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Only bad guys change sides, like Anakin Skywalker did when he left the Jedi for a more lucrative lifetime deal with the Sith.

Thomas was scheduled to pitch both games this weekend, but after throwing 161 pitches over nine innings Saturday, Earleywine said it’s not certain she will throw Sunday. "We’re going to wake up tomorrow and see how she feels," Earleywine said. "We have a grip test that gives us a pretty good indicator of the strength in her right hand. If all those things line up OK, then we’ll throw her."

RT @Big12Conference #mizzou Gary Pinkel says DE Aldon Smith has lower leg injury (bone fracture), will miss the Miami (Ohio) game Saturday

OVERRATED TEAMS 1. Nebraska Could be a BCS team, but it is hard to picture as a national title contender. The defense won't be as dominant without Ndamunkong Suh and the offense is inconsistent.

Suppose I simply want to maximize the number of minutes my star player is in the game. When should I risk putting him back in the game after his nth foul? It’s a trick question: I shouldn’t bench him at all!

This is a crucial point. Much of the attention in the football world, in the past few years, has been on concussions—on diagnosing, managing, and preventing them—and on figuring out how many concussions a player can have before he should call it quits. But a football player’s real issue isn’t simply with repetitive concussive trauma. It is, as the concussion specialist Robert Cantu argues, with repetitive subconcussive trauma. It’s not just the handful of big hits that matter. It’s lots of little hits, too.