College football rankings: Big Ten has top 2 in new AP Top 25

How Accurate is the AP Top 25 Poll? | 80Twelve

As more rankings come in, they"ll be included and combined for a composite once final.

That"s more like it! After two weeks with a few upsets and a whole lot of blowouts, we were treated to some excellent football Saturday in Week 3 of college football.

Ohio State and TCU had relative struggles with unranked Northern Illinois and SMU, while Alabama and USC both lost for the first times this season (to Ole Miss and Stanford, respectively). Notre Dame survived its first post-Malik Zaire test, beating Georgia Tech by a touchdown, while UCLA beat BYU 24-23 (and yes, it once again came down to the last play for the Cougars).

The biggest story coming into Sunday"s poll unveilings: how high will the SEC"s two biggest performers rise? Ole Miss has a legitimate claim to the No. 1 spot after its terrific first three weeks, while LSUmollywhopped Auburn 45-21 on the legs ofnew Heisman frontrunner Leonard Fournette.

Well, here we are:

AP Coaches Massey 1 Ohio State (42) Ohio State (61) Ohio State 2 Michigan State (7) TCU Alabama 3 TCU (tie) Michigan State (3) Georgia 4 Ole Miss (tie) (11) Baylor Ole Miss 5 Baylor Ole Miss Michigan State 6 Notre Dame Georgia TCU 7 Georgia Florida State Baylor 8 LSU (1) Notre Dame Florida State 9 UCLA LSU UCLA 10 Florida State Clemson LSU 11 Clemson UCLA Notre Dame 12 Alabama Alabama Georgia Tech 13 Oregon Oregon Clemson 14 Texas A&M Oklahoma Oklahoma 15 Oklahoma Texas A&M Texas A&M 16 Arizona Arizona Oregon 17 Northwestern Utah USC 18 Utah USC Stanford 19 USC Northwestern Arizona 20 Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Utah 21 Stanford Wisconsin Wisconsin 22 Wisconsin Oklahoma State Northwestern 23 BYU Missouri Kansas State 24 Oklahoma State Stanford BYU 25 Missouri Auburn West Virginia The four rankings we use:

The Associated Press Top 25: The longest-running and best-respected human poll. Didn"t have any official bearing on the latter years of the BCS, and won"t have any official bearing on the Playoff. Expect it to set the course for the committee, however, as most outlets (including SB Nation) will use the AP"s rankings as the standard until the committee takes over in November. Usually comes out on Sundays about 2 p.m. ET.

The USA Today Coaches Poll: Formerly part of the BCS, and now just a poll. It tends to be more conservative than the AP"s. Though polling athletic departments in order to rank other athletic departments is dubious, we still want multiple human polls in here, and it"s the other big one. Releases early Sunday afternoons.

The Massey computer composite: A collection of ... every rating out there, that will be included as soon as it is updated. By including it here, we"re giving extra weight to the two human polls, since they"re already two of the dozens of ratings included in the Massey. It changes over the course of the week as more rankings arrive.

Football Outsiders" F/+ rating: A synthesis of ratings by smart persons Bill Connelly and Brian Fremeau and our personal go-to overall team stat. It tends to come out later than the others, and also will be added as soon as it is updated.

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Guide says new "Everest" movie is "incredibly realistic"

Everest Official Movie Review

Jason Edwards had only a few minutes on top of Mount Everest when he reached the 29,035-foot summit in 2001.

He looked around, taking mental photographs from the highest point on the planet. He gave a thumbs up for an actual camera as he posed for the obligatory summit shot. Then it was time to descend.

What he saw Tuesday night on a massive IMAX screen at the Pacific Science Center reminded him of that moment like no other Hollywood film hes seen.

That is about as close as you could probably get to emulating what the summit looked like and would feel like without being there yourself, said Edwards, an accomplished mountaineer whos climbed the highest point on every continent. It is incredibly realistic. I was very impressed.

Edwards was watching Everest, the latest recounting of the 1996 Everest disaster that saw eight people killed when they were caught in a storm during their summit attempt.

I literally couldnt tell which shots werent taken on the mountain, Edwards said. I know the mountain pretty well. Im sure if I sat there with some buddies and studied it, we might be able to figure it out, but it is really realistic.

Edwards says he looks forward to the next time he sees his friend David Breashears, a co-producer on the film, so he can learn more about how they filmed the movie.

Its magnitudes more powerful (in IMAX 3-D) than watching it on a flat screen, Edwards said. You were immersed in the experience. I think for me it was like, wow, I was feeling a lot of the same emotions I would have been feeling if I was there myself.

Edwards, 56, has a lengthy rsum that includes more than 300 Mount Rainier summits, numerous international trips and four trips to Everest. He guided on Everest in 1991, 94, 97 and 2001 for Ashford-based International Mountain Guides.

During those four years, he made five summit attempts, having to turn back the first four times for various reasons, including a frozen cornea in 1997.

He never regretted turning back and hed never second-guess those depicted in Everest who some have argued should have turned back sooner.

You shouldnt armchair quarterback if you arent there to witness it yourself, Edwards said. It was obviously a collision of bad weather and a challenging mountain that created the proverbial perfect storm.

Edwards has the decades of experience that allow him to pick apart climbing movies. He recalls seeing Cliffhanger, the 1993 Sylvester Stallone movie, and its laughable portrayal of rock climbing.

A bolt gun used to set anchors in solid rock was a particular annoying departure from reality.

I would love one of those guns, that would be just magnificent, he said. It made me laugh, and I realized I should just sit back and enjoy the film.

Thats what hes learned to do over the years. He doesnt let minor inaccuracies keep him from enjoying the movie.

But this film (Everest) is different, Edwards said. It is very realistic. It pulls you right in, even as an experienced climber.

Sure he could nitpick if he wanted. Some of the tents and gear appeared to be newer models than climbers would have had in 1996. Climbers likely would have worn overboots (neoprene covers for their plastic climbing boots) more often than they did in the movie.

There were things like not wearing sunglasses a lot, but I think that was for the benefit of the movie, Edwards said. But only little details like that that most people wouldnt pick up on.

As for the emotions whipped up by the storm, a storm that killed people Edwards knew, including one of his former clients, those were unmistakably real. They are emotions he doesnt want to share publicly.

The movie creates a feeling of loss and compassion for the climbers that were killed and for the survivors and their families, Edwards said. A few minute later he added, Its not a positive movie. It is a chronicle of human endeavor, challenge and loss. Really, thats what we all yearn to experience and overcome if possible.

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Everest movie review

Everest - Movie Review
Everest movie review: The film is shot beautifully, and in 3D, the dips and highs of the glorious peak are eminently watchable.

THE biggest star of this film is the worlds highest peak, as it should be. The script inspired by several accounts (including Jon Krakeurs bestseller, Into Thin Air) of what happened atop that mountain on the fateful days of May 10-11 1996 resulting in the highest number of casualties Everest had seen in one day till then, 8 is clear that surmounting Everest is about endurance above all else. Everest throws everything the way of the climbers, from storms and avalanches to treacherous ice falls and mind games, and by the time you get up there, it is time to come down.

However, at the heart of any adventure lie stories of the men and women who embark on it. Kormkurs challenge lay in making these worth the Everest, and it is here that the film limply fails. Apart from worrying wives back home (a horribly misused Knightley and Wright), almost none of the climbers here some legendary, other novices, almost all brave get any context about what brings them to conditions not meant for the living.

A journalist for Outside magazine who is also climbing with the mountaineers as part of a story, Krakeur (Kelly), even asks them helpfully Why?. But nobody has any real answers. Perhaps the only actor who stands out as a character is mailman/carpenter Doug, and that is largely on the strength of Hawkess acting, who makes even a mushy tale about schoolchildren a real motivator.

Clarke plays Rob Hall, the tour leader who has earned a name for conducting successful Everest expeditions. There is a hint of a rivalry here with more upstart contenders, but Clarkes valiant efforts cant make Hall rise above being a heroic, one-dimensional figure who says repeatedly that he is there not just to take his team up but to bring them down safely. And then there is Gyllenhaal, the other, less-successful team leader, who is more cool, laid-back, high-on-something Gyllenhaal than Scott Fischer.

Still, they fare better than the others, especially the only woman climber, Yasuko from Japan, and Brolin as Beck, who hovers just on the edge of getting a hold on his character.

The film is shot beautifully, and in 3D, the dips and highs of the glorious peak are eminently watchable. Shot partly in Nepal, and partly at the Alps, it tries to make each of the halts on way to 8,848 m (or rather 29,029 feet, here) count be it the Camps, the Balcony, the South Summit and Hillarys Step. How precarious near traffic jams on that Step could be as famously happened in May 2012 is terrifyingly evident.

Cleary Kormkur has read those stories, as well as on the trash left by humans even on one of the worlds most inaccessible spots. But like the sherpas who only hang on the tangents of these stories despite providing the steps (literally) for others to rise to the top these aspects are never fleshed out.

One such sherpa, Lopsang (played by Pemba Sherpa), packs the best punch-line of Everest. Asked if he speaks English by Beck, he shoots back, while barely giving Beck a glance, Better than you, you American.

Is Lopsang saying what we think he is? Because, its there.

Cast: Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Michael Kelly, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington Director: Baltasar Kormkur

Source: http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/everest-movie-review/

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Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods Final Round highlights from Wyndham

Playing Career: 1996-

According to our voters, consider yourself lucky -- for the past 20Tour seasons you"ve been paying witness to the greatest putter of all time, Tiger Woods. As you sit, you can probably peel off half a dozen highlight-reel putts Tiger has made in his career: The finger-pointing bomb at Valhalla on the first playoff hole against Bob May at the 2000 PGA Championship; the double-fist-pumping birdie on the 72nd hole of the 2008 U.S. Open to force a Monday playoff against Rocco Mediate; the hat-throwing downhill slider to s****h the 2008 Bay Hill Invitational from Bart Bryant; or the original-Tiger-fist-pump-inducing 14-footer on the island green at TPC Sawgrass to finish off his improbable comeback against Trip Kuehne at the 1994 U.S. Amateur.

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It"s National Cheeseburger Day! Where Will You Go to Celebrate in Wilmington?

It’s National Cheeseburger Day!

By BROOKLYN LOWERY (Patch Staff)

It only comes once a year, so hopefully you skipped breakfast and plan to celebrate.

Sept. 18 is National Cheeseburger Day; get out there and enjoy. (Not that you need an excuse for a great burger on a Friday).

According to Wikipedia, some genius decided to begin adding cheese to burgers in the 1920s or 30s, though there is debate as to who did it first.

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A popular theory, according to Wikipedia, is that 16-year-old Lionel Sternberger was working in his dads restaurant, The Rite Spot, in 1926 in Pasadena, Calif., when he decided to experiment by dropping a slab of American cheese on a hot hamburger. It wasnt until 1935, however, that a trademark for the name cheeseburger was awarded to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, Col.

We say, Thank you, Cheeseburger Pioneers, whoever you are.

A few national chains are offering deals for National Cheeseburger Day, including:

• McDonalds locations in western Massachusetts and Connecticut are offering $.69 cheeseburgers today.

• Burger King locations offer a deal on Fridays (not just National Cheeseburger Day) that offers you two sandwiches for $5 if you download the BK app.

But what about closer to home? Wheres the best place to grab a cheeseburger in Wilmington?

Across Massachusetts

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Investigators close to identifying girl in Baby Doe case

Mom Arrested After "Baby Doe" Identified as Dead Child Found in Harbor

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A child identified as Bella who is at the center of the Baby Doe investigation.

A man has been charged with killing the young girl long known as Baby Doe, authorities said Friday, and the childs mother has been arrested on allegations that she was an accessory after the fact.

Law enforcement officials laid out the charges in an afternoon news conference, in a criminal case they hope will bring a measure of closure to a tragic mystery that captivated the region for months.

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Her name was Bella, District Attorney Daniel Conley said of the girl who had come to be known as Baby Doe.

Officials identified the girl as 2 -year-old Bella Bond, placing a name to the face that had peered out from billboards, computer monitors, and television screens in a composite image that investigators had widely distributed in a desperate attempt to find out what happened to the girl.

The Dorchester child was found June 25 on Deer Island.

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Photos: Bella, girl at center of Baby Doe probe

Photos of the girl who is at the center of the Baby Doe investigation.

Pieces of the story began to fall into place Friday, as police and prosecutors announced that they had charged Michael McCarthy, 35, with murder and Rachelle Bond, 40 with being an accessory after the fact. McCarthy on Friday was hospitalized with a medical condition unrelated to the case.

For nearly three months, we have endeavored to speak for a true innocent who could not speak for herself, State Police Colonel Richard McKeon said.

With the revelation of Bellas identity Friday, some elements of her troubled family environment also became clear.

Bella in her short life had twice been involved with the states Department of Children and Families. DCF officials also said Bellas mother had two other children taken away from her in the years before the child was born.

Conley described Bella Bond as a true innocent. His office believes that she died by an act of violence in the very place where she should have felt safest: in her home.

Conley provided few details about how investigators broke the perplexing case, pledging that further information would come out at an expected arraignment for the suspects Monday in Dorchester Municipal Court.

As the details emerged Friday, Governor Charlie Baker referred to Friday as a very sad day for all of us.

The lost nature of what had happened to this child is something that really bothered me, the governor said.

A law enforcement official said earlier in the day that there was a search warrant executed in the case at a residence on Maxwell Street in Dorchester Thursday night.

Speaking Friday afternoon, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said his department provided information that helped State Police zero in on the location.

I think our guys ... were constantly helping out, and I think some of the information we developed over the last couple days in cooperation with State Police led us to Maxwell Street, Evans said.

Im glad we finally know who that young child is, Evans said.

Residents of a Maxwell Street apartment building said police were there Thursday asking about Bond. Neighbors had seen the little girl before, but she had been absent since summer. The girl looked just like the composite image released by investigators, they said.

Bella Bond (right) was identified as Baby Doe, pictured in an artists rendering at left.

Siomy Torres, who lives next door, said her daughter played with the little girl.

Half the time she was crying, Torres said, adding that she had assumed the girl was no longer around because she was in state custody.

DCF said the agency had been involved with Bella Bond twice in recent years.

Now that we know her name, the story is no less tragic, said Rhonda Mann, director of Communications for the Executive Office of Health & Human Services. DCF has not had an open case with this family for over two years, but did have brief involvement with Baby Bella as an infant.

Twice in Bellas life, DCF investigated potential neglect, and twice DCF found evidence to support its concerns.

Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff

District Attorney Daniel Conley spoke about the case Friday in Boston.

The first case, in August 2012, triggered regular intervention by a DCF social worker and services to the family that continued through December 2012. A second case in June 2013 brought social workers back to Bella until September 2013.

It was unclear what exactly had triggered the investigations or why DCF discontinued supervision of the family. Mann declined to provide any further details, citing the ongoing criminal investigation.

She also confirmed that Bellas mother had had two other children taken away from her between 2001 and 2006. One of those children remains with a maternal grandmother, DCF said, and another was adopted by an unrelated family.

This weeks developments followed nearly three months of intensive investigation in the case. Officials have said their search spanned at least 36 states and several countries.

Investigators ran down hundreds of leads, ruling out more than 200 girls as they scoured locales including Mexico, Trinidad, Peru, Puerto Rico, and India.

The case also featured sophisticated forensic techniques including advanced genetic testing and an analysis of pollen found on the girls clothes and hair.

Authorities also used an extensive public information campaign in an attempt to draw tips from the public, using billboards, regular updates, and emotional appeals to honor the girls life by helping solve her case.

Boston Police Department

Rachelle Bond, 40, and Michael McCarthy, 35.

Stephanie Ebbert and Joshua Miller of the Globe Staff contributed to this article. Laura Crimaldi can be reached at laura.crimaldi@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @lauracrimaldi.Evan Allen can be reached at evan.allen@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @evanmallen.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the year Governor Baker said DCF was involved with the girl. It was 2013.

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Golf roundup: Jason Day builds big lead at BMW Championship

Highlights | Jason Day locks in the overnight lead at BMW Championship
PGA Tour: Only the weather could stop Jason Day at the BMW Championship on Thursday.Day began his latest quest to reach No. 1 in the world by holing out from a fairway bunker for eagle and powering his way to nine birdies. The PGA champion was 10-under par through 17 holes when the first round at Conway Farms was halted because of approaching storms.Day had just hammered a tee shot 346 yards with the wind at his back, leaving him 44 yards to the hole at No. 9. He needed to hole that shot for a 59, and he had to wait until Friday morning for that. The round was to resume at 7:30 a.m.Day won the FedEx Cup opener at Plainfield for his fourth tour victory of the year. The Australian was four shots ahead of PGA Tour rookie Daniel Berger, who had a 6-under 65.Jordan Spieth had a hole-in-one and followed with a chip-in from 80 feet for birdie to get his game on track. He was at 5 under.It was the best show of the PGA Tour"s postseason, even for a Thursday that was interrupted by a dark and stormy sky north of Chicago. The group of Day, Spieth and Rickie Fowler Nos. 1-2-3 in the FedEx Cup attracted an enormous gallery and the players delivered one great shot after another.Day"s shot from 79 yards in a fairway bunker on No. 1 landed beyond the hole and spun back a few feet for eagle to get him to 6 under. On the par-3 second, Spieth"s tee shot just covered the bunker, hopped once in the first cut and rolled into the cup for an ace, the second of his PGA Tour career.Fowler, coming off his third win of the year at the TPC Boston two weeks ago, was 1 under.Web.com Tour: Brett Stegmaier played his first 10 holes in 8 under and shot a 9-under 63 to take the first-round lead in the Web.com Tour Finals" Small Business Connection Championship.Stegmaier eagled the par-5 18th for a 7-under 27 on his first nine and added birdies on Nos. 1 and 18 at River Run. The 32-year-old former Florida player finished 69th on the Web.com Tour"s regular-season money list and earned $31,000 last week with an eighth-place finish in the series opener in Fort Wayne, Indiana.The four-event series features the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour"s FedEx Cup standings and non-members of the tour who earned enough money to have placed in the top 200 had they been eligible to receive points. The top 25 players on Web.com regular-season money list earned 2015-16 PGA Tour cards. They are competing against each other for PGA Tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals. The other players are fighting for another 25 cards based on earnings in the series.Zack Fisher was second after a 65. He was 48th on the Web.com Tour money list.European Tour: Belgium"s Nicolas Colsaerts had eight straight birdies and finished with a 9-under 63 to take the lead in the Italian Open at Golf Club Milano.Colsaerts is the 11th player in European Tour history to make eight straight birdies, but he won"t get a share of the record because preferred lies were used in the wet conditions.Italy"s Francesco Molinari was tied for second at 65 with Sweden"s Kristoffer Broberg and India"s Shiv Kapur. Molinari won the event in 2006 at Castello di Tolcinasco.

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