Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as it has no religious connotations and no matter your belief,religion or even lack thereof,there is something (or many things) that we all can be thankful for.
On to the inbox for a little cleaning out.
We start with a retirement of an icon as the Kennedy Space Center has retired the huge countdown clock that it has used since 1969's second Apollo mission to the moon and up until the final space shuttle mission.
The six foot tall clock has been shown in every space countdown for television and in several movies.
The clock has been outside for that span of time and weather takes its toll on all mechanical workings,especially over 45 years of them.
Parts had become difficult to come by for repairs and its time had come.
The clock will be available to be seen in the nearby visitors center and the replacement will have more features similar to those seen on scoreboards in stadiums around the country...
Fox Business anchor Melissa Francis claims that she was silenced by former employer CNBC when she wanted to broadcast her thoughts on "Obamacare",which she wanted to state that the numbers didn't add up.
Francis works for a pretty conservative network,so keep that in mind,but I do wonder if NBC and its satellite networks,which are known for being very liberally base,might have done this or at least kept Francis from being in a position to state her views.
The former Harvard graduate knows the issue and I tend to at least believe her numbers are accurate at minimum.
I'm not a financial wizard or anything,although I do watch Francis's show in the afternoon and find it interesting,but I do wish that some of the networks would consider a straight up reporting aspect rather than biases-from either side.
We wrote about the weeding out of the fighters in the NHL recently and Grantland did the same on the topic.
I've always enjoyed fighting,but it's time to face the facts-like it or not-the game has changed and literally turned the one dimensional sluggers into outdated modems....
I've always had a soft spot for Georgia Southern football since I read an article in the early 1980's about their starting a football program at a time where you didn't see that every day.
Combine that with my fondness for their first head coach in the colorful Erk Russell and the Eagles were my favorite 1-AA team along with Youngstown State.
Georgia Southern dumped Florida last year at the Swamp and this year in their first season in 1-A football,the Eagles are on their way to winning the Sun Belt title.
Sadly,despite this,the NCAA doesn't allow teams moving up from 1-AA to go to bowls for two years after the move up the ladder.
Georgia Southern has appealed after their strong season,but I wouldn't bet on the NCAA changing his mind.
Grantland looks at the Georgia Southern program here.
The Grey Cup is this Sunday with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats against the Calgary Stampeders.
I've written before about my appreciation for the Canadian game,but checking the previews for the Cup,noted NFL writer Peter King traveled to Canada in June for the first time and offered quite a few thoughts and notes on the CFL.
The Grey Cup can be seen on ESPN2 at six o'clock Sunday night and I'd highly recommend giving it a try.
That cleans the inbox for now. Back tomorrow night with the Devils return home against the Detroit Red Wings.
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