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Why do I even bother continuing posting my results?  Urghh.  This week I was 8/16, which puts me 119/192 or 62%, one point lower than last week.

Packers at Cowboys – Correct
Chargers at Chiefs – Correct
Falcons at Rams – Correct 
Texans at Titans – Correct
Bills at Redskins – Incorrect
Jets at Dolphins – Incorrect
Lions at Vikings – Correct
Jaguars at Colts – Correct
Seahawks at Eagles – Incorrect
49ers at Panthers – Incorrect
Broncos at Raiders – Incorrect
Browns at Cardinals- Incorrect
Buccaneers at Saints – Incorrect
Giants at Bears – Incorrect
Bengals at Steelers – Correct
Patriots at Ravens – Correct

And the season is coming to a quick and and it appears I’m not going to catch CowboysHomer, and if I’m not careful, loserville will overtake second place.

Late one spring afternoon last year, a mystery man sat in the back of a creative-writing seminar at Stanford. Evidently a student, he was much older than anyone else in the room. He was wearing a black blazer and white Nikes. He said his name was Phil.

As the days passed, the man’s identity gradually came into focus. The instructor “made several vague allusions to Phil taking off in his private jet,” recalls André Lyon, an English major enrolled in the class. And tales about Michael Jordan found their way into the man’s literary discourse.

After a couple of weeks, a rumor began to circulate that the old dude in the Nikes was Philip H. Knight, the billionaire founder of the world’s largest sportswear company.

The rumor was true.

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Evangelist and political activist Pat Robertson is stepping down as chief executive officer of Christian Broadcasting Network and will be replaced by his son Gordon, the elder Robertson announced today.

Pat Robertson, 77, founded the network in 1960 and grew it into a national powerhouse, with cable and broadcast outlets across the country. He’ll stay on as chairman.

“I thought that some of this day-to-day operation was important to pass down the line, especially to somebody a little more adept at figuring out the new technologies coming at such a bewildering speed to all of us,” Pat Robertson said in his announcement on The 700 Club, which Gordon Robertson produces.

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