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Kroichick: Past time for for NFL to fix overtime
This just in to NFL headquarters: Its overtime system doesn't work. Gee, really?
As most sensible fans realized long ago, it's a big problem when a game's most valuable player is the guy who had the foresight to accurately call "heads" or "tails." For the latest example, see: Saints vs. Vikings in January's NFC title game.
|Game On: 'Heavy Rain' first-rate; 'Blue World' a tranquil winner
Profile: Talking with Ron Howard
Ex-lawmaker Mark Foley now running Fla. consignment shop
It's been more than three years since he was forced to resign from the U.S. Congress, but former Rep. Mark Foley is still meeting and greeting people.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Instead of looking for votes, the former Republican lawmaker is now looking for customers.
He's opened a consignment shop and hopes to help renovate a historic part of West Palm Beach at the same time.
|Knapp: McGwire brothers are two of a kind
Walters: Perez begins California speakership already losing
As John A. Perez became speaker of the California Assembly on Monday, the Los Angeles Democrat remarked that his first political campaign, 20-plus years ago, was as a teenager opposing construction of a prison in East Los Angeles.
"To my young mind, it was the last thing I needed," Perez said, "so I got active. I registered voters. I attended rallies and handed out fliers.
|Randall: My daughter's sleepovers: Everyone slept but me
One night, when she was not quite 2, my daughter launched herself over the side of her crib, padded out to her brother's room, climbed into the spare bunk and fell asleep like a "big girl" in a "big girl" bed.
And the next morning, she got on her Fisher-Price phone and began inviting her friends to come to a "sleepover."
|Film: The 'Best Picture' often isn't
Best Picture winners can never be completely forgotten, but name recognition is not the same as love or respect. In the light of film history, most past winners look sad and safe, artistically and politically bland, pedestrian in their approach and bloated in form. A movie like "Driving Miss Daisy," for example, doesn't embody what was excellent about cinema in its year (1989).
|Souhan: 'Smurfs' made Winter Olympics work
Fish, all in good faith
Blacks' film achievements grow
TV: 'The Marriage Ref' will blow the whistle on misguided spouses
NBC finally posted some winning ratings with its Winter Olympics coverage the past two weeks, but after this weekend viewership for the Peacock Network will likely come back down to Earth as Jay Leno returns to hosting "The Tonight Show" and the 10 p.m. EST hole is plugged with assorted series returning and new.
|In Minnesota, sex offender is allowed to be a chiropractor
Brunt: On rare night, Canada unites to watch game
Thomasson: Why Mitch won't run
The odd man and woman out
As conservatives claim to defend and uphold my traditional, government-sanctioned marriage, I have the knee-jerk desire to get divorced.
Don't get me wrong. My husband and I are very happily married. We married young, had a church wedding 16 years ago and now have four children. I love my marriage -- the personal version of it that my husband and I have built.
|Relationship: Eliminate critical comments
Hart: The other woman
Dessert: Sure it's $1 billion, but you get a moat
It's good to know that the United States still leads the world in something -- building hugely expensive new embassies.
The previous record-holder for largest and costliest was the $700 million embassy in Baghdad, 104 acres and space for 1,000 employees. However, it will be eclipsed in terms of expense by our still-unfinished $850 million embassy in Islamabad.
|Ask Babe: More questions for the Babe
Dear Babe: My son has a Michael Jordan card number JC8 "Walking on Air.'' On the front it says "The Jordan Collection.'' -- Steve Weiand Sunnyvale, Calif.
No one can accuse Upper Deck of not taking advantage of its exclusive deal with Michael Jordan. In addition to being in regular sets, UD created dozens of inserts, while Upper Deck Authenticated issued various Jordan sets.
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