No, my blog is not “going dark” today
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Confirmed: #DNC2012 acceptance speech will take place at BOA stadium
It’s been speculated about for months, and the Bloomberg news outlet put a more official stamp on the rumors last week. Today in a presser, Democrat National Convention Committee officials confirmed that President Obama will indeed make his acceptance speech not at Time Warner Cable Arena as originally scheduled but at the much bigger Bank of America Stadium instead:
British scientists find Darwin fossil slides ‘lost’ for 150 years
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At least Newsweek is honest
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The real legacy of Margaret Thatcher
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Quote of the Day: John Elway on @TimTebow
The USA Today has a great piece up on Denver QB Tim Tebow titled “The man behind the mania.” In it, the article talks about what Tebow does when he’s not playing football (for example, the work he does for the charitable foundation he set up) and also includes not just quotes from Tebow himself but also from Broncos executive VP of operations John Elway, who as we all know used to be a QB for Denver himself. What he said about Tebow was one of the better, more accurate quotes I’ve seen about him coming from any sports figure: