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Officials later recovered a five-inch shank that was allegedly hidden in an inmate’s boxer shorts, the memo said.

A shanked punt at the worst possible time.

Smith himself had two fluffed drop-goal attempts, both uglier shanks than Ford’s effort.

There, workers methodically dismantle carcasses into primal cuts: chuck, rib, loin, flank, shank.

The brevity is, of course, a function of Joe Biden’s catatonic debate performance, ensuing Democratic panic and the president’s overnight replacement in the shank of summer by his vice presidential understudy, Kamala Harris.