NFL: Jags Owner Says He Regrets Firing Tom Coughlin

Wayne Weaver is in a reflective mood these days, and not just because of the new year. ?After 18 years as the only owner the?Jacksonville Jaguars?have known, Weaver will hand the franchise to Illinois businessman Shahid Khan on Jan. 4. The occasion prompted him Friday to?share his memories with the team?s official website, and the?New York Giants? front office might take note of what Weaver had to say about their coach, Tom Coughlin. ?Read more after the jump.

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?If hindsight you could change, I?ll be honest with you: I probably would have never changed Coughlin,? said Weaver, who fired the coach after the 2002 season. ?I would have tried to have Tom take a step back and just be the coach. I thought about it, but I didn?t think Tom would do it. I thought Tom?s pride would never allow him to take a step back and me take the general manager?s position and all power and say, ?Go coach the football team.? He did that in New York, but I thought it would hurt his pride too much.?

It?s no wonder Weaver feels so warmly about Coughlin: He?s the most successful expansion coach in recent NFL history.

Coughlin had a 68-60 record in eight seasons at the helm in Jacksonville, made two appearances in the AFC Championship Game (including one in the team?s second season of play) and is the only coach in league history to lead an expansion team to the playoffs in four of its first five seasons. (Coughlin?s replacement, Jack Del Rio, had just two playoff appearances between 2003 and 2011 and never made it past the divisional round.)

?My three short-list names I had narrowed it down to were (Mike) Shanahan, (Tony) Dungy and Tom,? Weaver said. ?I hired Tom because I felt he was more autocratic and I felt that not knowing anything about this business I needed somebody where I could say, ?You set the stage here. You build the platform we have to build this franchise around.?

?I felt he would be the best guy to do it and, as it turned out, he was the best guy to do it. We had tremendous success. Our draft choices were probably better than the average team at the time. That was Tom?s work ethic. He was very involved and he was a good evaluator. He held people accountable to develop those players.?

Coughlin landed in New York in 2004 and won the Super Bowl in his fourth season as the Giants? coach. But he missed the playoffs in 2009 and 2010, and now faces aSunday game against the Dallas?Cowboys?that he must win to avoid that fate for a third consecutive time. A loss could put Coughlin?s job in peril, coincidentally after eight seasons.

As for the Jaguars, they haven?t been to the playoffs since 2007. So what advice did Weaver give Khan to change that?

?What you have to do is draft well and get the right coach,? Weaver said. ?That?s what I said to him.?

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Neutrino parents call into question faster-than-light results

Particles? precursor doesn?t have enough energy to produce such speeds

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Physicists have found yet another reason to doubt recent reports of neutrinos traveling faster than light. The existence of such speedy particles would screw up not only Einstein?s theory of special relativity, but also the laws of conservation of energy and momentum.?

In September, the OPERA experiment reported clocking neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light, arriving 60 nanoseconds early on their 730-kilometer journey between the European laboratory CERN, near Geneva, and the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. To try to explain the result, two new studies examined the particles that give birth to neutrinos. Both found that these particles, called pions, could not possibly have had enough energy to give rise to the faster-than-light, or superluminal, speeds indicated by OPERA.?

?We give a clear constraint on the superluminality of neutrinos,? says Xiaojun Bi, a particle astrophysicist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences? Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing. His team reported its findings in the Dec. 6 Physical Review Letters.?

If neutrinos can travel faster than light, they should get heavier as their energy increases. So there?s a limit to how fast the particles can zip along, dictated by the energy of their unstable pion parents.?

OPERA?s pions, made at CERN, have about 3.5 times as much energy as their neutrino progeny. That sets a neutrino speed limit that?s lower than the speed measured by OPERA, physicist Ramanath Cowsik of Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues reported in the Dec. 16 Physical Review Letters. Bi suggests that OPERA?s highest-energy neutrinos push this speed limit even lower.?

Achieving the mind-boggling velocities measured by OPERA would have required pions with energies 20 times greater than their offspring, Cowsik?s team calculates. At such energies, though, the lifetimes of pions would be six times longer, which has been ruled out by measurements from OPERA and other experiments.?

The most stringent limit yet on neutrino speed comes from high-energy neutrinos born when cosmic rays strike the atmosphere. The IceCube detector at the South Pole has measured these neutrinos to energies more than 10,000 times as high as OPERA?s neutrinos. If the speeds measured by OPERA are correct, the cosmic-ray neutrinos should be far too heavy to have been produced by pions. IceCube thus throttles back the potential speed of any superluminal neutrinos to be a few ten billionths of a percent above the speed of light ? a far cry from the few thousandths of a percent reported by OPERA.

For Cowsik and other researchers, these problems and contradictions suggest that the laws of physics as currently understood are correct. But physicists will still be watching other neutrino experiments that can check OPERA?s result, which may be clouded by some unknown source of error.?

?No one is saying that the OPERA result is impossible, even though it would require extreme revisions to what we know about physics,? says Sheldon Glashow, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist at Boston University. ?But if it turns out to be true, I would say to Nature, ?You win.? Then I?d give up, and I?d retire.?

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Verizon to add $2 bill-pay charge, admits 4G network issues (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Verizon Wireless, which this month angered customers with three separate data service problems, said on Thursday it will add a $2 fee for one-time telephone and online bill payments.

The planned change, to take effect on January 15, was greeted by a storm of criticism.

Consumer blog Engadget said charging customers to pay was "downright ludicrous." Another tech website, cnet.com, said the move "made little sense."

"The fee is designed to address costs incurred by us for only those customers who choose to make one-time bill payments in alternate payment channels (online, mobile, telephone) and who choose not to use the other options available to them ...," Verizon Wireless spokesman Thomas Pica said in an email.

Verizon Wireless rivals AT&T Inc and Sprint Nextel Corp said they do not charge their customers for any bill-payment options.

In addition, some customers complained on Verizon's online forum on Thursday about problems activating their new phones.

The episode followed reports of a problem with the company's high-speed network on Wednesday. Verizon said on Thursday that it had resolved that issue overnight.

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Verizon, the biggest U.S. mobile service provider, admitted on Thursday it was having "growing pains" with its new fourth generation, 4G, high-speed wireless network and had suffered several separate technical problems that caused service outages.

After saying earlier in the day that services on its older third generation, 3G, network were not affected, the company admitted Thursday night that 3G customers were also affected.

Verizon said it had proactively "moved" its fourth-generation (4G) wireless users onto its third-generation (3G) network to ensure all would have a data connection.

However, Verizon admitted that for brief periods, such as on Wednesday, 4G customers could not connect to the 3G Network as quickly as the company would have liked.

The company also said that it is working closely with its network suppliers to ensure smooth functioning of its 4G network, while estimating that connectivity has been available at about 99 percent of the time this year.

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Some customers had earlier complained that they were having 3G service problems, while others said their 4G service was being restored on Thursday morning. One person complained about the lack of a public announcement.

"At least acknowledge there is a problem, do you really expect your paying customers to not notice??" one person wrote on Verizon's online message board.

Verizon Wireless spokesman Thomas Pica told Reuters that the company does not plan to compensate its customers who had experienced service problems.

Earlier this month the company, which has long boasted that its service is "most reliable," faced two data service problems.

On December 8 some Verizon customers were unable to access the Internet on their wireless devices for about 24 hours. The company had to fix another problem on December 21.

Verizon Wireless is a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc.

(Reporting by Sinead Carew and Sakthi Prasad; Editing by Dave Zimmerman, Matthew Lewis, Steve Orlofsky and Ed Lane)

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138 postal employees in Bakersfield may lose their jobs

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The U.S. Postal Service held a public meeting Wednesday on why it proposes to close the processing and distribution center on Pegasus Drive.

"We're looking at a savings of almost $10 million for the year," said James Wigdel, spokesman for USPS.

It's no secret the Postal Service has been losing billions of dollars over the year, as mail volume has declined by more than 43 billion pieces. It claims operating costs must be reduced by $20 billion by 2015 in order to return to profitability.

Wigdel said results of a study support the case for closing the Bakersfield facility and moving operations to Santa Clarita.?

"Santa Clarita is a very, very large plant with a lot of capacity, and Bakersfield is much smaller," said Wigdel.

But many at the public meeting were clearly convinced that closing the Bakersfield site is unnecessary.

"What they didn't tell you is that there are other avenues to save the Postal Service money," said Alfred Paredez, president of American Postal Workers Union Local 417.

City Councilman Russell Johnson spoke against the closure. He said Bakersfield will continue to experience growth.

The Bakersfield Processing and Distribution Center has 289 employees. Should the closure happen, 138 would lose their jobs and the rest would be offered jobs either in Santa Clarita or elsewhere, said Wigdel.

But the plan to shutter all 252 proposed sites is dependent on whether postal officials can cut overnight delivery for local mail. And that decision won't be made until sometime in 2012.

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