How quiet did it get at LP Field in Nashville as the Titans saw their perfect season end? Quieter than the evening Amtrak train to Wilmington with Joe Biden now living in Washington.
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How bad is the season going for the Detroit Lions? The team season highlights DVD will feature their bye week.
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Eddie Jordan was fired as the Washington Wizards coach after the team got off to a 1-10 start. What does it say about this country that we can fire a lousy coach after a month, but for a lousy president we have to wait four years?
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And “24” kicked off the 2009 season with a 2 hour special teaser to hold fans until January. In the first season, they featured a black President. This new season will feature a woman president.
Wonder if Hillary Clinton suggested the episode title? “Redemption.”
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Ford Motor Company led the insurance industry’s safest car list this week. Well, it makes sense, cars are certainly safe if no one is driving them.
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And kudos to Florida State safety Myron Rolles, who won a Rhodes scholarship to study in Oxford. Normally when FSU Seminoles players hear the term “Rhodes scholars,” they think it refers to picking up trash in orange jumpsuits on the highway.
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