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PBR Bowl: Putting the "Big F" Back in Sports

Andy Juniper | Posted 02.03.2013 | Canada
Read More: Friends., Football, Beer, Iowa, Humor, Fun, PBR Bowl, Old School, Family, Football America, America Pbr Bowl, Canada News
Andy Juniper

In an age where The Big F (ah, that's Fun) is seemingly being siphoned out of sports by avarice and idiocy and egos, it's nice to hear the down-home story of the Hembry and Babbitt boys of Emerson, Iowa (population 430), young (and not-so-young) men determined to put The Big F back into sport.

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The Presidential Race isn't as Close as You Think

Todd Herron | Posted 12.18.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Iowa, US Supreme Court, California, USA-Election-Polls, Ohio, Elections 2012, Obama, Nevada, Romney, Colorado, Texas, Virginia, Swing States, Electoral Votes, Electoral College, North Carolina, Popular Vote, Slideexpand, Canada Politics News
Todd Herron

Is the U.S. election really a neck-and-neck race, like the pollsters in the mainstream media keep reporting? Not really. It would be close, if the popular vote indeed decided the Presidency, but it's the Electoral College that determines who wins. That's why Obama and Romney don't bother to campaign in California, New York, or Texas; the outcomes there are "givens." The swing-states are where the action is -- and this time around, Ohio is the "swingyest" of them all.

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