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CORRECTION

The Online Guy column in Saturday’s Business section contained an error. The name of the founder of eZanga.com, Rich Kahn, was misspelled.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Practice time limit rules only on paper

I don’t believe any college football program follows the weekly 20-hour limit of “football activities” to the second. I don’t believe any program follows the offseason limit of eight hours per week.

Favre draws ire, penalty

For a guy who said before the game that he feared he had a cracked rib, Brett Favre was pretty physical Monday during Minnesota’s 17-10 victory at Houston.

Contests fuel first run of football season — to books

It’s easy to see when football season has arrived. Las Vegas sports books, which sometimes resemble ghost towns during the summer months, become the busiest parts of many casinos.

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Blue Jays call up three 51s players

Despite recording a 1.72 ERA in 12 relief appearances this season for the Toronto Blue Jays, 51s pitcher Dirk Hayhurst was demoted to Las Vegas on July 28.

Oklahoma is BYU obstacle

First-year Wyoming coach Dave Christensen has seen Oklahoma’s talent up close — a bit too close for comfort — and isn’t confident of Brigham Young’s chances of beating the Sooners in the teams’ season opener Saturday.

Heller presents ideas

Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., on Tuesday described what he thinks would make a good health reform bill, although as a member of the minority party he’s not sure it will even matter.

Henderson settles in woman’s death

The Henderson City Council has signed off on a $700,000 settlement with the family of an ice cream truck driver who was shot and killed by police in front of her husband and two children.

Killer apologizes to family

Judge Michelle Leavitt asked Thomas Richardson whether he wanted to speak to jurors before they went home Tuesday night. … “I don’t know if it would make much of a difference at this point,” he said. … The jury found the 42-year-old California man guilty of beating to death a 91-year-old cancer survivor and her grandson with a claw hammer. … The same jury will next decide whether he should be put to death for his crimes.

Two more die from swine flu

Two more deaths from the H1N1 virus were reported Tuesday by the Southern Nevada Health District.

With stoplights, timing isn’t everything

Brian Hoeft is the leader of the red light district in Las Vegas. OK, not really, but he does have control of when traffic signals turn red, or green, in his role as assistant director of the Regional Transportation Commission’s Freeway & Arterial System of Transportation (FAST).

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