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Thursday, February 11, 2016
A community mourns the loss of two Harford County Sheriffs Deputies
Nearly 3,500 Acres on Eastern Shore Added to Chesapeake Forest Land
Program Open Space Acquisition to Benefit Maryland’s Natural Resource-Based Economies
In one of the largest acquisitions of its kind, the Board of Public Works today approved funding to secure 3,486 acres of prime forest land on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore for economic, environmental and recreational purposes. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources will manage the property as part of its Chesapeake Forest Lands, helping to preserve the state’s sustainable forest products industry.
“This acquisition will help the state solidify its significant progress toward meeting our Chesapeake Bay Agreement goals by safeguarding important natural resources, including land and water within the watershed,” Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton said. “Even more, Maryland’s natural resource-based economies and industries, like paper and timber will see benefits, as the new tracts will provide for a sustainable timber harvest and increased hunting and recreation opportunities.”
Purchased at a discount for $6.53 million with funding from Program Open Space, the property is comprised of forested tracts spanning three counties: 623 acres in Somerset, 972 in Wicomico and 1,890 in Worcester. This acquisition was done in cooperation with The Conservation Fund, and will help Maryland meet conservation goals while providing for public recreation opportunities and support for natural resource-based economies. With this acquisition, the Chesapeake Forest Lands will increase to 71,208 acres.
This site will be managed by the Maryland Forest Service in accordance with the state’s duel forest certification through the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and the Forest Stewardship Council.
“Sustainable management means that we will incorporate all components that make up a forest, including living resources, ecological processes and economical uses, so that they remain healthy and productive into the future,” Forest Service Acting Director Don VanHassent said. “This particular site will work to filter runoff in the nearby Wicomico and Pocomoke rivers, and, after uses are decided through a public involvement process, could very well serve as a destination for hunters and anglers.”
Created by the state in 2000, the Chesapeake Forest Lands program on the Eastern Shore now serves as a national model for public/private partnership, sustainable forestry management and ecosystem conservation on public lands. This purchase marks the second largest in Chesapeake Forest Lands history, following behind a 4,900-acre acquisition in 2009.
Seasoned Firewood Being Stolen
My recommendation at this point is to put up a trail camera, (or two) and catch these people. Nevertheless, their interest is to find out if anyone else has experienced the same problem. This happened in Wicomico County.
‘WHITE GUILT’ VIDEO SHOWN TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Video depicts minorities falling victim to discrimination, while Whites cruise on conveyor belt
Parents in Virginia were outraged after a high school aired a controversial video purporting to teach a lesson on “white privilege.”
The Glen Allen High School in Henrico is under fire for playing a video entitled “Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race,” in which a pair of male and female minorities are pitted against two male and female white people in a literal, but metaphorical race.
The video depicts the minorities running into obstacles like “slavery,” “standardized tests” and “discrimination” preventing them from finishing the race, while the white people are seen passing the baton between each other and enjoying the benefits of “connections,” “privilege,” and “wealth disparities.”
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Parents in Virginia were outraged after a high school aired a controversial video purporting to teach a lesson on “white privilege.”
The Glen Allen High School in Henrico is under fire for playing a video entitled “Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race,” in which a pair of male and female minorities are pitted against two male and female white people in a literal, but metaphorical race.
The video depicts the minorities running into obstacles like “slavery,” “standardized tests” and “discrimination” preventing them from finishing the race, while the white people are seen passing the baton between each other and enjoying the benefits of “connections,” “privilege,” and “wealth disparities.”
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The Media's Softness for Sanders and Socialism
At the start of the Democratic presidential race, the media viewed the contest as a cakewalk. The compassionate and gloriously wonky Hillary Clinton faced no one who could be viewed as her equal. Game over. When Sen. Bernie Sanders made noises about running against her, nobody thought he could be the actual Democratic nominee. He was old, he was cranky, and he wasn't even a Democrat.
The conventional media wisdom had it that Sanders would be a healthy deterrent to the Clinton tendency to crawl toward the corporatist middle. On NPR, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne saw it as positive: "Let's list two names who we don't get to talk about, Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas. This is the most serious socialist candidacy for president since they ran. But Bernie Sanders has a long list of particulars that he wants to put on the table, and I think by shifting the campaigns to economics, he will generally help Democrats."
Yes, the media elite, which eternally predicts the tea party and the Christian conservatives will destroy the Grand Old Party, could only see better days ahead for Democrats with a self-described socialist contender in the race.
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The conventional media wisdom had it that Sanders would be a healthy deterrent to the Clinton tendency to crawl toward the corporatist middle. On NPR, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne saw it as positive: "Let's list two names who we don't get to talk about, Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas. This is the most serious socialist candidacy for president since they ran. But Bernie Sanders has a long list of particulars that he wants to put on the table, and I think by shifting the campaigns to economics, he will generally help Democrats."
Yes, the media elite, which eternally predicts the tea party and the Christian conservatives will destroy the Grand Old Party, could only see better days ahead for Democrats with a self-described socialist contender in the race.
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Medical Complex Access Road Eyed In Ocean Pines
On Feb. 5, developer Palmer Gillis attended a community meeting in Ocean Pines regarding his desire to build an access road from the Delmarva Health Pavilion Ocean Pines to Ocean Parkway. The road he proposed would run from the medical complex to the area between the North Gate bridge and Dawn Isle.
Currently, patrons of the medical center are provided with a right in, right out access to Route 589. Many motorists, however, are making U-turns just inside the North Gate because they don’t want to travel north on Route 589.
“The right in, right out might work statistically but it doesn’t work in reality,” Gillis said.
Gillis told the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors and the dozens of residents who attended Friday’s meeting that creating an access road would ensure that the public safety issue didn’t get any worse as he expanded the medical complex. Though it’s only home to one building now, the site is expected to be home to five such buildings in the future.
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When Maine Required Childless Adults to Work to Get Food Stamps, Guess What Happened
One trillion dollars—that’s how much the government spent last year on means-tested welfare aid, providing cash, food, housing, medical care, and social services to poor and low-income individuals. The food stamp program is the nation’s second largest welfare program.
The number of food stamp recipients has risen dramatically, from 17.2 million in 2000 to 45.8 million in 2015. Costs have soared over the same period, from $20.7 billion in 2000 to $83.1 billion in 2014.
The most rapid growth in the food stamp caseload in recent years has been among able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs). These are work-capable adult recipients between the ages of 18 and 49 who do not have children or other dependents to support.
The Need for Work Requirements
Since 2008, the food stamp caseload of adults without dependents who are able-bodied has more than doubled nationally, swelling from nearly 2 million recipients in 2008 to around 5 million today. They gained notoriety whenFox News aired a documentary on food stamps featuring 29-year-old Jason Greenslate, a Californian who reported that he spends his time surfing and playing in his rock band, all the while receiving benefits from the food stamp program.
In response to the growth in food stamp dependence, Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, recently established work requirements on recipients who are without dependents and able-bodied. In Maine, all able-bodied adults without dependents in the food stamp program are now required to take a job, participate in training, or perform community service.
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The number of food stamp recipients has risen dramatically, from 17.2 million in 2000 to 45.8 million in 2015. Costs have soared over the same period, from $20.7 billion in 2000 to $83.1 billion in 2014.
The most rapid growth in the food stamp caseload in recent years has been among able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs). These are work-capable adult recipients between the ages of 18 and 49 who do not have children or other dependents to support.
The Need for Work Requirements
Since 2008, the food stamp caseload of adults without dependents who are able-bodied has more than doubled nationally, swelling from nearly 2 million recipients in 2008 to around 5 million today. They gained notoriety whenFox News aired a documentary on food stamps featuring 29-year-old Jason Greenslate, a Californian who reported that he spends his time surfing and playing in his rock band, all the while receiving benefits from the food stamp program.
In response to the growth in food stamp dependence, Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, recently established work requirements on recipients who are without dependents and able-bodied. In Maine, all able-bodied adults without dependents in the food stamp program are now required to take a job, participate in training, or perform community service.
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Bill Clinton: The New Authority On Sexism?
EX-PRESIDENT GOES ON THE OFFENSIVE …
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton – the guy who shoved a cigar into the vagina of a White House intern – is apparently the new authority on sexism in America.
How do we know this? Because the former commander-in-chief – who indignantly wagged his finger at the American people and insisted he “did not have sexual relations with that woman” (a.k.a. Monica Lewinsky) – is attacking 74-year-old independent socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders over some inappropriate online remarks his supporters allegedly made to backers of his wife, Hillary Clinton.
Yeah … the woman who probably ought to be in jail right now.
The guy who taught us “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” … is angry.
So angry, he’s now indignantly shaking the papers which include the alleged inappropriate online remarks, saying the comments amount to “vicious trolling” and are “literally too profane – not to mention sexist – to repeat.”
Surreal, huh?
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Former U.S. president Bill Clinton – the guy who shoved a cigar into the vagina of a White House intern – is apparently the new authority on sexism in America.
How do we know this? Because the former commander-in-chief – who indignantly wagged his finger at the American people and insisted he “did not have sexual relations with that woman” (a.k.a. Monica Lewinsky) – is attacking 74-year-old independent socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders over some inappropriate online remarks his supporters allegedly made to backers of his wife, Hillary Clinton.
Yeah … the woman who probably ought to be in jail right now.
The guy who taught us “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” … is angry.
So angry, he’s now indignantly shaking the papers which include the alleged inappropriate online remarks, saying the comments amount to “vicious trolling” and are “literally too profane – not to mention sexist – to repeat.”
Surreal, huh?
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Sheriff Clarke on Beyonce’s Halftime: Would It Be Acceptable If ‘A White Band Came Out In Hoods and White Sheets?
Commenting on Beyonce’s halftime show during Super Bowl 50, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke said he did not want to make “a huge deal about it,” but since Beyonce and the other dancers were wearing “Black Panther-type uniforms,” would it be acceptable if “a white band came out in hoods and white sheets in the same sort of fashion?”
Sheriff Clarke added that “the Black Panthers are a subversive hate group in America.”
On Fox Business Live, Feb. 8, reporter Jo Ling Kent asked Sheriff Clarke, “Beyonce put out a new video, music video called ‘Formation,’ and it has been interpreted to be pro-Black Lives Matter, and potentially looking at issues inside New Orleans as well. How did you -- there are some sheriffs that reacted poorly to that, they didn't like that, they turned their backs to Beyonce during the Super Bowl halftime show. What was your thought on the matter?”
Sheriff Clarke said, “Well, I try not to overreact to these things, and I don't want to give this thing any more play than it's already getting. Look, musicians have long used their music, their trade, to make political statements in their music. We may not like it, but I don't want to make a huge deal about it.”
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Sheriff Clarke added that “the Black Panthers are a subversive hate group in America.”
On Fox Business Live, Feb. 8, reporter Jo Ling Kent asked Sheriff Clarke, “Beyonce put out a new video, music video called ‘Formation,’ and it has been interpreted to be pro-Black Lives Matter, and potentially looking at issues inside New Orleans as well. How did you -- there are some sheriffs that reacted poorly to that, they didn't like that, they turned their backs to Beyonce during the Super Bowl halftime show. What was your thought on the matter?”
Sheriff Clarke said, “Well, I try not to overreact to these things, and I don't want to give this thing any more play than it's already getting. Look, musicians have long used their music, their trade, to make political statements in their music. We may not like it, but I don't want to make a huge deal about it.”
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What Clinton said in her paid speeches
Recalled one attendee: 'She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.'
NEW YORK — When Hillary Clinton spoke to Goldman Sachs executives and technology titans at a summit in Arizona in October of 2013, she spoke glowingly of the work the bank was doing raising capital and helping create jobs, according to people who saw her remarks.
Clinton, who received $225,000 for her appearance, praised the diversity of Goldman’s workforce and the prominent roles played by women at the blue-chip investment bank and the tech firms present at the event. She spent no time criticizing Goldman or Wall Street more broadly for its role in the 2008 financial crisis.
“It was pretty glowing about us,” one person who watched the event said. “It’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It was like a rah-rah speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.”
At another speech to Goldman and its big asset management clients in New York in 2013, Clinton spoke about how it wasn’t just the banks that caused the financial crisis and that it was worth looking at the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law to see what was working and what wasn’t.
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NEW YORK — When Hillary Clinton spoke to Goldman Sachs executives and technology titans at a summit in Arizona in October of 2013, she spoke glowingly of the work the bank was doing raising capital and helping create jobs, according to people who saw her remarks.
Clinton, who received $225,000 for her appearance, praised the diversity of Goldman’s workforce and the prominent roles played by women at the blue-chip investment bank and the tech firms present at the event. She spent no time criticizing Goldman or Wall Street more broadly for its role in the 2008 financial crisis.
“It was pretty glowing about us,” one person who watched the event said. “It’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It was like a rah-rah speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.”
At another speech to Goldman and its big asset management clients in New York in 2013, Clinton spoke about how it wasn’t just the banks that caused the financial crisis and that it was worth looking at the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law to see what was working and what wasn’t.
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Top Hillary Clinton Advisers and Fundraisers Lobbied Against Obamacare
Hillary Clinton is campaigning as a guardian of President Barack Obama’sprogressive policy accomplishments. In recent weeks, she has called the Affordable Care Act “one of the greatest accomplishments of President Obama, of the Democratic Party, and of our country,” and promised that she is “going to defend Dodd-Frank” and “defend President Obama for taking on Wall Street.”
Meanwhile, however, Clinton’s campaign has been relying on a team of strategists and fundraisers, many of whom spent much of the last seven years as consultants or lobbyists for business interests working to obstruct Obama’s agenda in those two areas.
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Meanwhile, however, Clinton’s campaign has been relying on a team of strategists and fundraisers, many of whom spent much of the last seven years as consultants or lobbyists for business interests working to obstruct Obama’s agenda in those two areas.
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Why Does It Matter If Physicists Are Wrong About Physics?
Ultimately, It Affects All Of Civilization, Scientist Says
Most people in the global physics community are fundamentally misguided by their understanding of their own branch of science, says German physicist and science writer Alexander Unzicker.
“Modern physics is so different from the science that stood for humanity’s greatest achievements 100 years ago,” he says. “Today’s scientists have highly developed technical skills and almost unlimited resources, but they lack Albert Einstein’s deep reflections on the laws of nature, his passion and his intellectual honesty.”
Unzicker argues that modern physics is on the wrong track and he likens it to medieval astronomy. Most people may have trouble understanding all the reasons for skepticism about today’s physics, but Unzicker says one thing should be clear – we may be stunting our progress as a species by missing the mark on physics.
“As a taxpayer, you might be interested to know whether the billions of dollars spent on real or alleged fundamental research is well invested,” he says. “Yet, the problem is a more basic one. Our understanding of the laws of nature will decisively contribute to how our civilization will be able to adapt to a cosmos that is rather hostile to life.”
Unzicker, author of “Einstein’s Lost Key – How We Overlooked the Best Idea of the 20th Century” (alexander-unzicker.com), briefly reviews some points about today’s state of physics.
Most people in the global physics community are fundamentally misguided by their understanding of their own branch of science, says German physicist and science writer Alexander Unzicker.
“Modern physics is so different from the science that stood for humanity’s greatest achievements 100 years ago,” he says. “Today’s scientists have highly developed technical skills and almost unlimited resources, but they lack Albert Einstein’s deep reflections on the laws of nature, his passion and his intellectual honesty.”
Unzicker argues that modern physics is on the wrong track and he likens it to medieval astronomy. Most people may have trouble understanding all the reasons for skepticism about today’s physics, but Unzicker says one thing should be clear – we may be stunting our progress as a species by missing the mark on physics.
“As a taxpayer, you might be interested to know whether the billions of dollars spent on real or alleged fundamental research is well invested,” he says. “Yet, the problem is a more basic one. Our understanding of the laws of nature will decisively contribute to how our civilization will be able to adapt to a cosmos that is rather hostile to life.”
Unzicker, author of “Einstein’s Lost Key – How We Overlooked the Best Idea of the 20th Century” (alexander-unzicker.com), briefly reviews some points about today’s state of physics.
Potomac Youth Conference Returns to the WY&CC March 4 & 5
Salisbury, MD – Join 2,500+ students from all over Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland for the Potomac Youth Conference on Friday, March 4 & Saturday, March 5 at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center in Salisbury, MD.
The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Only The Brave’ featuring speakers Jeremy Johnson and John May along with musical performances from Fearless BND (Formerly Worth Dying For) and Fedel.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://potomacyouth.com/events/youth-convention.
The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Only The Brave’ featuring speakers Jeremy Johnson and John May along with musical performances from Fearless BND (Formerly Worth Dying For) and Fedel.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://potomacyouth.com/events/youth-convention.
After challenging holiday, Sears to speed up store closings
Sears, battered like much of the retail sector this holiday, will accelerate store closures
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) -- Sears keeps pruning its business in a years-long makeover, a bid to transform itself from a 123-year-old retail store into a nimble, 21st century operator.Patience appears to be wearing thin. Shares slid early Tuesday to 13-year lows after the company said it would accelerate the closure of some of its stores following a "challenging" holiday season. The company's stock is down 20 percent this year, and they've been cut in half in the past 12 months.
Comparable-store sales in the fourth quarter dropped 6.9 percent at Sears, and 7.2 percent at Kmart, which the also company owns. That's a key indicator of a retailer's health because it excludes the volatility from stores recently opened or closed.
While the quarter that contains the critical shopping season was better compared with the previous three quarters, overall same-store sales fell 9.2 percent in 2015, with Sears stores leading the decline.
"The holiday selling season proved to be challenging, with historically warm weather and intense competition pressuring margins and driving comparable store-sales declines," the company said in a printed statement Tuesday.
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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) -- Sears keeps pruning its business in a years-long makeover, a bid to transform itself from a 123-year-old retail store into a nimble, 21st century operator.Patience appears to be wearing thin. Shares slid early Tuesday to 13-year lows after the company said it would accelerate the closure of some of its stores following a "challenging" holiday season. The company's stock is down 20 percent this year, and they've been cut in half in the past 12 months.
Comparable-store sales in the fourth quarter dropped 6.9 percent at Sears, and 7.2 percent at Kmart, which the also company owns. That's a key indicator of a retailer's health because it excludes the volatility from stores recently opened or closed.
While the quarter that contains the critical shopping season was better compared with the previous three quarters, overall same-store sales fell 9.2 percent in 2015, with Sears stores leading the decline.
"The holiday selling season proved to be challenging, with historically warm weather and intense competition pressuring margins and driving comparable store-sales declines," the company said in a printed statement Tuesday.
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“Happy Birthday” Song Settlement To Pay Out $14 Million To People Who Paid To Use Song
Last year, a decades-old battle over the rights to one of the most famous songs in the world finally came to an end when a federal judge ruled that the “Happy Birthday” song is in the public domain, meaning that its publisher, Warner/Chappell, has been improperly charging hefty sums for its use. The terms of a settlement in the case show that Warner will now fork over up to $14 million to people who should not have had to pay to use the song.
Did Net Neutrality Kill Broadband Investment Like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon Said It Would?
Last year, when the FCC was preparing to vote on the new Open Internet Order (aka “net neutrality”) and its reclassification of broadband Internet as a vital utility, virtually the entire telecom and cable industry claimed this change would ruin investment and slow innovation. But a look at the year-end financial figures for the biggest naysayers casts a lot of doubt on these dire predictions.
One Issue, Two Stories
From changes in market share, competition levels, innovation, to buzzworthy marketing, brand awareness, and public image, there are many ways to measure the success of a business. To stockholders, investors, C-suite executives, and board presidents, though, there’s one that matters more than all the others: money.
Those good old American dollars have, in one way or another, been at the center of most of the rhetoric about net neutrality… but they aren’t always saying the same thing. In order to give themselves the best possible positioning, telecoms and cable companies tell two competing stories about their money.
One is the story they tell regulators. In both filing with the FCC and in astroturfing campaigns aimed at realigning public perception, the most common story told by the telecom/cable industry was this: reclassifying broadband as a more heavily regulated Title II utility will hurt investment, hurt innovation, and generally spoil all the fun everyone is having.
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One Issue, Two Stories
From changes in market share, competition levels, innovation, to buzzworthy marketing, brand awareness, and public image, there are many ways to measure the success of a business. To stockholders, investors, C-suite executives, and board presidents, though, there’s one that matters more than all the others: money.
Those good old American dollars have, in one way or another, been at the center of most of the rhetoric about net neutrality… but they aren’t always saying the same thing. In order to give themselves the best possible positioning, telecoms and cable companies tell two competing stories about their money.
One is the story they tell regulators. In both filing with the FCC and in astroturfing campaigns aimed at realigning public perception, the most common story told by the telecom/cable industry was this: reclassifying broadband as a more heavily regulated Title II utility will hurt investment, hurt innovation, and generally spoil all the fun everyone is having.
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Cam Newton: #KeepPouting
“MVP” EXPOSED ON AND OFF THE FIELD …
This website has never cared much for the Carolina Panthers. They are North Carolina’s team, as far as we’re concerned. Similarly, we’ve never cared much for Cam Newton – whose 2010 national championship with the Auburn Tigers was tainted by allegations of payments made to his family.
On the other hand, we’ve long man-crushed on Denver Broncos’ quarterback Peyton Manning – whose team won Super Bowl 50 over Newton’s Panthers.
Manning’s NFL-record setting 200th career win wasn’t his most prolific offensive game … in fact the Broncos set the Super Bowl record for fewest yards gained (194) in a winning effort. Manning completed only 13 of 23 passes for 141 yards with no touchdowns and one interception.
But it was Newton’s implosion – on and off the field – that defined this game.
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This website has never cared much for the Carolina Panthers. They are North Carolina’s team, as far as we’re concerned. Similarly, we’ve never cared much for Cam Newton – whose 2010 national championship with the Auburn Tigers was tainted by allegations of payments made to his family.
On the other hand, we’ve long man-crushed on Denver Broncos’ quarterback Peyton Manning – whose team won Super Bowl 50 over Newton’s Panthers.
Manning’s NFL-record setting 200th career win wasn’t his most prolific offensive game … in fact the Broncos set the Super Bowl record for fewest yards gained (194) in a winning effort. Manning completed only 13 of 23 passes for 141 yards with no touchdowns and one interception.
But it was Newton’s implosion – on and off the field – that defined this game.
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