NAB Against Football Going To All Cable

ESPN Deal With BCS Raises Questions of Access - washingtonpost.com

The major television networks and their affiliate stations yesterday said they will push policymakers to support free access to premier televised sports events after ESPN last week contracted to carry college football bowl games on cable and satellite channels.

The National Association of Broadcasters said ESPN's $500 million deal to carry the Bowl Championship Series on subscription-based television channels from 2011 through 2014 would leave out about 20 million television viewers who rely on free over-the-air television.

Doc Watson On Monday Night Football

Coming back from break on Monday night football between Carolina and Tampa Bay, a great picture of Doc Watson was shown.

The intro "If you've been in this area then maybe you know that guy, living legend in North Carolina Doc Watson. Pioneered the flat pick guitar style. He's 85 and still performs regularly." Picture was from a show Friday night at The Neighborhood Theater in Charlotte.

25th Pick Nets Man 1 Million

I'm not sure if I have ever picked 25 games right in my life, ok yeah I have, but to pick 25 in a row for a cool million!!


ESPN - Steelers' win gives Streak for Cash player big 25

With the Pittsburgh Steelers' 20-13 win over the Dallas Cowboys, Samuel Louis-Charles of North Miami Beach, Fla., has reached 25 straight wins in ESPN's Streak For The Cash game.

The pick was worth $1 million for the 31-year-old package handler.

Asheville Man Finds Papers From 1920s In Home

*This would be pretty neat*

Found documents give glimpse of Depression | CITIZEN-TIMES.com | Asheville Citizen-Times

WEST ASHEVILLE – Every house has a history, but you usually don't find a big chunk of it tucked under the attic insulation.
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But that's exactly what happened in November to David Wall, a West Asheville real estate agent who recently bought the sturdy, two-story wood frame home at 71 Garden Circle with his wife, Alice Powell. Checking the insulation, he first found a bundle of newspapers.

“I'm just a lover of history, and I thought I was grabbing a bunch of old newspapers,” Wall said, standing in the home's kitchen. “But under the newspapers was another bundle, a bunch of old papers tied together with a string.”

The resident's old letters, bills, receipts and canceled checks provide a snapshot of the years 1927-31, from the good times when the family could afford a nice record player to the bad times when the letters from creditors and lawyers starting coming in. Ultimately, the home was foreclosed on — the yellowed, stiff newspaper clipping announcing the foreclosure is among the papers Wall found.

“I felt odd going through this stuff,” Wall said, a pile of old papers, some of them singed on the edges from some unexplained fire, spread before him. “I felt like I was digging through someone's personal trash.”

Among the items was a music class workbook signed by its owner, a boy who lived in the home named Albert H. Bier. Wall Googled the name, and the only finding was a man listed in Raleigh.

“Within 20 minutes of finding this stuff, I was talking to a 92-year-old man telling me about the rose bush climbing up the back of my home,” Wall said. “What a trip of technology.”

Church Uses Cars To Pray For Help

Praying is fine and I am all for
it, but come one having vehicles at the alter??? That is just tasteless
and way too over the top!


SUVs at altar, Detroit church prays for a bailout | Markets | Markets News | Reuters

DETROIT, Dec 7 (Reuters) - With sport-utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for Congress to bail out the struggling auto industry.

"We have never seen as midnight an hour as we face this week," the Rev. Charles Ellis told several thousand congregants at a rousing service at Detroit's Greater Grace Temple. "This week, lives are hanging above an abyss of uncertainty as both houses of Congress decide whether to extend a helping hand."

Local car dealerships donated three hybrid SUVs to be displayed during the service, one from each of the Big Three. A Ford Escape, Chevy Tahoe from GM and a Chrysler Aspen were parked just in front of the choir and behind the pulpit.

Ellis said he and other Detroit ministers would pray and fast until Congress voted on a bailout for Detroit's embattled automakers. He urged his congregation to do the same.

Other Detroit-area religious leaders -- including Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders convened by Cardinal Adam Maida -- have urged Congress to approve an auto aid package.

But the service dedicated to saving Motown's signature industry at Greater Grace Temple was the highest profile effort to mobilize support yet.

"Everybody can't live on Wall Street. Everybody can't live on Main Street. But all of us have lived on the side street, the working class," Ellis said. "I call it the working class because everything tells me there is no more middle class."

Now We Know What Makes Bailey Laugh

The things we discovered about our daughter over Thanksgiving Weekend 2008