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Bucs fear for Doug Martin's Season Over

Fox Sports had earlier reported the feared severity of Martin's injury.

Martin will have an MRI on his shoulder Monday and is unlikely to play Thursday against the Carolina Panthers, a source said.

Buccaneers safety Dashon Goldson also will have an MRI Monday, on his knee. Both players suffered their injuries in Tampa Bay's 31-23 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.

Martin said after the game that X-rays "look fine'' and his shoulder was not separated.

"We're still evaluating what it is,'' Martin said Sunday, adding that he wasn't "sure yet'' if he would play in Thursday night's game.

"Just have to hope for the best.''

Martin suffered the injury while attempting to catch a pass in the third quarter. Rookie Mike James replaced Martin and finished with 14 carries for 45 yards.

One of the NFL's top rookies last season, Martin was off to a slow start this year for the winless Buccaneers (0-6). The 24-year-old rushed for 47 yards Sunday on 11 carries.

ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter and ESPN.com Buccaneers reporter Pat Yasinskas contributed to this report.

HealthCare.Org

Washington (CNN) - The government-run health insurance exchanges have been open for business for 20 days. But a host of issues have plagued the highly anticipated launch, making it difficult for both consumers and insurance providers.

"There's no sugarcoating it," President Barack Obama said from the Rose Garden on Monday. "The problem has been that the website that's supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insurance is not working the way it should for everybody."

What's not working

Error messages: HealthCare.gov is plagued with technical problems. The Obama administration hasn't completely released the cause or extent of the problems, likely because they haven't quite figured them out.

But people in all but 14 states and the District of Columbia are having trouble applying for the exchanges because the website isn't allowing them to complete the process.

"I put in my user name and password, it didn't recognize it," CNN's Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reported Monday, saying that the website gave her error messages or said "page not found" or that the system was down.

Obamacare open enrollment: Here's everything you need to know

The problems appear to have been worse for those who signed up in the first days the exchanges opened.

Spinning icon: For others, the website is extremely slow. The spinning icon that indicates that the website is working, albeit slowly, is a huge frustration in the age of (relatively) fast connection speeds.

Faulty information: It's not only consumers wanting to sign up for health insurance who are having trouble, but the insurance companies that provide coverage are experiencing difficulties with the exchanges, too.

SOURCE;

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/21/politics/obamacare-what-works/

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Peyton Manning on his neck surgeries rehab — and how he almost didn’t make it back

At first, when Peyton Manning woke up from the anesthesia, he was relieved: The pain in the neck that he had lived with for years was gone. As he came to, he stirred in the hospital bed, took stock of his misery-free condition, and started to push himself upright. Then it happened — his right arm buckled beneath him. Surprised, he struggled again to sit up, and at that moment, he understood his career was in jeopardy.

It was May 2011, and Manning had checked into Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago for surgery on a herniated disc, a tear in the protective ring in his neck that had undermined his performance after 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts. The procedure was supposed to fix it, but now when he pushed himself up in bed, his right triceps was unable to bear his weight. Trying to contain his alarm, the most eminent quarterback in the NFL asked his surgeon what had happened to his arm. The surgeon explained that the disc had been pressing on a nerve. It would take some time for the irritation to subside, and for the nerve and muscle to come back alive.

But two weeks later, Manning’s arm still felt weak. By this time he noticed that the grip strength in his hand also appeared to be affected. “If any other part of your body has some weakness you go, ‘Well I can probably manage,’” Manning says. “But when you’re a quarterback and it’s your right hand, you’re certainly concerned far as being able to do your job.” His doctors discovered that he had re-herniated the disc, and Manning returned to the hospital for a second surgery, this one in virtual secrecy.

While he waited to heal, Manning largely disappeared from public view, unwilling to let anyone see his arm in such feeble condition. “I wasn’t just going to throw with anybody around watching,” he says. “I was guarded and protective.” The NFL was in the midst of a four-month labor lockout, which meant he couldn’t use the Colts’ facilities or trainers, so he looked for a place to rehab unobserved. His old college friend Todd Helton, then a first baseman with the Colorado Rockies, suggested he come out to Denver where he could work out secretly and get treatment from the Rockies’ trainers, who were accustomed to dealing with arms.

The first pass Manning threw post-surgery was to Helton, and they were so concerned with privacy that they went to an underground batting cage beneath the Rockies’ stadium. Helton took up a position about 10 yards away and held out his hands. Manning reared back, and threw.

“The ball nose-dived after about five yards,” Manning says.

It didn’t even make it halfway to Helton before it hit the ground. Helton burst out laughing — he thought Manning was joking.

“C’mon, quit kidding,” he said.

“Man, I wish I was,” Manning said.

‘I had to relearn’ how to throw

It’s always been an interesting question what Peyton Manning was given and what he acquired for himself. At this point, 37 years old, with a zipper scar on his neck, stoop-shouldered and slack-armed compared to his youth, it’s safe to conclude that his inherited genetic gifts are the least of him. Even in shoulder pads he is lank and relatively unmuscled next to younger specimens, and with his shirt off, well, he’s no Gatorade commercial.

The upper body atrophied after three surgeries cost him the 2011 season and his job with the Colts, leaving him with that strip of stitches as if Zorro tried to cut his shirt off at the collar. Yet somehow a man with two soldered together vertebrae enters Sunday's game against the Washington Redskins playing the best football of his life and maybe of any NFL quarterback ever: He has led the Denver Broncos to a 6-1 record and is on pace to set single-season records for touchdowns, yardage and completion percentage.

All of which makes it difficult to conceive that just 18 months ago Manning wondered whether he would ever play again — the only reminders an occasional pass that shows a telltale wobble, and dies.

“I don’t believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured,” Manning says by phone on his way home from a recent Broncos practic

Kelly Clarkson is a married woman!

The Grammy winner, 31, and Brandon Blackstock, 36, tied the knot Sunday in Tennessee, the singer shared on Twitter.

"I'm officially Mrs. Blackstock :) We got married yesterday at Blackberry Farms in TN, the most beautiful place ever!" she tweeted this afternoon, alongside a wedding photo of Blackstock kissing the bride wearing a white, lace gown.

Clarkson followed up the news by sharing another wedding photo of her and her new husband in the countryside.

Clarkson told ABC earlier in the month that she planned to do something small with just the couple and Blackstock's two children. After getting off tour a few weeks ago, the "Because of You" singer was waiting until the four of them were together, so they could all be there for the small ceremony.

"We are going home tonight right after this concert," she said. "Brandon shares custody with his kids, so we are just waiting till we get them back and then we'll take them and go."

Clarkson and her husband had originally planned a big October wedding, with Kelly even posting beautiful engagement pictures on Twitter.

But the couple announced that something smaller was better suited for them, so they decided to elope.

Kelly Clarkson's Mom Had Surprising Reaction to Her Eloping

Everyone, even Clarkson's mother Jeanne Ann, was supportive as long as the newlyweds were happy.

"I thought my mother was going to be [disappointed] because I'm her baby," Clarkson said of not having a grand wedding. "I thought that was going to be weird but she totally got it. She actually responded, 'I'm just happy I don't have to buy a dress!'"

She added, "We are a very low-key kind of family. She was just so happy it's not a big ordeal."

Clarkson and Blackstock began dating in early 2012; the couple getting engaged in December.

The "Stronger" singer said she loves being a stepmom to her beau's two children and that she's even ready to expand the family very soon with a baby of her own.

"Like soon! Brandon, he's a great dad and we wanted to make sure it's cool with [his kids], but they are really pumped about it," she said. "We actually probably want two more and he's got two, so four total. [The oldest] will be in her teens, so that's kind of like a live-in baby sitter!"

Josh Freeman gamble costs free-falling Vikings in loss

The Minnesota Vikings made a bold organizational decision when they were sitting at 1-3. They decided to bet the rest of their season on Josh Freeman. That decision might wind up costing a lot of people their jobs.

On Monday night, during one of the worst prime time games in memory, the Vikings' offense didn't score a single point against the last-ranked scoring defense in the NFL. The New York Giants are back in the win column for the first time all season after a 23-7 victory.

The relief in New York will be significant, but the Giants showed nothing to indicate they will make a miraculous return to playoff contention. This game was more about the Vikings, Freeman and Minnesota's desperate search for a quarterback.

This was a game that Matt Cassel or Christian Ponder could have won. We believe they would have won. The Giants gave Minnesota numerous opportunities, but the Vikings' passing attack couldn't take advantage. Freeman routinely sailed passes, often missing by five yards or more. ESPN's Jon Gruden pointed out how limited the offense was, which isn't a surprising considering that Freeman joined the team just 13 days ago.

The Vikings had exactly five first downs heading into the fourth quarter, when they started to move the ball. Freeman entered the game completing 45 percent of his passes, which easily was the lowest mark in the NFL. He completed only 20 of 53 passes in this one for 37.7 percent, the lowest mark for any quarterback throwing 40 passes since Eli Manning in 2007.

We can't be sure who wanted to bring Freeman into Minnesota. It could have been the front office, ownership, the coaching staff or some combination of the group above. We don't know whether coach Leslie Frazier and offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave's hands were tied when they chose Freeman to start this game.

We only know that the Vikings prioritized auditioning a quarterback over winning games this season.

I Know That You're Gonna Have It Your Way or Nothing At All

Upon finishing CrazySexyCool, the new biopic about the great ’90s hip-hop/R&B outfit TLC airing on VH1 tonight, I spent an hour or so on YouTube watching the girl group’s videos, many of which had been painstakingly recreated in the film. There are so many: the video for “What About Your Friends,” which opens with a fashion show before “Not!” flashes on screen and T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli appear in self-appointed opposition to uptight models, wearing oversized clothes and goofy hats, a condom taped to Left Eye’s glasses. There’s “Aint 2 Proud 2 Beg,” “Creep,” “Waterfalls,” Left Eye memorably introducing them on MTV News as “on the TLC tip” and clearly explaining how you can sell 10 million records and go broke. CrazySexyCool is a not a particularly well-constructed biopic, hopping from moment to moment like moviemaking was just a matter of checking scenes off a list, but it does everything that Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, the two surviving members of TLC, could ask for: It will absolutely convince you that TLC was amazing. As art, CrazySexyCool is middling; as propaganda it is very effective. I have been singing “No Scrubs” nonstop since watching it, and unlike in 1999, when that song was earworming its way through the brainpans of most Americas, I’m not even mad about it.

CrazySexyCool tells the story of Watkins, Thomas, and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes—cool, sexy, and crazy, respectively—from 1990, just before they signed a record deal, to 2002, when Lopes died in a car accident in Honduras. In the decade plus between, the group sold 65 million records and endured (and created) plenty of drama, from Watkins’ battle with sickle-cell anemia to Lopes’ infamous arson of then-boyfriend Andre Rison’s home, not to mention a very public bankruptcy case and legal fight against a restrictive record deal—events that have all been thoroughly chronicled already, most memorably in a very satisfying installment of Behind the Music.

CrazySexyCool hits all the major plot points and many of the minor ones, recreating existing footage of the band whenever it can, which is often. (This can get eerie given that the three actresses who star in the film—Drew Sidora, Lil Mama, and Keke Palmer, in T-L-C order—look a lot like the women they are playing; the resemblance between Lopes and Lil Mama is downright uncanny.) But the movie recreates without prioritizing. Themes are picked up and tossed aside and haphazardly picked up again. Left Eye’s grief about her demanding father’s sudden death is used to explain her reckless behavior, until it’s dropped as motivation. Chilli’s relationship with producer Dallas Austin gets undue screen time, only to end abruptly. Cheesy dramatic parallels are sometimes drawn between life experiences and songs, as when T-Boz suddenly starts to feel bad about her looks and writes “Unpretty,” a moment that feels less like a character beat than a way to shoehorn the song into the film






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Nevada School Shooting

A teacher at a middle school in Nevada was shot and killed while trying to protect children after a student arrived on campus Monday and started opening fire before turning the weapon on himself, police say.

One male student injured in the shooting at Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nev., has gone through surgery, while the other is doing well, Washoe County School District Chief of Police Mike Mieras said during a news conference.

Family members identified the staff member who was killed as math teacher Michael Landsberry, a 45-year-old military veteran who leaves behind a wife and two stepdaughters.

The gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after turning the semi-automatic handgun on himself, authorities said.

A Sparks police dispatcher said reports of the shooting -- which happened on the school's campus, but outside the school building itself -- started coming in at 7:16 a.m. local time.

Police said between 150 and 200 officers responded to the shooting.

Kyle Nucum, a 13-year-old student, told the Reno Gazette-Journal that he saw a classmate shoot a teacher.

“We were at the basketball court and we heard a pop, like a loud pop, and everybody was screaming and the teacher came to investigate – I thought it was a firecracker at first, but the student was pointing a gun at the teacher after the teacher told him to put it down and the student fired a shot at the teacher and the teacher fell and everybody ran away," he said. “And we ran across the field to get somewhere safe and while we were running we heard about four or five more shots and we just got somewhere safe. This lady let us into her house.”

Authorities believe Landsberry was trying to protect students when he was killed. He just celebrated his wedding anniversary on Oct. 18, The Las Vegas-Review Journal reported.

“My estimation is that he is a hero,” said Reno Police Department Deputy Chief Tom Robinson.

Police said there is no apparent motive yet for the shooting and they believe the gunman acted alone.

"To hear that he was trying to stop that is not surprising by any means," said his sister-in-law Chanda Landsberry. She added his life could be summed up by his love of family, his students and his country.

On his school website, Michael Landsberry posted a picture of a brown bear and took on a tough-love tone, telling students, "I have one classroom rule and it is very simple: `Thou Shall Not Annoy Mr. L."'

"The kids loved him," Chanda Landsberry said.

Sparks Middle School will remain closed for the rest of the week.

Washoe County School District spokesman Charles Rahn told the Associated Press that the middle school and the adjacent Agnes Risley Elementary School were evacuated to Sparks High School. Rahn said the elementary school will stay closed Monday.

At the evacuation center, parents walked with their arms around their children, some of whom were in tears.

"We came flying down here to get our kids," said Mike Fiorica, whose nephew attends the school. "... It's really chaotic. You can imagine how parents are feeling. You don't know if your kid's OK."

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said in a statement that he was "deeply saddened to learn of the horrific shooting."

“My administration is receiving regular updates and the Nevada Highway Patrol is assisting at the scene," he added.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., offered his condolences to students, parents and staff who experienced "a traumatic morning."

"No words of condolence could possibly ease the pain, but I hope it is some small comfort that Nevada mourns with them. I stand by to be of any assistance if there is anything that can be done," Reid said in a statement.

The school, which enrolls about 700 students in 7th and 8th grades, has a strict uniform policy that forbids the colors red and blue in students' outfits, colors commonly associated with rival gangs.

Sparks, a city of roughly 90,000, lies just east of Reno.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.