NEW YORK — Revis Island is open for business again – just in time for the New York Jets to start their Super Bowl run. All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis and the Jets agreed in principle to a four-year contract Sunday night, reaching a deal a week before the team’s season opener. Read More… More on Football
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There’s cause for serious alarm among the super rich. A few hundred billion dollars is about to be plowed back into the system. But it means allowing the sun to set on the provisions of the Bush Tax Cuts that benefit the wealthiest Americans. What’s a deficit hawk to do?
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Today is National Filet Mignon Day, and to help you celebrate we’ve rounded up the best 15 steakhouses in Los Angeles. If you want the traditional chophouse experience, go with one of the major chains on the list like the beloved Palm or the ubiquitous (and ridiculously named) Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse . But if you want just the tiniest twist or tweak, check out Los Angeles stand-alones like Jar, which describes itself as “a modern chophouse,” or the super-sexy STK that boasts, “not your daddy’s steakhouse.” After you’ve indulged in tender, juicy, medium-rare steaks this weekend, do your heart (and the planet!) a favor by getting in on Meatless Mondays . More on Best Of LA
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RENTON, Wash. — Saying “I’ll go to my grave” with regret, NFL referee Bill Leavy reopened a Seahawks’ wound that won’t heal by acknowledging he made mistakes in Seattle’s disputed, 2006 Super Bowl loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The veteran official began an annual training-camp rules interpretation session with the Seattle media after practice on Friday by bringing up the sore subject without being asked. “It was a tough thing for me. I kicked two calls in the fourth quarter and I impacted the game, and as an official you never want to do that,” said the veteran of 15 NFL seasons and two Super Bowls. “It left me with a lot of sleepless nights, and I think about it constantly,” Leavy said of the game in February 2006. “I’ll go to my grave wishing that I’d been better.” Though Seattle played one of its poorest games of an otherwise wondrous season that day, several key calls went against the Seahawks in their 21-10 loss to the Steelers. It remains Seattle’s only Super Bowl appearance. This week is the first time since that game Leavy has been in Seattle with the Seahawks. He and a mini-crew arrived Thursday to help with the team’s practices and give it a rules presentation. Leavy didn’t specify which plays he “kicked” that big day in Detroit. But there are two late ones that people still talk about in Seattle – with disdain they usually reserve for cold, weak coffee. Early in the fourth quarter, tackle Sean Locklear was called for holding on a pass completion that would have put the Seahawks at the Pittsburgh 1, poised for the go-ahead touchdown. After the penalty, Matt Hasselbeck threw an interception, and then was called for a mysterious low block on a play that ended with him tackling Pittsburgh’s Ike Taylor on the defensive back’s return. The penalty moved the Steelers from their 29 to the 44. Pittsburgh used its better field position to score the clinching touchdown four plays later. The next day, then-Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren stoked Seattle’s angry fire when he addressed fans upon the team landing back home. Holmgren told frustrated fans at a civic gathering at Qwest Field, “I knew it was going to be tough going up against the Pittsburgh Steelers. I didn’t know we were going to have to play the guys in the striped shirts, as well.” Holmgren, now a top executive with the Cleveland Browns, has since said he’s gotten over that game. But Leavy hasn’t. “I know that I did my best at that time, but it wasn’t good enough,” said the retired police officer and firefighter in San Jose, Calif., who became an NFL referee in 2001. “When we make mistakes, you got to step up and own them. It’s something that all officials have to deal with, but unfortunately when you have to deal with it in the Super Bowl it’s difficult.” When high-profile referee Ed Hochuli visited the Seahawks’ training camp in the months after that Super Bowl, he and his crew took good-natured ribbing from players. “The Super Bowl was one of those games where it seemed the big calls went against Seattle,” Hochuli said in August 2006. “And that was just fortuitous – bad fortuitous for Seattle. “The league felt, actually, that the Super Bowl was well officiated. Now, that doesn’t mean there were no mistakes. There are always mistakes, but it was a well-officiated game.” More on Super Bowl
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Every year around this time I get a little misty having to bid farewell to my favorite sports month of the year. You see, while some consider September, with its football weekends and baseball pennant races, to be the premier time to be a sports fan. Others live for the madness of March, or the sporty Spring month of April, where basketball, baseball, and golf all play a significant role. But there’s only one month that contains both the WNBA All-Star game and the Super Bowl of Competitive Eating: the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. And that month my friends is July. Be you an avid cycling enthusiast or a dedicated NBA Summer League viewer, there’s a little something for everyone in July, and this year’s offerings did not disappoint. We take a Serious Sports look back, and give an affectionate send-off to July, the best sports month ever! More on World Cup 2010
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By 2010-07-30T17:28:31Z EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Former first-round draft pick Ike Hilliard and Super Bowl hero David Tyree have retired as members of the New York Giants….
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The image I will remember most from the 2010 World Cup is Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk pulling off his silver medal in disgust as soon as he left the podium. Welcome to a brave new world where winning is everything and losing a soccer match is more serious than exposing yourself as a petulant child in front of two billion people. When I was a boy I was intrigued by Archie Manning, one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks who played for its worst team, the New Orleans Saints. Season after season good ole’ Archie would be pummeled by defensive ends and Linebackers who came charging through his porous offensive line to maul him into the gridiron. Never one to complain, Manning took the beating and continued to clock up impressive stats year after year, even as his team continued to lose. Why stay with a team so awful that its fans wore brown paper bags over their heads? Why not be traded to a team that had a chance? I never found the answer to that question. But after Arching Manning retired two of his sons followed him into the NFL and became two of its greatest quarterbacks with his eldest son, Peyton, ranking as perhaps the greatest of all time. Only a father who is truly his sons’ hero can inspire them to follow so fully in his footsteps and only a father who has displayed such enormous loyalty and dedication can raise children who, amid being rich and famous, are widely regarded as possessed of high character. So maybe old Archie got his reward in the end after all. Not a Super Bowl but two sons who won Super Bowls and who are models of sportsmen as gentlemen. This is the reward that character, rather than a championship, can bestow. It’s a lesson that LeBron James, who clearly bought into the ‘winning is everything’ mindset, ought to take to heart. When James dumped Cleveland this week – without the courtesy of even informing the team directly – in order to artificially manufacture a championship team with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh at the Miami Heat, he demonstrated that what really counts in sports is not character but victory, not loyalty but success. Yes, we all want to win, and no, none of us enjoy losing. But the price we’re prepared to pay for our victories is that which will determine our essential character. Everywhere you look in sports today character is second to victory. I’m an avid cyclist and experience few joys like getting on my bike and getting out into nature. What a pity then that so many professional cyclists have ruined the sport through doping in the belief that crossing the finish line first trumps putting principles first. It started, of course, with baseball, where players trade teams as easily as kids trade baseball cards. Every player is up for grabs to the highest bidder. In baseball team loyalty is almost nonexistent. It shouldn’t surprise us, therefore, that the sport suffered the worst of the doping scandals. But since sports aren’t the most important thing in life, why should any this matter? Because it’s indicative of a culture that puts winning above everything. In today’s business world the biggest winners of all are no longer the doctors or lawyers but Wall Street investment bankers who make all other professionals appear like losers by comparison. On Wall Street if you’re not in the ranks of the super-wealthy, earning tens of millions of dollars a year, you’re a failure who can only gawk in awe at the masters of the Universe who run multi-billion dollar hedge funds. No wonder then that so many on Wall Street took irresponsible risks in order to have the paydays that would take them into the highest echelons. The fact that their risk was paid for by our tax dollars did not much matter. Remember, it’s success at any cost. The winning is everything ethos trickles down to an increasingly rancid and shallow media culture where newspapers and TV rely on shallow Hollywood gossip to boost ratings even as all this nonsense makes the American audience dumber and dumber. It then trickles down even further to vulnerable teenagers whose first desire is to simply be famous, however that might happen. Want to know why kids cheat at school? Come now. Is that a serious question? How different are they to the rest of us who employ a win-at-any-cost model. But there is hope among the youth who are, as yet, not as cynical as we adults. The New York Times reported this week that Miley Cyrus has rapidly dropped in popularity by twenty percentage points among girls because of her new hyper-sexualized image, which includes a video of her giving a lap dance to a 44-year-old director and appearing seemingly nude, covered only by a sheet in Vanity Fair. Likewise, her new album ‘Can’t Be Tamed’ has cratered, selling 72% less than her previous album which sported a more wholesome female image. Which just goes to show you. Not all kids will applaud success at any cost. More on World Cup 2010
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The 10-minute barrier at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is safe for another year. Japan’s Nobuhiro Tajima on Sunday topped Unlimited Class challengers Paul Dallenbach and Rhys Millen to win his fifth consecutive Race to the Clouds in 10:11.490. It was a few seconds faster than his winning time last year but short of the record 10:01.408 he set in 2007. Tajima felt he had made a good enough run to break the record and was surprised to hear his time at the summit. “I’m very disappointed,” Tajima said. “I thought I was faster, and it was a very good run. The car and everything worked well.” Dallenbach, a three-time overall Hill Climb champion, finished second in 10:39.534, despite having to go to a backup engine that had 130 horsepower less than his No. 1 engine. “It was a fairly clean run overall, and I can’t complain too much,” Dallenbach said. “You always want to win and break records, but the mountain dictates if records are broken. I’m here safe and in one piece, so that’s the important thing. We’ll be back at it next year.” Millen, whose father Rod held the overall record before Tajima, struggled with mechanical issues and settled for a time of 11:06.208 and finished third in the Unlimited Class. “Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong today,” said Millen, who set the 2WD Time Attack Class record a year ago. “We had a transmission issue right at the start, I overheated my front brakes and got loose in one turn. We’ll be back fighting for that 10-minute barrier next year.” he said. Savannah Rickli, of Littleton, Colo., the youngest female competitor in race history at age 16, finished her run in her 2003 Mini Cooper in 13:58.232 and was brought to tears after reaching the summit. “This is such a personal victory,” said Rickli, a junior at Dakota Ridge High School. “I’ve been waiting for this moment since I went to my first Hill Climb 12 years ago. I’m just so happy to be up here.” A number of records were set in other classes: Woodland Park, Colo.’s Clint Vasholtz and Layne Schranz of Leeds, Ala., both broke the Super Stock Class record, with Vasholtz winning the class in 11:33.320 and Schranz finishing with a time of 11:33.395. Davey Durelle won his 14th career title at the race after taking the 250 cc Motorcycle Class with a record time of 12:27.239. The Time Attack Class record also fell when Jeff Zwart powered his 2007 Porsche across the finish line in 11:31.095. Veteran Randy Schranz of Colorado Springs, Colo., running in the Open Class, lowered his own propane car record with a time of 11:57.098 in his 2010 Shelby Cobra. Schranz competed in his 36th career Hill Climb, tying the race record set by Louie Unser. In addition, Doug Mockett lowered the Vintage Class record by nearly a minute when he crossed the finish line in his 1954 Super 88 Oldsmobile in 13:05.710. It was the 88th running of the hill climb, with 107 drivers competing in 21 classes. The Hill Climb is the nation’s second-oldest race, behind the Indianapolis 500. It began in 1916 as a promotion by regional icon Spencer Penrose and featuring Barney Oldfield and Eddie Rickenbacker to help promote the then-new highway to the top of the mountain. The 12.42-mile course ascends 4,721 feet through 146 turns to the 14,110-foot summit on both paved and gravel surfaces.
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