Amy Krouse Rosenthal - Woman with Terminal Cancer Creates Heartbreaking Dating Profile for Husband:
I"m in pain as I write this. I"m in pain every day. It"s right there, at the front of my pelvis. A dull pressure. Bloating. I"ve had this pain for 15 years, but it"s become worse over the last nine months. I thought it was my polycystic ovary syndrome. My doctor thinks it may be endometriosis. I"m scheduled for surgery in less than three weeks. Instead of relief, I feel fear. Fear of what I could lose. It"s hard to explain, so I"ll leave it to these five quotes from amy krouse rosenthal"s heartbreaking essay that perfectly capture partnership and parenting in the face of fear and loss.
It"s no surprise that Krouse Rosenthal could evoke such emotion with her New York Times essay. The Chicago-born author and filmmaker has written more than 30 children"s books in the last 12 years, many of which landed on the New York Times bestseller list (I Wish You More, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons, and Uni the Unicorn, to name a few). She"s also published two endearing memoirs Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal as well as worked on several films. Krouse Rosenthal is a prolific and captivating writer, and her words in this essay have resonated deeply.
I"ve thought about death a lot over the last year. After my father passed away last February, it"s all I could think about. But for the last few months, death has been right there, in the front of my mind. Surgery is the only way to get an accurate endometriosis diagnosis; my dad died due to complications from anesthesia. I thought the nagging fear of dying while under was because of how my father passed. But after reading Krouse Rosenthal"s devastating essay, I realized it"s because of so much more. I"m afraid of what the surgeon may discover. I"m afraid they will find more than, using Krouse Rosenthal"s words, the "no biggie" endometriosis I may have.
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Most of all, I"m scared of leaving my partner and son behind. I"m afraid of having to let go of a love that has kept me both sane and mad for the last 12 years. I"m scared of the plans that will fall through, of the dreams that will fade. I"m scared of what I do know and what I don"t, and of the uncertainty of certainty.
I"m scared that my partner and son will talk about me in the past tense, sooner than I planned.
I know that I"m not in Krouse Rosenthal"s position. I know that I do have more days with my family. I know that my fears could be unfounded that I"m doing this to myself. But I am still crying as I write this. I"m crying not only because Krouse Rosenthal"s essay hits a little close to home. I"m also crying because this love letter to her husband, Jason, is a love letter no one should have to write. But she did. She wrote this piece because she knew that, even though she couldn"t have "more," she wanted "more" for him. And that"s at the core of partnership. Here are five powerful quotes from Rosenthal"s essay.
When You Have The Future Planned FirstGIPHYIt was 1989. We were only 24. I had precisely zero expectations about this going anywhere. But when he knocked on the door of my little frame house, I thought, "Uh-oh, there is something highly likable about this person." By the end of dinner, I knew I wanted to marry him. Jason? He knew a year later.When Their Presence Is All You Need To Cheer UpGIPHYIf our home could speak, it would add that Jason is uncannily handy. On the subject of food man, can he cook. After a long day, there is no sweeter joy than seeing him walk in the door, plop a grocery bag down on the counter, and woo me with olives and some yummy cheese he has procured before he gets to work on the evenings meal.When The Little Things Only MatterGIPHYIf youre looking for a dreamy, lets-go-for-it travel companion, Jason is your man. He also has an affinity for tiny things: taster spoons, little jars, a mini-sculpture of a couple sitting on a bench, which he presented to me as a reminder of how our family began.When They Want To See You HappyGIPHYThis is a man who emerges from the minimart or gas station and says, "Give me your palm." And, voil, a colorful gumball appears. (He knows I love all the flavors but white.)When True Love Is Not Perfect, But Perfect For YouGIPHYIf he sounds like a prince and our relationship seems like a fairy tale, its not too far off, except for all of the regular stuff that comes from two and a half decades of playing house together. And the part about me getting cancer. Blech.
Krouse Rosenthal"s essay showcases a certain strength and devotion that is both humbling and tragic. No one should have their great love slip away as the result of something totally outside of their control. Krouse Rosenthal deserves the "more" she wants. I wish she could have it. I wish it with every bone in my body.
Right now, there is no dedicated test for ovarian cancer. Doctors rely on a transvaginal ultrasound and blood tests to detect the presence of the disease, but they are not reliable. When ovarian cancer is found, it"s often too late. New, improved ways of testing for ovarian cancer are being studied, but scientists need your help. To donate to ovarian cancer research, visit Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance.
Khabib Nurmagomedovs title bout with Tony Ferguson at UFC 209 will not go ahead after the Dagestani fighter was taken to hospital with weight management issues.
UFC issued a statement shortly after weigh-ins on Friday to say that Saturdays co-main event in Las Vegas had been cancelled on the doctors recommendation. It represents the third time a matchup between the two has been called off.
Nurmagomedov was taken to hospital on Thursday after struggling to make weight for the 155lb title limit. According to the ufc statement, he was treated and discharged, but failed to appear at Fridays official early weigh-ins. Ferguson came in at 154.5lbs.
Shortly after the announcement, Ferguson tweeted: I hope you feel better Khabib. I pray for your recovery. I mean it: get better.
Nurmagomedovs manager Ali Abdel-Aziz told MMA Fighting: I feel bad for Tony and his camp, I really do. The most important thing right now is Khabibs health. Hes currently resting in his room. Were not thinking about whats next at this time. I want to sincerely apologize to Tony, his team, the UFC and the fans. We were all looking forward to this fight very much.
It was not yet confirmed whether the fight will be booked for a later date. Officials did not say which fight from Saturdays undercard would be bumped up to the main card.
The main event from UFC 209 will go ahead as scheduled after Tyron Woodley and Stephen Wonderboy Thompson both made weight on Friday morning.
Nurmagomedov and Ferguson were set to meet for the interim lightweight title while Conor McGregor is on hiatus. McGregor is awaiting the birth of his first child in May.
The Sleep Styler entered the Shark Tank in Season 8 with its rollers made of yoga towel fabric and memory foam that dry and style hair curly or straight while youre sleeping.
We interviewed inventor Tara Brown who explained, I came up with The Sleep Styler because I have the worst hair in the world! Its half curly, half straight, and frizzy all over. An opthamologist by day, she enrolled in fashion school to learn how to sew in order to make the first prototype. Twenty variations later, she had her final product, and has sold 2,000 sets of rollers since launching last August.
As of now, they are available exclusively ontheir website.However, her dream retail partnerships are places like Target, Sephora, Bed, Bath & Beyond and CVS.
Her foray into the Shark Tank came after she was contacted by one of their casting agents a week into launching her Kickstarter campaign. (Their fundraising goal was $10,000 and they made an impressive $47,000.) As for her nerves while facing the Sharks, she said, I was so nervous, my teeth were chattering. Fortunately I had botoxed my armpits in preparation.
Heres what else she told us aboutRead all of Heavys Shark Tank coverage here.
How the Idea Came About From Taking a Braid Out of Her Daughters Hair
The idea behind The Sleep Styler came from taking a braid out of my daughters hair that I had put in wet the day before. I started thinking about how her hair still had the braid shape, and that wave stayed until she washed her hair again. I thought there has to be a way to use that property of hair that whatever position its in when it goes from wet to dry is how it will stay to passively dry the hair into appealing shapes. But when do people have hours to sit around with their hair in rollers waiting for it to dry? When theyre sleeping! so i knew whatever I created had to be comfortable enough to sleep in.
What Makes Her Product Different
No other product can do what The Sleep Styler does. There are absorbent towels and turbans, these will dry but not style the hair. There are rollers comfortable enough to sleep in, but these are meant for hair that is already dry. And nothing else out there gives a straightening option.
Her Customers & Their Feedback
Our customer demographic is anyone with a high hair-to-time ratio. The feedback is great! The people who benefit the most are those like me, whose air-dried hair is a big ol mess and they are tired of the damage caused by hot tools.
Their New Product for Short Hair-The Sleep Styler Mini
One piece of feedback we kept hearing again and again from our fans was that their hair or their friends/coworkers/moms hair is too short for our long hair rollers, and can we please come up with something for them. So we did! The Sleep Styler Mini is half the size of the original and works like a traditional roller, but is made with our luxe yoga towel fabric and memory foam. Its perfect for bobs and fine hair. The two rollers work great together for long, layered looks and extensions. The Mini is launching next month.
Balancing Motherhood With Running a Business
My two businesses take me away from the kiddos, and I have a lot of guilt when I have to miss something important. Two working parent households are so common these days, but the kids seem to manage, For me, making little efforts regularly add up to a lot. One day when my son was in second grade, I had an afternoon off so I surprised him by picking him up after school and taking him to the beach where we rented a stand up paddleboard for an hour. I paddled and he sat at the front and looked for fish in the bay. A year later I was looking through some writing assignments he had done and he wrote a story about the best day in his life being the time when his mom picked him up from school and took him paddleboarding.
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Golden State Warriors vs Chicago Bulls - Full Game Highlights | March 2, 2017 | 2016-17 NBA Season
More often than not in recent seasons, the Bulls haven"t fielded a full 15-man roster. They"ve done so for a variety of reasons lack of need, ability to take back more players in an unbalanced trade, cost savings.
but the bulls appear poised to keep their roster at 15 after letting pass the March 1 date to waive players and let them be playoff-eligible if they sign with another team. Either that or they"ll waive somebody and he won"t be playoff-eligible, which isn"t a good look around the league.
The Bulls discussed waiving a player to ease the logjam at point guard and unbalanced roster that resulted after last week"s trade with the Thunder. But ultimately the recent injury to Michael Carter-Williams and other unknown reasons convinced management to keep the status quo.
The situation creates an unnecessary daily headache for coach Fred Hoiberg, who will have at least one disgruntled guard from the group of Carter-Williams, Jerian Grant, Cameron Payne and Rajon Rondo at all times. Isaiah Canaan, who has been out of the rotation for a while, is the fifth point guard.
Rondo recently has taken the high road and settled in with the second unit but calmly dissected his demotion in late December and early January, saying he didn"t understand it. Similar to when he lost his starting job to Grant in late January, Carter-Williams expressed frustration over his limited role.
"I"ve been a little surprised," Carter-Williams said.
Carter-Williams is close to returning from left patellar tendinitis, but the point-guard situation has become even further muddied by Payne"s arrival.
"We"ll see how it plays out. It"ll be based on different matchups," Hoiberg said. "You just have to keep talking to them and keep them ready for when their name is called."
Memory lane: Steve Kerr missed the morning shootaround because he wasn"t feeling well but was typically engaged in his pregame media session, even lightheartedly quizzing reporters on who scored the first basket in United Center history.
"You think (Scottie) Pippen or (Michael) Jordan. It"s Larry Krystkowiak," Kerr said. "Apropos of nothing, there"s one of my memories."
There are others, of course, including championships.
"Going into that locker room and pouring champagne, that"s a memory that will last forever," Kerr said. "Those were some of the best times of my life."
Sigh of relief: The Warriors will be without Kevin Durant for at least a month after he sprained his medial collateral ligament Tuesday. But it could"ve been worse.
"At first, we thought he was done for the year," Kerr said. "That second prognosis was way better. He"s feeling a lot better about things now than he was at first."
Mike Pence: The Donald Trump I Saw Last Night Is The One I’ve Seen All Along | TODAY
I have some disturbing news to share: Republicans might not be as deeply committed to proper email management as you"ve been led to believe.
During the campaign, the entire Republican Party argued that despite Hillary Clinton"s copious qualifications for the presidency, it would be unconscionably dangerous to let her anywhere near the Oval Office because she had used a private email account while Secretary of State. Crowds at Republican events would chant "Lock her up!" whenever Clinton"s name was mentioned. In one debate, Donald Trump said to Clinton that if he were president, "You"d be in jail." With FBI director James Comey"s help, Trump and Republicans made Clinton"s use of private email the single most important issue of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Which is why this story from Tony Cook of the Indianapolis Star is so interesting:
"vice president mike pence routinely used a private email account to conduct public business as governor of Indiana, at times discussing sensitive matters and homeland security issues.
"Emails released to IndyStar in response to a public records request show Pence communicated via his personal AOL account with top advisers on topics ranging from security gates at the governor"s residence to the state"s response to terror attacks across the globe. In one email, Pence"s top state homeland security adviser relayed an update from the FBI regarding the arrests of several men on federal terror-related charges.
"Cyber-security experts say the emails raise concerns about whether such sensitive information was adequately protected from hackers, given that personal accounts like Pence"s are typically less secure than government email accounts. In fact, Pence"s personal account was hacked last summer."
Well fancy that. When Mike Pence was debating Tim Kaine and said, "it"s important in this moment to remember that Hillary Clinton had a private server in her home that had classified information on it," adding that "her private server was subject to being hacked" and "we could put cybersecurity first if we just make sure the next secretary of state doesn"t have a private server," did he consider adding that he knew what he was talking about since he used an AOL account to talk about sensitive security matters and had himself been hacked?
The parallels don"t stop there. According to the article, "Pence"s office said his campaign hired outside counsel as he was departing as governor to review his AOL emails and transfer any involving public business to the state." Which was exactly what Hillary Clinton did and what Pence and Trump so vehemently criticized her for. When Trump invited the Russian government to hack Clinton"s email to recover what had been deleted, it was those personal emails he was talking about.
And Pence is not the only one: Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump"s Environmental Protection Agency administrator, not only used a private email account to conduct official business as attorney general of Oklahoma, he lied about it during his confirmation hearings.
Perhaps now that this has come out, Republicans will stop pretending that the email "issue" was anything more than a club to bludgeon Hillary Clinton with, and the deep concern they expressed for cybersecurity was utterly insincere.
But this actually matters beyond the question of catching Republicans in the act of hypocrisy.
That"s because there are strong reasons to believe that the Trump administration is leaving sensitive information vulnerable, and may not be complying with the Presidential Records Act, which mandates that White House staff retain their communications including their emails.
In late January, we learned that top White House officials, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, and Sean Spicer, were using email addresses from the Republican National Committee with a private server! Once the story broke their addresses were deleted, but presumably had it remained secret, they would have continued to use them.
That"s not the only cybersecurity issue we still have to worry about. At the end of January, the New York Times reported that Trump was still using his old, unsecured Android phone, which is unbelievably reckless for the president of the United States. As Wired magazine put it , "All it takes is clicking on one malicious link or opening one untoward attachment either of which can appear as though it were sent from a trusted source to compromise the device. From there, the phone could be infected with malware that spies on the network the device is connected to, logs keystrokes, takes over the camera and microphone for surreptitious recording, and more."
According to some reports , the phone is a Samsung Galaxy S3, which is five years old and is no longer supported with security patches.
Now maybe steps have been taken to secure Trump"s phone, though the White House hasn"t said anything to that effect. And maybe his aides are in full compliance with the Presidential Records Act, though we do know that some staffers were using a messaging app called Confide, which deletes messages after they"ve been read (Sean Spicer was reportedly angry about the use of this app, since it could be used to leak to reporters without leaving any trace). Maybe this White House is taking both its legal obligations and the security of its communications with the utmost seriousness, and there won"t be any problems from this point on.
But have they given us any reason to believe that?
Paul Waldman is a contributor to The Plum Line blog, and a senior writer at The American Prospect.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- The 2017 NFL Combine continued Friday in Indianapolis with more player media availability, including quarterbacks.
With the Browns owning 11 draft picks, and eight Ohio State players invited to the combine, cleveland.com dispatched six reporters to Indianapolis to cover the event.
This blog kept readers up to date with what"s going on. Check out the developments below. We"ll have more coverage throughout the combine on cleveland.com/browns and cleveland.com/osu.
5:55 p.m.
While the combine blog is done, the coverage of the combine and Ohio State"s draft hopefuls never ends. Keep an eye on the Browns and Buckeyes blogs throughout the weekend for the latest.
5:52 p.m.
With the stadium clearing out, let"s finish today"s blog with an update on Ohio State"s talented Curtis Samuel, who"s facing a familiar problem with pro teams.
Where exactly will he play? Bill Landis got some thoughts on that topic from Samuel.
"Ohio State had another kind of positionless player here last year when Braxton Miller got invited as a receiver. He was a quarterback, obviously, then an H-back without much experience at either receiver or running back.
"Miller has elite-level athleticism, but had to answer questions about his ability to settle into one position in the NFL. He did, and ended up being a third-round draft pick at receiver by the Houston Texans. Samuel isn"t quite as raw postionally as Miller was, but he admitted to seeing some similarities.
""I spoke to Braxton about the process," Samuel said. "He was a little bit like me. We both went to a position that we both didn"t know too much about, so it was different for both of us. He"s doing a great job with the Texans, and I"m hoping I can have impact such as he did or even more.""
5:23 p.m.
Beware of fast-moving objects in the elevator lobby...
5:04 p.m.
The Mysterious Case of Noah Brown is a tale of surprise: The four-touchdown game vs. Oklahoma (the only scores he had this season), the Buckeyes" inconsistent passing attack and the certainty that if he returned for 2017, he would be the team"s No. 1 target.
Yet he filed for the draft. Friday, he explained why.
"Brown is aware that a lot of people were confused by his decision, that most thought he"d be best-served coming back to be Ohio State"s top receiver in 2017. That stuff didn"t matter to him.
"Because unlike most players who come and go on Ohio State"s football roster, Brown is familiar with what it"s like to suffer a major injury [a broken leg in 2015], to have to consider that there"s a chance that his football career is over.
""That was one of the biggest parts of my decision," Brown said of his leg injury. "When I was hurt, I realized how quickly football can be taken away. This is the dream of my childhood, so I decided (to go for it). With everything I did last year and being injured the year before that, this is the best opportunity right now.""
4:46 p.m.
Repeat after me: "Nothing is hyped at the combine, everything is true..."
How does he compare to ... oh, say Clark Kent?
4:26 p.m.
Oh, the fickle winds of rumor season...
On Thursday there was buzz that Hue Jackson and the Browns front office might be coming together over Mitch Trubisky. By Friday morning, our Doug Lesmerises suggested that Jackson and Sashi Brown might have found a common target who might be worth the first pick in the draft.
But nationally, most writers aren"t buying it. Consider this take from The Ringer"s Danny Kelly.
"Of course, it could all be a smokescreen, but between his official press conference at the podium in Indy and his informal huddle-up right after, Jackson repeated the same thought three times: He"s a big believer in assembling a strong support system (which the Browns do not have) before throwing a young quarterback into the fray."
Remember ... throw enough opinions into the ether, and you"re going to be right sometime!
4:16 p.m.
The criticism of Mitch Trubisky for not playing more than one season as a North Carolina starting QB has always had a flaw -- some college coaches are extremely partial to upperclassmen, especially for someone in charge of a program that isn"t a national power. If you"re going to pin your professional future on a bunch of young men, you may well default to the most experienced players if you have the opportunity.
But the topic has followed Trubisky since the end of his season at the Sun Bowl -- and Doug Lesmerises was interested in the answer.
"Trubisky didn"t bite on questions about becoming the next quarterback of the Browns, the team he grew up rooting for. He"s been coached away from that question. His message is to prove he"s ready for any team, though he"s seen less action than quarterbacks like Deshaun Watson and DeShone Kizer.
""I"m a student of the game," Trubisky said. "I"ve seen a lot of defenses. I think that"s going to help me. I feel like I"m in a really good spot to take my game to the next level. I feel really confident."
"He said waiting his turn with the Tar Heels even helped him prepare for this.
""Not everything is going to go your way," Trubisky said. "Being on the bench taught me to be a better teammate. I found other ways to get better, I found other ways to push my teammates and be a leader even though you"re not in that starting position.""
3:58 p.m.
Still determined to be angry by Deshaun Watson"s comments about wanting to be a Cowboy? Turns out that it was an inside joke between Watson and Dallas coach Jason Garrett during the first of two Davey O"Brien QB awards won by the Clemson star.
Dan Labbe got the explanation Friday during Watson"s press interview.
"When he won the [O"Brien] award the year prior, he promised [Jason] Garrett that he would come back and win it again and they would have to draft him. This was, of course, before the Cowboys had uncovered Dak Prescott.
""We laughed, had a good time, so what the Davey O"Brien people wanted me to do was bring that back up and say, hey, I kept my promise and now you"ve got to keep yours and draft me," Watson said."
"So, what if the Browns did end up drafting him?
""I"d really be excited to go up there and play for those guys and Hue Jackson," Watson said."
3:43 p.m.
I really think Texas A&M coach Kliff Kingsbury was trying to compliment Cal (and former Aggie) QB Davis Webb on 92.3 The Fan this afternoon. I"m just not sure he thought it out all that well.
Ouch.
3:37 p.m.
OK, so you"re excited by the results of 40-yard dashes by football players not worrying about tacklers or wearing pads. So this probably makes your day.
OK, so debate who"s the better choice. Go.
3:29 p.m.
From the "Kinda Important (but really not) File...
Feast your eyes on the fastest running back at the combine.
Context: A four-year player at North Carolina, Logan averaged 5.4 yards a carry -- but never ran for more than 650 yards in a season. He had 29 receptions as a senior, totaling 244 yards with seven touchdowns.
Chris Johnson, this isn"t. Right?
3:01 p.m.
Interesting note about how the NFL is looking at this year"s Swiss Army Knife player ...
2:40 p.m.
Picture"s worth a thousands words. My photographic look at the throng of reporters listening to Deshaun Watson during his podium session:
2:37 p.m.
Clemson"s Deshaun Watson provided a reason for why he skipped the Senior Bowl, where he would have been able to work with Browns coach Hue Jackson and his staff for a whole week.
2:35 p.m.
Mitch Trubisky isn"t the only quarterback who says he"d be fine with playing for the Browns:
2 p.m.
North Carolina quarterback and Mentor native Mitch Trubisky has met with the media. We"ll have more from him shortly, but by way of a quick summary:
He says he"s confident he can be a franchise quarterback in the NFL.
He says his mobility is underrated.
He says he believes he can start right away but knows it"s not his decision.
1:49 p.m.
Here are NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock"s top running backs in this year"s draft.
1:37 p.m.
No doubt, a question is nagging at you: How fast did running backs weighing 240 pounds-plus run at the combine through the years? Look no further:
1:34 p.m.
LSU running back Leonard Fournette surprised many by showing up at the Combine weighing 240 pounds, and then claiming that the extra 5-8 pounds was "water weight." Today he went out and did this:
12:55 p.m.
The Eagles got the 14th pick in the draft Friday by winning a coin toss over the Colts. But the toss wasn"t the real story. The real story was the journey to get there.
12:24 p.m.
The Eagles and Colts will have a coin flip today to determine draft order. The 14th pick never meant so much, apparently.
12:07 p.m.
When you"re almost flattened by LeBron James while sitting courtside, you realize that nothing should be taken for granted. Not even lunch.
12 p.m.
A big headline on Thursday was news that the Patriots don"t want to trade Jimmy Garoppolo. But Mary Kay Cabot did a little digging and found that the door probably isn"t closed. Everybody has a price.
From Mary Kay"s story:
But the source insists coach Bill Belichick will part with Garoppolo if the compensation is right. One preliminary "offer" has already been floated and another is expected to come soon from a second team.
11:56 a.m.
Marvin Lewis was almost certainly happy about that. Why else would you be the only coach/GM talking on Friday morning, before most media arrives for afternoon player interviews?
11:46 a.m.
Zach Berman of Philly.com wrote today about the Vikings, Browns and Eagles figure they all came out winners on their 2016 trades. Or, at least they can all still potentially be winners, as Sashi Brown pointed out on Wednesday.
"We do like the trade," Browns general manager Sashi Brown said. "It positioned us, understanding where we were as a roster, understanding that we were passing on the opportunity to take a player, whether it"s [Joey] Bosa or Wentz, and you tip your hat to Carson. I think he came in and played well for Philadelphia and seems to be a quarterback with a high upside.
"I think this is a trade when you probably look back at it that will work out for both teams. It allowed us to be in the position today where we have two firsts, two seconds, and had two thirds as well. So we do like the trade for our side, and I think time will tell how all these guys that came out of that trade will develop."
11:43 a.m.
You can play along at home.
11:31 a.m.
Joe Thomas ran a 4.92 in 2007.
11:13 a.m.
If you want to get caught up with where the Browns stand on their QB search (or just be somewhat confused), here are two stories you should check out.
1. Mary Kay Cabot wrote about Hue Jackson"s role in the team"s QB search.
2. Doug Lesmerises wrote about how Mitch Trubisky could be a uniting force.
3. Finally, there"s the video below (which goes with another Doug story).
11:05 a.m.
Before the flood of QB news takes over this blog, here"s a look at how the Browns are approaching player interviews, via Bill Landis" story on Indiana offensive lineman Dan Feeney.
It includes this quote:
"You expect to go in there and talk about your offense, or learn their offense, and here"s a guy with a deck of cards and you"re like, "Hey man are we playing blackjack or something?" It"s definitely something different," Feeney said Thursday.
11 a.m.
We"re underway on Day 3 in Indy. Running backs and offensive linemen have on-field workouts today, and quarterbacks, wide receivers, tight ends and specialists will talk to the media from 2-5 p.m.
That means Mitch Trubisky, Deshaun Watson, DeShone Kizer and Patrick Mahomes will likely drive the news of the day.
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA BREATH OF THE WILD GAMEPLAY - NINTENDO SWITCH | PART 2 |
Enter the Switch. With Nintendo (NTDOF)"s latest platform, I don"t have to make that choice.
Nintendo has always sold two types of consoles: one for at home and one for on the go. But the Switch is a hybrid of the two. Put it in the dock and play on your TV. Or attach the controllers to the sides of the console, and play on the way to work. You can also set it up on a table and play with friends. And you can toggle between the different modes pretty easily without much interruption to your game play.
CNNTech got the chance to play with the Switch this week. Despite having a bit of a learning curve, the system showed it can open up the worlds that Nintendo has created without shuttering you from the real world.
Though the Switch is launching with only a few big name titles, it"s that seamless experience -- rather than any particular game available right now -- that makes the Switch feel like the future of gaming. And that ultimately makes it worth the $300 price tag.
Now, as a kid my parents gave me the option: I could have either a TV console, with the better graphics and more impressive games, or a mobile system like a Game Boy that offered me a smaller experience but the chance to move around and have, well, a life.
With the Switch I can do both.
The Nintendo Switch has its flaws but allows for a seamless mobile and at home gaming experience.
So when I"m in the middle of Nintendo"s latest installment of Zelda, "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" (which, of course, is sold separately), and I need to get off the couch to meet up with friends or head to work, I hardly even have to pause the game to take it with me.
Other than its poor battery life in portable mode (Nintendo says it should range from 2.5 hours to 6 hours depending on the game) the mobility of the Switch feels seamless.
It also helps that the Switch boasts Nintendo"s greatest asset: Its intellectual property. Look out for for everything from Mario to Pokmon down the line. And as with summer"s "Pokmon Go" craze, which sent hordes of people rushing to Central Park to find a Charizard, we"ve seen what the mobile future of Nintendo"s series of games and characters could look like.
much like it did with its last great innovation, the Nintendo Wii (let"s not even talk about the Wii U), Nintendo has thrown out the standard conventions of gaming for something completely new. This is what makes the Switch great, but also what makes it a bit of risk.
Take, for example, the Switch"s fun-for-the-whole-family game "1-2 Switch." The game sets up in the console"s tabletop mode and allows a group of people to play all types of games, from "Quick Draw," a Wild West duel shoot out, to even milking a cow (seriously).
Most of the "1-2 Switch" games are undoubtedly fun, but most require you to look at your opponent rather than the screen. This goes against years of video game muscle memory, and, let"s be honest -- looking at someone with extended direct eye contact while milking a virtual cow is just plain weird.
Still, these sorts of oddities don"t dent the Switch"s appeal. And that"s important because the launch of the Switch is big for gamers, but arguably even bigger for Nintendo.
The video game company has lost some of its luster over the years thanks to more powerful systems like Sony (SNE)"s PlayStation and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30)"s Xbox nabbing hardcore gamers, while smart phones and tablets have grabbed the casual gamer market.
The company needs the Nintendo Switch to find a place in between the two markets to rule the video game kingdom once again. Whether it will is yet to be seen, but the Switch is a step in the right direction -- and possibly one into the beginnings of a new gaming world.
CNNMoney (New York) First published March 2, 2017: 8:09 PM ET
