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...coin-toss has gone on to win the game without the other team even getting the ball, according to the Elias Sports Bureau; overall, the coin toss winner eventually won 64% of the games. "That [kind of statistic] really sticks out," admits New York Giants co-owner John Mara, who sits on the league's competition committee. "It's too high. That's a pretty big advantage...
...Mara, the Giants owner, says the competition committee discusses overtime reform every off-season. In both 2003 and 2004, owners voted on a scaled-back version of the proposal outlined above. Each team would be guaranteed a single offensive possession, but after that, it would be sudden death, first to score wins. Not 100% fair, but a vast improvement over the current rules. To implement a rule change, three-fourths of the owners must agree with the proposal. In '03, just 55% of the owners approved it. The next year, only 22% jumped on board...
...fall's most promising import is also the most potentially susceptible to this problem. The premise of ABC's Life on Mars (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 9) is ludicrous but irresistible: New York City cop Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) gets hit by a car and does a reverse Rip Van Winkle, coming to 35 years ... earlier. Inexplicably trapped in 1973 (he awakens wearing a collar with the wingspan of a 747), he returns to his precinct, tries to get his bearings and eventually finds himself working on a case directly connected to the one he was working...
...fellow countryman about the continuing American embargo against Cuba and stringent regulation of travel between the two countries. “How can we show the Cuban people there’s a different way to live if we cannnot travel there to begin with?” Mara I. Rodriguez ’08 said after the event. The recent graduate challenged Gutierrez, asking him why America’s relationship with communist China is different than its relationship with the communist island 90 miles off its shore. Gutierrez asked the audience to make Cuba’s human...
...like, ‘Oh the fire engine’s here, that always happens,’” said Mara S. Meyer, a doctoral student at the School of Public Health, who lives above the restaurant...