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    Cho had a breakthrough year last season. After winning Olympic bronze in the 2010 Vancouver Games as part of the men’s relay, Cho claimed an individual world title at 500 meters last March.

    It motivated him to train harder than he ever trained, and to set the bar even higher.

    Then the pain started.

    He brushed it off at first, and kept pushing.

    Then it reached a point where he couldn’t get out of bed.

The Aug. 1 diagnosis was a fracture to his L5 vertebra.

    Maybe even a little better.

    Drew Brees broke some of the most prestigious passing records uggs there are and the Saints (13-3) matched their franchise-best regular-season record from their 2009 Super Bowl campaign while also going unbeaten at home for the first time in their 45-year history.

    “In the big picture, if we were to win the Super Bowl this year, it would be looked at as that era when the Saints were dominating,” safety Malcolm Jenkins said. “But we’ve got to get there first.”

    The road begins Saturday night in the Superdome against the Detroit Lions, who in recent seasons looked a lot more like the old Saints, even reaching a new low with a historic 0-16 season in 2008.

    That was the season before they drafted quarterback Matt Stafford, who, because of Brees’ record-shredding campaign, relatively quietly became only the fourth quarterback in NFL history to eclipse 5,000 yards passing in a single season.

    Now one of the oldest franchises is in the role of playoff neophyte. The Lions (10-6) haven’t been to the postseason since 1999 and therefore have to earn some playoff credibility, much like the Saints did six years ago.

    “I remember being the team that didn’t have any playoff experience or pedigree and was coming from a place where we’d perennially lost, and now all of a sudden we were in the playoffs,” said Saints right tackle Zach Strief, referring to the 2006 season when New Orleans went 10-6 with then-rookie coach Sean Payton, one season after going 3-13.

    “I remember playing the Philadelphia Eagles, a team that at that point was a powerhouse in the NFC. The thing that you realize is, sometimes that hunger that comes from not being in the playoffs a lot plays to your advantage.”

    Indeed, the Saints beat the Eagles before falling the next week in the NFC championship game at Chicago.

    The Saints became an inspiration to storm-weary New Orleans back then, similar to how the Lions have boosted morale in Michigan, a state synonymous with economic hardship in recent years.

    “Definitely the phone has been blowing up this week,” said Lions tight end Tony Scheffler, who grew up about an hour from Detroit. “A lot of people are on our side and are happy that this organization is back in the playoffs.”

    Added star receiver Calvin Johnson: “It’s definitely exciting to have more to play for. … We finally made it.”

    Odds makers don’t expect the Lions to play beyond this week, however, installing the Saints as 10-point favorites.

    Microsoft seems to have solved the mystery of the disappearing Windows Phone keyboard.

    Just rolling out to select phones yesterday, the latest update to uggs Windows Phone 7, known as build 8107, resolves a variety of issues, according to Microsoft. Chief among them is a fix for the vanishing keyboard, which has vexed many users of Windows Phone 7.5, aka Mango.

    First spotting the glitch in October, users complained that their keyboard would either vanish in the middle of an e-mail or text message or simply fail to pop up when activated. At the time, Microsoft told CNET that it was investigating the issue to find the root cause, and now it seems the company has been able to resolve the problem.

    A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to CNET that the update has been deployed to different carriers.

    “Our engineering team has developed a service release which has been delivered to our carrier partners for their assessment,” said the representative. “Details on specific improvements contained in these releases are available via the Windows Phone Update History page.”

    As detailed on the Update page, other glitches that have been fixed include a Gmail syncing error and an e-mail issue with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, which prevented the original message from being included in the response. The update also resolves a flaw involving weak encryption keys issued by digital certificate authority DigiCert Sdn. Bhd.

    Further, a voice mail notification issue affecting certain European and Asian networks is on the fix list.

    Finally, the 8107 update addresses a location-based privacy issue, allowing a certain feature in Windows Phone to send anonymous information about local Wi-Fi hot spots and cellular towers only if the user agrees to it.

    Italian Windows Phone news site Plaffo.com (English translation) said today that it received the new update on a Vodafone LG Optimus 7 phone.

    But the update apparently does not resolve an SMS flaw found last month that can trigger the disabling of the messaging functionality in Windows Phone, tweeted Tom Warren, a news editor at The Verge and founder of WinRumors.

    Windows Phone users can always check Microsoft’s Update History page for details on the latest updates.

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    Mumbai: `Players` may have big names like Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol and uggs Neil Nitin Mukesh but Sonam Kapoor says the multi-starrer film belongs to her and co-star Abhishek Bachchan.

            
 
    The 26-year-old actress, who will be seen opposite Abhishek after Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra`s `Dilli 6`, said she plays the lead in every multi-starrer.

    “I have always been the lead in my multi-starrer films. Abhishek and I were the lead in `Dilli 6`, `Thank You` was about me and Akshay, `Aisha` was all me and even now `Players` is about Abhishek and I. The onus is on me as a lead. But at the same time there are so many supporting people in the film who help you make it a better product,” Sonam told reporters.

    Players`, which is a remake of the Hollywood action thriller `The Italian Job`, will see Sonam in a rebellious avatar after playing a demure role in her last film `Mausam`.

    “My character Naina resembles what I am in my real life. She is rebellious but at the same time she is nice.

    Just out of college, she is a computer whiz-kid who agrees to be the part of a gold heist, where she has to hack the system to get valuable information, just because she is crazy for Abhishek in the film,” she said.

    Her co-star Bipasha`s bikini shots in the film are being talked about and Sonam too has got a funky wardrobe designed by her younger sister Rhea Kapoor.

    “I feel Rhea has done a fabulous job in the film. Her garments have done wonders to my character. She has understood my character quite well and have designed clothes accordingly,” Sonam said.

    She had to lose weight to look more edgy for the character and soon Sonam will be seen donning a bikini for an upcoming project.

    “This year my audience will see me in a sexy body. I had to undergo a particular weight training for `Players`.

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    Jared Sullinger had 19 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 6 Ohio State shook off its most recent loss with a 71-40 victory over Nebraska on Tuesday night.

    The Buckeyes (14-2, 2-1 Big Ten) had little difficulty in their uggs first game since a painful 74-70 defeat at No. 13 Indiana on Saturday. In that loss, the Buckeyes had 17 turnovers and committed 22 fouls.

    Deshaun Thomas added 15 points and William Buford had 13 for the Buckeyes, who won their 35th consecutive home game.

    Toney McCray had 13 points and Bo Spencer 10 for Nebraska (8-6, 0-3), which was playing its first Big Ten road game.

    The Cornhuskers were outrebounded 44-21 and had more turnovers (17) than field goals (16).

    Spencer came in leading the Cornhuskers in scoring at 15.1 points a game (24.3 in three road games). But he, like the rest of his teammates, never came close to competing with the Buckeyes.

    To put things into perspective, one of the biggest cheers of the night came when the fans recognized new Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer sitting high in a private booth. He received a lengthy ovation.

    Nebraska was without two of its top scorers for the fifth consecutive game: 6-11 Jorge Brian Diaz is out with chronic foot soreness, and junior-college transfer Dylan Talley has been sidelined by a thigh injury.

    The Cornhuskers have had the most difficult early-season schedule in the Big Ten, with home games against No. 11 Wisconsin (a 64-40 loss) and No. 16 Michigan State (a 68-55 defeat) before coming to No. 6 Ohio State. Those are also the top three teams in the preseason Big Ten poll.

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    The bad: One minor quibble: I miss having a front or side pouch on the bag’s exterior for items I need to access at the TSA checkpoint or on the plane. Antler should create an attachable Liquis sleeve or pouch to hold extra items such as my 3-1-1 bag, laptop, glasses and phone. Perhaps it could slide over the trolley handle.