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• "It's starting to concern us a bit," Colbert said. "(Officials) should have no influence on the total or the side."
• Penalties were skewed in favor of home teams during the first two weeks this year, with visitors getting 55.1 percent of 419 penalties. Last year began in a similar fashion-- visitors took 54.8 percent of 407 total penalties through the first two games -- before evening out over the rest of the season. Penalties were relatively even between home and road teams for all of 2010 and 2011, and it's anybody's guess how this year's penalties will split.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Thursday, Sept. 20, the 264th day of 2012. There are 102 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 20, 1962, James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Democratic Gov. Ross R. Barnett. (Meredith was later admitted.)
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• On this date:
• In 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out from Spain on five ships to find a western passage to the Spice Islands. (Magellan was killed enroute, but one of his ships eventually circled the world.)
• In 1870, Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.
• In 1873, panic swept the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
• In 1884, the National Equal Rights Party was formed during a convention of suffragists in San Francisco; the convention nominated Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood for president.
• In 1911, the British liner RMS Olympic collided with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke off the Isle of Wight; although seriously damaged, the Olympic was able to return to Southampton under its own power.
• In 1947, former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia died.
• In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. was seriously wounded during a book signing at a New York City department store when Izola Curry stabbed him in the chest. (Curry (Continued on page 31)
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