'Bama bashes Notre Dame 42-14 in BCS title game

e against Notre Dame Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, in …more RELATED CONTENT    View PhotoAlabama head coach Nick Saban holds …View PhotoAlabama head coach Nick Saban holds …MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Barely taking time to celebrate their latest national championship, Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide are ready to get back to work.That's how they make it look so easy.In what must be an...

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Te'o sees career end with BCS title-game loss

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — One of the last things Manti Te'o remembers Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly telling his team before the BCS title game was about the importance of four particular segments of play.—The first two minutes of the game.—The last two minutes of the first half.—The first two minutes of the second half.—The last two minutes of the game.Of those, only one was not wrought with disaster...

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BCS title game's TV rating hurt by rout

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The BCS title game's television rating was up from last season, but the lopsided score kept viewership down.Alabama's 42-14 rout over Notre Dame drew a 15.1 fast national rating Monday on ESPN, the network said Tuesday. The 26.4 million viewers were up 9 percent from last year's game, another blowout Crimson Tide victory, 21-0 over LSU.But that's down from the 27.3 million...

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Can the Government Really Ban Twitter Parody Accounts?

Arizona is entertaining a law that will make it a felony to use another person's real name to make an  Internet profile intended to "harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten," which to some sounds like a law against parody Twitter accounts. The legislation, if passed, would make Arizona one of a few states, including New York, California, Washington and Texas, to enact anti-online-impersonation...

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Meet the Adorable Bulldogs That Rule College Sports Social Media

Here's Blue III, successor to Blue II, skating across campus.Image courtesy Butler UniversityClick here to view this gallery.[More from Mashable: Viral Nike Ad Speaks to Hockey Fans’ Angst as NHL Lockout Drags on]These are heady times for the basketball Bulldogs of Butler University. The team has reached college basketball's storied Final Four in two of the past three years, recently scored a monumental...

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Nielsen and Twitter Team to Track TV

Your favorite TV shows may soon need a strong social-media presence if they’re going to stick around for a while. Networks and advertisers are hip to social media’s power to publicize a show, as well as TV’s influence over the social media conversation. They’ve even found ways to quantify this relationship.Twitter and Nielsen, the company that tracks TV viewership, are creating a Nielsen Twitter...

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Walter Alan Ray Announces the Release of ‘Is God Unnecessary?’

Why Stephen Hawking Is Wrong according to the Laws of PhysicsGlendora, CA (PRWEB) January 10, 2013When Stephen Hawking, the most famous scientist living in the twenty-first century, published “The Grand Design,” he provoked a lively response in the media. Hawking wrote that the laws of physics made God unnecessary when explaining the origin of the universe. In “Is God Unnecessary?,” (published by...

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Jean Newland Offers New Collected WWII POW Stories

‘Guests of the Emperor’ presents carefully-researched historical and poignant stories of Allied captivityMIAMI LAKES, Fla. (PRWEB) January 10, 2013When author Jean Newland’s Uncle Richard died, he left her a trunk of personal papers and clippings. As she went through the papers, she discovered an incredible and horrifying true story of wartime sacrifice and death from World War II, which she turned...

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For Scared Children, Author Leeanne Brearley Creates New Picture Book Teaching Wisdom, Strength of Mind

Leeanne Brearley uses canny, practical wisdom and “Harlow the Helpful Ghost”, who represents the angelic side of the unknown, to guide children in understanding the world.Pukekohe, New Zealand (PRWEB) January 10, 2013Children who are scared of the unknown will have Harlow the Helpful Ghost as guide. He is what author Leeanne Brearley has created as the unknown from the angelic side, the side children...

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Seven Big East basketball teams leaving conference

(The Sports Xchange) The seven Catholic schools in the Big East that do not have Football Bowl Subdivision teams unanimously voted Saturday to take their men's basketball teams out of the conference, ESPN reported.St. John's president Rev. Donald J. Harrington scheduled a news conference for 4:30 p.m. ET.DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Villanova will leave the...

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