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No. 19 Florida State RB Dalvin Cook lists his 5 biggest runs

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In a season that has seen plenty of highlight-reel runs by Dalvin Cook, the tailback for 10th-ranked Florida State listed his top five jaunts in an interview with The Associated Press: — Sept. 12, vs. South Florida: Cook broke two tackles en route to a 74-yard touchdown run. It was the first of three TDs in a 30-carry, 266-yard performance. “I feel like that got the momentum going for the rest of the season,” Cook said. “I just put in…

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Time: 2-Min-Bio on Charlie Crist

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Time Magazine offers this 2 Min-Bio on Charlie Crist: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s May 12 announcement that he will run for Senate instead of reelection in 2010 was rare good news for the flailing GOP. The first-term governor, who is seeking the seat held by retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez, has consistently boasted approval ratings in the high 60s since taking office despite economic dark days in the Sunshine State. An adroit campaigner who addresses every citizen he meets as…

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Doesn’t Bobby Bowden remind you of, um, Donald Rumsfeld?

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BBobby Bowden and Donald Rumsfeld…on the surface, they appear to have little in common, other than both are icons in their mid-seventies. And that’s where the similarities end, right? Bobby is down-to-Earth and Rummy is a Princeton snob. Bobby plays games for a living, while Rummy’s every day was filled with life-or-death decisions. See, they are very different people. Except that, more and more, Bobby Bowden is starting to sound just like Donald Rumsfeld. Their accents may be different, but…

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