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But Florida (4-3, 2-3 SEC) can still get to the SEC title in Atlanta if it wins its final three conference game.

Game should be games.

He's completed just 42 per cent of his passes and was missing badly on deep balls before he was benched.

per cent is one word. Percent

Word of the Week # 7

The Denver Post
Then again, the Obama administration's preposterous attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce does nothing to help Democrats and everything to reinforce the moderate voter's perception that the president's party has gone bonkers.

Dictionary definition
Contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous

My sentence
The ending to "Fight Club" was preposterous because it made no sense and it boggled my mind.

Mystery person

I was a four-sport star at UCLA in the early 1940s, playing football, basketball, baseball and track. I am the only player to have my number retired by every single major league baseball. I played most of my baseball career for the Brooklyn Dodgers. I broke the baseball color barrier in 1947.

Word of the Week #6

Tiger Woods' annihilation was key to Super Sunday, says Europe captain Colin Montgomerie

annihilation- total destruction

The atomic bomb caused annihilation of Hiroshima.

News release assignment

Scholar Series focuses on economic crisis

SJSU sociology Professor Scott Myers-Lipton will discuss his most recent book on Oct. 13 as part of the University Scholar Series.

Myers-Lipton’s book, “Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic works,” focuses on ways the government can increase employment and gives readers a history of public works in America, according to the SJSU events website.

The events of the University Scholar Series, which are co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library and the Spartan Bookstore, are free of charge and open to all members of the public.

According to its website, the University Scholar Series provides a unique opportunity for showcasing the important research and scholarly activities of SJSU faculty members.

Myers-Lipton is the second of three speakers, with history Professor Mary Pickering scheduled on Nov. 17.

The event will take place from noon to 1 in Rooms 225-227 of the King Library.

For more information, contact Gina Marin in the Office of the Provost at 924-2404 or Elisabeth Thomas in King Library at 808-2193.

Word of the Week #5

Inviting a comedian to appear before a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives to poke fun at an issue as divisive and explosive as immigration is emblematic of what a joke Washington has become in the view of many Americans.

Emblematic- a visible object or representation that symbolizes a quality, type, group, etc, esp the concrete symbol of an abstract idea.


The rally cap in baseball is an emblem of hope.

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Today's Spartan Daily online version
The first snap by No. 13 Utah was a reverse play taken 43 yards to the house by sophomore wide receiver Reggie Dunn and the Utes never looked back, defeating SJSU 56-3 Saturday in Provo.
The Spartans played in Salt Lake City, not Provo.

Sanjose.com
Local celebrity Joey Chestnut has done it again. After losing to a petite Virginia woman in a Labor Day wing-eating contest, the man with the iron stomach won the burrito eating contest at the New Mexico State Fair, gulping down 47 4-ounce burritos with beef and beans in just ten minutes.
Ten should be the number 10.

Dodge City Daily Globe
The four powerhouse teams have combined for five losses this season, all but one were against one another.
I'd do this.
The four powerhouse teams have combined for five losses. All but one were against one another.

Phil. 66 Syllabus
Faculty Office Building 206. (The Faculty Office Building is a two-story building between the Spartan Complex and Dwight Bental Hall. English is on the first floor. Philosophy is on the second floor.)

Dwight Bental Hall should be spelled Dwight Bentel Hall.