| USC, UF getting more love than UGA
Amazing that Dawg fans have already crowned their team BCS champs. UGA has been fortunate that their QB hasn't been hurt and missed major playing time. All it takes is one good hit and you have Joe Cox and his noodle arm bringing you to an 8-4 season. Don't get cocky just yet. .
NHL's Insurers Score Hat Trick in N.J. Supreme Court
The New Jersey Supreme Court has refused, for the third time, to hear two former hockey players' claims for $200 million from National Hockey League insurers for injuries in a limousine accident. And the players' lawyers say the court flouted its own voting rules for certification, making the case a window on the seldom-seen workings of the state's highest tribunal. Among the losers was hockey legend Viacheslav Fetisov, a hall of famer who is Russia's minister of sport and was on the Soviet team that lost to America in the famous "Miracle on Ice" of the 1980 Olympics. Fetisov and a teammate on the Detroit Red Wings were hurt in 1997 in a limousine crash after a party celebrating their victory in the NHL championships. Fetisov was able to play again, but teammate Vladimir Konstantinov and masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov suffered disabling brain injuries.
Vivid memories of the nor'easter
Smells, they say, can be the most potent memories. Fifteen years have passed, but Ed Staunton can still recall what his home smelled like during the two weeks he was without heat and electricity after the nor'easter of '92. It was . . . different somehow, unfamiliar "like an office, or a storage bin," is how he describes it. For those who experienced that epic storm, the images and emotions and smells it evokes are as vivid and as powerful as ever. Fifteen years, though has it really been that long? When you stop to consider that at the time, George H.W. Bush was nearing the final month of his presidency, U.S. Marines were trying to help starving people in Somalia and most of us weren't using e-mail or even cell phones, it can seem very distant, indeed, but unforgettable just the same.
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