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If football is the ultimate game of physical and mental toughness, Petrino turned out to be the ultimate mushhead. This is the NFL. This is Big Boy football. The Falcons already have too many players who stomp their feet and hold their breath. The last thing they needed was a coach who did the same thing. Petrino said the Falcons were his dream job. He said he wanted to work for Blank and Rich McKay. He said he wanted one season to see what he could do with Vick. Things didn't go as planned. Obviously. Petrino didn't win. That wasn't really his fault, given circumstances. But there were so many warning signs about how he handled situations, you wondered how he would function in the NFL environment, even without the extreme issues. He rarely communicated with his players.
EDITOR'S CHOICE
After ignoring Kingston in 2006 and then branding the borough a flaccid penis last year, Time Out magazine has agreed to include the borough in its new guide. There was outrage when the Royal borough was snubbed in the 2006 edition of the guide, and the situation only got worse when Time Out ran an insubstantial 10-point guide to the area in June of last year. The piece offered an unsavoury explanation as to why Kingston had been left out, stating: "Time Out did a Bobbitt and cut the flaccid penis that is the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames off the map of the capital." .
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Hoosiers get message: Attack rim
With a constant barrage of nifty drives from guards Eric Gordon and Jamarcus Ellis, No. 15 Indiana finally got past Georgia Tech 83-79 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
"We knew we had to come out and attack and keep attacking," said Lance Stemler, who had 15 points including three three-point baskets for the Hoosiers. "We just never quit."
After losing for the first time Saturday night, Indiana had little choice.
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Cancellation notice for the HD DVD Group's press conference at the ...
When Paramount announced in August that it sided with HD DVD as the exclusive format for which it will release its high-definition films, most thought of it as a marriage that would prolong the optical format war. Just prior to the opening of CES 2008, Warner revealed that it will slowly transition from being a format neutral company to supporting Blu-ray Disc exclusively starting this summer. Warner's shift represents a staggering loss to HD DVD – one so severe that it has Paramount reconsidering its vows with HD DVD. According to the Financial Times, Paramount is understood to have a clause in its agreement with HD DVD that allows the film company to back out of its exclusivity deal should Warner back Blu-ray Disc. Furthermore, the Times added that, with Warner officially on Blu-ray Disc, Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD DVD.
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