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Fans make the best of inferior product
FOXSports.com - The NFL’s first overseas regular-season contest had a magical feel. The Dolphins had fire and pyrotechnics for their pre It made me feel like I was a gladiator, especially at the beginning. It seemed like the playoffs with everything going on.”

Patriots, 8-0, face toughest test at Indianapolis.
ESPN.com - Other readers of the NFL scene might disagree. Yes, Indianapolis has won 11 straight at home and 12 in a row overall. That What we can’t do is fall into the trap like we did with Indy in the playoffs where we jumped out in the first half, like what

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vs. ARIZONA 10/13
Sports Illustrated - LOS ANGELES (AP) -In what’s been the year of the upset in college football, Stanford’s stunner just might top them all. Tavita Pritchard threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Mark Bradford on fourth-and-goal with 49 seconds remaining Saturday night

Here are Your Listens Comments
KGBT 4 - After our son injured his knee in a football game with the hanna eagles our nightmare started. After having knee surgery Too many schools in the Valley lack math tutors, science tutors, and bus drivers, yet we spend our money on stupid scoreboards

Husky Stadium aging not so gracefully
Seattle Post Intelligencer - be the east end zone scoreboard and video screen, which would be removed to restore lake views and be replaced by two smaller scoreboards set off in the corners. Committee members have visited campuses and looked over the latest in college football

vs. OHIO ST 10/6
Sports Illustrated - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -Charlie Weis was looking for something he recognized as winning football. He finally saw it Perhaps, but things don’t get any easier for the Irish who face UCLA, No. 12 Boston College and top-ranked Southern

Letters to the Editor: Oct. 01
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma and Ontario high schools play their home football games away from the school sites due a combination of no lights, no seating, no scoreboards A junior at a protest at the distinguished Pitzer College was quoted as saying

A Mustang stampede: Cal Poly posts historic blowout over Ags
Davis Enterprise - Ultimately though, there will be no escaping the various scoreboards on which the ever allowed, two fewer than the 65 the Aggies gave up to Sacramento City College It’s assignment football, so the defensive tackle, he’s going to tackle the dive

Manuel doesn’t waver from commitment
Tallahassee Democrat - J. planned to pursue a degree in biomedical engineering and a national championship in football dinners and lodging — seeking to have prospects dine in a more typical setting for a college student. Names on lockers and jerseys and scoreboards are

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MLB greed has chilling effect
Contra Costa Times - Someone might want to mention that America’s true national pastime — the NFL –schedules its premier event for warm-weather cities even though it’s a cold-weather sport. Baseball, unfortunately, has taken the entirely opposite

Exclusive club of Chase racetracks not likely to change soon
ESPN.com - hard to explain why, but it probably had as much to do with school getting out in June, perhaps a little bit of the NFL Moving away from that date would alter schedules of fans who plan their free time around race weekends. Other tracks echo the

Cowboys unproven despite record
Dallas Morning News - Buffalo rookie Trent Edwards had them beaten in his second NFL start until the Cowboys scored eight points in the Their schedules: Washington (4-2): at New England, at NY Jets, Philadelphia, at Dallas. (I can’t see the Redskins

Graham Live
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - As I look at the teams ranked ahead of us and their remaining schedules .it seems to me that if MU does as they should I’ve seen it in the NFL a couple times and I think Boise State or someone ran it during the bowl season and actually threw

Carroll’s Trojans face huge test vs. Ducks in Eugene
CBS News - Is success, well, boring when an NFL paycheck is on the horizon? That’s been the difference with Carroll. He has Kansas has played one of the weaker non-conference schedules. Oklahoma has played North Texas, Utah State and Tulsa

College Football: Ohio St., Boston Co. won’t be ignored
Morris County Daily Record - Never mind the smirks about their schedules. They beat four opponents with a combined record of 23-7, three of them on the road. Fulmer, who was not amused when the ESPN Gameday crew joked that the big days ahead for the Volunteers were the NFL

Parity Levels College Football’s Playing Field
Washington Post - There are good coaches all over the place, kids with NFL-caliber talent playing at schools that never before had a whiff Given their schedules and the relative equality, none likely will remain so. Oklahoma, LSU, Kentucky, Oregon and South Carolina

North Jersey Media Group
NorthJersey.com - was absent altogether, and schedules for the other channels were inconsistent. Some shows are broadcast in real time — including most nighttime network programming — while others are time-shifted, and some didn’t appear at all — particularly NFL

College Football
Washington Post - And that onside kick — between the NFL and colleges, I can’t remember a week in which so many onside kicks have succeeded Atlanta: Look, teams like LSU, Oklahoma, Oregon and Florida deserve mulligans because of the schedules they have to face. BC, on

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Red Sox Nation rules again
Sports Illustrated - DENVER (AP) — Perched high above his raucous teammates, David Ortiz sprayed bottles of bubbly in every direction, dousing everyone in sight, including himself. Then it was time to deliver a message. “When you wear Red Sox on your shirt,” he hollered

Verizon 3Q Profit Falls, Revenue Rises
Forbes - Of the 4.4 million single-family homes passed by FiOS, Verizon is able to market to about three-quarters. “It would be very helpful to have the kind of rules the FCC is looking at,” Strigl said. Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved

Bhutan declares war on littering
BBC South-Asia - Planning experts say that if the law is successfully implemented, Thimphu could become one of the cleanest areas in South Asia. No dumping The Thimphu Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules and Regulations 2007 were passed last week. Burning waste

United rules out Bosnich
News.com.au - ADELAIDE United had a perfect opportunity to resurrect Mark Bosnich’s career with No. 1 keeper Daniel Beltrame destined to be placed on the club’s long-term injury list today. Beltrame might have torn an upper quad muscle during Sunday’s 4-1 win over

Pa.’s 6-month lobbying tab $37M
CNBC - One national watchdog group described the five-year lapse in reporting requirements as “open season for lobbyists” in the state, although the Senate and the governor’s office had established separate, interim disclosure rules for lobbyists seeking to

Egypt Announces Nuclear Plant Projects
Washington Post - State Department said Washington would not object to Egypt’s program as long as it respects the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency. “Countries that are members in good standing of the NPT and enter

‘Saw’ rules Halloween audience
Chicago Sun-Times - LOS ANGELES — The killer of the ”Saw” franchise may be dead, but his sadistic spirit lives on. ”Saw IV” led the weekend box office with $32.1 million, maintaining the horror franchise’s position as a Halloween perennial, according to studio

Cardboard tube fighters sock it to each other for bragging rights
San Francisco Gate - Rules included no stabbing, no hitting in the face and no blocking with anything other than cardboard. “People take life too seriously,” said Easley’s friend Julian Cash, who helped organize the event to remedy that problem. “If you’re not having fun

Heading Back to College
US News and World Report - The growth is remarkable in light of school bureaucracies and government financial aid rules that often effectively discriminate against older students, especially those who work. But as the demographic tide of older students begins to rise, a

TFN economic and business calendar to Monday Nov 12
CNBC - rates -Ceska Sporitelna 9-mth results -Pulawy Q1 results, press conferecne -PGE press conference EUROPEAN UNION/EURO AREA -ECB main refi result (1015 GMT) -Telecoms regulation and competition law conference -EU rules

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Title-fight vet Holyfield expecting business as usual
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Chris Byrd, James Toney and Larry Donald between 2002 and 2004 — losses he claimed were the result of lingering injuries to arrange bouts with other reigning champions Samuel Peter (WBC interim), Chagaev (WBA) and Wladimir Klitschko (IBF

Ring history: Events that shaped Madison Square Garden’s ring
ESPN.com - Duran fought on, adding a middleweight belt in 1989, before finally retiring in 2001 following injuries sustained in a car In March 1999, WBC champion Lewis and WBA/IBF champion Holyfield met to restore unity to the division. In front of a crowd

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Country doctors at odds with parties
The Australian - RURAL doctors have criticised the major parties for delivering “piecemeal” responses to the crisis in rural and regional health, saying at least 13,000 extra staff were needed to address crippling shortages in the bush. Rural Doctors Association of

U.S. 2-Year Yield Is Near Lowest Since 2005 Before Fed Meeting
Bloomberg - Fed funds futures on the Chicago Board of Trade imply a 92 percent chance policy makers will reduce borrowing costs by a quarter-percentage point to 4.5 percent at an Oct. 31 meeting and 8 percent odds of a cut to 4.25 percent. Ried

Dollar Falls to Record Low Versus Euro on Bets Fed to Cut Rate
Bloomberg - Futures show 8 percent odds of a half-point reduction on Oct. 31. The European Central Bank will keep its key rate at 4 percent at a Nov. 8 meeting, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey. The Reserve Bank of

Turnesa jumps to 13th on Nationwide money list with win
ESPN.com - MIAMI — Marc Turnesa won the Miccosukee Championship for his first Nationwide Tour title, closing with a 1-under 70 on The odds of making 16 holes-in-one in six months are unbelievable. But is it too good to be true? Maybe.

Removing a governor
Chicago Tribune - The odds are not great that a process for removing inept governors can be initiated in time to remove this inept governor. But that effort, which must begin in the Illinois General Assembly, would be worth the burden it creates, possibly including

Flaherty ignores pleas to control black-market cigarettes
Globe and Mail - The memo, as well as numerous other documents from Finance, Health Canada, Public Safety and the RCMP, paint a picture of a major public policy dilemma and a federal government at odds internally over how to tackle the problem. Mr. Flaherty’s

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CBS $29.70 +0.34 (+1.16%) [4:02 PM]
Motley Fool - XM will have “its Oprah moment” in a few months, but that’s a wildcard, since Oprah’s emphasis will remain with her syndicated television show. What would it take for XM to avoid another heartbreak? Will next month’s earnings report bring that 8.5

Did Doug Mientkiewicz get Joe Torre fired?
Baseball - Those 10 tertiary starters went 19-19, but had a 5.75 ERA overall, with 0 CG and 0 shutouts…frankly, when you consider Mussina got another 1/6 of the starts, I’m surprised they even won the Wildcard. Terry McLoughlin says: October 19th, 2007

Opinion: Rockies know secret to their success
MSNBC - But a funny thing has happened to the Rockies along the way from erasing a 5-game deficit in the wildcard race on Sept. 17th: They stopped surprising themselves awhile ago. The start of this run prompted elation that only unexpected successes can bring

Roxy & Billabong make Van’s Triple Crown women’s leg
Global Surf News - The Roxy Pro will also feature a trials heat of Hawaii’s youngest pro surfing talent, with the top-performing trialist to earn a wildcard into the main event to compete against the world’s best. With the world title on the line, wildcards frequently

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Lions looking for recognition, respect
MLive.com - ALLEN PARK — Aretha Franklin sang about it and Rodney Dangerfield complained about it. The Detroit Lions, however ESSENTIALS • Full Schedule • Lions Roster • Latest Injuries • Team Statistics • Standings • NFL Scoreboard • League leaders

Panthers have chance to make statement
Winston-Salem Journal - overall record or if they are ready to take control of the NFC South and prove that they can compete against the NFL’s The Panthers are 4-2 and atop the NFC South standings. They should be bolstered by two straight road wins and rested after being

An A-plus for BC, so far
FOXSports.com - had been O’Brien’s offensive coordinator in 1997 and 1998, generating over 400 yards a game and coaching future NFL More importantly, they are ranked No. 2 in the BCS standings behind Ohio State and have a shot to play for the ACC and the BCS

NFL week 8 picks
News Sun - NFL week 8 picks It’s just a way to tell his players that no matter what the oddsmakers say and no matter what the standings say, his team can

Week 8 NFL picks
Detroit News - The Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Rams are looking at the other side of perfection — perfectly bad. At the top of the NFL standings, the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts are chasing perfect records. Both are unbeaten going into Sunday’s

NFL Standings
MLive.com - Indianapolis at Carolina, 1 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 4:05 p.m. Houston at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m. New Orleans at San Francisco, 4:15 p.m. Washington at New England, 4:15 p.m. Open: Kansas City, Seattle, Arizona

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Poker in W.Va.: Slowly but surely, PG’s ace turns $100 into $27
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Poker manager Peter Lau raises his hand and calls for players on opening day of the Poker Room at Wheeling Island Racetrack and Gaming Center in West Virginia yesterday. WHEELING, W.Va. — Adam, piling up chips at my right elbow, explained that the

‘Superbug’ infection scary for woman, family
Everett Herald - Lindsay said it could have come from playing in a public poker game. That’s one possible explanation, Schroedl said. Everyone touches the same cards and chips. Being on the front line, the physician said he sees people almost every day who picked up

Jeff Simpson notes that the past two winners of the World Series of
Las Vegas Sun - Jeff Simpson notes that the past two winners of the World Series of Poker’s main event haven’t been great for the game A few During one particularly tense hand, after all the chips had been pushed into the middle but a couple of cards had yet to be

Steamboat Recreational Texas Hold ‘Em
Steamboat Pilot & Today - Description: Play Texas Hold ‘Em poker at 7 p.m. Mondays at the Snow Bowl. Free and open to the public. Players must be 18 and older. First- and second-place prizes awarded. Poker tables and chips provided. Sign up in person at the Snow Bowl

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Lightweight Debate: The Best vs. The Champ
Boxing Scene - The magazine, along with the WBC, whose title was also on the line, both made the determination that the belt was only on Barring injuries (which considering the latest stretch of postponements is asking a lot), Casamayor will end a 13-month hiatus

Former Wildcat Walton suffers hamstring injury at Lakers’ training
Arizona Daily Star - HONOLULU — Former Wildcat Luke Walton and Derek Fisher sustained minor injuries Friday during Los Angeles Lakers’ training camp McCline (38-7-3, 23 KOs) and Peter (28-1, 22 KOs) will be fighting for the WBC interim heavyweight title.

Sports briefs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Maskaev (34-5, 26 KOs) won the WBC heavyweight title by knocking out Hasim Rahman in August 2006, but Maskaev hasn’t been back in the ring since December because of injuries and slow negotiations for new fights. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson

After nine months, Samuel Peter gets WBC title shot
Sports Illustrated - But two weeks later Peter’s management team was told that Vitali Klitschko , a former WBC champion who was forced to retire due to injuries in 2004, was being granted “champion emeritus” status, which was just a fancy way of saying that the

Buck & New Dawg: Is T.O. a tantrum waiting to happen?
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Each Monday, the Star-Telegram’s Ray Buck and NBC 5’s Newy Scruggs go at it in a point-counterpoint on sporting issues. E-mail Ray Buck at rbuck@star-telegram.com . Newy can be reached at his Web site, www.newdawg.com . Will Terrell Owens go through

SPORTS WIRE
Columbus Dispatch - Peter overcomes knockdowns in winning WBC title Samuel Peter won the World Boxing Council title by outpointing Jameel Aires, Argentina, after arriving on a flight from Italy, taken before a judge and told he faced a civil case involving injuries

It’s a shabby way to open at Fenway
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - 147 of the 704 position players who were starters for NFL Week 1 had missed starts through Week 6, mostly due to injuries It was the two-time WBC heavyweight champion’s second straight quick KO win since he disappointed his fans by being way

European Boxing News: Carrera-Castillejo, Kessler, Aramian, Petranyi
East Side Boxing - WBA and WBC supermiddle boxing champ Mikkel Kessler is now sparring with Brit Darren Barker in Copenhagen. Neither Barker champ, was Larsen´s manager when the Dane attempted to fight professionally - a career that was cut short due to injuries.

Mikkel Kessler takes private road to Joe Calzaghe
Times Online - Kessler, though, is no ordinary challenger but the holder of the WBC and WBA titles. This is being billed as the biggest I had a lot of injuries and the heat is a lot better,” he said. “I had two operations here and here [pointing to the

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