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Posted on Thu, Jan. 20, 2005 McNabb, Vick set for milestone game NFC title game is first with two black QBs By LES BOWEN bowenl@phillynews.com NOBODY HAD to remind Jeff Blake that this weekend's matchup of Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick in the NFC Championship Game ensures that an African-American will start at quarterback in the Super Bowl, for only the third time in 39 years. "There's only been two, in NFL history. That's a lot of football, for only two. And only one's won it," said Blake, an Eagles backup who is both African-American and a QB. "It's a...

Tonight, the weekend after the wild-card round, we get the NFL's wild-card coach trying to trump the NFL's wild-card player. The player is Atlanta's Michael Vick, who plays quarterback like an Internet age single wing tailback. The coach is St. Louis' Mike Martz, and few NFL coaches have become infamous for outsmarting somebody -- opponents, himself, both -- each weekend. Nobody can tell the NFL's offensive big brain when to throw. Not just the ball downfield. The ball, the challenge flag or the Rams' timeouts away. That goes double for those media types for whom Martz is a cornucopia of...

NFL Divisonal Playoffs - Saturday, 15 January 2005 VS New York Jets/Pittsburgh Steelers VS St. Louis Rams/Altanta Falcons NYJ at PIT, Sat, 4:30 p.m. EST STL at ATL, Sat, 8:00 p.m. EST

You heard it here first. Also Colts 35 Pats 27. Can't wait for this weekend!!!

ONE PERSON I'D LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: President Bush. It would be an honor to have dinner and be able to talk to the leader of our country.

Associated Press Published on: 07/12/04 Atlanta police are investigating the death of an Atlanta Falcons cheerleader. Police found the body of Tara Tanner, 22, early Sunday at an apartment in the 1100 block of Howell Mill Road. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office is awaiting toxicology tests to determine the exact cause of death. Authorities say there were no obvious signs of trauma to the body. Tanner had been with the Falcons' cheerleading squad for four years. She graduated from Roswell High School and was attending Georgia State University.

<p>The Steelers have lost eight of their past 10 meetings with Tennessee and were physically manhandled -- Bill Cowher's words -- by the Titans during the regular season.</p> <p>And they are playing just six days after their emotional playoff victory against the Browns with a secondary that has injuries and other problems. No team had a better finish to the regular season than the Titans, who won 10 of their final 11 games after a 1-4 start. But the Steelers have never lost a playoff game to a division team (OK, the Titans qualify are a former division mate). After coming back from 11- and 17-point deficits in their past two games, they are not about to panic against the Titans. OK, the Steelers have yet to win a road playoff game under Cowher (0-2). But they seem to respond when nobody gives them a chance.</p>

*** USELESS VANITY THREAD *** And thus begins the official end to the season of 20 NFL teams as the 12 survivors jockey for their post-season slots this weekend. AFC East Team W L T Miami 9 6 0 N.Y. Jets 8 7 0 New England 8 7 0 Buffalo 7 8 0 AFC North Team W L T y-Pittsburgh 9 5 1 Cleveland 8 7 0 Baltimore 7 8 0 Cincinnati 2 13 0 AFC South Team W L T y-Tennessee 10 5 0 Indianapolis 9 6 0 Jacksonville 6 9 0 Houston 4 11 0 AFC West Team...

100 things you should know about DDT by J. Gordon Edwards and Steven Milloy I. Historical BackgroundII. Advocacy against DDTIII. EPA hearingsIV. Human exposureV. CancerVI. Egg shell thinningVII. Bald eaglesVIII. Peregrine falconsIX. Brown pelicansX. Bird populations increase during DDT yearsXI.Erroneous detection I. Historical Background Discovered by accident, DDT became one of the greatest public health tools of the 20th century.Overuse harmed its efficacy -- and made it politically unpopular. Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) was first synthesized, for no purpose, in 1874 by German chemist Othmar Zeidler. In 1939, Dr. Paul Müller independently produced DDT. Müller found that DDT quickly killed flies,...