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Now this is a workout I could do for hours. No treadmills. No medicine balls. Needless to say, the French just stepped it up a notch.

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Applauding the Governator: A Step in the Right Direction

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The governor signed a bill Monday that cracks down on paparazzi taking illegal photos of stars.

The governor is no stranger to the paparazzi. More than a decade ago, two celebrity photographers were convicted of misdemeanor false imprisonment after the then Hollywood actor and his wife Maria Shriver were pursued by the paparazzi as they drove their son to preschool.

"Governor Schwarzenegger is expressing, I'd say, an international frustration with people who have invaded other people's privacy but even he knows that you can't spell it out on paper," said Jeanne Wolf, celebrity journalist and west coast editor for Parade Magazine.

"Everyone would applaud this law if in fact it did teach paparazzi how to be dignified in their treatment of celebrities and public figures. I don't see that happening right away what I do see happening is a bunch of court cases," Wolf added.

Ugh. I hate Jeanne Wolf. "Celebrity Journalist" is not a noble profession and I will struggle to sleep at night if I have to do this at some point in my career. However, in regards to her predictions about this new law resulting in "a bunch of court cases," all I have to say about that is, ....... I'm fine with it. I hate paparazzi infinitely more than any other "journalistic" profession. I want these people to suffer. I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I see footage of 10 guys shoving their camera in Britney or Lindsay's face, and I HATE Britney and Lindsay.

So as a result, I applaud Governor Schwarzenegger for amending a law that could, hopefully, deter paparazzi as a profession altogether.

Here are a few of my favorite "You deserved that you ass!" moments. (Quentin Tarantino's is the best.)

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LeGarrette Blount's Apology to Oregon

Even the most casual sports saw the punch. It was college football's opening night. A jovial Boise State took to the blue turf after a convincing 19-8 victory against the visiting Oregon Ducks. Some of the Broncos player became overzealous in celebration. Sophmore defensive end Byron Hout approached a dejected Ducks running back, and taunted him about the win. LeGarrette Blount, the Duck running back, reacted.

As a result, Blount was suspended indefinitely from the University of Oregon football team.

This past Thursday, 29 days after the incident, LeGarrette Blount addressed his peers in the school newspaper. He apologized for his actions that night. He noted that he misrepresented the coaching staff, and the university. He stated that being a positive part of the football program, or even a member of the community, are not within his expectations. Since he is a senior, Blount will not have eligibility in 2010.

ESPN's Joe Schad reports that LeGarrette Blount might get his chance to save a little face.

"The suspended running back will have an opportunity to be reinstated to the program later this season, provided he continues to follow a plan set in place after the first game, a source told ESPN on Thursday.

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Blount has been participating in Oregon practice as a member of the scout team and has been attending classes.

Kelly had previously said reinstatement was not an option. But Blount has impressed many people he's spoken with as part of the plan. Among those people are Tony Dungy, Jon Gruden, Kermit Washington and noted sociologist and scholar Harry Edwards, a professor emeritus at Cal-Berkeley.

Blount has recently become a father. A person familiar with Kelly's plan said the resinstatement would not come immediately and likely not before Oregon's bye week on Oct. 17."

NFL Power Ranking: Averages

A lot of websites put up Power Rankings each week. Here are 6 websites that do so:

NFL.com, ESPN, NBC, CBS, FOX, and the Bleacher Report.

The New York Giants are tops on the list with an average ranking of 1.83. Cleveland Browns are clear bottom feeders with an average rank of 31.3. My beloved Patriots were ranked as high as 5 and as low as 8.Philadelphia had the most disparity with an average rank of 8, but were ranked as high as 4 and as low as 14. Below is a list of the composite averages of all 6 websites.

1. Giants

2. Ravens

3. Colts

4. Saints

5. Vikings

6. Jets

7. Patriots

8. Eagles

9. Falcons

10. Chargers

11. Steelers

12. Packers

13. Bengals

14. 49ers

15. Bears

16. Cowboys

17. Broncos

18. Titans

19. Cardinals

20. Texans

21. Bills

22. Jaguars

23. Seahawks

24. Dolphins

25. Redskins

26. Panthers

27. Lions

28. Raiders

29. Chiefs and Buccaneers (tie)

31. Rams

32. Browns

P.S. The whole reason I spent an hour and half doing the math to come up with these averages was because I wanted to know which website was the most accurate with their own rankings when compared with the averages. ESPN had 10 correct, NFL and NBC had 9, Fox had 7, Bleacher Report had 6, and CBS had 5. Am I the only person on the planet that cares. Probably.

67 Bodies Unclaimed in Detroit Morgue

DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.

Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer.

A few things I learned from this article:

A) Apparently it costs $700 to cremate someone. Seems a bit high.

B) I guess when you work at a morgue, policies like "first-arrived, first-buried" are commonplace.

C) The fact that 66 bodies are left unclaimed in Detroit (or any major city) doesn't really surprise me. When you take into account homeless people, and the condition of the economy, I could see the number being much higher.

Tito Ortiz Is From The Streets Dog

Why is it that whenever I get approached by a homeless person, I instantly feel like they have the upper hand? I start stuttering and getting nervous like this guy knows EXACTLY how much money is in my wallet. Only a few occasions in my life have I been able to truthfully tell a homeless man that I am dead broke. As in "Sir, I'm serious, I've got ZERO dollars on me." If I'm in Boston, I usually have the wherewithal to bring whatever money I'll need. But if it's Sunday morning, and the previous night went well, I'm lucky to have money for a coffee.

Which brings me to the Tito Ortiz thing. What was the one thing Tito had in back pocket? Not money, but truth. (Ok, he's definitely got money, too.) But this man doesn't feel an iota of guilt telling a bum to GTFO. And that's because he can look him in the eye and say "I came from the streets. Laziness gets you no where."

I didn't come from Cohasset or Newton, but I certainly didn't come from the streets. So when bums ask for cash, I desperately want to tell them that I'm broke too, but I usually relent, and fork over (at least) a dollar. Only on those rare occasions where I TRUTHFULLY have no dollars on me, that I can tell them, "Sorry, man, I got nothing for ya."