Manti Te'o's inspirational girlfriend story a hoax

From:<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/">http://www.usatoday.com</a><br /><br /><div class="asset-metabar-wrap" style="clear: both; margin: 20px 0px 23px 70px;"><div class="asset-metabar" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: table-cell; margin: 20px 0px 0px; width: 888px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="float: left; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY Sports</span><span class="asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item " style="border-left-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: #999999; float: left; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">6:44p.m. EST January 16, 2013</span></div></div><div class="double-wide" itemprop="articleBody" role="main" style="float: left; 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background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Matt Cashore, USA TODAY Sports)</span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; width: 180px;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Deadspin.com reports that Manti Te'o's inspirational girlfriend story was a hoax</li><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Teo's girlfriend Lennay Kekua was reportedly a student at Stanford</li><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Deadspin writes that Stanford has no record of anyone by that name attending the university</li></ul></aside></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;">To tell the story of Manti Te'o, Notre Dame's star linebacker, one must discuss his inspirational play in this September's win over Michigan State. Just days after the death of his grandmother and his girlfriend, Te'o racked up 12 tackles and recovered a fumble in a 20-3 victory over the Spartans. The following Saturday, after Lennay Kekua's funeral, Te'o made two interceptions in a 13-6 victory over Michigan.</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;"><b>BCS TITLE: </b><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/01/07/bcs-championship-notre-dame-teo-falters/1814439/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/01/07/bcs-championship-notre-dame-teo-falters/1814439/">Te'o unimpressive on national stage</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;"><b>EARLIER: </b><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2012/12/09/notre-dame-manti-teo-lott-trophy/1757833/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2012/12/09/notre-dame-manti-teo-lott-trophy/1757833/">Te'o wins Lott Trophy</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;">In articles in <i>Sports Illustrated</i> and the <i>South Bend Tribune</i> and in interviews on ESPN, Te'o would recount how his girlfriend, Kekua, requested that he send white flowers to her funeral. Te'o said that the last words he shared with Kekua were "I love you."</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;">"They were with me," Te'o said after Notre Dame's win over Michigan State in an on-field interview with ABC's Heather Cox. "I couldn't do without the support of my family and my girlfriend's family. I'm so grateful for all the love and support that all the fans, both Michigan State and Notre Dame, and fans around the world for supporting me and my family and my girlfriend's family. I miss them. I miss them. But I know that I'll see them again one day."</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 was a beautiful story, one that publicized Te'o's off-field back story in time to heat up his Heisman Trophy campaign. The story grew over the next three months, including a three-minute piece on <i>CBS This Morning</i> on the day of the BCS championship game on Jan. 7.</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 story was also entirely false, according to <a href="http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax">an article by <i>Deadspin.com</i></a>. According to <i>Deadspin</i>, not only did Te'o's girlfriend not die in the days leading up the Michigan State game, she didn't exist at 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;">In what <i>Deadspin</i> is describing as an elaborate hoax, Kekua was an online persona created by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, a friend of Te'o's and a pastor at a church in Palmdale, Calif. Says the <i>Deadspin</i> article:</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-left-color: rgb(201, 201, 201); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: #797979; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; overflow: auto; padding-left: 20px;">"We spoke with friends and relatives of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo who asserted that Ronaiah was the man behind Lennay. He created Lennay in 2008, one source said, and Te'o wasn't the first person to have an online 'relationship' with her. One mark – who had been 'introduced' to Lennay by Tuiasosopo – lasted about a month before family members grew suspicious that Lennay could never be found on the telephone, and that wherever one expected Lennay to be, Ronaiah was there instead. Two sources discounted Ronaiah's stunt as a prank that only metastasized because of Te'o's rise to national celebrity this past season."</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"We know it's a hoax... The only question out there is exactly what Manti knew about it," Timothy Burke, one of the authors of the piece on <i>Deadspin</i>, said during an appearance Wednesday on CBS Radio.</div><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #222222; float: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px; width: auto;"><img alt="None" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/gameon/2013/01/08/usp-ncaa-football_-bcs-national-championship-alaba_003-4_3_r541_c540.jpg?729ef1a5e3c69f5da0197e57e2bd3dd3fdfcd35f" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">If Notre Dame wants to make another BCS run in 2013 it will need to so without All-American linebacker Manti Te'o.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Matt Cashore, USA TODAY Sports)</span></div></aside><div class="clearfix" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"></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;">In a statement published on ESPN.com, Te'o called himself a "victim" of "someone's sick joke." CAA, which represents Te'o, said the statement did not come from them.</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;">"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online," Te'o said. "We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.</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;">"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.<br />It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.</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 am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been.</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;">"In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was. Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft."</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;">In a university statement, Notre Dame said that the coaching staff was first informed on Dec. 26 of what the university calls a "sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators."</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;">"On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te'o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia," read the statement.</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 University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators."</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>Deadspin</i> traces back the first national mention of Kekua to an article in the Nov. 28, 2009 edition of the <i>South Bend Tribune</i>, which said that the two met after Stanford's 45-38 victory over the Irish. Kekua was reportedly a student at Stanford; <i>Deadspin</i>writes that Stanford has no record of anyone by that name attending the university.</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 article quotes a friend of Tuiasosopo's as saying he was "80 percent sure" that Te'o was "in on it," and that "the two perpetrated Lennay Kekua's death with publicity in mind."</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;">"Mostly, though," the articles continues, "the friend simply couldn't believe that Te'o would be stupid enough – or Ronaiah Tuiasosopo clever enough – to sustain the relationship for nearly a year."</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;"><b>PHOTOS: MANTI TE'O'S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS</b></div><div class="mod galleries clearfix hasendslate hover" data-cst="sports/football/college" data-gal-pageurl="http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/sports/ncaaf/2012/12/06/manti-teo/1751183/" data-gallery-id="1751183" data-seo-title="manti-teo" data-ssts="sports/ncaaf" data-title="Manti Te'o:Manti Te'o" data-topic="sports,sports_ncaaf" style="background-color: #fafafa; 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); clear: both; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; line-height: 22px; margin: 10px 0px 20px 60px; position: relative; width: 538px;"><img alt="None" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/01/16/2013-01-16-notre-dame-teo-3-4_3_rx512_c680x510.jpg?0f5c31de35bf4ef88a50c2e35ee3bc4da4bf3083" /><img alt="None" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/01/16/2013-01-16-notre-dame-teo-4-4_3_rx512_c680x510.jpg?0f5c31de35bf4ef88a50c2e35ee3bc4da4bf3083" /><img alt="None" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2012/10/07/usp-ncaa-football_-miami-at-notre-dame-4_3_rx512_c680x510.jpg?0f5c31de35bf4ef88a50c2e35ee3bc4da4bf3083" /><div class="viewport hover" style="display: table; height: 390px; margin-bottom: 90px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 538px; z-index: 0;"></div></div></div>

Manti Te'o's inspirational girlfriend story a hoax

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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Column</b></a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="SportsNation" class="floatright" height="80" src="http://assets.espn.go.com/i/sportsnation/logos/espn_sportsnation_80.gif" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: right !important; margin: 0px 0px 4px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" />The Eagles have hired Chip Kelly away from Oregon. Will Kelly's unique offensive style work in the pros?<a href="http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/polls?pCat=46&sCat=3504" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: rgb(96, 143, 214) !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vote!</b></a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Miller" class="floatright" src="http://a.espncdn.com/i/columnists/miller_ted_m.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: right !important; margin: 0px 0px 4px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Oregon offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich is widely assumed to be Chip Kelly's successor. At the Fiesta Bowl, he received ringing endorsements, Ted Miller writes.<a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/52656/helfrich-likely-to-step-in-after-kelly-shocker" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: rgb(96, 143, 214) !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blog</b></a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Kelly becomes the 21st coach in team history and replaces Andy Reid, who was fired Dec. 31 after a 4-12 season.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly will be introduced at a news conference Thursday at 1:30 p.m. ET at the Eagles' practice facility.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Chip Kelly will be an outstanding head coach for the Eagles," owner Jeffrey Lurie said in a statement. "He has a brilliant football mind. He motivates his team with his actions as well as his words. He will be a great leader for us and will bring a fresh, energetic approach to our team."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly, who was 46-7 in four years at Oregon, interviewed with the Eagles, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/cle/cleveland-browns" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cleveland Browns</a>and <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/buf/buffalo-bills" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Buffalo Bills</a> after leading the Ducks to a victory over Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl. But he opted to remain at Oregon before changing his mind.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I want to thank Chip for his leadership and commitment to building on the Oregon Football foundation of excellence," Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said in a statement. "We have enjoyed incredible success over the past four years. I have great respect for Chip, consider him a friend and wish him the best of luck in the NFL."  </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mullens said he is confident the Ducks will find the right coach to continue the program's success.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Oregon Athletics has executed two successful head coach transitions in the past eighteen years and each time we continued our ascent. We are focused on identifying a leader who is the right fit to guide Oregon Football," he said in the statement.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Eagles are known to have interviewed 11 candidates, including two meetings with Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly re-emerged as a candidate recently and an agreement was just reached Wednesday, league sources told ESPN.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Following the Fiesta Bowl, the 49-year-old Kelly said he wanted to get the interview process over "quickly." Turns out, it was anything but.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">He came close to jumping to the pros last year but turned down an offer from Tampa Bay to return for his fourth season as the coach at Oregon. He has boosted the school's national profile -- flashy uniforms helped -- with a high-powered offense capable of turning any game into a track meet.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="mod-container mod-no-footer mod-inline content-box floatright mod-no-header-footer " style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; float: right !important; font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 261.8833312988281px;"><div class="mod-content" style="border: 1px solid rgb(194, 194, 194); font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(194, 194, 194); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 7px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">From College to the Pros</span></h4><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="floatright" src="http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/photo/2013/0106/ncf_a_kelly_bl_65.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: right !important; margin: 0px 0px 4px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Chip Kelly becomes the sixth active NFL coach to make the jump directly from college. Kelly has the highest college win percentage of any of those coaches.</span></div><table style="background-color: transparent; border-spacing: 1px; border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 7px 7px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 240px;"><thead style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border-bottom-color: rgb(194, 194, 194); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coach</th><th style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border-bottom-color: rgb(194, 194, 194); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">FBS Win pct.</th><th style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border-bottom-color: rgb(194, 194, 194); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">NFL Win pct.</th></tr></thead><tbody style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr class="last" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chip Kelly, PHI</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.868</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">?</td></tr><tr class="last" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pete Carroll, SEA</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.836</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.518</td></tr><tr class="last" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Coughlin, NYG</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.614</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.555</td></tr><tr class="last" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jim Harbaugh, SF</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.580</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.750</td></tr><tr class="last" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Greg Schiano, TB</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.504</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.438</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Doug Marrone, BUF</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">.500</td><td style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">?</td></tr></tbody><tfoot style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td colspan="3" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 9px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 6px 2px; vertical-align: bottom;"><i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-- ESPN Stats & Information</i></td></tr></tfoot></table></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's more a fact-finding mission, finding out if it fits or doesn't fit," Kelly said after the Ducks defeated the Wildcats 35-17. "I've been in one interview in my life for the National Football League, and that was a year ago. I don't really have any preconceived notions about it. I think that's what this deal is all about for me. It's not going to affect us in terms of we're not on the road (recruiting). I'll get an opportunity if people do call, see where they are.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I want to get it wrapped up quickly and figure out where I'm going to be."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly doesn't have any pro coaching experience, but aspects of his up-tempo offense are already being used by some NFL teams, including New England and Washington.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Under Kelly, Oregon ran 1,077 plays in just 13 games last season (82.8 per game), according to ESPN Stats & Information. Amazingly, that would have ranked seventh (just two total plays behind the Eagles' 1,079) in the NFL's 16-game schedule this season. The Patriots led the NFL with 1,191 plays this season (74.4 per game). </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly never said whether he was leaning one way or another after the bowl.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I said I'll always listen, and that's what I'll do," he said. "I know that people want to talk to me because of our players. The success of our football program has always been about our guys. It's an honor for someone to say they'd want to talk to me about maybe moving on to go coach in the National Football League. But it's because of what those guys do. I'll listen, and we'll see."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oregon could be facing possible NCAA sanctions for the school's use of recruiting services, but Kelly indicated in Arizona that he isn't running from anything.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We've cooperated fully with them," he said. "If they want to talk to us again, we'll continue to cooperate fully. I feel confident in the situation."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oregon's players gave Kelly a Gatorade bath as the final seconds ticked off the clock against Kansas State, and afterward a few of the Ducks seemed resigned to their coach moving on.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We'll have to see," quarterback Marcus Mariota said. "Whatever he decides to do, we're all behind him. He's an unbelievable coach. He's not only a football coach, but he's someone that you can look to and learn a lot of life lessons from. Whatever happens, happens. But we're all behind him.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We'll see where it takes us."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">For a while, it seemed that Cleveland was the front-runner, if indeed Kelly was to make the jump. He met with the Browns for seven hours at an undisclosed location -- five in negotiations with a two-hour break for dinner -- and agreed to talk again. But talks never progressed from that point.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Eagles fired Reid after two forgettable years. A late flurry brought the team to an 8-8 finish last season, but this season Philadelphia endured an eight-game losing streak and dropped 11 of its final 12 games. A 3-1 start soon washed away, and Reid's 14-year tenure ended not long after. Within a week, Reid was Kansas City's new coach.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Still, Kelly has tough shoes to fill. Reid won more games than any coach in franchise history and led the Eagles to nine playoff appearances, six division titles, five conference championship games and a loss to New England in the Super Bowl following the 2004 season.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="mod-container mod-inline content-box mod-podcast floatright mod-no-header-footer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; float: right !important; font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 261.8833312988281px;"><div class="mod-content" style="border: 1px solid rgb(194, 194, 194); font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(194, 194, 194); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 7px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">SVP & Russillo</span></h4><div class="podcast-player" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 6px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><object data="http://a.espncdn.com/swf/espnradio/09/audio_player_circular_v2.swf" height="70" id="flashPodcastSwf" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="86"></object></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit says it was a difficult decision for Kelly to leave Oregon. Herbstreit says Kelly will succeed in the NFL and Oregon will struggle without him.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><center style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><hr style="background-color: #dddddd; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #dddddd; float: none; height: 0.1em; margin: 0px 0px 1.45em; width: 127.93333435058594px;" /></center><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eagles center Jason Kelce says he's surprised Philadelphia landed Chip Kelly but he's excited to be a part of Kelly's up-tempo system. <a href="http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=8850068" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: rgb(96, 143, 214) !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Listen</b></a> <img align="absmiddle" alt="Listen" border="0" height="10" src="http://assets.espn.go.com/icons/listen.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="10" /></span></div><div class="footer clear" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-size: 10px; height: 14px; line-height: 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 4px 8px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly and the Eagles, who have won just 12 games the last two seasons after winning the NFC East in 2010, have the No. 4 overall pick in the draft as well as some talented players on offense who could fit his up-tempo scheme. Running back <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/12514/lesean-mccoy" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LeSean McCoy</a> and wide receivers<a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/11283/desean-jackson" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DeSean Jackson</a> and <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/12579/jeremy-maclin" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeremy Maclin</a> seem like an ideal match. Quarterback <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/14877/nick-foles" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nick Foles</a>, however, isn't.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I've never run the zone read," Foles said after the season. "I'm more of a dropback guy. I've been under center. I've been in the gun. If I can adapt, I want to. But I'm not a zone-read quarterback. Some people are gifted with different things. That's just not one of my skill sets. I can work on the speed in the offseason and get better with that. But I've always been a dropback guy in the pocket. I've been able to make plays on my feet throwing the ball or running for a first down."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the other hand, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/2549/michael-vick" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael Vick</a> could be perfect. But it's unlikely the Eagles would want to pay the $16 million they'd have to shell out for an injury-prone quarterback, who will be 33 next season.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly had high praise for Foles after Oregon beat Arizona 56-31 in September 2011.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'll tell you what; I'm glad Nick Foles is graduating," Kelly said at that time. "I catch myself watching him in awe sometimes. Nick is a hell of a football player. That kid's a warrior. He's as good as anyone in the country."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Others interviewed by Lurie, general Howie Roseman and president Don Smolenski were former Bears coach Lovie Smith, Atlanta assistants Mike Nolan and Keith Armstrong, former Broncos offensive coordinator <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/8183/mike-mccoy" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike McCoy</a> and Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first Eagles to react to Kelly's hiring on Twitter were defensive players.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Defensive end <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/13239/brandon-graham" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Graham</a> wrote: "Happy to have Chip Kelly!! Now it's time to get to work!"</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Safety <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/13340/kurt-coleman" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kurt Coleman</a> wrote: "Welcome Chip Kelly to the Eagles family. Can't wait to see what he brings to the team in 2013!"</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>

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Jodi Arias Shaken, Crying as She Told One Last Lie About Killing Ex-Boyfriend, Prosecutors Say

<iframe height="221" id="kaltura_player_1358353840" src="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/1_pn4pkmxq/uiconf_id/3775332/st_cache/20323?referer=http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/jodi-arias-watches-her-2008-interrogation-in-court-18223874&autoPlay=false&addThis.playerSize=392x221&freeWheel.siteSectionId=nws_offsite&closedCaptionActive=true&" style="border: 0px solid #ffffff;" width="392">Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.</iframe> <div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 0; text-align: left;">From: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/">http://abcnews.go.com</a><br /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Jodi Arias Watches Her 2008 Interrogation in Court </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">By</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/author/colleen_curry" rel="author" style="color: #336699; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">COLLEEN CURRY</a> <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Jan. 15, 2013</span><br /><br /><br /><div id="sponsoredByAd" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; left: 430px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: right; top: 405px;"><span id="sponsoredbylogo1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="_fw_container_sponsoredbylogo1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Jodi Arias was cornered, wearing an orange jump suit and crying, with her knees pulled up to her chest and her hands shaking, when she came up with one last lie, prosecutors say, to tell police about the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-draws-comparisons-casey-anthony-scott-peterson/story?id=18211397" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">killing of her ex-boyfriend</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Intruders came in and murdered <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-denied-guilt-told-sex-photos-palm/story?id=18211547" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Travis Alexander </a>and then threatened to kill Arias and her family, she told police in a 2008 taped interview played at her <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-conflicting-images-devout-mormon-jealous-killer/story?id=18173913" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">murder trial today in Arizona.</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"He was kneeling down in the shower, I don't remember, I was taking pictures, and I don't really know what happened after that exactly, except I think he was shot," Arias said on the tape, crying and placing her face in her hands, and then rocking back and forth in her chair.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"I was on my knees here and I heard this loud ring, I don't really remember except Travis was screaming," she said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Arias is on trial and facing the death penalty for the murder of Alexander, 30, whom she has admitted to killing but claims it was in self-defense. Prosecutors allege that she murdered him out of jealousy in a "heinous and depraved" manner.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Detective Esteban Flores of the Mesa, Ariz., police department had spent two days interviewing Arias after she was arrested for the murder of Alexander. He explained the mountain of evidence, including blood samples, hair follicles, and pictures placing her at the scene of the crime.</div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_image_feature" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 20px 50px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><div class="rel_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rel_thumb" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="lpos=widget[Left_Rail_Image]&lid=view[Image]" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="PHOTO: Jodi Arias sits in court on Jan. 15, 2013." border="0" height="112" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_jodi_arias_mi_130115_wg.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5px; padding: 0px;" title="" width="199" /><span class="image_icon" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/icons/image_icon_35x35.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 35px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 73px; width: 35px;"></span></a></div><div class="rel_headline" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="photo_credit" style="color: #aaaaaa; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;">ABC News</div><div class="photo_caption" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Jodi Arias sits in court on Jan. 15, 2013. </div></div></div></div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 20px 50px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><div class="rel_content" style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="112" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/GMA/abc_gma_owens_130110_wl.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="200" /><span class="image_icon" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/icons/play_icon_35x35.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 35px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 73px; width: 35px;"></span></a></div><div class="rel_headline" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Jodi Arias Trial: Shocking Testimony</div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">After a month of denying that she was at Alexander's home, she finally said she was there, but so were two other individuals. She said she had never confessed it before out of fear for her family's safety.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"They didn't discuss much, they just argued about whether or not to kill me because I'm a witness, of Travis, but I didn't really witness it, I didn't see much," Arias said to Flores.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"You need to make this believable. This doesn't make any sense to me," Flores said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"They got my license and registration. My parents address was on it," she said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Arias admitted to killing Alexander in later interviews with police. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty because of the way they say she killed him, stabbing Alexander 27 times, slashing his throat, and shooting him in the head.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">In interviews leading up to her confession, Arias was confident, leaning back in her chair and resting her head in her hands on the table as she calmly told Flores she was not even in Arizona when Alexander was killed.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"There 's no evidence to show that anyone else did this but you," Flores told Arias in the first interview. "I'm not seeing any remorse, anything from you, to make me believe anything otherwise. You can continue to say I didn't do it, but you're the kid who got caught stealing the candy and continue to say it wasn't me. I have the proof. Why won't you admit to it?"</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"I didn't kill Travis," Arias said. "I did not take his life."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">In the final interview played this afternoon, on the seventh day of her murder trial, Arias appeared quieter and more nervous than previously. She had spent the night in jail after her initial interview, in which Flores told her she would charged and tried for murder.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Earlier in the day, prosecutors presented evidence that Arias tried to cover her tracks after killing Alexander by making a flurry of phone calls to his cell phone and hacking into his voice mailbox, prosecutors alleged today.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Phone records presented in court today showed Arias persistently calling Alexander in the days before the killing. Ten calls were made from Arias' cell phone to Alexander's cell phone in the days leading up to his death, Verizon Wireless records expert Jody Citizen testified. Many of the calls were forwarded by Alexander straight to voice mail, Citizen said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">After Arias killed Alexander around 5:30 p.m. on June 4, 2008. , Arias called his phone four more times. The first call was made just hours after the killing at 11:37 p.m., the records showed. At least one of the calls was made as late as June 15, nearly a week after Alexander's body was found by friends.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">At one point, Arias dialed into his voice mail system for 16 minutes, which indicated she was accessing his voice mail messages, Citizen said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"If a person is in his phone for 16 minutes and they're not leaving a message what is going on?" prosecutor Juan Martinez asked.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"Somebody is listening to messages," Citizen answered.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"On Verizon, is it possible to change your voice mail, to erase it and do it over again?" defense attorney Kirk Nurmi asked Citizen. "Could someone have been doing that for a 16 minute phone call?"Arias' attorneys, who argue that she killed her ex-boyfriend out of self-defense, said that she could have been recording a message, and then listening to it and deleting it before recording again, accounting for the 16 minutes spent on the voice mail system.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"Yes," Citizen said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Nurmi pointed out that phone records showed that two days before his death Alexander also called Arias, initiating two phone calls that lasted nearly 20 minutes and more than 40 minutes in the middle of the night.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The defense has said that Alexander was controlling and abusive toward Arias and was a "sexual deviant" whom she had to kill in self defense.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The prosecution, however, alleges that Arias was obsessed with Alexander, stalked him, and killed him out of jealousy after spending the afternoon having sex with him and taking naked photos of one another.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The jury returned to court today for the seventh day of testimony in the murder trial, after watching a series of graphic sexual photos of Arias and Alexander displayed on Monday, including the last photos of Alexander alive. The photos show both individuals lying naked on Alexander's bed, separately, and then Alexander naked in the shower.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The final photo shows a body part covered in blood around 5:30 p.m., which the prosecution alleges is when the attack on Alexander began and the camera fell to the floor.</div><br /></div>

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NRA-branded video game draws outrage amid Newtown gun debate

From:<a href="http://www.latimes.com/">http://www.latimes.com</a><br /><br /><div class="thumbnail" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 13px 8px 8px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 600px; z-index: 1000;"><div class="holder" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px auto 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><table cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px auto; width: 1px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Gun controversy after Sandy Hook" border="0" height="358" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-50f63cd3/turbine/la-na-nn-nra-branded-video-game-guns-20130116-001/600" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto;" title="Gun controversy after Sandy Hook" width="512" /><div class="small" style="font-size: 11px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px;">Kerry O'Mahony of Danbury, Conn., brings a bouquet to a memorial for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. <span class="credit">(<span class="photographer">David Goldman / Associated Press</span> / <span class="dateMonth">December </span><span class="dateDay">19</span><span class="dateYear">, 2012</span>)</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><span class="toolSet" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: -50px; margin-top: 6px; width: 335px;"><div class="byline" style="color: #292727; float: left; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span class="byline" style="display: block;">By Andrew Khouri</span><div class="date" style="color: #930000; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateString" style="display: inline;">January 16, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;">6:45 a.m.</span></div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><div id="story-body-text" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">As <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic" id="PEPLT007408" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Barack Obama">President Obama</a> prepared to announce his gun control proposals Wednesday, an <a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2013/01/15/nra-releases-shooting-app-finds-itself-a-target-in-online-game/#/0" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NRA-branded video game </a>was sparking outrage across the country.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">“<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/justice-rights/civil-rights/national-rifle-association-of-america-ORCIG000080.topic" id="ORCIG000080" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="National Rifle Association of America">NRA</a>: Practice Range” was released Sunday, according to Apple's App Store -- almost one month to the day from when a gunman shot his way into <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/schools/elementary-schools/sandy-hook-elementary-school-OREDU000812.topic" id="OREDU000812" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Sandy Hook Elementary School"></a><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/schools/elementary-schools/sandy-hook-elementary-school-OREDU000812.topic" id="OREDU000812" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Sandy Hook Elementary School">Sandy Hook Elementary</a> School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, killing 20 children, six staff members and himself. He had also killed his mother. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The game drew heavy condemnation for insensitivity to the victims and their families.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The National Rifle Assn. “should be ashamed of themselves,” Joel Faxon, a member of the Newtown Police Commission, told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. “It’s almost like they are antagonizing the victims, and that is repulsive to me.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Obama has called Dec. 14 the worst day of his presidency and vowed take measure to reduce  gun violence. Vice President Biden delivered a series of recommendations to him Tuesday. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">White House Press Secretary <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/jay-carney-PEPLT008453.topic" id="PEPLT008453" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Jay Carney">Jay Carney</a> said Obama's proposals will include legislative steps, such as banning assault weapons and toughening the background-check process for guns. Obama is also expected to announce administrative actions that do not require congressional approval. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">In the NRA-branded game, available on the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/services-shopping/electronic-devices/apple-iphone-PRDCES00000002.topic" id="PRDCES00000002" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple iPhone">iPhone</a>, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/services-shopping/electronic-devices/apple-ipad-PRDCES000000029.topic" id="PRDCES000000029" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple iPad">iPad</a> and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/services-shopping/electronic-devices/apple-ipod-PRDCES000000025.topic" id="PRDCES000000025" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple iPod">iPod Touch</a>, users shoot at nonhuman targets -- both at an indoor gun range and outside. Before they can begin firing at targets, gamers see a gun safety tip or a factoid about the NRA.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">“Store guns so that they are not accessible to unauthorized persons,” one gun safety tip reads.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MEDL Mobile, the app’s developer, markets the game as an “Official NRA Licensed Product” that includes “Nine true-to-life firearms” as well as safety and educational materials, including 2nd Amendment news feeds.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Neither the NRA nor the app's developer responded to requests from The Times for comment. It was unclear whether the app was actually licensed by the gun rights group, but outrage was swift.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">“How tone-deaf can you be?” Connecticut Gov. <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/dannel-p.-malloy--PEPLT00007625.topic" id="PEPLT00007625" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Dannel P. Malloy ">Dannel P. Malloy</a> asked at a news conference Tuesday. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The game was originally classified for users ages 4 and up, but has been reclassified as suitable for those 12 and older. A warning says the game displays “Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Shortly after the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/crimes/shootings/sandy-hook-elementary-school-shooting-EVCAL00028.topic" id="EVCAL00028" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting">Newtown massacre</a>, NRA Chief Executive <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/wayne-lapierre-PEPLT0008961.topic" id="PEPLT0008961" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Wayne LaPierre">Wayne LaPierre</a> called for armed guards in every school, dismissed calls for gun control and lashed out at the video game industry, Hollywood and the media.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">“And here's another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal: There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people, through vicious, violent video games,” LaPierre said. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Meanwhile, an Oregon sheriff said he would refuse to enforce any new gun laws if he considers them unconstitutional. That would include laws restricting semiautomatic weapons and high-volume ammunition magazines, he said. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">“We are Americans,” Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller told Biden in a letter dated Monday, according to the Associated Press.  “We must not allow, nor shall we tolerate, the actions of criminals, no matter how heinous the crimes, to prompt politicians to enact laws that will infringe upon the liberties of responsible citizens who have broken no laws.” </div></div>

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Chief Keef in Jail for Violating Probation

<br /><h2 style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #555555; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; width: 586px;">Chicago rapper faces sentencing hearing Thursday</h2><div>From: <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/">http://www.rollingstone.com</a>   </div><div><div class="assetContainer imageStandard floatLt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; display: inline; float: left; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="image-holder" style="border: 1px solid rgb(127, 127, 127); height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 5px !important;"><img alt="Chief Keef" src="http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/chief-keef-in-jail-for-violating-probation-20130116/1000x306/keef-306v-1358342275.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div class="imageCaption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 6px; width: 304px;">Chief Keef</div><div class="imageCredit" style="background-image: url(http://assets.rollingstone.com/images/fe/copyCamera.png); background-position: 5px 6px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 6px 6px 20px; width: 290px;">Johnny Nunez/WireImage</div><div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Chicago rapper Chief Keef was put in jail yesterday after a Cook County juvenile court judge ruled that the 17-year-old rapper had <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chief-keef-violated-probation-with-pitchfork-gun-interview-prosecutors-say-20121017" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">violated his probation</a>, the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/17597035-418/chief-keef-taken-into-custody-for-probation-violation.html" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Chicago Sun-Times</a></em> reports.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.012em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Keef was sentenced to 18 months of probation last January after he was convicted of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon for pointing a gun at Chicago police officers. Although terms of his probation included requiring him to stay away from guns, Keef (real name: Keith Cozart) last summer did a video interview with Pitchfork at a New York shooting range, where he also spent 20 minutes firing a semiautomatic rifle. The video has since been taken down.</span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.012em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="inStoryLink" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gun-control-now-20121214" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Gun Control Now</a></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">An attorney for Keef, Dennis Berkson, told the court that the rapper didn't violate the spirit of his probation in the Pitchfork interview. "Was it stupid? Yes. Did it violate the court order? No," Berkson argued, blaming Keef's record company, Interscope, for setting up the interview. The label released Chief Keef's album <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/finally-rich-20121228" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Finally Rich</a></em> last year.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.012em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Judge Carl Anthony Walker disagreed with Berkson. "There is a clear record of a disregard for the court's authority," Walker said. He scheduled a sentencing hearing for Thursday.</span></div><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div></div></div>

Chief Keef in Jail for Violating Probation

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Brent Musburger says Holly Rowe 'is really smokin'' -- or does he?

<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ri887CNsa-Q?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><br />From <a href="http://www.latimes.com/">http://www.latimes.com</a><br /><span class="byline" style="background-color: white; color: #292727; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">By Chuck Schilken</span><br /><div class="date" style="background-color: white; color: #930000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateString" style="display: inline;">January 15, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;">9:38 a.m.</span></div><div class="date" style="background-color: white; color: #930000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;"></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Brent Musburger really is a dirty old man.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Or maybe he's just a bitter man. Or a man with a good sense of humor. Or a man who garbled his words at the wrong time.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Last week <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/espn-%28tv-network%29-HOC792.topic" id="HOC792" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="ESPN (tv network)">ESPN</a> felt the need to apologize for the 73-year-old announcer's on-air admiration of Miss<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/college-sports/alabama-crimson-tide-ORSPT000016136.topic" id="ORSPT000016136" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Alabama Crimson Tide">Alabama</a> USA <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/entertainment-events/beauty-contests/katherine-webb-PECLB0015301.topic" id="PECLB0015301" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Katherine Webb">Katherine Webb</a>, who was sitting in the stands at the BCS championship game watching boyfriend A.J. McCarron lead the Crimson Tide to victory over <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/college-sports/notre-dame-fighting-irish-ORSPT00000148.topic" id="ORSPT00000148" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Notre Dame Fighting Irish">Notre Dame</a>.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Musburger made no mention of the incident during his first broadcast since then, Monday's college basketball game between Kansas and Baylor. But as he was signing off, Musburger <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2013/01/15/brent-musburger-holly-rowe-smokin-tonight/1835159/" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;">seemed to get</a> a bit girl crazy again when he said what sounded like, "For Fran Franschilla and Holly Rowe, who was really smokin' tonight, I want to say so long from Lawrence."</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">While it's possible that Musburger simply likes to let everyone know how he feels about members of the opposite sex, it's more likely that he was taking a jab at whoever decided to apologize on his behalf last week or just poking fun at the whole situation.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">ESPN has another interpretation of what happened. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said Tuesday that Musburger actually said, "<em>it</em> was really smokin' tonight." That explanation actually makes a little sense since Musburger opened the broadcast by saying, "Lawrence, Kansas, on a cold night, but it will be hot inside ... ."</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">But then again, the actual game was anything but smokin', as No. 4 Kansas won in a blowout, 61-44.</div><br />

Brent Musburger says Holly Rowe 'is really smokin'' -- or does he?

From  http://www.latimes.com By Chuck Schilken January 15, 2013 ,  9:38 a.m. Brent Musburger really is a dirty old man. Or maybe he's ju...

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How to write a cover letter for a marketing position

<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span id="cbArticle_lblByLine">Debra Auerbach, CareerBuilder Writer</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img alt="" class="media-image" src="http://art.icbdr.com/sites/all/files/styles/large/public/Cover%20letter%20-%20marketing.jpg" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">If you're a marketer promoting a product, you'd try to sell the customer on why the product is unique, why it meets a specific need and why it will make a short- and long-term difference in the customer's life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">If you're seeking a marketing position, you should market yourself just like you would a product. While your résumé should include all the details about your experience and successes, you can use your cover letter to sell yourself and hook the hiring manager into reading your résumé.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">"In my opinion, cover letters are the 'first impression' for a potential recruit," says Tracey Gould, director of marketing at <a href="http://baskervill.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Baskervill</a>, an architectural, engineering and interior design firm in Richmond, Va. "This is the opportunity where a candidate should wow the potential employer with a summary of who they are and what they are passionate about in terms of marketing, display their successes in terms of qualitative and quantitative results, and demonstrate the value they ... would bring to the particular role and organization for which they are applying."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Here are tips on writing a cover letter for a marketing position:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><strong>Treat the employer like your target audience</strong><br />"Just as when creating marketing materials, when you create your résumé or cover letter, it should be based on a clear focus on the end user's needs, concerns and interests -- in this case, your potential employer," says Linda Pophal, marketing communication consultant at <a href="http://www.stratcommunications.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Strategic Communications LLC</a>. "Think of them as your target audience, and consider what they might be looking for in a new employee for this position. What skills are critical both in terms of professional [or] educational experience and interpersonal experience?"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">According to Pophal, hiring managers want to know that you'll make them and their department successful and that your performance will help drive the company's success. "Be clear about what it is you will be able to contribute that is valued by the organization."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><strong>Include your own marketing materials</strong><br />If you're in marketing, hiring managers want to see that you're familiar with marketing and social-media tools, and that you use them not only at work but in your personal life, too. In the cover letter's contact information, include links to your online social-media profiles, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook. Just make sure that you're comfortable with a prospective employer viewing the contents of those pages. If you're not, clean them up before they're included.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">If you don't have a personal website, consider creating one and using it to market your achievements. "If you're a marketing person, build a website to market you," says Mike Schultz, president of sales training and consulting company <a href="http://www.rainsalestraining.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Rain Group</a> and author of "<a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=Rainmaking+Conversations&go=&qs=n&form=msns07" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Rainmaking Conversations</a>." "Position the cover letter as a marketing letter or email that directs them to your website. Then, really blow them away with your marketing video, your content, your design skills, your search-engine skills, your results and so on."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><strong>Give examples of marketing successes</strong><br />No matter the position, a cover letter should include key successes that are worth highlighting beyond your résumé. Kyra Mancine, <a href="http://www.copybykyra.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">job-search strategist and résumé writer</a>, recommends showcasing one or two examples of how you've proven yourself, as related to the specific job opening. "If the job entails [public relations], add a line about how you 'garnered your company 25 media placements in print, online and television over the past three months' or a similar success story," Mancine says. She also recommends sharing quantifiable successes whenever possible. "You need to show results -- not just vague, flowery language that does not show how you have impacted the bottom line."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><strong>Show off your writing skills</strong><br />A well-written cover letter can make a difference between being passed over and being picked. This is especially true for a marketing position, because you're expected to be good at expressing yourself and articulating a message.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">"Writing is a central focus and core skill set of every marketing-related position, and the cover letter is an ideal place where a marketing candidate can shine," Gould says. "Does the cover letter take a different approach than most canned or dry cover letters? Does it use impactful language? Does it want me, as the reader and hiring manager, to want to read more and learn more about this candidate?"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><strong>Don't forget about the basics</strong><br />While it's important to customize the letter for the role and to highlight key examples of success, don't slack on the basics. "It should go without saying to check your spelling and grammar, above and beyond what spell-check will do for you," says Nicole Krug, owner of <a href="http://www.nicolekrug.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">Social Light</a>, a business-strategy company specializing in brand marketing and social media. Krug also suggests that your cover letter be no longer than one page, so you don't lose the employer's attention. "This goes back to giving an indication of how you will perform in your job, and you need to have the ability to make your message succinct and relevant.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">"The bottom line is, you need to realize that your cover letter is a marketing campaign, and you are selling your services," Krug continues. "If you can approach [it] with the understanding that you need to target your audience, create credibility, but also make it creative and unique, you should find success."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><em>Debra Auerbach is a writer and blogger for </em><a href="http://msn.careerbuilder.com/msn/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;"><em>CareerBuilder.com</em></a><em> and its job blog, </em><a href="http://www.theworkbuzz.com/" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>The Work Buzz</em></a><em>. She researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues.</em></div>

How to write a cover letter for a marketing position

Debra Auerbach, CareerBuilder Writer   If you're a marketer promoting a product, you'd try to sell the customer on why the product i...

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