Bills RB Fred Jackson placed on IR, out for season

Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (14) hands the ball off to running back C. J. Spiller during NFL football practice in Orchard Park, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Bills running back Fred Jackson won't play Sunday in New York against the Jets because of a leg injury. Which could mean more work for Spiller. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (14) hands the ball off to running back C. J. Spiller during NFL football practice in Orchard Park, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Bills running back Fred Jackson won't play Sunday in New York against the Jets because of a leg injury. Which could mean more work for Spiller. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Buffalo Bills' C. J. Spiller looks on during NFL football practice in Orchard Park, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Bills running back Fred Jackson won't play Sunday in New York against the Jets because of a leg injury. Which could mean more work for Spiller. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Buffalo Bills running back C. J. Spiller runs a drill during NFL football practice in Orchard Park, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Bills running back Fred Jackson won't play Sunday in New York against the Jets because of a leg injury. Which could mean more work for Spiller. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Buffalo Bills running back C. J. Spiller looks on during NFL football practice in Orchard Park, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Bills running back Fred Jackson won't play Sunday in New York against the Jets because of a leg injury. Which could mean more work for Spiller. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Buffalo Bills running back C. J. Spiller tosses a ball during NFL football practice in Orchard Park, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Running back Fred Jackson won't play Sunday in New York against the Jets because of a leg injury. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) ? Fred Jackson will miss the rest of the year with a broken bone in his lower right leg, an injury that could derail Buffalo's once-promising season.

The team placed Jackson on injured reserve Wednesday, hours after Bills coach Chan Gailey said the running back wouldn't play Sunday in a pivotal game against the New York Jets.

"That's disappointing news for our team and certainly for Fred," Gailey said in a statement released by the team. "He was having a great year. The process for Fred to return to the field would most likely take him through the end of the season, so we have made the difficult decision to place him on injured reserve."

Jackson's best season was cut short after he was hurt in Sunday's blowout loss to the Miami Dolphins. Now, the Bills (5-5) will face the challenge of trying to erase an 11-year playoff drought without their most explosive offensive threat.

"If you've got a professional football team that's in the hunt and I've got to go give them some kind of talk to keep them motivated, we're in trouble," Gailey said. "My feeling is that if you've got a team that is that fragile, you're in trouble. I believe we have guys that understand about fighting through tough times and fighting through adversity."

Jackson's absence is a significant blow to a Bills team that has dropped three straight by a combined score of 106-26.

"It's tough not having Fred out there on the field," quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick said. "We know where his heart is, and where his mind's going to be ... with us."

Duplicating Jackson's production will be nearly impossible. Entering the Dolphins game he led the NFL in rushing, and his 1,376 yards from scrimmage through 10 games ranks behind only Chicago's Matt Forte (1,391).

"He's Mr. Everything," Bills receiver David Nelson said.

With Jackson out, the spotlight will be on his backup, second-year running back C.J. Spiller.

Spiller has not been the dynamic threat the Bills envisioned when they selected him with the ninth overall pick in the 2010 draft. He's carried the ball just 21 times for 115 yards, and made 15 catches for a mere 82 yards this season.

"You're excited, but at the same time you're sad because one of our great players on this team is out," Spiller said. "I've got to step up."

Despite the insertion of Spiller, Gailey said he's not anticipating a big change in offensive philosophy.

"You've got 10 other guys that have been doing things, you can't change everything they've been doing, and you don't want to," Gailey said. "You want to let C.J. go in and do what he does best and give him an opportunity to make plays. He gets his chance now. He's probably looking forward to it and so are we."

But even with Jackson, the Bills have struggled during a three-game skid that has all but erased the memories of an electrifying 4-1 start. The offense averaged nearly 33 points in the first five games, but hasn't been close to that type of production since, scoring just 73 points over the last five.

The blame can be evenly passed around, from an offensive line that has failed to overcome some key injuries to Fitzpatrick's suddenly erratic throws. The slip-up has caught top receiver Stevie Johnson off guard.

"Yeah, it has because when you could move the ball so easy and when you feel like everything's sharp, and the past few weeks it's like, 'How can we get a first down?'" said Johnson, who has been held to seven receptions over the past three games after compiling 39 catches in the first seven contests. "I can't say it hasn't shocked me, because it has."

Fitzpatrick also acknowledged the slide has come as a surprise.

"It's something that we're looking to stop," he said. "We're trying to figure out some answers, and looking to see some results this week. We're going to have to have some guys break some tackles, and we have to have some of those superhuman plays in order to get some big plays."

But the task will be daunting without Jackson, who ranks third in the league in rushing with 934 yards.

"Knowing Fred, he's the kind of guy that you can always count on," Fitzpatrick said. "But C.J.'s going to get some looks and we'll see what we have on Sunday."

NOTES: To help offset the loss of Jackson, Buffalo signed running back Tashard Choice. He was released by Washington on Tuesday after starting the season with Dallas. ... Johnson (shoulder), Nelson (illness), receiver Naaman Roosevelt (shoulder) and starting safety George Wilson (neck) didn't practice Wednesday. ... Fitzpatrick has had little success in his career against the Jets. He's completed just 47.5 percent of his passes, and thrown four touchdowns and four interceptions in going 1-4 against them since 2008. ... After Andy Levitre struggled replacing the injured Eric Wood at center against the Dolphins, Kraig Urbik will be moved to center this week. Levitre will be back at his normal left guard position. ... The Bills and Jets have split the season series seven times since 2000. New York's win in the first meeting this year launched Buffalo's current three-game losing streak.

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Sprint has released an advert for the iPhone 4S titled ?Unlimited iPhone?. The ad is all about the Sprint unlimited data plan that comes with an iPhone 4S on its network.

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Economy could suffer if tax cut, jobless aid end (AP)

WASHINGTON ? A tax cut that reaches 160 million Americans and government aid for the long-term unemployed will expire at the end of the year ? sucking $165 billion out of the economy next year ? unless Congress takes action.

Economists hoped the so-called congressional supercommittee would decide whether to extend both measures. But the committee couldn't even agree on how to reach its main goal, cutting $1.2 trillion from the federal budget deficit.

If the tax cut goes away, the average family would pay about $1,000 more in taxes next year, the equivalent of an extra tank of gas every two weeks. Someone earning $100,000 would pay $2,000 more.

And if long-term unemployment benefits are allowed to expire, about 6 million people would lose weekly checks averaging about $300. For most of the long-term unemployed, that is their main source of income.

"There's an awful lot of uncertainty ahead," said Michael Hanson, senior U.S. economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Both changes would leave Americans with an estimated $165 billion less to spend. The Federal Reserve expects the economy to grow only 2.7 percent next year, and economists say the expiration of the two programs could reduce growth by a full percentage point.

The government said Tuesday that the economy grew at a 2 percent rate in July, August and September, down from earlier estimates of 2.5 percent.

To bring unemployment down significantly, the economy has to grow more than twice as fast as it grew this summer.

Congress could extend the tax cut and unemployment benefits when it returns from Thanksgiving recess next week. But the same partisan philosophical differences that sank the supercommittee could complicate the debate.

At the same time, Congress may be unwilling to force what is essentially a tax increase on tens of millions of Americans just as an election year begins.

Both measures were part of a deal struck in December 2010 by President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress.

The cut applies to the tax that pays for Social Security. The tax applies to the first $106,800 a person makes in a year. The deal lowered the rate paid by individuals to 4.2 percent from 6.2 percent for this year. Companies also pay a 6.2 rate on their payroll.

Some Republicans have indicated they could support extending the tax cut, but there would almost certainly be a fight over how to pay for it. Without spending cuts or other tax increases, renewing the Social Security tax cut would swell the deficit.

Obama, as part of his jobs bill in September, Obama proposed lowering the rate further, to 3.1 percent, and cutting the employer portion to 3.1 percent up to the first $5 million on their payrolls.

Cuts at that level would pump almost $250 billion more into the economy compared with last year, when individuals and employers both paid the 6.2 percent rate.

Obama, speaking Tuesday in New Hampshire, urged Republicans to continue the tax break.

"Don't be a Grinch," the president said. "Don't vote to raise taxes on working Americans during the holidays."

On Monday, White House press secretary Jay Carney suggested that renewing or deepening the tax cut could be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy. Republicans have refused to consider doing so.

Most states provide up to 26 weeks of unemployment benefits. The deal extended benefits to up to 99 weeks in states with the highest unemployment rates.

Unless that is renewed, almost 2.2 million people out of work will lose benefits by the first week in February. About 6 million people would lose weekly benefits by the end of the year.

Just the uncertainty of not knowing what Congress will do could cause businesses to hold back on hiring and investment, and therefore drag down economic growth, Hanson said.

Most economists would like to see lower budget deficits, but most would like the government to reduce the deficit gradually, to avoid hurting the weak economy. And they would all prefer robust economic growth to solve the problem.

The supercommittee's failure triggers $1 trillion in automatic cuts in government spending beginning in 2013. Congress could undo them, but then credit rating agencies might downgrade the government's long-term debt, as Standard & Poor's did in August.

An even bigger hurdle looms at the end of 2012. That's when the tax cuts passed during the Bush administration are set to expire. Losing those tax cuts would cost taxpayers up to an additional $4 trillion over 10 years.

Combined, all those factors would reduce growth in 2013 by between 1.5 and 3.5 percentage points, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, estimated last week.

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AP Writer Julie Pace contributed to this report.

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AP source: Arizona plans to hire Rich Rodriguez (AP)

Arizona plans to hire former Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez to take over a program that has never played in the Rose Bowl, and has been mired in mediocrity for most of the past decade

A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Monday that Rodriguez's hiring was "pretty much" done.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because contract details were still being finalized and no official announcement was immediately planned.

Arizona spokesman Tom Duddleston said he had no information on a hiring and Athletic Director Greg Byrne did not immediately return phone messages.

Arizona fired coach Mike Stoops last month after he went 41-50 in seven-plus seasons at the Pac-12 school. The Wildcats have not won more than eight games in a season since going 12-1 in 1998 under Dick Tomey.

Rodriguez will try to change that with a fast-paced, spread attack that has produced prolific offenses everywhere he has coached.

But that wasn't enough in Ann Arbor.

He was fired by Michigan after last season, following three turbulent years. He went 15-22 with the Wolverines and the program was cited for rules violations by the NCAA during his tenure.

His last Michigan team went 7-6 ? his only winning season there ? but set numerous school records on the offensive side of the ball behind speedy quarterback Denard Robinson. And the team Rodriguez left behind for new Michigan coach Brady Hoke is 9-2 going into Saturday's game against Ohio State.

Before taking over the Wolverines, Rodriguez guided West Virginia to two BCS appearances.

Considered one of the pioneers of the spread offenses that have become so popular all over college football, Rodriguez went 60-26 in seven seasons at West Virginia.

With quarterback Pat White and running back Steve Slaton leading the way, the Mountaineers won the 2006 Sugar Bowl against Georgia and were a victory away from playing for the BCS championship in 2007. That opportunity slipped away when West Virginia was upset at home by Pittsburgh, and the loss set off the events that led to Rodriguez becoming Michigan's coach.

It was a messy divorce between West Virginia and Rodriguez. The school sued him to collect on the $4 million buyout clause in his contract, a lawsuit that was eventually settled.

Rodriguez has been working as an analyst for CBS Sports Network this year, but had made it clear he wanted to get back into coaching as soon as possible.

Byrne, in his second year as AD at Arizona, fired Stoops on Oct. 10, two days after the Wildcats lost to Oregon State 37-27.

The team was 1-5 at the time with the only victory over FCS member Northern Arizona. The Wildcats had lost 10 straight to FBS schools.

After five seasons of building the program, Stoops seemed to have the Wildcats back among the top teams in the Pac-10, leading them to a pair of eight-win seasons and trips to the 2008 Las Vegas Bowl and the Holiday Bowl the next year.

Arizona seemed poised to become one of the nation's elite teams by cracking the top 10 and opening 7-1 last season, igniting hope that the Wildcats could end their run as the only school from the league's Pac-10 days to not play in the Rose Bowl.

Then things started to fall apart.

The Wildcats lost their last five games in 2010, including a 36-10 blowout by Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl that came on the heels of a 35-0 rout by Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl the year before.

Stoops' contract ran through 2013 under an extension granted in 2008, and Byrne has said the buyout for the remainder of it will be about $1.4 million.

Stoops was 27-38 in conference games.

Defensive coordinator Tim Kish took over as interim coach and the team won two Pac-12 games, over UCLA and last Saturday 31-27 over rival Arizona State. The Wildcats (3-8) conclude their season Saturday at home against Louisiana-Lafayette.

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AP Sports Writer Bob Baum in Phoenix contributed to this report.

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'Dark Knight Rises': Why We're Finally Excited

New details about the film reveal an actual movie in this edition of The Weekly Rising.
By Kevin P. Sullivan

Christian Bale and Tom Hardy on the set of "Dark Knight Rises" in New York City
Photo: Getty Images

Empire has just unleashed a mountain of awesomeness. Beyond the cover photos, we now have plot details, a description of Bane's character (hint: it involves crushing skulls) and a confirmation of the content of the prologue.

You decided, and the votes have been counted. Empire revealed Bane as the first of their two "Dark Knight Rises" covers, and we all got to see Tom Hardy in his evil asthmatic getup straight on for the first time.

It wasn't anything we couldn't have extrapolated from what we've already seen of him, but there is something to be said about looking at an almost unrecognizable Hardy face-to-face. It's like seeing him from his days in "Bronson" (which, if you haven't seen, do so immediately), but even crazier, and that's saying something.

This really is an entirely different look at Bane than we've seen before. If you were like me and gave your computer screen a serious "huh?" when you heard about the casting news, this picture puts to rest any idea that the Bane of the Schumacher Bat-verse is dead and buried.

Hardy and Nolan's Bane is dark, scary and might need some Proactiv Solution Deep Cleansing body wash for whatever is happening on his shoulder. (This edition of The Weekly Rising is brought you to by Proactiv.)

It's difficult not to reminisce about the now-iconic Empire cover with a smirking Heath Ledger as the Joker, one of the best early looks we got at his character. The image of Bane doesn't quite measure up for several reasons — the main being that it's Bane we're talking about here — but seeing "The Dark Knight Rises" promoted in any way like "The Dark Knight" was and is always welcome.

We do have to pause and give the Batman some credit. Bane may have beaten him in the polls, but the reveal of the second-place picture brought more surprise than the Bane image, which we've more or less seen in the deluge of spy photos from the set. The Batman cover shows as the Caped Crusader we all need but don't deserve, and he's packing more heat than we expected.

Mild Spoilers Ahead The big question emerging from these photos will be, "What the hell is that thing Batman's holding?" Any kind of speculation would be completely arbitrary and meaningless at this point, so let's guess what it is. In photos from the set down on Wall Street, we've seen a large timed device that looks like near-future technology, somewhat on par with what we've already seen from the Nolan Batman films. The gun may work to counteract that tech or it could be just a new weapon. Like I said, speculation is meaningless. End Spoilers

Secrets about the film lay inside Empire, and I won't get into them here. The issue hits newsstands on November 24 and details have already begun to trickle out, but I feel the new info means a lot more than just secrets revealed.

What the new issue of Empire does with its set visit and plot details is give us an actual sense that "The Dark Knight Rises" is a film and not just a series of set photos. There is a real story here, and it looks like Nolan is once again doing something unexpected with this story. Every new bit of information inspires excitement beyond what any spy photos or videos could. Nolan and company plan to end their story of Bruce Wayne and the Batman in a way that is final and true to the vision they've explored in two films thus far. This is incredibly exciting stuff.

For the first time, the news about "The Dark Knight Rises" signals what Nolan hopes to do with the film: complete a trilogy. The scraps of news and rumors from the set we've had to chew on so far have trivialized what's really going on here. It is not about Catwoman's ear, Bane's fur coat or the Batwing. The new information from Empire finally gave us an idea of what we can expect from the two hours we'll all spend in the dark this coming July.

What did you think of the new details? Let me know on Twitter via @MTVMoviesBlog, and we'll discuss next week. Also, be sure to check out our new weekly discussion show, "Talk Nerdy to Me."

Check out everything we've got on "The Dark Knight Rises."

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