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...lineman that are just as crazy as any receiver in the NFL, but they don't get the publicity that receivers get. I think those guys happen to be special football players too. Trust me, you won't get much attention if you are a wild guy and you aren't catching touchdowns...
Your Cardinals made it to the Super Bowl after finishing the regular season with an 8-8 record. Some think it was a fluke, and most "experts" aren't predicting you'll make another run. Is this extra motivation? No. I've been here six years now. We've never been picked a favorite for anything. It kind of comes with the territory. We just have to go out there and prove people wrong once again...
...hold their breath. "No consideration is being given to changing the blackout policy," says NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. "It has served us well for decades, and we think it would be a mistake to alter it." And as much as some local officials may be griping about it, teams aren't necessarily helping. Some teams that are facing the prospect of blackouts haven't even lowered their ticket prices to entice fans. In Jacksonville, for example, the average general-admission ticket costs $57.34, a 3.7% increase from 2008, according to Team Marketing Report. The average premium seat now costs...
...that the league believes a full house with screaming fans enhances the television-viewing experience. "If you're watching at home and you see a lot of empty seats, you're going to start wondering to yourself, What's wrong with me? Why am I watching this when people aren't showing up?" says Neal Pilson, founder of Pilson Communications, a consulting firm, and the former president of CBS Sports...
Certainly, opening HealthMap to user-based reports could introduce an element of chaos, and even outright panic, into disease surveillance - ordinary people aren't trained epidemiologists. Global health officials already struggle to separate the noise from the truth; for every actual outbreak of a new disease, there are countless false or overstated reports. But in an interconnected age, when both information and disease can spread in an instant, having an imperfect network is better than none at all. "This is an alert tool that is not trying to raise fear but awareness instead," says Brownstein. "We want to encourage good...