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Dennis Shivers is a regular customer at the King Kullen store in Middle Island, where the New York Lottery said a winning Mega Millions ticket worth $208 million -- the largest ever for a winning ticket on Long Island -- was sold.

Shivers usually buys a Mega ticket when he visits the store; he did not on Tuesday.

"I bought bologna," said Shivers, 55, of Ridge. "I guess that's the closest.powerball, mega millions winning numbers, lotto numbers, lottery, powerball numbers

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Brees threw for 307 yards and four touchdowns, the last a 9-yard strike to Darren Sproles that set the record with 2:51 to go.

“So many people contributed to this, and I’m happy for them,” Brees said.

It was Brees’ final pass of the game and it gave him 5,087 yards passing — with one game still to play. Marino finished with 5,084 yards for the Miami Dolphins in 1984.

As Sproles spiked the ball, Brees put his arm over his head and started walking toward midfield while the Superdome crowd went wild and his teammates chased him down.

“Obviously it’s a special moment for the players, especially Drew,” Saints coach Sean Payton said. “I couldn’t be more proud of him.”

Brees’ four touchdowns gave him 276 for his career, moving him ahead of Joe Montana (273) and Vinny Testeverde (275) for ninth all-time. He is the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for more than 5,000 yards twice — he had 5,069 in 2008.

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Christmas for Warriors coach Mark Jackson turned sour pretty quickly Sunday, ending with a 105-86 season-opening loss to the visiting Los Angeles Clippers.

Jackson's debut as an NBA head coach, before a sell-out crowd and to a national TV audience, was tainted by a fourth-quarter collapse that suggested Warriors' basketball hasn't changed much. The man who has preached defense since being hired in June watched the Clippers, led by point guard Chris Paul, torch his team late, outscoring the Warriors 21-3 over a five-minute stretch.

The fourth quarter capped a forgettable second half for the Warriors defense. The Clippers shot 59 percent after half time.

"We gave up some easy baskets, some open looks that they knocked down," point guard Stephen Curry said. "Defensively, we didn't have our best performance in the second half."

Jackson wasn't so judicious with his words: "You have to get stops. Sixty four points in the second half just won't cut it."

In addition to its trademark shoddy defense, Golden State struggled offensively in the second half -- especially the fourth quarter, where they missed 11 of their 17 attempts and turned it over five times. The Warriors got morsels from their top three offensive players in crunch time.

Starting point guard Stephen Curry, recovering from a sprained right ankle, decided to play just before the game. By game's end, many Warriors fans probably wished he hadn't.

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Much of what we do is based on stories. Much of what we hear and what we see are stories.

Stories tell messages. Based on particular people, set at a particular time, at a particular place. And our lives are based on these stories. They make sense of our lives and our world. We are collections, safe deposits of stories.

Our lives are based on a few stories that we tell. Some of them are good and some are not. We tell ourselves we're no good, we'll never make it. And we say this type of negative story about others. We limit other people to the stories we tell about them. These stories define our lives. What stories have you been telling?

Growing up I ran home everyday, and would be met at the kitchen table with a tunafish sandwich, celery, and some apple juice. There my babysitter would demand my absolute silence as she watch her "stories." For 2 hours the stories were told. As the World Turns. Guiding light. Days of Our lives.

Movies and television. They tell false stories. They're not true. They're soap operas, dramas. They take us to imaginary places with imaginary people.

We feel pain when we try to make real life look like the imaginary. We try to look and dress and act like imaginary people. We change our bodies to reflect those imaginary TV bodies. We get implants. Surgery. Face lifts.

These false stories are all over. On TV. In our books and in our music.

Beyonce has a song, Irreplaceable. "To the left to the left. Everything in you own in a box to the left." She's singing about this trifling man who did her wrong. He's replaceable. She can find another one like him in a minute. This song is not true. Its a story. Beyonce is married and pregnant. She's not living the lyrics of this song.

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CINCINNATI — The Bengals had just enough left to stay in the thick of playoff contention.

Andy Dalton threw a pair of touchdown passes, and Cincinnati withstood yet another fourth-quarter comeback by Arizona, holding on for a 23-16 victory Saturday that kept the Bengals in the running for a wild card.

Another small crowd at Paul Brown Stadium saw the Bengals (9-6) secure only their third winning record in the last 21 years and keep up their postseason hopes.

They pulled it off with another solid performance by their rookie quarterback and a close call in the closing minutes.

Dalton threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Jermaine Gresham and a 19-yarder to Jerome Simpson, who did a somersault over a defender and landed on both feet in the end zone. Dalton joined Peyton Manning (26), Charlie Conerly (22) and Dan Marino (20) as the only NFL rookies to throw 20 touchdowns.

Down 23-0 heading into the fourth quarter, the NFL’s best comeback team nearly pulled off its most improbable one yet. Arizona (7-8) took advantage of Cedric Benson’s two fumbles, getting a pair of touchdown passes by John Skelton and Jay Feely’s field goal with 3:16 left.

The Cardinals had their chance to pull even. Early Doucet got behind the defense on a fourth-down play from the Cincinnati 17-yard line, but tripped at the goal line and fell, letting the pass fall incomplete.

Arizona got the ball one last time, but the clock ran out on them after a completion, ending the Cardinals’ four-game winning streak and their playoff chances.

Cincinnati’s defense dominated the first three quarters. Arizona didn’t cross midfield until Skelton completed a pass with 13:25 to go.

Skelton, a Fordham gradute, started for the second consecutive week in place of Kevin Kolb, who hasn’t fully recovered from a concussion. Skelton was 23 of 44 for 297 yards with three interceptions and five sacks that helped the Bengals get the 23-0 lead.

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ST. LOUIS — When the Cardinals’ brain trust recalculated the direction they’d take after Albert Pujols signed with the Angels, general manager John Mozeliak and his staff consulted their lists of free agents who could fill their sudden needs.

Carlos Beltran’s name kept coming up as a fit.

"He was on top," Mozeliak said.

Now he could be No. 2 in their lineup.

Beltran, a switch-hitting outfielder, agreed to a two-year, $26-million contract with the Cardinals on Thursday night. Mozeliak described how the club sees the six-time All-Star as a potential No. 2 hitter, ahead of thumpers Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman.

The deal, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, also includes a no-trade clause. Beltran brings a desired sock to the Cardinals’ lineup and adds needed depth to the outfield.

He is the first player who wasn’t already with the Cards to get a multi-year deal during Mozeliak’s tenure, and his $13-million average salary is the highest in years for a player who has not been with the organization before.

"We did not want to go into the season without addressing (the depth) in the outfield," Mozeliak said. "We saw this as an opportunity because we viewed him as another impact hitter we could bring to the lineup."

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Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and two children also were on the plane owned by Buckalew, an experienced pilot, according to a statement from New York-based advisory firm Greenhill. There were no survivors, New Jersey police said in a post on Twitter.

"The firm is in deep mourning over the tragic and untimely death of two of its esteemed colleagues and members of Jeff's family," Chairman Robert Greenhill and Chief Executive Officer Scott Bok said in the statement yesterday. "Jeff was one of the first employees of Greenhill. He and Rakesh were extraordinary professionals who were highly respected by colleagues and clients alike."

Buckalew, 45, led Greenhill's North American advisory activities. He started at the firm in 1996, the year it was founded, after working at Salomon Brothers, according to the company. Chawla, 36, was a managing director for the financial- services sector. He joined Greenhill in 2003 from Blackstone Group LP.

The men were traveling on business for Greenhill, said a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because that detail hadn't been made public.

The plane crashed on Interstate 287 in Harding, New Jersey, about 35 miles west of Manhattan, after taking off from Teterboro Airport, state police said on Twitter. The plane was en route to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport near Atlanta, according to flightaware.com. No one on the ground was killed, according to the New York Daily News, which quoted witnesses as saying the plane appeared to have broken up in flight

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