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Which brings us to Peyton Manning (Indianapolis Colts) and Ryan Leaf (San Diego Chargers), the top two picks in this year's draft. In the first third of their first season, they've been in long division on their best days. But on most Sundays it has looked as if the dog ate their homework. Both 22, they've been at or near the bottom of ratings for quarterbacks, and it's fair to say there has been nothing this ugly on a football field since the leather helmet...
...Leaf, who left Washington State University a year early, committed 11 of his team's first 12 turnovers, went ballistic on the media and had one game in which he completed more passes to the wrong guys (two, to the Kansas City Chiefs) than to his own teammates (he was 1 for 15). Charger fans, questioning the wisdom of the front-office dolts who gave an $11.25 million signing bonus to a guy who completes fewer passes than Bill Clinton, even booed a televised public service announcement by Leaf at a home game...
Former University of Tennessee golden boy Manning has been slightly less inept and much less flammable than the backward-hat-wearing Leaf. But his glue-horse Colts had empty oat bags after four games, and Manning's 11 interceptions were the most for a Colts team, over that span, since the Cuban missile crisis...
...World Wildlife Fund recently ranked the long-leaf-pine regions of the Southeast as one of the world's 200 "most outstanding and diverse" ecosystems...
...night begins as large, muscular people sit at tables cordoned off from the chickwich-eating freshmen in Annenberg. As if the maple leaf-themed clothing isn't enough to prove their Canadian pride, when the Harvard University Band lines up to play "Oh, Canada," all 60 of the diners stand up and sing along. When conversation turns to hockey and Quebec separatism, there is no doubt that this is an authentic Canadian Thanksgiving...