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1. Tennessee Titans: Grade for 2011 NFL Draft picks
(Sports/Professional)

The Tennessee Titans clearly needed a quarterback, but eighth pick was too early to take Jake Locker. Like the Vikings, they could have traded down, accumulated picks and still had him, or another quarterback. ...

2. 2011 NFL Draft: Tennessee Titans analysis and prediction
(Sports/Professional)

... a trade for Kevin Kolb. The defense was 26th in yards allowed, and needs help along the defensive line. WHAT THEY SHOULD DO: As much as they need a quarterback, the eighth pick is too early to draft ...

3. Princeton names former Tiger Mitch Henderson new basketball coach
(Sports/Professional)

...  He is fourth in school history in assists with 304 and eighth in steals with 142. He was captain of the Tigers and a second team All-Ivy selection in 1997-1998 “I felt very fortunate to be a part of ...

4. Kyrie Irving of Duke is an NBA Draft No. 1 pick
(Sports/Professional)

... assists and 1.5 steals per game over 11 games. His season was cut short in his eighth game, when he suffered a severe ligament injury to his right big toe. His right foot was placed in a cast on December ...

5. N.J. Assemblywoman Joan Quigley announces she won't seek re-election after redistricting
(N.J./State)

... for 16 years by her own party in the redistricting process, announced Wednesday that she will not seek re-election. Quigley, of Jersey City, said she decided not to seek election to an eighth run again ...

6. Masters 2011: Golfers practice through unusual circumstances
(Sports/Professional)

...  Mickelson and Couples, playing with Masters rookie Kevin Streelman, paused in their walk up the eighth as a small deer bounded across the fairway from his apparent hiding spot amid the pinestraw and ...

7. Rebecca Black gains critics for ‘Friday’ (VIDEO)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... a "fun, loving 13-year-old" in eighth grade who's proud of her lead role in her school's production of "Oklahoma!" Another person who’s pretty good at making people angry is Simon Cowell. He told TV ...

8. Pi Day celebrated
(Life/Style)

... in Waltham, Mass., the company is delivering apple pies to math and science teachers at public middle and high schools in a 3.14 radius around its offices. My eighth grade son is celebrating Pi Day at ...

9. Sports costing taxpayers billions
(Sports/Professional)

... Seventh and Eighth Avenue. Dolan is paying two players more than $20 million a year each (Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony) which suggests he has the means to pay the taxes. In cash strapped New ...

10. Ali-Frazier I: My memory of forty years ago today
(Sports/Professional)

... years of forced ring idleness was against Zora Folley in March, 1967. He knocked out Folley in the seventh round in the old Madison Square Garden on Eighth Avenue and 50th Street. After he refused forced ...

11. Charlie Sheen has lost his shine
(Entertainment/Movies)

... of abc.news.go.com. This notoriety has both intrigued and repulsed the public, and ironically, may have helped the show’s ratings. Now in its eighth season, Sheen reportedly earned $1.2 million per episode ...

12. R.I.P. Gino Cimoli – you were a wonderful part of baseball history
(Sports/Professional)

... historic role occurred in the bottom of the eighth inning in Game Seven. The Buccos were then down, 7-4, and Manager Danny Murtaugh sent Gino to the plate to pinch hit for relief pitcher Elroy Face. ...

13. President Obama's budget reveals some darker truths about love
(Health/Healthquest)

... of Virginia and wrote of her experiences in her book Crash Into Me. Although this initiative will most likely be aimed at college students, I wish it would start as early as eighth grade, when many kids ...

14. A&P bankruptcy fallout leading to more job losses
(N.J./State)

... Barnegat and Manville. It filed for Chapter 11 protection on Dec. 12, two months after reporting a loss of $154 million in its most recent quarter, its eighth consecutive losing period and almost twice ...

15. Lindsay Massaro guilty of teacher-student sex
(N.J./State)

... she had with an eighth-grade student at the school where she taught, The Daily Mail reported. On Tuesday, Lindsey Massaro admitted in open court that she knew the boy was 15-years-old when the weeklong ...

16. UBS agrees to repurchase $1.5 billion in auction-rate securities sold to New Jerseyans
(Money/Economy)

... failed in early 2008, revealing illiquidity and lower interest rates than investors were promised. It is the eighth such settlement that the Bureau of Securities has reached with firms that sold ...

17. Poorly Written Garbage
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

If there are good points to be made here, they have been completely lost in the shockingly incompetent grammar and composition by the writer. Hard to tell whether this was written by an eighth grade dropout ...

18. Can-Am League and a study in public policy failure
(Sports/Professional)

... in 2011 and the eighth franchise (which is located about eight miles north of the New Jersey-New York border in Montvale up New York's Route 45 in Ramapo, New York) is going to be a problem for the league. ...

19. New Jersey students again outperform most of nation in science tests
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... on poverty and race or ethnicity. Based on tests selectively administered in 2009, the U.S. Department of Education report shows New Jersey fourth-graders and eighth-graders each beat their counterparts ...

20. State pushes data to show N.J. urban charter schools outperform neighboring public schools
(N.J./State)

... eighth-grade students, 79 percent of the charter schools in urban areas scored higher than their home district in language arts, while 69 percent of the charter schools scored higher than their home district ...