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Bryant has 3 TD catches, Cowboys beat Eagles 38-27
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dez Bryant backed up his bravado in a big way. Related Stories Eagles roll over Cowboys 33-10 for NFC East lead The Associated Press Cowboys-Eagles Preview The Associated Press Cowboys vs. Eagles preview: 3 questions that will decide the NFC East SB Nation Eagles Blast Cowboys, 33-10 Automated Insights Eagles-Cowboys capsule The Associated Press Mind-Blowing French Video Grabs Attention of ManyThe Pimsleur Approach Sponsored Bryant had a career-best three touchdown receptions, and the Dallas Cowboys rallied to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-27 after wasting a 21-0 lead. DeMarco Murray had a pair of TD runs to help the Cowboys (10-4) move ahead of the Eagles (9-5) into first place in the NFC East. The Eagles dominated the Cowboys in a 33-10 road win on Thanksgiving, but Dallas seized control of the division with two weeks left. ”We believed in one another, and I think that’s the key to victory,” Bryant said. ”Believing in one another and just trying to come out and execute the plays the best way that we possibly can, and we did that.” The NFC-leading Arizona Cardinals (11-3) clinched a playoff berth because the game didn’t end in a tie. The Cowboys took a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter before Philadelphia rallied behind Mark Sanchez. View gallery Dallas Cowboys’ Tony Romo celebrates after an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, … Chris Polk had TD runs of 1 and 5 yards, and Darren Sproles ran in from the 1 to give the Eagles a 24-21 lead late in third quarter. But Tony Romo and the Cowboys answered quickly with two touchdowns in a 2:51 span. Murray scored on a 2-yard run to cap a 78-yard drive. After J.J. Wilcox intercepted Sanchez’s pass, the Cowboys started the fourth quarter at the Eagles 42. Romo then hit Bryant in stride for a 25-yard scoring pass. ”Having a guy like Dez makes it easy to throw to spots that he can go get it,” Romo said. ”Just lucky to have him.” Bryant couldn’t wait for this game after being held to 73 yards on four catches in the first meeting. After that game, he called Philadelphia’s secondary ”cheap,” and he had a heated exchange with Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins before Sunday night’s game. Bryant came back twice after Jenkins walked away and it wasn’t known why they argued. ”Just great competitors going at it, that’s all,” Bryant said. View gallery Dallas Cowboys’ Dez Bryant (88) pulls in touchdown pass against Philadelphia Eagles’ Bradley … Bryant finished with six receptions for 114 yards. He beat cornerback Bradley Fletcher on each of the TDs. ”I just had a terrible game,” Fletcher said. Romo threw for 265 yards and Murray ran for 81 yards on 31 carries. Here are some things learned in Dallas’ win over the Eagles: SANCHEZ OR FOLES: Sanchez may not get another chance to steer one more Philadelphia rally. Sanchez was 17 of 28 for 252 yards and two interceptions. The sub-turned-starter could return to his backup role if Nick Foles is cleared to return from his broken collarbone. Eagles coach Chip Kelly refused to discuss hypotheticals, and Sanchez said he didn’t know if he would start next week at Washington. View gallery Philadelphia Eagles’ Mark Sanchez passes during the first half of an NFL football game against t … ”I didn’t play well enough to win and that’s why we lost,” Sanchez said. MCCOY’S STRUGGLE: LeSean McCoy was held in check against Dallas and only rushed for 64 yards. McCoy, a two-time All-Pro, ran for 159 yards and a touchdown in the Thanksgiving victory. ”When we got going, we really got going,” McCoy said. ”We just slowed down at the wrong time.” ROAD STARS: The Cowboys are 7-0 on the road for the third time in franchise history. Their road finale is Dec. 28 against the lowly Washington Redskins. ”Hard to explain,” coach Jason Garrett said. ”I believe we have a mentally tough football team.” SACK EXCHANGE: The Cowboys sacked Sanchez four times. Jeremy Mincey and Tyrone Crawford each had two sacks. The Eagles allowed the most sacks since their season opener. ”When it was a two-score game and we felt like (Sanchez) was going to be in the pocket, those guys did a good job just rushing and they stayed after him and stayed after him,” Garrett said. Mincey said it was great to beat a tackle like Jason Peters for his sacks. ”I left some out there during the first game, and I knew I was going to have an opportunity to get on the edge,” Mincey said. NFC EAST: The Cowboys clinch their first division title since 2009 with wins over Indianapolis and Washington or one win and one loss by Philadelphia, which plays at the Redskins and Giants the final two weeks. If the Eagles win out and the Cowboys lose one, Philadelphia repeats.
Lamborghini’s $6,000 Smartphone
Tonino Lamborghini, the son of Lamborghini founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, has founded the ‘Tonino Lamborghini Style and Accessories’ company for the creation of luxury accessories and design projects with the renowned ‘raging Bull’ logo. The latest addition to this non-automotive Lamborghini-lifestyle luxury product range is the 88 Tauri. Available in black, blue, red, orange or brown leather and in black, gold or silver finish steel, only 1,947 88 Tauri devices will be made in honor of the birth year of Tonino Lamborghini.
Naomi Campbell and Jourdan Dunn Front Burberry’s S/S 2015 Campaign
Burberry moves over Kate and Cara to make way for two new British models for their latest campaign. Naomi Campbell and Jourdan Dunn lead the British brand’s Summer/Spring 2015 campaign. It is the first time the label has exclusively cast colored female supermodels in a fashion campaign.
Shady Records x Distinct Life x Beats By Dre Pill Speaker
Detroit’s Shady Records and Distinct Life have come together to collaborate with Beats By Dre for a new version of the Beats Pill speaker. Dressed in a camo pattern and branded with the Shady and Distinct Life logotypes, the portable speaker sports all of the usual Beats audio technology you have come to expect and is set for release December 16 at Shady Records’ webstore.
Jesse Jackson compares tech employment to Jim Crow segregation
INTERESTING Jesse Jackson has his eye on some of the largest tech companies in the United States, and he has no intentions of ending the staredown until hiring practices he compares to segregation are ended. On Friday, Jackson’s Rainbow Push Coalition published the full text of a speech he was scheduled to give last week at Intel’ s Campus, as part of the Change the Face of Technology Forum. Here’s an excerpt of the speech, in which he likens today’s tech hiring practices to the separation of services by race, made illegal in 1954 with the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education: Not so long ago, sports was segregated and it was illegal for these great players to play. Scouts could not see. They thought they were the world’s best. If we look at the world, look for talent, through a door and not through a keyhole, our best days will be ahead of us. They said they didn’t see us, want us, and couldn’t find us. So let’s imagine technology being the best it can be, where all are included and nobody is left behind. But we should also be inspired to become change agents. We cannot be quieted by fear or shame – but invigorated to work, to push the envelope, and generate a new or innovative inclusion, disruptive diversity. You are the new leaders. The new innovators. Not just consumers. Not just users. Let’s rally together today and commit ourselves to change the face of technology to mirror the world in which we live. On Dec. 8, Jackson met with Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, the week before, he met with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Thursday, he met with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, according to the transcript. He plans to meet with Hewlett Packard’s Meg Whitman in the coming weeks. Only Amazon, which he previously criticized, has so far ignored his request for a meeting, according to a report by our sibling publication, Puget Sound Business Journal, which spoke with Jackson. In August, a series of reports showed that only 2 percent of the tech community is black. Last year, the Kauffman Foundation published its Index of Entrepreneurial Activity by Race, showing that black entrepreneurs comprise about 0.2 percent of the population polled, while white entrepreneurs averaged about twice that rate during the same period. Jackson described this time as the fourth stage of the civil rights movement, after ending slavery, ending Jim Crow segregation and fighting for the right to vote. He characterizes the fourth stage as the fight for access to capital, industry, technology, deal flow and business relationships. Michael del Castillo is the technology and innovation reporter at Upstart Business Journal, a member of American City Business Journals. A graduate of Columbia University, his work has appeared in the New Yorker. He is also the cofounder of Literary Manhattan, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Manhattan’s literary community and creating new ways to appreciate literature.
Movie Review: The Hobbit-The Battle Of The Five Armies
4/5 The War Of The Rings. 144 Minutes. Starring: Martin Freeman, Sir Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lily, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Aidan Turner, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Stephen Fry, Sylvester McCoy, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving & Benedict Cumberbatch (As The Voice Of Smaug). Director: Peter Jackson. Once more unto the breach my friends! We all know how this day is going to end. This is it! One last time! Peter Jackson’s ‘King Kong’ huge vision of middle-earth comes to a dream like close. After his original ‘Lord Of The Rings’ trilogy changed the blockbuster movie world and storytelling as a whole. The man who directs like he has his sights on being the next Spielberg, took Tolkien’s classic book ends and turned them into something truly beyond the most vivid imaginations of parents who grew up on the bedtime stories worldwide. Having the passing on, nostalgic pleasure of an opportunity to take their own children to see and share a story in this digital age, where unfortunately reading to our children before bed has turned into Kindles and iPad videos. Still honouring tradition, Jackson took action and went back to the original book of ‘The Hobbit’ and that big, red dragon that so far had only been seen in inspired illustrations of influence over the generations. Now ‘The Hobbit’ may read like a pamphlet in relation to the fellowship of door-stops that came after, but Jackson has still managed to squeeze three films out of it in the generation of eight ‘Harry Potter’ films and a ‘Hunger Games’, ‘Mockingjay’ being split into two. First came ‘An Unexpected Journey’ with a rejuvenated, precious feel and Gollum. Then last December in the new yearly tradition came the most fun and entertaining film of the Rings with ‘The Desolation Of Smaug’ where we finally saw the dragon enter. Now with this year, this trilogy and this story coming to an epic close fans are left screaming and shouting for ‘The Silmarillion’. ‘There And Back Again’…just not quite. A fitting finale like this needs to an end with a bold BANG! So this stories script has been rewrote to ‘The Battle Of The Five Armies’ and believe me this fight club of battle royales even makes ‘300’ men look like a band of babies. Even with Katniss trying to take the arrow lead off Legolas, throwing bows, ‘The Hunger Games’ is starving in relation to this fall, yearly blockbuster tradition. Now from ‘The Winter Soldier’ start this may have been Marvel’s blockbuster year in this ‘Age Of Ultron’, with ‘Captain America’, ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’, ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ (hello Gandalf) and of course the ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’, you still have to make room for the shire. In this monster, big budget effects year of ‘Transformers’ and the ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’. Nothing comes close to this beast and its smouldering Smaug…not even the king ‘Godzilla’. The dinosaurs of ‘Jurassic World’, the Terminators of ‘Genyisis’ and ‘The Force Awakening’ of ‘Star Wars’ has a lot to live up in 2015 as 2014 comes to a book end close. This film wraps it all up completely with a classic core of effects, emotion and epic war of magic and madness. Sure at times some silly slapstick action and unbelievable set-pieces may make it look like Michael Bay maybe snuck into the editing suite, but a more focussed, formidable finale is more forgiving and fitting. Even if at times it feels anti-climatic, because after all this and that, that came before…what wouldn’t. It’s still a geeks treat, for something that one day next to the ‘Rings’ will make for one epic, one sitting DVD night. Even the most die-hard, devoted fans have finished their 9-5, only to go straight to the cinema to watch all three, back-to back, only to surface out of the cinema at three in the morning. Now that’s epic. In the dawn of this middle earth of the dwarfs one Hobbit will rule them all. His name…Martin…or should we sat Bilbo. As Freeman shows more than Ian Holm and takes the ring (that he’ll eventually give to) off Elijah Wood, this man proves the show that he can carry a massive movie for three perfect pictures. This ‘Holmes’ that has taken over Holm is a born-again star for more than just his ‘Sherlock’ show as his classic co-star Benedict Cumberbatch again provides the incredibly scorchingly sinister and scary voice of Smaug. On fire with his Oscar worthy ‘Imitation Game’ year that will lead to the Marvel of ‘Dr. Strange’. Still even his grand growl is smoke and mirrors in reflection to how epic this dynamite, dynamic dragon looks in all its special, scaly and scary effects. Flying through town with a fire blaze of glorified, death and destruction. This is something that fans who couldn’t stop turning the page to that one illustration have being wanting to feast their eyes on for decades. Speaking of old legends and Marvel mutants, there’s nothing stopping the magic of Magneto as Sir Ian McKellen once again casts a classic and at times comedic spell as the grand Gandalf. One scene with the legendary ‘Rings’ circle of trust of Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Christopher Lee is a remarkable redux of a reunion. Just like Orlando Bloom’s growth, now entertainingly teaming up with the incredible, star of the future Evangeline Lily and the elf king Lee Pace who is camping up quite the likable, villainous year after his ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ out of this earth, breakout. The “newer” actors who are now an established part of middle-earth folklore really shine here (just check out Aidan Turner, mark these words one day he’ll play late INXS rock legend Michael Hutchence) all the way down to James Nesbitt, Ken Stott and the legendary Sylvester McCoy and Stephen Fry, out of the frying pan and into Smaug’s fire. Still its the man tasked with bringing down the beast, Luke Evans who really prevails after a bullseye year. Almost over the new Viggo in Richard Armitage who succumbs to “Dragon Sickness” and a healthy dose of acting ability, wandering round pools and halls of gold like Scrooge McDuck. All these nuggets pay off for a film that strikes gold even with all the coins pouring away into the block busting budget. Sure in relation to the trilogy this finale may be a little bit ‘Dark Knight Rises’, but in the years that come, this too will go down in legacy making legend. Perhaps its just all too bittersweet that this beautiful battalion of blockbusters is coming to a classic close. As this Hobbit puts his hairy feet up, middle earth will never quite be the same. TIM DAVID HARVEY
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” -Anita Septimus