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11. January 2011 | 10:20

This Doesn’t Seem Like `Nonsensical Crap’ To Me

Jack Shafer takes on politic rhetoric in Slate and inspires a less than temperate response from a DNC spokesman (News Source: The Atlantic - 21:29:49)

Did Sarah Palin’s Target Map Play Role in Giffords Shooting?

In March of 2010, Sarah Palin released a map of 20 Congressional districts she and John McCain had won in 2008 but whose Congressmen had voted in favor of the recently passed health care reform bill. The map, released amid a wave of small-scale violence against Democratic lawmakers, marked each targeted district with a set of crosshairs. Palin, who had promoted the map by tweeting “Don’t Retreat … (News Source: The Atlantic Wire - 15:10:11)

ACC teams weak in RPI ratings

North Carolina’s Roy Williams says he doesn’t lie awake at night thinking one dadgum thing about the league’s RPI. But come March, some coaches may be fretting about it. (News Source: The News & Observer - 05:59:05)

Transparency the best medicine for KU athletic department

News has come out of the Kansas University athletic department ticket scandal like a dripping faucet. You know it’s coming, but it still keeps you awake at night. (News Source: Lawrence Journal-World - 07:25:21)

Love it or hate it, BCS has lifted all of college football

Monday night’s BCS championship game between Auburn and Oregon shows that the BCS system works, in no small part because it’s one that takes the entire season into account. Three words you thought you’d never hear will be shouted across the nation Monday night, wrinkling noses, raising eyebrows, rising from the depths of two college football teams that are in exactly the right place at precisely … (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 04:01:45)

Not easy getting back at it following winter break

I have to believe that one of the toughest parts of coaching a winter high school sports team is getting the squads back into action after the two-week holiday break. Despite the postseason being… read more (News Source: Key West Citizen - 06:08:06)

Mark Goulston, M.D.: Jared Loughner: Understanding the Arizona Shooter from the Inside Out

From listening to many suicidal and rageful/violent people and hearing information similar to what we are beginning to learn about Loughner, I believe that four factors may have contributed to his actions. (News Source: The Huffington Post - 05:34:17)

Shale Oil Drillers Chesapeake, EOG Strike Rising Costs in Flight From Gas

U.S. natural-gas companies are getting hit with the highest costs in four years as they shift more production to oil to escape low gas prices. (News Source: Bloomberg - 05:19:47)

Love it or hate it, BCS has lifted all of college football

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Three words you thought you’d never hear will be shouted across the nation tonight, wrinkling noses, raising eyebrows, rising from the depths of two college football teams that are in exactly the right place at precisely the right time. (News Source: Columbia Daily Tribune - 21:46:12)

Jeff Bagwell poses new problem on an ever-complicated Hall of Fame ballot

Many of you have written in to ask me why I did not have Jeff Bagwell on my Hall of Fame ballot. I wanted yesterday to be about the whole Edgar Martinez question and not to get sidetracked by the Bagwell issue. But you have a right to ask the question since Bagwell, on the surface, appears to have Hall of Fame worthy numbers. One unfortunate byproduct of the Steroids Era in baseball is that … (News Source: Seattle Times - 17:21:47)

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