’s #SoMash is here to cheer you up! Here’s this week’s top headlines: new photo sharing service Erly, Twitter’s new web analytics tool, Facebook’s Subscribe button, and the NHL’s social media policy.

Welcome back from the first weekend of the NFL regular season! This week’s #SoMash features Maryland’s uniforms which generated enormous social media buzz, the New England Patriots and JetBlue Facebook sponsorship, GetGlue’s growth in the entertainment checkin world, and Google’s recent acquisition of Zagat.