Boeheim lost one NBA lottery pick and two of his other top players last season, but the Orange only got stronger and they appear to be on their way to a No. 1 seed this season. It’s a credit to Boeheim, who has more than 800 career wins.

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Phrogman writes “The BBC is reporting that deforestation has ‘revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say. The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered in the last decade.’ If you search Google Maps for ‘Omeonga Democratic Republic of the Congo,’ you will be right in the middle of the suspected crater.”

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Britain’s Jessica Ennis makes an impressive start in her quest to win the World Indoor pentathlon title in Doha by winning the first two events.

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Investigators say Faith Williams Hamby, 43, flashed her breasts to a patron at a Gadsden convenience store on Wednesday. Only that patron was an off-duty Etowah County sheriff’s deputy, and apparently he wasn’t impressed.

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Evan Turner, who overcame a broken back after falling off the rim during a dunk, is a triple-double threat every night and has Ohio State in contention for a Final Four appearance. He took the honor over Kentucky’s John Wall.

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If there was ever a greater feeling in the world than that of levelling up, we are yet to experience it. While this is true of you in-game, it’s also true of you and your own abilities themselves. Increasing with each game, your own attributes are advancing as gaming teaches you to ‘evel-up’ yourself in ways that make you almost super-human.

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