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NFL Preview Part III – Award Winners and Super Bowl Pick
In the past few days we’ve posted our NFC and AFC previews. Now it’s time to pick the individual award winners and the Super Bowl. The thing I like about the NFL’s awards is that they are given to the best in each category from the entire NFL, not just the AFC or the NFC. Remember, the NFL MVP has not won the Super Bowl in the same year since Kurt Warner won both for the Rams all the way back in 1999. So individual success is certainly not a guarantee of team success.
App of the week: Shazam
Bryn Pennetti
Arts, Entertainment & Technology Editor
Think back – you’re walking through a store and all of a sudden- a song comes on that you really like but you can’t hear it well enough to get the name of it. ‘Is that the chorus? The title has to be in it somewhere… Maybe if I write some of the lyrics down I can search it later…’
We’ve all been there, but Shazam fixes that daily struggle.
DNC 2012
Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Blogs Editor
On the heels of a successful Republican National Convention, a looming jobs report, and an economy that is still deeply suffering, Democrats were put in the spotlight to throw a convention miracle. The stakes were high: Barack Obama had to convince the American people to give him four more years to put the economy on track. Without a doubt, this convention met and exceeded expectations with its line-up of effective prime-time speakers. Could this be the turning point of the election?
NFL Preview Part II – The AFC
John Berger
Senior Editor
Wednesday night’s game to open the NFL season saw the Dallas Cowboys knock off the defending champions, the New York Giants.
You can read my NFC preview below, but now it’s time to preview the AFC.