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Georgia’s Stetson Bennett conquers Bama

INDIANAPOLIS — They’d waited more than 40 years for Monday night, as Georgia last reached this perch when Herschel Walker pranced, Jimmy Carter lived in the White House and Vince Dooley wore a tie on the sideline.  Georgia football popped occasionally under Mark Richt, hit a ceiling with Jim Donnan and toiled in the late years of Ray Goff. Georgia’s proud fan base accumulated a generation of scar tissue waiting for a national championship, as four decades of futility included the… Source link

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90-year-old William Shatner conquers his fear of sharks by swimming with them

As Discovery’s Shark Week swims on, Monday’s special called Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek, featured Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, trying to conquer his fear of sharks by boldly going and jumping into the water with them. “I am deathly afraid of sharks,” Shatner told the show’s host, Josh Gates. “I really am.” So to ease the Star Trek actor into things, Gates started by taking Shatner through a couple of relatively safe visits with hammerhead and reef sharks, neither of… Source link

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