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FOOTBALL GREATS (continued): • In the sixth week of his rookie season, Marino became a starter, and went on to play in nine Pro-Bowls. Out of his 242 games, he started in 240 of them. The NFL’s list of the Top 100 Greatest Players has Marino in the #10 spot. For many years after his retirement in 2000, he served as an analyst on CBS’s NFL Today. He left the show in 2014 to return to the Dolphins as a special advisor. Over the years, Marino dabbled in the entertainment field, appearing as himself in television and movies, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. After his son was diagnosed with autism, Marino and his wife established a charitable foundation that has distributed more than $22 million toward research and treatment for children with developmental disabilities.

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• Norwegian-born Jan Stenerud came to America as a college student on a ski-jumping scholarship. In 1964, while training for ski season at Montana State University, he was spotted by one of the school’s coaches who was walking past the football field where Stenerud was cooling down from his practice. The football coach offered Stenerud a tryout, and he was given a position on the team as kicker. The Kansas City Chiefs drafted him in 1966, where he played until 1979, one of the first pro football players to be used as a dedicated kicker. After 19 seasons (including a stint with the Packers and the Vikings), and four Pro Bowl appearances, Stenerud retired with 373 career field goals, and never having missed a game because of injury or illness. He has worked as a sports commentator on Scandinavian television and is also involved with a firm that designs stadiums and sports arenas.

A SPORTING VIEW By Mark Vasto Alabama at Last

When you don’t know anything about history, it’s easy to say things like, “we live in a very spectacular time.” Phrases like, “never been done before” and “greatest of all-time” get tossed around and played with. While some of this is true -- we, as a species, build off of our experience to progress to another level -- most of the time they’re just empty platitudes. Great people slip from this vale of tears all the time, and unless they made one mark to be remembered for, their fame is fleeting. The Alabama Crimson Tide will never have that problem. Sports, better than any other discipline, with the possible exception of the folks behind the Periodic Table of Elements, keeps score. We have lists and lists filled with names with numbers attached; the lists grow longer, but the names never fade. In America, particularly over the past seven years, Alabama, with its four most-recent championships and 16 overall, and its coach, Nick Saban, has made its mark. With their thrilling win over Clemson on Jan. 11, the Crimson Tide may have done something even more important: They may have saved football. The sport is reeling. When the Fresh Prince of Philadelphia is starring in movies about concussions, your sport is in trouble. When grown men with arcade-like nicknames dressed up like Bengal tigers push and shove coaches after making illegal hits to the head on national TV, setting up the opposing team for a win, your sport is in trouble. When fans start worrying about what defensive back said on Instagram or Twitter both before and after the game more than the game itself, your sport is in trouble. When you finally get a championship playoff and you move the games to New Year’s Eve and nobody watches and the games are lackluster and dull ... again, there’s a problem. And while many people will say, actually, it’s kind of getting boring watching Alabama win every year, you have 509.924.8575 to ask them if they were watching. Because as soon as the 30-minute pre-game show with every recording artMOST CAR WARRANTIES EXPIRE Honest Service ist we’re supposed to know singing the same song that nobody can ever sing better than Ray Charles or Whitney Houston did finally end and the actual game started, it was like ... transcendent. It takes schools like Clemson and AT 50,000 MILES. THEN WHAT? & Repair! Alabama to fill a stadium with orange and red, split right down the middle like that. The telecast by ESPN was We double Napa’s incredible; I was flipping through all 18 of its channels getting every play and loving every second of it. Two teams battling it out like giants from the first to the last play. Derrick Henry rips off a touchdown run. DeParts Warranty! shaun Watson -- the guy who had everyone saying “Vince Young” for a quarter until firmly cementing his own name into the upper echelon of the game -- would stand up like they called offsides and then suddenly snap like a Call Us Today! cat hearing a vacuum cleaner, tossing darts all over the field (and covering the point spread ... just saying). Ask About our And wouldn’t you know? Nick Saban really does know how to smile. What a spectacular time, right? Winterization Special!

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FOOTBALL GREATS (continued): • The MVP of the first two Super Bowls was Green Bay Packer Bart Starr. He began his career with the Packers in 1956 and remained a player until 1971. After his retirement, he was immediately hired by the team as their quarterback coach, and became their head coach in 1974, a position he held for nine years. His charitable organization is the Rawhide Boys Ranch in New London, Wisconsin, a facility he co-founded in 1965, that helps delinquent and emotionallydisturbed adolescent boys. At the initial fundraising, Starr donated a Corvette he had won for his Super Bowl performance to be raffled. The 82-old-year-old Starr has recently suffered two strokes and a heart attack, but after intensive physical therapy, his condition has dramatically improved. • Fran Tarkenton played his first NFL game in 1961 at age 21 as a member of the Minnesota Vikings, and went on to nine Pro Bowl selections. In 1977, Tarkenton became the first professional athlete to guest-host “Saturday Night Live.” When this Georgia native retired in 1978, he owned every major quarterback record. Tarkenton has had numerous postfootball success stories, starting with founding Tarkenton Software, a computer program generator company. He served as a Monday Night Football commentator for four years and a co-host of ABC’s “That’s Incredible!” during the early 1980s. He has written several self-help motivational books as well as a novel entitled Murder at the Super Bowl, a mystery about a football coach who is killed just before his team is scheduled to play in the big game.

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1. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the country of Belize located? 2. HISTORY: In what country did the 1960 Sharpeville massacre occur? 3. LITERATURE: In what state did poet Emily Dickinson live her entire life? 4. MOVIES: What was the name of the spaceship in “Alien”? 5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: A strong, cool wind called the mistral is associated with which country? 6. MYTHOLOGY: What kind of creature is a griffin? 7. TELEVISION: Which character on “The Addams Family” spoke the catchphrase “you rang?”? 8. THEATER: Which play’s title character was nicknamed “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”? 9. MUSIC: Who wrote the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”? 10. ANCIENT WORLD: What figure is depicted by the Colossus of Rhodes?

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Moments in time

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* On Feb. 7, 1881, plea bargaining gains favor in American courts when Albert McKenzie pleads guilty to a misdemeanor count of embezzlement instead of a felony. Today, over 90 percent of criminal cases are resolved through plea bargain in many jurisdictions.

gression in Korea. It was the first time the United Nations condemned a nation. * On Feb. 4, 1976, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake levels one-third of Guatemala City, killing 23,000 people and leaving 1 million others homeless. Roads and bridges leading to the area sustained extensive damage, making it difficult for help to arrive.

* On Feb. 5, 1917, Congress overrides President * On Feb. 2, 1980, details of ABSCAM, an FBI Woodrow Wilson’s veto and passes the Immigra- sting operation to uncover political corruption tion Act, requiring a literacy test for immigrants. in government, are released. Thirty-one public officials were targeted. FBI agents had posed as representatives of Abdul Enterprises, Ltd., a * On Feb. 6, 1928, a woman calling herself Anastasia Tschaikovsky and claiming to be the fictional business owned by an Arab sheik. daughter of the murdered czar of Russia arrives in New York City hoping to claim the Romanov * On Feb. 3, 1998, a U.S. Marine jet flying low fortune. In 1994, DNA analysis finally showed over the town of Cavalese in the Italian Alps severs a ski-lift cable, sending a tram crashing that Anastasia was not a Romanov, but was in 250 feet to the ground and killing 20 people. The fact a Polish-German factory worker. pilot and navigator destroyed a videotape that had * On Feb. 1, 1951, the United Nations General recorded their flight. They were court-martialed Assembly condemns the communist government for obstruction of justice and dismissed from the (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc. of the People’s Republic of China for acts of ag- Marines.

Brain Games Scam Sometimes we find scams where we least expect them. Lumos, the company that makes brain games for the computer and phone apps, has been cited by the Federal Trade Commission for telling us lies. Lumos advertised that its games would help increase cognitive behavior and put off brain decline, including mild cognitive impairment, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Lumos even claimed to help with traumatic brain injury, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and stroke. It also has children’s products and cited “improved performance” in school and athletics. The big problem: The company didn’t have any research to back up its claims about what the products would do. The FTC alleged unfair or deceptive acts and false advertising, and ordered Lumos to stop making claims unless it has clinical testing of the products to prove what they do. Additionally, Lumos was ordered to disclose its relationship with any person who gives it an endorsement. In one batch of testimonials, consumers were entering a contest to potentially be rewarded with an iPad or a trip to San Francisco for saying nice things about the product. If you are currently a customer or have been a customer in the past, you will be hearing from Lumos. The company was ordered to provide a list of all customers who’ve purchased monthly or lifetime subscriptions to products between Jan. 1, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2014, and to send all those customers an email or app message notifying them of all of the above and providing a way to instantly end their subscription. The FTC fined Lumos $50 million but it will have to pay only $2 million to the FTC. The consumers who got scammed, however, apparently won’t get any of that money in the form of refunds. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

FOOTBALL GREATS (continued): . • Baltimore Colt legend Johnny Unitas spent 16 years with that team, going to the Pro Bowl 10 times, with three of those as MVP. He was the NFL MVP four times, as well as being voted the league’s best player at the NFL’s 50-year celebration. Unitas set the record for the most consecutive games with at least one touchdown pass, 47 games, a record that stayed in place for 52 years. During his career, Unitas sustained many injuries, including an elbow injury that prevented him from using his right hand. After doing commentary for NFL games during the 1970s, this football hero purchased bowling alleys and a restaurant, as well as investing in an air-freight company and several real estate ventures. Unfortunately, most were fairly unsuccessful. It was his final business decision that put Unitas under, a circuit board manufacturer which failed, forcing Unitas into bankruptcy. A sudden heart attack took his life in 2002 when he was 69. •

There have been no financial difficulties for former Denver Bronco John Elway. In addition to his job as the general manager and executive vice-president of football operations for the Broncos, he has owned two restaurants and nine car dealerships (five of which he sold for $82 million). His net worth is estimated in the $150 million range. Elway almost didn’t have a football career. He was selected by the New York Yankees in the 1981 MLB draft and played 42 games on their Class A team, achieving a .318 batting average. Owner George Steinbrenner’s plan was to make Elway his starting right fielder. Elway was picked up in the 1983 NFL draft and played 16 seasons for Denver.

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• There are a very small amount of wild water buffalo, an endangered species that lives in protected areas and wildlife reserves across Asia. • Some countries hold annual water buffalo racing festivals, running the animals in long slushy ditches while pulling drivers on wooden planks. • Fans of the 1960s cartoon “The Flintstones” may remember that Fred Flintstone and his pal Barney Rubble were dedicated members of the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Lodge No. 26, a secret society intended to be a spoof of the Freemasons, Elks Club, and Moose Lodge. Fred and Barney regularly assembled at the lodge hall to listen to their “Mystic Imperial Poobah,” or “Grand Poobah,” as he was sometimes called. The Poobah’s mission was to “draw back the veil to reveal the ancient mysteries of Water Buffalo-ary.”

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hand-picked 6’2”, 335 lbs. (1.88 m, 152 kg) William Perry in the first round of the 1985 NFL Draft. Perry was fresh out of South Carolina’s Clemson University, where he had earned the nickname The Refrigerator. The name came about when he and a fellow player tried to fit in the same elevator heading to the college laundry facilities. His teammate said, “Man, you’re about as big as a refrigerator,” and the name stuck. (Perry already weighed 200 lbs. [90.7 kg] at age 11!). In addition to his NFL career (1985-1994), this defensive tackle and member of “The Monsters of the Midway” defense recorded two rap records, appeared on the 1980s series “The A-Team”), and had his own G.I. Joe action figure called “The Fridge.” In 2008, Perry was diagnosed with a serious nerve disorder that sent his life into a tailspin, both physically and financially. In 2011, a 10-year-old boy discovered Perry’s Super Bowl ring for sale in a sports memorabilia shop in a Mickey Mantle’s restaurant. Using $8,500 of his college fund, the boy and his mother purchased the ring and returned it to Perry. Yet in 2015, the ring was on the auction block again. When Perry didn’t pay the taxes on his home, it was seized by the county. At 53, this football great is barely able to walk and lives in an assisted living community.