Manny Pacquiao VS Timothy Bradley

A kontroversions, which is not unreasonable, match marked, a decision that fool the human intellect, as evidenced by the decisions made, by people who do not have the same viewpoint, with the eyes of many, is a diseased, and the human mind is god's grace that has been given, but why people do not use it wisely, the boxing world scarred by a decision, but makes the same point of view, the world of boxing, and football italy Liga Serie a, which is full of controversy, whether your mind and your eyes up toward better, do not make the sport becomes uninteresting, though the rematch, sportipitas been hurt, And those around the world watched it.
 "I congratulate you for Tim Bradley. He'll get a lot of money. But I want to say, I never embarrassed associated boxing tonight," commented promoter Bob Arum said. "Unbelievable.

Lolo Johns Profil You want to know

Name :Lolo johns Born :Agust 5th 1982 Height :5-9/180 cm Weight :130/59 kg Hometown: Dos Moines,iowa curent Residence:Baton Rouge,louisiana Higt school:Theodore Roosevelt Higt school[Dos Moines,iowa] Colege:LSU louisiana state university Graduated in 2005 Athlet Reseventatif/Travel coach Coach:Dhanis shaver Agen:Robert Wagner Marketing agen :Brandon Swibel Marketing Agent:Brandon Swibel The Legacy Agency230 Park Ave, Suite 851, New York, NY 10169 Phone: 212.645.2141 Fax: 212.645.2141 PR:100m Hurdles-12.43 seconds 60 hurdles -7.77 seconds 100m dash-11.23 seconds

Robin Gibbs Vokalis The Bee Gees R I P

Their fans around the world, will not soon forget the figure of the music world Affect, which became its own record of a musical journey, a uniquely talented musician, and has a high creativity in music , as expressed in some of the musicians who admired figure of vocalist the Bee Gees, the Bee Gees scored a phenomenal hits, yng be a feat in itself but they also created a song that brought the world-class musicians just as: as Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Celine Dion, Destiny's Child, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

Sukhoi SUPERJET 100 Crashed

after the plane crash sukoi SUPERJET 100, leaving a sad experience, for families of the victims and all the people of Indonesia, so many stories that occurred from the accident, but for the families of the victims may be given the strength and fortitude, and the whole people in Indonesia to pray for crash victims Superjet100 Sukoi plane, with a heartbreaking tragedy, many stories and experiences gained to be learned and become the world's airlines in Indonesia to be better, everything is the will of god, and on some public opinion about this accident happens, we leave it to authorities , and can be answered all the questions, the occurrence of an accident, after the evacuation team found Blackbox Hope everything is clear .

Google Commemorates The Birth Of Robert Noyce

Google commemorates the birth of Robert Noyce, Intel co-founder and inventor of the integrated circuit, which gave birth to a microchip. Noyce findings, along with Jack Kilby, who later gave birth to this personal computer revolution.

Therefore, to commemorate the work of Noyce, Google put up a picture doodle chip on the main page of its search engine.

Noyce was born on December 12, 1927 in Iowa is one of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and leading chip company, Intel, in 1968. With the development of the chip industry, the technology industry was developing in one area in California.

Later, the area became known as Silicon Valley. Thanks to this technological world Noyce Noyce earned the nickname: The mayor of Silicon Valley.

Graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology who also holds patents on a number of discoveries about the structure and semiconductor devices.

Noyce died in 1990 in Austin, Texas, at age 60. His family was later established Noyce Foundation, the foundation's development of teaching math, science, and literacy in U.S. schools.
source: viva

Honda announced several changes, executive , Ranks designed to strengthen its North American regional

Honda yesterday announced several changes in its U.S. executive ranks designed to strengthen its North American regional operations to further speed decision-making and increase efficiency and competitiveness within the region.

Tetsuo Iwamura, President of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Chief Operating Officer of North American Regional Operations and a Senior Managing Officer of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., will be promoted concurrently to Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, effective April 1. Iwamura will remain as President and retain all his responsibilities as head of American Honda and Honda's North American Region. His appointment to the Board as Representative Director of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., will be pending approval at the company's annual shareholder's meeting in June.

Erik Berkman will become President of Honda R&D Americas, Inc., (HRA) with major centers in Ohio, California, North Carolina and elsewhere in North America, effective April 1, 2012. He will be responsible for all design and product development. Since 1991, Honda R&D has fully developed more than 20 Honda and Acura models in the U.S. Berkman joined Honda in 1982 and worked at HRA from 1991-2008 where he led the development of a number of leading Honda and Acura products. He is currently Vice President of Corporate Planning and Logistics for the Automobile Operations Division of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., and President of Honda Performance Development, Inc. (HPD), Honda's racing company in North America. He will succeed Hiroshi Takemura who will return to Japan as Deputy Director of Automobile Operations.

Art St. Cyr will succeed Berkman as Vice President of Corporate Planning and Logistics for the Automobile Operations Division of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., and President of HPD on April 1, 2012. St. Cyr is currently Chief Engineer and led the development of the all-new 2011 Odyssey at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. Ohio Center.

Brian Newman, will become President of Honda South Carolina Mfg., Inc. (HSC), in Timmonsville, South Carolina, where Honda produces all-terrain vehicles. Newman, who has been with Honda for 32 years including 21 years with Honda of America Mfg. Inc. (HAM), in Ohio, is currently Senior Vice President of HSC.

Charles Ernst has been named Chief Engineer of the Powertrain Function at the North American Engineering Center at HAM, where he will be responsible for expanding Honda's new engine technologies for its North American operations. Ernst joined Honda in 1985, working at the HAM Anna Engine Plant, in Anna, Ohio. He is currently Senior Vice President at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC, responsible for engine and vehicle manufacturing operations.

The genius of Jeremy Lin

That one simple act changed the Knicks for the better last night as Lin, the Ivy League point guard, pulled off the shocker of the NBA season with an electrifying performance that neither Deron Williams nor all of Madison Square Garden will soon forget.
Lin, the league’s first Chinese-American player, scored a career-high 25 points and added seven assists and five rebounds as the Knicks ended a two-game losing streak by beating the Nets, 99-92, Saturday night.


For 36 memorable minutes, Lin’s ability to penetrate and get into the lane created better scoring chances for him and his teammates. The added bonus is that he outplayed Williams, the point guard free agents such as Dwight Howard are lining up to play with.
“It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” said Lin, who was released by the Warriors and Rockets before being signed by the Knicks on Dec. 27. “I am still in shock about everything that happened.”
Lin’s career night included 10 field goals, or one more than the combined total of Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire. He was the game’s high scorer while becoming the latest Knick to be immortalized at the Garden by having his name chanted. Melo honored him by bowing after Lin converted a fourth-quarter layup as he was fouled.
How improbable was the performance? Lin’s previous career high was 13 points. He had never played more than 20 minutes in an NBA game and he had scored a total of 32 points in nine games with the Knicks. Also, the 6-3 product of Northern California had recorded nine DNPs since arriving in New York. He was inactive for one game and missed three others during a one-week stint in the D-League.

Water trapped in your ears can have a painful aftermath

It's the dance of summer. The swimmer's jig. You see it wherever humans brave the water – people shaking and jiggling their heads to one side to expel any water that's entered their ear canals. Sometimes they pull their ear lobes at the same time.
They might look silly but there's method in their madness, says ear nose and throat specialist Dr Michael Jay.
Water trapped in your ears can have a painful aftermath – a skin infection known as an outer ear infection. Because it's common in swimmers, it's also known as "swimmer's ear".
While these infections can occur year round, they peak in the warmer months when more of us take to the water, says Jay who works at Royal Adelaide Hospital and in private practice.

But trapped water isn't the only cause of swimmer's ear. Other causes include infected hair follicles, eczema and chemical irritation from products like hair dyes.
Sometimes a build-up of dead skin cells and dirt is to blame.
"The ear has a nice self cleansing mechanism which in most people works very efficiently. But in some, it may not," says Jay.
It's a source of frustration to him that many cases arise from mismanagement of a substance that's vital to ear health: earwax.
"People think earwax is revolting and they want to get rid of it. But it actually protects the ear canal. It's water resistant so it's a barrier to penetration of water. It's sticky so it traps dust and dirt and pollen. And it's also acidic, so it inhibits the growth of bacteria and fungi."
Remove your wax and you're not only removing a protective substance. You're also likely to cause trauma to the delicate skin lining the ear canal, leaving little scratches or sores that are a perfect place for microbes like bacteria or fungi to get in and multiply.

Narrow canals for instance make it more difficult for trapped water to come out. And people who spend a lot of time in cooler water, such as keen surfers, can develop abnormal bone growth deep within their ear canals where water can be trapped. (This is known as known as exostosis or 'surfer's ear'.)
If you're planning to spend a lot of time in the water, it's important to know the symptoms of swimmer's ear so you can seek early treatment from a doctor. These may include
• Itching or irritation inside the ear
• Pain
• A sensation your ear is blocked
• Decreased hearing
• Redness and swelling of the skin around the ear
• A discharge of pus
If not adequately treated, the infection can escape from the ear canal and infect the face or even the bones and cartilage of the skull. Occasionally fungal infections can also cause a hole in the eardrum – although this usually heals by itself.
For prevention, you could try ear plugs for swimmers but they may not block water entry if you stay in the water for a long time.
Over-the-counter alcohol-based preparations can be useful to dry the soggy skin of your ear canals after a swim. But Jay suggest you use them only if you've had a recurring problem – and then, sparingly – as too much can cause irritation (which can predispose to infection).

The world's largest trees in california( General Sherman)

Sequoia National Park, in California has the tallest and oldest trees in the world. General Sherman name.

The world's largest sequoia tree is located in the Giant Forest, the forest in the area of Sequoia National Park, Tulare, California.General Sherman. General Sherman is the oldest tree in the world, she's already more than 2,000 years.

In addition to the oldest, the tree also became the world's largest tree. Just imagine, reaching 83.3 meters height and diameter of about 11.1 meters. If the total, this tree has a volume of about 1500 cubic meters!

In 1879, the tree is named after a captain in the war in America named William Tecumseh Sherman. General Sherman is almost as large as the General Grand Tree in Kings Canyon National Park, California. After than, General Sherman finally crowned the world's largest tree in 1931.


General Sherman was a sight that attracted many tourists. How not to kokohnya tree stands among the other trees. Diameter trunks over the human body. Beyond the trees around the trunk.

Whitney Houston fans in Harlem remember singer at the Apollo

Whitney Houston was no stranger to Harlem - and for that, local residents felt a strong connection to a booming voice that captured the hearts of the world.

Many even danced and sang her hits outside of the State Office building in Harlem on Monday night.

"She was one of the greatest singers of all-time," the Rev. Calvin Butts told his congregation at Abyssinian Baptist Church on Sunday as he remembered the fallen singer, who began singing at her hometown church in Newark.

“She was also a great gospel singer,” Butts said, recalling the Jan. 16, 1983 night when Houston performed at the W. 138th St. church with her mother Cissy in a gosepl event hosted by the National Council of Negro Women Inc.

Butts said his church also joined with Houston’s mother to pray for the singer, who struggled with drugs, during her lowest times.

Apollo Theater historian Billy Mitchell also shared fond memories of the 48-year-old singer.

Houston's legacy has also impacted many of the performers of the Apollo talent show, Amateur Night.

"A lot of the songs that these Amateur Night contestants sang, they were Whitney Houston songs...her vocals were what they wanted to achieve.”

Houston also once surprised her friends BeBe and CeCe Winans, who were performing at the Apollo.

Whitney touched everybody.”

Harlem singer Alyson Williams, whose recording career took off in the late 1980s, remembered a young Houston, performing with her mother in Upper West Side clubs, like Sweetwater’s and Mikell’s.

Williams, 50, who also struggled with drugs, said the loss hits home.

The easy way to clean your car leather seats

1. Prepare in advance the supporting tools, such as plastic chamois, towel dry, brush, and vacuum suction. To drug stain remover and cleaning, can be found at accessories stores or supermarkets. "Find a cleanser that can remove various stains form. However, the ink spots, it would be difficult to remove stains and need extra work," said Abdurrahman, Cling Car Manager.

2. Suction grille to pull the seat and clean room with remote hands. After that, wipe clean plastic seat with a chamois, which has been squeezed to taste, then wipe the surface of the seat.

3. Spray the medication into the area to be cleaned, and do the division to avoid the dryness of medicine, cleaning. Because, when dry then the drug can not be used for cleaning, which means a waste.

4. Brush the surface that has been sprayed in the direction of the drug and do, to avoid the dirt back. For stubborn stains can be brushed many times, do not need to be pressed firmly to avoid thinning the skin surface, aided by drugs.

5. After brushing, quickly rubbed (not to cure dry) to facilitate the cleaning process. Do a sweep direction.

What its Sopa? The internet was built on the same principles of freedom that this country was. It should be afforded to the same rights.

If you hadn't heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet's most influential sites—Reddit and Wikipedia among them—are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill. But other than being a very bad thing, what is SOPA? And what will it mean for you if it passes?
SOPA is an anti-piracy bill working its way through Congress...
House Judiciary Committee Chair and Texas Republican Lamar Smith, along with 12 co-sponsors, introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act on October 26th of last year. Debate on H.R. 3261, as it's formally known, has consisted of one hearing on November 16th and a "mark-up period" on December 15th, which was designed to make the bill more agreeable to both parties. Its counterpart in the Senate is the Protect IP Act (S. 968). Also known by its cuter-but-still-deadly name: PIPA. There will likely be a vote on PIPA next Wednesday; SOPA discussions had been placed on hold but will resume in February of this year.

...that would grant content creators extraordinary power over the internet...
The beating heart of SOPA is the ability of intellectual property owners (read: movie studios and record labels) to effectively pull the plug on foreign sites against whom they have a copyright claim. If Warner Bros., for example, says that a site in Italy is torrenting a copy of The Dark Knight, the studio could demand that Google remove that site from its search results, that PayPal no longer accept payments to or from that site, that ad services pull all ads and finances from it, and—most dangerously—that the site's ISP prevent people from even going there.

...which would go almost comedically unchecked...
Perhaps the most galling thing about SOPA in its original construction is that it let IP owners take these actions without a single court appearance or judicial sign-off. All it required was a single letter claiming a "good faith belief" that the target site has infringed on its content. Once Google or PayPal or whoever received the quarantine notice, they would have five days to either abide or to challenge the claim in court. Rights holders still have the power to request that kind of blockade, but in the most recent version of the bill the five day window has softened, and companies now would need the court's permission
The language in SOPA implies that it's aimed squarely at foreign offenders; that's why it focuses on cutting off sources of funding and traffic (generally US-based) rather than directly attacking a targeted site (which is outside of US legal jurisdiction) directly. But that's just part of it.

...to the point of potentially creating an "Internet Blacklist"...
Here's the other thing: Payment processors or content providers like Visa or YouTube don't even need a letter shut off a site's resources. The bill's "vigilante" provision gives broad immunity to any provider who proactively shutters sites it considers to be infringers. Which means the MPAA just needs to publicize one list of infringing sites to get those sites blacklisted from the internet.

Potential for abuse is rampant. As Public Knowledge points out, Google could easily take it upon itself to delist every viral video site on the internet with a "good faith belief" that they're hosting copyrighted material. Leaving YouTube as the only major video portal. Comcast (an ISP) owns NBC (a content provider). Think they might have an interest in shuttering some rival domains? Under SOPA, they can do it without even asking for permission.

...while exacting a huge cost from nearly every site you use daily...
SOPA also includes an "anti-circumvention" clause, which holds that telling people how to work around SOPA is nearly as bad as violating its main provisions. In other words: if your status update links to The Pirate Bay, Facebook would be legally obligated to remove it. Ditto tweets, YouTube videos, Tumblr or WordPress posts, or sites indexed by Google. And if Google, Twitter, Wordpress, Facebook, etc. let it stand? They face a government "enjoinment." They could and would be shut down.

The resources it would take to self-police are monumental for established companies, and unattainable for start-ups. SOPA would censor every online social outlet you have, and prevent new ones from emerging.

...and potentially disappearing your entire digital life...
The party line on SOPA is that it only affects seedy off-shore torrent sites. That's false. As the big legal brains at Bricoleur point out, the potential collateral damage is huge. And it's you. Because while Facebook and Twitter have the financial wherewithal to stave off anti-circumvention shut down notices, the smaller sites you use to store your photos, your videos, and your thoughts may not. If the government decides any part of that site infringes on copyright and proves it in court? Poof. Your digital life is gone, and you can't get it back.

...while still managing to be both unnecessary and ineffective...
What's saddest about SOPA is that it's pointless on two fronts. In the US, the MPAA, and RIAA already have the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to request that infringing material be taken down. We've all seen enough "video removed" messages to know that it works just fine.

As for the foreign operators, you might as well be throwing darts at a tse-tse fly. The poster child of overseas torrenting, Pirate Bay, has made it perfectly clear that they're not frightened in the least. And why should they be? Its proprietors have successfully evaded any technological attempt to shut them down so far. Its advertising partners aren't US-based, so they can't be choked out. But more important than Pirate Bay itself is the idea of Pirate Bay, and the hundreds or thousands of sites like it, as populous and resilient as mushrooms in a marsh. Forget the question of should SOPA succeed. It's incredibly unlikely that it could. At least at its stated goals.

...but stands a shockingly good chance of passing...
SOPA is, objectively, an unfeasible trainwreck of a bill, one that willfully misunderstands the nature of the internet and portends huge financial and cultural losses. The White House has come out strongly against it. As have hundreds of venture capitalists and dozens of the men and women who helped build the internet in the first place. In spite of all this, companies have already spent a lot of money pushing SOPA, and it remains popular in the House of Representatives.

That mark-up period on December 15th, the one that was supposed to transform the bill into something more manageable? Useless. Twenty sanity-fueled amendments were flat-out rejected. And while the bill's most controversial provision—mandatory DNS filtering—was thankfully taken off the table recently, in practice internet providers would almost certainly still use DNS as a tool to shut an accused site down.

...unless we do something about it.
The momentum behind the anti-SOPA movement has been slow to build, but we're finally at a saturation point. Wikipedia, BoingBoing, WordPress, TwitPic: they'll all be dark on January 18th. An anti-SOPA rally has been planned for tomorrow afternoon in New York. The list of companies supporting SOPA is long but shrinking, thanks in no small part to the emails and phone calls they've received in the last few months.

So keep calling. Keep emailing. Most of all, keep making it known that the internet was built on the same principles of freedom that this country was. It should be afforded to the same rights. Result=Gizmodo.com

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke's

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke's agent and her publicist were teary-eyed at a hospital Monday as they tried to explain the lack of any prognosis report for the Olympic favourite.

The 29-year-old Burke, who lives in Squamish and has strong ties to Whistler, was seriously injured Jan. 10 in a training accident at the superpipe in Park City, Utah, and six days later remained sedated on a breathing tube as doctors tested her brain functions.

Burke went into cardiac arrest and was resuscitated on the hill when she crashed during training last week, hospital officials in Utah confirmed.

Reporters gathered at Salt Lake City hospital Monday for what was expected to be a discussion by doctors of Burke's most recent neurological tests and assessments.

At the last minute, however, Burke's agent, Michael Spencer, and her publicist, Nicole Wool, said there was nothing the family wanted to report as doctors continued working on Burke, so the news conference was cancelled.

"Obviously, this is a sensitive situation," a somber Wool said at the University of Utah Hospital.

Spencer said he had not consulted any doctors but knew that Burke's condition could remain tenuous for days, if not weeks, longer.

In a statement, Burke's husband, Rory Bushfield, and other family members said they decided not to meet with reporters after discussing results from the skier's latest brain scans and reflex tests.

Jay-Z, Beyonce baby sets New York abuzz

New York was abuzz Tuesday over the birth of baby girl Blue Ivy to one of the Big Apple's most glamorous couples, rapper Jay-Z and R&B singer Beyonce.
Curious onlookers and TV satellite vans staked out Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan's posh Upper East Side, waiting for a glimpse of Blue Ivy Carter, born Saturday, and her proud parents.
However, the rap mogul, the Grammy winning former Destiny's Child star, and their A-list tot slipped past waiting paparazzi with a motorcade of black SUVs at 1:30 am, the New York Daily News reported

Jay-Z, originally Shawn Carter, released a newly recorded song "Glory" with a little accompaniment from his crying daughter, and New York tabloids celebrated with front-page spreads.
RAPA BYE BABY," the New York Post splashed across a picture of the parents. "SONG OF JOY," chimed the rival News.
As befitting a celebrity, Blue Ivy was also at the center of her first controversy.
Local media reports said some staff at Lenox Hill and fellow patients were angry at the way the celebrity family had taken over swaths of the facility for private use.

A man from Brooklyn said he'd been unable to access his own baby in intensive care because of the invasion by Jay-Z's security team.
People don't need to be treated like this when dealing with sick children," Neil Nash-Coulon told CBS television Monda

According to the Daily News, the dead-of-night departure was no less disruptive than the hospital stay, with SUVs blocking traffic as part of an elaborate maneuver to protect the celebrities, who traveled in a large van with blacked-out windows.

Ignoring the grumbling, Jay-Z and Beyonce issued a statement to US Weekly saying: "Her birth was emotional and extremely peaceful, we are in heaven."
Jay-Z's best statement, though, came accompanied by music.
On the track "Glory," which is announced "featuring B.I.C," Jay-Z reveals that previously his wife suffered a miscarriage.
Last time the miscarriage was so tragic/ We was afraid you disappeared but nah/ baby, you magic."

North Korea indignant over US food aid-nuclear disarmament offer, but doesn’t dismiss idea

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Wednesday that before Kim Jong Il’s death the United States offered to provide food aid if it halted its uranium enrichment program, and although Pyongyang blasted Washington for “politicizing” food shipments, it appeared to leave the door open for a deal.

Comments about the proposed deal, attributed to an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman in Pyongyang, carried an indignant tone, but the North’s statement also said it would wait and “see if the United States has a willingness to establish confidence” with North Korea.
The statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency offers an early look at how the government now led by Kim’s son, Kim Jong Un, will handle two of North Korea’s most pressing issues: a long-running food crisis and international pressure to end its nuclear program.

North Korea, after decades of economic mismanagement, has long struggled to feed its people, analysts say, but the problem is highlighted this year by the North’s repeated vows to start down the road toward a strong, prosperous country as it celebrates the centennial of the birth of founder Kim Il Sung in April.

The Associated Press reported before Kim’s Dec. 17 death that the United States was poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea. That would have been followed within days by an agreement to suspend its uranium enrichment program, according to a broad outline of the emerging agreement made known to The AP by people close to the negotiations.

Discussions were suspended after Kim’s death.

The North’s statement said Washington made its proposal in talks with Pyongyang that began in July last year.

The North’s spokesman said in the statement that the United States proposed in meetings before Kim’s death to provide food aid and discuss temporarily lifting sanctions if Pyongyang took confidence-building measures such as suspending its uranium-enrichment activities.

Pirates hijack Iranian ship in Gulf of Aden

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Pirates in the Gulf of Aden have hijacked an Iranian ship carrying 30,000 tonnes of petrochemical products to a North African country, Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday.

Somali sea gangs have seized vessels and crews across the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, extracting millions of dollars in ransoms.

Mehr did not say where the information on the latest reported attack came from.

Separately on Tuesday, the Pentagon said American forces had rescued six Iranian mariners who said their ship was taking in water off the coast off Iraq.

The announcement came less than a week after U.S. naval forces rescued 13 Iranian fishermen who were taken hostage by pirates in the Arabian Sea for more than a month.

The rescue operations have taken place at a moment of heightened tension between Washington and Tehran over Iran's nuclear programme, which the West suspects is aimed at building an atomic bomb. Tehran denies the charge, saying its nuclear activities are only for peaceful purposes.

Tehran and Washington do not have formal diplomatic relations. The U.S. State Department last week said there had been no official communication with Iran about the first rescue, which it described as a "humanitarian gesture

NFL result McDaniels' return to Patriots sparks intrigue

FOXBOROUGH, Mass.—On the chilly practice field, Josh McDaniels tucked his hands into the pockets of his new -- or previously used -- dark blue Patriots hoodie and smiled broadly at Bill Belichick.

His new boss, same as the old boss, grinned right back while bundled in a blue parka and knit cap with a pom-pom on top.

Were the reunited duo just happy to be working together again on Tuesday, a combo that had New England just one minute away from an unbeaten season four years ago?

Or were they chuckling over having pulled off a fast one -- allowed though it is by the NFL -- that could help the Patriots in Saturday night's divisional playoff game against the Denver Broncos and beyond?

McDaniels did coach the Broncos in all of 2009 and the first 12 games of 2010 before being fired with a 3-9 record.

And as offensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams this season, he coached against all four NFC teams left in the playoffs, as well as the second-seeded Baltimore Ravens in the AFC.

Now, after the Rams released him from the final year of his contract as coordinator of an anemic offense, McDaniels is an offensive assistant on a team that could be headed for the Super Bowl, the same team he served as offensive coordinator from 2006-08.

One day after saying McDaniels has "some inside information" on the Broncos because he coached them, quarterback Tom Brady was asked about having him back in the meeting room.

"It's the same preparation for me," a subdued Brady said Tuesday. "We have some familiarity with what they do, obviously, playing them four weeks ago."

Brady threw for 320 yards and two touchdowns in that 41-23 win on Dec. 18 in Denver. He saw up close how linemen rush and cornerbacks cover. That's knowledge he can take into Saturday's game, something McDaniels didn't see.
Occasionally, people are hired off a staff that has been broken up because the head coach has been fired," said Gil Brandt, an NFL consultant and former general manager of the Dallas Cowboys. "But I don't think in today's NFL atmosphere it makes for any advantage. Maybe in the old days it did, but now we have tape and we can pull up any situation we want on any player or team. So the effect is minimal at best, I think