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Don't forget Roads Scholars - - if you're gonna make a living studying highways, you oughta pay a little more than the average Joe.

Basically, it was only decided that the injury wasn't received in the course of doing her job. I don't know anything about workers comp law in Australia, but in the US denial of a workers' comp claim would not prevent a separate suit against the hotel (assuming the statute of limitations hasn't expired yet).

I haven't gone back to watch the game again, so you might be right. My impression at the time was that Goodwin could have brought it out, probably wouldn't get very far because he was so deep, but should have tried given the tactical situation.

You know he has the same agent that Jason Peters did, right?

I get that Marrone was being conservative, and there are logical reasons for playing it that way to avoid a possible turnover deep in our own territory. The statistics are helpful, but don't tell the whole story here. At the time we had just gone down by 11 points (21-10), and the Saints were going to get the ball to start the second half. Marrone has gotta figure that with the Saints' fairly high-powered offense, we aren't gonna shut 'em out in the second half. And using those statistics assumes Goodwin's ability to score a TD (or get in or near FG range as Webster Guy noted) is the same as the average NFL returner, and that his likelihood for fumbling is also the same as the average NFL returner. I think that's a faulty assumption. We don't have a big sample size to look at, but didn't Goodwin return a kickoff for a TD in preseason? I haven't looked at his specific numbers, but if he already has a return TD (admittedly in preseason) and has never fumbled kickoff return, why aren't those stats more predictive than NFL-wide averages? Based on his speed, slim body type, and limited game action, I would expect him to have a much greater TD % than the average returner and about the same fumble % (slim body type offset by demonstrated toughness despite injury concerns). I just don't think that down 11 points to a high-powered offense that gets the ball to start the second half you should be that conservative. Per NFL.com Saints kicked the extra point with 30 seconds left in the half - - I don't recall how many timeouts we had left, but I don't think we were out of them (could be wrong). And if Marrone's main concern was fumbling, why did he call a running play to run out the clock instead of taking a kneel-down? I have to wonder if he really thought things through as opposed to "business as usual," despite the exact situation he faced.

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There's a possible explanation for the first challenge nobody has brought up. Even if Marrone thought it was unlikely that he would win the first challenge, it might make sense to challenge that play. With no challenge, he had a hugely important 3rd and goal situation coming up and may have wanted to call time-out anyway to evaluate his options. If that was the case, then the unsuccessful challenge cost him (1) a time-out that he was going to call anyway, and (2) one of his allotment of two unsuccessful challenges. But at that point worst case was he still had one challenge left to use, while best case was that some camera angle might give him the TD on second down. It has also been my impression that even the quickest video replay reviews take longer than a standard time-out, so if you need a time-out anyway, you get more time to consider your options with an unsuccessful challenge than you get if you just call a regular time-out. I found the second challenge less defensible.

http://www.thepostga...ack-controversy Young did that despite signing what at the time was the richest contract in athletic history: http://news.google.c...pg=3494,5017265

Today is the second time this year that I've been mystified about why the Bills did not instruct their kick-off return man to bring the ball out of the end zone just before the half. New Orleans kicked off with less than a minute to go before halftime, and only had one time out left. Ordinarily you may not want the return man to bring it out from near the back of the end zone, but that's because most times he may not reach the 20 before being tackled. But if you already know that all you will do is run out the clock when you start at the 20, why not tell the returner to bring EVERYTHING out. If he gets tackled at even the 5 or 10 yard line, there's no harm done, because you can kneel down to run the clock out from there just like you could at the 20. But with a dynamic returner, you might get a big return that gets you into position for a long FG or even a touchdown. Especially today, when Goodwin was the return man on the play. Even if he has to jump to catch the ball before it sails over the end line, tell him to bring it out! Taking a touchback in that situation just seems dumb.

C'mon Drew, you led almost the entire game - - - it's my turn!

The laser - - if research experiments using them to try to create controlled nuclear fusion ever succeed, you can bet the laser will be on this type of list soon after. http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-24429621

Duck flash mobs? Who knew?

Gateway to the Hardangervidda?

http://news.yahoo.co...-153852876.html You need to look at the picture in the article at the above link that Big Cat reproduced below (thanks!). If you believe that there are so many squid fishermen shining flashlights into the water that they look like this from SPACE, and create more upward shining light than South American CITIES, you'll believe anything. Ask yourself this - - why would a NASA satellite be looking for squid fisherman at night in the first place? Maybe the Baltic Sea underwater aliens are on the move . . .

Billy Crystal agrees with you . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7as0YzOPGo

Maybe the Lakers will retaliate by locking the stall doors closed in the bathrooms during Laker games.

I used to work with a guy who gave the initial impression he was a good family man - - but then I got to know him better.

I hope they don't let you wear Bills-themed clothing at work: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=adjective

Although it was not posted, shirley somebody was thinking - - "Any updates on this asteroid stuff?" http://www.weather.com/video/new-asteroid-threat-39672

Turns out you can: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-17/houston-texans-running-back-arian-foster-is-going-public?campaign_id=yhoo

Either way, thanks for looking. It doesn't affect the NFL one way or the other, but there are or have been foreign owners of major league baseball and NBA teams: http://www.nytimes.c...all/24nets.html (New Jersey Nets) http://mynorthwest.c...chi-passes-away (Seattle Mariners)

Shows how much you know - - - here's the real scoop: https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq#1 Why people think that using a computer go-rhythm to "create" fluent poetry is such a great thing is beyond me - - the computer does all the work. Where's the creativity in that?

Griese owned us then Seventies were lost decade Brady owns us now

I haven't seen that restriction, although the NFL Bylaws document is pretty dense and I've only read parts of it. If such a restriction existed, that's where I would expect to find it. Any link or other source re the "domestic" requirement? Just curious. Hope Ralph has a nice birthday - - he can't have many left at his age.