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  <updated-at type="datetime">2008-12-08T14:14:23-05:00</updated-at>
  <intro>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_center&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;DeSean Jackson&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/desean-mnf-spl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;DeSean Jackson&quot; width=&quot;615&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;DeSean Jackson's premature celebration following a 61-yard touchdown catch briefly took six points off the scoreboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each morning, we'll hand out letter grades to the persons, places or things making headlines.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 3px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/lettergrades/grade-a-plus-tr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;60&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;The Eagles-Cowboys rivalry&lt;/strong&gt; | It's alive and well. Both Philadelphia and Dallas validated their Super Bowl aspirations with a &lt;em&gt;Monday Night Football &lt;/em&gt;clash for the ages. The 98th meeting between the longtime NFC East rivals was the highest-scoring game in series history, featuring seven lead changes, nine touchdowns, five field goals and several reels worth of highlight plays.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 3px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/lettergrades/grade-c-plus-tr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;60&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DeSean Jackson&lt;/strong&gt; | The good: six catches for 110 yards to become the second player in history -- and the first since &lt;strong&gt;Don Looney &lt;/strong&gt;in 1940 -- to open his career with consecutive 100-yard receiving games. The bad: Jackson's premature celebration (above) after an apparent 61-yard touchdown strike to take six points off the board. A &lt;strong&gt;Wade Phillips&lt;/strong&gt; challenge was upheld, giving Philadelphia a 1st-and-goal at the Dallas 1. &lt;strong&gt;Brian Westbrook&lt;/strong&gt;'s touchdown run on the ensuing play saved Jackson an earful from Philly's famously hypercritical fans  next week at the Linc.&lt;/p&gt;</intro>
  <title>A.M. report card</title>
  <published-at type="datetime">2008-09-16T09:57:32-04:00</published-at>
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  <created-at type="datetime">2008-09-16T07:50:32-04:00</created-at>
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          <created-at>2008-09-16T13:19:59-04:00</created-at>
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            <state>FL</state>
            <display-name>DeNamur</display-name>
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          <body>I am so tired of hearing about how great TO is.  He is a downright embarrassment to the sport and his team.  He should have been a clown.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-09-16T13:31:30-04:00</created-at>
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        <quoted-text>I am so tired of hearing about how great TO is.  He is a downright embarrassment to the sport and his team.  He should have been a clown.</quoted-text>
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        <body>What the fudge are you smoking.....I hint a little jealously, can your Packers hold up against a good team? We'll soon find out....clearly your ignorant..we all know that..please get educated on sports, dont hold a grudge because you have a low paying job and no fame and T.O has it all.

Packers are going down..they need to learn what playing a real team is like, much like last year when Rodgers came in...


Damn your a Brewers fan to...OUCH! Meltdown again? We'll soon find that out tonight against the Cubbies

CUBBIES!/COWBOYS! Aww yea.</body>
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          <created-at>2008-09-16T13:19:59-04:00</created-at>
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          <body>I am so tired of hearing about how great TO is.  He is a downright embarrassment to the sport and his team.  He should have been a clown.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-09-16T13:31:13-04:00</created-at>
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          <state>NS</state>
          <display-name>CanadaFootball</display-name>
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        <quoted-text>I am so tired of hearing about how great TO is.  He is a downright embarrassment to the sport and his team.  He should have been a clown.</quoted-text>
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        <body>Seriously?  What's the problem with TO?  Scores too many TD's?  Catches too many balls?  So he likes the sound bite and celebrates his touchdowns.  At least he waits until he's in the end zone to celebrate.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-09-16T13:21:21-04:00</created-at>
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        <body>Whoa - on second thought I apologize to clowns wherever you are.  TO isn't even good enough to be one!</body>
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        <created-at>2008-09-16T13:19:59-04:00</created-at>
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        <body>I am so tired of hearing about how great TO is.  He is a downright embarrassment to the sport and his team.  He should have been a clown.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-09-16T12:03:12-04:00</created-at>
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        <body>yuo should have given the DeSean Jackson article a D for dumb like him</body>
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        <created-at>2008-09-16T11:08:03-04:00</created-at>
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          <display-name>wtnelson = Big Chief</display-name>
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        <body>Ummm... they shouldn't have had to issue an apology for that. Give the USOC an F for making them do so.

By the way, is every team in America the Cowboys' chief rival? I thought it was the Giants. No wait, the Redskins. No wait, the Dolphins. No wait, the Bills. Ridiculous. I understand that it's a divisional game, but EVERY game can't be the biggest rivalry game of the year.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-09-16T10:26:00-04:00</created-at>
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        <body>Don't forget Romo threw that ball to TO 60 yards off his back foot.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-09-16T08:08:04-04:00</created-at>
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        <body>I think your webmaster messed up, the C+ should be Jackson and the A+ the game. 

And I highly doubt you wrote &amp;quot;FJKSDAHDDDDDDDDDDDD DD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD TKTKT TKTKTKTK TKTKTKTKTK TKTKTKTK&amp;quot;</body>
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  <body>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_center&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;DeSean Jackson&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/desean-mnf-spl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;DeSean Jackson&quot; width=&quot;615&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;DeSean Jackson's premature celebration following a 61-yard touchdown catch briefly took six points off the scoreboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each morning, we'll hand out letter grades to the persons, places or things making headlines.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 3px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/lettergrades/grade-a-plus-tr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;60&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;The Eagles-Cowboys rivalry&lt;/strong&gt; | It's alive and well. Both Philadelphia and Dallas validated their Super Bowl aspirations with a &lt;em&gt;Monday Night Football &lt;/em&gt;clash for the ages. The 98th meeting between the longtime NFC East rivals was the highest-scoring game in series history, featuring seven lead changes, nine touchdowns, five field goals and several reels worth of highlight plays.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 3px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/lettergrades/grade-c-plus-tr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;60&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DeSean Jackson&lt;/strong&gt; | The good: six catches for 110 yards to become the second player in history -- and the first since &lt;strong&gt;Don Looney &lt;/strong&gt;in 1940 -- to open his career with consecutive 100-yard receiving games. The bad: Jackson's premature celebration (above) after an apparent 61-yard touchdown strike to take six points off the board. A &lt;strong&gt;Wade Phillips&lt;/strong&gt; challenge was upheld, giving Philadelphia a 1st-and-goal at the Dallas 1. &lt;strong&gt;Brian Westbrook&lt;/strong&gt;'s touchdown run on the ensuing play saved Jackson an earful from Philly's famously hypercritical fans  next week at the Linc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 3px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/lettergrades/grade-a-tr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;60&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terrell Owens &lt;/strong&gt;| Entering last night's game, Owens was just 1-3 against the Eagles since switching sides in the heated rivalry. He'd been relegated to mere mortal status against &lt;strong&gt;Jim Johnson&lt;/strong&gt;'s defense, averaging a modest four catches for 61 yards in the four games with two touchdowns overall. Not last night. While the Philadelphia secondary did manage to limit T.O. to three catches, two of those went into the end zone. The highlight came in the first quarter, when &lt;strong&gt;Sean Considine&lt;/strong&gt; bit on an inside route and Owens went deep for a 72-yard score -- the longest completion of &lt;strong&gt;Tony Romo&lt;/strong&gt;'s career.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 3px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/lettergrades/grade-inc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;60&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Milwaukee Brewers management&lt;/strong&gt; | SI.com baseball scribe &lt;strong&gt;John Donovan&lt;/strong&gt; called yesterday's surprising, eleventh-hour sacking of manager &lt;strong&gt;Ned Yost&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;/si_blogs/for_the_record/posts/4542&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;possibly unprecedented&quot; move&lt;/a&gt;. The decision came down one day after the Brewers suffered a four-game sweep at the hands of the surging Phillies to erase the last traces of a once-comfortable lead in the wild-card race. Will the front office's aggressiveness pay off? Or is history repeating itself for the Brewers, who squandered away a postseason berth last year with a similar September swoon?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 3px;&quot; src=&quot;http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/lettergrades/grade-d-tr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;60&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The U.S.O.C. &lt;/strong&gt;| The national Olympic Committee completed the assignment but gets graded down for tardiness. Remember the four U.S. cyclists who arrived in Beijing wearing masks to protect against pollution and germs -- as recommended by the committee itself -- and were forced to issue public apologies under U.S.O.C. duress? &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt; reports they finally received an &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/sports/usoc_letter_09142008.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;apology over e-mail&lt;/a&gt; from the delegation on Sunday. Said team member &lt;strong&gt;Sarah Hammer&lt;/strong&gt; to the &lt;em&gt;Times&lt;/em&gt;: &quot;We were called a disgrace to the United States team and were belittled and embarrassed by the very people that are supposed to be advocates for us. ... They treated us like we were just stupid athletes and like we didn&amp;rsquo;t matter.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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