Seahawks win Gravedigger’s Shovel Bowl: Seattle advanced to the second round of the NFL playoffs Sunday with an improbable 10-9 win in subzero temperatures in Minneapolis.
After they regained their ability to breathe, Hawks fans realized what Lady Luck had just handed them, and headed to the nearest Quickee Mart to buy Powerball tickets.
Winner gets most-favored nation status: The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is $1.3 billion, a record.
The odds of winning are roughly 1 in 300 million, but look on the bright side — they’re still better than the odds of Martin O’Malley, Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee winning the presidency.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a report stating that cigarette smoking “contributes substantially … to the overall death rate.”
The findings directly contradicted a widely publicized report from about 15 years earlier, which concluded that more doctors smoked Camels than any other cigarette.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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