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Public Service Co. of Oklahoma plans to spend $350 million for environmental compliance
Public Service Co. of Oklahoma plans to spend up to $350 million to put in place the terms of a settlement for environmental regulations that will remove coal from its Oklahoma generating fleet by 2026, the electric utility said Wednesday.
PSO, a unit of Ohio-based American Electric Power that has more than 530,000 customers in eastern and southwestern Oklahoma, filed an environmental compliance plan with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The plan deals with federal regulations on emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury and other air toxins.
If implemented, the plan could raise customer rates by 11 percent starting in 2016, PSO representatives said.
The plan came out of a pending settlement PSO has with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sierra Club, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality and Oklahoma Environment Secretary Gary Sherrer. The settlement dealing with the utility's implementation of EPA's regional haze rules was announced in April.
PSO plans to retire one of its coal units at its Northeastern station power plan near Oologah by 2016. It will install emissions-control equipment on another Northeastern coal unit and continue operating it until 2026.
To make up for the retirement of a coal-fired unit in 2016, PSO said it plans to buy natural gas generation from Calpine Corp. under a 15-year power purchase agreement. PSO will buy 260 megawatts of electricity from Calpine's Oneta Energy Center near Coweta from 2016 to 2031, the companies said Wednesday.
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PSO looked at several different options to deal with environmental regulations affecting utilities. It could have retired both Northeastern coal units at the same time or installed a combination of emissions controls to keep the coal units in service for a longer period.
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Google seems to be on a marketing push. I received the above offer in my email last night for my main site. This morning I received a flier in the mail from my test Adwords account inviting me to join Adsense.
I'll give the the two months, but I'm not holding my breath.
Google put themselves in the middle between advertisers and publishers, but to thrive there, they had to strike a balance between ad buyers and sellers. Market makers of any type have to strike a balance. This is true for investment banks dealing in bonds, and for organizations that sell ads. If there are too many buyers or sellers, you have to adjust the price.
The problem with AdSense was that at the beginning it was too slanted in favor of the publishers. The system was set up so advertisers were in the content network unless they explicitly opted out and the bid prices were the same bids for the search network. These prices were too high given the lower conversion rates from content site traffic and there was all that fraud. Advertisers soon learned that ads on the content network were substantially less desirable than search network.
Go back and read the WebmasterWorld AdSense forum posts from the first few months of AdSense operation. People were amazed at how much money they were making. They couldn�t believe it. They were overjoyed. This is a sign of how far Google miscalculated in slanting toward the publishers.
Every month, they complain more and more about how AdSense isn�t as good as it used to be, how their checks are declining, how Google is screwing them. Google isn�t screwing them, of course, just flushing out the system partly in response to unenthusiastic advertisers.
Now go read the AdWords forum posts from the past 8 months or so. Advertisers keep advising each other to opt out of content match. Every week or so, someone starts a thread saying �Hey, I�m new to AdWords. Got any tips for me?� And the rest of us tell the newbie �opt out of the content network, at least until you have some experience with search ads.� And every couple weeks someone starts a thread complaining about low conversion rates, and we advise him or her to turn off the content network.
Only a very small percentage of AdWords advertisers participate at Webmasterworld, but it�s likely that this is indicative of the wider feeling throughout the Internet community.
So it seems that over the past few months Google has been trying to win back the hearts of advertisers to its content network.
So we had �smart pricing�, a euphemism for lower costs for AdSense ads than search ads. Now we have a rebate.
The best thing they could do to increase advertiser confidence it to make the system more transparent, so that everyone know who�s getting paid what. I don�t think they will do that, though.
I do think there�s a chance they will segment their publishers into quality sites and other sites, and allow advertisers to opt into the quality sites only. But it might be a year before that happens.
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I could understand smart pricing variances of like 3 to 4 tmies but the differences I see sometimes makes it so hard to set expectation in earnings and such. Google needs to become mroe transparant on how the work, it can't remain a secret forever or somethnig better will eventually come along.
This would be the number one thing Google could do, I think, to help restore much of the lost confidence in the whole AdSense system.
If G made it easy to manage bids between content and search, more people would opt into content matching.
G makes it easy for AdSense publishers to block certain ads from showing on their sites, so it presumebly would not be that hard to allow advertisers (the ones actually spending the money) to be able to list sites they don't want their ads to appear on.
In the early days, the popular opinion was that G didn't want you to really know where you ad was showing as they didn't want publishers to bypass G and make deals directly with the publishers. For the majority of advertisers, it's too much of a hassle to make hundreds or thousands of deals like that, it's just too much work - that's really not an issue.
Now that AdSense has grown pass (IMO) everyone's expectations, reining in the entire program and allowing publishers control would help legitimize the system in many people's eyes.
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Also, anyone have a url where I can find the announcement/information on the google site?
Speaking of the control issue, I would like to be able to opt individual ads into the content network, rather than an entire campaign. Some ads are handled well, and cost less, but many others are just a lost cause, and I don't like having to then opt out the entire campaign.
1) I hate "smart pricing." It is a black box - I have no idea how it works. Their explanation is horrible. They need a seperate bidding market for content ads - not fun and games.
2) I found the offer misleading. I consider a rebate cash in my pocket. They are only offering a credit that has certain restrictions like it has to be used in a certain timeframe.
3) I still find it objectionable that as I understand it Google considers parked domains as content sites.
4) The BIG problem, though, is the credit is not enough. It amounts to a 10-25% credit, but if there was a seperate bidding market for content ads, I would bid 40% less than for search ads.
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4) The BIG problem, though, is the credit is not enough. It amounts to a 10-25% credit, but if there was a seperate bidding market for content ads, I would bid 40% less than for search ads.
I understand, but is there a reason why you can't set up separate campaigns, one for search and one for content, and simply make different bids?
When I follow the traffic patterns of people clicking in from content ads, they are non-sensical and/or very short. My ads aren't misleading, but if they aren't showing up within the right context, it's hard to say exactly what the user was thinking they were going to see. There are simply so many sites designed around showing AdSense. They have no meaningful content and the visitors are clicking on anything to escape them. It is exactly what the site designers want, of course. When AdSense dies, they'll just move on to another parasitic, slimy way to make buck.
I understand, but is there a reason why you can't set up separate campaigns, one for search and one for content, and simply make different bids?
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I'm sticking for AdSense for now.
Yet, I estimate there are over 500 AdSense sites dedicated to mesothelioma. I guess that over 95% of the clicks from these sites are fraudulent or mistaken clicks.
Google is crazy if they think offering a refund or �smart pricing� is going to make me run ads on those sites.
And my experience in the mesothelioma market has colored my tendencies elsewhere. I don�t run ads on AdSense for any of my clients. Stay away from high crime areas and you�re less likely to have your pocket picked.
I disagree with your reasoning. I think expensive terms are the ones where running content ads make the most sense, albeit with different bids.
Let's say they are only 1/20th as good, as you state. Let's also say that the regular search carries a bid of $20 per click.
Given the above, if you can get clicks off of the content network for less than $1 a click, it would be just as profitable for them as for the search ads.
My experience as an advertiser is far better than 1/20th, but I'm not in an area like yours that has been publicized highly as an expensive click area. I bid lower when I run on the content network, and for areas where my regular bids are extremely inexpensive at break-even, I often cannot afford content ads.
But I find that the more expensive the search clicks, the more likely the content network will be profitable, assuming appropriate bids.
P.S. AWA--can we get a minimum bid of 2c on content? ;-)
Because of this, there are non-lawyers with no stake or care for mesothelioma other than setting up mesothelioma "Information" sites solely to get the Adsense revenue for these $50 dollar clicks. They could still turn out to be valid leads for the lawyers, but it also could be prone to elaborate click fraud or parasitism.
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I hate "smart pricing." It is a black box - I have no idea how it works. Their explanation is horrible. They need a seperate bidding market for content ads - not fun and games.
totally agree. everyone knows content targetting converts at a much lower rate than search-based traffic. Content targetting is maybe worth .02 / click for me - where seach based traffic is closer to .10
Could it be that much cheaper (I've never seen it actually go below .05)? AWA?
Google telling me "it might be cheaper" doesn't tell me anything. I tried to hunt down more info - but it's almost like they don't want to cough up the info.
I suspect the large majority of content traffic results in a negative ROI. Although, when factored in with the search based traffic in the same campaign - the user still typically has a positive ROI.
I suspect Google knows this - and that's why they don't want to let people bid on content traffic seperately.
Anything they do to let people break out content traffic from search traffic helps to point out how poor quality it is.
Seems like about half of all the really nasty spam-results in google are now sites running adsense.
Something ironic about google sending checks to websites they're presumably trying to ban from the SERPS.
Until I can manually cut out the junk sites and can bid on content separately from search, I'm just not interested in the headaches of:
* Having my brand associated with all sorts of shady sites
* Watching traffic come in and having a high degree of confidence that its mostly junk
* Wondering why the conversion data for content is poor compared to search.
* I don't trust proprietary algorithms that I don't understand and can't see to save me money. That takes out Smart pricing.
Adding free hosts as valid publishers just exacerbates the problem.
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Posted 08 March 2012 - 02:15 PM
The winner's cup from the first Olympic marathon at the Athens 1896 Games is to go on sale at Christie's in London as part of an Olympic memorabilia auction.
The Breal's Silver Cup, presented to Greek Spyridon (Spyros) Louis, is expected to reach between £120,000 and £160,000 on 18 April.
The 15cm cup is being sold off by the runner's grandson alongside Olympic posters and relay torches.
The cup is named after Frenchman Michel Bréal, the man behind the race.
He was inspired to stage the contest by the legend of the messenger Pheidippides, a herald in ancient Greece, who ran 25 miles from a battlefield near Marathon to Athens when the Greeks claimed victory over Persia in 490BC.
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Ten out of 17 competitors finished the first modern Olympic marathon race in April 1896, one having taken a carriage part of the way.
Louis finished in the Panathenaic stadium in under three hours and was presented with the cup, a medal, a vase, an olive branch and a diploma.
Louis won a medal for Greece, and the cup, in the marathon
The Christie's sale will also include eight Olympic relay torches, including one from the first torch relay to Berlin 1936.
Olympic advertising posters from the first London Games through to the 1960s will also be on sale.
Spyros Louis (junior) said: "Our family has been very proud to have the honour of looking after this important historical sporting trophy for the last 116 years and my grandfather's achievement of winning the first ever marathon, at the first modern Olympic Games, will remain part of my family's heritage forever.
"It is time to look to the future - I have two children, and the most important thing for me is to ensure that they are looked after as well as possible."
The 179 lots in the whole sale are expected to fetch more than £700,000, Christie's said.
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The cup is named after Frenchman Michel Bréal, the man behind the race.
Breal also supposedly designed the cup.
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The winner's cup from the first Olympic marathon at the Athens 1896 Games has been sold for almost £550,000 as part of an Olympic memorabilia auction.
The Breal's Silver Cup, presented to Greek Spyridon (Spyros) Louis, went on sale at Christie's in London.
The 15cm cup was expected to fetch up to £160,000 when it was sold off by the runner's grandson - but it was bought by an anonymous bidder for £541,250.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 01:15 AM
Olympic 1896 marathon winner's cup sold for nearly £550,000
it was bought by an anonymous bidder for £541,250.
read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17758160
No, The buyer is known. It is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (which generally does charity work) but per the report, raised enough extra money so that the Cup could stay in Greece. I wonder what happened to those other ancient Olympic artifacts stolen in February.
Posted 28 August 2012 - 01:02 PM
The silver cup awarded to the Greek winner of marathon in the first modern Olympic Games was put on display for first time on Tuesday at the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
"Greece today runs a new marathon, ... We will win it," Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said as he inaugurate the exhibition that is aimed to inspire Greeks to win the current marathon of the debt crisis.
Spyros Louis, a poor water carrier from Athens, had won the tough race from Marathon to Athens in 1896, following in the steps of Pheidippides, the soldier who first ran the course from the battle field to the city to inform Athenians of Greeks' victory over the Persian invaders about 2,500 years ago. According to legends, Pheidippides died once he had fulfilled his mission.
Louis lived to become a national hero and left the trophy to his family who was forced to sell it this year due to the acute financial crisis that has hit the economy and the average Greek household since late 2009.
Greek Stavros Niarchos Foundation bought the cup at a Christie's auction in London for over half a million pounds (about 791,000 U.S. dollars), and pledged to put it on display for the public until the construction of a new arts centre in Athens completes in three years.
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Was sent Special fried rice for delivery. Opened it to find absolute miniscule amount of meat in the dish. Basically I just paid nearly £6 for rice!!!!!!!! Phoned them up and was told in a condescending way thats "thats how special fried rice is done" Like i was some idiot who has never had the dish before. Cutting corners on quality and ingredients but still charging premium prices stinks to high hell. They were not helpful one little bit, did nothing to try and solve the problem. I was just fed a "like it or lump it" attitutde. Definitely will NOT be spending my hard earned cash at this rip off merchant again. I advise anyone thinking of ordering from here to double check your orders before you leave the shop to make sure you havent been fleeced like I was. Chrisjay
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State Board of Education President Debe Terhar apologized today for posting a wrongly attributed quote from Adolph Hitler related to gun control on her personal Facebook page.
But the state board voted 10-6 against removing her from her position as president.
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Democrats demanded Terhar's resignation, but they didn't get that at today's Board of Education meeting. However, they did get her most public apology yet.
As a few dozen of her critics looked on, Terhar told the board, "I sincerely apologize for and truly regret my hasty action"
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While some board members called for Terhar to resign from the board or from her post as president, Terhar told colleagues she never considered doing so.
The Ohio Department of Education initially denied a public records request from the Ohio Democratic Party seeking text messages Terhar sent regarding the matter, saying the messages did not exist.
After the party pointed out a text message from Terhar related to the post had been published in the Cincinnati Enquirer and filed a lawsuit over the record, the department found and released that text message and other records.
Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Jerid Kurtz said the party is in the process of determining whether it believes additional text messages exist.
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Hampton then helped bring the play to the big screen in a 1988 film directed by Stephen Frears, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer, as well as Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman, both relative unknowns at the time.
So Hampton knows this story of aristocratic intrigues, seduction and cruelty well, which may be why he's heading up an adaptation of the material for television. Deadline reports that BBC has a drama series based on the novel in development, written by Hampton and produced by Tony Krantz and Colin Callender. The project will be taken out to U.S. networks -- as was the current co-production on which Callender and Krantz worked, "Dracula."
This new "Dangerous Liaisons" will find Hampton going back to the original source material rather than looking toward his own previous adaptations, while also pulling from other novels from the same time period and literary movement.
"Dangerous Liaisons" has been brought to the screen and stage several times since the 1988 film. John Malkovich directed a production of the play in Paris last year, while a 2003 French miniseries brought the story to the 1960s, with Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski and Nastassja Kinski in the main roles. On film, there was Miloš Forman's 1989 "Valmont," with Annette Bening, Colin Firth and Meg Tilly, as well as versions set in 18th century Korea and 1930s China. And of course, there's also "Cruel Intentions," which shifted the story to teenage upper class New York, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Selma Blair and Reese Witherspoon as the leads.


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"This one is very special because it's about the people who protect us," Vallone told the students, who had gathered Friday for the school's annual Veterans Day ceremony.
The students seemed to hear the message, which was reinforced by Lt. Dennis Kee of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Kee, 36, was the guest speaker. He told students not to take their freedoms for granted.
Kee said he had three points to drive home the meaning of the day to the young students.
"One, what the flag stands for. Two, the fact that it's there because of the people that went before us, both civilian and military. And three, be proud of who you are, specifically an American, no matter your religion, color, creed, what have you. You are an American and just be proud and stand up next to those who wouldn't stand up and encourage them to say the same thing," said Kee, a Georgia native now living in York, Maine.
Fifth-grade student Joseph Furey, 11, said he understood the message behind Veterans Day and hoped the ceremony would help other students also understand.
"I feel bad for the ones who died. These are our troops fighting for our country and serving us," said Furey, student council president.
The day has special meaning for Laura Duguie, 10, who said her father and some of her uncles served in the Army.
"I think the day is really more about the people who are serving and who have served," the fifth-grader said.
The ceremony began with students reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and ended with two Epping High School students playing Taps in the full gymnasium.
Kee hopes just as many people turn out for other observances held on Veterans Day around the state.
"I think sometimes we miss the people that went before us. Sometimes we don't understand the aging population that fought in World War II and the conflicts after it. They're still out there, and they probably have some of the best stories ever, and we need to keep those guys and those ladies in our minds," he said.
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Actually there is a long waiting list for families wanting to adopt a child with Down Syndrome in the USA, so that is why most go to other countries. Plus in these other countries children with special needs such as Down Syndrome are put in orphanages and if not "rescued" (adopted) before they turn 6 or so, they are institutionalized. That's not a slight to any of the needs of children here in America, but if you want a child with Down Syndrome (it's something so worth it), you'll most likely need to look outside the US.
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No there are not long lists of children in the US. Here children are placed with extended family and perhaps fostered for a time. There in Russia a one year and three year brother and sister would live in the same baby house but never see each other. Children are actually institutionalized in the room with other kids their age and gender. Most children who are free for adoption in the US are older than 10. There is competition to be chosen by a birth family in the US for infant placement. Even this older child was younger than most adoptable children in the US. People complain others adopt abroad. Why don't the complainers do so? There are parents who adopt teens, but usually they are veteran parents, not childless parents or parents of young children who typical adopt younger children. Adoption isn't commercialism, it's not humanitarian. It is adding children to the family. Doesn't matter where the children are born so long as all governments are in agreement that it is done properly.
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The decline of whitebark pines threatens the Greater Yellowstone Area, as researchers search for solutions.
KARL BUERMEYER STOPS HIS WHITE PICKUP ON THE SIDE OF A dirt road and motions to a few whitebark pine trees rising from a mat of pinkish-purple fireweed. On one of the tree trunks, there's a scar of missing bark. Thick streams of now-solidified sap have spilled over the wound. A non-native fungus brought over from Europe called blister rust made a sugary canker that rodents subsequently gnawed away - hence the missing bark. Everything above the point of infection will eventually die, including the tree's cones. If the tree can't produce cones, it no longer contributes its genes to the landscape and is considered by researchers and forest managers to be ecologically dead.
Back in the pickup, Buermeyer, a vegetation manager for Bridger-Teton National Forest, drives deeper into the heart of the Mount Leidy Highlands, an area just east of Grand Teton National Park in northwest Wyoming. This is wild country. Most of the peaks range between 8,000 and 10,000 feet, and the area is thick with predators such as grizzly bears, mountain lions, Canada lynx and wolves, along with prey species like elk, moose and deer.
As Buermeyer drives, the forest opens, and large patches of fireweed give way to sagebrush, which in turn give way to groves of aspen and finally to forests of lodgepole pine, subalpine fir and spruce. Occasionally, whitebark pine branches - each branch sporting a pair of dark-purple cones at its tip - stretch skyward. But among the healthy conifers, dead trees are readily apparent.
A broad, high-elevation valley appears, and we get our first good look at the scope of the devastation. Beetle-killed pines - called ghost trees because of their gray trunks and branches denuded of needles - stand among the live spruce and fir. An entire west-facing slope of Mt. Leidy is covered with dead whitebark. In the Rocky Mountains from Colorado into Canada blister rust has conspired with native mountain pine beetles against high-elevation forests, leaving massive destruction in their wake.
At risk is an iconic American landscape. The 20-million-acre Greater Yellowstone Area- a region of mostly contiguous habitat in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming - is one of the last ecosystems with a full complement of flora and fauna in the lower 48 states. Whitebark pine sits atop that ecosystem, serving as the anchor for high- alpine and watershed habitats and as food and shelter for species ranging from Clark's nutcracker to the grizzly bear.
As of 2009, about 95 percent of Greater Yellowstone's whitebark pine habitat had experienced some mortality, says Dr. Jesse Logan, a retired entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service. Fifty percent of the ecosystem's whitebark "have been impacted to the point where you lose ecosystem function," Logan says.
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While researchers, environmentalists and land managers have rallied to save the species, the outlook is grim. "The bitter irony is that just as we're learning about how important whitebark pines are, we're losing them," says Louisa Willcox with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "That is a heartbreaking thing to realize."
In the early 1900s, blister rust - which only infects five-needle pines, like whitebark - entered the United States by way of ships that brought the fungus on white pine seedlings from Europe.
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Big 12 football still lags behind in opponents
Big 12 football teams play 48 non-conference games this season. Only 11 are against fellow BCS leagues. That's 22.9 percent, and that stinks. It's the lowest figure among the six major conferences. The Pac-10 plays half its games (15 of 30) against equal-footing foes. The Atlantic Coast Conference plays 41.6 percent, the Big East 40 percent, the Big Ten 31.8 percent and the SEC 29.2. Then here comes the Big 12, again averaging less than one legitimate opponent per school. You can't always measure strength of schedule by an opponent's league. Who is tougher, TCU or Indiana? But for the most part, percentage of BCS-league foes is a solid measuring stick. And the Big 12 stinks. Only Baylor, which goes to Wake Forest and hosts Connecticut, is playing more than one fellow BCS-league member. Texas and Texas Tech are playing none. Some Big 12 teams are playing solid mid-majors. OU is playing Brigham Young and Tulsa. Colorado plays Colorado State. Kansas plays Southern Miss. Missouri goes to Nevada. OSU and Tech both play Houston. At least the Big 12 fares a little better in I-AA opponents. Big 12 teams will play nine games against lower-classification schools, who hand out fewer scholarships (63, typically) than the 85-limit for major-college football. The ACC is playing 14 games against I-AA foes, the SEC 11. The Pac-10, as with all scheduling, fares best, with just four lower-division opponents out of 30 games. To its credit, the Big 12's games against the major conferences are mostly big games. OSU hosts Georgia. OU goes to Miami. Nebraska goes to Virginia Tech. Texas A&M plays Arkansas in Arlington. Missouri plays Illinois in St. Louis. Kansas State goes to UCLA. But the majority of September is slumber time for Big 12 football. Nebraska plays three Sun Belt Conference teams. K-State plays UMass and Tennessee Tech. Iowa State plays North Dakota State, Kent State and Army. Texas' toughest game is, I suppose, at Wyoming. The Big 12 claims to be a great football league. Maybe some day, it will act like it.
→To the Birdman, who has made the most of his second chance in the NBA. Chris Andersen was banished from the league for drug use while with the Hornets in Oklahoma City but now is a high-flying shot blocker for the Nuggets. Let's pray he stays sober. →To the buddy system with Bedlam quarterbacks. All the adults — coaches, fans, administrators — could take a lesson from Zac Robinson and Sam Bradford's goodwill toward each other. Jeers
→To the Memorial Marathon organizers. Women's champion Catherine O'Dell was denied the glory of breaking the tape at the finish line. A runner who had started two hours early originally was hailed as the winner. Shades of 1972, when Frank Shorter entered the Munich stadium thinking he was winning the race only to see an imposter racing ahead. →To the scourge of timeouts in the final seconds of NBA playoff games. The interruptions are insufferable to an otherwise splendid product.
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