College Football Bowl Play of the Day: Alamo Bowl

Washington and Baylor today in the Alamo Bowl.  Baylor is giving 9.5.

Baylor is led by the Heisman Trophy winner in Robert Griffin III.

Washington is the loser of 3 of 4 coming into this game played in San Antonio.

Baylor is on a five game win streak and is putting up some points.  Expect more of the same this afternoon at the Alamodome. 

The total on this game is 79, and I expect it to go over, mainly due to Baylor.

Take RG3 or RGIII and take the victory.

Snakes and More on a Plane

A man from the Czech Republic could face 10 years in prison after Buenos Aires airport screeners found 247 living snakes and reptiles, including poisonous vipers in a suitcase he tried to check on a flight to Madrid, Agence France-Presse says.

The "organic substances moving inside" were packed in clear plastic containers, workers at the Iberia Airlines desk at Ezeiza Airport discovered after the bag was X-rayed, AFP says, citing local media. Some are reported to be extremely rare and protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Among the writhing cargo were South American pit vipers, yararas and several young boas. Two snakes were dead, and authorities said more would have died from lack of oxygen had they been loaded onto the plane.

Karel Abelovsky, 51, was charged with attempted smuggling the animals.

The incident happened Dec. 7 but was just reported.

Exploding Churro Caused by Recipe in Newspaper, Court Says

Chile's Supreme Court has ordered a newspaper to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns while trying out a published recipe for churros, a popular Latin American snack of dough fried in hot oil.

The publisher of La Tercera must pay individual damages to 11 women and two men ranging from as little as $279 to $48,000 for one woman whose burns were particularly severe.

The high court's ruling was announced Monday, seven years after the readers burned themselves while trying out the recipe.

Judges determined that the newspaper failed to fully test it before publication, and that if readers followed the recipe exactly, the churros had a good chance of exploding once the oil reached the temperature the recipe called for.

Days after the recipe was published in the paper's "Woman" magazine in 2004, hospitals around the country began treating women for burns suffered when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.

More Packer's Stock Available to Public

Need to pick up a late Christmas present for someone?

Sales of Green Bay Packers stock have been so brisk since an initial offering three weeks ago that the team is making another 30,000 shares available.

The team initially offered 250,000 shares for sale starting Dec. 6. But the allotment is nearly gone, even though the shares cost $250 each and have virtually no resale value.

The offering is scheduled to end Feb. 29 or when all remaining shares are sold.

The NFL’s only publicly owned team is applying the proceeds toward a $143 million expansion of Lambeau Field. The Packers have said they would fund the expansion themselves and through private funding, and wouldn’t ask taxpayers to contribute as owners of other teams typically do.

Selling all 280,000 shares would raise $70 million.

The shares are available at packersowner.com for $250, plus a $25 handling fee per transaction.

Buyers gain the privilege of calling themselves NFL owners, though the stock value will not go up and there are no dividends. Stockholders also get voting rights, and they can attend annual meetings where they can meet team executives and tour the Packers Hall of Fame.

College Football Bowl Play of the Day: Military Bowl

It's only appropriate that Air Force is playing in the Military Bowl.

The Air Force gets a tough opponent in high scoring Toledo.

Toledo scores at will as hasn't scored fewer than 44 points in their last five games.  Air Force can score too, and today I think they control the ball.

Air Force is getting 3 points and I like them to get the win today.  Also the total is 70, and I expect it to go way beyond that.

Picks:  Take Air Force +3 and the OVER 70.