Woeful Thursday

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Happy Thursday!

We'll, not so happy this morning after my Tarheels suffered an 83-64 whupping in Clemson's Littlejohn Coleseum last night. Congrats to the Tigers ending 6 years of futility and frustration!!

Legendary singer Teddy Pendergrass, dead after a long illness at age 59, spent his last 28 years in a wheelchair, left to wonder what life might have been like had a car crash not completely altered his destiny.

"Dexter" star Michael C. Hall is undergoing treatment for cancer and the disease is in remission, a spokesman said. "I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition, and I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care," Hall, 38, said Wednesday in a statement

As if the poor Haitians haven't suffered enough, A Knoxville retailer will donate fans' Lane Kiffin T-shirts to earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti. Oprah Winfrey, Paris Hilton, Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are among the celebrities and artists predictably urging support for survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.

Just about a month before Spring training kinda begins for Major League Baseball. The injury plagued NY Mets learned that Carlos Beltran will miss the season opener due to yesterday's elective knee surgery. New York's first official workout for pitchers and catchers is a little more than five weeks away, on Feb. 20. The Mets open the season April 5 against Florida.

Junior Seau is retiring again and looking ahead to more time on his surfboard.

Facebook is trying to strengthen security on its Web site with some outside help. Computer security company McAfee Inc. will now scan and repair the computers of Facebook users whose accounts have been compromised, the company said Wednesday. The scanning process will be added to the steps that Facebook already makes the users of such accounts go through if they want to reclaim their pages. McAfee is also offering Facebook's more than 350 million users six-month subscription to McAfee's Internet security software at no charge. But to get the free subscription, McAfee's Facebook page requires users to first become a "fan" of the company.

Quickly giving morphine to wounded troops cuts in half the chance they will develop post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a provocative study that suggests a new strategy for preventing the psychological fallout of war. Researchers at the U.S. Naval Health Research Center led the study of about 700 troops injured in Iraq from 2004 through 2006.

A survey of more than 33,000 girls and women aged 12 to 17 found that 26.7 percent (about 1 in 4) had been involved in a serious fight at school or work, a group-against-group fight or had attacked someone with the intent to harm the person in the previous year.

and finally - Poland's tax office has levied a fine of 2.3 million zlotys ($820,000) on an unemployed woman for failing to pay tax on income worth at least 13.7 million zlotys she said she had earned as a prostitute.