plus 2, JetBlue Flight Attendant Steve Slater: Today's Cover Boy - TheWrap

JetBlue Flight Attendant Steve Slater: Today's Cover Boy - TheWrap
Rodney Garner’s rebuilding job … and Aaron Murray’s ill-advised pass - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Wall Street set for lower open after jobs data and Cisco - Yahoo Finance

JetBlue Flight Attendant Steve Slater: Today's Cover Boy - TheWrap

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Steven Slater -- the JetBlue flight attendant who quit his job Monday by telling off passengers in an expletive-laced rant, grabbing two beers and sliding off the plane via the inflatable emergency chute at New York's J.F.K. airport -- is the talk of the town in New York.

All of the major New York newspapers -- with the exception of the Wall Street Journal -- sat Slater on their front pages on Tuesday.

He's being characterized as something of a folk hero -- albeit a "planely" nuts one. (According to the Village Voice, Slater -- who was has been charged with criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and trespassing -- was arrested "while he was having sex" at his home in Belle Harbor, Queens.)

Slater's outburst was the perfect antidote for tabloids looking for fodder during the dog days of August.

Here's a closer look at the covers, via Newseum.org:

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Rodney Garner’s rebuilding job … and Aaron Murray’s ill-advised pass - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 07:23 AM PDT

ATHENS – In his 13th season at Georgia, defensive-line coach Rodney Garner has quite the rebuilding job on his hands –- replacing three NFL draft picks and converting the returnees from a 4-3 to 3-4 scheme.

So how's it going?

"We got to get better," Garner said Wednesday evening. "Like I told them the other day, they got a lot of room to improve. The guys we lost off last year's team, changing of the scheme and all of that -– there are lot of big shoes to be filled. And I'm not for sure we're there yet.

"I see [Demarcus] Dobbs trying to take ownership, trying to be a leader. We need other guys to step up and be leaders, too. To be a good football team, you got to have leadership up front. And that's one thing that has to emerge. Hopefully, as they become more confident in the system and become better fundamentally, maybe some of those characteristics will start to come out."

Dobbs, a senior, is the projected starter at right end, and sophomore Abry Jones and senior Brandon Wood are competing at left end. "I can't say Wood or Abry has taken over at that spot; they're 1-A and 1-B," Garner said.

DeAngelo Tyson would be the starter at the nose position "if we had to play tomorrow," Garner said. "If you ask him, his choice would be to play one of the ends, but we've got to play the personnel that gives us the best chance to win."

Converted offensive lineman Justin Anderson got some snaps at first-team nose in Tuesday's scrimmage so that Tyson could shift to end, Garner said.

"He's improving," Garner said of Anderson. "He's got a long ways to go. But he's improving. I like his attitude. I think he's trying to take the teaching and trying to implement it. But obviously it's something different than he's done his whole career here. . . . I've been pleased with how attentive he is and how he's been able to retain the information."

As for the other player at the nose, redshirt freshman Kwame Geathers, Garner said: "He's coming. Slowly."

Dobbs started at end in the old 4-3 defense last season and has adjusted smoothly to the 3-4, Garner said.

"I think he's done an excellent job of adjusting to it," Garner said. "His motor runs so high, and he plays with a lot of energy and emotion. I think the kids really respect him."

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It was just one pass in one closed-to-the-media preseason scrimmage, one of hundreds of balls Aaron Murray has thrown this month, but it must have been a really bad one.

"Sometimes an interception is a tipped ball at the line of scrimmage, and sometimes it is just a foolish decision," Mark Richt said Tuesday. And then, leaving no doubt which category he put this one in, Richt added: "And this one in particular was not a very wise decision."

Putting it more colorfully, offensive coordinator Mike Bobo told reporters Wednesday the pass was a "bonehead decision."

On balance, Richt said Murray is "progressing very well," and Bobo has had much more praise than criticism for him, too. But the coaches clearly want that ill-advised pass, picked off by freshman safety Alec Ogletree, to be a learning experience for Murray.

"Just got to make sure every once in a while, when things aren't the way they ought to be, you don't have to be a hero," Richt said. "Throw it out of bounds. He just tried to force one down in the red zone, and it got picked."

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Georgia holds its 11th (of 29) preseason practices this afternoon.

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Wall Street set for lower open after jobs data and Cisco - Yahoo Finance

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 06:41 AM PDT

On Thursday August 12, 2010, 9:41 am

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell at the open on Thursday after an unexpected rise in new claims for unemployment insurance added to concerns about a slowing economic recovery.

A bleak outlook from Dow component Cisco Systems Inc (NasdaqGS:CSCO - News) weighed on the technology sector.

The Dow Jones industrial average (DJI:^DJI - News) was down 77.50 points, or 0.75 percent, at 10,301.33. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (^SPX - News) fell 10.55 points, or 0.97 percent, at 1,078.92. The Nasdaq Composite Index (Nasdaq:^IXIC - News) lost 35.29 points, or 1.60 percent, at 2,173.34.

The S&P 500 fell below its 50-day moving average of 1,088 and also a recent low, marked as key technical support. The next support level is near 1,060.

(Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

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