Emerging markets: Cheap but risky investment (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6VFe6BnwxxrQYq_Os5ibxH7FqsZmAgB4JQntySVp4VEp2hI2iaKCNL8wWeN2MbjLFycRzknldMzcDVdiZdEgQAbyYnPcrKG_qm_vXfvp81F_V5l25hWdh9Pa-Dql_rpknEel215x_nM/s1600/1388707992000-AP-India-Religious-Riots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6VFe6BnwxxrQYq_Os5ibxH7FqsZmAgB4JQntySVp4VEp2hI2iaKCNL8wWeN2MbjLFycRzknldMzcDVdiZdEgQAbyYnPcrKG_qm_vXfvp81F_V5l25hWdh9Pa-Dql_rpknEel215x_nM/s320/1388707992000-AP-India-Religious-Riots.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">You should always leave the New Year's party before you start an argument with a ficus, and it's certainly best to leave before you lose the fight. Similarly, it's best to come to some investments early and leave them early, which brings us to emerging markets funds.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Emerging markets funds had a lousy 2013, but they started to heat up in the last quarter. Furthermore, they're reasonably cheap, something you can't really say about the U.S. market anymore. And, much like a party, they're much more fun as more people join in. You simply have to be willing to leave early, or be willing to be stuck with a mess when the party ends.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Emerging markets are Wall Street's name for the stock markets in countries that are not among the leading industrialized nations, such as the U.S., Japan and most of Western Europe. We're talking about such countries as Poland in Europe, Thailand in Asia and Brazil in Latin America.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The average emerging markets fund fell 0.1% last year, which is not bad by emerging markets standards. In fact, it's terrific. The worst 12-month fall in emerging markets was a bone-grinding 58% loss in the 12 months ended February 2009, which eclipsed the funds' 45% loss during the 1998 Asian currency crisis.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Nevertheless, if you bet heavily on emerging markets last year, you probably feel fairly silly, given that the average diversified U.S. stock fund gained 34%, and the average large-company international fund gained 19.6%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Why consider emerging markets now? For one thing, they're relatively cheap, compared with their past 12 months' earnings. The traditional measure of value is the price-to-earnings ratio: Lower is cheaper. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index sells for about 11.6 times its past 12 months' earnings, according to Bloomberg. The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index sells for about 19 times its 2013 earnings.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">While emerging markets aren't at their cheapest ever — that was in 1998 — they're still pretty darn cheap. So that's the first part of the argument for emerging markets: They're cheap.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If you've ever stayed in a $39 hotel room, you know that "cheap" isn't the same as "a bargain," particularly if you have to hire a guy named Cronk to stand guard outside the door. When you're looking for stock bargains, you need to get a low price combined with decent earnings potential.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">And this is where things get a bit murky, because emerging markets cover a great deal of ground. Last year, for example, the top-performing emerging markets were:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• Greece (yes, Greece), up 46%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• Taiwan, up 6.6%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• Egypt, up 6.2%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">All three countries were recovering from epic drops. Beyond them, the emerging markets were pretty much filled with bitterness and disappointment, especially the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — which were hyped in 2009 and 2010. Brazil plunged 18.7%. Russia fell 1.6%. India slid 6.1%. China lost 10.4%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The great argument for growth in the emerging markets is the emerging consumer class there. People like good food, utilities and conveniences, and the emerging markets have seen a growing appetite for all three. Continued prosperity in the emerging markets could be a bonanza for the companies that sell there.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But growth is likely to be uneven across the emerging markets spectrum, says Stephen Wood, chief market strategist at Russell Investments. China, for example, should see 7.5% GDP growth — a rate that would be insanely fast for the U.S., but is sluggish by Chinese standards. That means that demand for commodities such as iron, steel and wood could be sluggish, as well. For emerging markets such as Brazil and Russia, that's bad news.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Further complicating matters is the Federal Reserve's decision to taper its massive bond purchases, which have kept U.S. interest rates artificially low. Higher U.S. rates mean that investors can get higher, safe returns and might not feel as inclined to send their money to more volatile emerging markets.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Cash flows to emerging markets make an enormous difference. Because some emerging markets are so small, a big blast of money into them is like filling a soda can with a fire hose. In 2012, for example, investors poured a net $43 billion into emerging markets funds, which rose 18% that year. Flows last year were about $27 billion. Should investors feel that there are better opportunities in the U.S., inflows to emerging markets could fall further.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If you believe in buying stocks cheaply, however, it's hard to overlook emerging markets. You might consider three ways to play emerging markets:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• <span style="font-weight: 700;">Via a value fund.</span> Value managers look for stocks that are cheap, relative to earnings. One consideration: Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Index (ticker: SFENX), which also charges just 0.5% in annual expenses.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• <span style="font-weight: 700;">Via a broad-based index fund.</span> Vanguard Emerging Markets index (VEIEX) will give you broad exposure to emerging markets, and for just 0.33% a year in expenses.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• <span style="font-weight: 700;">Via an actively managed fund.</span> You'll pay more, but funds such as Driehaus Emerging Markets Growth (DREGX), Northern Multi-Manager Emerging Markets (NMMEX) and T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets (PRMSX) all have good long-term records.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If you do invest in emerging markets, keep them to a relatively small percentage of your portfolio — say, 10% or less. Why so little? Because many U.S. companies get a big share of earnings from emerging markets, so you have exposure there. And many international funds have a chunk of assets in emerging markets, too. Emerging markets are attractive, but you don't want a hangover.</div></div>

Emerging markets: Cheap but risky investment (BLOG)

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Bell: Questions to ponder heading into NFL playoffs (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWS3EJ6c_gc-3mgKXmDef-NEOD2iIhnXrVW1pkezfi3vrcyhzo6Qru9LVjyAeklfTyHoE3XOqBPvmq96bVNkrOaeIQ5vxDPRC_pGKgOPVrcYzszwzyCGirEVNua5JxpOm352OzjbIJmxQ/s1600/1388718143000-USATSI-7613060.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWS3EJ6c_gc-3mgKXmDef-NEOD2iIhnXrVW1pkezfi3vrcyhzo6Qru9LVjyAeklfTyHoE3XOqBPvmq96bVNkrOaeIQ5vxDPRC_pGKgOPVrcYzszwzyCGirEVNua5JxpOm352OzjbIJmxQ/s320/1388718143000-USATSI-7613060.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The answers will be provided soon enough, where it matters most – on the field.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But as another NFL postseason kicks off this weekend, the questions persist.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">A few things to wonder about …</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">How dangerous are the Packers with Aaron Rodgers back?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Green Bay's wait for its former MVP quarterback to return from a broken collarbone was rewarded by the best-case scenario.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">You know what they say: Just get in. Anything can happen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Like last weekend, when Rodgers connected with Randall Cobb on a 46-yard, fourth-down heave at Chicago that won the NFC North crown. Or like three years ago, when the Packers got in as a sixth seed and won it all.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Packers (8-7-1) were 6-2 this season in games that Rodgers started and finished. But there can be no magical playoff run this time unless Green Bay, suspect defense in tow, can find a way to handle a physical 49ers team that it has succumbed to three times since the start of the 2012 season.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">VIDEO: Wild card weekend story lines</span></div><div class="story-asset video-asset" id="module-position-M3cy5vDf29Q" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><div class="video" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject" style="display: inline-block; height: 304px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 60px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 540px;"><img alt="" class="videoStill" height="304" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/fd7cf0f07db23e04787c44bf5a19473d907ce74d/r=x307&c=540x304/http/videos.usatoday.net/Brightcove2/29906170001/2014/01/29906170001_3002010711001_Screen-Shot-2014-01-02-at-9-48-35-AM.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100%; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 0;" width="540" /><div class="videoStillPlay" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/usat-web-static-12.2.2/images/buttons/button_video_play.png); background-position: 0px -2px; cursor: pointer; height: 91px; left: 270px; margin: -46px 0px 0px -46px; position: absolute; top: 152px; visibility: visible; width: 93px; z-index: 0;"></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Can the Saints finally win a road playoff game?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">With the forecast for temperatures near 32 degrees in Philadelphia on Saturday night, New Orleans coach Sean Payton had his team practice outdoors this week.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Saints are 0-5 in road playoff games in franchise history. The 3-5 road record during the just-completed regular season reflected that a Drew Brees-armed offense scores about half as much on the road as it does in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. New Orleans averaged 34 points per game at home, 17.8 on the road.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Saints are bringing a better defense under first-year coordinator Rob Ryan -- New Orleans ranked fourth for yards allowed one season after allowing an NFL-record 7,092 yards. Yet the unit couldn't hold up in crunchtime of two of the most heartbreaking road losses this season – at New England and at Carolina. So it still might take winning a shootout.</div><div class="story-asset image-asset" id="module-position-M3cy5vEVKxw" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px;"><img alt="2014-01-02-cam-newton" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/89bbbb030fc81029937a0c0535b8c61f8991ca4a/c=0-148-1456-1243&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2014/01/02//1388718311000-USATSI-7640645.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">The Carolina Panthers are a heavy run time, but do they need more from quarterback Cam Newton in order to succeed in the postseason?<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Daniel Shirey, USA TODAY Sports)</span></div></aside><div class="clearfix"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Does Cam Newton have to produce bigger passing games for the Panthers to advance?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Not necessarily. The Panthers are built for the tough, gritty, tightly contested games that often mark the higher competition of postseason football. One of the NFL's most dominant defenses will keep them in most games, and they have demonstrated a knack for rallying to pull out games at the finish.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Yet balance is a virtue. Carolina has the NFL's 29th-ranked passing attack. And with Newton's most proven wideout, Steve Smith, nursing a knee injury, the ripple effect could be a crucial factor.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Still, Carolina has been one of the NFL's best teams on third downs. While Newton hasn't produced the huge passing numbers, he's raised his game by making better decisions that ultimately reduce the chances of losing.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">And with the game on the line, all stats go out the window.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Can Andy Dalton raise his game for the Bengals?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Dalton is just the fifth quarterback in NFL history to lead his team to the playoffs in each of his first three seasons, but to this point he has not demonstrated any ability to spark his team to a higher level in January. Cincinnati was eliminated the last two seasons in first-round openers at Houston, with Dalton combining for four picks and zero TDs.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Yet playing in his first home playoff game should make a difference – at least for the opening round. In going 8-0 at home this season, Cincinnati averaged 34.4 points and posted an average margin of victory of 17.6 points per game.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Still, it has been such an up-and-down season for Dalton. He ranked third in the NFL with 33 TD passes, but no quarterback in the playoffs threw as many interceptions (20).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">How can the Patriots offense thrive without Gronk?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">It has been a season of adjustments for Tom Brady and the New England offense, but losing the 6-6 weapon that is all-pro tight end Rob Gronkowski becomes more glaring in the red zone. The Patriots have plugged leaks with the likes of receivers Danny Amendola and Julian Edelman, but they lack the radius to create red-zone mismatches.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">So much will undoubtedly ride on Brady's arm. Despite Brady's modest numbers this season, his impact in developing targets throughout the season has been essential.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But he can't create another Gronkowski. Maybe New England's best answer when it gets into the red zone was demonstrated in Week 17 with the power running of LeGarrette Blount, whose 24-carry, 189-yard game was the biggest rushing performance by a Patriot since 1998.</div><div class="story-asset image-asset" id="module-position-M3cy5vF5Q3c" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px;"><img alt="2014-01-02-crabtree" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/d51349adbb69052d8ef1b77192c566d65e4be5dc/c=142-0-3451-2488&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2014/01/02//1388718599000-USATSI-7593532.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree could be the key to the team revitalizing its passing attack in the playoffs.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports)</span></div></aside><div class="clearfix"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Have the 49ers solved their issues in the passing game?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Getting Michael Crabtree back surely made a difference. It is no coincidence that Colin Kaepernick – who finished the regular season with a 310-yard outing at Arizona that marked his biggest passing game since his career-high 412-yard game in Week 1 against Green Bay – has been in a better rhythm since Crabtree returned from his torn Achilles in Week 13.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">During the last six games, when the 49ers mounted a six-game winning streak that is longest in the NFL as the playoffs begin, Kaepernick has a 10-1 TD-to-interception ratio that is best in the league.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">With their tough defense and potent rushing attack, the 49ers probably don't need Kaepernick to pass for 300 yards on a weekly basis. But if they can throw effectively when they need to or want to – and Crabtree's presence opens windows for Anquan Boldin and Vernon Davis -- it would add another dimension to the most dangerous wild-card entrant in the playoffs.</div><div class="story-asset gallery-asset" id="module-position-M3cy5vFsuSc" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><div class="sports-story-gallery sports-story-gallery0"><div class="galleries embedded_story hasendslate" data-base-page-type="gallery" data-cst="sports/football/nfl" data-gal-pageurl="http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/sports/nfl/2014/01/01/2013-mvps-for-each-nfl-team/4275213/" data-gallery-id="4275213" data-seo-title="2013-mvps-for-each-nfl-team" data-ssts="sports/nfl" data-title="2013 MVPs for each NFL team:2013 MVPs for each NFL team" data-topic="sports,sports_nfl" style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(242, 242, 242); height: 550px !important; margin: 10px 0px 20px 60px; position: relative; width: 540px;"><br /></div></div></div></div>

Bell: Questions to ponder heading into NFL playoffs (BLOG)

The answers will be provided soon enough, where it matters most – on the field. But as another NFL postseason kicks off this weekend, the qu...

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Calif. man to share $648M lottery jackpot (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiK5m9zn8Qbrw3o1Kn9VASQeGp-tORSZZUyuPSqyk2T4RhVidMsCy8BtiQ_NrDOwArLH298fGFuqANXoVjLNTiEsgXmwFHwuSBN76XzoGnGDFNC05IoXfk2_jMxCeRfgEZWMYCeGQV2w/s1600/1388776420000-AP-APTOPIX-Mega-Millions-Jackpot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiK5m9zn8Qbrw3o1Kn9VASQeGp-tORSZZUyuPSqyk2T4RhVidMsCy8BtiQ_NrDOwArLH298fGFuqANXoVjLNTiEsgXmwFHwuSBN76XzoGnGDFNC05IoXfk2_jMxCeRfgEZWMYCeGQV2w/s320/1388776420000-AP-APTOPIX-Mega-Millions-Jackpot.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">A California man who didn't realize for more than two weeks that he had a winning Mega Million lottery ticket has come forward to claim half of a $648 million jackpot, the second largest in U.S. history, California Lottery officials said Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The other winner, a Georgia woman who bought her ticket in Atlanta, has already claimed her winnings.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Steve Tran, a frequent lottery player who lives in Northern California, said he had read about the big jackpot drawing on Dec. 17 and knew that "everybody was anxious, looking for the person."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Because he and his family had gone on vacation without checking their tickets, it didn't dawn on Tran until Monday that he might have a winner among the pile he keeps in a drawer.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I woke up in the middle of the night," Tran told the Lottery officials. "I remembered, I think I went to San Jose."</div><div class="story-asset image-asset" id="module-position-M3cxaXf7AFQ" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px;"><img alt="Mega Millions Jackpot" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/bc149b4532b91ff374d0a3a6c708d5ef2eb8de05/c=272-0-4782-3390&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2014/01/03//1388777460000-AP-Mega-Millions-Jackpot.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Customers crowd Jenny's gift shop to purchase lottery tickets Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, in San Jose, Calif. Two lucky winning tickets were sold in a $648 million Mega Millions drawing on Dec. 17. The second winner was purchased in Atlanta.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Ben Margot AP)</span></div></aside><div class="clearfix"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Tran, who drives a delivery truck, said he and his family had visited San Jose because of its large Vietnamese community, where they can also eat and shop, <i>The San Jose Mercury News </i><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24840318/california-lottery-324-million-mega-millions-winn" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24840318/california-lottery-324-million-mega-millions-winn">reports</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He said the winner -- with numbers 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and a Mega number of 7 -- was among five he bought at Jenny's Gift & Kids Wear in a San Jose strip mall.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">After doublechecking the number on Monday, Tran said, he called his boss and left a message: "I'm really sorry boss. I hit the jackpot. I don't think I'm going to come in today, tomorrow, or ever."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The other winner of the big jackpot was identified as Ira Curry of Georgia. She took a lump sum payout of $123 million after taxes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Thuy Nguyen, owner of the San Jose gift shop, will get $1 million for selling a jackpot winner.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Contributing: The Associated Press</i></div></div>

Calif. man to share $648M lottery jackpot (BLOG)

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Matt Said, Jay Said...9373277200

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIhWmcWw8mjgQ0qhKLH52wqajSp6-bXYMktBlRrxOaOD-2pburp1Kx8Csx06z-sd6REsuNfOAFSGyvniojZQDRRSAqgMOSPAJIPd9fzPLdRJA-UExVferYkP4B6mE0Zzh3Bj-b9dXzSJl/s1600/alyssa+milano+hot+naked+jay+mohr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIhWmcWw8mjgQ0qhKLH52wqajSp6-bXYMktBlRrxOaOD-2pburp1Kx8Csx06z-sd6REsuNfOAFSGyvniojZQDRRSAqgMOSPAJIPd9fzPLdRJA-UExVferYkP4B6mE0Zzh3Bj-b9dXzSJl/s400/alyssa+milano+hot+naked+jay+mohr.jpg" width="290" /></a>Matt farts, Jay belches, you admire their manliness…<br /><br />Matt:  Hello?  Hello?  Lady of the house speaking.<br />Jay:  Lady of the house?  Dude you need to man up.<br />Matt:  Dude, I was being funny.<br />Jay:  Well there’s funny, and then there is effeminate-ancy.<br />Matt:  Is that a word?<br />Jay:  Well, it is now, because it’s on the internet.<br />Matt:  Good point.<br /><br />Jay:  How was your New Year’s Eve?<br />Matt:  Uneventful but pleasant.  Schmoop wore tight fittin’ booty shorts.<br />Jay:  That’s HOT.  How come?<br />Matt:  I asked her to. <br />Jay:  Oh wow.  That’s skill right there.<br />Matt:  Word…How was yours?<br />Jay:  Just dandy.  Making the New Year cheese ball for today as we welcome in 2014.<br />Matt:  Making a cheese ball?  And you call me effeminate?<br />Jay:  Listen…I am a man who can make cheese balls AND cook.  Chicks dig that.<br />Matt:  By God they do…y’know…you and I have developed are manly skills to the nth degree.<br /><br />Jay:  Oh I know.  We are witty and sensitive.<br />Matt:  We can cook and are runway fashion plates.<br />Jay:  We are handy around the house and know how to feminize the ladies.<br />Matt:  We offer to get our napkins after they forget to bring one when they bring us our sandwich.<br />Jay:  Damn dude…When I think about it?  We have a lot of knowledge to offer to men everywhere.<br />Matt:  And it would be rude of us to keep it to ourselves.<br />Jay:  It would be.<br /><br />Matt:  Alright then…Sunday we should do a <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2014/01/06/the-mans-survival-guide-for-2014" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Man’s Survival Guide</span></i></a> type show on IWS Radio.<br />Jay:  Hell yeah.  If we don’t impart our tips on how to become a valued and lusted after man, we are sinning.<br />Matt:  I don’t want to sin.<br />Jay:  Me neither.  Sinning is…well, a sin.<br />Matt:  Well said.<br />Jay:  Thank You.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfUrzcFZ3tuuRXxR-N15uJDcGYsGe2fFAM9aLAdeSniyukpoIZKBSHQC0_q1dfCzSpEMYrndRSCVILP0GfBIZUYrcbWFfNcfUpH767EEPGEfb6bRTRREktD2VlMymVhrAqjwNVDWPF_daz/s1600/Best+Cheese+Ball+Recipe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfUrzcFZ3tuuRXxR-N15uJDcGYsGe2fFAM9aLAdeSniyukpoIZKBSHQC0_q1dfCzSpEMYrndRSCVILP0GfBIZUYrcbWFfNcfUpH767EEPGEfb6bRTRREktD2VlMymVhrAqjwNVDWPF_daz/s320/Best+Cheese+Ball+Recipe.jpg" width="320" /></a>Matt:  So?  This <i><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2014/01/06/the-mans-survival-guide-for-2014" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sunday from 8-10 PM ET</span></a></i> on the IWS Radio Show we will help every guy in the universe.<br />Jay:  Damn straight.  Teach guys how to cook, dress, build a career.<br />Matt:  Find that special lady and leave her wanting more every time.<br />Jay:  I bet Rev. Moneymaker and Stubby Stonehenge could help with some insightful words.<br />Matt:  As could Bobby Kraft and Barry Resnick.<br /><br />Jay:  This is going to be huge, because men everywhere will call-in for our advice.<br />Matt:  If they don’t, they aren’t real men.<br />Jay:  Damn straight.  That would make them pussies and won’t be getting any of what they are.<br />Matt:  You speak the truth.  Off to make a baloney sandwich and look at Scar-Jo pics Jayman.<br />Jay:  Okay.  Ima gonna finish the cheese ball and see if Alyssa Milano will retweet me again.<br />Matt and Jay:  See ya Sunday on the Radio!!<br /><br />To listen LIVE to IWS Radio’s, <i><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2014/01/06/the-mans-survival-guide-for-2014" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Man’s Survival Guide to 2014</span></a></i> Sunday from 8-10 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio click <i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2014/01/06/the-mans-survival-guide-for-2014" target="_blank">HERE!!</a></span></i><br />.  </div>

Matt Said, Jay Said...9373277200

Matt farts, Jay belches, you admire their manliness… Matt:  Hello?  Hello?  Lady of the house speaking. Jay:  Lady of the house?  Dude you n...

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'Baboon Syndrome': An Unusual Complication of Antibiotics (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtrwzsUQwaAWEdmzh4Zoqg19K6lTNhM0H83SusL3PTvaCz1MJthSZ9s_IMXzN-i_2_2d8kGtoi6KJtQNkPnfKXe4CwVS6Nrq12dj_8SAaTtv072ZlHR_Ab8ZNlyXmk6aHc_HI3Evk79w/s1600/images+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtrwzsUQwaAWEdmzh4Zoqg19K6lTNhM0H83SusL3PTvaCz1MJthSZ9s_IMXzN-i_2_2d8kGtoi6KJtQNkPnfKXe4CwVS6Nrq12dj_8SAaTtv072ZlHR_Ab8ZNlyXmk6aHc_HI3Evk79w/s1600/images+(2).jpg" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4560" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A 40-year-old man with a sore throat and fever was diagnosed with tonsillitis, and was prescribed penicillin, a common antibiotic. But several days later, the man developed a rash over his armpits, groin and buttocks — an unusual condition known as "baboon syndrome."</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"><section class="yom-mod " data-ylk="mid:mediacontentrelatedstory;mpos:1;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;cat:Related Stories;rspns:nav;t1:a3;itc:0;sec:lst-ct;" id="mediacontentrelatedstory" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></section></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4591" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The condition, more formally called symmetrical drug-related intertriginous and flexural exanthema (SDRIFE), is known as baboon syndrome because the <a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://www.livescience.com/36680-causes-rash-contact-dermatitis-treatments.html" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4600" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">rash</a> on the patient's buttocks resembles the red hindquarters of some monkeys.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4611" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Because doctors often <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.livescience.com/15740-helpful-bacteria-antibiotics.html" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4610" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">prescribe penicillin antibiotics</a> to treat tonsillitis and other bacterial infections, it is important to be aware that baboon syndrome is one of the medication's possible side effects, wrote the researchers who reported the man's case online Nov. 28 in the journal BMJ Case Reports.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The condition is usually caused by an allergic reaction to penicillin drugs, but can also be caused by exposure to mercury or nickel, said Dr. Andreas Bircher, a dermatologist at University Hospital of Basel in Switzerland. (He was not involved in the study but has reported other cases of baboon syndrome.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In the present case, during the man's initial examination, he had enlarged and inflamed <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.livescience.com/34476-what-are-tonsils.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">tonsils</a>, according to the physicians at the NHS Lothian hospital in the United Kingdom who reported the case. His regular doctor had prescribed penicillin for him two days earlier, but the patient became unable to swallow. [<a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.livescience.com/36244-strangest-allergic-reactions.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">8 Strange Signs You're Having an Allergic Reaction</a>]</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The emergency-department doctor who saw the man started him on a course of intravenous benzylpenicillin (a different type than the oral penicillin) four times a day and gave him a single dose of intravenous dexamethasone, a steroid medication used to treat inflammation.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By the next day, the patient had developed a rash over his groins and inner elbow. Assuming it was a reaction to the penicillin, the doctor changed his antibiotic to clarithromycin (which is in a different class of antibiotics).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On the third day after being seen at the hospital, the patient's throat was much better, and he was able to swallow liquids and soft foods, but his rash had spread and become painful. At that point, the rash covered his armpits, buttocks, lower abdomen and upper thighs, and his groin showed signs of necrosis (dead tissue).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The doctors had to determine whether the patient was having a severe drug reaction, which would get better on its own, or a dangerous infection of <a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.livescience.com/20251-flesh-eating-bacteria.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">flesh-eating bacteria</a> (necrotizing fasciitis), which would require immediate removal of the dead or infected tissue.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The team started the patient on non-penicillin broad-spectrum antibiotics, which act against a range of bacteria, and took a tissue sample from his right groin. The sample tested negative for flesh-eating bacteria, so the patient was diagnosed with baboon syndrome.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It's not a very common condition," Bircher told LiveScience. For unknown reasons, it's more prevalent in males, and usually seen in postpubescent people.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The patient stopped taking antibiotics, and used oral and topical steroids to treat his rash. He was discharged from the hospital 11 days after being admitted, and the rash disappeared.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It's a true allergy," Bircher said. With steroid treatment, the rash usually fades within a week, but re-exposure to the drug or allergen can cause a relapse within one to two days, Bircher said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Baboon syndrome typically appears a few hours to two days after a person takes an antibiotic. The syndrome rarely affects small children, but cases have been reported in an 18-month-old and a 5-year-old, the researchers noted in their case report. Recovery can sometimes take up to three weeks.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Exposure to penicillin, nickel or mercury are the most common causes of the syndrome, but it has also been linked to certain heartburn drugs, biological agents and chemotherapy.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4689" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><em>Follow </em><em>Tanya Lewis </em><em>on </em><em id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4699"><a data-rapid_p="13" href="https://twitter.com/tanyalewis314" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4698" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a> </em><em id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_4716">and </em><a data-rapid_p="14" href="https://plus.google.com/117033537877488293678/posts" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><em>Google+</em></a><em>. Follow us </em><a data-rapid_p="15" href="https://twitter.com/LiveScience" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><em>@livescience</em></a><em>, </em><em><a data-rapid_p="16" href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/livescience" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a> </em><em>& </em><a data-rapid_p="17" href="https://plus.google.com/101164570444913213957/posts" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><em>Google+</em></a><em>. 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'Baboon Syndrome': An Unusual Complication of Antibiotics (BLOG)

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Missing Doctor's Video Raises More Questions About Teleka Patrick (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqLVdMXqs2PwEjOxw4bn5WoVJ21iJl9XgaNHAGz2lkbFdqxJ2Rm_YEzTfVwG1MIbITkFodG0I_h7chi4k7EmhU_QVpkQc6zKz7BigcczmXxX3UI5kyTOnEEhE94j6lsdNXPYkAXAWDp4/s1600/images+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqLVdMXqs2PwEjOxw4bn5WoVJ21iJl9XgaNHAGz2lkbFdqxJ2Rm_YEzTfVwG1MIbITkFodG0I_h7chi4k7EmhU_QVpkQc6zKz7BigcczmXxX3UI5kyTOnEEhE94j6lsdNXPYkAXAWDp4/s1600/images+(1).jpg" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_2588" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">ABC News' Anna Wild reports:</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_2598" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://fox17online.com/2013/12/31/newly-found-videos-of-teleka-patrick/#axzz2pFVuGmqv" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_2607" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New video obtained by a TV news station</a> of Teleka Patrick, a Michigan doctor who mysteriously vanished nearly one month ago, may be the clue investigators have been searching for to help discover her whereabouts.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The video shows Patrick, 30, buying flowers for, cooking for and singing and talking to a mysterious possible love interest.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_2618" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I just imagine you are here with me, even though I know you're not," Patrick says in the video. "I got dressed up for you."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_2628" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Her family says they thought Patrick was single, and now, because of this discovery, police are scouring her computers "just to see if there were any patterns in her intercommunication," said the missing woman's sister, Tanesha Patrick.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I just figure you do your best and I will do my best and we give each other a chance," Patrick continues in the video.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Patrick was a first-year medical resident in psychiatry in Kalamazoo, Mich. She was last seen on Dec. 5 in a surveillance video at a Radisson Hotel just five minutes from her home.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">According to investigators, a hotel employee said she appeared agitated when he turned her away after trying to pay for a room in cash.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Two hours later, more than 100 miles away, Patrick's car was found in a ditch on the side of the road with a flat tire. Her wallet was inside, but no sign of car keys.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Police say no one reported seeing anyone on the road that night.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There's no words in the dictionary to describe my feelings right now," said Patrick's mother, Irene Patrick. "It is the worst nightmare. I really want the nightmare to be over."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760777073_2653" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Patrick's cell phone and purse were found at the hospital where she worked, but so far, there are no leads.</div></div>

Missing Doctor's Video Raises More Questions About Teleka Patrick (BLOG)

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Bears sign QB Jay Cutler to 7-year deal (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8P1fIoHxrWF8BZ6B-InOeZk5gqCLruCr_elFmdeIVAhhqJJPUZN7v1KRe_HyP9lY3xaohXHnKqMA4lYvDuk6GbMVpK3rhVkKpFwkqX3lCzuF1-GEGZiBI33vp7f8x3i2laUBaomiAPc/s1600/628x471.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8P1fIoHxrWF8BZ6B-InOeZk5gqCLruCr_elFmdeIVAhhqJJPUZN7v1KRe_HyP9lY3xaohXHnKqMA4lYvDuk6GbMVpK3rhVkKpFwkqX3lCzuF1-GEGZiBI33vp7f8x3i2laUBaomiAPc/s320/628x471.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_9534" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) -- If the Bears make changes this offseason, it will not be at quarterback.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_9546" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Chicago signed <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7760" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jay Cutler</a> to a seven-year contract Thursday, ending speculation they might make a change after five seasons of good and bad from their talented signal-caller. Cutler clearly thrived under first-year coach Marc Trestman and now has some of the best complements on offense he's had since arriving in Chicago in 2009.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_9556" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''It's not always been easy,'' Cutler said. ''There's been some ups and downs. There's been some bad years there's been some good years. I think it makes me appreciate the moment I'm in even more, with the offensive weapons we have, with the type of leadership we have from the front office, with the type of coaching staff we have with the play calling and our (offensive) install. It makes me happy I'm here.''</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_9565" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Bears also signed cornerback Tim Jennings, who has led the team in interceptions in each of the past two seasons, and guard Matt Slauson to four-year deals. Like Cutler, both players were scheduled to become free agents.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">General manager Phil Emery said the team and Cutler's agent, Bus Cook, completed contract discussions three days after the season ended Sunday with a 33-28 loss to the <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/gnb" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Green Bay Packers</a> in a game that decided the NFC North title. Terms were not disclosed, but the deal for the 30-year-old Cutler is reportedly worth nearly $18 million per year over the first three years and includes at least $50 million guaranteed.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''I think whenever you have two groups who want to work in the same direction and want the same thing to happen it can happen relatively pretty easily,'' Emery said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Cutler produced his career-best passer rating of 89.2 in 2013, although he played in just 11 games due to ankle and groin injuries. He completed 224 of 355 passes for 2,621 yards and 19 touchdowns with 12 interceptions.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Emery said he was sold on Cutler's return after seeing him in Trestman's offense early in the season.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''After the first three games I definitely knew it was going in the right direction in terms of him putting the team in position to win games at the end of the game,'' Emery said. ''That says a lot about the player. I think that Jay's third-down passing and fourth-quarter quarterback rating are very high and have been high for a while. He was in the top 10 in both areas this year. I think it speaks of a guy that can be a guy, a player, that is a reason you win.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Still, Emery said he wanted to see how Cutler responded to some adversity. He saw it when Cutler came back from a groin strain to face the <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="10" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/det" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Detroit Lions</a> in a 21-19 loss and from an ankle sprain to beat the<a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/cle" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Cleveland Browns</a> 38-31.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''How he handled the situation coming back from his second injury and the tremendous pressure that was on him because of the decision we had made to reinstate him as the starter, how he handled that as a person, pregame, game, within the game, after throwing a couple of picks, coming back and being a reason that you win the game,'' Emery said. ''How he handled the Packers and Lions ... that's when I finalized the decision.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Cutler feuded with former offensive coordinators like Ron Turner, Mike Martz and Mike Tice, but he has steadily climbed the franchise statistical charts and guided the Bears to the NFC championship game in 2010.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Under Trestman, he seemed to gain a new lease on life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''The mindset is right and the talent in the locker room is right, so I'm happy to be joining the rest of the guys, the rest of the coaches, the rest of the organization in pursuit of a championship,'' Cutler said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Cutler wouldn't call money the key reason for staying out of free agency, citing familiarity with Trestman's offense as a big factor. He has only been in the same offense for consecutive years a few times in his NFL career, which started in 2006.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Trestman found Cutler ran his offense efficiently, even if he had a reputation as a big-play, big-mistake type of player.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''He's been through a lot,'' Trestman said. ''I mean, part of what's brought him to this point is the scars of the last five years and the adversity that he's gone through in getting to know himself better over the last five years. I saw selflessness. I certainly saw mental toughness. When you evaluate a quarterback, you say, does he have an inventory of passes? Can he make all the throws? Does he have mobility? Is he a quick decision maker? Jay has all that.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Bears tabled a few major defensive questions, including the fate of defensive coordinator Mel Tucker and whether they should stick with a 4-3 scheme.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Trestman and Emery did acknowledge the numerous injuries Tucker dealt with his first season. The Bears lost Pro Bowlers Henry Melton, Lance Briggs and Charles Tillman, as well as middle linebacker D.J. Williams, for big chunks of the season.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''I will just tell you we're going to be a younger defense,'' Emery said. ''The draft will be focused in that area.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Nor would Trestman or Emery rule out the switch to a 3-4 defensive scheme.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_9630" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''Everything is on the table in terms of a discussion,'' Trestman said. ''Phil said it: We're going to get younger. Part of our decisions and how we move forward schematically will be based on the players that are in our locker room.''</div></div>

Bears sign QB Jay Cutler to 7-year deal (BLOG)

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) -- If the Bears make changes this offseason, it will not be at quarterback. Chicago signed  Jay Cutler  to a seven-ye...

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Curry's 36 leads Warriors past Heat, 123-114 (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvPgbUWnddX-Mma2vJeoHWl122n6VXKh_zQwrP0HzbvsbNsVX0nFPnbwlOWUGgrSAyLej_LuFGAJIFWYDwMoP5QXOv8XE7gnUbdtMYeoylKetiUlDk9y3PYhyobE3VOmoNX6tFE3tx0qo/s1600/201401022101756738051.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvPgbUWnddX-Mma2vJeoHWl122n6VXKh_zQwrP0HzbvsbNsVX0nFPnbwlOWUGgrSAyLej_LuFGAJIFWYDwMoP5QXOv8XE7gnUbdtMYeoylKetiUlDk9y3PYhyobE3VOmoNX6tFE3tx0qo/s320/201401022101756738051.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_5287" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">MIAMI (AP) -- Game-high in points. Game-high in assists. Game-high in steals. Oh, and for good measure, he made as many 3-pointers as the entire <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/mia" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Miami Heat</a> roster.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"><section class="yom-mod " data-ylk="mid:mediacontentrelatedstory;mpos:1;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;cat:Related Stories;rspns:nav;t1:a3;itc:0;sec:lst-ct;" id="mediacontentrelatedstory" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></section></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_5296" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4612" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Stephen Curry</a> had another night to remember.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_5306" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">And the <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="10" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/gsw" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_5305" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Golden State Warriors</a> continued their surge.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_5315" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Curry finished with 36 points, 12 assists, four steals and made eight 3-pointers, <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3956" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">David Lee</a> finished with 32 points and 14 rebounds, and the Warriors ran past the Heat 123-114 Thursday night to extend the NBA's longest current winning streak to seven games.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''Curry was spectacular,'' Warriors coach <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="12" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/players/156040" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Mark Jackson</a> said. ''If he doesn't make the All-Star team, I might retire.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">If the Heat had a vote, Jackson's job would be safe.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediasportsmatcharticlescore_container"><div class="yom-mod yom-app yom-scores yom-sports-match-score yom-sports-scorething js" id="mediasportsmatcharticlescore" style="border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #f0f0f0; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 10px; zoom: 1;"><div class="hd" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize; zoom: 1;"><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Thu, Jan 2, 2014</h3></div><div class="bd" style="color: black; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; zoom: 1;"><div class="yom-sports-scorething-day"><table class="nba boxes" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px auto; width: 280px;"><tbody class=" final game link" data-index="0" data-url="/nba/golden-state-warriors-miami-heat-2014010214/" style="background-color: inherit; border: none;"><tr class="team away winner" style="background-color: inherit; border: none;"><th class="" style="background-color: inherit; border: none; font-weight: normal; padding: 3px 8px 1px; width: 140px;"><span class="logo yom-logo-nba large gs" style="background-color: #042a5c; background-image: url(http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/sports/images/team-logos/sprites/nba-40-1550761.png); background-position: -800px 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 40px; margin-right: 3px; vertical-align: middle; width: 40px;"></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; display: inline-block; float: left; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 13px 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 92px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Golden State</span></th><td class="score" style="background-color: inherit; border: none; padding: 3px 0px 0px; text-align: right; width: 1px;"><span style="border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; padding: 15px 10px 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">123</span></td><td class="links" colspan="1" rowspan="2" style="background-color: inherit; border: none; padding: 5px;"><span class="meta" style="color: #888888; display: block; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><a class="no-pjax" data-rapid_p="1" data-ylk="lt:s;sec:mod-sch;slk:game;itc:0;ltxt:;tar:sports.yahoo.com;" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/golden-state-warriors-miami-heat-2014010214/" style="color: #888888; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Final</a></span></td></tr><tr class="team home " style="background-color: inherit; border: none;"><th class="" style="background-color: inherit; border: none; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 8px 3px; width: 140px;"><span class="logo yom-logo-nba large mia" style="background-color: #252525; background-image: url(http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/sports/images/team-logos/sprites/nba-40-1550761.png); background-position: -480px 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 40px; margin-right: 3px; vertical-align: middle; width: 40px;"></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; display: inline-block; float: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 13px 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 92px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Miami</span></th><td class="score" style="background-color: inherit; border: none; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: right; width: 1px;"><span style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; color: #3f3f3f; font-size: 22px; padding: 15px 10px 11px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">114</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''One of the best shooters this NBA will see,'' Heat star LeBron James said. ''I mean, if you can find a better shooter than him right now, especially with the way he handles the ball - and the light that he has, it's more than green, it's fluorescent - you just hope that he misses.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He did miss a few. Just not very many.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Curry was 13 for 22 from the floor, 8 of 15 from beyond the arc. Lee made 13 of 17 shots. The Warriors made 15 3-pointers; the Heat managed only eight.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''It's a good experience against a championship-caliber team,'' Curry said. ''They know how to get it done so to come in here and play the way we did, it shows we're on the right path.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Klay Thompson scored 16 points and Harrison Barnes added 15 for the Warriors.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediasportsgameleaders_container"><div class="yom-mod yom-app yom-game-leaders" data-gid="nba.g.2014010214" id="mediasportsgameleaders" style="border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #f0f0f0; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1px; padding: 10px; zoom: 1;"><div class="hd" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize; zoom: 1;"><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Game Leaders</h3></div><div class="bd league-nba" style="color: black; margin: 0px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; zoom: 1;"><ul class="players" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="clear: both; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 280px;"><a data-rapid_p="1" data-ylk="lt:s;" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4612/" style="color: #949494; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Stephen Curry"><img alt="Stephen Curry" class="photo" height="66" src="http://l.yimg.com/iu/api/res/1.2/0lsXWUoznPLF29qt9JwXeg--/YXBwaWQ9eXZpZGVvO2NoPTg2MDtjcj0xO2N3PTY2MDtkeD0xO2R5PTE7Zmk9dWxjcm9wO2g9MjE1O3E9MTAwO3c9MTY1/http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/i/us/sp/v/nba/players_l/20121217/4612.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(127, 127, 127); float: left; height: 66px; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important; width: 50px;" title="" width="50" /></a><div class="name" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><a data-rapid_p="2" data-ylk="lt:s;" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4612/" style="color: #949494; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="Stephen Curry">Stephen Curry</a></div><div class="number team" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;">#30, <a class="team" data-rapid_p="3" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/gsw/" style="color: #949494; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Golden State</a></div><div class="stats" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px; width: auto !important;"><tbody style="border: 0px;"><tr style="background-color: transparent;" title="Points Scored: 36"><th class="stat" scope="row" style="background-color: #e3e7ec; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 8px;">Pts:</th><td class="value" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">36</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent;" title="Total Rebounds: 2"><th class="stat" scope="row" style="background-color: #e3e7ec; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 8px;">Reb:</th><td class="value" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">2</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent;" title="Assists: 12"><th class="stat" scope="row" style="background-color: #e3e7ec; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 8px;">Ast:</th><td class="value" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">12</td></tr></tbody></table></div></li><li style="clear: both; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 280px;"><a data-rapid_p="4" data-ylk="lt:s;" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3704/" style="color: #949494; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="LeBron James"><img alt="LeBron James" class="photo" height="66" src="http://l.yimg.com/iu/api/res/1.2/rmVsnrQpU888BwJDbouLbQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXZpZGVvO2NoPTg2MDtjcj0xO2N3PTY2MDtkeD0xO2R5PTE7Zmk9dWxjcm9wO2g9MjE1O3E9MTAwO3c9MTY1/http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/i/us/sp/v/nba/players_l/20121217/3704.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(127, 127, 127); float: left; height: 66px; margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important; width: 50px;" title="" width="50" /></a><div class="name" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><a data-rapid_p="5" data-ylk="lt:s;" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3704/" style="color: #949494; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="LeBron James">LeBron James</a></div><div class="number team" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;">#6, <a class="team" data-rapid_p="6" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/mia/" style="color: #949494; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Miami</a></div><div class="stats" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px !important; margin: 0px; width: auto !important;"><tbody style="border: 0px;"><tr style="background-color: transparent;" title="Points Scored: 26"><th class="stat" scope="row" style="background-color: #e3e7ec; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 8px;">Pts:</th><td class="value" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">26</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent;" title="Total Rebounds: 5"><th class="stat" scope="row" style="background-color: #e3e7ec; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 8px;">Reb:</th><td class="value" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">5</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent;" title="Assists: 5"><th class="stat" scope="row" style="background-color: #e3e7ec; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 8px;">Ast:</th><td class="value" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">5</td></tr></tbody></table></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">James scored 26 points and <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="13" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3708" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Dwyane Wade</a> added 22 for the Heat, who had all five starters in double figures. Chris Bosh scored 19, Mario Chalmers had 17 and Shane Battier added 11 for Miami.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But the Heat allowed Golden State to shoot 56 percent, plus finish with a 40-31 rebounding edge.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''They played a heck of a ball game,'' Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. ''They deserved to win this one.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">About the only blip for the Warriors were turnovers. They had 20, which Miami turned into 32 points. Without those, this might have been a lot worse.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''More than anything it keeps the ball rolling,'' Lee said after matching his season-high for scoring. ''Anytime you play the champions like this it's a measuring point. Tonight was no exception.''</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp portrait onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="14" data-uuid="148d2a05-4710-3c12-8c78-96bdcbf877de" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/curry-39-36-leads-warriors-photo-030751877--nba.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Curry&#39;s 36 leads Warriors past Heat, 123-114"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 427px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Curry&#39;s 36 leads Warriors past Heat, 123-114" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="427" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9KrFYz019c7ecAM3yTtL.A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTQyNztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401022004722897872" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson gestures during the first half of an NBA basketball game ag …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">They were sizzling from the get-go. The Warriors opened by making 11 of their first 13 shots - and somewhat unbelievably, were trailing at time, down 29-28 for a few seconds late in the first quarter.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Golden State scored on 14 of its first 21 possessions and led 38-33 after the opening quarter, putting up the highest point total for any period against the Heat this season. Things cooled, albeit slightly, in the second, and the Warriors went into the break with a 65-61 advantage.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">And then the third quarter was all about Curry.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He was dazzling, wowing Julius Erving at one end, Johnny Manziel on the other and pretty much frustrating the Heat at all points in between.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''Nothing you can do,'' Wade said. ''You contest it and hope he misses.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Curry went on a personal 7-0 run early in the period, all of them jumpers, one where he gave a quick look-back to James after a high-arcing, high-difficulty connection from the right corner. That barrage gave Golden State a 13-point lead, and a 3 from Curry put the Warriors up 91-76 with 3:27 left in the quarter.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Curry had 14 in the quarter, matching his output from the entire first half. The lead was down to nine entering the fourth, down to six when James made a 3-pointer with 5:18 left - but Curry's final 3 of the night pushed the margin back to nine with about 3 minutes remaining, and the Heat never got closer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''Vintage Steph,'' Lee said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">NOTES: Golden State's 123 points were the most allowed by the Heat at home in a non-overtime game since James, Wade and Bosh became teammates. ... Attendance was 20,350, tying the largest home regular-season crowd for the Heat at AmericanAirlines Arena. ... The only others with at least 35 points and 12 assists against Miami in a game: Michael Jordan and Allen Iverson, according to STATS.</div><div class="body-related-container" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388760495902_5647" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; max-width: 300px !important;"><div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp portrait onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="15" data-uuid="7f31f9f5-ab1d-36d5-a840-e5912efcba7b" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/curry-39-36-leads-warriors-photo-030751366--nba.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Curry&#39;s 36 leads Warriors past Heat, 123-114"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; 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