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NBC Announces Post-Super Bowl Schedule December 3, 2008 9:53 pm

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in 2008/2009 Television, Celebrity Apprentice, Chuck, E.R., Heroes, Kings, Life, NBC, News, Television, The Office, XIII. trackback NBC has announced their programming lineup for Super Bowl night, as well as what the network has in store later in the season. Super Bowl XLIII on February 1st will be followed by an hour-long original episode of The Office.  The following evening, February 2nd, will see the returns of both Chuck (via a special 3-D episode)

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2008 Mountain West All-Conference Football Team Announced

ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST FOOTBALL FIRST-TEAM Offense Pos. Player Cl. School QB Brian Johnson Sr. Utah WR Austin Collie Jr. BYU WR Ryan Wolfe* Jr. UNLV RB Gartrell Johnson III Sr. Colorado State RB Devin Moore Sr. Wyoming TE Dennis Pitta*# Jr. BYU OL Ray Feinga* Sr. BYU OL Dallas Reynolds* Sr. BYU OL Blake Schlueter Sr. TCU OL Zane Beadles Jr. Utah OL Robert Conley Sr. Utah PK Louie Sakoda Sr. Utah PR/KR Jeremy Kerley So. TCU Defense Pos. Player Cl. School DL Jake Paulson Sr. Air Force DL Jan Jorgensen*

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The Foundation

Pensacola Video Magazine Presents “The Foundation” The Foundation is a short documentary film highlighting the evolution of the westside Pensacola foundation skate spot. The video contains an introduction, construction montage, shut up and skate hutson contest, interviews by Dan DeVeau, Jerry Roscom, and Janet Waters (Owner of Hutson skate shop), and a few short video montages with footage from the foundation shot within the last 8 months. Directed/Edited by: Mark Furches Filmed by: Mark

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Meme again…

I am such a sucker for lists of ‘books you should have read’. Mostly because I can fairly smugly score around 50% or more at least. I also like that you can carry them around and ask people ‘have you read this one, or this one…’ and create yourself a little list of ‘books I should read soon’. I pulled this list off Emma’s blog, and have filled it in (i.e. bolded it) for your interest, or not. It’s really for me - to remind myself that it’s about time again that I read a book that I haven’t rea

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Grand Racing at Dubai Autodrome on 5 & 6 December 2008 preview

Dubai Autodrome will host some major action punched racing Canada’s Jacques Villeneuve in Speedcar Series, GP2 Asia and FIA GT3 European Championship all part of this great week-end. Sheikh Hasher Al Maktoum and Hamad Al Fardan all out to impress during Grand Racing UAE driver Sheikh Hasher Al Maktoum and Bahraini driver Hamad Al Fardan vowed to uphold the region’s honour during their respective races on the Grand Racing weekend at Dubai Autodrome on Friday and Saturday, 5 and 6 December,

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AJ Smith Has 5 Questions And I Have 5 Answers For Him

Subscribe to this Chargers blog Go to the front page In a recent interview with Nick Canepa of the San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Chargers GM AJ Smith expressed his extreme disappointment and embarrassment over the way the Chargers have performed this season. Smith puts the blame squarely on his own shoulders, and identifies a set of five questions he'll ask himself as the 2008 comes to an end. I'll do my best to address his questions as best as I can, and I ask all of you to contribute t

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Best Proof that Truth is Stranger than Fiction

As stated in my first-ever Omni post, my reading tends to skew towards nonfiction. I have attempted to remedy this flaw in my omnivoraciousness - my #1 resolution for 2008 was "read more fiction" - but a glance at my Best of the Month picks reveals a very-much-alive bias. I’ve read some phenomenal fiction this year (The Northern Clemency, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Netherland, and Downtown Owl to name a few), but old habits clearly die hard. So in the interest of well-rounded read

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Avery Suspended for "Sloppy Seconds" Comment

Sean Avery is once again the center of attention in the National Hockey League and judging by his impromptu press conference this afternoon before Dallas took on Calgary, that was his plan from the start.Whether or not you like or dislike Sean Avery here isn't the issue. The question is if his "sloppy seconds" comment warranted a yet-to-be decided suspension which in turn took away any heat from the Calgary-Dallas tilt tonight as Tapeleg points out.You can say that the product should be able to

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All-Big 12 football awards for your perusal

We're still putting our DMN team together. How do y'all think the Big 12 did? The following team, announced today, was determined by the coaches, who cannot vote for their own players. OU QB Sam Bradford is the offensive player of the year, Texas defensive end Brian Orakpo the defensive player of the year and OU's Bob Stoops and Texas Tech's Mike Leach shared the coach of the year honor. Oklahoma State's Dez Bryant is the special teams player of the year, and Baylor quarterback Robert Grif

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A New Architectural Era for Downtown NY

Right about now, New York City's real estate boom time is arriving to an end, thanks to the global market's implosion, and an impending recession that threatens to cripple the US economy for years to come. The news isn't all bad though-the upside to the sky-high costs that have defined recent years has been the construction of a number of avant-garde statement buildings that have raised the city's architectural profile. while better corresponding to its self-image as a hotbed of ahead-of-its-

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NBA Happenings: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

By Zach Harper Perhaps you're relatively new to the website and you're wondering why there is a special "Thanksgiving Weekend Edition" of some article called, "NBA Happenings." Perhaps you're about to start looking for previous editions of this so-called NBA Happenings article because you think that you've been missing out on a regular thing. Look no further. This is something that was started last season and only updated once or twice. Is it a regular thing? Not really. Should it be? Po

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Tuesday's Daily News

Governors Against State Bailouts - Mark Sanford & Rick Perry, WSJ A Bullish Black Friday - Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, Forbes.com Toomey: Specter Faces Tougher Road in 2010 - Ian Swanson, The Hill U.S. Trade Community Braces for Obama Policy - A. Field, GulfShipper.com What Is Gold Telling Us? - Rich Karlgaard, Forbes.com Freedom and the Left - Thomas Sowell, Townhall.com Rangel takes on The New York Times - John Bresnahan, The Politico It Must Be More Than Reagan - U

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PIEROGI, HALES Gallery, and RONALD FELDMAN FINE ARTS return to Miami

PIEROGI, HALES Gallery, and RONALD FELDMAN FINE ARTS PIEROGI, HALES Gallery, and RONALD FELDMAN FINE ARTS return to Miami December 2 – 7, 2008 Location: #2010 North Miami Avenue (between NW 20th / 21st Streets in Wynwood) Entrance and free parking at rear of building on NW Miami Court Dates: Opening reception: December 2, 2008. 3-9pm Daily: December 3–6, 11am-8pm December 7, 11am-6pm Once again, Pierogi, Hales Gallery and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts return to Miami to present a comprehen

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Arbitration Rumors

The deadline for each team's arbitration decisions is 11pm CST tonight. In this post I am gathering up all the rumors about those decisions. I'll add updates throughout the day. Check out MLBTR reader predictions here and here. The San Francisco Chronicle says Frank Thomas will not be offered arbitration, perhaps because he'd like to come back. Alan Embree might be. MLB.com's Mychael Urban talked to Embree, and the reliever doesn't expect to be offered arb. Joel Sherman says the Yankees ar

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Book Meme

I saw this list over on Make Do and Mend and I stole it :) Instructions: 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Underline those you intend to read. 3) Italicise the books you LOVE. 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6. The Bible 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9. His Dark Mater

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Book Meme

Originally produced by the Big Read people, a book reading meme:Instructions: 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.Total: 582) Underline those you intend to read.Intend to read: Maybe Madame Bovary, maybe Midnight's Children but they're not exactlyon my Amazon wish list.3) Italicise the books you LOVE.Love: Emma and Ulysses are all-time favourites but this year I've read Cold Comfort Farm and A Tale of Two Cities and I'd recommend them both.1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen2. The

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AztecLady interviews, Carrie Lofty

Let’s welcome author Carrie Lofty to KKB! Carrie has agreed to let me grill her a bit before her historical romance officially hits the stands tomorrow, so let’s get right down to it! Your debut full length novel, What a Scoundrel Wants, is released tomorrow, December 2nd by Kensington, with Scoundrel’s Kiss slated for release in late 2009. These are both historical romances set in rather unusual time periods—in the Middle Ages, one in England and the other in Spain. Your previously publish

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Beautiful Sunday, The First of Advent...

Today was a beautiful Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent.  Everything in Kansas City is dusted with snow, yet the temperature is not too cold.  Perfect. We didn't think we would be at our church today but it worked out for us to go to the 11:00 AM service.  The Sanctuary was beautifully decorated with large light brown scrims.  Lights illuminated the figures of trees behind the screen with leaves attached moving with the air currents.  The Altar devoid of the Eucharist Elements because of Adve

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Caught in the flurry of

"Caught in the flurry of what?," Mike wonders, aghast at my bad grammar, as I told him what I've been up to. Well, here's the answer, Michael.I watched the ff. movies, which I hope to review here: The Kite Runner (Ian: thanks bro), The Passenger, To Kill a Mockingbird, Intrigue in Istanbul. I'm trying to get hold of The Animal starring Rob Schneider (Nen said it's a must-see) and White Chicks (Malou said it's another must-see). I've also been reading -- again. I've just finished Dave Barry's Big

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AWARDS WATCH '08 | "Australia," "Milk," "Slumdog" Lead Satellite Nods

by Peter Knegt (November 30, 2008) Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" led the 13th Annual Satellite Award nominations, which were announced today by the International Press Academy. However, "Australia"'s nine nominations were mainly in the artistic and technical categories. It failed to make the cut for the Motion Picture, Drama category, where the nominees were "Frost/Nixon," "Frozen River," "Milk," "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road" and "Slumdog Millionaire." "Milk" and "Slumdog" both tallied six no

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