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Right now, the winner of a coin toss at the beginning of overtime in an NFL game decides which team receives the ball, and the first team to score wins. This system has an inherent flaw by not ensuring both teams have an offensive series...
Since the inception of sudden death overtime in 1974, the winner has decided to kick off only nine times out of 350 regular season overtime games. Only four of those nine teams won on the gamble that the other team would not score on its first possession...
...going to the creditors. If they are not here now, I'm sure they will be here in a minute." DBC Pierre, a.k.a. Peter Finlay, winner of the 2003 Booker Prize , on the fate of his $83,635 award...
DIED. BILL ("SHOE") SHOEMAKER, 72, legendary thoroughbred jockey who rode winners in 11 Triple Crown races; in San Marino, California. Just 1.49 meters tall and weighing 44 kilograms, Shoemaker was a horse-track heavyweight, with 8,833 victories in 40,350 races, the second-most wins in history. Late Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray said Shoemaker rode "with the effortless ease and grace of a guy born to do what he was doing." At age 54, when many thought his skills were in decline, Shoemaker steered 17-to-1 long shot Ferdinand to victory in the Kentucky Derby...
...former winner of the Philadelphia and National Young Playwrights Competition, McCarthy is an underground talent at Harvard who is quickly gaining the respect of her peers. Last spring she directed “Day Standing on its Head” in the Adams Pool Theater, and she will hold a reading next month. When not being sidelined for the Crimson, find her leading FOP or dancing with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company...