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During the big Michigan Week jump, Ohio State University's Mirror Lake and a baby pool have a lot in common. The jump, which will take place tonight, is one of many student traditions. But Ohio State also is a research university, so it was inevitable that someone would apply a little science to this ritual. Last year, students in the College of Earth Sciences tested the water in Mirror Lake before, during and after thousands plunged in to psych themselves up for The Game. "Interesting results from last year's study include a lake-wide temperature increase of approximately 3 degrees Fahrenheit...

It's always an interesting experience as a Christian critic to attend a film preview in Los Angeles, especially when the film is as enriching and pro-Christian as The Blind Side, which relates the true story of Baltimore Ravens rookie Michael Oher. As a poor teenager living in one of the most dangerous projects of Memphis, Oher's life changes the day Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) sees him walking on the side of the road at night in the dead of winter in nothing but shorts and a T-shirt. Taking the Good Samaritan example to heart, Bible-believing Leigh Anne brings Michael...

Did anybody else catch the NFL Promo for this weekends games during survivor last night? They showed Brett Favre in his Jets uniform, and the voice over said watch the undefeated jets play the titans this weekend!

ATHENS -- To the Bulldog Nation, the Uga mascot is royalty, the lineage anointed to represent the University of Georgia. But to the Seiler family, the English bulldogs are family pets. That is sadly evident at times such as these. In only his second season as Georgia's mascot, Uga VII has passed away. Uga VII passed away suddenly Thursday morning at his home in Savannah. At 4 years old, he was practically a pup and had served as Georgia's mascot for not even two full football seasons when he unexpectedly succumbed to heart problems.

If it's true that Kansas football coach Mark Mangino, upon seeing a receiver named Raymond Brown drop a pass, launched into a hideous tirade that concluded with a racially tinged threat -- "If you don't shut up, I'm going to send you back to St. Louis so you can get shot with your homies" -- then the university should dismiss Mangino immediately. If it's true Mangino told receiver Marcus Herford that he'd send him "back to the street corner where you came from,'' then keeping the coach would be a Rock Chalk Crock

MADRID — A New York court Thursday backed the staging of the next America's Cup in the Spanish port of Valencia in February, but doubt still remains over the venue for the duel between defender Alinghi and US challenger Oracle.The Supreme Court of the State of New York reached its decision after experts advised that the event can be "safely managed" at the site in mid-winter, when weather conditions can be unpredictable, according to a copy of the ruling.Both Alinghi and Oracle have stated they are ready to hold their best-of-three multihull showdown in February in Valencia, where the Swiss...

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Stefanie Spielman, 42, wife of OSU great Chris Spielman, has died. She is beloved for her courageous struggle against breast cancer. Stefanie is survived by her husband, Chris, and four children. A fund named for her -- Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research -- has raised more than $6.5 million for breast cancer research, according to the Spielman Fund Web site.

Sporting News fans love to argue over their favorite football announcers. Reporters and editors from Sporting News and SportsBusiness Journal/SportsBusiness Daily do too, and have come together to produce their list of the Top 25 Football Broadcasters. Gary Danielson named top football broadcaster.CBS college football analyst Gary Danielson leads the list, followed by Cris Collinsworth and Al Michaels of NBC's "Sunday Night Football." All active television play-by-play broadcasters and analysts in pro and college football were considered for the list.

Knocking back a little Tequila could cost an NFL player plenty. Reality show star Tila Tequila filed a lawsuit today against ex-boyfriend Shawne Merriman, the hulking San Diego Chargers linebacker who she claims grabbed her, shook her, knocked her down and choked her during an argument in September, according to TMZ.com. And she seemingly has the bruises to prove it.

SAN FRANCISCO -- For Tim Lincecum, less was indeed more in 2009. The San Francisco Giants right-hander won fewer games but added to his pitching legend. Lincecum repeated as the National League Cy Young Award winner, besting St. Louis right-handers Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright despite getting fewer first-place selections than Wainwright in the vote conducted by the Baseball Writers' Association of America and announced on Thursday.

The Irish Justice Minister today demanded a rematch after a blatant handball by French striker Thierry Henry beat Ireland and put France through to the World Cup Finals. Dermot Ahern lashed out at governing body Fifa after the Republic of Ireland were cruelly beaten by the controversial extra-time goal. Dubbed 'Le Hand', Barcelona star Henry confessed to using his arm to control the ball before squaring for teammate William Gallas to finish. The Irish Justice Minister today demanded a rematch after a blatant handball by French striker Thierry Henry beat Ireland and put France through to the World Cup Finals....

This month is the centennial of what has all but been forgotten — a moment that could have ended football in America but instead forced the sport down a different, better path. Football was so gruesome at the turn of the century that in 1905, no less than President Roosevelt himself demanded that the sport clean itself up, and the notorious flying wedge was banned. However, by ought-nine, as they said back then, it was still a brutal battle royal. In the season's championship match — what may be called the first "game of the century" — The New York...

When you get right down to it, who doesn't love a good trophy? A trophy may end up becoming a thing of the past in most facets of human civilization, but there will always be a home for the physical manifestation of the internet meme "Pwn3d" in the great game of college football. In the professional game, there is really truly only one trophy that people really want and that has Vince Lombardi's name etched on it. But in the college game, there are trophies for nearly every type of game you can think of. Some contests have a bronze...

As news slowly trickles in regarding what is really ailing UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar, fans have been clamoring for more information. Lesnar, as many people in his situation might do, has decided not to publicly disclose his medial issues. Even Dana White had been relatively tight-lipped (for Dana White standards, at least) as to the real extent of what Lesnar is dealing with. While Lesnar battles his own health issues privately, the UFC is publicly dealing with a whole slew of them surrounding several of their top fighters. Most troubling for the UFC is that some of these fighters...

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The answer to the question of whose curveball breaks harder — that of the Yankees' A.J. Burnett or the Phillies' Cole Hamels — may be neither. Zhong-Lin Lu, professor of cognitive neuroscience at USC, along with colleagues from USC and American University, developed a simple visual demo that suggests a curveball's break is, at least in part, a trick of the eye. Their demo won the Best Visual Illusion of the Year prize at the Vision Sciences meeting earlier this year. Try it here:The break of the curveball 2009 First prize A related press release is here. The curveball's effect...

While the debate continues over whether Caster Semenya, the 18-year-old South African track sensation who blew away the field and took the gold in the women's 800-meter in Berlin in August, is a man or a woman, we soon must confront an even more complex issue: Are elite athlete humans or androids? International Association of Athletics Federations will decide Semenya's fate later this week as it announces the result of her gender test. Semenya will no longer be able to compete as a female if the association rules that a hormonal imbalance resulting from alleged intersexuality offers her an unfair...

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They're not a member of any conference and you’ll never be able to follow their standout players to the NFL. Nothing about the Navy football team screams “pay attention to me.”

Here is video from last night following the Indianapolis Colts stunning comeback win over the New England Patriots in Indianapolis. Patriots Coach Bill Belichick is seen walking off the field shadowed by who USA Today calls his "bodyguard." If you watch carefully, you will see the man appear to grab a cameraman trying to get a shot of Belichick as he walked off the field and pull him to the ground. Belichick was stunned at the loss after making the inexplicable decision to go for a 4th and 2 at his own 28 yard-line even though the Patriots led 34-28...

Nostradamus Quatrains Of The Centuries Century IX Quatrain IX Four dawns past the inverted name of the beast shall arise a four eyed heir to the throne, name unpronounced, in favor of the god, the child. Twin brothers in celestial dispute, Mars at its zenith, shall defend the stronghold. The great son of apostle Peter lie in tandem with the 22nd man of the serpent, reign upon the battlefields as the Taylor waits patiently for his cloth. The Bear, Lion, Eagle, shall no longer be welcome, victory blood green to purple, the spoils of war earned. Amazing that it has...

After years in spotlight, Michelle Wie wins first pro tournament Breakthrough comes at LPGA's Lorena Ochoa Invitational in MexicoBy Alan Shipnuck, Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated Published: November 15, 2009 The Michelle Wie era has, at long last, begun. After years of injury and controversy, too much hype and money and not enough birdies, Wie won her first pro tournament Sunday afternoon at the LPGA's Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico. Typical of Wie's highly melodramatic career, the win didn't come easily, as she survived a final round dogfight with a half-dozen of the game's biggest names, ultimately making five straight...

Top 10: 1: Florida 2: 'Bama 3: Texas 4: TCU 5: Cincinnati 6: Boise State 7: Georgia Tech 8: LSU 9: Pitt 10: THE Ohio State University

Live thread oppurtunity. Trapped in work, listening to the game on radio in my work vehicle. Any takers......Go Pats

You have to find groups to support your objectives. Want to quit smoking, spend time with nonsmokers and those wanting to achieve your objectives. Same with making money, you want to make money be around success oriented people. So I need some help. I have Googled myself silly to help my son. My son starts HS freshman football next year in Orange County, California. He wants to play football. Today he is 13 years old, 6'1" and 205 pounds. For the past 8 months he could never make weight for youth football (pop-warner, Jr. All American, etc.) so he attended...

Josh Cribbs walks with late coach's son on his senior night In a dismal year for the Cleveland Browns, wide receiver/returner Josh Cribbs has proved to be one of the only bright spots. Last month he showed he's equally good off the field. The Pro Bowler traveled to Berea, OH to walk onto the field on senior night with the son of one of his former college coaches. Michael Drake, a senior receiver at Stow High School, lost his father, Mike, in 2005 to lymphoma. He had assumed he'd be accompanied by his mother and sister for senior night introductions...

After a slow start, Pacquiao dominates to win his seventh title. Lightning kept striking in sharp, penetrating bursts Saturday night in the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Most of it was hitting Miguel Cotto's face. Finally, 55 seconds into the final round of the 12-round welterweight boxing match, referee Kenny Bayless stepped in and stopped the thunder and lightning and huge headaches being administered by the incredible fighting machine, Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao had won with yet another epic performance. The pride of the Philippines has now become the pride of all boxing. The Puerto Rican Cotto, one tough customer, was reduced...

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BRAVO STANFORD, you guys laid waste to the Trojans today, WELL DONE!

You stand atop an elevated tee box on the first and only hole of the world's most dangerous golf course. And you consider your chances. This deadly little par 3 measures 192 yards but plays more like 250 in the face of the vicious winds that often blow out of North Korea across an exclusive piece of real estate called the DMZ just a few yards away. Underneath your feet and off to the right are bunkers. The military kind. To the left, over an 18-foot-high security fence topped by concertina wire, are hazards that make high rough, deep water...

REUTERS - Three players from Algeria’s national football team were slightly hurt on Thursday when youths stoned their bus as they arrived in Cairo for a World Cup qualifier against Egypt, Algerian state radio reported. Algeria’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement expressing its “consternation” at the attack, which came two days before the match to decide which of the two teams will take part in the World Cup finals in South Africa next year. A reporter for Algerian state radio said that about 200 young people appeared just as the bus arrived at the team hotel and launched a hail...

Each Sunday, Peyton Alsobrook, a 19-year-old freshman at Auburn University, gets together with his Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brothers to compare notes on the women they take on dates to Saturday football games. Those who seem bored are eliminated from further consideration, he says, along with any who might talk too much during a close game "because they're from up North or something." As the all-important Alabama game approaches, Mr. Alsobrook says he's narrowed his list of potential dates to four. The winner, he says, will get a coveted ticket to the big game and, beyond that, special treatment that...

As a longtime Patriots season-ticket holder, Chris Diehl expected his afternoon to be highlighted by the events that took place between the lines last Sunday. But before the first quarter had even begun in Foxborough's Gillette Stadium, his day already was made. It had nothing to do with his beloved team, either. Only his beloved country. ``As the National Anthem came to a close, I told my son to watch to see which of the Patriot players approached the veterans being honored to thank them for their service,'' Diehl wrote in an e-mail. To Diehl's disappointment, the Veterans Day ceremony...

Doug Barron, the first player to be suspended under the PGA Tour’s performance-enhancing drug policy on Nov. 2, has challenged his suspension and filed an immediate temporary restraining order that would allow him to play the second stage of Q-School next week and provide a possible legal avenue for him to play the Tour in 2010. According to the complaint filed on Thursday in Shelby County Court in Memphis the prohibited substances Barron tested positive for under the circuit’s anti-doping policy, “were medications prescribed to him by his medical doctors for legitimate medical reasons.”

Chicago 10 at San Francisco 18 8:20 PM Sissy Boys Blow Windy City SUN, NOV 15 TIME (ET) New Orleans 25 at St. Louis 13 1:00 PM Saints pray over dead Rams Lock Of Week Tampa Bay 16 at Miami 23 1:00 PM Dolphins jump over Buccaneers Detroit 16 at Minnesota 22 1:00 PM Vikings drive over Car City

Call it a Hail Mary pass that sailed out of bounds. The National Football League, represented by Covington & Burling and Faegre & Benson, claimed in an appeal to the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals that Minneapolis federal District Court Judge David Doty had shown bias against the league in his appointed role resolving labor disputes between the league and the players. In particular the NFL asserted that the 79-year-old judge abused his authority when he overturned an arbitrator's decision and let quarterback Michael Vick keep a $20 million bonus paid by the Atlanta Falcons. It also pointed to...

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If there was a regret about today's events for the BMW ORACLE Racing team, it came from knowing that a good chunk of the squad was scattered in Valencia, Nice and Anacortes and couldn't be here in San Diego, in person, to see the team reach this incredible milestone with its wing sail. Fortunately, many had a chance to follow along via a local, live webcam that was streaming video of the day's events, taken from the roof of a shoreside hotel. We know many of you were able, in fact, to tune in, which is fantastic. And I can...

Geena Davis Shows Off Her New Mumsy Figure As She Takes Children To The Park By Daily Mail Reporter 12th November 2009 She might be one of America's best-loved actresses, but Geena Davis seems more keen to spend time being a full-time mother to her three children. The Thelma And Louise actress showed off a fuller figure and a huge smile as she played happily in the park with her young children. Being a full-time mum: Geena Davis on the red carpet in 2000, and at a park in Santa Monica, California with her three children yesterday The 53-year-old dressed...

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TMZ has learned Mike Tyson has been arrested at LAX airport for battery after a bloody confrontation with a paparazzo outside the United terminal. We're told Tyson punched the pap in the face and there is blood everywhere. We're told Tyson was at a ticket counter at the United Airlines terminal when the incident occurred. The photographer got punched in the face, hit the ground, got up and began walking, leaving a trail of blood. Someone at the scene tells TMZ ... the photographer got very close to Tyson before the boxer struck him. Our guy on the scene says...

Nile Kinnick may not have reached the average American life expectancy even when he was alive. But one could argue that the life he did live was extraordinary anyway. A very talented athlete as well as a gifted student, Kinnick enrolled at the University of Iowa and would eventually play football. By the time Kinnick was a sophomore, most folks that were associated with Hawkeye football knew they were witnessing a once in a generation kind of student-athlete. (And don't underestimate how good of a student Kinnick was. It's extremely rare to see that sort of thing anymore out of...

Dallas Cowboys NFL Team Column By Russell Easley 2009 NFL Draft Coverage 10 November 2009 Plenty of Credit To Go Around For those of you who haven’t heard, the Cowboys defeated the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday night to take sole possession of first place in the hotly contested NFC East. The game featured plenty of penalties and challenged plays, but what it really showed was the progress this team has made since the beginning of the season. So who gets the credit for the continued improvement of this team? Well, there’s plenty to go around. Credit QB Tony Romo for his...

Darvin Moon was seven outs from the World Series of Poker main event Championship, but it wasn’t meant to be for the 46-year-old everyman from Maryland. Instead, the title belongs to 21-year-old online professional Joseph Cada, who eclipsed Peter Eastgate’s record for youngest main-event winner in poker history. The win was anything but easy for the Michigan native, who at times seemed resigned to his fate of finishing runner-up to the more inexperienced Moon. But experience ultimately prevailed, and it was Cada’s calm under pressure that allowed him to keep a level head and, eventually, take it down. Ironically, while...

With every team either already at the midway point of the season or arriving there this weekend, here are your leaders for some individual awards, both real and manufactured: Most valuable player — Brett Favre, Minnesota. At some point he probably will throw an inexplicable interception that will cost the Vikings dearly, but his play has far exceeded expectations. His 32-yard touchdown pass to Greg Lewis that beat the 49ers probably will stand as the play of the year. Offensive player of the year — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis.

NEW YORK (CBS) ― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and the basketball great said his prognosis is encouraging. The NBA's all-time leading scorer was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia, he told The Associated Press on Monday. The 62-year-old Abdul-Jabbar said his doctor didn't give any guarantees, but informed him: "You have a very good chance to live your life out and not have to make any drastic changes to your lifestyle." Abdul-Jabbar is taking an oral medication for the disease. He is a paid spokesman for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, which...

Zenyatta and the 2009 Breeders Cup Classic “Zenyatta is over rated”, “Zenyatta never beat a quality horse”, “Zenyatta doesn't have the speed to win”, “Zenyatta peaked last year” and “Zenyatta is all hype”. Perhaps most insulting of all “Zenyatta is racing in the Classic so her lose there will not be as damning as her certain lost to Careless Jewel or Music Note in the Lady's Classic”. It is a good thing horses don't read news papers or blogs. Perhaps she did and that's the reason she did not want to go into the gate at the Breeders Cup Classic....

NFC 1 New Orleans 8 0 0 1.000 2 Minnesota 7 1 0 0.875 3 Dallas 6 2 0 0.750 4 Arizona 5 3 0 0.625 5 Philadelphia 5 3 0 0.625 6 Atlanta 5 3 0 0.625 7 N.Y. Giants 5 4 0 0.556 8 Green Bay 4 4 0 0.500 9 Chicago 4 4 0 0.500 10 Carolina 3 5 0 0.375 11 San Francisco 3 5 0 0.375 12 Seattle 3 5 0 0.375 13 Washington 2 6 0 0.250 14 Tampa Bay 1 7 0 0.125 15 St. Louis 1 7 0 0.125 16 Detroit 1...

NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has a rare form of leukemia, but the Lakers legend says his long-term prognosis is very good. Abdul-Jabbar, 62, revealed during an interview Monday that he has Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that produces cancerous blood cells.