Afterthe fall finaleofGreys Anatomy, fans have a lot to say aboutRichard Webber(James Pickens, Jr.) and Catherine Foxs (Debbie Allen) storyline. None of the comments from fans are positive. Lets take a look and see why fans are so outraged at the two doctors right now.

The root of Richard and Catherines marital problems began at the end of season 15 when Richard was fired from Grey-Sloan hospital for being a part Merediths insurance fraud. Bailey fired Richard; however, Catherine did not do anything to help save his job.

Richard holds a grudge, and Catherine is not helping matters. We are now nine episodes into season 16, and things between the couple are worse than ever before. Catherine assumes that Richard is cheating on her with an old friend, Gemma (Jasmine Guy). Hes not cheating, but hes not doing anything to help Catherine believe him.

The Richard/Catherine marriage problems storyline is so aggravating to me,wrote one fan on Reddit. From Catherines point of view, I understand that she doesnt want to face it, and she keeps running. But from Richards point of view, he should be texting, calling, and chasing after her if nothing is actually going on.

Yes, Catherine did not fight for his job, and hes still upset, but in the grand scheme of things, thats your marriage, and now your wife thinks youre having an affair. If youre not having an affair and its all just innocent friendship, then you would be trying harder to tell your wife that, the Redditor believes.

In the season 16 fall finale, Catherine goes looking for her husband over at Pac-North. A receptionist mistakenly tells her that Richard is busy in his office with his wife. This interaction sets Catherine over the edge, and now she is sure that he is cheating on her. However, he doesnt do anything to deter her from thinking that. She leaves town, and he doesnt try to stop her.

Yes, agrees one fan. Richards like, meh, my wife is leaving town, and I didnt even know she was in town. Whatever. Ok, Gemma what were you saying?'

He couldnt even bother to give her a call, added another Redditor. Thats how much he cares about fixing the current rift. Part of me thinks hes just acting like the victim and being so nonchalant about the whole Gemma thing because he wants to get back at Catherine for not having his back with his job.

Theres a lot of anger in both of them, one fan observed.

Richard needs to stop avoiding his wife, added another fan on Reddit. Catherine should talk to her husband, yes. But Richard knows exactly why Catherine is pissed at him, and he isnt doing anything to try to say hey this isnt happening. He just sits and still hangs out with the woman who Catherine doesnt trust. Come on, Richard. This isnt all on Catherine.

The lack of communication is just, Ugh, added one more Redditor. At least we got one positive thing out of itthe intern sassing Catherine for trying to use her name as power and just not having it with her in general.

Neither party is in the right here. Catherine needs to apologize for not talking to Bailey on his behalf. Richard needs to get over his anger and call his wife. Or, if they are going to go on like this, maybe we will see a divorce. Either way, we wont see anything until Greys Anatomy returns on Jan. 23, 2020.

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Before the ferry accident, before the plane crash, before those wolves ate those people they ate (These medical professionals cannot catch a break), Greys Anatomy drew its audience in with the dreamy, steamy erotic entanglements at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. There were plot lines and pairings so hot, they made the words McDreamy and McSteamy into household names. Now, in a new interview with Deadline, Greys showrunner Krista Vernoff promises viewers that the shows shift back to its original, later timeslot will officially Make Greys Horny Again.

There are different rules for a 9 p.m. show than there are for an 8 p.m. show, and we hope to take advantage of those rules, Vernoff explained to Deadline. Greyswas definitely allowed to be a sexier show when it was on at nine oclock. So we are excited by the change back to our original [Thursday] time slot.

Greys Anatomy has aired on ABC at 8 p.m. for the last eight seasons, after the network moved the hit medical show up an hour in 2014. Now the network will air Shondalands Greys spinoff Station 19 at 8 p.m., with the hope that your thirst for a sexier Greys will carry you through until ten. And after 16 seasons and over 350 episodes, it almost certainly will. Both shows will premiere their next seasons on Thursday, January 23, 2020.

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Even longtime UMS-Wright coach Terry Curtis looks back in pride with what his team has accomplished over the course of the last two years.

The Class 4A No. 1 Bulldogs (11-0) take the states longest win streak into Fridays quarterfinal matchup with Montgomery-Catholic (12-0) at Ervin S. Cooper Stadium in Mobile.

UMS has won 30 straight games dating back to 2017.

It has really been amazing, Curtis said on this weeks Prep Spotlight on WNSP-FM 105.5. Its unbelievable to watch these guys even when we are not playing our best football - - find a way to win. You look at 30, and you say, Good grief.

It is a lot of games in a row, especially when you know that after a while you are getting everyones best shot from the best teams to the worst teams every week. To keep it going like that is hard to do. Kudos to our kids. Our coaches have great plans every week. Its been fun being a long for the ride.

If the streak reaches 33 games in a few weeks, the Bulldogs would have a third straight Class 4A state trophy to bring home.

Here are some facts about UMS-Wrights 30-game win streak:

Last loss: 9-0 against St. Pauls on Nov. 3, 2017.

Win No. 1: UMS-Wright 42, Leeds 7 on Nov. 10, 2017.

Win No. 30: UMS-Wright 31, Talladega 6 on Nov. 15, 2019.

Most lopsided victory: 65-0 at Monroe County on Oct. 12, 2018.

Closest win: 21-19 over American Christian in the Class 4A quarterfinals on Nov. 23, 2018. American Christian kicker Brooks Cormiers 43-yard field goal attempt was just wide right with 19 seconds left in the game.

Most frequent opponent: Andalusia (4 times).

UMS shutouts: 10.

Games when UMS scored 40 or more points: 8.

Home record: 15-0.

Road record: 13-0.

Neutral site record: 2-0 (Tuscaloosa and Auburn).

Total points: 945 points, an average of 31.5 points a game.

Total points allowed: 196, an average of 6.5 points allowed per game.

Terry Curtis record prior to the win streak: 207-49 at UMS, 284-85 overall.

Longest previous UMS win streak under Curtis: 23 games (2002-2003).

Starting quarterbacks: Will Chapman (2017), Skipper Snypes (2018), Trey Singleton (2019).

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UMS-Wright's Symon Smith tries to get past Fayette County's TreDarion Walker during the AHSAA Super 7 Class 4A championship at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. (Dennis Victory/preps@al.com) Dennis Victory

Most memorable game: Its up for debate, but certainly the 21-7 victory over Fayette County in the Class 4A championship game in the snow at Bryant-Denny Stadium has to be right up there.

Average margin of victory: 25 points.

The Big 3: Senior leaders Will Breland, Symon Smith and Keyshawn Woodyard have been around for all 30 wins and have been proficient throughout. Breland, the reigning Class 4A Lineman of the Year, has 460 total tackles, including 32 for a loss, from 2017 until now. Smith has rushed for 4,718 yards and 46 TDs on 802 carries. Woodyard has caught 129 passes for 1,761 yards and 28 TDs.

Top recruits faced along the way: Daniel Foster-Allen (St. Pauls), Cam Riley (Hillcrest-Evergreen), Roger McCreary (Williamson), Robert Woodyard (Williamson), Reggie Bracy (St. Pauls), Brady Ward (St. Pauls), Deontae Lawson (Mobile Christian).

Other current win streaks of note: Fyffe (27), Mars Hill (22).

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West Virginia had surrendered 62-yards over 2:18 leading 24-20 against Kansas State deep into the fourth quarter of the game with 35 ticks left.

The Wildcats were going in at the 30-yard line facing a 2nd and 8 with 10-personnel on the field looking to take back the lead against a Mountaineers defense which had played inspired football all day long.

Dalton Schoen, who had already hauled in a 68-yard touchdown earlier in the game, lined up to Kansas State quarterback Skylar Thompsons right to the boundary. The Wildcats were ready to take a shot.

Once the ball was snapped, Schoen switched with the inside receiver and started down the middle of the field before slowing up to present as if he was catching a short pass. It was then that he used the burners to execute a stutter and go to get down the seam of the Mountaineers defense.

There were two different concepts in one there which is tough, position coach Jahmile Addae said.

The West Virginia players responsible for coverage on that inside route was starting cornerback Hakeem Bailey, who had moved inside to the nickel spot in the coverage. It wasnt a natural spot for him but it was something that he had repped in practice throughout the week.

That was my first time playing it in a game, Bailey said.

So while his responsibility was to initially wall the inside receiver, that quickly became Schoen and Bailey was initially beat after he executed the second portion of the route on the double move. But the cornerback never gave up on the play and was able to track things down.

An important aspect to the play because while Schoen was breaking free for a possible game winning score, pressure from the three-man rush forced Thompson out of his spot to step up and release the ball off one foot.

As it fluttered towards Schoen, Bailey was able to undercut the football and close the door on a comeback attempt with a leaping interception at the Mountaineers two-yard line.

If that ball is placed a little bit better hes going to have to make a heck of a play but thats the game of football, Addae said.

For Bailey it was an impressive play in a season where the senior has changed the perception about him at the cornerback spot and for Addae it was a sign of the teaching getting through as if you scan the field each of the Mountaineers secondary members did their job on the play.

There were all kind of layers in that coverage and they were able to draw off their rules and make a play, he said.

Attention to detail made the difference and for West Virginia it was the thin-line between a win and a loss as the program recorded its biggest win to date under Neal Brown.

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According to my extensive research, 99 percent of people who golf are terrible at the sport. I include myself in that number, of course.

Given those most definitely accurate and indisputable numbers, it should come as no surprise that birdies are a rare occurrence. Heres where Id make a joke about a bird watcher seeing a rare bird, but lets be honest, I dont know any rare birds and no one would actually get it.

I carded eight birdies (or better) this past season. I kept track of them and I remember each of them like they just happened. Thats how much fun it is to sink the ball in fewer strokes than par allows for. For reference: birdie is one less than par; eagle is two under; and technically albatross is the term for three under par, but good luck ever getting one of those.

To make birdie, you either need to be incredibly good or very fortunate. Its usually one dynamic shot that makes it all possible. Lets take a look at my eight circled numbers (birdies are circled once on the scorecard while eagles are circled twice) in 2019 and how I got there. Theyre in chronological order, as if that matters.

1) Cassadaga Country Club, No. 7 This is a majestic hole. Standing above the trees way up on the tee box, a golfer has an incredible view of Cassadaga Lake and the surrounding area. Looking towards the green, way down the hill, theres a pond some 200 yards away (needing some 225-250 to clear it). In one of my first (it may have been my first) round of the year, I tattooed my drive not just over the pond, but actually onto the green. It wasnt terribly close to the pin, so a two-putt for birdie was exactly what I was trying to do.

2) Shorewood Country Club, No. 9 Par 5s are easily my most birdied holes in my golf career because theres a little more margin for error. This one is a long ways to the green with a slight dogleg. My drive was nothing special. In fact, I was off the green to the right a little bit. My second shot was a bomb, but I pulled it left into the trees about pin height. I had a pair of trees making something like uprights, to use a football analogy, between me and the green. I decided to basically just close my eyes and go for it. The end result was my ball splitting those trees and stopping about five feet from the pin for an easy tap-in (and incredibly fortunate) birdie.

3) Silver Lake Country Club, No. 4 This is the only par 3 on the list, though I certainly gave myself many more chances on various par 3s this year. This one was not just almost a hole-in-one, rolling within inches of the cup on the way by, but it was in a huge tournament and almost won me a new car! It was a long par 3 and I struck my 3-hybrid about as well as I can hit that club.

4) CCC, No. 5 Eagle alert! This came during one of my weeks as a sub in a league at CCC. I had never actually driven the green on this short, but very uphill par 4. That said, after smoking my tee shot and making the drive up to the green, we found my ball maybe five feet from the pin. Tap-in eagles dont happen everyday, but this one even gave me skins for the day, so that was a nice bonus.

5) CCC, No. 4 Thats right, yet another birdie at CCC. This one was a bit of a redemption hole for me. The round before this one, I drove the green and had a painful three-putt for par. My drive rolled onto the green briefly, but ended up off to the right. An easy chip and putt for birdie made up for that first one a little bit, at least.

6) Rosebrook Golf Course, No. 15 This is another long par 5 with a dangerous treeline along the entire right side of the fairway. Not only did I smash my drive, but I annihilated my approach shot and actually ended up past the green. It may be the furthest Ive ever hit a 5-iron. That said, I still had my work cut out for me. But a decent chip preceded a dropped put and there was my birdie. Just like they draw it up.

7) Pinehurst Golf Club, No. 5 If you would have told me Id birdie this hole after where my drive went, Id have called you a liar. I sliced the daylights out of the drive and was almost on No. 8s green. Not only did I have a lovely grove of trees between myself and the green, but I had a nasty downhill lie, making it very unlikely Id get the height needed to clear the trees. Since its on this list, you can probably guess what happened. I hit one of my shots of the year and landed the ball in the shadow of the flagstick before burying the putt. Incredible.

8) Pinehurst Golf Club, No. 1 This is a par 5, but was actually very similar to the above entry at Pinehurst. My yanked my drive left into No. 2s fairway. Not only that, but there was a giant tree directly where I wanted to hit my ball. Sometimes it pays to be stubborn because I lasered my ball through the tree without making so much as a rustle. Some 250 yards later and my ball was on the fringe of the green. If I hit that same shot 100 times, theres no way I duplicate this shot. A chip and a putt for par had me off to a wonderful start to a round.

There are eight birdies with extremely different ways of getting there. Great drives. Terrible drives. Lucky shots. Awesome shots. The only way I didnt get a birdie this year was with a hole-out or chip-in.

Does anyone else track their birdies? Maybe youre part of the 1 percent that gets them too regularly to make them a special occasion. Did you have any extra memorable ones this year. Please shoot me an email with your stories.

Until next week, golf is great. Go get some.

Stefan Gestwicki is an OBSERVER contributing writer. Comments on this article can be sent to golfersdiary@gmail.com

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A nationwide recall of human cadavers was issued Friday after anatomy students at a California medical school were surprised to find a major defect in their cadaver: It wasn't dead.

Thursday morning, medical student Edward S. Hands said he had just cut into an arm using scissors when the cadaver -- affectionately nicknamed "Kenny" -- suddenly sat straight up, looked around in a daze, spotted the deep cuts in his arm and body, and calmly said, "Ouch." Then, hopping off the table, he wrapped a drape around his waist and marched out of the room.

Body donation organizations are at a loss to explain how a living person could have slipped through the cracks. "We take pride in delivering the highest quality corpses," said Abby Cadavvy, CEO of Sesame Medical Care, a major cadaver supplier, "ones that will lie perfectly still on the table while students dissect it. We regret that a clearly defective cadaver made its way into an anatomy lab."

Upon learning of the incident, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) ordered a recall of all cadavers now in the supply chain. "All cadavers must be sent back to the body donation companies," said HHS Secretary Alex Azar, "so they can make sure that the bodies are, in fact, 100% dead."

Once the bodies are received, they will perform 72-hour cardiac monitoring, 48-hour EEG monitoring, 24 hours of continuous CPR, a Mini-Mental State Exam, and a colonoscopy on each body to search for any signs of life.

Azar was questioned about the need for colonoscopy.

"Yes," he confirmed, "because if they are still alive, they'll make that abundantly clear when you shove a tube up their ... well, you get the picture."

Asked for her reaction, Bernardette Lomax, a med student in Pennsylvania, said, "Oh dear, we've been slicing our cadaver for weeks already. It'd be devastating to learn she's been alive this whole time!"

As for Kenny, authorities are eager to speak to him and examine him medically, but he hasn't been seen since his dramatic exit from the anatomy lab.

Authorities also wish to interview the anatomy professor and the other two dozen students who witnessed Kenny's revival (a.k.a. #TheyResurrectedKenny). But they too have been unavailable for comment because they all remain in the anatomy lab, frozen in place, eyes wide and mouth agape. In fact, it appears they were literally frightened to death. Fortunately, they can now be used as replacement cadavers.

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Raiders defensive coordinator Paul Guenther was hyped up for his blitz packages coming into the Raiders last season. Unfortunately, the NFL caught up the double A-gap blitz scheme and it took Guenther some time to adjust. He may have just hit his stride, however. In recent weeks, the Raiders defense has put more consistent pressure on opposing QBs, racking up 12 sacks in three games, including consecutive five-sack performances against the Chargers and Bengals.

Last week, rookie DE Maxx Crosby had a well documented four sack performance. He deserves credit for an incredible individual effort, but lets take a look at the entire defense and see how an individual pass rush doesnt happen in a vacuum.

At his core, Guenther is a conservative play caller. He rarely sends five or six men on a blitz and very often, his pressure calls involve a creeper or mug blitzer. Many of Guenthers blitzes are really just four man pressures with either a DE is dropping into coverage to replace a LB, or that LB is feigning a blitz path but really has a coverage responsibility.

Maxx Crosbys first sack of the 4th quarter came during one of these simulated pressure looks. The Raiders come out in dime personnel (six defensive backs) with the five defenders who arent DBs lining up on the line of scrimmage. This look tells the QB a blitz is coming and forces the protection to adjust.

But its not a blitz, its your standard four man rush on 3rd down. LB Tahir Whitehead gives a stutter and head fake to create the illusion of a blitz, but hes really in man coverage on the RB and ready to cut off a potential scramble from a QB under duress.

Perhaps because the illusion of a blitz was created, watch how the left tackle momentarily doubles newly acquired Dion Jordan, lining up as the interior pass rusher. This is a fatal miscalculation for the blocker, who cant get his feet set by the time he engages Crosby and gets bull-rushed into the QB.

Blitz coverage in the NFL doesnt follow your standard rules and can be malleable and prone to changing from week-to-week to take advantage of a tendency or to protect against a particularly dangerous threat. The standard difference between blitz coverage and traditional coverage, however, is that defenders expect the ball to come out quick and will be more aggressive than normal.

The vast majority of Guenthers blitz coverages throughout the first half of the season came from a single-high Cover 1 shell. The underneath defenders were responsible for jumping the hot routes inside. Guenther has changed this recently, opting to blitz under 2-high safety coverage. This simulated pressure came with dime personnel, allowing for man coverage to be played across the board.

At the top of the screen, notice both Daryl Worley and Isaiah Johnson allow the WR to essentially run past them. They are both playing trail technique, which is a standard man coverage technique in a 2-Man coverage. Safety Curtis Riley is playing the deep half, which lets the defenders play the quick game and not worry about the deeper routes as much.

This coverage is why in the first clip you see Ryan Finley pat the ball and wait for his receiver to uncover. The pass rush, the blitz look, and the coverage allowed for the result of this play to be a sack. Crosby will get the credit, but from the play call to the men in coverage, this was a positive for the entire defense.

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The ABC drama holds steady and leads the night's non-sports offerings.

The final Grey's Anatomy of 2019 finished on top of Thursday's adults 18-49 ratings among entertainment programs. Thursday Night Football declined week to week, but Fox's broadcast still led the night by a sizable margin.

Grey's Anatomy closed its fall run with a 1.3 rating among adults 18-49 and 6.37 million viewers, on par with a week ago (and, with a few thousand viewers over last week, the show's second-largest same-day audience of the season). A Million Little Things (0.8, 4.61 million) was also steady, but How to Get Away With Murder (0.4, 2.22 million) declined a little.

Thursday Night Football captured 9.41 million viewers in the fast nationals, down about 19 percent from the early 11.65 million last week. The game will adjust up substantially in the finals; last week's broadcast ended up with 15.3 million viewers.

CBS' Young Sheldon (8.33 million viewers, 1.0 in adults 18-49) slipped from its season highs of a week ago, but was still the most-watched entertainment show of the night. Mom (6.02 million, 0.8) also fell a little, but The Unicorn (5.72 million, 0.7), Carol's Second Act (4.89 million, 0.6) and Evil (3.45 million, 0.5) were all up in viewers and steady in adults 18-49.

Superstore (0.7 in adults 18-49) and Law & Order: SVU (0.6) were off a tenth of a point each in adults 18-49 on NBC. Will & Grace ticked up to 0.5, and Perfect Harmony (0.4) and The Good Place (0.6) matched their week-ago numbers. The CW's Supernatural and Legacies each came in at 0.2, down 0.1 apiece from last week.

Fox's 2.5 rating in adults 18-49 (pending updates) easily led primetime. ABC finished second at 0.8, a little ahead of CBS (0.7) and NBC (0.6). Telemundo averaged 0.5 and Univision 0.4. The CW drew a 0.2.

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The plan, it appeared, was fairly straightforward: get Prince Andrew in front of a camera and put a stop to speculation about the nature of his connections to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

So, how did it go from that to the Queen feeling she had no choice but to take the barely conceivable step of allowing one of her sons to step back from public duties altogether in less than five days?

The Duke of Yorks strategy had taken a hit even before he had sat down opposite the BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis. Andrew had already lost the services of Jason Stein, the spin doctor hired in September to restore his reputation. Stein had reportedly advised Andrew against the whole thing, preferring a longer-term strategy that included a great deal of charity work and interviews with print outlets to mark his birthday.

The unravelling of the strategy began almost immediately after the interview ended. Andrew appeared pleased with his performance, even giving the Newsnight team a tour of the palace afterwards. But when lines from the interview began reaching journalists inboxes early on Friday evening, they were astonished by what they read. By Saturday morning, the story was dominating the news agenda. The headlines were devastating for Andrew. And the interview had not yet even been aired.

The early press reports focused on his claim that his decision to maintain close relations with Epstein despite the financiers conviction for sexual offences was motivated primarily by the princes tendency to be too honourable.

Kept back by the BBC was the princes claim that he could not have had sex with Virginia Giuffre, which she says she was coerced into doing while a teenager, because he was at home after a visit to Pizza Express in Woking. Nor was his contention that her description of his dancing with her beforehand could not be true because he was unable to sweat at the time.

Those revelations, when they came out, were met with incredulity and were shared widely online, adding fresh impetus to the story.

By Sunday evening, Andrew was facing calls to speak to the FBI from lawyers representing 10 of the Epsteins victims. While some of the attention was focused on Andrews extraordinary defence, there was strong criticism of his attitude towards the victims and the fact that he had not expressed sympathy for them in the interview.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, said she could not understand how somebody could be talking about their relationship with [Epstein] without recognising, or understanding, or discussing, how he felt about those victims. And I felt they should have been much more at the centre of that discussion.

The backlash continued into this week as numerous organisations began to cut ties with the prince. On Monday, it emerged that the accountancy giant KPMG would not be renewing its sponsorship of Andrews entrepreneurial scheme, Pitch@Palace.

That night a fresh Epstein accuser gave a press conference in Los Angeles where she detailed allegations that the financier assaulted her when she was 15 and urged Andrew to come forward to the authorities with whatever information he had about his former friend.

On Tuesday, Standard Chartered also pulled out of Pitch@Palace as questions about Andrews continued involvement in the scheme he founded in 2014 continued to circulate. They prompted a whole host of other firms to review their involvement or cut ties altogether.

Wednesday morning brought no respite, as it emerged that three Australian universities had severed their links with the business-mentoring charitys Australian branch. On top of that, the telecoms firm BT said it would not work with Andrews digital training scheme while he was a patron.

Later that same day a letter emerged casting serious doubt on Andrews claim in the BBC interview to have first met Epstein in 1999. The letter written to the Times in 2011 to counter reports that the prince had been a friend of Saif Gaddafi, son of the former Libyan dictator had come from his own former chief of staff, who said that the prince had met Epstein in the early 1990s.

At first, Buckingham Palace sought to defend Andrew over the apparent discrepancy. The dukes words in the interview speak for themselves, said a spokesperson.

By Wednesday afternoon, the palace sought to bring the issue to a close with Andrews announcement that he would be stepping back from public duties and was willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their Epstein investigations if required.

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