Peyton Manning , Matt Prater power Broncos by Titans into playoffs

Peyton Manning and Matt Prater were more about big numbers than the little one Sunday.

As in, an NFL-record 64-yard field goal to go along with 39 completions, 397 yards passing and, of course, 51 points.

That the temperature was only 18 degrees at kickoff and only 14 when Prater kicked his way to one of the most iconic records in the game felt more annoying than anything. Same for the opponent — the Tennessee Titans, who fought gamely for a half before falling 51-28 on Sunday to the Broncos, who clinched a playoff berth.

As for all those doubts about Manning's abilities in the cold: "I won't try to answer it because I didn't give it any validation in the first place," said the quarterback, who is now 4-7 in games where the temperature is 32 or below at kickoff.

Source: usatoday

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Grace Hopper , Amazing Grace of computer history, gets Google Doodle

Grace Hopper, known as "the first lady of software," is celebrated for her computer genius, with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 107th birthday.

The doodle would have been deeply appreciated by Grace Murray Hopper. She rose through the naval ranks to achieve the title of rear admiral. She was a pioneering Navy computer programmer who coined the term "bug" to describe computer woes.

When she retired in 1986, she was the nation's oldest active-duty military officer. She died Jan. 1, 1992, at age 85.

Hopper, who was nicknamed Amazing Grace, was co-inventor of the business-oriented programming language COBOL and was so key to the Navy's computer work that she stayed in uniform under year-to-year extensions long after the regular retirement age of 62 to work on the Navy's computer programs, according to a Los Angeles Times obituary.

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Rudy Gay traded from Raptors to Kings

The Rudy Gay era in Toronto appears to be over.

According to multiple reports, the Raptors on Sunday agreed to ship the veteran swingman to the Sacramento Kings in a multi-player blockbuster swap, along with Quincy Acy and Aaron Gray.

In exchange, the Raptors will reportedly get Chuck Hayes, Greivis Vasquez, John Salmons and Patrick Patterson.

Yahoo! Sports reporter Adrian Wojnarowski first broke the news on Twitter Sunday night.

All three players involved in the deal for the Raptors were not in uniform ahead of their tilt with the L.A. Lakers, and the Raptors are expected to make the trade announcent Monday.

Raptors coach Dwane Casey couldn't reference the deal specifically before the game, as nothing is official,but had nothing but good things to say about Gay.

"Rudy is a prince of a guy. He's an athletic, dynamic wing player, he gets to the basket at will and can shoot the ball and handle the ball," Casey said. "We were using him in a drag situation, a pick-and-roll situation because he could see over the defence, and he was growing into that role and he was doing a better job.

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'A work of complete fiction': History Channel's revamped

The first part in the History Channel's two-part miniseries , Bonnie & Clyde, aired on Sunday night , and it was at times a beautiful mess – at least according to the critics.

The miniseries , which stars Emile Hirst as Clyde Barrow and Holliday Grainger as Bonnie Parker , takes considerable liberties with historical accuracy, accoding to several reviews, casting Bonnie as a failed actress and Clyde as a criminal who can see into the future. The show – which Television Without Pity is careful to point out is not a direct remake of the 1967 film Bonnie & Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway – airs in three installments, culminating on Dec. 22. Below , a taste of what the critics have had to say about the show thusfar.

The Los Angeles Times was perhaps the most overt in its indictment of the show's factual foibles, writing that. “Historical accuracy shouldn't be the expectation of anybody watching Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch play Bonnie and Clyde. This pure entertainment.”

Source: nationalpost

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Maple Leafs crumble against Bruins

Deleting six front-line players does not declaw these Boston Bruins.

Particularly when the Maple Leafs get lost in their den, wander aimlessly on coverage and get eaten in short-handed situations.

The B’s continue to get the better of the Leafs in the calendar year 2013, winning last season’s regular series, pulling off the Game 7 playoff miracle and now taking the first two meetings on this schedule.

Despite a wild week of injuries and incriminating behaviour that forced some major roster juggling in the second of back-to-back games for both clubs, Boston bounced the Leafs 5-2 at the Air Canada Centre.

Minus regular defencemen Johnny Boychuk and Adam McQuaid, sniper Loui Eriksson and checking centre Chris Kelly, with Chad Johnson in net ahead of Tuukka Rask and baddest Bruin Shawn Thornton in the league cooler, there was little let-up.

The Leafs, so fortunate to have escaped the past two games with wins despite 50 shots against in each contest, still couldn’t deal with this different Boston deck. And if they expected an easy night, they deserved the mauling, which might have prompted the curt responses to questions when the dressing room opened for post-mortem.

Source: torontosun

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Is there a 'dark side' to Amazon drones, Google robots?

I've got Amazon.com drones in my future.I use Amazon's Prime delivery service for everything from rechargable batteries to art books to beef jerky, and so I was quite taken aback when CEO Jeff Bezos showcased a drone delivery system called Prime Air on 60 Minutes this past weekend. The idea is that packages below five pounds could be delivered straight from Amazon distribution centers to customers within 30 minutes using drones.

For now, it seems like half pipe dream, half pseudo-marketing: As many have observed, it probably wasn't a coincidence that the 60 Minutes segment aired on Sunday ahead of Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping day of the year -- a good time for Amazon to be in the news.

Since Sunday's show, media coverage of Bezo's plan has overwhelmingly focused on the technical and logistical aspects of Prime Air.

For example, will the FAA be okay with all these drones flying around? Are they safe enough to fly around crowded cities and neighborhoods? And can Amazon economically operate what would be a presumably large fleet of drones?

And Amazon's not the only one in this game. The Verge reported that United Parcel Service is researching delivery drones, too.

Additionally, we learned this week that Google acquired seven robotics companies, which, according to a New York Times report, "are capable of creating technologies needed to build a mobile, dexterous robot."

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Padora Following Script that could keep crushing shorts

I'm not sure why I let this stuff bother me so much. I guess, at the end of every hard-earned day ... if I expect to still find some reason to believe, I need to cue up Springsteen and then call out financial media injustice. This time with respect to Pandora.

It's a shame to see Seeking Alpha, the site that provided me and so many of my friends and colleagues with an excellent platform to learn and grow from, devolve into a sweatshop for uninformed and poorly-researched "Short Ideas."

There's a "contributor" to Seeking Alpha who stands out among the handful who constantly publish bearish Pandora proclamations. This person only rises from the pack because his short theses do not stand up to even the lightest journalistic eyeball or most casual edit.

I presume Seeking Alpha has stopped using editors because the ones I worked with between 2011 and 2012 would have never let this sort of tripe get past them.

In "Quoth the Raven's" most recent Pandora piece, he tells us that ...

Clearly, the active listeners have started to hit some type of plateau ...

He makes this case void of any context whatsoever beyond what he can pull from his clearly uninformed and shamefully opportunistic perch.

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