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• Lions dominate as Eagles quit on Chip Kelly

  

  APAfter the Eagles’ debacle last week against the Buccaneers, there was talk that their Thanksgiving game against the Lions would be a referendum on Chip Kelly.The verdict is in: The Eagles have quit on their coach.In an epic 45-14 beatdown in Detroit, Kelly’s team was embarrassed before a national audience, falling behind the Lions in the second quarter and never putting up much of a fight after that.Eagles quarterbackMark Sanchezwill get a lot of the criticism, but there’s plenty of criticism ..

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• Review: 'Iraqi Odyssey' Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country

  

  PhotoThe director Samir as a young boy, held by a man, far right, with family and friends, in the documentary “Iraqi Odyssey.”CreditDschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion“Iraqi Odyssey,” a two-and-a-half-hour personal history written and directed by the Swiss filmmakerSamir(full name, Samir Jamal Aldin), is the kind of documentary whose length and complexity make you approach it with some apprehension. Watching it is like slowly leafing through a giant scrapbook whose contents include the individual s..

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• Cowboys & Panthers Unveil Color Rush Thanksgiving Uniforms...

  

  The last two weeks have featured what some have deemed the “red-green colorblind game,” between Rex Ryan's Buffalo Bills and his former team the New ...

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• Tannehill, Dolphins Hope To Continue Having Success At MetLife...

  

  Follow CBSMIAMI.COM:Facebook|TwitterDAVIE (CBSMiami/AP) — There aren’t many reasons for the Miami Dolphins to be a confident team.They sit in last place in the AFC East, winless in the division.If Miami (4-6) has any chance of keeping its slim playoff hopes alive, a road win Sunday at the New York Jets (5-5) is imperative.The Dolphins arrive at MetLife Stadium having won the last three visits there and six of their past seven.“I think that this team has confidence playing up there,” said quarter..

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• Movie Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3

  Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases:nytimes.com/movies.★ ‘Amy’(R, 2:08) Asif Kapadia’s shattering biographical portrait of the British singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse traces the arc of her short, messy life from smoky-voiced jazz singer to global pop sensation to her death in 2011, at 27, from alcohol poisoning. This material makes for uneasy viewing, as do some of her agonizing self-portraits, though there’..

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• Ditching Kitchens For Restaurants On Thanksgiving

  

  Follow CBSDFW.COM:Facebook|TwitterFORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) –Even people who cannot cook still want a delicious dinner on Thanksgiving. That’s why millions of Americans are expected to ditch their own kitchens on Thursday for seats at restaurants. It’s a trend that’s keeping professional chefs very busy on Turkey Day.Keith Hicks is the executive chef at Buttons in Fort Worth. He is there on Thanksgiving, working his magic in the restaurant’s kitchen so that even cooking-challenged North Texans can..

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• Building a New Life in Rural Sri Lanka

  

  PhotoThe Planter’s Bungalow, the first of three homes that are planned for Wild Buffalo Hill, a working tea and cinnamon estate in Sri Lanka.CreditShehan ObeysekaraWELIGAMA, Sri Lanka — It was a vacation for his 40th birthday that sold Paddy Dalton and his partner, Rob Ioannou, on Sri Lanka. Their stay at the Aman resort in the southern town of Galle was intoxicating enough that the couple returned three weeks later in search of a permanent home.They found it on the first day, acquiring a workin..

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• The anonymous sources are coming after Chip Kelly's Eagles

  

  APOne of the hallmarks of a coach who’s losing his team is that we begin to see stories in which anonymous sources question the coach’s methods and the team’s competitive. That’s happening in Philadelphia this week.After the Eagles’ loss to the Buccaneers on Sunday dropped the team to 4-6, NJ.com quoted an agent “who requested anonymity because offear of retribution against his client” as saying that the players don’t buy what Kelly is selling.“Chip Kelly has lost the team,” said the agent “Betw..

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• Blue Jackets Goalie Stops Devils Again

  

  Matt Calvert scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 27 saves to help theColumbus Blue Jacketsbeat theDevils, 2-1, in Newark on Wednesday night.William Karlsson also scored for Columbus, and Bobrovsky extended his mastery over the Devils. He has won his last four starts against them.Adam Henrique scored for the Devils, who have lost three of four.The Blue Jackets took nine of the first 10 shots in the opening period, and the pressure paid off with Karlsso..

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• Thanksgiving Is a Great Time—If You Ignore the Lie Behind It

  

  Thanksgiving is one of those American holidays that seem to fly in the face of today’s original Americans. I get tired of the sales that celebrate the holiday. What balls it must have taken for the first store owner in America to think that this is a money-making opportunity.Every morning, if and when we wake up to greet the day, we do so (for the most part) with appreciation and prayer. So, not to sound too cliché, to our way of thinking every day is thanksgiving. That is what we are taught, fr..

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