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...athletes make snap decisions to skirt the rules in high-pressure situations. (Where was the global outcry when Michael Jordan pushed off on Utah's Bryon Russell before sinking the game-winning shot of the 1998 NBA Finals?) In this case, I was mad at Henry, but madder at the refs for missing the infraction, and enraged that soccer does not have some kind of replay rule to correct such obvious, easily reparable errors...
Junior quarterback Collier Winters took the snap and tried to run up the middle, but a wave of Quaker defenders plugged the hole. Winters changed course and wrapped around to the outside, but Penn cornerback Chris Wynn was waiting. Wynn hit Winters, and Winters hit the ground, arm and ball outstretched. The referees conferred and marked Winters down just inches shy of the endzone...
...true. But the other side of that equation is that the U.S. needs to save more. For the moment, American households actually are doing so. After the personal-savings rate dipped to zero in 2005, the shock of the economic crisis last year prompted people to snap shut their wallets. Now that it's pouring, in other words, American households have decided to save for a rainy day. The savings rate is currently about 4% and has gone as high as 6% this year. (See TIME's photo-essay "A New Look at Old Shanghai...
Rookie punter Michael Williamson couldn’t corral the snap, and coughed up the ball. Harvard senior linebacker Nick Hasselberg fell on it at the Columbia 12, and it only took seven seconds for Winters to find freshman tight end Kyle Juszczyk in the endzone for another score...
...snap may have been a bit high, but he’s still responsible to catch the snap and to kick the ball,” Lions coach Norries Wilson said. “And at that point I don’t think he played with enough urgency...