Why the plunge?: The specter of Al Davis continues to hover over his former franchise. The salarycap and personnel mess Davis left behind before his 2011 death at age 81 is something that new general manager Reggie McKenzie and head coach Dennis Allen need more time to rectify. A sizeable portion of the defensive personnel needs scrapping.Always up for cruel fun, I jumped right aboard. Basically, anybody older was fair game, especially Thuglass and Hoseby, the truth of the jest being painfully unapparent to me. The Bishop was fresh from high school and I was already on his list.

This is not a new strategy; it's being employed by other cities across the nation as water sources become increasingly polluted and EPA regulations on drinking water tighten. Recognizing that the future costs of treating filthy water could run into the billions of dollars, states such as New York, New Jersey, and California have started buying land that drains into their water supplies. This trend