Ravens stun Broncos in 2OT

Lewis' career not over yet as Baltimore rallies to beat top seed 38-35, reach AFC title game

By EDDIE PELLS

updated 10:09 p.m. ET Jan. 12, 2013

DENVER - No matter where his season or his career might end, Joe Flacco will always have The Fling.

And Peyton Manning will always have to live with that throw he made, too.

Flacco's desperation 70-yard touchdown pass to Jacoby Jones with 31 seconds left in regulation saved the game for Baltimore in regulation and Manning's throw across his body in overtime all but lost it for Denver.

On a frostbitten day on the frozen tundra known as Denver, the Ravens got a 47-yard field goal from Justin Tucker 1:42 into the second overtime Saturday to pull off a 38-35 upset over Manning and the Broncos, extending linebacker Ray Lewis' career by at least one game.

"Our team is so confident and everything went against us," Lewis said, "but we found a way to come here together and we're leaving together. It's just awesome."

Lewis, who led the Ravens with 17 tackles over this nearly 77-minute game, kneeled down to the ground and put his helmet on the rock-solid turf when it was over.

After Lewis thaws out, the Ravens (12-6), 9 1/2-point underdogs for this one, will get ready for a game at either New England or Houston, who meet Sunday for the other spot in the AFC title game.

This game, the longest since the Browns beat the New York Jets 23-20 in 1987, was an all-timer - up there with San Diego's 41-38 double-overtime victory over Miami for drama. But Flacco's throw might best be bookended next to one made by Roger Staubach, who famously coined the term "Hail Mary" after his game-winning toss to Drew Pearson beat Minnesota in the 1975 playoffs.

How to describe the Flacco Fling?

On third-and-3 from his 30 with 41 seconds and no timeouts left, Flacco bought time in the pocket and saw Jones sprinting down the right sideline into double coverage. Defensive back Tony Carter slowed up and let Jones streak by him. Instead of staying step for step with Jones, safety Rahim Moore tried to leap and knock down the ball. Flacco, who throws the high, deep ball as well as anyone, got it over Moore's head and into Jones' hands.

"At that point, you have to start taking shots," Flacco said. "You have to get a little lucky. Had to take a shot and everyone came through."

Jones caught it and pranced into the end zone, blowing kisses to the crowd.

Moore was on the verge of tears after the game.

"The loss, it was my fault," Moore said. "I got a little too happy. It was pathetic. My fault. Next time I'll make that play."

The teams punted three times to start overtime, setting up Denver on its 7-yard line. Manning was moving the Broncos along slowly and steadily. But on second-and-6 from the 38, he rolled to his right, stopped and threw across the field to Brandon Stokley. Graham stepped in front of the receiver for the interception, bookending the pick he made in the first quarter, which he returned 39 yards for a touchdown and a 14-7 lead.

The temperature at kickoff was 13 degrees, and Manning fell to 0-4 lifetime when the temperature is 40 or less. He finished 28 for 43 for 290 yards and accounted for all three Denver turnovers - the two picks and a lost fumble that set up the touchdown that tied the game at 28 late in the third quarter.

The last throw was the worst one, though.

"Not a good decision," Manning said. "Not a great throw, either."

Those mistakes nullified a record-setting day for returner Trindon Holliday, who returned a punt 90 yards for a touchdown and a kickoff 104 yards for another score. Both were playoff records for longest returns, as was the 248 total return yards he had.

All for naught.

This was, more or less, the unthinkable for the Broncos (13-4), who came in on an 11-game winning streak and the odds-on favorite, at 3-1, to win the Super Bowl, in Manning's hometown of New Orleans, no less.

Instead, this loss goes down with the most devastating in Denver history. Right there with the 30-27 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Jan. 4, 1997 - another year when Denver looked very much like Super Bowl material.

But it's Baltimore and Lewis who are in the AFC title game for the second straight year.

Last year, Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal against New England that would have tied that game at the end of regulation.

This year, the Ravens had Tucker, and though the temperature was cold and the ball was hard, coach John Harbaugh showed zero desire to get the ball closer after Ray Rice ran for 11 yards to the Denver 34 near the end of the first overtime.

Tucker was making them from 67 yards in pre-game warmups.

He finished the day 1 for 1. Broncos kicker Matt Prater missed his only try, from 52 yards, when he hit the turf, then the ball, on an attempt at the end of the first half. Broncos coach John Fox will be second-guessed about the decision to go for the long kick, especially considering the way Flacco responded: Throwing and completing three straight passes after the miss for a 58-yard touchdown drive that tied the game at 21 going into halftime.

The touchdown was a 32-yard connection to Torrey Smith, marking the second time Smith beat Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey. Smith also got behind the 12-time Pro Bowler for a 59-yard touchdown in the first quarter.

Yes, these were uncharacteristic plays for the Broncos, who routed Baltimore on its home field, 34-17, less than a month ago.

But on this day, the coldest playoff game in Broncos history, these were different teams playing for different stakes.

Flacco finished with 331 yards and three touchdowns. Rice had 131 yards and a score. With Lewis manning the middle of the field, the Broncos offense didn't look like the well-oiled machine it had over 11 straight wins, dating to a 35-24 comeback win over San Diego in October.

The Ravens, meanwhile, looked more like the team that began the season 9-2 instead of the one that finished it losing four of their last five.

"That football game," Harbaugh said, "did football proud."

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Lauran Neergaard, The Associated Press | Jan 09, 2013 | Last Updated: Jan 09, 2013 - 10:50 UTC

WASHINGTON - For years, doctors have lamented that there's no Pap test for deadly ovarian cancer. Wednesday, scientists reported encouraging signs that one day, there might be.

Researchers are trying to retool the Pap, a test for cervical cancer that millions of women get, so that it could spot early signs of other gynecologic cancers, too.

How? It turns out that cells can flake off of tumors in the ovaries or the lining of the uterus, and float down to rest in the cervix, where Pap tests are performed. These cells are too rare to recognize under the microscope. But researchers from Johns Hopkins University used some sophisticated DNA testing on the Pap samples to uncover the evidence ? gene mutations that show cancer is present.

In a pilot study, they analyzed Pap smears from 46 women who already were diagnosed with either ovarian or endometrial cancer. The new technique found all the endometrial cancers and 41 per cent of the ovarian tumors, the team reported Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

This is very early-stage research, and women shouldn't expect any change in their routine Paps. It will take years of additional testing to prove if the so-called PapGene technique really could work as a screening tool, used to spot cancer in women who thought they were healthy.

"Now the hard work begins," said Hopkins oncologist Dr. Luis Diaz, whose team is collecting hundreds of additional Pap samples for more study and is exploring ways to enhance the detection of ovarian cancer.

But if it ultimately pans out, "the neat part about this is, the patient won't feel anything different," and the Pap wouldn't be performed differently, Diaz added. The extra work would come in a lab.

The gene-based technique marks a new approach toward cancer screening, and specialists are watching closely.

"This is very encouraging, and it shows great potential," said American Cancer Society genetics expert Michael Melner.

"We are a long way from being able to see any impact on our patients," cautioned Dr. Shannon Westin of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She reviewed the research in an accompanying editorial, and said the ovarian cancer detection would need improvement if the test is to work.

But she noted that ovarian cancer has poor survival rates because it's rarely caught early. "If this screening test could identify ovarian cancer at an early stage, there would be a profound impact on patient outcomes and mortality," Westin said.

More than 22,000 U.S. women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year, and more than 15,000 die. Symptoms such as pain and bloating seldom are obvious until the cancer is more advanced, and numerous attempts at screening tests have failed.

Endometrial cancer affects about 47,000 women a year, and kills about 8,000. There is no screening test for it either, but most women are diagnosed early because of postmenopausal bleeding.

The Hopkins research piggybacks on one of the most successful cancer screening tools, the Pap, and a newer technology used along with it. With a standard Pap, a little brush scrapes off cells from the cervix, which are stored in a vial to examine for signs of cervical cancer. Today, many women's Paps undergo an additional DNA-based test to see if they harbour the HPV virus, which can spur cervical cancer.

So the Hopkins team, funded largely by cancer advocacy groups, decided to look for DNA evidence of other gynecologic tumors. It developed a method to rapidly screen the Pap samples for those mutations using standard genetics equipment that Diaz said wouldn't add much to the cost of a Pap-plus-HPV test. He said the technique could detect both early-stage and more advanced tumors. Importantly, tests of Paps from 14 healthy women turned up no false alarms.

The endometrial cancers may have been easier to find because cells from those tumors don't have as far to travel as ovarian cancer cells, Diaz said. Researchers will study whether inserting the Pap brush deeper, testing during different times of the menstrual cycle, or other factors might improve detection of ovarian cancer.

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) ? One of four women found fatally shot inside a Tulsa apartment was staying at the crime-plagued building with a friend as she tried to get her life back together, her mother said Tuesday as police asked for the public's help in solving the murders.

Misty Nunley, along with 23-year-old twin sisters Rebeika Powell and Kayetie Melchor, and Julie Jackson, 55, were found dead Monday by police. No arrests have been made, and investigators have released no other details ? including possible suspects, how the women knew each other or why they may have been targeted.

But Nunley's mother, Cheryl Nunley, said her 33-year-old daughter had befriended Powell and had been staying with her on and off for the past week. She said she called her daughter nearly every morning to check in, and spoke to her Monday just hours before the women were found dead.

"She had positive people back in her life," Cheryl Nunley told The Associated Press, holding back tears while sitting with family and friends in a tiny apartment a few blocks away from the crime scene.

"She's not perfect. She ran around with some people she shouldn't have been running around with, but she was getting her life back together."

Tulsa police spokesman Leland Ashley said Tuesday that detectives and officers were "beating the bushes" to figure out what happened at the apartment, where police also found an unharmed 3-year-old boy. Police said he was taken into protective custody but released no other information.

"Right now, we have no clear-cut suspect," Ashley said, urging anyone with information to come forward.

"I don't want to strike fear in the community tonight, but we do have an individual or individuals who murdered four people," he added. "Do we know if there was a motive, like a jealous lover? We don't know that. We can't say if it was random or if someone knew (the victims)."

Relatives and neighbors have told Nunley's family there may have been a romantic spat between one of the women who lived at the apartment and a boyfriend or ex-boyfriend. Police wouldn't comment on those rumors.

Hillary McGuire, the former stepsister of Powell and Melchor, told the AP she had lost touch with the sisters over the past couple years but remembered both as "the nicest girls."

"I hope to God they find whoever did it and lock them away forever," she said.

Messages left by the AP at phone numbers believed to belong to other relatives of the victims weren't returned Tuesday.

The four women were found dead in a unit at the Fairmont Terrace Apartments, a gated but rundown complex in south Tulsa's Riverwood neighborhood where residents say crime is common. The complex has a nighttime security patrol and curfew, but police believe the killings occurred during the day Monday. Police said they received a 911 call reporting the shooting around 12:30 p.m.

Cheryl Nunley said she didn't know the other three women or how they knew each other. She said Misty had been estranged from her family but was working to repair the relationships and get reacquainted with her own 19-year-old daughter, Shondelle.

"She last called me Sunday night," recalled Shondelle. "She told me she was proud of me."

Cheryl Nunley is convinced that more than one assailant was responsible for the killings, saying her daughter would have fought any one attacker "to the death."

"I don't know anybody who was mad enough at my daughter to do that to her," she said.

Crime-scene tape had been removed by Tuesday afternoon at the apartment complex, where bed sheets or cardboard hang as improvised draperies in many windows behind a black wrought-iron gate. The guard shack is empty and signs read "Curfew 10 p.m. for everyone, everyday" and "Photo ID required to be on property." Three of the units are burned out and boarded up with plywood.

Tulsa police said there were two murders at the complex last year, and residents of the neighborhood say gunfire and break-ins are fairly common.

"We're in the eye of the storm," said Charles Burke, a 48-year-old construction worker who lives across the street but didn't hear the shootings. "You're on your toes. You can't be too careful."

Jamie Kramer, a 28-year-old mother of two young children, has lived in the neighborhood for 10 years. She said crime seems to come in cycles and that things had been pretty quiet for several months until Monday.

"It escalates and goes back down, it escalates and it goes back down," she said.

Alexis Draite, a 20-year-old who recently moved to the area from Oklahoma City, also said she didn't hear gunshot Monday. She said she has a routine: "Lock the doors, lock the cars and don't stay outside longer than you need to."

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Are You a Creative Real Estate Investor or Traditional?

Do you consider yourself a creative real estate investor or a traditional real estate investor? What is the difference? Is one better? Which one is right for you? You?ll discover the answers to these questions and much more?

First, Let?s define what a traditional investor looks like. Typically, they?

Traditional real estate investors can buy a lot of property very quickly.

• Buy real estate off the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

• Find properties by enlisting the services of a real estate agent

• Buy foreclosures that are listed on the MLS

• Buy property at the foreclosure auction sale

• May even buy real estate from wholesalers

• Sometimes get into bidding wars with other traditional investors

• Use big earnest money checks to get deals under contract

• Pay down payments of 20% of the purchase price or more

• Apply for bank loans that require them to sign personally

• Makes tons of offers to get a few accepted

• Constantly review deals, on the web and in person

• Negotiate deals based on price.

On the other hand, let?s look at the behavior of a creative real estate investor. Typically, they?

Creative real estate investors can buy property with no money or credit.

• ?Locate properties by marketing for motivated sellers

• Get to the deals before anyone else knows about them

• Work with sellers directly without using real estate agents

• Put up tiny earnest money checks (for example, $10)

• Rarely require a down payment

• Do not apply for bank loans

• Buy real estate with owner financing

• Take over loans subject to the existing financing

• May make several offers on the same property

• Create bidding wars when selling their deals to traditional investors

• Try to turn every lead into money by assigning the bad ones to agents

• Use transactional funding, hard and private money

• Rarely physically look at deals unless to get it under contract

• Negotiate the transactions based on terms, price, or both

Which one sounds more like you?

Both have barriers to entry. Creative real estate investors must be educated,? traditional real estate investors need money and/or the ability to borrow money.

The Biggest Challenge for the Creative Real Estate Investor

First, you have to get access to the right education. Usually in life, you get what you pay for. Although this website and blog is amazing and provides incredible free content, there is a reason why it also offers courses for sale. A complete education on creative real estate investing isn?t free.

Second, having the right mentor or coach is critical to helping you acquire the right education.

Third, you must find the time and take the action to actually learn from the education you have invested in. This is where many people fall short. They want the incredible results creative investing can give them, but they aren?t able to follow through with acquiring the education (even if they have invested in the right materials and are working with a dynamite mentor).

The Biggest Challenge for the Traditional Real Estate Investor

The biggest challenge for the traditional real estate investor is getting access to the money. Money for earnest money, money for a down payment, borrowing money from banks, money to conduct renovations on purchased property.

Although it is possible to get access to money through private individuals, most use the money they have accumulated over their lifetime, such as in a retirement fund, or by the sale of a business, or an inheritance, along with leveraging their good credit and strong financial position to borrow money from banks.

There is still some education required to be an effective traditional investor. The traditional formula is relatively simple. Hire a real estate agent to find potential deals, make tons of low-ball offers, get one accepted, buy the property, fix it up and resell it or rent it out. Repeat.

Creative real estate investing is not quite as simple and has many different facets, so the education required is more involved.

Which One Is Better?

To be honest, I am a bit biased toward creative real estate investing because when I got started, I was homeless.

I didn?t have much of a choice. I had to go the creative route. So I am a creative guy from the onset. But one is not better than the other. Traditional investing has its advantages, too.

For example, traditional investors can buy a whole lot of property very quickly. A recent trend in the marketplace involves Wall Street (large hedge funds and private equity firms) buying up single family homes in large volumes at a very rapid pace. They are buying foreclosures and MLS-listed properties in bulk.

Since now is a great time to buy real estate, organizations that have a whole lot of cash can take the traditional approach, which allows them to buy thousands of properties very quickly.

Also, traditional investors can buy property for long-term wealth building at a cheaper price than creatively structuring owner financing or subject to. That?s because a seller will typically give up favorable terms for you (as the investor) in exchange for a higher sales price. Or the seller will take a lower price in exchange for an all-cash quick sale.

In addition, a traditional investor can get a tremendous deal by being the high bidder (when there are few or no other bidders) at absolute auctions.

Creative Investors Don?t Need Their Own Money or Credit

Creative real estate investing has its own set of advantages. Here?s the biggest one: you can make a whole lot of money and build tremendous wealth with very little money and no credit.

Creative investors experience consistent and steady results, whereas traditional investors ebb and flow with the changes in the marketplace. When the market is booming, there are fewer traditional deals. When the market is depressed, there are tons of traditional deals. That?s because creative deals come from motivated sellers.

Motivated sellers are created as a result of extenuating circumstances that are typically external to real estate, problems such as divorce, illness, financial problems, death, job transfer, downsizing, upgrading, and so on. These are issues that humans will be dealing with in good times and bad for centuries to come.

Creative investors have far less competition than traditional investors. Ironically, creative investors benefit from more traditional investors joining the dogfight because creative investors can sell their deals to the traditional investors.

For example, while traditional investors are panicking that the sky is falling because Wall Street has entered the game, creative investors benefit from the hedge funds getting in the market because they can flip their deals to them. (Now if all the traditional investors figured out how the creative investors were doing what they were doing, then the creative investors would be in trouble!)

Now that I am in a financial position to be a traditional investor, I still prefer being a creative investor. I would rather pay a little more for a long-term hold property than put my name on a loan. Andrew Carnegie said in his autobiography written over 100 years ago that you should never personally guarantee a business loan. I consider a mortgage on an investment property a business loan, so by Carnegie?s rule, I avoid getting bank loans for the properties I purchase.

And as you learned from my discussion on Rehab vs PREhab, I would rather PREhab rather than REhab. That doesn?t mean there aren?t times when being a traditional investor isn?t effective for me. Especially when I am sitting on a bunch of cash and want to invest it in some place other than the stock market?

Which one are you (or which one do you want to be)? Which one do you think is better?

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